"I still can’t believe that, canonically, Omegon took the name Alpharius while Alpharius took the name Omegon, and then when Alpharius, who was Omegon, was killed by Dorn, Omegon, who was Alpharius, renamed himself Alpharius, in honor of Alpharius, who was actually Omegon."

The Alpha Legion is so secretive and confusing that even Tzeentch is totally confused.

To be fair, the Emps didn't name the primarchs.  They were named on the planets they ended up on.  Also, Angron was actually intended to be the Empath of all primarchs.  Super ironic fate

The alpha legion are my favorite as well.

There's a quote from the primarchs novels "I am Alpharius, this is a lie."

The whole "consuming the corpses of enemies to acquire their memories and knowledge" thing is something that all Space Marines can do, not just the Space Wolves.

Corvus also is the only Primarch to unlock or unleash his full gifts from the Emperor. As during the Horus Heresy he transformed into a giant Crow Monster/Demon and chased the Word Bearers and Lorgar back into the warp through the Eye of Terror.

This is the only known transformation of a Primarch not brought about by the corruption of Chaos or their Gods as Corvus is still very much loyal to the Emperor.

All the Primarchs were scattered across the galaxy as babies by the chaos gods and each Primarch landed on planets that became their adopted homeworld and were uselly named by thier adopted parents.

When the Emperor began the great crusade liberating and conqueroring worlds he reunited with his lost sons,  each Primarch was not only reunited with their father but also thier respective space marine legion/gene-sons.

So the 2 legions he skips are completely expunged from history for reasons unknown but even Chaos wants to forget them so that should tell you it was something horrible. The actual reason is the 2 legions are meant to be blank slates for people to make their own legions but something happened and Games Workshop backtracked on that so they’ve been expunged from the lore.

14:05 So, to explain the Horus Heresy a little more seriously, Horus rebelled because he was deeply worried for his future as the Great Crusade (the Emperor's mission to unify Mankind through diplomacy and force of arms and to destroy all particularly threatening alien civilizations) was slowing down. There was a victory at a planet called Ullanor, where the Primarchs and the Emperor crushed a major Ork warlord who represented essentially the last true threat to the Imperium's inevitable conquest of the galaxy at the time. After that, the Emperor announced his intention to retire to Earth to work on a secret project (this project being to tap into and bring under control the Webway so that Mankind wouldn't need to fuck with the Warp anymore, which would ideally cripple Chaos permanently), and appointed his most beloved son, Horus, to lead the Great Crusade from this point on as Warmaster.

Now, Horus had a lot of insecurities over this promotion, and the Emperor didn't really do much to assuage them. He was evasive on the topic of what he was doing on Earth, which made Horus even more unsure because his dad (and Horus was found as a young boy, so unlike the other Primarchs the Emperor actually did raise him) didn't trust him with the information. Horus started to fear that what the Emperor was working on in secret was actually the replacement to the Space Marines and the Primarchs. He believed they were created to be highly sophisticated weapons of war for the Great Crusade, but that once the galaxy was completely theirs the Emperor would have no more need for them and take them out behind the shed like he did their predecessors the Thunder Warriors once Earth was reclaimed. Horus did not want to be erased and forgotten, and this possibility obviously distressed him.

Then, he got hit by a tainted weapon which sent him into a coma. He was trapped in the warp and tormented by the Chaos Gods, who showed him visions of a future where he and his brothers were erased from history, where the Imperium had abandoned its high ideals of science and progress in favor of horrific oppression and blindly worshipping the Emperor, who ruled as God-Emperor from his throne on Earth. They heavily implied this was Horus' future unless he rebelled, he finally broke and the rest is history. The cruel irony here is that it was only his rebellion which ALLOWED such a future to happen. Yeah, the Chaos Gods are real dicks.

One of the biggest tragedies of the Blood Angels is that Sanguinius and Horus had a genuine loving brotherly bond. I'm talking giving each other punches on the shoulder or throwing grapes at each other just to annoy each other. This is why their duel is so tragic as Horus wanted Sanguinius to suffer unimaginable pain as he was being strangled. This is likely why the Black Rage manifested within the BA, because of the psychic backlash from Sanguinius' death affecting all of them on Terra and forever after as a locked genetic memory within their geneseed.

So the 2nd and 11th legions are completely expunged from the lore. That's why Bricky skipped them.

The Emperor's Children remind me of the Cenobites from the Hellraiser series.

The Horus Heresy was a ton of issues piled up on top of each other. But the culmination was that the Emperor constantly lied to his sons.

2 unnamed legions actually was thought of by games workshop when they were naming the primarchs and they left 1 loyal and 1 traitor to the fans and they thought that was stupid so they retconed them from existence

Angron’s name is tragic rather than predictive. His special primarch power is to psychically absorb the pain and stress from those around him (he was basically the Emperors healer), but when the slavers who controlled his planet inserted the Butchers Nails into his head they broke that ability and put him in a perpetual state of pain and rage that was only mitigated by extreme violence - basically turning him into the opposite of what he was designed to be. That’s also why he was the first Demon Primarch, his brother (and only friend) Lorgar did it to save his life as the Nails were literally killing him.

So. Fun fact on the alpha leagion is that way long ago before the heresy happened and Horus did his thing. The alpha legion got a warning that was going to happen and sided with chaos for some crazy as hell reasons. They loyal. More loyal to the Imperium than youd even think.

Nightlords are renegades they're not chaos aligned. Sure chaos worship pops up between their ranks but it's not the norm.

Also, Baldemort has an excellent vid on them.
Baldemort Nighlords reaction maybe?😁

16:30 this is Lucius the Eternal, champion of Slaanesh and captain of the emperors children, his shtick is that whenever someone kills him and takes pride in doing so they painfully transform into him. The faces on his armour are the souls of all those that have beaten him and succumbed to pride.

So regarding legions 2 and 11:

Way back when humans hunted dinosaurs, Warhammer 40k was known as Rogue Trader. At the time, all 20 space marine legions were accounted for (the Rainbow Warriors and the Valedictorians). As Rogue Trader became 40k, the people at Games Workshop made changes to the lore to make it even grimmer and darker. The Rainbow Warriors and Valedictorians were changed into successor chapters of other legions and legions 2 and 11 were [REDACTED]. Their lore now as far as we know is that something happened during the early days of the Great Crusade, something so incredibly awful that even the Primarchs had their memories edited so even THEY did not know what exactly happened, only that whatever it was it could have completely invalidated everything the Emperor hoped to achieve through the Imperium. For the longest time there has been an urban legend that the Lost Legions were meant to be a Create-A-Legion thing (one loyalist and one traitor) but GW themselves have stated in interviews that that was not their intention, though they do find it interesting.

Dr. Chris Raynor on Youtube has a series of videos discussing the 19 organs implanted in Space Marines. His videos are very entertaining and memey.

bricky didn't quite make it clear, but the other thing about the alpha legion is that there is significant canonical information that they MIGHT actually still be loyal, and be playing a very long game to work with chaos in order it betray it at the ultimate time. they are great

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