Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24383134-20140105071847/@comment-37.152.33.225-20140108152233

@82 - how the hell does Vulkan not count as a Primarch? Of course he does, he just happens to possess a particular trait of the Emperor that none of the others seem to.

@Callum - Not sure I would Vulkan is of a higher calibre than the Emperor at anything, I think of the Emperor being to Primarchs, what Primarchs are to astartes and what astartes are to mortals etc, just my opinion.

On the topic, I have often wondered this myself, I'm sure I read in the very first HH book that astartes are effectively Immortal, which to me also means pretty much ageless. But the current state of 40k seems to contrdict this a bit as the vast majority of astartes form the HH era are traitors and reside in the warp. The number of loyalist astartes surviving to this day as almost zero, Bjorn in a dreadnought and thats it. Even Dante being 1300 years old is nothing when you think that some surviving traitor marines are technically over 10k years old.