Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25222488-20161221090333/@comment-24944355-20170221062843

It does look like GW are finally going to pull the trigger on the long simmering 40k end times event. After they pulled back following the disasterous Age of Sigmar I had been wondering if they ever would get up the courage to do it. At least the AoS showed them what NOT to do & hopefully the have been smart enough to learn the correct lessons.

One thing i've been noticing is that the Eldar call the coming event A time of endings, which has fed into a long held idea i've had that the event won't be as apocalyptic as many have thought. A time of endings could very well mean an end to the current situation & a massive shift in the way of things leading to a new era of a greatly changed playing board. The wording of A time of endings indicates it's not a singular event but one of many that have occurred over the eons. With that thought in mind you can pinpoint other such events - The Horus heresy being the most obvious & The Fall of Old Night being another. So we should not worry to much about GW scrapping the entire board & starting over - after what happened to AoS it's hard to believe even GW would be THAT stupid. (BTW i've been getting hints that GW may be planning to scrap AoS soon & reboot Warhammer Fantasy back to something similar to the old world)

What we can do is put our collective imaginations to work trying to figure out what they WILL do. One seemingly near certainty is that the surviving Primarchs will return, though just who those will be is still up for debate. Now Gulliman is held monents from death in stasis & seems certain to return, as does the Lion bound in sleep somewhere in the rock. Vulkan has been hiding somewhere waiting for his sons to find him & being the only all but unkillable Primarch will also return, while Russ is being imprisoned somewhere in the Eye - most likely by Magnus - & will probably escape - or be freed - to return. Of the others No one has slightest inkling of what become of Corax after left following the Heresy, but given nobody finds Corax if he doesn'y want them to that could mean anything but as we have no stories indicating his demise we can say he has a good chance to return. Of Dorn & Jagatai the hints of their fates is darker with Dorn reportadly killed by an arch demon (probably Perturabo) during the first Black Crusade but according to some legends only his severed hand was found so there is a slight chance of his survival as a prisoner in the Eye - but things don't look good for him. As for the Khan he had a vision of his death at the hands of a towering figure of shadow on a barren plain (most likely Mortarion after the Khan followed the Dark Eldar into the webway) so things look grim for his return though prophesies are generally unclear enough for some chance for his survival to remain.

My personal out of the box theory is that Sanguinious may return, he was the most christ like of the primarchs & given the Blood Angels all have the ancestral memory of Sanguinious last hours plaguing them in the form of the black rage & that Sanguinious seemed to have a closer bond with his children than any other primarch to the point that the sudden death of 500 of them shocked him into a coma, it's my theory that Sanguinious spirit was held back from the warp by this bond & may be channelled back into his body (which is preserved in stasis) in the right circumstances. Like for instance if all the Blood Angels & their survivng successor chapters were assembled in the same place - which is happening for the 1st time since the heresy at Ba'al right now facing Ka'Bandha 's legions - & someone with enough power - like say the Emperor - intervened. Now this is my out of left field theory & may come to be nothing but can you think of a much better climax of the End Times event than of a ressurected Sanguinious arriving at the last minute to tip the scales just enough for the empire to survive in some form rather than be destroyed utterly.