Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6078851-20150628150826/@comment-26516936-20150630080807

Warhammer fantasy had been dying a slow death for years & the whole scenario desperately needed a reboot. Whether they needed to go as far as they did is another question which will be answered by how well the Age of Sigmar scenario goes.

As for 40k the whole franchise is in much better shape than Warhammer fantasy but with everything becoming road blocked by 13th black crusade & the end of the 41st millennium the whole thing has started to become predictable & frustrating. So as to avoid 40k falling into the same whole as it's brother GW is going to use the upcoming end times event to shake things up & let a bit of fresh air into the edifice. Now GW won't destroy everything down to the foundations & start over like they did with Warhammer Fantasy but they will make some heavy duty long term changes to the storyline & structure going forward.

As to what the changes will entail is anybody's guess but it will likely include the return of the surviving loyalist primarchs & probably the death & final transformation to warp god of the Emperor.

As for which primarchs will return:

Russ - from something Magnus said in The Battle of the Fang I believe Russ is imprisoned somewhere in the Eye of Terror & will likely escape at some point & return.

Lion el'Jonson - Still bound in stasis sleep deep in the rock & will probably wake to return - most likely will be the 1st to do so.

Ferrus Manus - Killed by Fulgrim at Istvaan he is dead with no chance to return but his skull will likely make an appearance.

Corax - No clue to his whereabouts he vanished after the heresy & nothing has been heard from him since, will probably return but how & when is anybody's guess.

Jaghatai Khan - From hints in scars he was probably killed by demon prince Mortarion after entering the webway, unlikely to return but uncovering his fate will probably be a sub plot.

Dorn - Probably killed during the 1st black crusade most likely by demon prince Perturabo, very unlikely he will return.

Guilliman - held in stasis moments from death his healing will probably be one of the 1st events of the end times, almost certain to return.

Sanguinius - killed by Horus at the climax of the heresy his body is preserved intact in stasis & given the nature of the black rage afflicting his sons there's a chance his soul is somehow still bound to them & if so he actually stands a chance of returning which would be a major event of the end times if it occurs.

Vulkan - Disappeared after the heresy leaving his sons cryptic clues to the whereabouts of the last of his great arsenal of weapons promising to return when they found them all, hints in Unremembered Empire & Deatfire seem to indicate that the last of the hidden treasures hunted by the Salamanders is Vulkan himself, very likely to return.