When Guilliman suddenly reawoke and channeled the power of the Emperor directly, Mortarion fled before the power of his Father. Drive them out, and rule would pass to the uncorrupted, the healthy, those untouched by the Warp. Eventually, the time he had waited for arrived, a way to prove himself in the eyes of his fellow humans. Their weapons and armour were powered by the energies of Chaos and they became known as the Plague Marines, although they would still use the name of the Death Guard for themselves. Magnus helped Mortarion control his new abilities, allowing the Primarch to regain his lost composure. The Legion's name was then changed in accordance with this decree, and Mortarion's words were engraved above the airlock door of the Battle Barge Reaper's Scythe in honour of that moment. The first invaders to issue forth from the Scourge Stars were the Death Guard, led by grim Mortarion, who now brought the fabled Realm of Ultramar, gem of the whole segmentum, under siege. chunky, and looks a little "evil", so to speak. I really think he does see a path through which Mortarion could one day be redeemed. Mortarion did not know it, but this voice was that of the Chaos God Nurgle, who had already chosen Mortarion to become his greatest mortal champion. He later came to blows with Jaghatai Khan on Prospero after failing to convince him to join with them in rebellion. The loyalist Primarch decapitated Mortarion, who was banished into the Warp in a massive explosion similar to that of a Vortex Weapon. Although the Khan sympathised with the Space Wolves' predicament, he refused to get involved until he was able to sort out the conflicting and often contradictory astropathic messages he had received. Followers of chaos can fall to other gods of chaos so why couldn't one fall to the god of order/hope/duty/ what ever He eventually becomes. 'Do you see, Guilliman, you follow the wrong master,' said Mortarion. Mortarion turned away and began the ascent to the final mansion, that of the man he had called father, alone. Summoning up one last burst of energy, the Khan held position, panting hard as he dragged out the remnants of his power for the final clash. Nurgle responded gleefully and took the XIV Legion and Mortarion for his own champions. The diseased dead rose to claim the living. Mortarion ordered the orbital bombardment immediately. [22a] On Iax, the two Primarch's came to blows but Mortarion was able to emerge the victor thanks to his Daemonically-enhanced strength and resilience. Horus promised that if Mortarion joined his cause and supported his rebellion they would cleanse the Imperium of the Emperor's taint, and build a new regime free of their gene-father's lies, manipulations and deceit. Not sure who would be more likely to turn.Tzeentch doesnt predispose its followers to wallowing in self pity so Magnus might have more motivation to break free. I have no idea why people think Mortarion was not loved. Feeling the dust stir around his feet, coils of marsh-green teleportation energy rippled downward. Mortarion's hand and mind was at work everywhere remaking his Legion, from changing tactical doctrines to equipment procurement and, some say, behind the selection of candidates and changing practices in the Legion's Apothecarion, where he gained the latter knowledge to interfere. If he was dead, then the Imperium was finished. After witnessing the Overlords hauling captive humans away for torture and experimentation[17a], Mortarion escaped from his holdings and descended the mountain, the warlord bellowing after him of his treachery and that to return would mean death. This would be the end of an epoch. As the daemon sagged back against the wall, feeling her soul pulled back to the Empyrean by the Primarch's psychic might, Mortarion continued to hammer her furiously with his fists, pouring out all of his fury onto the broken physical shell. He was given command of the Death Guard Space Marine Legion on the arrival of the Emperor to his homeworld of Barbarus, but he turned to the forces of Chaos during the Horus Heresy. Nurgle was apparently pleased by this act of cultivation. The Despoiler's agents repeated the same act on every world that harboured similar structures. He also really hated psykers, taking a leading role in the anti-psyker faction at the Council of Nikea. He ruled over a toxic death world of poison, horror and misery. He was given command of the Death Guard Space Marine Legion on the arrival of the Emperor to his homeworld of Barbarus, but he turned to the service of Chaos during the Horus Heresy. Horus, a master manipulator who knew what was in his brother's heart, revealed to Mortarion that he knew that the Emperor had dealt with the powers of the Warp to gain the knowledge needed to create the Primarchs. [1][6b], Only the top of the mountains denied him access. Mortarion was transformed into a Daemon Prince of the Plaguefather, the living embodiment of life in death, and death in life. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . Rank 1 . Finding this stranger in conference with the village elders, Mortarion claimed that his people needed no outside help. It had begun in the Chondax System, right towards the end of the campaign against the Greenskins -- the first inkling that all was not well. The battle for the human future was one that could only be won by enduring any hardship, no matter how terrible, and not shirking from any act, no matter how savage in pursuit of victory. Guilliman heard Mortarion speak, but he could not see, and he could sense nothing else but pain. The Legion's gene-seed seemed to amplify the uncommon resistance to contagion and toxins in its Barbarus candidates to unheard-of levels. [18] During the battle on Terra he oversaw the siege of the Western regions of the Palace, spreading plague and misery wherever he appeared. Either way, the troubled Death Guard Primarch saw a worthy leader in Horus, whereas in the Emperor he saw only a self-serving and pompous pretender who had stolen Mortarion's hard-won kingship in a single day while engaging in hypocrisy concerning his own use of the Warp. The Black Legion is a Traitor Legion of Heretic Legionaries that is the first in infamy, if not in treachery, whose name resounds as a curse throughout the scattered and war-torn realms of Humanity. The Emperor waved it aside with a hand gesture; loyalty to Horus was loyalty to the Emperor[1][6b]. January 18, 2021. Mortarion massacred the population of entire worlds in an attempt to goad Guilliman to battle. Mortarion was found on Barbarus, a planet covered in toxic fumes. Guilliman's return sparked Mortarion's interest in material affairs once more, and for the first time in 10,000 years he decided to lead the whole of the Death Guard in a renewed campaign. The XIV Legion's Astartes had been primarily Terran-born before Mortarion joined the Legion; after that time almost all of the Legion's Neophytes were drawn from the Feral World of Barbarus. The Lord of Death appeared aboard the Vengeful Spirit, his putrid stench sending all but Horus, Abaddon, and Tormageddon into convulsions. Then, the stranger stepped between them and, defying the fog, killed the warlord with one mighty sweep of his sword[1][6b]. So began the first part -- the "War of Flies" -- including the assault of the Three Planets, the besieging of the Hive World of Ardium, and the Creeping Doom offensive against Espandor and Drohl. Accusing them of agents of Malcador, Typhon had his Grave Wardens execute all of the Navigators but assured Mortarion that he and his trained specialists could navigate the Warp to Terra. To those unfortunates on the far side, in the region now named the Imperium Nihilus, the "Dark Imperium," it is something much worse -- the very gates of Hell. The stranger challenged the young primarch to capture the last mansion alone, but if he failed he would join the stranger in total obedience. Faced with Mortarion's new Daemonic endurance and strength, the Khan was brutally beaten down and nearly defenseless. The daemon was the first to see a fragment of what Mortarion would eventually become in later centuries. As they interpreted the astropathic messages they received in a contradictory manner, they began to suspect that things were not right. Mortarion believed that victory in battle came through sheer resilience, and Horus, who used the strengths and weaknesses of the different legions to create the most efficient fighting force possible, used his legion in co-ordination with Mortarion's frequently. The Khan was no fool, of course this new galaxy would all be led by Horus. Mortarion would later live among the farmers in the valleys, and taught them warfare too after he fended off an enemy warlord with a scythe. The Khan observed him guardedly, for Mortarion had always been hard to read. Attempting to give Morty hope, even if false, does have practical use, since hope is antithesis to Nurgle and would weaken its hold over him, if only by a tiny amount. Having witnessed during his youth on Barbarus the horrors produced by psykers and sorcery, he testified passionately against them, ending his plea with a dire warning against any use of sorcery by the servants of the Emperor. When the shields were depleted shortly after he personally killed Torghun Khan, Mortarion barely teleported off the Swordstorm before it exploded. The Emperor may not have had much love for his sons in the past, but when he speaks, he carefully chooses and means every word he says. Whether that is because of his: 3. During the purge, Mortarion encountered a Daemon possessing the body of a woman and was forced to kill it using his innate psychic abilities despite it being against Imperial (and by this point, his very own) dogma. Once-gloried hive cities became pits, and Agri-worlds became flyblown wastes. Couch theft as redemption in whatever way you'd like. By this point, Calas Typhon served one master alone, and it was not his Primarch. An Ordo Sepultura Map of Death Guard Traitor Legion activity across the galaxy after the formation of the Great Rift in 999.M41. The Death Guard Space Marines' once gleaming grey armour was corroded and shattered, barely containing their bloated, pustule-riddled bodies. The Daemon explained that Mortarion's brothers had come to see the true order of things. Grulgor strangled Typhon to death, fulfilling his oath to Mortarion to kill the First Captain. Mortarion with his Deathshroud during the Horus Heresy. Allegiance His flesh was somehow bleaker, his stance a little more crabbed, and yet the aura of intimidation around him had been augmented. In 437.M36, Mortarion emerged at the head of a Death Guard and Nurgle-Daemon army that led to the Fall of Sanctia. He left his blade unsheathed, holding it loosely at his side. He strode above his fellow humans, dwarfing all around him. The Daemon Primarch Mortarion leads the Death Guard against the Ultramarines during the Plague Wars. When he recovered, Mortarion swore fealty to the stranger as he had promised, who revealed himself to be Mortarion's true gene-father, the Emperor of Mankind. Horus eventually used these doubts to bring Mortarion to his cause. The Death Guard did not garrison, they did not build, they only tore down and slew, coldly, determinately and with the inexorable progress of a contagion or a tsunami wave, and worlds fell before them. True to his oath, Mortarion bent his knee to his new-found father as soon as he was sufficiently recovered to do so, although his final act of defiance on Barbarus would leave scars upon him both physical and mental that would never fully heal. Horus had sponsored them, Lorgar had shown them new tricks. Only Guilliman's presence could cure the sickness. The plague that came could not be resisted, something that terrified Mortarion and the Death Guard. On the highest peaks where the air was most poisonous lived the Overlord, who claimed Mortarion as his foster son. He is posed wielding his massive scythe - Silence - on a bulkhead within a ship. Mortarion made his peace with the truth, believing that it was better to be a master of the Warp than its pawn. He had seen them all -- the tyrants, the witches, the xenos filth. Shortly after the burning of Prospero, he unsuccessfully tried to convince Jaghatai Khan to join them. On Barbarus, Mortarion climbs into the mountains to face the High Overlord Necare for the final time. [6b], Mortarion crash landed on the world of Barbarus. He was seen as just another monster from above them, and this was quite true due to his appearance. Thus shall you serve Nurgle best. Morty's whole thing was that there was no hope (and indeed the surrendering of hope and acceptance of corruption is nurgle's deal). 'He is a cyst, a pus-filled canker surrounding a dead thing lodged in the fabric of reality, like a thorn, or a piece of shrapnel. However, the Emperor's slaying of the Primarch's adoptive father -- the Emperor's denial of his final vengeance, of the proof that he was worthy -- became a grudge Mortarion forever after held against Him. "[1] Little Kitten did confirm that Kaldor Draigo had carved a name into a Daemon Primarch's heart: it has yet to be confirmed to be Mortarion in TTS Canon but it is a clear allusion to Kaldor's actions in canon.[2]. He only ever found friendship in two other Primarchs, Night Haunter and Horus. If anything it speak to how much Swallow dropped the ball with the Death Guard; The Pale King is a story we really needed to see. His first captain Typhon killed all of his navigators claiming they were loyalists, and convinced Mortarion he could travel the warp without them. The Khan sprang forward, seeing too late what was happening. However this was assailed in a massive counterattack led by Mortarion's old foe Jaghatai Khan, leading a force of White Scars and Imperial Army. In an attempt to resist the daemon's brutal attack, he tore at it with his hands, still relying on the immeasurable strength in his transhuman musculature. Going back to the Emperor doing the Mortarion wrong . The Khan gazed at Mortarion disdainfully. An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works When his voidships emerged from the system's Mandeville Point in 007.M31 and spread out through the local system, they were not the sleek and gloriously decorated crimson-coloured system-runners of Magnus the Red's XVth Legion, but corpse-grey, vast-hulled leviathans. By this simple decree the Dusk Raiders were no more, and the records and annals from that day forward would carry this new name as one to strike fear into the hearts of Mankind's enemies. 'A compromised primarch is still a primarch,' the Emperor mused, still distracted. For much of the Great Crusade, the errant White Scars Legion under the command of the Primarch Jaghatai Khan had remained noticeably absent from the current chain of events that were only now beginning to trickle in to their fleet's astropathic choirs. . a smashing good time, turning the [4], After Roboute Guilliman was resurrected in the closing days of the 41st Millennium, Mortarion sensed his brother's rebirth. Desperate, Mortarion offered his Legion and his own soul up to the Ruinous Powers in exchange for deliverance. the emperor speaks to mortarion. Watching the ash settle and the residual snags of aether-burn ripple into nothing, seven figures within the maelstrom emerged. Where the seeds of corruption had been planted by the Plague That Walks, a new and terrible contamination spread. None suffered more than Mortarion, for it was like being on the mountain top again on Barbarus, surrendering to the toxins, but this time without the Emperor to save him. One of the greatest sources of Perturabo's bitterness in canon was that he only wanted to be a builder of civilizations and an architect of wonders, but instead was relegated to thankless sieges and other unpleasant tasks until he finally snapped. His physical form devastated and his spirit sent to the Immaterium, Draigo carved his forebear's name into the Daemon's heart, an insult Mortarion has never forgotten. During the Siege of Terra Mortarion was the last of the traitor Primarch's to appear in the Sol System. [10], Mortarion next appeared during the Battle of Dwell, summoned by Horus alongside Fulgrim to aid him in gaining the powers of the Emperor on Molech. Gathering them before him, a grim and spectral figure robed and bearing the great black scythe that had once belonged to his nightmarish foster-father, it must have seemed to the Terran-born Dusk Raiders that an ancient, graven image of the Grim Reaper had come before them as their new master. Alone and unaided, Draigo smashed his way through Mortarion's bodyguard of Plague Marines, struck the ancient Primarch to the ground and carved Geronitan's name on the Daemon Prince's diseased heart. I use it. He sat for millennia in a Plague Fortress atop a tall mountain surrounded by toxic clouds, just like the adoptive father he despised in centuries long since forgotten. At present, Mortarion . Horus went from the greatest, to a cry baby demigod who couldn't handle his job. Their weapons and armour were powered by the energies of Chaos and they became known as the Plague Marines, although they would still use the name Death Guard[7]. A dread aristocracy they soon became, while the youngest and strongest like Calas Typhon took full or partial conversion into the Legiones Astartes, heedless of the high fatality rate that late induction carried with it. [23], After Horus was defeated, Mortarion reappeared and claimed the Plague Planet in the Eye of Terror as his new base. This changed the culture and traditions of the Legion, so much so that by the last days of the Great Crusade in the early 31st Millennium, there were increasing tensions between the Barbarus-born Astartes and the Terran minority who remained in the Legion and who remembered the Dusk Raiders' earlier martial traditions brought out of Old Terra. Mortarion's distrust of Typhon intensified as the Death Guard became afflicted with the Destroyer Hive. He Speaks. True to his earlier pledge, Horus let Mortarion's Death Guard be the first to land upon Terra. Virus bombardments preceded the Death Guard. [1][6b], A lesser warlord had arrived with his shambling undead legions and began to carry off those they could for their master's plans. At long last he had finally caught up. Perhaps he is actually opening up a tiny chink in mortars armour. He then was given command of the fourteenth legion of the Space Marines, the Dusk Raiders. [1][6b], The winner of the battle in which Mortarion had landed was the greatest of the warlords. Mortarion got what he wanted, a world of his own. Following the Heresy, the ascended Mortarion shut himself off from the affairs of the Materium. . Within his private quarters he interrogated the woman, who in truth was a daemon in possession of the woman's body. For the best viewing experience, we recommend using old reddit version - https://old.reddit.com/r/40kLore/ Mortarion became a Daemon Prince after the Heresy, when he occupied the plague planet and made it more like Barbarus. I believe that he does want to save mortarion and maybe he will. Such freedom could only be won in the Primarch's mind by destroying those that would shackle and devour humanity. While Mortarion has established that the change is irreversible that could be seen more as the words of Nurgle put in his mouth (God of Despair and all that), since according to the previous theory if he had actually believed this he would have been literally incapable of understanding the message as hope but rather he would have heard the ultimate insult. Back on Ullanor, even at the height of their triumph, he had not possessed quite the same heft. classification and properties of elementary particles The end of Old Night and the beginning of a brighter future for mankind. Geronitan's subordinate, Kaldor Draigo, assaulted the Daemon Primarch and spoke the true name that the Emperor had originally intended for him[8]. I think "saved" in his eyes would be the chance to die a true death back in the good graces of their creator. Mortarion's name comes from the Latin word Mors, meaning death. Mortarion raged, a cold and virulent storm of anger whirling around him until its echoes in realspace seeded seven new and terrible plagues upon luckless Imperial worlds. It was Guilliman's tactical acumen that first stabilised the many war fronts of Ultramar, and his "Spear of Espandor" campaign, a brilliant counterattack, that successfully bought the forces of the Imperium still more time. All around him were strewn the bodies of the dead and dying for miles in all directions. So inhumanly neutral. However Typhon quickly came back to life, and both the First Captain and Daemon laughed as Mortarion realized he had been betrayed. Perhaps he knew the child was better than him and that one day he would come for the warlord, or perhaps he was afraid of the small child able to breath where no other of his kind could. The Warp stained everything. For the first time in history, Mortarion had led the people into the toxic fog and survived. The virulent plagues infected the fleet while they drifted aimlessly through the Warp, making a mockery of the Death Guard's legendary resistance to toxins and contagions. His words were simple and delivered in a harsh whisper that never the less carried to each and every one: "You are my unbroken blades. In Godblight, it seems that GW is making a vision of what the primarchs are bu stressing Mortarion's half mortal nature. It would coil within his heart like a rancid viper, and provide the seed of weakness that the Plague God Nurgle would later exploit. In the end, Horus was defeated by the Emperor, but unlike the other Legions, who splintered and fled into the Eye of Terror, Mortarion's Legion, now calling themselves the Plague Marines, made an orderly withdrawal, wave after wave of Loyalists breaking themselves on the Legion. The family, along with thousands of others, lived in an internment camp for the duration of World War II, their only crime being their Japanese heritage. He had pallid skin and hollow, haunted eyes and he terrified most of the inhabitants. When that failed and the Khan drove him off, Mortarion picked up a daemon of Nurgle to learn how to fight Daemons. One softens the earth. Horus also used Mortarion's distrust of the Warp to his advantage, arguing that the Emperor had used the Warp in the creation of the Primarchs.
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