Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-69.143.134.163-20150419161351/@comment-8881468-20151024093635

Again: a rather unsupported notion.

1. GW left those Legions open so that fans could field their own chapters, not Legions...

2. Story: "The Lightning Tower"

(Malcador)"''...Horus has three of his brother legions with him, you have your fists and thirteen others." "Would that it were fifteen,"mused Dorn. "Do not even think it, my friend," warned Malcador. "They are lost to us forever." "I know," said Dorn.''

3. Empi had geneticcally engineered all primarchs and their legions to fill certain roles post heresy. be it the iron warrios as his architects, the ultramarines as rulers, the word bearers as his public relations department. Empi did not foresee the Heresy/Civil war. Even so, he simply did not deem the Heresy a big enough thrreat to stop his webay project. (and before you start grabbgin for that straw, the removal of both legions from the records precedes the ullanor campaign by 35-40 years, hence, it precedes the webway project by several decades).

The word bearers know that the 2 leghions had done sth bad, same for the space wolves, same for sanguinius, dorn, guilliman ands probably the lion.

The only ones not around when those 2 legions disappeared/were removed, were corax and alpharius.

again: theory that does nto stand the test of canon material.