Magnolia the Red

"The curse of assumed knowledge is a challenge that all enlightened individuals face. We must remember that we once walked in their shoes and were blind to the truths of the Universe. The wider our views of the universe becomes, the more our beliefs must come to us second hand. Our reliance on higher authority forms almost every aspect of our world view."
- Magnolia the Red, Primarch of the Thousand SonsMagnolia the Red is the 15th Daughter of the Emperor of Mankind. She was conceived in the gene-labs of the Emperor on Terra, but born on the world of Prospero after the Primarch’s scattering. She is the Mistress of Prospero and of the Matriarch of the Five Cults and General of the 15th Legion, The Thousand Sons, in the Emperor’s Great Crusade.
She and her legion would break from the Imperium during the Hathor Heresy and join with a few of her sisters as they carved out a Civilization of their own in the form of the Confederacy. 
She is engaged to Medu the Keeper, a young sorcerer who she met in her early years on Prospero.
Currently, her whereabouts are unknown, but it is believed that she still reigns on Prospero to this day.
== History ==
=== The Primarch Project and Birth. ===
Magnolia the Red was conceived in the Gene labs of the Emperor as the 15th of his daughters. Like her sisters, Magnolia was built to embody an aspect of the Emperor. Magnolia was created to embody the immense psychic might of the Emperor of Mankind. During her gestation, she was scattered through the warp with the rest of her sisters, ultimately landing on the planet of Prospero. Magnolia became a ward of the psychic scholars and leaders of Prospero, and quickly developed psychic powers similar to their own. Within only a few years of his arrival Magnus surpassed his primary master in the psychic arts, Amon, perhaps the greatest Sorcerer and psyker on Prospero at the time. Magnus mastered every psychic training program and voraciously went through the arcane volumes concerning sorcery and the Warp contained in Prospero's Librariumhttps://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Magnus_the_Red. During this time, Magnolia would meet a young sorcerer named Medu the Keeper. Each would fall madly in love and become a couple. 
Magnolia would become an acolyte in the great cults of Prospero 
=== Discovery and Reunification. ===
With such a potent mind within the Warp, it was not long until the Emperor of Mankind noticed Magnolia's presence and directed His Great Crusade fleets to make for Prospero. When His fleet arrived at Prospero in 840.M30 and the Emperor set foot within the grand precincts of Tizca, He and Magnolia immediately embraced and conversed as if the two had known each other for ages. Following her rediscovery, Magnolia, Medu and the Emperor engaged in joint travels and study of the Warp, with the Emperor imparting further knowledge to His daughter, along with multiple warnings about the dangers inherent in overindulging the gifts of the psyker due to the dark entities that existed within the Warp and sought to manipulate mortals for their own benefit.https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Magnus_the_Red
Magnolia would be reunited with her gene-sons, the Thousand Sons Legion. The XVth Legion, the Thousand Sons, had inherited Magnus' psychic talents, as their gene-seed had been created from samples of Magnolia's own psychically-potent genes. However, the XVth Legion's gene-seed was genetically unstable, often resulting in rampant and unwanted mutations known as the "Flesh Change," Space Marine-organ rejections, and mental instability. The Legion was dramatically under-strength because of these problems and its eventual survival was questionable. It was said the Legion owed its name to the fact that only about a thousand stable Astartes remained functional within it by the time Magnolia was found on Prospero by the Emperor. 
The Thousand Sons Legion was not allowed to join the Great Crusade at its beginning, with some in the young Imperium advocating its disbanding and the euthanizing of its members; however Magnolia pleaded with the Emperor to give her a chance to find a way to stop the rampant mutations after he accepted his rightful position of leadership over the Legion. The Emperor agreed to this, and after several solar decades of often desperate effort, Magnolia was finally successful: the aberrant mutations decimating her Legion stopped.https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Magnus_the_Red
=== The Great Crusade. ===
Magnolia and her Legion would take part in dozens of campaigns with her Father and her sisters. She would establish a very close bond with her sister Petra and her sons, the Iron Warriors. Conversely, she would grow deeply resentful of her sister Freya Russ. 
==== The Wedding of Petra and Aristides ====
Magnolia, Starlight and the Thousand sons would play a major role in the planning and preparation of Petra's wedding. 
==== The Council of Nikea ====
Magnolia the Red and her legion are sanctioned by the Emperor and called to a grand council to decide whether or not Psykers should be allowed to serve in the Legiones Astartes. Morrigan, Freya and many other primarchs spoke against the use of psykers, However, Magnolia would give a full throated defense of their use and the achievements of the Thousand Sons. Unfortunately, The Emperor would decree that Psykers would be required to suppress their powers and that Psykers would not be recruited to the Astartes.
==== Magnolia's Folley ====
Even with her Legion banned from using their powers, Magnolia, Medu and the Thousand Sons would continue to use their powers. 
==== The Capture of the Thousand Sons ====
=== The Hathor Heresy ===
==== The Trial of Magnolia and her Legion ====
==== The Repair of the Webway and the Internment of Magnolia ====
==== The Escape of the Thousand Sons ====
==== The Creation of the Confederacy of Iron ====
==== The Flesh Change ====
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