Defending Guardian Defender
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My own take:
Rebel leader: Sanguinius and the Blood Angels. Let's say Horus makes a fatal miscalculation on Ulanor. The brunt of the fallout is taken by his own Legion, icons of the Lunar Wolfes, such as Ezekyele Abaddon, die, along with counless Legionaires. He's still offered the position of Warmaster, but humbled by his defeat he declines and gives the Paragon Sanguinius his endorsement.
Sanguinius takes the lead, but the responsibility ends up being to much. Eventually a powerful psychic backlash throws him into a coma. When the warmaster finally awakens, he's convinced only chaos can save humanity from and that the Imperator has gone mad and leads humanity into extinction.
Dedicated to Khorne: Leman Russ and the Space Wolfes. This is the obvious choice I feel. Sanguinius enrages Leman Russ against the Thousand Sons, which he sees as a major threat to his plans. Before sending the Wolves to destroy Prospero under false orders, the Warmaster gists the Legion with Talismans against sorcery and teaches them incantations against sorcery. Powerfull artifacts and rituals of Khorne.
The Wolfes fall upon the planet of sorcerers like wild beasts. Magnus, who held to his orders against all fears dies despairing and anguished ad the hands of Russ. Only the psychic shriek of every psyker, civilian and Thousand Sons legionaire upon Prospero dying along with the Primarch throws the Imperator from his great work.
Dedicated to Tzeentch: Lion El'Johnson and the Dark Angels. But they aren't very sorcery! Nope, but nobody does secrecy and weels within weels better. When the Lion welcomes the creation of warrior lodges within his Legion, Sanguinius feels he will be able to turn the Dark Angels to his cause.
However, he ends up getting confusing reports from his agents. More and more warrior Lodges spring up within the Legion, most founded by the Lion, each founded to combat and observe it's precedessor. Johnson grows increasingly distant and paranoid, turning even towards forbidden Lore to find out who is plotting against him. He finds that everyone is.
Ny the time of Isvaan, nobody knows where the Dark Angels even are, let alone where their loyalties lie. Only at the Siege of Terra do they show their new colors. The ships of the Legion arive one after another, showing heavy battle damage. Each ship deploys its force of robed and fircely mutated marines far from the other Dark Angels. Wherever these circles meet on the ground, they turn upon one another, their Primarch nowhere to be seen.
Only when the Loyalists invade Calliban long after the heresy is the Lions fate revealed. Hidden deep in the planets bowels, the insane Primarch has ascended to demonhood, a reward for the countless atrocities he's commited to destry conspiracies, he, himself, founded to ward of betrayal.
Dedicated to Nurgle: Corvus Corax and the Raven Guard. I found this to be the toughest choice. I went for Raven Guard purely by personal taste. Corvus Corx started out as freedom fighter for common people on Deliverance. When the Imperator finds him, the Primarch is shocked to see the workers he freed put back into slavery while the Tyrants he fought are reestablished and even rewarded for their expertise and effective planing.
Corax sees this pattern repeated constantly throughout the Crusade, the common people sacrificed for the Imperators great work. He grits his teeth, does as he is told and all the while dreams of true equality for man. Papa Nurgle likes such dreams.
Corax, is at Sanguinius side when Istvaan is bombarded with his own Legionaires on the planet. When the Raven Guard arrives upon terra, they are Space Marines nevermore, emanciated and shrouded by vermin they are Carrion Stalkers of Chaos. All shall be equal in misery.
Dedicated to Slaanesh: Roboute Guilliman and the Ultra Marines. While other Legions fight in the great crusade, Roboute conquers. When the Imperator finds him, he's already a ruler of his own star realm. When he's ordered to fight the Leahrn, he does so as conquerer. It costs him more than half his Legion, but eventually crushes the xeno into dust and as conquerers he and his Ultramarines take their spoils.
Already used to ruling and the comforts of utopian Ultramar, the Legion falls into decadence and worship of Slaanesh. Every single one considers himself a pinacle of humanity, born to rule, a proud prince of Ultramar. By the time of Istvaan the Ultramarines stand firmly Sanguinius, each promised to rule his own planet and yet eternal pawns of Chaos.
Legion of the Dark Mechanicus:Ferrus Manus and his Iron Hands. Flesh is weak and weakness is sin. Ferrus Manus sees human weakness in the great crussade. He sees weakness among the Primarch. He sees the emerors weakness. Even with superior bionics, the weak of his Legion die and it is right.
When the Iron Hands, along with the Death Guard, World Eaters, Iron Warriors, Salamanders, Imperial Fists and White Scars. Drop onto Istvaan, Ferrus Manus is glad to order his men to mow down the Loyalists. One more step to cull weakness from humanity.
Freed from the Imperators dogma, Ferrus Manus and his Marines seek the perfect blend of flesh, iron and deamon, devoid of all weakness.
Legion of Envy: Rogal Dorn and the Emperors Fists. Passed over twice for the position of warmaster. Passed over again when Horus becomes the Preatorian. Rogal Dorn passes frustration and reaches poisenousembitterment when he sees his glorious legion stretched thin to fortify conquered planets. Wasted like chaff, as if they where Iron Warriors.
But he shows them. On Istvaan he shows Pertubaro his superior siege technique, mowing down the Primarch and his sons on Istvaan. He shows that none could have fortified the Imperial palace better when his Marines are the first to brach the walls. He shows the other traitors, when his is the last Legion driven into the eye of terror.
Moar traitors: Salamanders and White Scars. Really, I don't know much about them, so I'm a bit stumped. I'd say Chaos Jaghatai is different to his loyal version by not being deployed close to terra and being easier to sway through Sanguinius than Horus. I find Chaos Samanders to be hardest to explain, it'd take truly catastrophic events and even then I'd imagine Vulkan and his boys to take the kinda chaos, kinda not, place the Night Lords and Alpha Legion have after the Horus Heresy.
The Preatorian: Horus and the Lunar Wolfes.Humbled, Horus pleads to stay at his fathers side when he returns to Terra and is granted his wish as the Emperors Preatorian. It is Horus, who faces Sanguinius before the emperor and, upon his death, places the strike that eventually allows the Imperator to obliberate the Archangel of Chaos. Cthonia is lost during the heresy and unlike the other Legions, the Lunar Wolfes and their successors eternally crusade, as penance of their triple failure-to the Imperator, their Primarch and their destroyed homeworld.
The Redeemed: Konrad Kurze and the Night Lords. Even before the Heresy, the Night Lords seem like a lost cause to most in the Imperium. But the Primarch who once has been the Night Haunter has been guided by Magnus to manage his dark foreboding. Brooding in his exile he is granted a rare moment of clarity and rushes towards Terra.
The Night Lords are the first to reinforce the Lunar Wolfes in the defense of Terra and reddem themselfs many time over in the Siege. Kurze exiles himself after the Heresy, but leaves his Legion cleasned of its darkness. The Night Lords and their second founding successors keep their terror tactics, but are also the first Space Marines to adopt the stance that the Imperator is Divine and the first supporters of Saint Vandire in his fight against the mad Preacher Sebastian Thor during the Age of Aposthasy!
There are no Sorcerors on Titan: the Thousand Sons. Every citizen of the Imperium are the Legion of Martyrs, whiped out in the dark age of heresy. Members of the Ordo Malleus could confiirm, that under the tutorship of Ahriman, the Thousand Sons and their successors are humanities greatest defenders against the deamonic. Of course, then they'd have to kill you.
Codex Astartes: Fulgrim, Lorgar, Alpharius and Omegon-Emperors Children, Word Bearers and Alphamarines. As the youngest Legion, the Alpha Legion was deployed close to Terra in the early stages of the heresy. While the Lunar Wolfes and Night Lords manned the walls of the Imperial palace, the Alpha Legion fought in the plains of Terra, sabotaging and confounding the traitors with daring raids at every turn. It was the arrival of the far of Emperors Children and oddly decimated Word Bearer that forced Sanguinius to lower his battleships shields and seek the decisive duel with the God-Emperor. Once among the smallest Legions, it was the now greatest numbered Legion. Fulgrim formulated most of the Codex Astartes almost all Space Marines follow in the 40th millenium, Emperors Children successors, such as the Genetors, who host the greatest Apothecaries, who follow the Codex almost religously. It was with Alpharius' help it became the flexible form of organisation for Space Marines Chapters that allows lenience to chapter masters, best exemplified by the mysterious Omega Chapter. Lorgar, once known for his religious worship of the Emperor, was the inventor of Chaplains to ensure the Imperial truthis taught even among the marines of 40k, a tradition carried by all chapters but the Night Lords and their successors. Lorgar never explained his change of heart...
Comeback: Mortarion, the Death Guard, World Eaters and Iron Warriors. After the Landing field Massacre not even half a Legion and one Primarch where left of the three Loyalist Legions deployed. Mortarion and the other survivors played little part in the following battles, but today these Legions and their successors provide some of the greatest heroes of the Imperium. Mortarion was the last Primarch to leave the stage of the Universe. Without a Word he shut himself within the Mausoleum beneath the Death Guard Chaper Fortress. He wasn't fund when the ancient doors where next opened.
(Damn this is a lot. Well, I hope it's enjoyable and not to much wall of text.)
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