Editing Primarch (section)

==Rediscovering the Primarchs==
Originally Horus was the first Primarch to be discovered, but a retcon changed that to Alpharius and had it kept secret. Or did it? With Alpharius and Omegon, it's honestly impossible to tell.

Horus, who would become the Emperor's favoured son, was retconned to maybe being the second Primarch to be found, and the second missing Primarch was stated to be found after Corax in a different retcon. Thankfully these are the only three (or two?) GW fucked with in the order they were found, so the whole list of those being discovered is as follows (dates given by the website for the Horus Heresy tabletop game):

*'''Before 801.M30:''' Alpharius/Omegon (speculated)
*'''801.M30:''' Horus
*'''819.M30:''' Leman Russ
*'''821.M30:''' DELETED FROM IMPERIAL RECORDS, DAMNATIO MEMORIAE IN PERPETUAM
*'''824.M30:''' Ferrus Manus
*'''830.M30:''' Fulgrim
*'''832.M30:''' Vulkan
*'''835.M30:''' Rogal Dorn
*'''837.M30:''' Roboute Guilliman
*'''840.M30:''' Magnus the Red
*'''843.M30:''' Sanguinius
*'''846.M30:''' Lion El'Jonson
*'''849.M30:''' Perturabo
*'''854.M30:''' Mortarion
*'''857.M30:''' Lorgar
*'''865.M30:''' Jaghatai Khan
*'''896.M30:''' Konrad Curze
*'''899.M30:''' Angron
*'''922.M30:''' Corvus Corax
*'''927.M30:''' DELETED FROM IMPERIAL RECORDS, DAMNATIO MEMORIAE IN PERPETUAM
*'''981.M30:''' Alpharius/Omegon (officially)

The majority of Primarchs somehow recognized the Emperor on sight, immediately pledging their allegiance to their father. A few (such as Leman Russ and Vulkan) only swore allegiance after being bested in a contest. The only exception is Angron, who outright refused to follow the Emperor as he preferred to die in battle along with his rebels brothers and sisters in their fight against the oppressive Not-Romans. The Emperor simply shrugged and abducted his son, leaving Angron's followers to get slaughtered. Angron never really got over that dick move.

At the end of the period known as the [[Great Crusade]], Horus, who had recently been promoted to the title of Warmaster, fell to Chaos and rebelled. It didn't take long for eight of his fellow Primarchs to join his side against the Emperor, resulting in the full-scale civil war known as the [[Horus Heresy]]. Funnily enough, most of the Primarchs who sided with Horus were those who felt that the Emperor had taken a giant, steaming dump on them. So, regardless of whether the Emperor actually loved his sons or not, and while he is the greatest tactician, biologist, warlord, and leader in the history of mankind; in practice he's worse than a crack-addled transient junkie as a father.