Of 40k Traitor Primarchs and their tragedies

[Popiel]

I would rather the vagueness and mythological status of the primarchs as being true demigods akin to ancient legends and such today.

If you think about it,in current 40k(the age of the Dark Imperium) the average Imperial citizen is mostly in the dark when it comes to what really happened during the Horus Heresy.
Primarchs are true demigods to the imperial citizens,embodiments of either virtue and sacrifice(Sanguinius - Loyalist) or depravity and vanity(Fulgrim - Traitor).
Hence,they are indeed shrowded in mythology,representatives of a terrible age of destruction and where legends were born.

Yeah, people tend to forget that what the reader knows literally nobody is aware of in-universe, save for, I don't know, a literal handful of characters. Knowing like anything about Angron, even his name, would turn any standard Imperial citizen into a nice crisped peace of meat in a heartbeat. You can easily skip all HH prose and just ignore it if you want to enjoy the world as is.

 

[gerey]

What traitors do you consider to be the most tragic in terms of fate,admiring their triumphs and tribulations or in terms of wasted potential?

None. They are all traitors, they are all failures. They betrayed their Lord and Master, and by doing so betrayed the whole of humanity as well.

Not to say most loyalist Primarchs are any better. They all think they have the right to question the God Emperor and put in doubt His goals.

 

[NecroLord]

I would rather the vagueness and mythological status of the primarchs as being true demigods akin to ancient legends and such today.

If you think about it,in current 40k(the age of the Dark Imperium) the average Imperial citizen is mostly in the dark when it comes to what really happened during the Horus Heresy.
Primarchs are true demigods to the imperial citizens,embodiments of either virtue and sacrifice(Sanguinius - Loyalist) or depravity and vanity(Fulgrim - Traitor).
Hence,they are indeed shrowded in mythology,representatives of a terrible age of destruction and where legends were born.

Yeah, people tend to forget that what the reader knows literally nobody is aware of in-universe, save for, I don't know, a literal handful of characters. Knowing like anything about Angron, even his name, would turn any standard Imperial citizen into a nice crisped peace of meat in a heartbeat. You can easily skip all HH prose and just ignore it if you want to enjoy the world as is.

Indeed.
In 40k, the average imperial citizen probably knows absolutely jack shit about the traitor Primarchs. About the loyal ones, yes, they are revered figures(of course, not to the same extent as The Big E). Sanguinius even has a holiday named after him, the Sanguinala.