Scars are Forever: His body is still covered in the scars from the torture he suffered at the hands of Dark Eldar during the Bleeding War.Revenge Before Reason: Fulgrim got lost in the Webway because he ignored the warnings about the imminent collapse of Commorragh's suns while pursuing Fabius Bile.At the Battle of Lupercal's Gate Sanguinius inadvertently confirms to Lucius that Fulgrim is still alive somewhere within the Webway. Never Found the Body: He went missing and was presumed deceased while pursuing Fabius Bile at the climax of the 'Burning of Commorragh'.I Was Quite a Looker: He was legendary for his handsomeness until he was captured by Dark Eldar who tortured him until he was covered in scars.Later, their encounter with the Dark Eldar, while horrific, taught him much-needed humility and reminded him of his and his Legion's mortality. Because of this, there was nothing to corrupt him and he remained loyal. This means Fulgrim never picked up the Blade of the Laer, so it was instead used on Vespasian, who resisted the daemon's corruption until the Thousand Sons could banish the daemon back into the Warp.
For Want of a Nail: Librarians of the Emperor's Children noticed the trap in the Laer temple much earlier, alerting everyone to the Chaos corruption in a timely manner. The most tragic part is that most of the gene-sons he tried to rescue were often already dead from torture before he even got to them, though he had no way of knowing that. A Father to His Men: During his captivity by the Dark Eldar, every time Fulgrim manages to break out of his cell the first thing he does is to try and rescue his own gene-sons in captivity, even if every time it led to him being recaptured by the Dark Eldar. 
Broken Ace: His torture at the Dark Eldar permanently damaged his body and left him a shell of his once perfect self. He still maintains his high standards for himself and his Legion, though. Break the Haughty: The Dark Eldar's tortures and the near-destruction of the Third Legion in the Bleeding War had, like the rest of the Emperor's Children, taught Fulgrim much needed humility with the marring and loss of his once perfect form and the realization of his and his Legion's own mortality. Big Damn Heroes: Fulgrim had been unable to participate in the Siege of Terra even after his legion and the Night Lords arrived to relieve the Imperial forces due to being forced to stay aboard his flagship having all the poisons and wounds the Dark Eldar inflicted on him removed and healed, but he made his contribution count when he managed to get into his armour and teleport into the Throneroom during the final hour of the conflict, right as Arch-Traitor Gulliman was about to finish off the mortally-wounded Emperor, cutting him down with his Fireblade and giving his father the one chance He needed to smite Gulliman with his psychic powers. He endured most of the Roboutian Heresy being tortured by Dark Eldar, and even managed to save the Emperor from Guilliman at the last possible moment. He took a legion of barely 300 Astartes and restored it in just a few years (there were only 300 Astartes left at the time of Fulgrim's arrival due to a genetic defect known as the blight). The Ace: He restored the ecology of Chemos to the point that it is still mostly perfect thousands of years after his disappearance. 
Despite being unable to participate in the Roboutian Heresy for nearly its entirety due to the Bleeding War, their contributions with the Night Lords at the Siege of Terra in the final hours of the Roboutian Heresy effectively turned the tide and allowed the Imperium to ultimately triumph.
Small Role, Big Impact: Relatively speaking. 
They ultimately failed to destroy the Dark Eldar and even lost Fulgrim to the Webway, but the Dark Eldar had learned to steer clear of the Emperor's Children and the worlds under their protection since then.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After the Third Legion was nearly destroyed in the Bleeding War against the Dark Eldar, they finally had their chance at vengeance in the thirty-fifth millennium when the Alpha Legion managed to find a way into Commorragh within the Webway, allowing Primarch Fulgrim and the Emperor's Children to go there and burn it to the ground alongside the Night Lords legion and his brother Primarch Angron with his World Eaters legion.
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