Panorama of Current Army

Panorama of my current army

Tarot

Episode 66 of The Eye of Horus podcast recently compared the primarchs of the Horus Heresy with major arcana cards of the tarot.  The card compared with Fulgrim was the Empress. 

It does seem a good match for Fulgrim, all things considered.  While it's highly doubtful to me that the similarities are intentional, it certainly might be plausible that the primarchs represent certain indelible archetypes, which the tarot is also likely to tap into.

The Empress is described as sitting on a throne wearing a starry crown, holding a scepter in one hand.  She has the emblem of Venus, a starry crown, a throne in the middle of a field of grain, and a waterfall.

The Empress is a symbol of fertility, growth from the natural world, and what one knows from the heart.  She represents the concepts of:

mothering

• giving birth
• nourishing life
• nurturing and caring for others
• cherishing the world
• expressing tenderness
• working with children

welcoming abundance

• enjoying extravagance
• receiving lavish reward
• luxuriating in plenty
• having more than enough
• feeling rich

experiencing the senses

• giving and receiving pleasure
• focusing on the body
• appreciating beauty
• feeling vibrantly healthy
• being earthy
• doing physical activity

responding to Nature

• relating to plants and animals
• embracing the natural
• feeling connected to the Earth
• going outdoors
• harmonizing with natural rhythms

Artwork of Fulgrim with other Primarchs

Fulgrim and Perturabo

Fulgrim and Mortarion

Fulgrim and Ferrus Manus

28th Expedition

In the 203rd year of the Great Crusade, War Council logs indicated that there were:

• 4,287 expedition fleets engaged in active exploration
• 372 expedition fleets engaged in refit and repair
• 60,000 (approx.) detached compliance groups involved in occupation and colonization

The 28th Expedition Fleet was commanded by Fulgrim. 

The name of the imperial army regiment accompanying the Emperor's Children were the Archite Palatines.  Their uniform consisted of red tunics and silver breastplate.

The Commander of the Archite Palatines was Thaddeus Fayle.  He was a stern man with a horribly scarred face, augmented with a steel plate that obscured the side of his head.  He was a skilled general, a blunt speaker and a ruthless, unforgiving soldier.

Presumably during the heresy the Palatines remained aligned with the Emperor's Children, eventually morphing with their remembrancers into their supporting masses of unaugmented human worshippers of Slaanesh.

Wolf and Sister

Wolf and Sister motion comic!  40K Space Wolves and Sisters of Battle vs. Emperor's Children.