The Covenant of Primus is an in-story Bible for the Transformers Aligned universe.
Tropes:
- Crystal Dragon Jesus: The Covenant really is a book containing Cybertron's mythology, a Transformer equivalent of the Bible.
- Decomposite Character: Taking a page from The Transformers (IDW), Galavatron is a separate entity from Megatron.
- Expy: Liege Maximo is a dark Trickster Archetype and is even visually modeled after Marvel's Loki.
- Fantasy Pantheon: The Covenant tells the history of the Thirteen Primes, which are this:
- Top God/God of Good: Primus, the creator of the Transformers who is Cybertron itself.
- Satanic Archetype/God of Evil: Unicron, the incarnation of destruction and chaos.
- The Leader: Prima, the first transformer.
- War God: Megatronus, the fiercest warrior. He later got corrupted by Liege Maximo and became known as The Fallen.
- Messianic Archetype: The Thirteenth Prime, Optimus. He had no special powers, but helped bring about hope, reason and vision to his brethren. He then retreated to the Well of All Sparks to be reborn as an ordinary Cybertronian, Orion Pax, to better guide his people.
- God of Evil: Liege Maximo is a lesser version among the Thirteen, starting at Creating Life Is Bad and then corrupting Megatronus and bringing the end of the age of Primes.
- Trickster Archetype: A lighter form than Liege Maximo, this is Amalgamous Prime, the original bearer of the transformation ability and the ancestor of shifters.
- Nature Spirit: Alchemist Prime, the researcher, Quintus Prime who seeds planets with life, and Onyx Prime, the ancestor of the mechanical beasts known as Predacons.
- Ultimate Blacksmith: Solus Prime, the maker of technology.
- The Fair Folk: Micronus Prime, progenitor of the Minicons.
- Time Master: Vector Prime.
- Seers: Alpha Trion, the scribe who wrote the Covenant itself, including future events, though he barely understood the language of the future.
- For Science!: Nexus Prime, the original combiner, Alchemist Prime and Quintus Prime, the creator of life.
- Headbutting Heroes: Prima and Megatronus at the beginning, being alike in temperament to Primus and Unicron, respectively.
- Love Ruins the Realm: Megatronus and Solus were in love, but he grew jealous of her relationship with Amalgamous (the two were Just Friends) and that caused him to grow resentful at her, ultimately blasting her through the chest when she came to talk him out of Liege Maximo's machinations.
- Retcon: Optimus Prime's backstory. He was mentioned to have "Primian polarity", i.e. descended from Prima, but here he was stated to be the thirteenth of the original Primes. Previously, each of the Thirteen was a multiversal singularity among all Transformers continuities. Due to some story differences, it's now stated that each of them can choose whether and not to split in any continuity or continuity family.
- Tomes of Prophecy and Fate: The Covenant is written so that each chapter is in the language of the time it is detailing. Thus no one, including Alpha Trion whose Magitek quill wrote it, have a perfect understanding of it and the only thing they can glimpse from the future are vague prophecies.
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Solus Prime who reached out to all others.
- Tragic Hero: Megatronus. Since the beginning he was shunned until Solus got close to him, they fell in love but then he ended up killing her, shattering the unity of the Thirteen.
- When the Planets Align: As detailed in Transformers: Prime, "when the forty-seven spheres align, a perpetual conflict will culminate upon a world forged from chaos. And the weak shall perish in the shadow of a rising darkness". The rising darkness is Unicron who comprises the core of the "world forged from chaos" (Earth) and will awaken from the gravitational anomaly of the 47 celestial bodies with Cybertron on the other end.
- Won the War, Lost the Peace: The Thirteen managed to drive Unicron into shutdown and banish him, but they had been touched by his darkness and strife soon emerged between them.
