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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
As a sequel, please consult [[The Shape of the Nightmare
'''Spoilers ahead for ''The Shape of the Nightmare to Come''. Please read at your own risk.'''
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* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: The Nex and the Draziin-maton, the mere mention of which makes the walls bleed, overrun the entire Eye of Terror with the aid of {{spoiler|Erebus}} and take down most of the Daemon Primarchs in weeks.
* [[And I Must Scream]]: Lucius the Eternal's fate, who is dismembered and left to lie in a pit-- {{spoiler|before being raised during Fulgrim's assault on Armageddon as a horrific mutated spawn. He kills Vulkan He'Stan in a brutal battle before being thrown into Armageddon's sun.}}
* [[A World Half Full]]: The empire based on Armageddon, which actually provides a prosperous, functioning society in the post-40k universe.
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* [[Ax Crazy]]: The Oblivionites, the psychopathic, nihilistic remnaints of the Black Templars.
* [[Badass Abnormal]]: The afromentioned Ryzan-Catachan Plasma Commandoes are [[Badass Normal|particularly powerful and resilient Catachans (or equally strong humans from the Ryzan-Catachan sphere)]] who were [[Artificial Limbs|cybernetically]] [[Electronic Eyes|augmented]] by Ryzan tech priests.
* [[Badass Normal]]: [[
* [[Big Bad]]: Abaddon, the Star Father, the Deceiver, the Void Dragon, the Nex and the Draziin-maton.... the list goes on and on.
* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: The [[Space Wolves|Fenryka]], who manage to wreak havoc upon [[The Empire|the Chaos Imperium]]. The Alpha Wulfen counts as well, but {{spoiler|he's actually a Raven Guard marine}}.
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* [[Cool Starship]]: The Idealist, the first [[Artificial Intelligence|AI-]]run ship in the Tau Empire. {{spoiler|Too bad Chaos Lord Mawdredd destroys it.}} More of them are built though.
* [[Corrupt Church]]: The Ophelians, who at this point are nihilistic death worshippers.
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Vulkan implemented a functioning, free civilization based on Armaged-- {{spoiler|wait, why did he accept a gigantic Genestealer Cult into his Empire?}}
* [[Creepy Twins]]: The Apex Twins. Although they appear to be good guys. Tempermental, horrifying good guys.
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The corrupt Ophelians start a war with Vulkan's Imperium. Despite the fact that Vulkan is fighting the invading Emperor's Children at the same time, once the Ophelians' fancy copied Tau ships are destroyed they're slaughtered.
* [[Deader Than Dead]]: Any system that gets close enough to the Ophiliim Kiasoz is erased from reality.
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Fulgrim of course, but also the Draziin-maton which appear to be Pre-Fall Eldar war constructs possessed by.... something.
* [[Dirty Business]]: The Fire Beasts take care of this for Vulkan, performing a [[Mercy Kill]] on the remnants of the Black Templars and waging a terror campaign against the Ophelians.
* [[Disney Death]]: The Orks as a whole. Spores from Orks simply lay dominant in planetary ecosystems, which finally grew and became Orks in the 51st Millenium.
* [[Dying
* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Roboute Guilliman}}'s last appearance.
* [[Town
* [[Enemy Mine]]: Vulkan's Imperium is in a huge one with the {{spoiler|Realm of Fathers}}, who, while {{spoiler|gene stealer cultists or pure breeds to a man or alien}}, are far too industrially vital and heavily armed to destroy without crippling the Imperium. The new Space Marines, particularly the Fire Beasts, may not like them, but they will use weapons built by them and fight beside the Cultists as long as the Pure Strains are kept out of sight.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Corsair Lord Zelphagor is horrified that the now-corrupted Mephiston would go so far as to desecrate and bind the Sanguinor, the avatar of the Blood Angels' memories of their fallen primarch.
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It was the Sanguinor, humbled and broken by profane sorcery and mutagenic viruses.
Even the vile Zelphagor was taken aback at this sight. }}
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Kaldor Draigo, favored Angyl Prince of the Star Father, versus the corrupt rulers of Grand Sicarium.
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** [[The Big Guy]]: The Fire Beasts, one half [[The Unfettered]], one half [[Undying Loyalty]].
** [[The Smart Guy]]: The stealthy Sons of Corax.
** [[Sixth Ranger]]: The Scions of Polyphemus, with their superheavy tanks and Knight mini-mecha.
* [[Forever War]]: Goes with the territory, but the Tau Empire and the Nightbringer's Necrons have been in one for MILLENIA, with the Tau creating more and more advanced weaponry and AI to fight against the ancient and obscenely powerful Necrons. {{spoiler|And then the war ends with a final decisive assault by the Necrons on T'au itself... only for the Necron forces on it to teleport away at the hour of their victory, called away by something else.}}
** The Grey Knights and Custodes have been fighting against the Void Dragon's Necrons and the endless tides of daemons on Titan for over sixteen thousand years.
*** Of course, this took place in a warp storm as bad if not worse than the eye of terror, and we all know how such regions of space scoff at our universe's notion of linear time.
* [[Future Imperfect]]: Probably done intentionally with Grand Sicarium's myth about the creation of the Space Marines:
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** Lampshaded in the narrator's own notes:
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* [[Galactic Conqueror]]: Abbadon the Despoiler owns the entire Segmentum Tempestus, which is a pretty big step-up from his 40K incarnation as [[General Failure]]-- right up until {{spoiler|Erebus betrays him for the Draziin-maton and wrecks the whole Western Chaos Imperium}}.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: The resurrection of Khaine. The Dark Eldar seem to have ignored how close his ties to Khorne really were...
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* [[He's Back]]: The God-Emperor in the form of the Star Father, the nightmarish god of order. {{spoiler|However, the 'compassion' he threw away in order to kill Horus back during the original Heresy has apparently coalesced in the Webway.}}
* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: In a weird way, Abaddon is this to the Imperium. He conquered most of Segmentum Obscuras and Solar, but he's also one of the biggest forces for order, or at least structured chaos. This comes back to bite him.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Repeatedly. First the Ophilim Kiasoz starts tearing its way through space, unmaking reality as it passes. Then Ahriman releases the Void Dragon, who besieges half the galaxy at once. Then, the Nex and the Draziin-maton arises from the deep warp and overruns the Eye of Terror, conquering the Chaos Primarchs and overthrowing the Chaos Imperiums of Abaddon and Huron Blackheart with ease.
* [[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.}}
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* [[Mercy Kill]]: Vulkan pulls one off against {{spoiler|Fulgrim}}.
* [[Mexican Standoff]]: {{spoiler|Corax, Leman Russ and Maugan Ra}} end up pulling one off during the fight on Altansar.
* [[Mini
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Huron Blackheart's daemonic servant, the Hamadrya, turns out to be on the side of the Draziin-maton and enslaves him.}}
* [[Mordor]]: The Solar System is this trope on an interplanetary scale, warped by Chaos and periodically struck by the Dragon Tides which sweep away everything on the planets it hits.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Ahriman releases the Void Dragon from Terra in his quest to get at the Emperor's abandoned labratories. Although given what he does with that technology he's not quite heroic...
* [[One-Man Army]]: Vulkan and the other Primarchs, but especially the Phoenix Lords who are capable of taking out entire planets single handedly.
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different]]: The Wulfen, a mix of the Space Wolves 13th Grand Company, cloned Raven Guard from the Horus Heresy and the remnants of Fabius Bile's experiments who've banded together under the leadership of Russ and Corax to rip Chaos a new one.
* [[Proud Warrior Race]]: The {{spoiler|reborn Ork race, who are much more disciplined and organised than before}}.
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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
* [[Shout
** There's a Cathedral of St. Ciaphas (yes, ''[[Ciaphas Cain|that]]'' [[Ciaphas Cain|Ciaphas]]) on Valhalla.
** A minor detail in the account of the Necron invasion contains a reference to a possible [[Warhammer
* [[Tank Goodness]]: The Sons of Thunder Commandery specialize in this. Honorable mention to the Thunder Lizard Tank Legion, all of whose super heavy tanks are named after dinosaurs.
* [[The Heartless]]: The Star-Father and his Angyls embody this. The Draziin-maton, servants of [[Ultimate Evil|the Nex]] may be even worse.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: “I am master and king of all Space marines. Though you have cast aside your humanity, you are still Astartes, and you! Will! Kneel!"
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Vulkan He'stan pulls this off in the shield control room on Armageddon against a {{spoiler|raised Lucius the Eternal}}. Doubles as a {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]]}}.
** An Imperator Titan blocks the way against a reborn Khaine, allowing the Vulkanite army on the planet to pull off the planet before it is destroyed. Karandras and Arhra end up fighting inside the Titan as the Bloody-Handed God rises.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Several forms: Nurgle releases a plague that keeps the souls of the dead inside their bodies, in order to prevent human souls from fueling the Star-Father. Ahriman is currently building up his force of mindless Rubric Marines by casting the Rubric on other Astartes, instantly turning them into slaves to his will.
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