Motherhood: The Tale of Three

""The Eldar had committed to their...fertility ritual in an attempt to bolster their population across the galaxy. But instead, their ritual of debauchery had birthed...something. Whatever was born, it had rivaled the Three in both power and scope. Its very birth had churned the Immaterium into becoming the cataclysm that shattered the galaxy.

You...you had plans to implement if you were going to save mankind. Plans you wish you weren’t necessary.

You sighed once more and wished Eve was here.""

- Intro

Motherhood: The Tale of Three is an Alternate Universe Warhammer 40,000 fanfic by Older-than-Time on Sufficient Velocity. Beginning as an expanded version of a series of snippets largely set around the 31st Millennium, story features among others the tales of three immortal women, who by a turn of fate all come to raise three specific Primarchs:

Lion El'Jonson, now known as Crown Prince Mordred.

Sanguinius, now known as Gabriel of Baal Secundus.

Magnus the Red, now known as Solaire of Prospero.

Suffice to say, the presence of such female "Perpetuals" raising Primarchs would have far-reaching consequences for the burgeoning Imperium, the Great Crusade and the Emperor's ultimate plans.


 * Adaptational Badass:
 * is revealed to have be an artificial Perpetual born during the fall of Troy. also gone by Judas Iscariot and Douglas MacArthur in his long life.
 * Ollanius Persson this time around is shown to have led more high-profile lives at a few points over the millennia, including being Achilles and Omar Nelson Bradley.
 * All Myths Are True: Sort of. Many of the Perpetuals are either the basis of various mythological and historical figures.
 * Alternate Universe Fic: It doesn't take too long after the Emperor reunites with his "sons" that divergences from canon become even more pronounced.
 * Expy: Eve, in both her appearance and personality, is based on C.C. from Code Geass.
 * In Spite of a Nail: Even with the renaming of the Primarchs, they still wind up using the names granted to them by the Emperor of Mankind.
 * Just Before the End: There are a few glimpses of how life was like during the final days of the Dark Age of Technology, just before everything goes mad.
 * Living Relic: While the Perpetuals themselves by and large are this by default in one way or another, some are much more so than others. Many of them have been around in time periods familiar to modern-day mankind, and still retain more than a few memories, cultural habits and personality tics from those eras.
 * Original Character: The Perpetual "mothers" themselves, in particular.
 * Time Abyss: The Emperor and the other Perpetuals, by and large, have been around for since antiquity or some point in humanity's earlier history.