For those few with time enough to spare thought to such matters, it would have seemed as if there were no hope and no help -- the end times were at hand, and a slow bitter descent into destruction was all that any could see as Humanity's future. For the sake of expediency, this article will use the spelling Isstvan. Two standard years later, following the events of the Drop Site Massacre on Isstvan V, Erebus tasked his deadly minion to assassinate the Emperor. 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. Following the city's destruction by the Ultramarines, the entire Word Bearers Legion, 100,000 Space Marines strong, were ordered to assemble on the planet's surface, within sight of the smoldering ruins of Monarchia, where its Astartes were humiliated and rebuked by the Emperor Himself, who psychically forced everyone, including Lorgar, to kneel before Him, and explained to them that they had failed both Him and humanity. The truth of reality was foul but it had to be told. Perturabo took a step towards this thing being born from the death of his brother, all the while despairing that this was his brother. A detailed explanation of the term "Trivia" as used in the Lexicanum can be found here. Most disturbing for Horus, he was told that the Emperor had used the powers of the Warp to create the Primarchs. They would be led by such zealots as First Chaplain Erebus, the Dark Apostle Kor Phaeron and Fleet-Captain Zadkiel and were expected to martyr themselves in glory. This strained Horus' relationship with several Primarch's, most notably Angron, Perturabo, and Konrad Curze, who felt either they deserved the title or simply didn't want to take orders from their brother. Three of the most loyal Legions who could not be swayed to the side of Chaos, the Dark Angels, Blood Angels and Ultramarines and their Primarchs, were sent on missions by the Warmaster far from Terra and the Isstvan System. [28e] Horus revealed his true power and mental strength, which had apparently been concealing in order to lure his father to him. The Lord of Iron lay unmoving, his body broken and lifeless. [22], According to Horus himself, after his discovery he was brought from Cthonia to Terra alongside several of his elderly comrades from the gang world. The Siege of Terra began with an orbital bombardment by the Warmaster Horus' fleet as the prelude to invasion. Beyond the Legions, Horus had already swayed Magos Regulus of the Adeptus Mechanicus to his side with promises of the Standard Template Construct (STC) databases of ancient technology recovered during the war with the Auretian Technocracy. The weight of the Lex's massive plasma engines dragged the stern down first, colliding with the Nucerian ocean's surface far from shore. Like a newborn sun, the wondrous incandescence was the centre of all things, a rebirth in fire, new flesh crafted from the ashes of the old. [15], Late-Heresy "Horus Ascended" miniature[26]. Those whose hatred burned brighter than their sense. It could be seen in retrospect to have provided a template for scores of such campaigns which came after it, both in terms of strategy and the savage consequences involved for those worlds which fell into the Traitors' grasp throughout the time of the Age of Darkness. The oldest information about the Emperor's history states that he was born to mortal parents during the 8th Millennium BC and that he possessed his powers while still a child. Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro, Legiones Astartes Death Guard. The Sons of Horus teleported onto the planet's surface. The Iron Hands were mired in battle with the Emperors Children and Iron Warriors, zipping streams of fire blasting back and forth between them. This attempt failed, and Fulgrim barely escaped with his life. However just as Khageddon predicted, Mechanicum adepts arrived at their tribal hold and began to dig through ffrom the surface. On Isstvan III, the remaining Loyalists, under the command of Captains Tarvitz, Garviel Loken and Tarik Torgaddon, another Loyalist member of the Sons of Horus, fought bravely against their own traitorous brethren. Though the Primarch informed his men that his mission was to reconnoiter the drop site, his primary objective was to scour the Urgall Plateau for the bodies of his fallen sons, but he failed to find them. The Dramaturge Procul Soldaris, Circa M2. Lorgar strode to the centre of the gathering of Traitors. Horus had ordered the XIII and the XVII Legions to muster and meet at the world of Calth in the Ultramarines' Realm of Ultramar, in order to conduct a massive joint campaign of extermination against the Ghaslakh xenohold, a common mission for the Astartes during the final days of the Great Crusade. To execute this plan, the Emperor created the primarchs, his god-like, genetically-engineered superhuman offspring. In the course of the battle in Nucerian orbit, the Conqueror could not rise to its sister-ships defence. A critically wounded Corax made the dangerous journey through the Immaterium back to Terra, arriving 133 days after departing the Isstvan System and finally reaching the Sol System -- the heart of the Imperium -- to seek audience with the Emperor. WARNING: Unmarked spoilers ahead! 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. Death! Fulgrim and his Emperors Children were now completely unrecognisable from the honourable warriors that had once formed the III Legion. And in that time the Great Beasts shall walk the earth,beneath their tread shall cities become as dustby their burning breath shall civilisations be as ash,So the End of Days is begun.The Apocrypha Terra. He was placed in the care of the Sisters of Silence and was sent aboard one of their lone vessels, bound for the heart of a nearby sun. Then Sanguinius of the Blood Angels, flanked by the gold-armoured honour detail of the Sanguinary Guard, his mighty wings folded back across his battle-plate, his face turned to the sky to welcome the impossible, majestic sight before him. He would keep this promise for as long as Sanguinius wished him to. Dagonet was a keystone world in the politico-economic structure of the Taebian Sector, and if it fell fully under the shadow of Horus, then it would mark the beginning of a domino effect, as planet after planet along the same trade axis followed suit. Horus strangled the Angel of Baal with ease. The Warmaster attempted to turn the Blood Angels' Primarch, his oldest and closest friend among the other Primarchs, to Chaos one last time. Malcador ordered Garro to begin to comb the galaxy for 7 other Astartes from both the Traitor and Loyalist Legions who with him would become the founding members of the Imperial Inquisition and the militant arm of its daemon-hunting Ordo Malleus -- the Grey Knights. This was one of many growing resentments that allowed the Ruinous Powers to infect and corrupt several of the primarchs. The Ullanor Crusade was a vast Imperial assault on the Ork Empire of the Overlord Urrlak Urruk during the late 30th Millennium. He knew precisely which force to send and where to send it, showing no mercy to those that opposed the Emperor but sparing the innocent from unnecessary bloodshed. Of those Blackshields who were truly rogue, many still fought their war with a bitter fervour that matched any zealot in either the Warmaster's or the Emperor's cause. Either he was giving his father one last chance or he wanted to feel his death, no one's sure. The primarchs were still in their infancy, growing to hyper-accelerated maturity in their special gestation tanks, when they were snatched away from the genetic laboratory deep beneath the Himalazian (Himalayan) Mountains on Terra where they had been created and gestated by the Emperor using His own DNA. Bulk landers dropped the battlefield architecture: dense metal frames fell from the cargo claws of carrier ships at low altitude, and as the platforms crashed and embedded themselves in the ground, the craftsmen-warriors of the IV Legion worked, affixed, bolted and constructed them into hastily-rising firebases. The Emperor openly and publicly refuted his alleged divinity and banned religious worship in his empire, and demanded that his subjects accept the "Imperial Truth"-- that science, reason and logic alone presented the tools required to create a better human future. The Calth Atrocity represented the Loyalist Astartes' first sustained experience with fighting the Warp entities later known as daemons in realspace. 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. Erebus also told Horus that the Gods of Chaos were peaceful beings with little interest in the Materium, and it was the Emperor that was intent on destroying their realm on his quest for godhood. Sanguinius, also known as the "Great Angel" and the "Brightest One" during his lifetime, was the Primarch of the Blood Angels Legion of Space Marines. The worlds they had conquered since their conversion to Chaos also joined the side of the Traitors, having been secretly corrupted to the worship of the Ruinous Powers in the final days of the Great Crusade. It is true that particularly in the early years of the war, detachments of Legiones Astartes and sometimes entire squadrons of warships simply vanished without apparent trace, and while many may have fallen foul of Warp Storms and enemy action, it is likely just as true that some quietly slipped anchor and turned their coats to serve another master, and that this happened on both sides of the divide. To further entice Sanguinius, the Warmaster informed him that he had found the means by which the Blood Angels would be able to excise the darkness from within their souls, and rid themselves of the Flaw. He is the one who has led us to triumphs undreamed of. From this calculation -- as equivocal as it is -- it is possible to determine that even after the Drop Site Massacre, the military advantage Horus had yet gained was simply not large enough in scale to make an immediate and direct assault on Terra and the Imperial heartlands of the Segmentum Solar, roused as they were now against attack, a strategically viable option, let alone one that would guarantee victory. When it became clear that Mankind could not be enlightened by Chaos without first being forcibly weaned at a great price in blood from the Emperor's false Imperial Truth, Lorgar would go on to willingly help orchestrate the terrible Battle of Isstvan III and the Drop Site Massacre at Isstvan V as well as the larger Horus Heresy itself. They took to the highlands of the surrounding hills and took to the shadows, hiding from their relentless pursuers. Some of the Angels sons had learned a measure of the truth, but only Azkaellon, First Captain Raldoron, the IX Legions Master Apothecary on the Legion homeworld of Baal and a few others were fully aware of the extent of this affliction. Across the galaxy, open rebellion erupted as Space Marine Legion fought Space Marine Legion and Titans battled Titans. Of those who fell at Isstvan, there were survivors, remnants and fleeing fragments shorn of command and driven half mad by treachery; from that point onwards they were isolated, alone. Titanic, gravity-cushioned mass-landers moved with majestic slowness as two Titans of the Legio Mortis took to the field, and this was but the first wave of the invasion. Warmaster Horus, Master of Isstvan. The Fabricator-General of the Mechanicum of Mars, Kelbor-Hal, Captain-General Constantin Valdor of the Legio Custodes and the masters of the Adeptus Astronomica, the Adeptus Astra Telepathica and the Administratum of the Imperium were also appointed to the Council of Terra. When the Warmaster led his forces in civil war, hundreds of worlds not directly connected to his power base declared for his cause. Horus is very close to his men 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. 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. The berserker rage the Blood Angels had experienced had left a brooding shadow on their souls that would manifest in the centuries to come as the great curse (later known as the Black Rage) that would afflict the Blood Angels and their later Successors. During the battle that ensued, Sanguinius was sorely wounded and temporarily incapacitated. It was decided that these suspect elements of the Legion would be gathered into a single host and ordered to undertake the "sacred" mission to Calth to assault the Ultramarines that they had so craved. Without warning, the Alpha Legion's fleet broke from the Warp and engaged the Space Wolves, hammering their smaller fleet and forcing Leman Russ to resort to hit-and-run attacks. Henceforth he shall always and only ever be Malcador the Hero!" The Conquest of Manachea, led personally by Horus and his inner cadre of commanders, was itself the centerpiece of an interlinked series of campaigns, fleet actions and local wars which swept like storms through the celestial region sometimes referred to as the Coronid Thule, or the Coronid Deeps, between 006.M31 and 008.M31. Enraged by the lies that had been told about him over the last century, Angron ordered his Legion to kill everyone in the city. Further to this, and perhaps an even more sinister enigma, are the persistent reports of Space Marine forces appearing bearing no sign or seal of heraldry or origin at all, or stranger yet, heraldry which bears no mark known during the Great Crusade, although whether the "black" Legionaries were merely turncoats or, as some have whispered, perhaps raised by the Traitors from the chimeric gene-seed of the Isstvan dead for their own terrible purposes, none can now say for certain. 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. Horus was responsible for unleashing the horrific civil war known as the Horus Heresy upon the Imperium of Man in the early 31st Millennium which killed billions of men, women and children in pursuit of his mad ambition to overthrow the Emperor of Mankind and replace Him as the ruler of the Human race. By the time the massacre was over, five million Olympians had been killed and the rest put into vicious slavery to the Iron Warriors. You can help Lexicanum by fixing it. He witnessed Ka'bandha slaughter 500 of his sons with huge swathes of his mighty axe. At the critical point in the battle, a lone Adeptus Custode guard entered the room (while others state the lone warrior to be Ollanius Pius, an Imperial Army soldier). The Heresy concluded with the death of the traitorous Warmaster Horus, the internment of the Emperor in the Golden Throne and the exile into the Eye of Terror of the Heretic Astartes Traitor Legions. 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 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. At some point during this period, Lorgar penned the work known as the Lectitio Divinitatus, which laid out the case that the Emperor of Mankind was a divine being and was worthy of worship as the rightful God of humanity. Temba had turned to the worship of Nurgle in the interim, being transformed into a bloated mutant and killing off most of his Imperial Army garrison in the process, transforming them into undead Plague Zombies that the Luna Wolves were forced to mow down in waves. If he was right, Perturabo wanted his Legion to have a plan in place to achieve that objective. Hail the Warmaster! In its dying moments, the clone of Horus remembered who Abaddon was and acknowledged him as his son. In effect, to the new Council of Terra would fall the entirety of the civil government of the Imperium. Leman Russ and Lion El'Jonson meanwhile openly accepted the decision but were clearly embittered by it, Roboute Guilliman, Jaghatai Khan, and Ferrus Manus supported the decision simply because of duty. None had ever imagined the heroes of this new age would take the field against each other, nor could they have predicted the wellsprings of spite between them. But now the Emperor had to consolidate His newborn Imperium, and undertake the next phase of His Grand Plan. Horus, under the guise of putting down the religious rebellion against Imperial Compliance on the world of Isstvan III, amassed his troops in the Isstvan System. Orkish dead were buried by the millions with their savage ruins, interred beneath transplanted rocks and the heads of crushed mountains. Eventually, Horus was also able to secretly recruit Konrad Curze of the Night Lords, Alpharius Omegon of the Alpha Legion, and Perturabo of the Iron Warriors. Angron was plastered with the blood of the slain after hours in the crush of the front lines of intense combat. So it was that the greatest attention should be placed on the location and strengths of the Traitor Legions. What is Horus Heresy? Every common man and woman who stood on Ullanor's soil that day had been selected for their valour and conduct, and until the day they died each would have the singular honour of wearing the onyx-and-gold Ullanor Triumph Bar upon their uniforms. Now there would only be blood, an ocean of blood carried on a tide of eternal slaughter. It was at this time that disturbing news of the outbreak of the Horus Heresy on the world of Isstvan III reached Olympia and new orders for the Iron Warriors came from Terra. Despite the best efforts of Maloghurst to hold the traitor war effort together, without Horus' power things began to fall apart. Now the time has come for me to retire to Terra. The daemon hurled itself at the Angel of Baal, barely allowing him time to parry the daemon's strikes. Horus, who was to be given the new honour of an Imperial title above and beyond any that had been bestowed before; a title, it could be said, that would forever carry the echo of his name. In the past, the Clades had fielded two or three of their operatives on a single mission when the circumstances were most extreme, but these Assassins were always drawn from the same Clade, and even this occurred only after much deliberation. Lorgar flicked the clinging lightning from the head of his Crozius, shaking his head in slow denial. The Iron Warriors had come in force and the Emperor's Children no less so. "Death to the False Emperor! While the below account is highly detailed, it should be noted that much of this information would be completely unknown to the average inhabitant of the Imperium of Man in the 41st Millennium. Khageddon refused to give Nergi his "kill-name" over the incident, much to the young ganger's anger. The Emperor of Mankind rose to the challenge, leading members of His elite personal guard, the Legio Custodes, the Primarchs Sanguinius and Rogal Dorn, and several companies of Imperial Fists and Blood Angels Veteran Space Marines in the assault and teleported aboard the Vengeful Spirit. In later years, the night the Chaos code was released would become known in Mechanicum legends as the Death of Innocence. Blood trailed the air in a streaming red arc from Perturabos chest. Boarding the Sisters' vessel, the Word Bearers killed all aboard, with the exception of Spear. It was from this epicentre that the galaxy vomited unnatural matter into the void, a dark doorway to an unknowable destination and an unimaginably powerful singularity whose gravity was so strong that it consumed light, matter, space and time in its destructive core. The wound was still devastating, and more importantly the power of the Spear cleansed Horus of the corruption that had befallen him since Molech.
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