It might take him a few dozen thousand years, but I don't doubt he or someone else could steal them again. 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. 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. 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. In response, Mortarion only stood, rigid, as though suddenly listening for something. 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. 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. 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. Together, the Ynnari and their newfound Imperial allies forged a path through their foes and the Webway to Ultramar. [19a] Mortarion next met with Magnus in order to discuss an attack on the Colossi Gate, revealing to his brother that he hated his current Daemonic visage and was in constant pain. The Death Lord at last was worthy of his title. Chaos(Death Guard) He left his blade unsheathed, holding it loosely at his side. Though he hated the concept of relying on what he considered witchery, even in one of his own Astartes, Mortarion was left with little choice. Their pestilential master would no doubt value such a prize most highly. 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. A sorcerer just like his foster father on Barbarus. They carry their own Manreapers, copies of the primarch's weapon proportionate for their hands.[2]. Rated: Fiction T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Space Marines, Primarch/s - Chapters: 16 - Words: 345,044 . Tactically, Mortarion and his fellow Nurglite commanders now found themselves evenly matched, their offensives blocked at every turn by the Ultramarines and their primarch's precise counterattacks. Despite his gifts, Mortarion's life is one of being subjugated, outwitted, cornered, and (possible spoiler) damned. This page was last edited on 9 February 2023, at 17:05. Jaghatai commanded his brother to say what he had come to the ruins of Prospero to say. 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. Upon her discovery, he had his captive teleported with him back aboard his flagship, the Endurance. Then again working to change your fate would just empower it more, unlike with Nurgle. He ruled over a toxic death world of poison, horror and misery. 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. The creature's bonds were suddenly shattered and her human shell peeled away, revealing her glossy, insect-like true form. The warlord smiled and withdrew to the poisonous area above, unaware of the primarch's amazing respiratory abilities. 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. [1][6b], People say that Mortarion flattened the wooden door to the banquet room and he found the elders and a stranger who was their opposite in every way. The daemon explained to the Primarch that the Empyrean had many great forces within it, and one of them had Mortarion's name etched over his rusting throne. Primarch Mortarion of the Death Guard Legion surrounded by his Deathshroud Honour Guard. [16] However he still appeared in galactic affairs on a number of occasions. When he returned, there was word of an amazing visitor who brought promises of salvation. He had seen them all -- the tyrants, the witches, the xenos filth. The martial stratifications of Old Earth's warmasters were done away with too, and eventually the XIV Legion's Librarius was disbanded thanks to Mortarion's hatred of witchery such as that the hated charnel masters of Barbarus had once wielded. [14] Later, Mortarion personally led a massive invasion of Ultramar in what became known as the Plague Wars. The Overlord kept him caged to acclimate to the poison, and taught him the art of war. When Mortarion had recovered he bent his knee to the stranger and pledged his service. "So be it," he thought to himself. An Ordo Sepultura Map of Death Guard Traitor Legion activity across the galaxy after the formation of the Great Rift in 999.M41. A valiant band known as the Ynnari, a mixed faction of Aeldari and Drukhari in service to their awakened God of the Dead Ynnead, followed a radical path that they believed would see Chaos defeated and the Aeldari race resurgent. . [1][6b], His acceptance into the community of humans was not easy. Finding this stranger in conference with the village elders, Mortarion claimed that his people needed no outside help. At this same time he was tasked with Horus to find and destroy the White Scars, who had been harrying the traitor lines since the events on Prospero. If he is planting a seed of hope in a servant of despair, it is for the purpose of getting him on to a path to salvation. How could he not be? If Mortarion could defeat the High Overlord Necare, the stranger would leave. Moreover, it was no mere squadron that had arrived, but an entire Death Guard battle group. Mortarion still believed himself not a slave to Chaos, and sought to transform Ultramar into an extension of the Garden of Nurgle. He had even told the Khan all of this on Ullanor after the triumph. The Luna Wolves lacked any form of command structure other than rank and had more of a gang culture than soldier. Mortarion told his brother that he should not have thrown in his lot with Sanguinius, let alone Magnus. Primarch of the Ultramari. Perhaps, they chortled mockingly, they might even arrange a final reconciliation between the bitter Mortarion and his brother. So close did Mortarion and Horus become that the ever watchful Roboute Guilliman of the Ultramarines and Corax of the Raven Guard approached the Emperor with concerns as to where Mortarion's loyalties lay. There are lots of great details including a really interesting Death Guard backpack variant." The stranger challenged the young primarch to capture the last mansion alone, but if he failed he would join the stranger in total obedience. Mortarion made his peace with the truth, believing that it was better to be a master of the Warp than its pawn. They were massive, heavier-set than the Khan's retinue, hunched at the shoulder and leaking pale green vapour from the last of the teleportation beams. I really think he does see a path through which Mortarion could one day be redeemed. He may have been feared, but Mortarion bade his time and helped get the meagre harvest in and was generally a useful and productive member of the society, more than most were. [18] During the battle on Terra he oversaw the siege of the Western regions of the Palace, spreading plague and misery wherever he appeared. Like thousands of other mortals the creature had encountered over the aeons, each was convinced that they alone could find a way to negotiate with the gods of the Warp with little to no consequence. [1][6b], When the confrontation came, it was mercifully short. However Typhon quickly came back to life, and both the First Captain and Daemon laughed as Mortarion realized he had been betrayed. When Guilliman suddenly reawoke and channeled the power of the Emperor directly, Mortarion fled before the power of his Father. With new recruitment at issue, Barbarus itself in a short span of Terran years became little more than a factory of sorts to produce new recruits for the Death Guard Legion, and intake from other sources of recruitment to which the Legion had title dwindled to a mere handful, unless the pressure of fatalities in the field proved too great. When the bombardment finally relented, the few survivors crept slowly from whatever refuge they had been able to find. by ; 2022 June 3; barbara "brigid" meier; 0 . Mortarion was found on Barbarus, a planet covered in toxic fumes. In early 901.M41, during the Battle of Kornovin, Mortarion slew Geronitan, the Supreme Grand Master of the Grey Knights Chapter. [6a] Mortarion led his Legion in their betrayal of the Imperium at the Battle of Isstvan III and Drop Site Massacre. With communications severed and relief forces cut off by fresh Warp Storms, the defenders were hard-pressed in a hundred locations across Ultramar. Behind the Khan, the keshig readied their blades. Choose between the Classic and Contrast Methods, then bring your miniatures to life. So inhumanly neutral. 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. It would coil within his heart like a rancid viper, and provide the seed of weakness that the Plague God Nurgle would later exploit. Observing the physical changes in his brother, he noticed that Mortarion's power seemed to have grown. The words he had spoken to his sons, proclaiming Horus as Warmaster of the Imperium ringing in his ears. He considered what he had found, and then bundled the child up and carried it from the carnage. This proved to be a trap however, as the Death Guard were now in the plaguefather's grip. What if he came back under a different identity? [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. [9], Like Perturabo, Mortarion proved bitter over his perceived sidelining and under-appreciation by other Primarchs during the Great Crusade. But this was exactly why Mortarion had come to find Jaghatai. 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. Two accompany him at all times and are never more than forty-nine paces from his side. Grulgor strangled Typhon to death, fulfilling his oath to Mortarion to kill the First Captain. 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 . . Mortarion ordered the orbital bombardment immediately. 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 confrontation was brief. Paradox-Billiards-Vostroyan-Roulette-Fourth-Dimensional-Hypercube-Chess-Strip Poker, More If The Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech Device Wiki, If The Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech Device Wiki. The Khan was no fool, of course this new galaxy would all be led by Horus. 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. In the horrific ruins, Cults of Corruption slithered out of hiding, summoning forth further aid from the Realm of Chaos itself. His design was based on John Blanche's artwork, a depiction of Mortarion as the 31st Millennium's reaper of men. At some point though, Kaldor Draigo carved the name of the Grey Knight Geronitan onto his heart. His first captain Typhon killed all of his navigators claiming they were loyalists, and convinced Mortarion he could travel the warp without them. 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. Then, Roboute Guilliman returned from the end of the first phase of his galaxy-spanning Indomitus Crusade. 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. It is said that the next attack that descended from the mountains above was repulsed quickly and Mortarion, leading his Death Guard, as they had become known, followed them into the fog above, massacring the remaining forces and killing the warlord. In an instant, the Death Lord and his retinue were snatched away, sucked into the vortex of the Warp. The mood of the primarch darkened. At present, Mortarion is the greatest Daemon Prince of Nurgle and the Daemon Primarch of the Death Guard Chaos Space Marines. Even the hoses of his suit began to corrode and rot down and Mortarion was gasping for breath. Though still gravely wounded and in deep pain, the Death Lord teleported down to the surface, seeking a mortal woman. Published by on October 31, 2021. Unlike Angron and Fulgrim, he did not even attempt to penetrate the Emperor's psychic shield around the Palace. Mortarion was transformed into a Daemon Prince of the Plaguefather, the living embodiment of life in death, and death in life. These were members of Mortarion's elite bodyguard, the Deathshroud. [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. While his corruption was now complete, Mortarion began to hate himself more than ever, as he was now everything that he despised. His final battle had been building for years and he was not happy that someone else would share his glory. [5], In 901.M41, during the Battle of Kornovin, Mortarion killed Geronitan, Supreme Grand Master of the Grey Knights. But it had worn on the Khan, unravelling his sleep. He wanted to know why his brothers Lorgar and Fulgrim willingly trafficked with the creature's kind. Barbarus was constantly covered in a poisonous fog and the mountains were ruled by fierce warlords. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. [15] During that campaign, Mortarion appeared during the Invasion of Konor where he led the Death Guard in an attempt to break through to Macragge itself. Descending upon the battlefields of the 41st Millennium on wings of tattered leather is Mortarion, the Daemon Primarch of Nurgle. His ultimate vengeance was always denied to him because of the fog that prevented the humans from pushing home their attacks. [10] Mortarion also clashed with other Primarch's who he felt had upbringings far easier than his hell on Barbarus, particularly Sanguinius, Jaghatai Khan, and Fulgrim. 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. Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor's Children. Only then did the stranger reveal himself to be the Emperor of Mankind and Mortarion's father. Categories . HOW TO PAINT: Mortarion, Daemon Primarch of Nurgle. He had destroyed the Librarius of the Legions only to find witches were now untrammelled amongst the Traitors. In Godblight, it seems that GW is making a vision of what the primarchs are bu stressing Mortarion's half mortal nature. On the highest peaks where the air was most poisonous lived the Overlord, who claimed Mortarion as his foster son. Six of them were Legionaries. The first is a Forge World exclusive for use in Horus Heresy 30k battles, showing the Primarch before he fell to Chaos and became a bit daemon-y. Mortarion claimed the Daemon World later known as the "Plague Planet" as his new homeworld and it proved to be an ideal base for launching attacks from out of the Eye of Terror into the physical universe. In the solar decades that followed the renamed XIV Legion fought tirelessly in the service of the Great Crusade. 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. During the subsequent assault on Terra itself at the end of the Heresy by the Traitor Legions, the Death Guard were part of Horus' invasion force. It mattered not how many trinkets the Primarch rattled or waved -- this power of the Warp would not be denied. Would you like to support Cults? He was revelling in his victory until the silence was shattered by the scream of a child. 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. For the first time in history, Mortarion had led the people into the toxic fog and survived. But even death brought no freedom from its torment. I dont think they would take it well if Morty came back and their primarch didnt. At Iax, once a glorious Garden World now transformed into a "Hospital World" to tend to Ultramar's sick and dying, primarch met primarch as Guilliman confronted Mortarion, the two brothers fighting to a deadlock before the Chaos forces mysteriously withdrew under cover of a virus bomb assault that added to the myriad miseries of Iax. 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. Fallen Primarch and #1 Papa Nurgle Fan, the Lord of Sticky Hugs himself, Mortarion! His scythe fell into the guard position and a thin coughing broke from his mask, which the Khan realised was an exhausted kind of chortle. He marched to the top with the anger given by years of building hatred for the final warlord. 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. Virus bombardments preceded the Death Guard. When the Warmaster Horus turned to Chaos, it did not require much effort to drag Mortarion and his Legion down with him. . Hannibal speaks to the imagination, to the feelings, to the passions, to exalted senses and to debased ones. 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. The Black Leigon, at . Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. The power of the Warp was within him, and he was using it willingly, in spite of every one of his protestations. For better or worse, the Death Lord had come home. Whatever he felt, he trained the child in his image. You are the Death Guard. In the subsequent Battle of Catallus, the joint Death Guard-Emperor's Children fleet led by Mortarion cornered the White Scars fleet at the Dark Glass artifact. Only he remained pure, free of the corruption wrought by the Warp. Posted by; Date June 12, 2022; Comments . pigella miraculous ladybug power. He hated to see the three of them getting dragged in deeper by the Emperor's hypocrisy. At present, Mortarion . 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. Until he knew, beyond a shadow of doubt, who was ally and who was an enemy, he refused to choose sides. He was seen as just another monster from above them, and this was quite true due to his appearance. A skilled warlord in his own right, Mortarion was immediately given command of the XIV Legion of Astartes which carried his genetic inheritance, and did so on his own terms. . He formed them into elite units and drilled them himself. Never relenting in battle beneath their Primarch's gaze, they pursued the liberation of Mankind with a fervour the Great Crusade had never known. The stranger commented that even Mortarion and his Death Guard were having trouble pacifying the final warlord, and offered a challenge. Although second perhaps in their gene-father's eyes, the Terran contingent remained stubborn in the ranks, hardened veterans and a force to be reckoned with in the Legion. Cheryl: Living Saint of the Adepta Sororitas "The emperor speaks to me from the Throne and he tells me everything must burn !!! Now one of the denizens of the Empyrean stood shackled before him. 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. During the fight the two Primarchs were able to challenge the other, with the Great Khan proving faster and the Death Lord proving more durable. The two primarchs traded deadly blows, tearing into one another, each strike powered by raw defiance. Canon Thus shall you serve Nurgle best. The Khan had seen the overall picture perfectly. With the prevailing conditions on Barbarus and the foul beings that more than likely still stalked the planet's fog-shrouded mountains and deep swamps, there were whispers that the human population that remained would have been better off if they had been euthanised or displaced to a "cleaner" world for the sake of the sanity of future generations. Mortarion brushed off the Khan's reasoning, but Jaghatai pressed him. https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/qt3zwm/book_excerpt_warhawkjaghatai_khan_is_as_deadly/. By your hand shall justice be delivered, and doom shall stalk a thousand worlds.". However he was able to find a weakness in the Death Lord with his pride. !" . Previously, the walking corpses could be destroyed, but now doing so only released hordes of Nurglings that writhed impossibly out of the withered flesh of the fallen. The infant primarch was screaming and wailing where a normal child would have suffocated and died long before. They're still aware enough, were both tricked into servitude and do seem to hate their situation in some way. Typhon had seen to it that the fleet's Navigators were killed to a man (claiming their loyalty was still to the Emperor), but reassured Mortarion that the Warp-gift he possessed would see them through their journey in the Empyrean safe enough. Back on Ullanor, even at the height of their triumph, he had not possessed quite the same heft. He carried a huge, hand-crafted Shenlongi energy pistol at his side called "the Lantern." I control it. 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. Breaking through the poisonous mists, Mortarion discovered that the prey of the warlords were in fact the same species as he, and swore to deliver them from their oppression. Mortarion was too weak to reach the top of the peak where the Overlord lived, so the Emperor finished him off himself, earning Mortarion's undying hatred. the emperor speaks to mortarion. 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. The second is a shrouded death-like figure designed for the Epic game system . The Primarch was enraged at the creature's proclamation -- even his father the Emperor could not claim him. If Magnus yet lived then everything could be salvaged. Diseased and corrupted, made monstrous in form by the warping power of Chaos, Mortarion is a twisted angel of death driven by hatred and bitterness. the tall man aboriginal spirit; metadata api request failed: component conversion failed: file_ended; caleb foote sandlot Didn't Khan come back to life and end up fucking off into the webway after that? This was not what they had been promised by the White Scars' treacherous warrior lodge brothers, but the Death Lord refused to lose a fleet for the sake of this fight. " I am not like you. 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. Following the battle, Mortarion realized that his divided fleet had hampered the war effort and ordered Eidolon to find Calas Typhon and his splinter fleet. It polluted the vessels themselves as easily as it did the transhuman warriors within. Mortarion was initially reluctant, but was moved by Horus' declaration that he was the only Primarch the Warmaster still could rely on and was eager to settle the score with the Khan anyway. '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. Where the seeds of corruption had been planted by the Plague That Walks, a new and terrible contamination spread. . Silence the witches. The Emperor's fleets arrived on Barbarus, toppling the final alien stronghold, rescuing Mortarion, and - in his eyes - robbing him of both victory and vengeance. Events would prove the Emperor sorely mistaken. Daemon Primarch Mortarion leads the Forces of Chaos against the Grey Knights. Upon Typhon's advice, Mortarion would make the journey inside the Terminus Est as opposed to the Endurance.