And Horus, Warmaster of the Imperium, the brightest star and greatest of the Emperors sons. He is a carrion lord upon a golden throne, a rotting carcass that is barely kept alive by faith, ancient technology, constant human sacrifices, and sheer willpower. Realising the dire threat of such a creature, the two Assassins attacked the Traitor Assassin. In fact, he spoke it with the particular hard palatal edge and rough vowels of a Western Hemispheric ganger, the commonest and roughest of Cthonia's feral castes. When Horus arrived there, they would terminate his command with extreme prejudice. It would take only the smallest twists of fate for it to break. The lodges would prove to be the primary purveyors of corruption in those Legions which turned Traitor in the days immediately preceding the start of the Horus Heresy. The Vindicare Assassin departed Dagonet and decided to make one last attempt on the Warmaster's life. The Dark Gods portrayed themselves as victims of the Emperor's psychic might, and claimed that they had no real interest in the happenings of the material world. The Index Cards for Warhammer 40,000 have gotten their first errata pass. It was Sanguinius who reached his brother Horus first. Already fatigued from the long siege, Sanguinius was cast down by the daemon, pulverising the ferrocrete below upon impact. Horus, under the guise of putting down the religious rebellion against Imperial Compliance on the world of Istvaan III, amassed his troops in the Istvaan System. Horus has joined the literal forces of Chaos and attacks Terra to create a new empire for himself. He gave the XVIth Legion a new name, the moniker that now breeds fear into the heart of every true servant of the Emperor who hears it spoken aloud: the Black Legion. It would be at Calth that Lorgar would launch a surprise attack on the Ultramarines whilst they were gathered for the campaign against the Orks of Ghaslakh. They established contact with a daemon called Sarr'kell, who acted as an emissary of the Chaos Gods to Horus and the Traitor Legions. His veteran troops -- comprising the majority of the Xth Legion's Terminators and Dreadnoughts -- followed. At the same time, the Word Bearers had used the battle taking place on Calth to summon a massive Warp Storm called the Ruinstorm, that was intended to cut off Ultramar from the rest of the galaxy and prevent the Ultramarines from providing any reinforcements to Terra as Horus made his assault upon humanity's homeworld. In the nearby system of Chondax, the White Scars of Jaghatai Khan were sure to have received word of Horus rebellion and would no doubt attempt to link up with the Space Wolves. Better that we had all burned in the fires of Horus' ambition than live to see this.' Even as he said it, Guilliman heard the lie in his words. Horus was thus the first primarch to be rediscovered by the Emperor after the Great Crusade began in the late 30th Millennium.
Horus | Story, Appearance, Symbols, & Facts | Britannica Before this could happen, the Word Bearers' First Chaplain Erebus broke the news to Horus: their daemonic allies in the Warp had informed them that the Dark Angels and Space Wolves Legions were nearing Terra; and the Ultramarines were only a short distance behind. Rising to the challenge of the vile Greater Daemon, the Blood Angels Legion attacked the daemon host of Kyriss, launching a series of attacks across the seat of the daemon's power, the world of Signus Prime. The psychic shock of so many deaths at one time shrieked through the Warp, briefly obscuring even the Astronomican. However, there was much dissension in the ranks of the Primarchs and other parties in the Imperium over the Emperor's decision to withdraw from the campaign and return to Terra as well as to reorganise the political administration of the Imperium under the control of a Council of Terra headed by his regent, Malcador the Sigillite. Thousands of Astartes loyal to Horus gathered before a great reviewing stand, constructed by the Tech-priests of the Dark Mechanicus with astonishing speed. All across the Urgall Depression, hundreds died with every passing second, the promise of inevitable death a pall of darkness that hung over every warrior. Discarding tactics and strategy, the World Eaters Legion's Traitors worked themselves into a frenzy of mindless butchery. Little did they know at the time, that one day a corrupted Horus would take full advantage of this knowledge and attempt to turn the Blood Angels' Flaw against them. Only the Emperor Himself had the might to keep the gate closed permanently and for Him the effort grew harder as the daemonic forces gathered about Him. resounding long into the darkness. You are like a son and together we have all but conquered the galaxy. Kor Phaeron had planned the assault of Calth for his Primarch meticulously, and executed it with the aid of the Dark Apostle Erebus. Some of the Angel's sons had learned a measure of the truth, but only Azkaellon, First Captain Raldoron, the IXth Legions Master Apothecary on the Legion homeworld of Baal and a few others were fully aware of the extent of this affliction. In their anger, the Sons of Horus turned upon the populace of Dagonet and began to slaughter them in earnest. Magnus then attempted to forewarn the Emperor of the impending betrayal of his favourite son. Even worse, Horus came to believe in his heart that he was failing his father, and was deeply wounded that the Emperor had revealed to none of the Primarchs, not even his most favoured son, why he had secluded himself upon Terra and the truth behind his secret Imperial Webway Project.
Warhammer 40k Roboute Guilliman - the Ultramarines Primarch Abaddon ordered the Sons of Horus to paint their Power Armour black as a symbol of both mourning for Horus and their desire for vengeance against the Imperium. Shortly before the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V, Fulgrim also attempted to sway his friend Ferrus Manus of the Iron Hands Legion to Horus' cause by using many of the same inducements that had been offered to the Adeptus Mechanicus, with whom the Iron Hands were closely allied in both temperament and philosophy. To this end, Horus had discovered decades earlier a carefully guarded secret of the Blood Angels when he fought alongside Sanguinius' IX Legion in a xenocidal campaign on the world of Melchior. Adeptus Titanicus. Horus used his Chaotic powers to scatter the Emperor's force throughout the massive warship when they teleported up through the Warp. The daemon hurled itself at the Angel of Baal, barely allowing him time to parry the daemon's strikes. Yet, despite some early successes that delayed Horus' plans for three full months while the battle on Istvaan III played out, their cause was ultimately doomed by their lack of air support and Titan firepower. The spell of Magnus not only allowed the foul denizens of the Warp entry to the section of the Webway the Emperor's secret army of Adepts and Tech-priests had by then conquered, it destroyed the delicate controls the Emperor had set in place. Kell found himself was the lone survivor of the first Imperial Execution Force. Three times the Forces of Chaos scaled the walls, and three times were hurled back by Sanguinius and his Blood Angels.
And when the Traitors finally won, Horus' work would be done for him. The Primarch hefted the creature high and broke its back over his knee, before hurling the daemon's carcass back at the besiegers, who howled in despair as the last Loyalists fell back and made it into the Imperial Palace's inner sanctum before the great portal of the Eternity Gate was shut tight behind them. The dying Solam was found by her brother Eristede Kell, a Vindicare Assassin and the Execution Force's team leader. This campaign would also serve to tie up the dreaded Dark Angels Legion, so that the forces of the Lion wouldn't be brought to bare against Horus and his upcoming campaign against Terra. Laagers of anti-aircraft batteries were set up in the shadow of the walls, and mighty orbital torpedoes on mobile launch vehicles hid in the warrens of an ancient alien fortress. The Adeptus Ministorum tell the story that it was a lone Imperial Army trooper named Ollanius Pius who held the line, going as far as to canonise the man as the Guardian Saint of the Imperial Guard in the 32nd Millennium, yet many doubt that mere humans would have accompanied the Emperor and His Primarchs to confront Horus. But Horus and the other Primarchs never came to terms with the Emperor's absence. Fulgrim supervised the vast teams of Dark Mechanicus earthmovers as they shifted the black sand of Istvaan V and formed a vast network of earthworks, trenches, bunkers and redoubts that stretched along the ridge of the Urgall Plateau.
The Last Church: Tyber Portoghese's Iconic Animation - Watch Now! Their very belief systems have been warped. Yet the brutal violence of the daemon Ka'Bahnda had unleashed something dark within the psyche of the Space Marines, a thirst for blood that would not be slaked until every taint of Chaos had been erased from the planet. While gathering intelligence and deciding upon the best course of action, two of the Execution Force's number decided to set about on a different course of action. He stood watching the destruction while his Legions took to the field, their liege lord content in his fortress rising from the far edge of the ravine. Horus strangled the Angel of Baal with ease. Turrets rose from their protective housing in the hundreds, while hordes of lobotomised servitors trundled from the holds of Iron Warriors troopships, single-minded in their intent to link with the weapons systems interfaces. In the aftermath of this Ullanor Crusade, Horus was granted the newly-created title of "Warmaster," the commander-in-chief of all the Emperors armies who possessed command authority over all of the other Primarchs and every Expeditionary Fleet of the Great Crusade. Both the Word Bearers and the Night Lords were to be the anvil, while the Iron Warriors would be the hammer yet to fall. Arriving only after Sanguinius fell, the Emperor avenged him, eventually slaying the Warmaster. Every strike against Horus was broken, and he had shrugged off each attempt without notice.
40K Timeline EXPLAINED. Everything You NEED to Know! - YouTube They did not doubt his fitness for the role, for none of the Primarchs had ever matched Horus achievements, nor the intimacy of his bond with the Emperor. Though the warrior Kell shot wore the mantle of the Warmaster, the unique robe belonging to the Primarch himself, it had all been a ruse. Horus believed that to do so would lessen the hostile reaction of opponents who wished to parley. Unaware of the Warmaster's perfidy, Sanguinius willingly obeyed his brother Primarch and immediately set out for this volatile region of space. Praal had declared his independence from the Imperium, and practiced forbidden sorcery, so the Council of Terra charged Horus with the retaking of that world, primarily its capital, the Choral City. The punishment and annihilation of the XIIIth Legion was the campaign's principal aim; the humiliation and execution of Lorgar's hated rival Roboute Guilliman was a secondary objective. At this the three figures retired from the Imperial Palace's vault and made ready to teleport onto the Battle-Barge of Horus. The capital world of this Greenskin stellar empire, and the site of the final assault by the Space Marine Legions, lay in the central Ullanor System of the galaxy's Ullanor Sector. The Iron Hands had damned themselves by remaining in the field. Treacherous warriors twisted by hatred fought their former brothers-in-arms in a conflict unparalleled in its bitterness. The Night Haunters fleet had already departed, bound for the planet of Tsagualsa, a remote world in theEastern Fringe that lay shrouded in the shadow of a great asteroid belt. It was to these solid, resolved brothers that Horus turned in particular for counsel. Most savants now agree that it was probably one of the Adeptus Custodes who interceded, yet the other stories continue to be told and retold over the whole of the Imperium of Man. When the Blood Angels arrived in-system, their fleet was ambushed by the malevolent forces of the Warp, crippling or killing many of their Navigators and Astropaths in the initial onslaught. Guided by the shrewd political hand of his Equerry Maloghurst, Horus had courted his brothers, stilling fears, calming doubts, reaffirming pacts and generally securing their cooperation. Once within the depths of the Imperial Palace, the Emperor asked if Malcador was prepared to take his place upon the Golden Throne.
Horus Heresy | Warhammer 40k Wiki | Fandom Even the mighty Kyriss was banished back to the Immaterium. When he spoke, a Vox-bead at his throat amplified his voice. Agent of the Throne Sanguinius had no reason to doubt Horus, for they were as close as two brothers could be. Horus was furious with Angron for delaying his plans, but the Warmaster sought to turn the delay into a victory and was obliged to reinforce Angron with troops from the Sons of Horus, the Death Guard, and the Emperor's Children. In the days before the final confrontation between the Emperor and Horus aboard his Battle-Barge the Vengeful Spirit during the Battle of Terra, the Emperor ordered Malcador to summon twelve "..men of character, skill and determination" who would be tested and trained to become the elite group of investigators intended to root out treachery across the Imperium in the centuries to come to prevent any event like the Horus Heresy from occurring again. Warhammer 40k Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. The Execution Force gathered intelligence to determine what exactly had occurred on Dagonet. The eruption of the Ruinstorm cut off Calth from the main body of the Ultramarines Legion and left the Astartes of the XIIIth Legion trapped on Calth locked in a brutal subterranean war with those Word Bearers units that had also been left behind when their Legion retreated from the Viridian System. Inside the Palace, the defenders had been forced back to the Eternity Gate, the sole point of entry into the inner sanctum of the Imperial Palace. At that moment, a lone Loyalist warrior entered the bridge, just as the Emperor fell. The ground before the Sanctum Imperialis ran red with the blood of Traitors and Heretics. Each god-like being knew that the fate of humanity now hung in the balance. The Horusian Wars: Resurrection Book 1; The Maiden of the Dream (Short Story) The Purity of Ignorance (Short Story) The Absolution of Swords (Short Story) The Horusian Wars: Incarnation Book 2; The Mistress of Threads (Short Story) Horusian Wars: Divination - Book 3 (anthology) See also. This allowed him to find a non-military solution in several campaigns as he used his sheer inhuman charisma and diplomatic negotiation skills combined with the ever-present threat of the Space Marine Legions' unstoppable force to bring other human-settled worlds into Imperial Compliance without bloodshed. Across the planet, the forces that carried Horus' banner were only days away from breaking the back of any resistance. There was blood in the streets of the Dagoneti capital city as soldiers fought soldiers and militia fought clan guards. Despite the odds arrayed against them, some of the Loyalists on the ground managed to survive against these oddsthey miraculously escaped through the tightening cordon of Traitors that surrounded their position. Magnus the Red, the Primarch of the Thousand Sons Legion, foresaw Horus' actions through his Legion's own use of psychic sorcery that had been forbidden several years earlier at the Council of Nikaea. The Ultramarines had taken no pleasure in this act, which was intended to teach Lorgar and his Astartes to adhere to the atheistic doctrines of the Imperial Truth rather than spread the false belief that the Emperor was divine to all the worlds that they conquered. Shielded and unseen by his brothers still waging war in the Emperors name. Horus did not adhere to the rules of war, nor did he baulk at the use of a tactic because it offended sensibilities. With the advice of a special guest in the form of Constantin Valdor, the Captain-General of the Legio Custodes who served as the personal protectors of the Emperor, the masters of the Clades realised that their mission plans were not flawed, they were simply not enough. But others, like Roboute Guilliman, Jaghatai Khan and Rogal Dorn had simply taken it in their stride, accepting the Emperor's decree as the right and obvious choice.
Sons of Horus in 40k Rules Question : r/sonsofhorus - Reddit Kyriss sent an image of himself to Sanguinius, declaring his lordship over the system in the name of Slaanesh and taunting the Primarch into taking it back from him. Now the time has come for me to retire to Terra. Victory would come soon enough, perhaps even sooner than any of them might expect, for after the latest assassination attempt on the Warmaster, Erebus had come to realise a truism of warfare: if a tactic could be used against Horus, then it could also be used by the Traitors against the Emperor. Erebus then convinced the officers of the Sons of Horus' warrior lodge to allow him to take the Warmaster to a secret sect on Davin's moon and use sorcery at this Temple of the Serpent Lodge in order to treat Horus. Magnus became a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch and now desired only vengeance against the Emperor for what he saw as a betrayal, never realizing that it was Horus who had truly engineered his downfall and corruption. The Emperor ordered the Primarch Leman Russ, Magnus' greatest rival, to mobilise his Space Wolves Legion and the witch hunters known as the Sisters of Silence and take Magnus into custody to be returned to Terra to stand trial for violating the Council of Nikaea's prohibitions against the use of psychic powers within the Imperium. Barely a handful of Loyalist Space Marines escaped with their lives from Istvaan V to bring dreadful word of the further betrayal of four more Space Marine Legions to the Emperor. The casual brutality of the Warmaster's act galvanised the Emperor as He realised what awaited Mankind under the rule of Horus and the Chaos Gods. If you were one of those people, award yourself five hobby points because you spotted the Kratos Heavy Assault Tank. The eager warriors of the Alpha Legion were singled out by Horus for a vital mission, one upon which the success of the entire venture could depend. Horus was soon placed in command of the XVI Legion, which had already come to be known as the Luna Wolves -- thousands of Astartes created from his own genetic code. Though Signus had been freed from its thrall to the Forces of Chaos, the cost of victory was far higher than any could have wished. Although the Loyalist fleets and defenders fought back and the massive orbital defences on Luna reaped more than a quarter of the starships in the Traitor fleet they, like the Loyalist soldiers on the surface, were too few to face the combined forces of so many Traitor Legions, and were mowed down without mercy. The Luna Wolves waged war for two hundred years, pushing back the darkness with fire and blood. Six Assassins, one from each Clade, were gathered together and given the select task of killing Horus by any means necessary. There was no hesitation, no margin for error.
Roboute Guilliman | Warhammer 40k Wiki | Fandom $ 39.99. Like the other Primarchs, Horus was scattered from Terra by the Gods of Chaos and was placed on a far-away world in an attempt to prevent the coming of the Age of the Imperium. It was around this time that Horus, upon the advice and counsel of his greatest friend among his fellow Primarchs, Sanguinius of the Blood Angels, decided to change the name of the Luna Wolves to the Sons of Horus after all. Realising at last that His favoured son was truly lost to the corruption of Chaos, the Emperor finally gathered His full and awesome psychic power in the Immaterium and unleashed a lance of pure Warp energy that pierced the gloating Horus' psychic defences and ripped his body apart. Super-heavy tanks fired in salute of Horus, and the towering immensity of the Dies Irae inclined its massive head in a gesture of respect. Horus had sent a surrogate, a sacrificial proxy. The two opposing Primarchs then duelled one another in close combat, and the Raven Guard's Primarch quickly gained the upper hand over his outmatched brother. Two of the original founders of the Inquisition, Promeus and Moriana, looked into means by which the ruler of mankind might be resurrected.However after Moriana began to look to Dark Powers in her quest . After the last failed attempt by Clade Venenum, a new strategy was decided upon. While many of his brothers and the Space Marine Legions created in their genetic image were gifted in specific fields of military science, Horus was a natural leader, his greatest genius his ability to meld seemingly divergent allies into a coherent whole. The pair of Assassins soon came into conflict with the "Black Pariah" known as Spear. Each warrior bore a flaming brand, and the firelight cast brilliant reflections from their armour. 798.M30, and together they forged the initial interstellar expansion of the young Imperium of Man. Every time the Clade masters met, they were forced to grimly listen to a catalogue of each other's failures. The civil war on Dagonet was a rout, and it was those who stood in the Emperor's name who were dying. Roboute Guilliman Resurrection. The greatest of the nascent Imperium's victories during the high point of the Great Crusade came in the form of the defeat of the largest Ork empire ever encountered. Horus refused this honour, characteristically not wishing to be set above his brothers, but was promoted to the newly-created rank of Imperial Warmaster, serving as the new Supreme Commander of the Imperium's millions-strong armies. War rages in the Caradryad Sector. Dragging their wounded and dead behind them, Corax and Vulkan led their forces back to the drop site to regroup and to allow the warriors of their recently arrived brother Primarchs of the second wave a measure of the glory in defeating Horus. With its resources stripped it had little strategic worth and its people were judged largely beyond illumination, but the fledgling Imperium needed teeth as well as ideals and that necessity saved Cthonia. Kell set his own ship on a direct course for the Vengeful Spirit's command bridge, where he seemed to meet his own fate when he ejected himself into space once he reached his intended target, in an ultimately vain attempt to land a desperate shot at Horus while he stood looking out of the Battle-Barge bridge's armoured observation deck into space. Later on, it always amused some of the battle-brothers within the XVIth Legion to hear this accent. As a result, Horus was for many standard years the Emperor's only son, and there was a great affinity between them. At some unseen signal a flame ignited on the northern slopes of the Urgall Depression and a blazing line of phosphor leapt across the ground in a snaking arc that described the outline of an enormous blazing eye upon the hillside. This tank is pretty awesome, and it has plenty of firepower to boot. During the dark rituals that followed within the temple, Horus' spirit was transferred from his body into the Immaterium. In the end, the Loyalists retreated to their last bastion of defense, only a few hundred of their number remaining. Orbital space around Istvaan V was busy as the vessels of 8 Legions assumed formation prior to transit to the system jump point. The first to reach Horus was his brother the Great Angel. Hail Horus!" But seeing as how he was tempted by chaos, ive always though this was part of it. Sanguinius explained his actions to his bewildered brother. The Iron Warriors and Word Bearers kept reloading, opening fire again, hurling grenades and prepared to fall back. He would keep this promise for as long as Sanguinius wished him to. Far below, on the planet's surface, across the white marble of Liberation Plaza, a respectful hush fell over the throng of people who had gathered. What had begun as a massed strike against the Traitors position was rapidly turning into one of the largest engagements of the entire Great Crusade. Sanguinius relished the opportunity to once again prove the value of their bond, and so the Blood Angels Legion gathered in its entirety and duly set course for the Signus Cluster, unaware that they were heading into a terrible trap.
[40K] How did the Emperor's battle with Horus kill him? Following the victory of the Drop Site Massacre, Horus called for a conclave of the Primarchs of all 8 of the Traitor Legions aboard his flagship, the Vengeful Spirit. The process had been long and bloody, but the Warmaster's army was ready and eager to fight its brothers, where the lackeys of the Emperor would find their readiness to strike down their kith and kin untested. John French shines a spotlight on the Inquisition in his own inimitable style, delving into the grim darkness of the far future as never before. They also landed the terrible Traitor Titans that served the Warmaster's cause and had been infected with the daemonic power of Chaos. 27 May 20 Dawn of Fire: Revealed! But the Salamanders managed to assist a few surviving Astartes from the decimated Iron Hands Legion to also escape the slaughter. The Chaos Gods' pact with Horus was simple: "Give us the Emperor and we will give you the galaxy." The tallest of the superhuman warriors, his battle gear decked with more finery than the others, stepped forward. Watchers of the Throne: The Regent's Shadow by Chris Wraight. The Imperial Fists and White Scars were too close to Terra to be contacted without raising suspicion, though Horus believed -- mistakenly -- that the White Scars' Primarch Jaghatai Khan, would ultimately take his side.
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