Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-6134883-20130423145616/@comment-6078851-20130427003255

let's suppose that the primarchs were never wisked away in their gestation capsules: emps has them from 'birth', teaches them what he thinks they should know and then sends them out to do daddy's errands.

would being raised by emps personally have changed the ultimate fate destined for each primarch? they were specifically designed for war and even if emps raised them i doubt they would have recieved adequate nurturing, and 'emotionally illiterate' emps would seem to be incapable constructively handling their emotional maturing. after a lifetime of war surely some primarchs would become disillusioned and that could lead to a civil war - 'lorgar's heresy' or 'alpharius omegon's heresy' etc. once they were out and about the galaxy they would have been of intense interest to the chaos gods, who would then do what they could to subvert them.

if they were raised by emps i'm not sure if that would have drastically changed anything, maybe only postponed the heresy.