okay I think the hardest part of this will be altering textures. I’m making him an Imperial for the melee weapon bonuses but they mostly have black hair and, well, Fulgrim. and tracking down which textures belong to which hair :flushed: will report back when I have pictures
update: decided to make a custom race for fulgrimwind because otherwise my texture screwing will make all the imperials SUPER pale and I don't want that. It's basically a clone of Imperials but with different textures (and only one mesh option since it's just for fulgrim) but it's gonna take a sec bc I don't have morrowind on my laptop and I cannot for the life of me figure out the construction set and also my tablet is crapping out because ✨wacom drivers✨
fulgwind attempt.... too many. morrowind is terribly unintuitive for modding, even with the assistant. will give him more hair options tomorrow so he looks less bald and then it's Time to Seek Out the Most Fulgrim Armour
having arrived in balmora (after a quick couple of detours to kill bandits in search of properly sized gear), fulgrim faces down the old man who is apparently “responsible” for him
No see this is even worse because Caius Cosades is your mainquest giver for the majority of the game. the mainquest literally can’t progress if he’s dead. and I had to kill him because he attacked me for accidentally stealing a candle
I DO have a save before he died but also, let’s consider What Would Fulgrim Do? kill the old guy presuming to think he can order Fulgrim around? I need some Fulgrim fans because this game might go very offbase very quickly and I mightttt be able to use cheats to progress the mq as Fulgrim runs around and Learns. I’m looking into it
Amethyst Calm: How do they usually sleep, in what position? Do they like plenty of pillows, blankets and/or plush toys?
Gavmieltus is largely a stomach sleeper and she sleeps deeply. She has a few pillows, but all but one are largely shoved aside when she actually sleeps. They're mainly decorative.
Before Miveya died, Gavmieltus used to keep one arm outstretched to drape over her, but that's no longer relevant to her life. Still, Sunbreakers as a whole often like to nap in groups in the common room, and it's not uncommon to find a few Astartes wedged under her arm or otherwise cuddling their mother if she joins them.
Lion bleaches his hair not necessarily autistic, but definitely shows some signs of being on the spectrum more than his other sibs. not a big fan of eye contact and doesn’t talk a lot. it works for him so incredibly repressed. everything goes in a jar in a box in the attic of a house that he sell...
Well here’s some Primarch headcanons. Not nearly all of the ones I’ve made over the two years I’ve been fixated on Warhammer, but it’s going to take forever to track even half of it down so here’s the stuff I could either find with some quick discord searches or that I remember off the top of my head
(short drug and abuse mentions. trans/homophobes die by my blade)
Topaz Storm: Is your muse the creative type in any way? How do they usually express their creativity?
Gavmieltus is not a very creative type, but she has her moments. Most of her creative endeavours have been limited to traditionalism -- weaving a cloak for her wedding, carving a pendant to be passed on to her firstborn daughter (Yano Xhi, first captain), and so forth.
Amethyst Terrors: Are their nights plagued with past memories or nightmares in general? What do they usually entail if so?
They are. Primarchs have impeccable memories and strong dreams, not easily forgotten. Prior to the war, Gavmieltus's dreams were of fonder things -- her wife, her children, mortals that she had cared for and lost to time.
After the war, Gavmieltus's dreams shifted to crueler nightmares. She has difficulty sleeping without seeing the face of some sibling or memories of what she's done.
A series of headcanon asks to delve more in-depth with what makes the muses tick! Questions range from the obscure to the obvious so as to dig further into a muse’s life and habits.
Be sure to specify muses for multi-muse blogs!
Coral Fragments: How well does your muse deal with stress? Do they do anything in particular to help them deal with it, and if so what do they do?
Rosy Fog: What are their immediate views on romantic love?
Rosy Haze: Do they react well when they develop feelings for someone and if not why?
Rosy Touch: How do they show affection nonverbally? Are they likely to show affection with their words as well?
Apatite Chatter: Are they the friendly sort or do they prefer to let others start off interactions with them?
Apatite Tic: Does your muse have any sort of verbal tics or impediments?
Garnet Shadows: Is your muse apt to stab someone in the back in any way? If so, would they admit to doing so or would they lie to cover it up?
Garnet Shine: How devoted are they to their loved ones? Would this devotion delve into the obsessive side?
Garnet Core: What sorts of things would they be willing to do for friends? For family? For their significant other(s)?
Amethyst Terrors: Are their nights plagued with past memories or nightmares in general? What do they usually entail if so?
Amethyst Calm: How do they usually sleep, in what position? Do they like plenty of pillows, blankets and/or plush toys?
Makeshift Stone: What does their internet search history usually include? Are there any parts of their searches that they’re embarrassed by?
Cracked Cement: Are they adept at using technology of any kind or do they typically need help with it?
Brickwork Shadows: Is your muse good with their hands, or do they tend to be fairly clumsy?
Sapphire Depths: Do they prefer to think ahead or to leap right in and wing things?
Sapphire Beacon: What kinds of things inspire your muse and does your muse tend to inspire others?
Selenite Pillars: Does your muse think they’re mentally or physically strong? Is this belief true or only something the muse believes to be true?
Aventurine Calling: Do they believe in luck? If so, would they consider themselves lucky or unlucky?
Fluorite Cloud: If they had the opportunity, would they prefer to know what’s going to happen in the future or not? Why?
Fluorite Bearings: How strongly do they listen to their intuition? Is their intuition usually correct or incorrect?
Peridot Ghosts: What kind of things get them frazzled or anxious? Do they tend to handle them well or get swept up in the moment?
Moonstone Luster: Are there are any items they own that have sentimental value to them?
Diamond Kiss: What kind of clothing and accessories do they prefer to wear? Are there are any particular reasons outside of general comfort that they like wearing these?
Coal Dust: Can they withstand manual labor? Do they avoid manual labor as much as possible, and if so, why?
Prehnite Memory: How good is their memory? Has it always been like this or did something happen to make it this way?
Bismuth Hue: Are they sickly or get sick often?
Bismuth Aid: What sort of medication, if any do they have to take, if any? Do they refuse to take it, forget to take it, or do they prefer to keep on it?
Quartz Cluster: What kind of textures (e.g. silky, rough, slick, etc) do they prefer?
Jade Ambition: How ambitious is your muse and what are their current goals? To what ends will they go to to make those wishes a reality?
Jade Gain: How well do they manage their money?
Amazonite Comfort: What sorts of things bring your muse comfort in trying times? Are there any habits they have when things get difficult to help cope?
Amazonite Shade: Are they pessimistic, optimistic or somewhere in the middle? Was there anything that happened to them in their life that caused them to think in this way?
Topaz Storm: Is your muse the creative type in any way? How do they usually express their creativity?
Topaz Tears: Do they have any sort of outlet they use as a means to cope (e.g. writing, drawing, playing music, etc.)? How’d they get into it if they do?
Topaz Calling: Do they have anything that they have natural talent in? If so do they enjoy doing it or is it something they tend to forget about?
Ruby Craze: Are they a passionate person or do they tend to be more down-to-earth?
Ruby Light: Are they the sort to wear their heart on the sleeve? If not, why?
Citrine Focus: Are they able to multi-task or do they prefer to keep at one thing at a time?
Opal Wonder: How big is their imagination? Do they tend to share these ideas or keep them to themselves?
Opal Sky: Do they tend to get lost in their own thoughts/daydreams?
Note: Mantis Wardens and Talons of Redemption eventually split in the future
Allegiance: Imperium
Homeworld: Dedin
Legion Colours: Scarlet and gold
Icon: Eight pointed sun with a central eye
Ship: The Golden Eye
The Legion
Tactics: Offensive warfare and head-on attacks designed to break past walls and defenses, using the pure bulk of Astartes to decimate any person or obstacle that stands in their way, followed by devastating close quarters combat.
Mutation: Because of their Primarch’s mutation, a large portion known as the Tama develop extreme cycles of testosterone and estrogen imbalances and, consequently, features more commonly associated with females including redistribution of fat patterns. The Tama defect also creates larger and more powerful, but reckless and aggressive, Astartes due to the periodic testosterone overload.
Armour: Sunbreakers wear thick crimson power armour with gold accents. They frequently paint identifiers onto their armour, such as the three white bands denoting one of the Tama, rank markings, the symbol of their origin, notable dates, and just about anything else. They typically wear MK VI beakie Corvus helmets.
Relationship: The Sunbreakers adore their Primarch. Gavmieltus took her role as Mother seriously upon meeting them, and she has been known to wander the fortress monastery giving advice, praise, and general attention to even the youngest marines. Since the war she has become more distant, which has been difficult for older marines who remember the times before, but she still makes an effort to connect with them. This love for their Mother is what will later lead to the splitting of the legion after her death.
Aliases: The Second, Gāriq, Wrecking Ball, That Damn Couch Hog, His Chosen
Gender: Female
Allegiance: Imperium
Home Planet: Dedin
Number: II
Discovery: 2nd, 007.823.m31
Legion: Sunbreakers
Legion Colours: Scarlet and gold
Icon: Eight pointed sun with a central eye
Appearance
Personal: Gavmieltus isn’t particularly tall amongst her siblings, standing at 314cm. She’s heavyset, with broad shoulders and a powerlifter’s build, optimised to destroy any wall in her way and pin enemies with sheer bulk. Her skin is dark and warm hued like her father, the Emperor, and heavily tattooed. A series of facial tattoos depict her life on Dedin and her status, while a vine twists around her left forearm and a snake does the same to her right leg. The galaxy visible from her home planet spans her upper back and shoulders, merging into Terra’s across her chest. Her hair is wavy black, barely beyond her shoulders, and frequently pinned into a low-effort bun to keep it out of the way. Her eyes are upturned and dark, although somewhat amber in colour if in the light.
Armour: Crimson power armour with gold accents. Gavmieltus’ armour is bulky, even beyond her broad build. While primarily simple, details such as the three willow leaves shaped into each couter and the twisting vines inlaid in gold on her right vambrace add personality.
In contrast to the general bulk of her armour, she favours less restrictively large pauldrons. On the uppermost layers of her right shoulder is the facial plate of Ansiel, the creature that raised her, with complicated symbols of scrimshaw etched and laid across the front. Her gauntlets are close-fitting, to allow maximum dexterity, but end in sharp-pointed talons to maintain destructive power. There are three white bands painted around her left vambrace, and a singular circle on her rerebrace.
Her plastron is thick and heavy, designed to withstand heavy blows and the falling of entire buildings. The symbol of the Sunbreakers is painted across it. An ever watchful golden gem was once embedded in the center, but the traitor Icandus tore it out of its setting. The empty bezel remains.
Wargear: Given the fighting style of the second legion, it should come as no surprise that Gavmieltus wields a massive shield, the Daybreak, offensively, using its broad planes and her own strength to snap bone and crumble stone. It bears the symbol of the second legion. In her right hand she carries the thunder hammer Duty of Ansiel. Gavmieltus shows the utmost respect to her weapons through her extensive care for them. Every weapon she wields is given a careful name.
The last of her weapons is a wahaika carved of the hardwood trees native to Dedin and decorated with traditional feathers and ligaments. While theoretically a weapon, the Ashen Hail has never seen combat, instead used for the ancient purpose of speeches and shows of dedication.
Personality: Pragmatic and charismatic. Gavmieltus holds an intense loyalty to each and every one of her siblings, regardless of her feelings on them as a person, and the protectiveness of a mother over her legion and the Imperium at large. She’s headstrong, throwing herself into combat and personal interactions both with a hearty joy for life and belief in the good of people. Although the nearest civilizations to the jungle she was raised in are heavily respect based, particularly in the case of one’s elders, she expects none of that to be used in regards to her.
Since the start of the heresy, she has tempered considerably, often locking herself up for long periods and going through bouts of shame and rage for what has happened to her family, but she still has a duty and she will perform it. She has grown to hold her feelings closer to her chest, haunted by the war -- a sharp contrast from the once open woman she once was.
History: As all her siblings were, Gavmieltus, the second Primarch, was snatched as naught but a babe by the Gods of Chaos and flung across the galaxy. The unnamed child landed in the deep jungles of Dedin, a feral world. There she was found by a creature that was perhaps mythical to the common people, but was known to Gavmieltus simply as Mother. Ansiel, a birdlike creature with a face seemingly covered by a natural mask of bone and the voice of a human, named and raised the young demihuman, teaching her what she had learned over centuries of life. She encouraged the young Gavmieltus to interact with the people that lived outside of the jungle, sensing her natural ability as a child of Emperor to lead and rule, although neither of them were aware of this relation.
Because she never truly related to these people or lived among them until she was much older, Gavmieltus became somewhat of a legend herself, the girl who could live in the unliveable deep jungle, who spoke with the tone of Ansiel of the Deep Wood and could fell any challenger, man or woman, with ease. It was at this time she became known as the Gāriq to the people of Dedin, a word meaning Breaker of Suns, given it seemed a perfectly reasonable feat for someone such as her. She lived like this for many years, at day a human woman, at night simply another inhabitant of the jungle.
Thirty-three years before her rediscovery, approximately two years before even the start of the Great Crusade, the tribes of the Tubad and Ceawea broke into war. It was violent and cruel, using newly developed weapons with no heed for humanity. While Gavmieltus had seen the feral, vicious fightings of the inhabitants of the deep jungle and the inherent cruelty of humans, this unbridled, animalistic disregard for life disgusted her. She set aside her reservations in interfering with the five civilizations and stepped in. She did not fight for any one side, revolted by both of their actions, but focused on the defense of the innocents.
This practically humanitarian dedication to life and protection drew the attention of a young maiden-healer by the name of Miveya.
Miveya was fascinated by the Primarch, and throughout the war, they interacted many times. After the end of the long three years, Miveya sought out Gavmieltus. They shared only a short conversation, but Gavmieltus retreated back to her place of raising, isolating herself from humanity once again. Ansiel, sensing her reservation, grew tired of her Primarch level melodramatics after a mere fourteen standard months, and sent her demi-human daughter back into the world once again, telling her in no uncertain terms that she was to learn to coexist with her kind, and would be expected to live amongst them.
Miveya found the Primarch once again, and now knowing that one had to be blunt with the admittedly socially stunted second Primarch, revealed her affections. Uncertain of how to proceed, but certainly not perturbed by this, Gavmieltus “Gāriq” and Miveya lived together under a common law marriage until the return of the Emperor to collect His lost daughter. She developed a strong loyalty to her father and his crusade.
Miveya died barely less than two decades later, at the age of seventy-two, to the grief of the long-lived Gavmieltus, who possessed a more than mortal lifespan.
Gavmieltus had only a loose grasp on Imperial Gothic and the social understanding of the complicated yet contradictorily simple culture of Dedin. It was in their closeness and her mentorship during his early years that she grew to trust Ysegith, and in the destructive nature of battle that she found camaraderie with Icandus. She considered them to be among the brothers that she trusted the most, which has made the heresy difficult and painful for her.
Throughout the Great Crusade, she for a time became a household name. Although time and age had lessened her careful tendencies, Gavmieltus and her children, the Sunbreakers, became known for their ability to topple entire systems with a regard for civilian life that was unfortunately uncommon amongst the legions. She and the legions of Ysegith and Icandus worked together frequently on large scale projects, combining their unique talents into an unstoppable force of war and growing closer.
It was then that Icandus declared his intent to go against the Emperor and the Imperium at large, alongside their siblings of Jezebel and Aobe-Myātaip. He begged his siblings to come with him, but Gavmieltus, having long since dedicated herself to His cause, denied his plea. Icandus went through with the plan, and Gavmieltus, betrayed and hurt, vowed that she would kill him with her bare hands and took on the role of the Emperor’s Executioner.
During one of their battles, the very one in which he tore the gem from her plastron in a desperate attempt to escape her grasp, she came close to achieving her vow. Ysegith, who she had thought to have chosen the side of the Imperium, fought her until he and Icandus could escape via the warp. Now alone, Gavmieltus returned to Terra to be by her Father’s side and defend Him.
The pair who enter next are drastically dissimilar in their attitudes, one -- a Primarch, unmistakably, with an ornate golden mask shaped in the form of a sun -- already enjoying herself, by the look of her bright grin, and the other -- a solidly average sized Astartes with a simpler crimson mask -- looking as grumpy as the day he was born. The Primarch makes a beeline for whoever catches her eye first, the Astartes trailing awkwardly behind.
The first person they’d encounter is one of Sanguinius’s Astartes, no doubt a Librarian, who looked up at them with a small smile
“You must be here to meet Primarch Sanguinius! I’m Seraphiel, one of his sons. Welcome to the Blood Ball!”
"Thank you. I am here to meet your Father, although meeting my nephews is also quite a bonus." The Primarch's speech is heavily accented and as expressive as what is visible of her face, showing easily that she is truly pleased to be here. "I am Gavmieltus, the Gāriq, and this" -- she gestures to the grey-haired Astartes beside her -- "is my Equerry, Sare Minuna."
Minuna stands stiffly, uncertain about this all, but he nods to Seraphiel. "A pleasure."
I haven’t drawn him in a hot while so here’s our beloved Ahzek Ahriman! I have Thoughts regarding hair on Prospero and amongst the TS (specifically regarding braiding it as a meditative exercise).
Lion bleaches his hair not necessarily autistic, but definitely shows some signs of being on the spectrum more than his other sibs. not a big fan of eye contact and doesn’t talk a lot. it works for him so incredibly repressed. everything goes in a jar in a box in the attic of a house that he sell...
Well here’s some Primarch headcanons. Not nearly all of the ones I’ve made over the two years I’ve been fixated on Warhammer, but it’s going to take forever to track even half of it down so here’s the stuff I could either find with some quick discord searches or that I remember off the top of my head
(short drug and abuse mentions. trans/homophobes die by my blade)
I really like noise marines, ok? Quick doodle of Brother Anaxandrides of Warband Mirrorhost. He dyes his hair every three days and gives himself piercings when he’s bored. Yes, he’s used his axe-guitar to behead people.
I’m actually thinking I might end up doing these for all the Primarchs, even if I don’t have any tattoo hcs for them lol. not focusing a bunch on anatomy, so it’s a fun way to show off my appearance headcanons
Inwit is such an obvious reference to Inuit that I had to take some big reference from their traditional tattoos for him. (The methodology is really interesting and if that’s up your alley, you should totally do some reading about it because I think it’s very cool). His Imperial Fists logo is probably scarification, rather than an actual tattoo
A very important note with Dorn here is that I think the whole “all posthumans are dehydrated dorito bodybuilders” thing is bull and I like to give my posthumans actual body types and fat and such. With that said, Rogal is one of the softest (and hairiest!) Primarchs in my HC because of where he grew up. Of course, Leman Russ has him beat, but still.
Some Sanguinius design hcs. He has tats and is absolutely SHREDDED but his torso is a little….. weird…… he skips leg day. He’s not naturally blond, but he’s really prone to sunbleaching as all brown-haired Primarchs, and he tends to bleach it anyway if he hasn’t had enough sun exposure because he has an Image.
@sanguiniusreborn idk here’s ya boi
Some Sanguinius design hcs. He has tats and is absolutely SHREDDED but his torso is a little..... weird...... he skips leg day. He’s not naturally blond, but he’s really prone to sunbleaching as all brown-haired Primarchs, and he tends to bleach it anyway if he hasn’t had enough sun exposure because he has an Image.
@sanguiniusreborn idk here’s ya boi
Well! I made some little Custodes for anyone who wants em. They’re free – first come first serve (comment/reblog with the one you want and I’ll update the post with which ones are available.)
I also have transparent versions saved! So if you want those, message me and I’ll send your Custodes over.
