This page was last edited on 9 February 2023, at 17:05. 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. January 18, 2021. 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. He was rarely seen even by his own subordinates on the Plague Planet, leaving the Death Guard to conduct campaigns on its own as warbands. Grulgor strangled Typhon to death, fulfilling his oath to Mortarion to kill the First Captain. Despite all that had occurred, Mortarion still believed that all sorcery was a cancer. 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. 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. 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. . Toying with Mortarian would be from a place of emotion, it would serve no real purpose for him. 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. Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Daemon Prince Mortarion. 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. Mortarion on Barbarus before the coming of the Emperor.. Heute senkt sich die Klinge auf den Nacken der Tyrannei." Im fnfzehnten Primarchs-Roman feiert Mortarion seinen groen Auftritt The Khan had seen the overall picture perfectly. The Emperor granted Mortarion command of the XIV Space Marine Legion, then known as the Dusk Raiders, who quickly adopted the name, iconography and dogma of Mortarion's Death Guard. 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. However thanks to the Emperor's power being infused into him by Keeler, Garro was able to fight Mortarion back for a time but was still ultimately no match for the Daemon Primarch's power. What if he came back under a different identity? Mortarion is the Primarch of the Death Guard, and fourteenth son of the Emperor. He also armed his warriors with crude air filtration apparatus. But the Pale King brooks no challenge to his methods, for when the scythe falls, it reaps a gruesome toll. The Khan had thought back then that they were empty threats, but he should have known better. He shaped it so well that Nurgle promoted him to Daemon Prince. World after world soon fell to this horrific onslaught, and yet the insular and secretive Primarch seemed preoccupied by some other, unspoken goal. Our paints are water-based and designed specially to be perfect for painting Warhammer. As the Heresy reached its conclusion, Mortarion ordered his fleet to head for Terra with all haste, intending for the Death Guard to join the other Traitor Legions in the destruction of the False Emperor. He carried a huge, hand-crafted Shenlongi energy pistol at his side called "the Lantern." It polluted the vessels themselves as easily as it did the transhuman warriors within. In spite of being the favored son of Nurgle and one of the coolest models in all of 40k . The Khagan ordered his Legion to head for the source of the trouble, to find the architect of the chaos engulfing the Imperium. 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. I agree with the others that emps was probably serious. As Mortarion at last swore his soul to the eternal service of the Plague God in return for an end to the ceaseless agony, Nurgle responded with his usual generosity. Mortarion and Ku'gath both ignored orders from Nurgle himself to move to the Scourge Stars due to the new War in the Rift, with even Typhus abandoning his Primarch to follow the Plague God's will. He climbed higher than he had ever gone before, ignoring the increasing toxins. I set bounds on it"[13a]. Mortarion had finally gotten what he wanted, a world of his own. Despite his adoptive father being a ruthless necromancer, Mortarion felt reluctant to attack the man who took him in and called off the planned attack on the advice of Calas Typhon, who warned that he was not yet ready to face the High Overlord even with the new suits of armour. [11] Mortarion expressed a hatred of all things related to the Warp, and felt betrayed when he managed to sneak into the Imperial Palace and discovered the Golden Throne under construction. His meticulously planned seven-part campaign would bring untold ruination to all of Ultramar. Chaos(Death Guard) '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. [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. [12] On Ynyx Mortarion and Typhon reunited, and their whole fleet set course of Terra for the coming battle. An ancient Remembrancer sketch from Carpinius' Speculum Historiale of the Primarch Mortarion during the Great Crusade. 1 . Upon Macragge, the Chapter homeworld of the Ultramarines, a miracle was wrought within the Fortress of Hera through the technological prowess of Belisarius Cawl and the power of Ynnead as embodied in his priestess Yvraine, the Daughter of Shade. But the Khan was not fooled by his brother's sincerity. Eventually, only one peak denied them access, the one on which Mortarion's adoptive father had made his home. 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. Rated: Fiction T - English - Adventure/Sci-Fi - Space Marines, Primarch/s - Chapters: 16 - Words: 345,044 . "Pain is an illusion of the senses, fear an illusion of the mind, beyond these only death waits as silent judge o'er all.". The only consistent information regarding Mortarion and his homeworld come from a single source: the Stygian Scrolls of Lackland Thorn, a historian and polymath attached to the explorator fleet that discovered Barbarus. 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. But as Mortarion boarded Jaghatai's flagship, the Swordstorm, he discovered the ship abandoned save for a contingent of suicidal Sagyar Mazan warriors. An Ordo Sepultura Map of Death Guard Traitor Legion activity across the galaxy after the formation of the Great Rift in 999.M41. But Mortarion admitted that he was guilty of patricide long before the seeds of treachery were sown in the Warmaster Horus' heart. The warlord smiled and withdrew to the poisonous area above, unaware of the primarch's amazing respiratory abilities. What emerged from the Warp bore little resemblance to what had gone in. Magic makes life easier for any adventurer, and if you're a Diviner, then it gets even easier. The final thing Mortarion saw before he almost blacked out into unconsciousness was the Overlord of Barbarus coming to kill him and mocking him for his weakness and failure. Administering the Godblight, Mortarion attempted to goad his brother down the path of corruption by stating Nurgle could save him from his agonizing death. Later in the Battle of Molech, Mortarion sacrificed several of his Deathshroud warriors to allow for the resurrection of Ignatius Grulgor. Within his private quarters he interrogated the woman, who in truth was a daemon in possession of the woman's body. 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. Hannibal speaks to the imagination, to the feelings, to the passions, to exalted senses and to debased ones. 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. In an ironic twist of fate, Mortarion has become exactly like the Overlords of Barbarus he vowed to kill ten thousand years ago. Perhaps Typhon's revelation was instrumental in Mortarion's own fall to the Ruinous Powers; perhaps Mortarion would have walked a dark path on his own. When he returned, there was word of an amazing visitor who brought promises of salvation. However with submission would come new unparalleled endurance and power. 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. Mortarion's distrust of Typhon intensified as the Death Guard became afflicted with the Destroyer Hive. Mortarion would have none of this, for Barbarus now belonged to his people, bought and paid for by generations of blood and terror, and its strongest sons would now serve as recruits for his new Death Guard. He then was given command of the fourteenth legion of the Space Marines, the Dusk Raiders. . In 437.M36, Mortarion emerged at the head of a Death Guard and Nurgle-Daemon army that led to the Fall of Sanctia. And I dont think the Emperor means there will be a true redemption for any of the chaos Primarchs where they all fight the good fight and it's all sunshine, rainbows, and brotherhood 4 eva. Mortarion unsuccessfully sought to free Raheb Zurrieq, the first Death Guard to fall to the Destroyer Plague, from the torment of the unnatural disease. Didn't Khan come back to life and end up fucking off into the webway after that? I think "saved" in his eyes would be the chance to die a true death back in the good graces of their creator. Jaghatai could see how his brother thought it would all play out; first hobble the sorcerers. He brings decay and sickness, despair and fear to all those who witness his dark majesty. The normal humans, dropped off millennia before, were forced to live in the lowest areas of the planet, amidst the choking fog. The Khan prepared to settle their argument once and for all. He had pallid skin and hollow, haunted eyes and he terrified most of the inhabitants. Posted by; Date June 12, 2022; Comments . Mortarion dispatched the warlord and his place among the villagers was sealed. 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. Their father's time was over -- the Khan could either be a part of the new order that replaced Him or be swept aside in its wake. Oh sorry I misheard only the heretics and xenos must burn !! Though Mortarion had completed his great mission and the Emperor had handed down the Edicts of Nikaea forbidding the use of sorcery and the disbandment of the Legions' Librarius divisions, there were now more sorcerers than ever amongst the ranks of the Traitors. The Mortarion Model in Warhammer 40k. Whatever he felt, he trained the child in his image. 'Divine One,' he said, before he knew he was going to say anything at all. 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. Most assuredly not their brother Angron, nor the half-mad Konrad Curze.