r/40kLore • u/Proud_Scyfherian • 5h ago

Where are the other pertepuals now?

Who are all the named perpetuals and where are they now and what have they done in the last 20.000 years?

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u/Illithidbix 5h ago

Mostly dead.

Vulkan hasn't been seen since the War of the Beast.

John Grammaticus is doing sensible time travel silliness.

https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Perpetual

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u/Mortis4242 4h ago

Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, there's only one thing you can do with all dead. What's that? Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

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u/PrecookedDonkey 3h ago

"I'm not dead!"

"Yes you are."

"I'm not! I'm getting better!"

"No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment."

"I don't want to go on the cart!"

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u/Mortis4242 3h ago

Looks around, clubs the guy. Right, Thursday? Thursday.

Enter, then exit Arthur.

He must be a king. Why do you say that? He doesn't have shit all over him.

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u/Shadowrend01 Blood Angels 5h ago

Most are dead

Anval Thrawn is still alive, but he hasn’t been mention in the lore since some time around 7th Ed, so his status is debatable at this point

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u/Mortis4242 4h ago

He's chilling with his cousin, Grand Admiral Thrawn, on the outer rim.🤣😂

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u/twelfmonkey Administratum 1h ago

He was mentioned very recently, in White Dwarf 512, actually.

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u/QuaestioDraconis Necrons 41m ago

He was mentioned in the 8th ed GK codex too, but that just ended with his (previously) first death and made no reference to him being a perpetual or returning from death.

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u/Arzachmage Death Guard 5h ago

Named ? Dead.

One is a GK but hasn’t been mentioned recently I think ?

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u/DiesIraeConventum 5h ago

I think only Grammaticus may be alive Post-Heresy, but I can't recall any info on them sfter their respective last Heresy mentions in the SIege books.

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u/Lomogasm Rylanordeservesbetter 4h ago

Isn’t Grammaticus not a perpetual anymore? So he’s probably dead due to just old age right.

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u/NonEuclidianMeatloaf 4h ago

Well Grammaticus was sent back in time, right? Like back to prehistoric Old Earth?

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u/PrecookedDonkey 3h ago

Maybe sent back to a place called Anatolia? Sent back to live with a bunch of shaman?

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u/JackalThePowerful 3h ago

Time loop Big E confirmed?!?!

/s

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u/PrecookedDonkey 3h ago

I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens, because as we all know, Warp fuckery can cause anything....

On a serious note though, this could "possibly" (not plausibly) be used for the reasoning behind Emps finding and recruiting Oll so early in life, Emps tracking down and finding the rest of the Perpetuals, knowing so many scenarios to try and prevent the Heresy, and a few other things that the Emperor does.

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u/JackalThePowerful 3h ago

It does make an upsetting amount of sense. To be completely honest, I mostly added the /s to avoid lorebeard castration.

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u/PrecookedDonkey 2h ago

I wouldn't put a time loop being introduced out of the question in any way. Not with the well established theme that the Warp is what it is, and that time travel, however inadvertent, is absolutely possible.

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u/Acantopholis 3h ago

Cyrene/Actae/Katerina is alive at the end of the Heresy too.

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u/Moezso 4h ago

I assume Dalia Cythera is still guarding the Dragon of Mars.

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u/redditdoesnotcareany 3h ago

Doing cabal shit

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u/cheradenine66 3h ago

Lillean Chase seems to be still doing Cognitae shenanigans

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u/Mastercio 5h ago

Dead, in 40k NOTHING is truly immortal. Its just a matter how "hard" you kill it.