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{{quote|''It is the 61st Millennium, and the Age of Dusk is upon us. Let us hope dawn will break on a new universe. For hope is all we have, screaming against the storm.''}}
The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110909162033/http://s6.invisionfree.com/bljunkies/index.php?showtopic=1111 Age of Dusk] (updates [https://web.archive.org/web/20130523213750/http://www.thebolthole.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=231 here]) is the sequel to Lord Lucan's monumental [[Warhammer 40,000]] fanfic [[The Shape of the Nightmare to Come]], but covers the 51-61st millenia instead of the 42nd-51st millenia.
As a sequel, please consult [[The Shape of the Nightmare to Come|this]] article for tropes for the predecessor and as a Warhammer 40000 fanfic please check [[Warhammer 40,000|its]] trope page for tropes relating to its parent universe.
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** Lampshaded in the narrator's own notes:
{{quote|''We can see that this is at least partially a corruption of the concept of geneseed transference, and the process of Astartes creation, but to the ignorant inhabitants of Grand Sicarium, they believed this tale wholeheartedly.''}}
* [[Galactic Conqueror]]: Abbadon the Despoiler owns the entire Segmentum Tempestus, which is a pretty big step-up from his 40K incarnation as [[General Failure]]
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The resurrection of Khaine. The Dark Eldar seem to have ignored how close his ties to Khorne really were...
* [[Gone Mad From the Revelation]]: Occurs to Menantus after he {{spoiler|lands on the Angyl world of Ophelia VII.}} He's later seen on Valhalla (somehow), "calmly carving his tale into the irradiated bedrock with a broken femur."
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* [[I Will Find You]]: Vulkan promises this to {{spoiler|Fulgrim}}, even as he bashes in his brain with his helmet.
* [[Last Stand]]: {{spoiler|The Tau Empire attempts to fight off the Necrons of the Silent King, with the final battle taking place on T'au itself. Just as they are about to be annihilated, the Silent King's Necrons are called away by another fleet of Necrons belonging to the Void Dragon.}}
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Not the setting as a whole, but Vulkan's Imperium is a much better place to live in than the original
* [[Legion of Lost Souls]]: A new one consisting of non-essential soldiers (read: thugs and mercenaries who wanted to prove themselves and people from penal colonies and criminal worlds) and equipment (obsolete hulls of old Imperial vessels) was created to recover [[MacGuffin Girl|one woman]] from a necron Tombworld. It is lead by [[The Last Chancers|Colonel Schaeffer]].
* [[Mercy Kill]]: Vulkan pulls one off against {{spoiler|Fulgrim}}.
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* [[Ramming Always Works]]: Against a Witch Hunter class cruiser or its progenitor the Tau Idealist, it doesn't. Unless of course, you blow off its engines first or ram one from inside a sun.
* [[Rasputinian Death]]: Chenkov Jr. died in his sleep. Not too special, until you realize took several dozen disgruntled soldiers, fourteen rounds of a heavy stubber, an overdose of tranq, a vial of neurotoxin, a hatchet and three bayonets to make sure he died in his sleep. The legend of Chenkov’s death subsequently did get amplified in the telling, but his remains suggest at least the stubber shots were accurate. Also {{spoiler|Lucius}}.
* [[Recursive Fanfiction]]: Several friends of the original author have written pieces set in the 60K universe. Most of these, like the [
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: The Void Dragon. And now he's been loosed from his prison in the Solar System.
* [[Shout-Out]]: To [[Warhammer Fantasy]]: a [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Demiurg brotherhood]] mentioned is called the [http://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Chaos_Dwarfs Collective of Hashut.]
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