The attacks were slow but relentless, wearing down Ultramar's defending Ultramarines and their vaunted Ultramar Auxilia. Primarch His flesh was somehow bleaker, his stance a little more crabbed, and yet the aura of intimidation around him had been augmented. The daemon was the first to see a fragment of what Mortarion would eventually become in later centuries. In spite of being the favored son of Nurgle and one of the coolest models in all of 40k . [1][6b], The warlord tested how high the child could survive in the poisonous atmosphere of Barbarus and then erected a massive wall of black iron. This would be the end of an epoch. Oh sorry I misheard only the heretics and xenos must burn !! He realised that the prey that the warlords fought over was his own people, and with this came a sense of hatred and he vowed to give them justice over their oppressors. The Legion's gene-seed seemed to amplify the uncommon resistance to contagion and toxins in its Barbarus candidates to unheard-of levels. When the Warmaster Horus turned to Chaos, it did not require much effort to drag Mortarion and his Legion down with him. You are the Death Guard. 'Divine One,' he said, before he knew he was going to say anything at all. Mortarion's distrust of Typhon intensified as the Death Guard became afflicted with the Destroyer Hive. Who would stand with him against the psykers now among the Traitors? He would have to master all the paths of ruin. The entirety of the Death Guard Legion had come to the doomed world. 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. Search "the emperor speaks to Gulliman" and you will find a few threads with the . "So be it," he thought to himself. A sorcerer just like his foster father on Barbarus. They leered in delight, bile and maggots slopping down their festering chins. 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. A new stage of the war began. He considered what he had found, and then bundled the child up and carried it from the carnage. Abaddon the Despoiler united the disparate factions of the Eye of Terror and unleashed the 13th Black Crusade to bring ruin to the world that had proven his nemesis for millennia. I dont see anyone rejoining the imperium though, too much bad blood. Mortarion's resistance to the use of bloodstock other than that of Barbarus wavered only because of the need to keep his Legion's strength battleworthy in his eyes. Such freedom could only be won in the Primarch's mind by destroying those that would shackle and devour humanity. 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. The mood of the primarch darkened. Mortarion's name comes from the Latin word Mors, meaning death. The Deathshroud Terminators lowered their scythes in a combat posture. If Magnus had not already made up his mind on which side of the conflict he would be on, then he soon would, and then Mortarion would be surrounded. The Death Lord had run out of friends among the Traitor primarchs. The Primarch was enraged at the creature's proclamation -- even his father the Emperor could not claim him. He was given command of the Death Guard Legion on the arrival of the Emperor to his world of Barbarus but turned to the forces of Chaos during the Horus Heresy. Only he remained pure, free of the corruption wrought by the Warp. Mortarion with his Deathshroud during the Horus Heresy. Jaghatai Khan scolded Mortarion for being weak and giving into the powers of the Warp, while he himself had resisted the temptations of Chaos and remained true to the Emperor. To this day, Mortarion's Death Guard launch their assaults through the Cadian Gate and into the galaxy beyond, sometimes in large bodies and at others lending strength to allied forces. When he made his way back to the surface of the planet, he next encountered an unexpected visitor. He formed them into elite units and drilled them himself. Magic makes life easier for any adventurer, and if you're a Diviner, then it gets even easier. Already deeply angry with his father, it did not take much for Horus to push the idea upon his brother that the Emperor was in truth a sorcerer not much different from the High Overlord Necare on Barbarus, Mortarion's hated adoptive father. The connection between father and son immediately formed and was plain to see, although Mortarion knew nothing of the link. Daemon Primarch Mortarion leads the Forces of Chaos against the Grey Knights. In battle, his dark panoply is made up of the following wargear and equipment: Warhammer 40,000 Grim Dark Lore Part 19 Council of Nikaea, Warhammer 40,000 Grim Dark Lore Part 22 Traitors, Warhammer 40,000 Grim Dark Lore Part 25 Heresy, Warhammer 40,000 Grim Dark Lore Part 27 Massacre, Warhammer 40,000 Grim Dark Lore Part 29 The Siege, Warhammer 40,000 Grim Dark Lore Part 40 Indomitus. 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. Mortarion even proved critical of Horus' promotion to Warmaster, agreeing that while Horus was the best choice the Emperor's decision to name a Warmaster in the first place had been a mistake. Observing the physical changes in his brother, he noticed that Mortarion's power seemed to have grown. With no more options and overcome by the Destroyer Plague, Mortarion began to hallucinate that he was back on Barbarus attempting to endure the toxins of the mountains to reach his father's fortress. The diseased dead rose to claim the living. reader breathless. Mortarion returned to his village, confident in the knowledge that he would return for his final battle. These were members of Mortarion's elite bodyguard, the Deathshroud. He marched to the top with the anger given by years of building hatred for the final warlord. Grulgor strangled Typhon to death, fulfilling his oath to Mortarion to kill the First Captain. He trained the child, who had a highly keen intellect and voracious appetite for knowledge; Mortarion learned everything from battle doctrine, to arcane secrets, from artifice to stratagem. The Overlord kept him caged to acclimate to the poison, and taught him the art of war. The Khan prepared to settle their argument once and for all. Deep within the noisome swamps of Nurgle's Garden in the Realm of Chaos, a conclave of Great Unclean Ones listened indulgently to the frantic babbling of messenger flies. Rated: Fiction T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Space Marines, Primarch/s - Chapters: 16 - Words: 345,044 . Garro died, but not before giving Mortarion a painful wound in his neck with the broken shard of Libertas. Mortarion simultaneously experienced himself before the Emperor after his failure to kill his father, and finally snapped. Going back to the Emperor doing the Mortarion wrong . I control it. The Death Lord at last was worthy of his title. However after Malcador explained that the purpose of the Golden Throne was to remove mankind's need of the Warp, Mortarion was put more at ease. Arkhan had expected the Omnissiah's dispassionate demeanour, but to witness it in so intimate a context was inspiring in the extreme. When the bombardment finally relented, the few survivors crept slowly from whatever refuge they had been able to find. In his place, the Grey Knights elevated the hero Kaldor Draigo amidst the din of the battlefield and Draigo immediately vowed vengeance against the Daemon Primarch. 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. The foremost Chaplain of the Word Bearers, Erebus, inducted Typhon into the secrets of the Seven Pillared Lodge, one of the Warrior Lodges that had begun to spread throughout the Space Marine Legions in the later days of the Great Crusade. Jaghatai was next contacted by the Space Wolves' Leman Russ who had just returned from the Battle of Prospero and the assault against the Space Wolves' old rivals, the Thousand Sons Legion. I believe that he does want to save mortarion and maybe he will. You like Cults and you want to help us continue the adventure independently?Please note that we are a small team of 3 people, therefore it is very simple to support us to maintain the activity and create future developments.Here are 4 solutions accessible to all: ADVERTISING: Disable your banner blocker (AdBlock, ) and click on our banner ads. Mortarion is one of those rare Warhammer Primarchs that has three tabletop models. Barbarus was constantly covered in a poisonous fog and the mountains were ruled by fierce warlords. Jaghatai Khan remarked that besides himself, Mortarion was the only Primarch whose deeds and history were not well known to the greater Imperium. Mortarion told his brother that he should not have thrown in his lot with Sanguinius, let alone Magnus. However with submission would come new unparalleled endurance and power. He then moved his mansion past this to keep it from the child. Over time Mortarion shaped the creed and practice of the Death Guard, his beliefs in many ways forming a natural extension of their own, beliefs and doctrine becoming ever more refined and extreme. The two primarchs traded deadly blows, tearing into one another, each strike powered by raw defiance. Choose between the Classic and Contrast Methods, then bring your miniatures to life. I think he is fully serious. You can help Lexicanum by fixing it. Once-gloried hive cities became pits, and Agri-worlds became flyblown wastes. 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. Without these lynchpins to hold the material dimension sacrosanct, the Materium could take no more, and a titanic Warp rift tore across the galaxy, spreading from the Eye of Terror to the Hadex Anomaly on the Eastern Fringe. The Mortarion Model in Warhammer 40k. Unable to escape thanks to the Sagyar Mazan and the vessels reactivated Void Shields, Mortarion led the massacre of the Scars suicidal rear guard while directing his fleet to combine its fire and reduce the Swordstorms shields. He could free him from Nurgles service with a true death, but not yet. But it had all gone wrong. But Mortarion admitted that he was guilty of patricide long before the seeds of treachery were sown in the Warmaster Horus' heart. He shaped it so well that Nurgle promoted him to Daemon Prince. I have no idea why people think Mortarion was not loved. Indeed, Mortarion had become disgusted with what exactly the Emperor was, considering him a Warp-tainted "aberration" like his tyrant adopted father. Garro rejected his fathers offer to return to the Death Guard and instead challenged Mortarion to a duel, buying time for Euphrati Keeler to escape. the emperor speaks to mortarion. Nurgle was apparently pleased by this act of cultivation. However Mortarion found his once-beloved brother Typhon changed, and once their vessels were inside the Warp the First Captain framed all of the fleet's Navigators. The Emperor claimed "Mortarion smelled like shit from day one. 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. [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. 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. Grateful, Mortarion immediately organized an attack on the Colossi Gate that Magnus would use as a screen while he infiltrated the Imperial Dungeon. One softens the earth. He had even told the Khan all of this on Ullanor after the triumph. By the time he led his Death Guard in the Siege of Terra, Mortarion had been fully embraced by the Plague God Nurgle, and transformed into the vast, bug-winged, daemonic form he . Context: After loosing the fight with Mortarion and getting injected with Godblight, Guiliman, in his final moments, remembers his recent audience with the Emperor. [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. The Black Legion was one of the nine original First Founding Space Marine Legions who turned Traitor to the Imperium during the Dornian Heresy in the early 31st Millennium. At this time the Emperor appeared, and challenged Mortarion to slay the Overlord alone, or swear fealty to him. . [1][6b], As Mortarion grew he taught the villagers all he knew of warfare. He enlisted the aid of blacksmiths, craftsmen and artificers to create suits of armour that would allow men to travel through the poisonous fog. The Emperor of Mankind stood on the uppermost deck of the bridge of his flagship, overlooking Ullanor. World after world soon fell to this horrific onslaught, and yet the insular and secretive Primarch seemed preoccupied by some other, unspoken goal. 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. Emperor talks : 40kLore IAEIH: Well, That Was Awkward. The stranger commented that even Mortarion and his Death Guard were having trouble pacifying the final warlord, and offered a challenge. The Fortress World of Cadia, which had long stood sentinel over the Cadian Gate, finally fell to the Despoiler during that campaign. The pallid, hairless Primarch was viewed by others as a freak, and was distant from all his brother Primarchs save Horus the Warmaster and Konrad Curze the Night Haunter, the leader of the Night Lords Legion. Descending upon the battlefields of the 41st Millennium on wings of tattered leather is Mortarion, the Daemon Primarch of Nurgle. They are mean, ugly bastards but tenacious. Yet, only one soul could see the Warp as it truly was, and that was Magnus the Red, the only one of his brothers that Jaghatai had ever truly trusted. Eventually, only one peak denied them access, the one on which Mortarion's adoptive father had made his home. Many of these Loyalist Death Guard Astartes were Terran-born, former Dusk Raiders like Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro of the 7th Great Company whose loyalty to the Emperor outweighed their devotion to their Primarch. He would, as perhaps he had known but refused to believe for a long time, have to become the very thing that he had always hated, a psyker, a master of sorcery and the powers of the witch. The stranger challenged the young primarch to capture the last mansion alone, but if he failed he would join the stranger in total obedience. However, the young primarch's questions began to turn towards subjects the Overlord did not want to talk about, namely the pitiful creatures in the valleys that the many warlords preyed upon for corpses to reanimate and bodies to warp. On the highest peaks where the air was most poisonous lived the Overlord, who claimed Mortarion as his foster son. [18] During the battle on Terra he oversaw the siege of the Western regions of the Palace, spreading plague and misery wherever he appeared. [20], Mortarion's plan against Guilliman reached its climax on Iax, luring his brother there in cooperation with Ku'gath, who created a deadly disease known as the Godblight which was capable of killing even a Primarch. It would coil within his heart like a rancid viper, and provide the seed of weakness that the Plague God Nurgle would later exploit. The warlord smiled and withdrew to the poisonous area above, unaware of the primarch's amazing respiratory abilities. [1][6b], Only the top of the mountains denied him access. The destruction of Cadia eliminated the mysterious geometric pylons that dotted the Fortress World's wind-swept outlands, and in doing so weakened the barrier between worlds, for these ancient megaliths were fashioned to keep power of the Warp from overwhelming the material dimension. The glorious stink of learned sorcery and hedge-magick was now pungent and inescapable. However Mortarion eventually prevailed and struck down Typhon with his scythe. Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor's Children. For a moment he considered killing the child, but he realised that no human should be able to breath at this height, let alone cry out. . He used an enormous two handed scythe and charged into the ranks of the enemy with the hatred that had been building for years before and drove them from the village. He was the champion, the sacrificial king. [16] In anticipation he created 7 new diseases with the Hand of Darkness, one of which was a blindness-inducing plague that swept through Ultramar. To those on the Terran side of the so-called Great Rift (or the Cicatrix Maledictum in High Gothic) it is a tainted scar stretching across the sky. the emperor speaks to mortarion; the emperor speaks to mortarion. Sure no one likes Mortarion but this Noiratrom guy seems ok. Might be one last fight against chaos and being Horus'd, might actually be redemption - but both would mean moving the setting forward and I think we'll be waiting quite a while for that, besides the disdain community has for some implications of it. A Primarch! As the two demi-gods battled, their respective retinues also fell onto one another in deadly close combat. He had pallid skin and hollow, haunted eyes and he terrified most of the inhabitants. The Primarchs is the chance to show what the traitors were really about before their turn, . 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. He might burn himself out to get to Terra, he might not. The decastated world's wind howled in their empty wake, stirring the ashes of ruined Tizca. 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. Where they were gaunt and pale skinned, the stranger had bronzed flesh and a perfect physique. Their pestilential master would no doubt value such a prize most highly. 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. Nurgle responded gleefully and took the XIV Legion and Mortarion for his own champions. Mortarion merely shrugged -- Horus would be the start of the new order. Dark Imperium: Godblight, the next book in the Dark Imperium series, was announced during the Black Library Preview way back in December 2020.Along with the conclusion of a story that's been in the works since the days of Roboute Guilliman's awakening, new editions of the original books (Dark Imperium and Plague War) are soon to be available for pre-order. Typhon, now called Typhus the Traveller, took a more active role in continuing the war against the Imperium by abandoning his master and striking out on his own, bringing the "gifts" of his patron to the Emperor's followers. The Khan merely smiled -- a cold smile, imperious in its contempt. Mortarion had never encountered its kind before, believing his father, the Emperor, that such fell creatures did not exist. He had seen them all -- the tyrants, the witches, the xenos filth. He collapsed at the gates of the Overlord's citadel, bellowing challenges to Necare. Though the Primarch's physical strength was enormous, the daemon knew that it would not help him, for she was not a creature of realspace, defined and constrained only by laws and powers that the Primarch feared to invoke. However Typhon quickly came back to life, and both the First Captain and Daemon laughed as Mortarion realized he had been betrayed. What if he came back under a different identity? Jaghatai had been right -- the Death Lord was on his own with them. He wanted to know why his brothers Lorgar and Fulgrim willingly trafficked with the creature's kind. The only way to save themselves was to swear allegiance to Nurgle. He was still waiting, though not for very much longer. 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. Even the hoses of his suit began to corrode and rot down and Mortarion was gasping for breath. In leading the Death Guard into the Warp, Typhon had delivered them into the clutches of his new master, Nurgle, the Lord of Decay. He now had a son, something he had craved for years despite his dark magical powers. Mortarion predicted that only strife between the Primarchs would rise if the Emperor were to abandon the Great Crusade personally and used Horus as his . He was in the dust of a corpse-king's court. He still believed that humanity must guard against it -- push it back. The Leonine Heresy By: Sharrowkyn. Mortarion travelled from settlement to settlement, teaching, building and defending his people. Our paints are water-based and designed specially to be perfect for painting Warhammer. The Daemon Primarch later aided Typhus and Ku'Gath in their trap against Guilliman on Parmenio but was foiled by a mysterious young girl who may have been a Living Saint. He smelt the scent of food for the first time, he saw people unobstructed by the fog and for the first time he heard laughter, real laughter, not that of the victorious warlord's. As they hacked and countered, neither giving up a single measure of ground, their blood mingled upon their blades' edges, as rich and dark as wine. If Magnus yet lived then everything could be salvaged. Meanwhile, Mortarion was frequently critical of Magnus the Red over his use of Librarians and was one of the chief voices to ban Psykers among the Astartes Legions at the Council of Nikea. He wore a grey cloak over his personalised suit of brass and bare steel power armour known as The Barbaran Plate. The Emperor gave him plenty and even went with the Nikea edict.To me Morty was just a hypocritic doofus thinking he can control the powers of the warp. The Death Guard primarch attempted to sway the Khan to Horus' cause as Jaghatai had surmised, to imagine a galaxy of warriors, of hunters, where the strong were given their freedom to act as they would, unbound by the Emperor's demands. However, Horus at last found a chink in Mortarion's armor; he was beginning to see the Emperor as having been corrupted with power and now was just another tyrant drunk with power. Jaghatai could see how his brother thought it would all play out; first hobble the sorcerers. He was before a resplendent Emperor for all the ages. 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]. >> Anonymous 02/28/23 . How could he not be? From that power base, the Death Guard and daemonic Plague Legions issued, systematically reaping planet after planet. Mortarion, also known as the "Pale King," the "Death Lord" or the "Prince of Decay" after he turned to Chaos, was one of the original twenty Imperial primarchs created by the Emperor of Mankind. He is order. Upon her discovery, he had his captive teleported with him back aboard his flagship, the Endurance. But the Pale King brooks no challenge to his methods, for when the scythe falls, it reaps a gruesome toll. The Lord of Death appeared aboard the Vengeful Spirit, his putrid stench sending all but Horus, Abaddon, and Tormageddon into convulsions. He recruited the toughest, most resilient men he could find, forming them into small units that trained under his supervision. The daemon's final task would be to show him how. [26], During the height of his powers as a servant of the Emperor, Mortarion was described as having an ashen, hairless face. Jaghatai realised that his brother had come to persuade him to join the Traitors' cause. He had been on the Khan's heels since Ullanor. After hundreds of battles and wars, there was just one inaccessible mansion, one which Mortarion knew well, the one where his adoptive father resided. Some Primarchs, such as Roboute Guilliman, feared that Mortarion was more loyal to Horus than he was to the Emperor; however, at that time, the Emperor claimed that loyalty to Horus was de facto loyalty to Himself. If The Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech Device Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Horus had been one of the few primarchs with whom Mortarion had felt comfortable, and as such he showed more loyalty to the Warmaster during the Great Crusade than to the Emperor Himself. He also really hated psykers, taking a leading role in the anti-psyker faction at the Council of Nikea. Then, the stranger stepped between them and, defying the fog, killed the warlord with one mighty sweep of his sword[1][6b]. Condemned to a deathless state of decay, the Death Guard would spread their pestilent diseases the length and breadth of the galaxy for the greater glory of Chaos. Then again working to change your fate would just empower it more, unlike with Nurgle. But as others have said, 'salvation' can also just mean death. Their restless fleet ploughed the cold void from one campaign to the next, resupplying on the move, never pausing but to make war. He then was given command of the fourteenth legion of the Space Marines, the Dusk Raiders. While his corruption was now complete, Mortarion began to hate himself more than ever, as he was now everything that he despised. Returning to the village, Mortarion's mood darkened when he found his people talking not of his victory but of the arrival of a benevolent stranger who promised salvation to the people of Barbarus. The void around him now seethed with witchery, more virulent than ever. 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