Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-69.143.134.163-20150419161351/@comment-24037808-20160112225029

Neithan02 wrote: Well the leys information you give, the more freedom the fans have. The legions all had their distinctive modus operandi and tactics and mutations and cultures, which to an extent still shape the successor chapters. If you give such information on the missing legions, you limit the potential inherent in them. A gene seed flaw like the wulfen or black rage, particular skin colour, tactics... All stifles creativity somewhat. I got it and i agree. Since the complete lack of infos has to be there, why don't use a  better  "reason"  that does not sacrifice 2 of the 20 Final Primarchs? Shoud not be hard, considering you have nothing to explain to keep free-painting creative. Every other reason that has no such impact on the lore and perfectly fit that need.

I mean, the 2 missing Primarchs are on the "final" list of the Emperor work, they have their places between the statues along with their brothers, they have their own legions with their roman number like the others, they are part of the DNA of the Emperor, with traits and probably flaws. And every legions still play a role today: scattered in chapters, renegades, chaotics, no matter what.

We will never ever know anything at all, and yet, knowing and appreciating the lore of the other 18 we would have 10000 questions to do. About them and their legions.

We know the Empeor comes from great shamans sacrifice. We know nothing about the shamans. Of course we can "imagine" questions about (all men, wemen, old, young, ect) but we have zero starting clues, even if is the most important moment of IoM hystory, so you rarely see topics about them: we don't even have a tiny fact to start from! Imagine if the shamans were only 10, and you have tons of infos about 8 of them. Of course you would like to know about the other 2!!!

I found this cruel and not needed. Sadly i'm not good using english (not my native language) i would expain my point of view much better...