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*Alpharius was known to be the last Primarch to be found, a fact which even earned him the nickname "The Last". This suggests that all the other primarchs had been found already.
*20 statues of the primarchs were erected in the [[Imperial Palace]] on Terra. By the time of the Horus Heresy, plinths '''II''' and '''XI''' "...had been vacant for a long time. No-one ever spoke of those two absent brothers [and] their separate tragedies."<sup>7</sup>
**The Astares legions are based on the roman legions, of wich two were eliminated from record because of tragidies.
**This suggests that the two unknown primarchs had been found previously and that something tragic had happened. The two primarchs were "absent" but not referred as "dead".
**The primarchs were based on the zodiacs with Horus being Saggitarius.
*All primarchs were tempted by Chaos predations, and "fully half" of them failed that test.<sup>5</sup>
**This suggests that possibly 10 primarchs were, in some way, corrupted by Chaos influences. The known traitors are nine ([[Fulgrim]], [[Perturabo]], [[Konrad Curze]], [[Angron]], [[Mortarion]], [[Magnus]], [[Horus]], [[Lorgar]], and [[Alpharius]]). Whether an additional primarch was corrupted or not is unclear.
