Through various telltale details, Hogg had figured out which timeline his world belonged to.
Unlike the Guilliman Heresy next door, Hogg's home wasn't exactly a respectable place either. It was just as grimdark, but the power levels were way higher—and the personalities were even more deranged.
Take the three Custodes brothers, for example. Hogg wondered if they were Old Man Yellow's illegitimate sons. Their rather... homey hobbies and habit of oiling themselves up and running around naked would've gotten them dragged through the streets in a public spectacle at Blackwatch.
And there were plenty more examples, like Kitten, the Captain-General of the Adeptus Custodes, who had now become the top man under Valdor.
For a Custodian, this guy had a bizarre connection with Shadowsun, and he was also quite fond of card games. During the ten thousand years when the Primarchs were gone, his superb skills had won over countless Burning Legion Greater Daemon leaders.
More strangely, according to Curze and Krakz themselves, Tzeentch, that old schemer, liked playing cards too. If not for Hogg, Kitten might have truly made a name for himself and become the Empire's genuine hero.
If that wasn't enough proof, the other Primarchs' quirks were conclusive evidence.
Like Old Man Yellow's sacred swearing and his equally distinctive method of fighting on by splitting off fragments of his soul; Magnus's habit of being both terrible at something and eager to do it anyway, despite being kind to the core; the tangled love-hate relationship between Third Sister and Ferrus; and Horus's daddy issues.
Of course, Horus was like that in every world and every timeline, so that didn't really count.
Even so, Hogg had once had his doubts. But another piece of evidence was the Four Ruinous Powers. He'd gotten into the hobby because his roommate, Lobster,