The Chogorians, on the other hand, never stopped believing. He ping-pongs, in a somewhat inscrutable way, between being proud of his distance from the rest of the Imperium and resentful of being "left . This could not be denied, but despite that, the Khan still resisted giving the order to attack. Horus revealed his true intentions in the Isstvan system, first virus-bombing a rebelling planet and purging the loyalist elements from the legions he commanded, then setting a trap for the Imperial forces sent to bring him to justice. Watching the ash settle and the residual snags of aether-burn ripple into nothing, seven figures within the maelstrom emerged. I would like to kill you, for you remind me of my own choices, but I will not. The masses never learned about the Warp, and the vast majority did not even know of its existence. Any attempt to bring the Night Lords to justice was derailed when the Horus Heresy erupted, and Konrad Curze sided with the traitors, leading his legion on a campaign of genocide and sickening violence. As he did so, he raised his blade. Hasik admitted that mistakes had been made, but nonetheless he and his Warrior Lodge brothers saw the truth. Many of those close enough to the teleportation flare to hear it over the clamour of the fighting broke off in sudden confusion, but others remained committed, locked in the storm of bolt-shells that crisscrossed the entire space. His White Scars embrace war in a way entirely their own, and he became renowned for making decisions that often clashed with the Emperor's wishes. But Magnus dismissed his misgiving, telling him instead to focus on the future. He promised the White Scars that his master would do everything in his power to treat Arvida's condition, for the Sigillite had long been awaiting his arrival at Terra. Beyond that, he saw more heavy infantry holding position around the epicentre of the bridge itself -- the command throne. One day, against all odds, the brother produced a statue of such artistic merit that it bear Perturabo's technically perfect one. This was the destiny of the Vth Legion. They would need his psychic abilities if they wanted to survive the coming conflict. Through the rituals and traditions of the Chogorian hill tribes, they became the White Scars that day, their loyalty to the Khagan and each other secured by the trials of blood and pain they had undergone and the oaths they had sworn. The White Scars quickly found that their physical weapons had no effect on the spectral insects, their blades passing through their arthropedal forms harmlessly. The two Primarchs circled one another, prepared to finally engage in a deadly duel that would decide one another's fate -- speed against implacability. But for now, battle called. He rooted out every trace of heresy on the worlds he conquered, taught their populations to venerate the Emperor of Mankind, and constructed grand cathedrals in his glory. But the numbers began to tell. Mortarion proceeded to explain the reason for his recent arrival; he told Jaghatai that he had sought him out, for things had changed. He ignored Eldrad Ulthran's warnings about the weapon and Horus, and encouraged his legion to turn to forbidden methods to improve themselves until the Emperor's Children became just as devoted to the God of Excess. He would take everyone on if he had to. In stark contrast, the Vth Legion seemed to have a very poor relationship with many of the other Space Marine Legions, most of all with the Death Guard and their equally mysterious Primarch Mortarion. It's thought that Horus spread Perturabo's legion so thin just to put stress on him, so that when Horus told him about a rebellion on his homeworld, Perturabo would snap and have no choice but to side with the traitors. These reports said Russ had turned rebel, and driven by his hatred for Magnus, his Legion had utterly decimated the Thousand Sons Legion and their Primarch Magnus had died at the Wolf King's own hand. Magnus took pride in his warcraft and he eternally sought knowledge. Such was the ferocity of the attack by the Forces of Chaos that the besiegers forced the Imperial defenders back to the walls of the Imperial Palace, where thousands died slowing the assault. Things were becoming ordered and known -- the Imperium was winning, and in a final victory the White Scars would be undone. Torghun's forces had lost too many warriors to hold the ground, and soon struggled to keep them back. They were, every one of them, creatures of the Warp, whatever Malcador the Sigillite told the masses. They went as warily as he, and their bone-white armour made them look like ghosts in the dark. Looking at the signals, still on the edge of the system but already moving in close -- three, then four vessels allied to Horus were moving towards the Prospero System. Such a thing was rare indeed, for even though the Emperor's gene-sons fought beneath the same banner and the sundering of their ranks was still many solar decades away, there existed a deep-seated rivalry between many. Cookie Notice This proved to be his downfall as they could not catch the lightly armored Talaskar tribesmen. One example of such rivalry can be found in the case of the Raven Guard and the White Scars, who have harboured a mutual mistrust dating back centuries. How could he not be? After the razing of Monarchia, Lorgar pointed out that the Emperor had known that he and his homeworld had been worshiping him over a century before he decided to publicly humiliate and chastise him and his Legion for their beliefs. Yet, as the Great Crusade moved into its final throes in the first years of the 31st Millennium, the White Scars found themselves called upon less and less. His prowess with the blade earns him their respect even as his waywardness causes them concern. Led by the esteemed Hasik Noyan-Khan, the Warrior Lodge members declared their allegiance to Horus. The star hunt calls you, do you not hear it? The Khan did not wish to be dragged into his brother's ruin -- Mortarion was on his own. Some found the strategies by which his Legion fought to be flawed, especially the inflexible sons of Dorn and Guilliman, while others looked down upon the trapping of Chogorian tradition that bound the Legion together. Blood had been shed on many vessels, and some had been commandeered entirely by White Scars Warrior Lodge members still hoping to sway the Legion to the cause of Horus. One did not kill an entire planet without aftershocks. The woman crawled free, darting into the relative safety of the chamber's inner mechanisms. Horus triggered the end of the Imperium by killing his. They would remain resolute. It's no surprise that the Imperium would like to bury all accounts of the Arch-Heretic, though it hasn't been successful. Then figures clarified within it -- White Scars in Terminator Armour, and a Space Marine Legionary in red armour on his knees from exhaustion. As they had done ever since arriving, each ship of the blockade matched the movements of its White Scars counterpart, maintaining a gigantic mirror-image across space. Mortarion told his brother that he should not have thrown in his lot with the Sanguinius, let alone Magnus. At dawn, Jaghatai's lightning raid caught the Traitor garrison at the spaceport completely by surprise, and reclaimed the spaceport for the Emperor. Mortarion had spoken the truth about that, at least -- warships had engaged, Lances were being fired, shields were buckling. Brothers of the Great Tribe! Angron refused, and would have died alongside his comrades had the Emperor not taken him by force. There were many victories claimed by the Great Crusade that would not have been possible without the depredations caused by these warriors. Jaghatai's own Legion ranged far and wide across the wastes of Drune, striking at concentrations of xenos power identified by his Stormseers. But, really, that's the normal common sense that should be applied in any large city. He managed no great empire, nor wrote any great treatise of war, yet his actions guided the course of the Great Crusade with the quiet skill that was the hallmark of his Legion. It was the chance to mould the White Scars Legion into what it should have been -- a shock-attack force to rival the vaunted speartip of the Sons of Horus, only shackled to a greater, more generous mind than that of the mighty Khan. Just before the White Scars were sent on another campaign to continue prosecuting the Great Crusade, a great Imperial conclave was called upon the world of Nikaea. Though a potent force indeed, none can say what harm might have befallen the Primarchs had the White Scars Stormseers not been close at hand to repel the worst of the aliens' psychic counterassaults. From high up on the terraces on either side of the bridge, many metres up between the pillars and suspended platforms, massed Bolter-fire tore up the floor in a cloud of debris. Everything was simply gone -- all the libraries, the repositories, the arcana. They smashed down the gilded gates of his palace and killed all within. Of all the Primarchs, Jaghatai Khan found the Great Crusade most to his liking, as it was an endless hunt in the dark places of the galaxy. It shot out vertically, leaping up and bursting into the skies above. His face gave away the soul of a man destroyed. The Vth Legion's legend was to grow with the events of the Horus Heresy, when the White Scars fought on hundreds of worlds for over 7 Terran years against the Traitor Legions and the other Forces of Chaos. Those companies assigned to the deepest systems of the Circle fought alone and unsupported for almost three Terran years before the remainder of the Legion secured the outer regions. A lone White Scars Brotherhood posed no real risk -- they had run the calculations. Blink-dismissing the lattice of targeting reticules and environmental compensators hovering in their field of vision within their helmets, only then did the White Scars see them: shimmering in spectral blue-white, arthropodic, winged and massive. Unfortunately, the White Scars were not able to make use of this Warp Gate, as their tactics and patterns had become predictable to the Traitors, and Lord Commander Eidolon correctly deduced that the White Scars would attempt to utilise the Kalium Gate to reach Terra. Here, several thousand White Scars engaged the enclave's defenders, several hundred warriors clad in huge and ponderous battle-plate, studded with heavybore cannon and beam arrays, each more like a small tank than a normal warrior. Now, he's the most infamous traitor in galactic history. Within its edifice was an ancient and powerful device known as the Dark Glass, a relic archeotech device from the Age of Technology. He understood that the White Scars were trying to find their missing Primarch, but their efforts were futile. In this, of course, they were entirely correct. Lorgar became a fiery preacher for the Covenant, but when he had visions of a golden savior coming to his world, he sparked a bloody schism by declaring that the old prophecy would soon be fulfilled. If his ships detected anything with a Fenrisian marker, they were ordered to kill it. The first would be the more loyal course, but the other had its merits. The Khan was enraged -- the hunt had not been concluded, the kill had been ripped away. After getting his revenge upon Rogal Dorn in the Iron Cage incident, Perturabo ascended to daemonhood, and currently rules over the fortress-planet Medrengard within the Eye of Terror. Their father had tried to pretend that it was not there, the Warp, as if He were not already up to his elbows in its soul-sucking filth. They would spend time together discussing philosophy after their first meeting. A year after his arrival, Nostramo was crime-free, its population united in mortal terror of the Night Haunter, a king who ruled from the shadows and personally butchered any who defied him. The Imperium was willfully blind, deliberately so. In the case of the White Scars, only one change had ever been requested of the Tech-priests and only one metric was ever improved upon -- speed. Through these champions he would make the offer he had made so many times before: serve the Emperor and prosper, oppose him and find only ruin. The Khan's battered body carried him to the heart of the storm. Shiban inquired as to the whereabouts of the Khagan. It had been a slim hope -- Jemulan did not have quite the same reputation as Hasik and had not been with the Legion from the start. At long last he had finally caught up. He had destroyed the Librarius of the Legions only to find witches were now untrammelled amongst the Traitors. When the chronograph reached 0, the White Scars vessels moved, every one of them, all at the same time, into full attack speed. He held his dao poised, waiting for his enemy to move. Gene-Seed Implants. Well as of today when I checked earlier, the site is not only down but gone. The White Scars kept fighting, hacking their way towards their intended goal. In an instant, the Death Lord and his retinue were snatched away, sucked into the vortex of the Warp. A White Scars Astartes is always willing to face the xenos foes of Mankind. Horus had been eaten by the Warp. It was a doomed attempt. Most of the Primarchs, without realising it, had already cast their lots in the great drama about to unfold, and only a few remained. The Khan informed Hasik that they had all been lied to by Horus. Their sudden burst of speed and concentrated Lance-strikes wrong-footed the Alpha Legion vessels in their path, and three bronze-prowed Destroyers were overwhelmed almost immediately, lost amidst a whirlwind of plasma and exploding torpedo trails. That'd be odd considering that this colour is associated with Khorne rather than Tzeentch in the universe, but if you consider that Magnus comes from an Egyptian-like planet, it all makes sense: in Ancient Egypt, red was the traditional colour of the god Set, the desert (which is what his homeworld became) and chaos. Hasik had the Swordstorm and Torghun Khan would take the Tchin-Zar. As they pushed their bikes close to the flagship, scanning for an entry point, the Khan finally saw a single docking port, un-shielded and unbarred. But it had all gone wrong. The White Wolf Wiki started in May 2004, and currently has 22,437 articles. No family fostered the young Primarch, who matured as a wild thing preying on the animals that haunted the outskirts of Nostramo's hive cities. The Deathshroud lowered their scythes in a combat posture. Magnus declared that they were his Thousand Sons, and went about instructing them in the ways of safely harnessing their powers, so that even his comparatively small Legion could achieve mighty victories during the Great Crusade. Edit: Yeah I read it when I was half awake this morning, but you're right it's not completely gone, and hopefully they can restore it. There was no response from the XXth Legion's command despite all queries. At the time of the Great Crusade, the Chogorian people had managed to restore their technological level in the wake of the Age of Strife to one similar to the pike-and-shot level of the late Renaissance on Old Earth. As the two vanguards closed to within Lance-range, for the first time the White Scars noticed incoming Vox-requests from the enemy on the sensorium array, and ignored them. Slowly, grindingly, Jaghatai Khan hefted Hasik off the ground one-handed, pulling him upwards until their faces were level. Coils of oily gas spilled from the lining of his battle plate, dribbling down the skull-painted surfaces and hissing on contact with Prospero's death-dry soil. They are the grim, cold-hearted masters of the science of war among the Space Marines, exemplars of strength and discipline turned exclusively to the systematic destruction of an enemy. Even the mighty Horus felt the behemoth's mental whip, and though he repelled its will, the effort left blood gushing from his eyes in crimson rivers. Jaghatai's contribution to the development of the Space Marines psychic arts was never known by the other Legions or the rest of the Imperium. Then the Thousand Sons Sergeant Arvida cried out, as he conjured lightning that slammed into the insectoid bodies of the creatures. As they hacked and countered, neither giving up so much as a centimetre of ground, it mingled upon the blades' edges, as rich and dark as wine. Horus had deployed the XXth Legion to launch a massive assault on Russ' battered and outnumbered Space Wolves. Everything was aimed at a single point: the flanks were discarded, surrendered to the enemy as every Vth Legion asset in the battlesphere shot into close formation and boomed up to top velocity. But instead he preached about knowledge and power and gave the impression that he was some kind of prophet. He had been so easy to keep out of the conversation. For a moment they stared into one another's eyes -- one face white with shock, the other rigid with anger. This region of space had been scouted several solar decades before by the 103rd Pioneer Company, the Soul Hunters, and was found to be teeming with wild outposts of renegade strains of Mankind and roaming xenos hosts. The Alpha Legion fought alongside the traitors at many key battles, but for the most part Alpharius pursued his own objectives, and seems to have gone out of his way to test his skills against other Space Marines. Their ships were not moving to counter either threat closing in on them. When the figure spoke, the voice dispelled any trace of doubt. Perturabo mastered the siegecraft that Olympia's warring city-states used against each other and soon became Dammekos' most valuable asset, a fearsome force on the battlefield and a potent source of innovation and invention in all manner of technical crafts. 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