He is also described as a demagogue, able to sway other followers of Chaos to his cause against the Imperium despite their natural inclination towards internecine conflict. During the Great Crusade and ensuing Horus Heresy, the Word Bearers Legion, 100,000 strong[7a], was divided into many different Chapters, each bearing a name and icon representing one of the constellations of Colchis. [1], During the Horus Heresy the Word Bearers are known to have possessed the following vessels:[2]. The two Primarchs fell into a seamless, roaring duel where Lorgar and Guilliman had abandoned theirs. Naturally the Emperors has to have a bit of extra bling, and thanks to his gold halo costs $238 / 214. Though the World Eaters finally received adequate heavy armour and artillery support just as they forced a breach and broke their way inside the confines of the main Ghennan city, the World Eaters once again failed to meet their Primarch's allotted time-frame of 31 solar hours to subjugate the planet and were forced to withdraw to the flagship, the Conqueror. Only a Chapter Master has the right to inscribe his name and heraldry upon their sacred bones. The sectors of space controlled by the Astartes benefit greatly from the political patronage and formidable intellectual skills of their protectors. These changes often result in seemingly unwieldy or tactically inflexible formations. Angron angrily asked his father why He had not intervened to save the lives of his comrades on the planet below, but the Emperor dismissed the question as lacking vision. The Primarch Horus' body, with its potent genetic information and biological secrets, was a great prize indeed. A Mirrorsword is a type of Aeldari power sword employed by a Howling Banshee Exarch. Filled with despair and shame at this outcome, Corax personally gave each degenerated battle-brother the Emperor's Peace. The second would not come until almost a Terran century later. When this world classified as "Ninety-Three Fifteen" by the expeditionary fleets of the crusade, was re-discovered by the Imperium, they initially accepted Imperial rule peacefully. They fought without mercy and paid no heed to anything other than the destruction of the enemy. In the end, Lord Kor Phaeron was defeated when reinforcements from Macragge drove the Word Bearers from the surface of Calth. Located on the edge of Imperial space, where the Warpspace of the Great Eye and realspace collided, most of the worlds within this region were uninhabitable, lost in the lethal crash of conflicting psychic energies. He came for the sorcerer and beat him mercilessly with the deadly maul, nearly killing him. The World Eaters' dedication to the Blood God Khorne during the Horus Heresy had reduced them for much of that time into a fractious force of Khornate Berserkers just as likely to kill each other as their true foes. Despite the tally of victories garnered by this brutal Space Marine Legion, it came at a dire cost. The Daemon Primarch wished to supplant Khrn as the Blood God's chosen, and so, the two battled one another. Once back aboard his flagship Conqueror, the newly ascendant Daemon Primarch spoke his first words in his new form. However, Khrn proved unable to match his gene-sire's prowess. Behind him came the hulking forms of Falkus and the Justaerin, shadows coalescing into reality as they passed through the conduit. The Warhammer 40,000 Core Rules shows you how to move, shoot, charge and fight with your units on the battlefield. Traitorous forces gathered against them and conspired to rob them of the remains of Horus to further vile and selfish ambitions. Shortly thereafter, they were set upon by berserker-crazed World Eaters and Khornate daemons. A servitor goes about its daily routine on a Forge World.. A Forge World is the Imperial term used for the numerous planets that are directly controlled by the Adeptus Mechanicus.On these densely-populated worlds, citizens toil endlessly to craft weaponry for the armies of the Emperor, their bodies often enhanced with cybernetic technology so that they might better fulfil their Throughout history, the spear has consistently proven itself a deadly and efficient weapon, and the Imperium of Mankind honours its legacy of bloodshed through various creations such as the explosive-tipped hunting lance and the power spear. As the Chaplains chant the moripatris, the mass of doom, the chosen ones fall into the arms of their priests, and are taken away. The Word Bearers were also forced to retreat to the Eye of Terror, and there they have remained, returning to the Imperium to raid, pillage, and destroy. The Crozius followed, its power field trailing lightning as Lorgar hammered it into the side of Guilliman's head with the force of a cannonball. The Black Rage is incurable, and so difficult to manage that those who succumb are relegated to either the Tower of the Lost on Baal or transferred to the Death Company. However, despite the reckless carnage and terrible destruction it caused, eventually, the 1st Black Crusade ended. The Chief Apothecary of the IIIrd Legion came forth from an adjoining annex chamber and approached the band of interlopers. They often found themselves in the company of those Legion's less-favored by the lords of the Imperium, such as the War Hounds and IVth. But some say that he is still asleep inside The Rock (the floating remains of Caliban turned into a mobile fortress-monastery) with the Watchers in the Dark who are healing his injuries. Additionally, the wielder of a Null Rod and their nearby allies cannot be affected by psychic powers or the emanations of the Warp in any way. On a dozen planets, the Black Legion proved worthy of their fallen Primarch and the martial prowess of the ancient Luna Wolves. The former First Captain's gift to his Legion when he abandoned them was to let them die with dignity. He may believe he is Sanguinius upon the eve of his destruction, and the bloody battles of the Horus Heresy are raging all around him. Yet for all their gifts, the primarchs were still only men, and in the end their all-too-Human flaws would become the primary obstacle to the realisation of the Emperor's great dream for Mankind. Corax was later mutated by the energies of the Warp into a creature composed entirely of shadow, who is now hunting the Word Bearers and the Daemon Primarch Lorgar within the Eye of Terror. This is why the Emperor carefully inscribed arcane glyphs of protection on the primarchs' gestation capsules and crafted the most powerful Gellar Field ever made around the gene-vault deep beneath the Imperial Palace in the Himalazian (Himalayan) Mountains where they were created. Yet the primarchs, for all their expressed superiority and seeming immortality, were still men, and they possessed too many of the same Human flaws that have bedeviled Mankind since the birth of the species. Lupercalios, the Monument, was a mausoleum to the XVIth Legion as much as a stronghold. Like the gods of mythic Terran legend, the primarchs strode the battlefields of the galaxy, and their power proved irresistible. Some of the Traitor Legions, namely the Word Bearers under the leadership of the Dark Apostle Erebus, think that Abaddon is not fit for the position of Warmaster of Chaos and their cause would be better served if it was lead by a leader with more strategic acumen and less temperamental choler. The Liber Imperialis The Imperium of Man is a galaxy-spanning interstellar Human empire, the ultimate authority for the majority of the Human species in the Milky Way Galaxy in the 41st Millennium A.D. Loi Metalworks investigated and created what are now known as "Burning Blades," power swords that deliberately create intense heat along their blade so as to burn flesh to the bone with each strike. "I am the Arch-fiend, the Despoiler of Worlds, and by my hands shall the false Emperor fall.". Though Cadia itself has fallen, possession of the Cadian Gate -- the only stable path from the Eye of Terror -- still hangs in the balance. Great Conclaves of the Sanguinary Brotherhood are held to decide certain actions of Successor Chapters. [7g], After the Drop Site Massacre on Isstvan V, the Word Bearers abandoned all their past pretenses of loyalty. Their momentous victory, however, proved short-lived as the High-Riders demanded that the two gladiators fight one another in a duel to the death. [Needs Citation], In order to keep the Black Rage in check, on the eve of battle the Blood Angels bend their thoughts to prayer and to the sacrifice of their Primarch so many centuries ago. Condemned works, individuals, and buildings would be destroyed in the name of the Imperial Truth. First Captain Abaddon of the Sons of Horus, during the Great Crusade. To be a Chapter Master of an Imperial Space Marines Chapter is to be a superhuman avatar of war amongst mere mortals. The enemy fleet immediateley turned their guns upon it. This article needs work on its citations.For help on citation see the citation guidelines. This energy field allows the blade to carve through flesh, bone and most forms of armour plate alike, making a power sword a highly effective Imperial close combat weapon. Imperial records state that two Primarchs came to Angron, both claiming to have been sent by the Emperor, intending to convince him to stop the dangerous practice. Lorgar himself joined the 1,301st Expedition Fleet and eventually came to Cadia where they received validation for their theories that all of the Old Faiths across the galaxy shared similar origins, and thus shared a universal truth. The only respite Angron had was in the pleasure he now received from the neurotransmitters which carried anger and aggression. He became a lord of the new superhuman elite who were to redefine the course of human history; at first to the betterment of the Imperium of Man, and later to its tragic downfall. The Ultramarines armada looked wounded, cobbled together from separate fleets. Angron faces his wrathful brother, the Ultramarines Primarch Roboute Guilliman, during the fighting on Nuceria. The Ultramarines cruisers that drifted past burned as badly as the warship they were killing. This argument finally convinced Angron to re-join his Legion with the promise that he would try to lead the World Eaters in such a way that they would shed their weakness. Furthermore, the Butcher's Nails had rewired Angron's brain so that he no longer had capacity to take pleasure in anything but the sensation of anger. With Kibre were almost thirty of his brothers, clad in the heavy war plate of their murderous clan. He, like his Iron Warriors, had a natural affinity towards technology and cold logic but lacked the strength of faith. The Emperor had allowed them to love Him, and to believe He loved them in return. The Legion in its entirety was forced to kneel in the ashes of their greatest achievement and re-pledge themselves to the Great Crusade and to the Emperor. However, the endless wars and corruption of the Warp had sown disillusion in the hearts of others and the promise of a place in a Legion led by a warlord determined to continue the war against the Imperium appealed to a great number. He left only a single word as his legacy -- "nevermore." The Traitor Legions basked in their return from the Eye of Terror, bathing in the blood of innocent worlds and filling the holds of their voidships with slaves. Almost nothing is known about the two unknown "Lost Primarchs." To make matters worse, removing the Butcher's Nails would only result in the death of the primarch by destroying his central nervous system. They chose to fight and die in a worthless war. He spoke of the Canticle City and how they would plunge a spear tip through the fortress's heart. Each is gifted an army of their own, known as a Host. Land had seen the name of this ancient device within the profane texts in the Hexarchion Vaults, but had never actually seen one implanted and made operational, and never one of the specific pattern and intensity implanted in the primarch's brain in either stasis or storage. Some, almost all, overcome this ancient intrusion into their minds. Sargon claimed that he had not only seen the Vengeful Spirit, he had also trod the decks of the mighty flagship himself. They were intended to be the immortal and superhuman generals and proconsuls who would command the Emperor's Great Crusade to reunite the scattered Human race beneath His leadership. Your Emperor is weak and foolish, even now he hides from us. Abaddon bares the Mark of Chaos Ascendant, which bestows all the benefits of the four other Marks of the Chaos Gods, forever branding him as the greatest Champion of Chaos Undivided. With his usual bellicose energy, Angron prepared it for war. An appropriate passage from their sacred texts and dolorous roars. With the alterations made by the Nucerian device to Angron's limbic lobe and insular cortex, the Nucerian psychic-surgeons had impaired the primarch's ability to regulate any emotion at all. They had largely replenished their numbers taken from the barely human dregs of Neptune's tunnels. This ship was a fortress of horrors. Abaddon intends to drive the speartip of his Traitor Legions deeper and deeper into the Segmentum Solar, numberless daemon hordes sowing utter destruction in his wake. The Primarch renamed the War Hounds the "World Eaters" after he assumed command. Formations of the First Sphere Sanguinary Guard, Crimson Paladins, Burning Eyes, and Angel's Tears. But aboard the Conqueror, Angron ordered the next round of decimation for his Legion. The ninth planet in the system, St. Josmane's Hope, has already been utterly destroyed, and war raged across every district and kasr of Cadia itself. [4c], In ancient days Baal and its moons had Terra-like atmospheres. The Chapter Masters of the Adeptus Astartes are unmatched in personal combat prowess, possessing the body of a genetically superior killing machine and literally centuries of combat experience. The devices similar to the Butcher's Nails in the sealed vault on Mars were more crude than the Nucerian construct. This is only a select list of sources. Land had gained previous experience with this archeotech device, known as a Cruciamen, during his expedition into the Hexarchion Vaults on Mars. Giving a speech before his assembled sons, Sanguinius stated that he would swear an oath to his Legion instead of the vice-versa. The Legion interred Horus' body within a great tomb, where many fell into worship of their fallen demigod. On his travels, he had learned that the power that daemons represented and embodied could be harnessed and controlled, just as one man might control another. If nothing else, Abaddon had proven that the Dark Gods favoured him, something not even the Daemon Primarchs could ignore. The Lion was nowhere to be found. As well as the memories of the Primarch, the Marine is also imbued with a small portion of Sanguinius' unearthly power, boosting the warrior's already prodigious strength and vitality to superhuman levels. This protracted campaign is known in Imperial archives as the "Dominion of Fire.". Sometimes an event or circumstance will trigger this 'race memory'. Yet Horus was a master manipulator, and unknown to the Emperor, had already himself been corrupted by the Ruinous Powers of Chaos following his campaign to reconquer the Plague Moon of Davin. As the Vengeful Spirit sailed towards Harmony, the Thousand Sons sorcerer used all his psychic abilities to pull a monumental weight in their wake. The first Diresword, the Sword of Asur, was created by the Phoenix Lord Asurmen. Utilising his innate psychic abilities, he spoke through a reanimated corpse, one of many fallen Sons of Horus Legionaries that lay in piles, scattered around the once-mighty battleship. As the Dark Age of Technology ended in the Age of Strife, civil war erupted between the world and its colonised moons, leading to the nuclear devastation of the planetary system. Power Swords are used by all members of the Imperial armed forces, including the troops of the Astra Militarum and the Space Marines of the Adeptus Astartes. As he fell more and more under the spell of Chaos, Abaddon came to believe that winning and victory were the only things that matter and that the acquisition of power was the rightful role of the Astartes, since they should rule over their fellow men rather than just serve as their protectors and guardians as the Emperor had intended. Abaddon is the personification of the power of Chaos, the ultimate prodigal son whose return will one day bring the apocalypse to the Imperium of Man. Ingethel the Ascended led the Serrated Sun Chapter of the Word Bearers into the Great Eye where the failure of the Eldar Empire was witnessed first hand. However, his call for change fell on deaf ears. However, they bleached a warrior's mind of all reason, all caution, all the instincts of mortality. He had barely even raised his voice, as the absolute authority in his tone was all that was required. All the while, the Legion suffered the jealous attacks of their former allies. During this time of instability, Apothecary Gahlan Surlak announced that he had created a stable method of implanting the Butcher's Nails within Astartes by reverse-engineering Ghennan technology. To be a Chapter Master of an Imperial Space Marines Chapter is to be a superhuman avatar of war amongst mere mortals. The Emperor had observed Angron secretly from orbit for many solar months and had watched with pride as he had led his freed slaves in battle against the forces of tyranny. The Emperor had implanted these organs into the bravest, strongest, and best young Human warriors identified among His armies whom He intended to stand by His side as the vanguard of the Great Crusade. The two fought a titanic combat that was both physical and psychic, until at last the Emperor had slain Horus and utterly obliterated even his soul from existence, but only at the cost of His own humanity and eternal internment in the Golden Throne. Reaching the Eleusinian Veil meant passing through the Radiant Worlds. He also took to using the title of Warmaster of Chaos, rising to claim all that Horus had once possessed. At this time the Legion Master of the War Hounds, Ibram Ghreer, a respected leader who had commanded the XIIth Legion for nearly three solar decades, disappeared without explanation from any records of the period and no explanation was given by his taciturn Legion for his absence. Rogal Dorn of the Imperial Fists apparently died fighting on the bridge of the Chaos Despoiler-class Battleship Sword of Sacrilege alongside a company of his sons after he led a contingent of Imperial Fists in an attack on the massed armada of the 1st Black Crusade in the late 31st Millennium with a vastly outnumbered force. Sanguinius' violent death left a strong psychic imprint on his Legion, since they partially share his DNA. It made the eyes into yellow, empty pits, debased the proud lines of brow and jaw, peeled the lips back from the teeth. Battle marked him even if age had not. It was explained that he had fled in fear from the Battle of Desh'elika Ridge and the subsequent massacre of the rebel army in the mountains. He declared that Angron had been born a slave and would now remain one, enslaved to darkness for all eternity. This obsidian rod perpetually crackles with anti-psychic energy, nullifying the Warp-spawned powers of psykers. At the request of the Night Haunter, the Iron Warriors' Primarch Perturabo had crafted his grim brother a singular prison, unlike any other, in imitation of Perturabo's own private sanctorum known as the Cavea Ferrum. Wage war in style with these Horus Heresy compatible tokens. He sought to remake the Blood Angels into a force for nobility by having each company fight alongside a Luna Wolves contingent for the next decade. Their Primarch was able to instil a sense of pride in them to replace their desire for carnage and bloodshed. Other sources can give us more infos. Instead, the Legion acted as the Emperor's inferno, ravaging and annihilating any foe they were unleashed upon. "You kept that mule Kor Phaeron. He had launched the hopeless assault in the hopes of delaying the Chaos offensive upon the Imperium until reinforcements could arrive. Trying to protect a still-surviving squad mate, in a tremendous display of faith, power, and effort, Hyperion used his psyker abilities to shatter the Primarch's daemonic sword, the hideous Khornate relic known as the Black Blade -- while he collapsed into unconsciousness from the sheer effort. Talon." It was at this moment that the beast let loose a mighty howl and darted across the battlefield, cutting down no less that five-hundred sons of Sanguinius . Each warrior soon bore scars by which to count the lessons learned amid heat and the bitter volcanic sands, and those that failed did not live long enough to try again. After the Shadow Crusade, the Daemon Primarch Angron and his Worlds Eaters proceeded to go on a bloody rampage throughout the width and breadth of the galaxy, ignoring the Warmaster Horus' calls to muster at Ullanor in preparation for the final drive on the Throneworld. After the death of most of Vervunhive's leadership -- military and administrative -- during the invasion of Chaos forces under the command of Heritor Asphodel in 769.M41, the sword was given to Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, the senior Imperial commander in Vervunhive (all of the others were either dead or imprisoned). [35] In the subsequent Devastation of Baal Dante leads a desperate defense alongside several Successor Chapters but all seems lost until the arrival of Guilliman's Indomitus Crusade. The Ultramarines Legion was badly crippled and no longer presented a viable threat to Horus' plan to drive on Terra. Like all flails, the power flail is a blunt, jointed apparatus capable of inflicting significant harm upon anyone unfortunate enough to be within its arc even without its power field. Among the Humans of the Imperium, few members of the Adeptus Mechanicus retain the knowledge The Legionaries struck the enemy ship's hull. As such, even to the present time they have no particular home base, with each band generally operating from whatever starship they can lay their bloodstained hands upon. Warriors of the First Sphere were the most accomplished of the Legion and were assigned the most difficult and dangerous missions. Yet, at its end, the World Eaters did not return to Terra, and Angron refused to stop the implantation of his Astartes with the Butcher's Nails. These are the Sanguinary Guard, an order that traces its origins to the days of the Great Crusade, where they served as their Primarch's personal bodyguard, and even accompanied Sanguinius when he, the Emperor, and Rogal Dorn confronted Horus in the arch-traitor's battle barge. This campaign was intended to ensure the success of the sorcerous Ruinstorm, which would ultimately split the void asunder, dividing the galaxy in two and rendering vast tracts of the Imperium impassable for as long as it lasted, effectively cutting Ultramar off from the rest of the Imperium. "Ezekyle. As the Traitor Legions turned upon one another, the Dark Gods subverted and manipulated their new playthings, reshaping the Legions for their own ends and the never-ending war between the gods. Angron would subsequently appear during the climax of the Solar War, when a massive Warp Rift opened up over Luna. There has been intense speculation as to what the Emperor originally intended to do with the primarchs if His plans had come to fruition and the galaxy had truly become an uncontested and peaceful Human domain in the wake of the Great Crusade. This was a role fitting for them, as the early IXth Legion recruited from the lost and dispossessed of Terra. A commonly employed variant of this weapon is known as the Loi Pattern. His ultimate goal is to capsize realspace itself in a localised swathe of ever-escalating battles that allow the poisonous half-realm of the Eye of Terror to bleed outward all the way to Terra. It is unknown exactly when the project began but Perturabo would later estimate his own birth to be the year 792.M30, which gives an approximate date for the project's end, though he was referring to his Nowhere in the galaxy can a more feared and merciless collection of tyrants be found, always eager to put entire worlds to the sword in the name of Chaos. Two Mirrorswords are commonly employed by those Howling Banshee Exarchs who have mastered a deadly ambidextrous form of melee combat that uses the paired blades of two matching power swords. Even a glancing blow from such a weapon can provoke a cataclysmic neuron failure in a sorcerer or mystic, leading to instant death. The fiery Angron refused and openly insulted his Nucerian masters. All of the Traitor Legionaries present had long been inured to horror, for it was not the abundance of flesh heresy taking place inside the chambers that brought them to a halt. Chaplains move from man to man, blessing each in turn and noting those amongst the brotherhood whose eyes may appear a little glazed, or whose speech is slurred or over excited. A black shape swallowed the sun, burning as it fell. The Master of Mankind required Land's expertise in aiding His continued investigation of Angron's cortical implants while the primarch lay in an induced unconscious state. 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