It's a new era for these solemn, secretive knights
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The Warhammer 40,000 galaxy moves at a glacial pace, with major narrative threads frozen in place for years, sometimes even decades at a time. That's been true of one of the game's most popular factions, the green-armored Dark Angels Space Marines, basically since they were introduced to the game in the 1980s. But in March 2023, Lion El'Jonson, the long-lost leader of the Dark Angels, returned from the dead. His reappearance in the Imperium of Mankind is now creating waves within the First Legion, as it is called, for the first time in 10,000 years. And it could be a prelude to something even more divisive to come.
Each Space Marine chapter was created by a Primarch, one of the Emperor's genetically engineered sons. In the beginning there were only 20 Primarchs, and for over 10 millennia they have been decimated – killed, lost, disappeared or turned into slave demons by the forces of Chaos. For a long time, the only Primarch left standing was Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines Chapter and administrator extraordinaire. In the game's modern canon, he has assumed the leadership of the Imperium, the de facto protagonist of the 40K universe, leaving him in the very unenviable position of both doing all the paperwork for a star-spanning empire and mitigating the inevitable decline of the same star-spanning empire that has fallen down into religious fanaticism.
