Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27977649-20170724053635

Ok so, here is MY theory on the Forgotten and the Purged, so if Black Library ever wants someone to write a duology about them feel free to call me up in Detroit y'all.

Anyway...the Forgotten. This one is simple, and frankly the most obvious answer, and one which to be perfectly honest I can't possibily imagine NOT being the case. Nothing else makes sense, and to be even more honest, nothing else explains a huge chunk of Warhammer Fantasy either.

The Forgotten, the Second Primarch, was Sigmar Heldenhamer.

Period.

Now, of course, I already hear "B-but he had human parents!" Did he? Did he, in a world without literally ANY technology, have actual, documented human parents--or did he just get adopted by some good-hearted folk on a backwards planet with a LOT more warp magic than, like, Macragge will ever have. And he became a ruler. And he unified his people into peace, before his warp power, which apparently was on par with Magnus, grew to the point he ascended into a minor warp god. Now remember, almost ALL of the nine fallen Primarchs did too--Magnus fell to Tzeentch, Angron fell to Khorne, Horus became a host for all four, etc. So the idea that Sigmar eventually became powerful enough he ascended to godhood is not in any respect unreaistic or even remotely impossible. Then his dad may have seen how much better the Empire on Warhammer World was going and maybe he decided to just go "Shhh! Good work son, now watch out for your friends and hide here ok" and seal off that solar system to protect it.

Now as for the Purged, well, this one is pure speculation. There is no canonical elements for this one but it's something I was thinking about. Now, don't the Tau seem a lot like a SM Legion? WAIT! Wait now, don't leave yet! Ok, so, yeah I kow it souds weird but look...

Imagine a group of hyper-loyalist warriors clad in specialized armor, with deadly ranged firepower as their primary weapons, the elite of their kind supported by bulky suits of powered battle armor; they poor into battle from drop ships that rain down from orbiting carriers who also offer support, with elite scouts in stealth gear, armed with ranged rifles run interference; thundering tanks ride along side them the whole way, about half troop transports in their own right.

Now...did I just describe a SM Chapter or the Tau Fire Warriors?

I think that the Purged crashed on the Tau homeworld, and he essentialy was raised by them and in some way influeced them. I think eventually one of two things happened, either he died because of a spat with some alien race (I'm looking at you Kroot) or he died when the Emperor showed up and he realized he was not into the whole "massacre all xenos" gig like his brothers. It's easy to preach to a guy like Mr. Mortarion that all aliens are monsters that MUST be purged, but if the guy's been raised by aliens, PEACEFUL aliens, on a planet where smog monsters aren't hunting humans for sport...it may come off as bullshit. So the Purged says "Uh no, dad, you seem kinda like a psychopathic racist who doesn't care about your 'sons' at all so I think I'll hang here with my adopted parents, no offense". Well he took offense, and the Purge ended up a hdad on the trophy wall. And the Tau started up a crusade to do what he wanted to do his whole life--bring the Greater Good to the universe, even if he never could figure out why he wanted to.

So that's my take on the Forgotten and the Purged. I know the latter sounds kinda bizarre but I can see it and I think other folks can too. And I can imagine the Emperor deleting records because he wants Sigmar's world to stay safe, and no one to know he effectively gave birth to the Tau Empire. That's just my theory like I said, The Lost Sons--Book One: the Forgotten, Book Two: the Purged. If you listen GW and you ever need someone to write a duology for cheap and wanna solve this puzzle, I'm an aspiring author who writes sci-fi for fun...just sayin. 