Relaying the message and adding his apology for his inability to aid the Space Wolves, the White Scars made for Terra. Though the operatives sent by the Clades were their finest students and equal to the task, every attempt had resulted in failure. Colonies spread across our galaxy so that Humanity was scattered across a million worlds and found treasures and horrors uncounted. For many years before acting openly, the Word Bearers usurped loyalist hold on their Legions by establishing Warrior Lodges. Such orders were invariably accompanied by an implicit or explicit threat -- return in victory or do not return at all. They slaughtered the remaining Imperial Fists Legionaries, the heroic men and women of Hyrdra Cordatus that had chosen to stand with them, and the refugees from the devastated fields below the fortress. Lorgar was spared from execution by the intervention of the Night Lords' Primarch, Konrad Curze, at the last moment. [28f] According to Actae, Horus was preparing to be elevated to a fifth Chaos God, using humanity just as Slaanesh had used the Eldar. In their anger, the Sons of Horus turned upon the populace of Dagonet and began to slaughter them in earnest. Nergi engaged in battle with the Tech-Priests, killing one and recovering its weapon before running back to Khageddon. The Ultramarines Cruisers that drifted past burned as badly as the warship they were killing. Khageddon scolded Nergi for his recklessness, saying those he killed would chase them back to their tribal lair. But in his black heart Horus knew that Sanguinius would never willingly betray their father, and so he had formulated an audacious plan to either convert the Blood Angels Legion to his cause or utterly destroy them. The less stable primarchs felt that this was a betrayal of all they had fought and won in the Emperor's name and that their victories now counted for nothing. Horus | Warhammer 40k Wiki | Fandom We must mix our broken strength with other broken strengths to forge a new, unbroken edge. The fate of the Eisenstein's survivors is unknown. The Inquisition had been founded by Malcador the Sigillite at the instigation of the Emperor in the final days of the Heresy to prevent the secret spread of the corruption of Chaos through the ranks of Humanity from happening again, and the Grey Knights Space Marines Chapter was later founded from the core group of 8 psychic Astartes gathered by Nathaniel Garro among his Knights-Errant to combat daemonic incursions as part of what later in the mid-32nd Millennium became the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus. He forced Spear to undergo a painful and vile Chaotic ritual, in which a minor daemon from the Immaterium was bonded with the former Imperial Assassin. Of the nine remaining Loyalist Space Marine Legions, only the White Scars and the Blood Angels were able to join Rogal Dorn and his Imperial Fists in the defence of Terra before the arrival of the Traitor Legions in the Solar System. The existence of Warp entities and the dangers they posed to the Human mind were then barely understood. Hail Horus!" Lorgar believed that he had "saved" his brother. Here Malcador the Sigillite, the Regent of Terra who was himself an extremely powerful psyker, had briefly taken the Emperor's place on the Golden Throne, thus keeping the Warp Gate to the Webway that the Emperor had been building for the benefit of humanity safely closed from an assault by the daemons of the Realm of Chaos. After killing scores of Abaddon's allies, the clone of Horus caught sight of the Talon of Horus being worn by another. In most cases, these contingents were simply too far distant to be infected with the malady of treachery. To this end they had tempted the naive Magnus the Red to warn Him of the very plot they had initiated, the betrayal of the Imperium by Horus. As Loyalist survivor forces scattered across the northern Imperium and beyond, the Warmaster tasked certain elements to hunt them down and slaughter them to a man. Iota utilised her Animus Speculum, unleashing her innate anti-psyker abilities upon Spear, seriously wounding him in the process. At that moment, Horus despaired; his gamble had failed, weeks of further conflict would be needed to break the defenders and the Emperor's reinforcements would arrive in mere hours. Every day the Loyalist warriors stayed alive, it kept the enemy from redeploying and bringing their strength to bear elsewhere against the forces of the Imperium. He saw beyond its dark light to the engulfed worlds within: phantom images that ghosted in and out of perception and fleeting moments of solidity in a realm where such things were anathema. Ahead of them massed the might of the World Eaters, the rage-driven Astartes Legion of Angron, who strode at their head roaring for the blood of his brother. Her interest in helping the people of Dagonet and her new spirituality created friction with the rest of the Execution Force, and so she took her leave, and the mission to assassinate Horus continued on without her. The Imperial Governor issued a formal statement of support for the cause of Horus. The construction of vast monuments and cathedrals venerating the Emperor as the God of Mankind were supervised by Lorgar and the Word Bearers on many of the worlds they brought into Imperial Compliance. When he spoke, a Vox-bead at his throat amplified his voice. Lorgar was stunned by his father's reproach and refusal to accept his worship, and fell into a deep melancholy. Those that survived the alien onslaught rapidly reverted to barbarism, stripped of civilisation, knowledge and culture in the raw battle to endure. Though the roll call of Space Marine Legions, Titan Legio, Auxilia regiments and Mechanicum Taghmata that sided with the Arch-Traitor and those who remained loyal is largely known and accepted, the full truth is far more complex and far more mysterious than commonly believed. The Ultramarines armada looked wounded, cobbled together from separate fleets. Aboard the Vengeful Spirit, Horus then survives an infiltration by the Knights-Errant led by his former Mournival adviser Garviel Loken. The Execution Force would embed on Dagonet and set up multiple lines of attack. 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. The scattering of the Primarchs, despite being orchestrated by Chaos instead of the Emperor, seemingly confirmed to Horus that the Emperor had used foul Warp-magics in his sons' creations. Is Horus still alive ? : r/40kLore "Glory to the Warmaster! In an attempt to halt the Urizen's dark plans, the 19 remaining Librarians harnessed their collective psychic powers to manifest a psychic entity known as the Communion, the gestalt consciousness of 19 psychic minds. Many Ultramarines had been born on Calth, and proved more resolute than the Word Bearers anticipated. It would take several Terran years for the remnants of the Ultramarines fleet to return to the Veridian System after the Loyalist survivors rode out the storm. [15], Late-Heresy "Horus Ascended" miniature[26]. Down the line, past the mounting masses of Iron Warriors battle tanks and assembling Astartes, First Captain Sevatar of the Night Lords and his First Company elite, the Atramentar took up defensive positions. It is the curse of history that few care to remember other than those fragments that exalt them, to relive those glory days endlessly while the present crumbles about them.From the final testament of Sulem Rei, historiarch of the Imperial Court, presented to the High Lords of Terra circa 098.M32. The badly damaged ship crashed on the outskirts of the Urgall Plateau. The Traitors, the bloodied and battered Legions loyal to Horus, fell into a fighting withdrawal without hesitation. In the midst of this battle, the Word Bearers unleashed the elite unit known as the Gal Vorbak -- Astartes who had allowed themselves to be possessed by daemons. These Loyalist Space Marines were gathered from survivors that had fought their way out of the killing ground of the Urgall Depression on Isstvan V. They had managed to escape the Isstvan System aboard an Iron Hands Strike Cruiser known as the Sisypheum. The whole of the Imperium was on the brink of an outright civil war. Armour burned from Fulgrims body, flaking away like golden dust in a hurricane, leaving his monstrously swollen body naked and his flesh blazing with furnace heat. To this end, though Lorgar no longer had any love or loyalty for the Emperor, he and his XVII Legion rejoined the Great Crusade but did so only so their efforts could serve as a front for their pursuit of the Pilgrimage of Lorgar. The two Primarchs fell into a seamless, roaring duel where Lorgar and Guilliman had abandoned theirs. The Primarchs dark, doll-like eyes were twin black holes, doorways to heights of experience and sensation the likes of which could only be dreamed by madmen and those willing to go to any lengths to taste them. In the aftermath of the events on Dagonet, Horus confronted Erebus within his private chambers. He had once asked the Iron Hands Primarch Ferrus Manus whether his silver eyes allowed similar insight, but his brother had just shaken his head and given him a look of faint scorn, as though he had just admitted to some secret weakness or vice. The rebellion. Aside from the human component in the Traitors' ranks, the powers of the Mechanicum and their kin were also of great importance to the war. The so-called "Primordial Truth" of the existence of Chaos changed Lorgar and the Word Bearers forever as they were exposed to the Ruinous Powers and slowly corrupted, the first of the Space Marine Legions to worship the Chaos Gods and become Traitors to the Emperor in their hearts. It was Sanguinius who reached his brother Horus first. ca. The Traitors' assault began five hours later, despite the full circuit of fortifications still being incomplete. Many of the primarchs, including Horus, were deeply disturbed that their father would make them subject to normal men and women who had never shed blood in the establishment or expansion of the Imperium and that he would remove them from the political positions of rule to which they believed they were entitled aftyer their sacrifices. Soon the outnumbered defenders were pushed back into the maze of corridors and bulwarks within the Palace walls. They did not see it quite as he saw it, but they could at least acknowledge its existence. Broad-winged aircraft plunged down from the scattering of clouds, missile pods rippling with fire. But the hideous monstrosities that ruled the Warp -- the self-proclaimed Gods of Chaos -- had ever been his foes, and now conspired to subvert the Emperor's goals as they had since the day He had launched the Great Crusade. In the wake of the slaughter, escape from the Isstvan System had been a nerve shredding series of mad dashes under fire and silent runs through the Traitors' orbital blockade, culminating in a final sprint to the gravipause, the minimum safe distance between a stars mass and a vessels ability to survive a Warp Jump. Perturabo walked towards Fulgrim, keeping the hand holding the maugetar stone extended over the shaft in the center of the chamber. Death!". This message successfully reached many millions of people who successfully took shelter within Calth's underground warrens, which had originally been built to free up more land for agricultural cultivation. Such were the terrors of this time that death could cross vast distances of space, coming unexpected and uninvited to consume entire worlds. This article needs work on its citations.For help on citation see the citation guidelines. The only attempt to stop the conversion of Horus came from his brother Magnus the Red, who entered Horus's mind but was unable to interfere with the powerful rituals of the Davin Cultists or convince Horus to remain loyal to the Emperor. Of all the changes brought upon the Imperium by Roboute Guilliman after the Heresy, the most pivotal was the Second Founding of the Space Marines. Calth was not chosen as the site of the confrontation between the Word Bearers and the Ultramarines by chance, for the Word Bearers intended to destroy one of the jewels in the Ultramarines' realm of Ultramar (then known as the Ultramar Coalition), just as the XIII Legion had destroyed one of the Word Bearers' greatest achievements, the sacred city of Monarchia, four decades earlier. Perturabo did not trust Fulgrim one bit, knowing that inevitably he would be betrayed by his brother. On the surface, he met Fulgrim and Lorgar. Hastur Sejanus - Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum When the Imperial Warmaster Horus, the greatest of the Emperor's genetic sons, fell to the temptations of the Chaos Gods and became swayed by their promises of power, he sought to sway his brother Primarchs to his cause. The Warmaster was illuminated from below by a hidden light source, bathing him in a red glow that gave him the appearance of the statue of a legendary hero, as he stood looking down on the endless sea of his followers from the towering platform. The Thousand Sons had never planned to join Horus, but the path Tzeentch had mapped for that Legion and their potent psychic Primarch Magnus the Red ultimately led them to Chaos regardless. Lorgar also called the the Legion's First Chaplain Erebus to his side, who had long been another trusted advisor. Jaghatai Khan, his fur-trimmed robes and ornate armour detailed with a thousand narratives of the White Scars Legion, his every step across the land a challenge to the galaxy. Angron was plastered with the blood of the slain after hours in the crush of the front lines of intense combat. Perturabo descended downwards on an unending spiral towards a point of light that grew no brighter no matter how far he descended. "Death to the False Emperor! The Bearer of the Word started chanting in a language never before spoken by any living being, his words in faultless harmony with Angron's cry of torment. The conflict was fought across the Milky Way Galaxy early in the first century of the 31st Millennium and resulted in more than 2.3 trillion dead, 4.6 trillion if one includes the planetary populations purged by the Imperium after the Heresy due to the taint of Chaos corruption. He instinctively knew that if this stone was desired by Fulgrim, then it had to be destroyed. Open warfare erupted on the Red Planet in the wake of the Death of Innocence as Martian forces, both civilian and military, fought one another in a deadly civil war that mirrored the larger conflict consuming the Imperium. was massing. As the Emperor departed the homeworld of Mankind to lead the Great Crusade into the stars starting around ca. But at the time of the Warmaster's conquest of the northern Imperium, most of the Legiones Astartes, with the notable exception of the Word Bearers, still considered them anathema to their principles or disregarded them as mere dangerous Warp phenomena, although particularly within the ranks of the Emperor's Children that was rapidly changing, even in the early years of the Age of Darkness. The slave cares not whose hand wields the whip or why, knowing only the authority of its touch, the discipline of its voice and the certainty of pain. Crawling with smaller ships, the Lex lashed back with its remaining Macro-cannons, rolling in the light of its own burning hull. III. These were hardened veterans of the Calth Atrocity. Perturabo knew something fundamental had changed within the Emperors Children, but could not imagine what purpose the disfigurements and degradations its warriors now sported could possibly serve. Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning.The Emperor of Mankind before the Siege of Terra. Meanwhile, the Fidelitas Lex was already a ruin, its armour pitted and cracked, its shields a memory. Captain Saul Tarvitz of the Emperor's Children, however, was aboard his Legion's flagship Andronius and discovered the plot to wipe out the Loyalist Astartes of the Traitor Legions. Seven beings of monumental power stood on the penultimate tier of the reviewing stand, their armour still stained with the blood of their foes, their cloaks billowing in the winds that swept the Urgall Depression. But ultimately, the Communion failed, for Lorgar was just as powerful in the Warp as he was in the material universe. It would be in the Cadia System that Lorgar would learn that his suspicions had been correct and that the shape of all of the religions across the galaxy that possessed so many similarities to the Colchisian Old Faith were not artefacts of Mankind's collective unconsciousness, but expressions of worship in the universal truth that was Chaos. We must take our iron and alloy it with the mettle of the others who were shattered alongside us. Although the Drop Site Massacre had inflicted terrible wounds on the Loyalist forces involved, the Traitor Legions had not themselves come away from the cataclysm unscathed which, combined with losses suffered during the recent purging of the Traitors' ranks at Isstvan III and elsewhere, had weakened Horus' position from its notional strength when the die for war was cast. He saw the Imperium of Man as a repressive, violent theocracy, where the Emperor and several of his Primarchs (but not Horus) were worshiped as Gods by the masses. The eruption of the Ruinstorm cut off Calth from the main body of the Ultramarines Legion and left the Astartes of the XIII 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. During the battle the Sons of Horus Captains Ezekyle Abaddon and Horus Aximand were sent to confront their former Mournival brothers, Loken and Torgaddon. Inside he found Horus on an eternal battlefield, waging a never-ending struggle against enemies and creatures from across time and space. As the sun began to sink beyond the horizon, the smooth black planes of the stand shone with a blood red glow. Horus had turned Traitor with his XVI Legion, the Sons of Horus, alongside some other allied Legions such as the Death Guard, Emperor's Children and the World Eaters. While the Emperor confronts Horus, the Sigillite powers the Golden Throne. In stern silence the Emperor surveyed the robed figures that Malcador had brought before him, and he saw that his faithful servant had done well. Within Imperial history, only one "Black Pariah" has ever existed. He had carried them with him across Nuceria, letting their empty eyes witness the razing of his former, hated homeworld. Both the starships of the admiralty and the Legions had battles of their own to fight, far from the Taebian Stars. A handful of extant accounts, now sealed beyond all retrieval, make reference to a loosely-termed and non-formal class of warrior known as the "Blackshields." Via our good friends at Lexicanum This sacrifice restored the Master of Mankind's consciousness so that he could deliver his final instructions to His servants before being interred in the device as the Tech-priests of the Mechanicum worked furiously to modify the Golden Throne to the Emperor's specifications. In his righteous anger the Ultramarines Primarch struck Lorgar with one of his fists, battering the Word Bearers Primarch's sternum. This estimate, however, was still far from certain, one which is itself further distorted by the events that were to shortly unfold on Calth and Signus Prime. Much of Horus' later success arose from the thorough groundwork he had laid before the opening shots of the Heresy were fired at Isstvan III. The Legionaries scattered to give the landing craft space to make planetfall. His IX Legion was to cleanse the 7 worlds and 15 moons that comprised the Signus Cluster of xenos invaders and release the humans settled there from their xenos-overlords in what would later be known to history as the Signus Campaign. The journey downwards was never-ending, or so it seemed until it ended. Only through the most artful of psychic subterfuge were Malcador and his new recruits able to pass unscathed through the battlelines and come unharmed and unseen before the Emperor within the inner sanctum of the Imperial Palace. Inside the Warp for what seemed like an eternity, Horus had won a thousand kingdoms, amassed billions of Daemonic followers, and defied Gods. Horus' clone lashed out at Abaddon with Worldbreaker, but the First Captain caught it with the Talon. Every time the Clade masters met, they were forced to grimly listen to a catalogue of each other's failures. 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 Webway Project. Leaving the fortified bridgehead behind, Perturabo led his Iron Warriors and the Emperors Children contingent into the heart of Amon ny-shak Kaelis. Amidst the chaos and anarchy of the massacre of the entire populace of Dagonet, Kell finally tracked Spear down and with the assistance and sacrifice of his fellow Assassin, managed to finally draw out and kill the "Black Pariah." When the Horus Heresy ended and Roboute Guilliman initiated the Second Founding and the Reformation of the Imperium, he would get his wish, and the Imperium would once more make use of psychic powers against the Forces of Chaos despite the inherent dangers. His cries of thwarted rage were tainted by an agony beyond comprehension. However, knowing that he would have to find a means of quickly warning the Emperor, Magnus used sorcery to send his message to the Emperor. Mortarion Perturabo looked on at the remains of his homeworld in cold silence. Mankind's Golden Age failed; wherein the promised wisdom of science and technology did not elevate Mankind to the divine, but rather smote it for the consequences of its reckless excesses and ambitions untempered by reason.