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[WH40K] What would Angron be like if he was raised by the Emperor?

There is something to be said about nature vs nurture when it comes to primarchs. Clearly they were all heavily affected by their upbringing but they each seemed to have certain abilities and characteristics built into their DNA. These abilities and characteristics were likely chosen by the Emperor to allow them to fulfill certain roles in the founding and running of his new empire.

I have two major pieces of evidence for this: 

* The space marine legions, composed of ordinary men who were enhanced and infused with the genes of a primarch, began to differentiate themselves and behave differently even before their primarchs were discovered.

* Magnus the Red was a very powerful psyker, and in order to be a psyker you have to have the genes for it. No matter how amazing the people of Prospero were at psychic stuff and no matter how good Magnus was at learning he wouldn't have become one of the greatest psykers without powerful psyker genes, it's like trying to be good at wine tasting when you have no taste buds or sense of smell. Furthermore Magnus was a primarch, that he had powerful psyker genes was no accident, the primarchs were made from scratch and each of their genes was hand picked or written wholesale by the Emperor or one of the scientists working under him. Given that the Emperor choose to endow Magnus with powerful psychic abilities while most of the other primarchs didn't get the same treatment means Magnus had a *role*, he was meant to be *the* psychic guy. If Magnus had a role it stands to reason that his brothers did as well.

These roles seemed to extend beyond the great crusade and into the running of the empire itself, Magnus could be an expert on all things warp related and help create and maintain psychic constructs such as the imperial webway, Roboute Guilliman could help create new infrastructure and deal with the administration of the imperium, Rogal Dorn could be in charge of military defenses of the imperium, either Horus or Sanguinius could act as a 'hand of the king' type person, being both assistant and substitute leader while the Emperor was doing other stuff, and so on. These primarchs could act as 'champions' of their schools of thought and run the imperium and enrich the minds of successive generations with the same wisdom that created it. There would be no chance of ever 'loosing' what made the imperium great because it's standing right there talking to you.

Even the really warlike or scary ones could have had roles after the crusade. Who better to break a rebellion (especially a heavily entrenched one) than a team of Perturabo and Russ? Who better to bring it down from the inside CIA style than a team of Alpharius / Omegon and Konrad Curze?

It seems to me that with the Emperor's guidance all of the primarchs could exist after the crusade. That is, except Angron. While Russ could sit around drinking and telling stories during times of peace (or hunting if he got bored) and Perterabo could do whatever Perterabo does for fun (knocking over people's sand castles?) Angron was pretty much always angry all the time. I have a hard time believing you could leave him alone for any period of time (without something to point that anger at) without him starting shit.

This brings us back to the nature vs nurture topic. Growing up in a brutal gladiatorial arena and having agression/anger magnifying all-other-emotion dampening implants put in his brain probably didn't help Angron to be the most well adjusted person. **The question is, would he be an angry guy even without that terrible childhood or would he have some other helpful qualities that were eclipsed by the anger (is there any evidence that Angron was good at doing anything other than wrecking shit)? In either case what do you think the Emperor's plan was for Angron? What was his role meant to be?**
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His role, or wyrd as the Space Wolves call it, would have been similar; a blunt, brutal instrument to put fear into the hearts of the enemies of the Emperor. He would have been way better adjusted staying with the Emperor his whole life, however. The Butcher's Nails seriously fucked him up. He also had a huge grudge against the Emperor for letting his comrades from his homeworld die without him. Remove those two influences and you'd probably have a Primarch and Legion broadly similar to the Space Wolves, but less wolfy.