 Complex inclusion into quaternionic projective space

Coordinate inclusion of complex vectors sends a complex line to its quaternionic span. If two such vectors span the same quaternionic line, a nonzero complex coordinate forces their scalar ratio to be complex, so this map is injective. The pulled-back quaternionic tautological line bundle splits as $L\oplus \overline{L}$ with complex first Chern classes $-x,x$. Its top Chern class, and thus Euler class, is $-x^2$. With $u$ the negative Euler generator, $i^{\ast }u=x^2$ and $i^{\ast }(u^k)=x^{2k}$. The map on infinite projective spaces is injective on cohomology; a finite inclusion loses the degrees with $2k>n$.