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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 [http://s6.invisionfree.com/bljunkies/index.php?showtopic=1111 Age of Dusk] (updates [http://www.thebolthole.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=231 here]) is the sequel to Lord Lucan's monumental [[Warhammer 40000]] fanfic [[The Shape of the Nightmare to Come]], but covers the 51-61st millenia instead of the 42nd-51st millenia.
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* [[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.
{{quote| Mephiston gestured to an archway that loomed high above his own throne like a terrible banner. As he did, lumen globes ignited around the grotesque spectacle. Bound with bonds of serrated iron and runic wards that burned eternally, Zelphagor saw a figure. A winged figure. A winged figure that seemed to phase in and out of reality. Only its immortal expression of sheer agony and horror remained a constant.<br />
 
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It was the Sanguinor, humbled and broken by profane sorcery and mutagenic viruses.<br />
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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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*** 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:
{{quote| ''He was supposedly the Father of all Astartes, tasked by his own father, Guilliman, to create a race of warrior giants to watch over humanity. According to his propaganda, he cut the flesh from his left hand, and used powerful magicks to summon the Astartes into being, born of his own flesh. First he created his council of Elders, then they in turn brought forth their own Astartes, who then flourished and drove back the darkness that had fallen over creation.'' }}
** 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]]-- 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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