The Gene-Seed Of The Lost Legions - 40K Theories

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Published 2021-05-16
Prior to the onset of the Horus Heresy, the second and eleventh legions of the Legiones Astartes would be erased from history, with all records regarding their names, deeds and Primarchs being expunged from Imperial Records. But just what exactly happened to the gene-seed stocks of the two Lost Legions?

Featuring Bruva Alfabusa as Malcador
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Additional Narration by Stephanie Swan Quills
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Intro theme by Stringstorm
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All Comments (21)
  • @spacecowboy2737
    It's why the ultramarines have so many unique successors that are "TOTALLY 13TH LEGION SUCCESSORS GUYS DONT LOOK INTO THIS"
  • @fionn2220
    ''The primarchs were designed to be far more cognitively sound than other humans'' that went well
  • @viewernewest
    As Cawl stated in Dark Imperium, "The warriors were not at fault, the science was not at fault, the Primarchs were". I think the gene seed of the lost and the purged, was preserved. Also, as far as the Thousand Sons goes, remember, Revuel Arvida had his gene seed purified by the soul shard of Magnus. This act could have given the Emperor the ability to create stable thousand sons successors, i.e. the blood ravens.
  • @relaetsecyr
    A comment to appease the machine spirit of the YouTube algorithm!
  • @CAP198462
    I believe the second and eleventh legions were.....[SIGNAL LOST]
  • I think what happened to the 2 lost primarchs was simple, they landed on a xenos world, and were inducted into the respective xenos race. Perhaps they rose to conquer and lead their xenos race, or the xenos race indoctrinated and used them as a tool like the Emperor intended to do so himself. A primarch that fights for a non-human race, would support that first quote you dropped from Malcador - it would have threatened everything the Great Crusade stood for.
  • @r.cdahuman7682
    Shit like that image at 0:43 is the reason I love 40k. We can have bad ass super soldiers who can spit acid and eat metal, space wizards who bend the very fabric of reality, kleptomaniacal skeletons made out of living metal which are potentially older than our planet, and shit like that image. All in the same universe. Gog I love 40k.
  • @alextorres5584
    I've had a hypothesis for a while that the Black Templars aren't actually of Dornian stock, given how different they are in character from their supposed brothers.
  • @r.cdahuman7682
    Ooo. Lost primarch vidoes. Always appreciated Lore master. Emperor bless mate, I hope you have a great day. Already know the video is gonna be great.
  • Knowing the Imperium, it's probably mislayed it somewhere, then forgot it.
  • I've been looking forward to this. You made my weekend, Lord Inquisitor Remleiz. Thank you.
  • @alexanderm8880
    My theory is still that one of the lost legions was taken over by the Rangdan (and thus purged) and the other actively sided with Xenos, possibly the Eldar, before somehow being lost to all parties, possibly as they fled the Space Wolves' retribution
  • @daniell1483
    Transhuman surgery that is then wiped from one's mind certainly sounds like an Emperor sort of thing to do.
  • @TheAnon03
    Perhaps the Thousand Sons gene-seed wasn't actually that corrupted, perhaps the cause of the Thousand Sons catastrophic rate of mutation wasn't the gene-seed itself but a side effect of it being based on Magnus who was most closely attuned to the warp and all the subsequent work done on it was infact an attempt to use the gene-seed to counteract this effect.
  • This could explain why the Soul Drinkers, as well as some other Astartes Chapters, haven’t been able to identify their Primarch from samples of their Geneseed. For example; when the Soul Drinkers were on trial, the Blood Angel Apothecary stated that he couldn’t identify their Geneseed, and that they were not true sons of Rogal Dorn, who they believed they were descends of.
  • Not sure what number comment I am, but I am here nonetheless. Always happy to start my week off with one of these. Thanks, Remleiz, and keep up the great work!
  • @Isador911
    The soul drinkers could be one of the successor chapters of the Imperial fists who were actually the astartes from the 2nd or 11th. They believe they are Dornian but do not have his geneseed.
  • @Eitbitman
    Just want to say that your videos are helping me through a very rough spot in my life. I have an illness that makes me be in pain when lying down to sleep, and your videos are the only thing that helps me fall asleep.