![]() Once this had taken place, the grief-stricken Abaddon and Horus Aximand of the Luna Wolves' Mournival were only too keen to turn over their master to Erebus' care, and Horus was resurrected by the dark Chaotic rituals of the Davinite priests.Įrebus continued to slowly corrupt Horus, manipulating the Primarch's arrogance, ego and desire for power and directing him further from the ideals of the Great Crusade into pursuing his own ascension to replace the Emperor as the Master of Mankind. This theft was not simply out of greed it was all part of Erebus' carefully managed plan to corrupt the Warmaster and bring him under the influence of his own secret masters, the powers of Chaos.īy supplying the Anathame to the traitor Planetary Governor of the planet Davin, who was subsequently corrupted by Nurgle, Erebus hoped that Horus would be wounded by the weapon and put beyond the care of his Legion's Apothecaries. In fact, it was he who sabotaged the peaceful negotiations precipitating the war between the Imperium and the Interex, by stealing an archaic Kinebranche Anathame sword from the Interex's closely guarded Hall of Weapons. To achieve this outcome for his dark masters, just before the Imperial war with the Interex began during the final stages of the Great Crusade, Erebus began to have many secretive dealings amongst the Luna Wolves Legion and with the Warmaster in particular. Before long, the Ruinous Powers sought to act through Erebus to set their plan in motion to destroy the Imperium of Man and the greatest champion of Order in the galaxy which is of course the Emperor of Mankind. Several years before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, Lorgar and Erebus had fully corrupted the Word Bearers to the service of Chaos, even going so far as to erect temples to the Dark Gods on every world they brought into Imperial Compliance. In any event, when his Primarch Lorgar grew angry with his father the Emperor after he was chastised on the world of Khur for trying to spread worship of the Emperor of Mankind as a divinity across the galaxy, Erebus explained to his master that there were other entities in the universe that were more than willing to accept his worship and the worship of other humans. (Except those to join the Tau, who also suck a lot, but aren't quite as bad as the Imperium.It is unknown when exactly Erebus turned to the worship of the Dark Gods, though it may have happened when the Word Bearers joined with the Luna Wolves to pacify the world of Davin mid-way through the Great Crusade. Sadly, because of how 40k is written, everyone who turns against it runs right into the arms of even worse entities. The Imperium is a wretched place, and I'm sympathetic to the idea of turning against it. Even in the early stages of the Heresy, when Horus sees Chaos as his allies rather than gods he serves, his main ideology seems to be one of Space Marine supremacy-"We conquered the galaxy, we should get to rule it". Inasmuch as Chaos has an ideology, it's a might-makes-right theocratic anarchy, which doesn't feel like much of an improvement on the might-makes-right theocratic feudalism of the Imperium. ![]() (Except those to join the Tau, who also suck a lot, but aren't quite as bad as the Imperium.)ĭeep in my bones, I hunger for a faction that sees the Imperium as the fascist nightmare realm it always was (even before the 10,000 years of decay, the realm the Emperor was forging was Not a Nice Place) and rebels against it, without immediately turning to the Gods of Cackling Mustache-Twirling Evil. ![]() ![]() Click to expand.Deep in my bones, I hunger for a faction that sees the Imperium as the fascist nightmare realm it always was (even before the 10,000 years of decay, the realm the Emperor was forging was Not a Nice Place) and rebels against it, without immediately turning to the Gods of Cackling Mustache-Twirling Evil.
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