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2025Friday 26th September 2025In personPanel 4Fulgrim vs Ferrus Manus (c) Games Workshop

“I hate my father” – what research with the children of prisoners can tell us about the Emperor of Mankind and his sons

In the 41st Millennium the Emperor of Mankind occupies many archetypal roles – Theos Patēr, Christ, who died to save humanity, Prometheus, beloved father to the Loyalists and hated, rejected father to the Traitors. He’s also a prisoner, caged by the Golden Throne, and by circumstances. Drawing on my research with the children of prisoners, …

2024Panel 10Saturday 28th September 2024Warhammer 40k

What happened to the Lost Primarchs? Or, a case of invitational incompleteness

Everyone who’s interested in 40K lore knows that the Emperor of Mankind gene-crafted 20 “sons” to be his superhuman generals in the Great Crusade to reunite humanity. Equally well known is that two of these Primarchs – the second and the eleventh – were “lost”: everything about them was intentionally deleted from Imperial records. But …