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primarch of the II legion - no name, simply known as 'Son'.

as the gesation capsules were spirited away by the ruinous powers the capsule of son ended up, due to the nature of warp travel as well as the whim of the gods, leaving warp space in the past. when the emperor began work on the primarch project Son was already 2000 years old, and at his father's side.

his capsule landed on an unknown world around m28, a world devoid of any people, human or xeno. while empty of sentient life the planet was rich in other life: dangerous, brutal and viciously unforgiving life, for this was a death world unlike other death worlds - this world was so inimical to society based life that even after it's discovery it was designated as a forbidden world.

while the emperor is a being unlike any other, so too was Son. while the emperor was a singular entity Son was one of twenty, but so much greater than his brethren that he was also a singular entity. it's unknown to any except the emperor and the chaos gods whether the magnitude of Son was by the work of the emperor or from the ministrations of the gods during his extended travel through the warp, but regardless of the source of his potency what resulted was a primarch that exceeded his brethren to such a degree that he was never merely a primarch, but an equal to the emperor.

when Son's capsule crashed, on what would be his home for a thousand years, the only reason he survived the crash, and then survived his infanthood, was the staggering psychic shield emanating from his person. his inate psychic power not only allowed him to survive but was also the basis of his own self-education. with his inate power came also an inate understanding of the uses of such power and within a decade of his crash-landing he had travelled the warp so thoroughly that his knowledge and understanding, of the materium and immaterium, would rival the emperor. although he had yet to realise the existance of the chaos gods as they were purposely shielding themselves from him.

despite his knowledge and power however, he was essentially trapped. from his knowledge of the warp he knew how dangerous it would be to attempt to travel via such means, and while the world was abundant in life it was lacking in the materials necassary to craft technology. around 900 years after his arrival he witnessed the crash of a starship and knew this was a chance to possibly escape. so trekking across the land at a continual jog for 3 days he came to the crash site and found the remains of an imperial cargo transport, which was later reported as 'lost in the warp'. there wasn't much left that was salvagable, but from what was left he managed to piece together a single-seater craft that could escape orbit. fortuitously enough of the transport's gellar equipment remained intact enough for Son to fathom it's workings and thus miniaturised it to fit on his craft.

as soon as Son reached imperial space he felt his father and homed in on his presence, and in the second they met they knew each other in every way. the emperor wept for before him was the very essence of what he had just started to think about creating, and Son wept for the joy of his father's presence, vision and abilities, and he secretly wept for what was to befall, for in the second of their meeting Son knew that the emperor's sons would betray him. then the emperor spoke "welcome son", and Son was surprised because he knew no name and had never heard words come from a mouth. and so the emperor taught him to speak, after which he asked what he would like to be called where he replied "Son will do."

it's known only to the emperor that the primarch project, the astronomican and the golden throne only came to be because of the insights provided by Son - his past was kept secret from everyone. intellectually they were both equal, but psychically they were both greater and lesser than the other - Son had greater ability and knowledge of the warp, but the emperor had a greater resevoir of power, so Son could teach his father how to project the astronomican but didn't have the capacity to do so himself. and contrary to popular belief only one primarch was created from the genome of the emperor himself - Son. the rest were created from Son's genome as the emperor's attempts to create from his own kept ending in failure, and it was only through Son's insights that his own being came to be, after which it appeared that Son's adult genome was a far stabler foundation to build from.

upon knowing each other in their first meeting Son was made aware of the ruinous powers, wherupon he started to deduce and forsee future events, namely the heresy and it's instigators. on completion of the primarch project he pleaded with his father that they destroy the maturing fetuses of lorgar and horus, but despite acknowledging Son's abilities he was still the emperor of mankind and arrogant enough to know what he was doing. Son spent many days and nights traversing the warp to divine the specifics of future events when the chaos gods finally revealed themselves to him and spoke of their plan - to supplant the emperor with Son in order to usher in a real golden age. Son's inate power allowed him to see through all their deceptions and saw only a future of death and suffering with himself as the figurehead.

by the time the great crusade had started Son had seen many, many things that would, could, might, and should come to pass, and he realised that a heresy lead by horus would eventually lead to a real golden age after a second age of strife. he shared all his knowledge with his father and he realised that only one thing would allow such to come to pass: Son could never be allowed the risk of being corrupted by chaos, and the only way to ensure such was with his death. the emperor initially scorned his son's conclusion, but eventually, after much pleading and weeping for the emperor could not concieve of letting his most perfect son die, he realised that Son would not be disuaded, and that he was right - a heresy lead by Son would be the anihhilation of the race within 10 years.

after much deliberation, and time simply spent in each other's company, it came to pass that Son was killed, not by his brother for that is another's story, but by his father, for neither would have the deed done by any other. and as a result of their delibertions Son was posthumously given a legion, a legion that is most certainly not forgotten, but is also not a legion but the grey knights chapter.....Son's legacy to forever thwart the powers that would have him destroy his father.