Primarchs = Daemon hosts?

[darknation]

Just spitballing. Not saying that it's definitely so, but thinking about heresy is fun.

Now, the Emp is a bit shady. We *know* that he spent some time chilling in the Warp with the chaos gods (warp gate on Moloch?), so he probably knows how to summon daemons from the warp and ritually bind them into flesh hosts. We are *pretty sure* that the Emp used something referred to as Warp Energy to empower his primarch project.

 

So, the Emperor works his daemon binding wards into the very flesh of the superhuman dudes he is building in his lab. You can engineer these wards to do stuff like make the daemon subservient, you can obscure the daemon's origin and memories by administering some mad chaotic rohypnol runes, whatever. You now have the OP generals you need for the crusade.

 

When Ferrus Manus and -REDACTED- were killed, both authors described an explosion of light / energy leaving the body of the primarch. When Magnus the Red popped into the golden throne for father's day through the webway portal, his psychic form sans body is described as... well, he's daemonic, pure and simple.

 

Also, I would argue that of the primarchs that became daemon princes, none of them did it in the traditional way. Fulgrim just shoved spirit stones into every available orifice. Angron ragequit SO HARD that he exploded, and Magnus... Well, Magnus is now clearly a daemon prince even though he *never actually ascended*. Leman Russ basically killed him, a quick teleport to the planet of the sorcerors, bada-bing, Tzeentch says, "No Magnus, you are the daemons."

 

It would also explain why the Emp is so... ambivalent towards his creations during the events of Master of Mankind (stellar book, by the way). The creatures that call themselves his sons are nothing of the kind.

 

Anyway, just a theory. I'd love to hear why I'm wrong and a massive heretic.

[Bryan Blaire]

I don't think they are actual demonhosts, probably just have a powerful amount of Warp magic worked into their very flesh.

[Wolf Lord Loki]

The process was probably similar except the Emperor used technology to embue the warded infant primarchs with power (but none of the daemonic sentience)

 

Essentially he produced man made demon princes. The down side is the Emperor himself os not human enough to realise that hes not just created sentient weapons but actual people and people are unpredicable.

 

As you see in Master of Mankind, the emperor is solely focus on his 'Great Work' and a rebelion by some of his generals is inconsiquential to preserving the human race.

 

Unfortunately for his goal, magnus did more lasting damage than the entire heresy!! (which is saying something!!)