However, if he chose to turn his back on personal glory and let Guilliman live, he would taste bitter defeat in his personal quest for the destruction of Guilliman and his XIII Legion that had so insulted the Word Bearers on Khur. Forty-three Terran years before the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V, Lorgar took flight on a Stormbird gunship into the Eye and stepped onto the surface of the Crone World of Shanriatha located within what would one day become known as the Eye of Terror. The daemon-Fulgrim told the Word Bearers Primarch to look closer at the painting and he would see the truth. With the Legionaries of the Word Bearers already on the surface, the ship’s human population fled in the vessel’s final minutes. Perhaps the most manifest display of this belief was the now infamous Lectitio Divinitatus, a document written by Lorgar during the Great Crusade expressing his belief and the rational basis for this belief in the divine nature of the Emperor of Mankind. Faced with His power and the destruction of everything they had known, they called Him by ancient names, that being their only way to rationalise what had happened. Despite the tally of victories garnered by this brutal Space Marine Legion, it came at a dire cost. At one point, Angron simply abandoned his Legion after hijacking a frigate, and disappeared without a trace. While most who served the Dark Gods did so for power or other selfish interests, Lorgar entered their service as a true idealist who only wanted the best for Mankind, and believed the future could only be found in an embrace of Chaos. The fiery Angron refused and openly insulted his Nucerian masters. Under his training, the gladiators of his arena soon became the greatest their world had ever seen and none could stand against them. Four solar days after the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V, Horus Lupercal assembled those Primarchs who stood in opposition to the Imperium aboard his flagship, the Vengeful Spirit. One of the skulls of Angron's fallen kinsman that hung from the chain worn across his breastplate was partially shattered and scattered across the ground. The Covenant split into two factions, the followers of the Old Faith and the Godsworn, the Brotherhood of Lorgar, who continued to believe in The One, and a holy war of immense proportions erupted, eventually forcing the entire population of the world to choose a side. And it had failed them, most of all, by being founded upon lies. Yet when the World Eaters forces reached Ghenna's surface they faced no resistance, for the entire planetary population actually consisted of billions of artificially intelligent "simulacrums" designed to appear Human. The Eternity Gate, portal to the Emperor's inner sanctum in the Imperial Palace. Ingethel warned the Primarch to watch his tone when addressing one of the Gods' Chosen. The Great Crusade was a war of expansion spread across the galaxy. Paying no heed to the Emperor's command, Angron ordered his Techmarines to continue to use the Butcher's Nails cortical implant technology until nearly every World Eater Space Marine had undergone the surgery. On Angron's chest hung a bandolier of skulls taken from the mass grave at Desh'elika Ridge. Imperial scholars cannot know now if this is true, too much has been forgotten, and too much more must never be remembered. Erebus stood at his side.. Lorgar towered above both of them, but had no attention to spare for the treacherous opening salvoes against the warriors of the Raven Guard and Salamanders Legions. Angron during the bloody slaughter of the Purge of Nuceria. Whether Angron fought him, hated him or trusted him, mattered little to Lorgar, who intended to drag Angron into the immortality that he deserved before the Dark Gods whether he wanted it or not. But without pause, Lorgar proclaimed to the faithful that they still had much to do. This was the moment of Angron's apotheosis into daemonhood. Curze looked upon his prostrate brother and ordered him to rise from his knees, disgusted at his cowardice. Unguided, with madness rampant in its own living Infinity Circuit core as the Prince of Pleasure devoured its souls, the Craftworld had fallen. While the World Eaters flagship was busy repelling boarders, a number of smaller XIII Legion vessels slipped past her defences and launched Drop Pods, gunships and troop carriers. Crawling with smaller ships, the Lex lashed back with its remaining Macrocannons, rolling in the light of its own burning hull. Or perhaps something in between." Instead, it was an up close and personal slugfest. With the alterations made by the Nucerian device to Angron's limbic lobe and insular cortex, the surgeons had impaired the Primarch's ability to regulate any emotion at all. Finally, the blood-soaked and wounded butcher faced down the Warmaster, who beckoned with his talon. Roboute Guilliman's Ultramarine retribution fleet, which had been tracking the rest of the Word Bearers Legion in the wake of the Battle of Calth, finally caught up to the Traitors while they carried out their massacre on Nuceria. To prove his worth and loyalty to Lord Commander Eidolon of the Emperor's Children -- and thus to his Primarch, Fulgrim -- Captain Lucius of the 13th Company of the Emperor's Children, the future Champion of Slaanesh known as Lucius the Eternal, turned against the Loyalists that he had fought beside because of his prior friendship with Saul Tarvitz. Lorgar then chastised his brother Magnus for not telling him the truth five solar decades earlier and for trying to keep him from taking the Pilgrimage where he finally discovered the truth about the Primordial Annihilator and the other things he had discovered about the true reality of the Warp since then. But the tenacious commander of the Conqueror, Lotara Sarrin, put up a difficult fight and destroyed a number of Ultramarines vessels that attempted to make a run for the surface. When a city burned or a people were put to death, the deed was done with the solemnity of a rite. This special prison was an elaborate labyrinth, whose featureless walls and strange geometric design made it all but impossible to map and therefore escape. Lorgar replied that he saw more than the daemon realised. This order merely furthered Horus' plan to overthrow the Emperor. I would rate this the third best of the ones currently available in Audible of the series (summer 2019). Ingethel, of course, lied to the Word Bearers about how the Chaos God Slaanesh had truly been born and warned that the Aeldari had failed as a species and suffered the Fall because at the moment of their ascension they were unable to accept the Primordial Truth, i.e. The Word Bearers were also accompanied on this Pilgrimage by 5 members of the Legio Custodes who had been set by the Emperor to watch over everything the Word Bearers did to prevent them from falling back into error once more. One of the tangible changes that came with the return of the Primarch Lorgar was an increase in the importance of ceremony amongst the warriors of the XVII. Failure to do so, the Primarch declared, would result in the draconian punishment known as decimation, in which 1 of every 10 World Eaters was executed. Humans - brothers and foster fathers - saved and raised into Legion ranks. The initial orbital assault on the Choral City of Istvaan III. It might have taken longer but as long as Erebus continues his role in stealing the Anathame blade and having it wound Horus, the Heresy would have occurred. To its people, worship of higher powers was as much a part of them as the beating of their hearts and the crying of their children. The rebuilding of a planet's faith and social structures took time, as did the rebuilding of cities and the raising of temples from which the faith could be maintained. Corax was not idle as this exchange took place. To Lorgar it was an affirmation of his purpose: to give humanity faith in the god at its pinnacle. Following the Shadow Crusade, Lorgar began to believe that Horus was too weak to lead the forces of Chaos to victory over the Emperor. At the moment of victory and the capture of the Choral City, the planetary capital of Istvaan III, these Astartes were betrayed when a cascade of terrible Virus Bombs fell onto the world, launched by the Warmaster's orbiting fleet. Through these and others, Lorgar began to change his Legion's soul. It was not a dedicated interdiction war-fleet, but clearly a ragtag strike force, a lance thrust to the enemy’s heart. The XII Legion crashed against the XIII in rabid packs, showing why Imperial forces had feared to fight alongside them for decades. The Primarch called for Argel Tal, the leader of the Gal Vorbak, and one other Word Bearer officer who would eventually become commanders and apostles amongst the elite Vakrah Jal. The Emperor expressed His hope that in time, Angron would come to understand His actions and why He had done what He did. The absent four were nothing more than holographic projections: three of them -- Konrad Curze, Mortarion and Alpharius -- manifested around the table in the forms of flickering grey hololithic simulacra. The emissaries and expeditions found their answer. A nomadic tribe of outcasts known as The Declined under the chieftain Fan Morgal found the in… 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 willingly helped orchestrate the terrible Istvaan III Atrocity and the Drop Site Massacre at Istvaan V as well as the larger Horus Heresy itself. Angron charged, wounding Horus once. The XIIth Legion would be damned by their actions and the dark path Angron was forcing them to walk. Lorgar gratefully took up the Emperor's purpose, expressing his deeply-held desire to spread his faith in the God-Emperor to every world in the Imperium, despite the Emperor's continuing admonishments that His Imperium was to be built on the foundation of the Imperial Truth, an atheistic, rationalist doctrine that forbade the practice of religious faith as mere superstition. But when the Aeldari die, they are pulled right into the maw of the goddess they betrayed. As the Urizen ascended to the top of the tower and finally looked upon his brother, Lorgar reconciled logic with emotion, for though he looked upon the face of Magnus -- the face of Magnus was solar decades older. But the Imperium was the cancer killing the human species. The Imperium was forged by a dangerous deceit, and had eroded them all by demanding they sacrifice truth on the altar of necessity. Vulkan's Legion assaulted the left flank of the Traitors' battle line while Ferrus Manus, the Iron Hands' First Captain Gabriel Santor, and 10 full companies of elite Morlocks Terminators charged straight into the centre of the enemy lines. How Angron came to be separated from the Emperor so soon after his creation and the name of the planet he eventually came to call home was removed from the Imperial record. But the World Eaters were waiting for them. But he would struggle to bring their light to humanity. A living soul had been annihilated for its mortal shell to simply house a greedy, unborn wretch of a daemon. Several Ultramarines warships attempted to make a run on Nuceria, hemorrhaging Drop Pods, landers and gunships, forcing planetfall by any means necessary. The Legion took refuge within the Eye of Terror and the Maelstrom, vast wounds in space where the Immaterium leaked into reality, coming to rest on the daemon world of Sicarus. Guilliman found himself forced back by the storm of Angron's blows. To even mention its name is to risk madness. Both Primarchs fought without heeding their warriors, their godlike movements an inconceivable blur to the Space Marines fighting around them. 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. The old ways of devoted service were no longer enough, devotion to an ideal was not enough, victory was not enough. The archmagos reported these findings to the Emperor, and soon received a marked and sealed scroll with the Palatine Aquila upon it, handed to him by the Sigillite himself. As Lorgar attempted to step forward he suddenly found himself upon a nameless world. Horus Aximand beheaded Torgaddon, but Abaddon failed to kill Loken when the building they were in collapsed. Uncontrolled, unbound, unrestrained, they butchered their way through Ultramarines strongpoints, enslaved to the joy of battle because of the Butcher's Nails cortical implants sandwiched within the meat of their minds. They burned with a cold intensity to carry out the vengeance in their hearts, and were intent on getting to grips with the Word Bearers and their Traitor allies. He had carried them with him across Nuceria, letting their empty eyes witness the razing of the high-rider cities. Fulgrim was bound to Layak's will by the name's utterance, and Lorgar now had a powerful pawn with which to slay Horus. The Chaos army spent the following solar weeks erecting colossal piles comprised of the skulls of the fallen defenders, anointing them with the blood of sacrificed prisoners and slaves, as well as their own. The lore that had been contained within had represented a moral threat to Mankind, including knowledge that would allow a potential perversion of Human cognition. 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. At their core they need a cause around which to build their world. Others would be Lorgar's flock, to shepherd them toward enlightenment. Lorgar wanted to know why his brother would not speak with him. An'ggrath the Unbound, Guardian of the Skull Throne. We can only speculate as to why: perhaps He did not want to believe it of His son, perhaps He wanted to be sure, perhaps He was simply gathering information before acting. Ironically, this document created the foundation for what would later become the Imperial Cult during the Emperor's own lifetime. Though Angron loathed this particular epithet, it later proved among his most fitting titles. The Daemon Primarch's rage killed the remaining Libarians, each of them tasting a different doom. To make matters worse, removing the Butcher's Nails would only result in the death of the Primarch by destroying his central nervous system. Horus, traitorous son of the Emperor, was making his stand on the surface. Yet Roboute Guilliman and a large portion of his Legion had remained off-world as a result of the Word Bearers' devious assault upon the Ultramarines fleet. After several Terran years of fighting the last city to stand against Lorgar's army was Gahevarla, which was protected by an artefact dating back to the Age of Technology known as a "storm generator" which was capable of unleashing a raging storm front in its area of effect. But eventually, the Lion's Gate Spaceport fell to the Traitors when they launched a massive assault. He knew he risked his Primarch's wrath by violating Angron's superstition that inherited weapons brought ill luck, a gladiatorial conceit taken from Nuceria, but still had Gorechild repaired, and has used the mighty weapon ever since that day. Once they reached the Imperial Palace, everything would be done to remove the parasitic Butcher's Nails implants from the World Eaters' minds. Despite what had been done to him, a compromised Primarch was still a Primarch, and the Master of Mankind believed that Angron would still be able to fulfill his purpose as one of the Emperor's generals. Angron would finally take the vengeance he pretended to no longer desire. Horus ordered all of the Traitor forces to commence a ground attack to salvage victory from disorder. The civilian population of Istvaan III received no such protection: 12 billion people died almost at once as the lethal flesh-dissolving virus called the Life-Eater carried by the bombs infected every living thing on the planet. Warhammer 40k Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. How could he know the truth and deny it to these worlds? Following the successful surgery, Angron was loosed upon Oenomaus and tore apart his friend in a blind, berserk frenzy. The echo of this grand, yet slow, conversion can be seen in the steps by which Lorgar would later corrupt half of the other Legions, and pull the Imperium into the darkness from which he had once sought to raise it. Lorgar also grew close to others in Kor Phaeron's caravan of exiles, which included the mercenary captain Axata and the enslaved Covenant teacher Nairo. It was then that Horus revealed his perfidy and sprung his lethal trap. The World Eaters, battered and bleeding from Ghenna's Imperial Compliance campaign, formed ragged lines before the assembled Space Wolves Legion. Lorgar shared with his brother of the future visions he had seen of their father -- a bloodless corpse, enthroned upon a throne of gold and screaming into the void forever. Both were miserable with near-terminal wounds. The terrible virus-bombing of Istvaan III. Whether Angron fought him, hated him or trusted him mattered little to Lorgar, who intended to drag Angron into the immortality that he deserved from the Dark Gods whether he wanted it or not. It was the face of a general to follow unto death, the face of a teacher at whose feet the wise would fight to sit, the face of a king made for the adoration of worlds: the face of a Primarch. The Crimson King then decided to change the subject and began speaking of their brother Fulgrim and the terrible fate that had befallen him. Despite their best efforts, the World Eaters consistently failed to subjugate worlds within this set time limit. Warhammer 40k Artwork. Within they discovered Fulgrim and the daemon N'Kari engaged in debauchery. After withstanding this initial onslaught, the sky opened up and the Daemon Primarch Angron entered the carnage. Every facet of the Covenant's belief structure was reorganised around the worship of the Emperor as the divine saviour of Mankind, and the people of Colchis united behind their new living god. Erebus had managed to complete his blasphemous ritual on Calth's surface, which summoned the beginnings of the sorcerous Ruinstorm to the galaxy's Eastern Fringe -- a monstrous Warp Storm larger and more destructive than anything space-faring Humanity had witnessed since the days of the Age of Strife. When Horus once again attempted to calm the enraged Primarch, Lorgar was surprised at the sudden realisation that the Warmaster already knew that Fulgrim was not whom he pretended to be. The Emperor and the Great Crusade's Expeditionary Fleet reached Colchis in 857.M30, less than a local year after Lorgar's final victory over the Covenant. The precise nature of their preparations is only open to supposition, but much can be deduced from Lorgar's character and the atrocities that would come later. The reason one fought, the fire that drove one on step-by-step on the path of truth, that was everything. But the drawbacks were that the implants and the such surgical procedures required to place them in the brain left the individual devoid of joy or peace save for that found in battle, just like their Primarch. Thus Lorgar proposed that Perturabo journey to find Angron while he sought out Fulgrim. That Lorgar believed the Emperor a god is beyond doubt, and it is likely that he held this belief before he met the object of his devotion, and maintained it even after becoming the lord of a Space Marine Legion charged with purging idolatry, religion and superstition in the name of the atheistic Imperial Truth. At last, above this maelstrom of grinding ceramite, booming tank cannons and chattering Bolters -- the gunships, Drop Pods and assault landers of the second wave burned through the atmosphere on screaming thrusters. Did the Emperor teleport his gold-wrapped Custodians down to help me and my army? Even as terrifying carnage was being wreaked upon the Loyalists below, the retreating forces of the Warmaster turned and brought their weapons to bear on the enemy warriors within their midst. Meanwhile, Mago and his conspirators felt they had no options left to save their Legion. Newly blessed with daemonic gifts, Angron and his World Eaters overtook the Loyalist defenders of the Eternity Wall. Both Primarchs faced each other beneath the grey sky, one bleeding internally, the other with half of his face lost to blood sheeting from a fractured skull.

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