[13], After these campaigns, Mortarion received orders from Horus to make for Terra. 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. 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. 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. 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. Finding this stranger in conference with the village elders, Mortarion claimed that his people needed no outside help. Fallen Primarch and #1 Papa Nurgle Fan, the Lord of Sticky Hugs himself, Mortarion! Inspired by the Roboutian Heresy, this is the tale of Lion El'Jonson's fall to Chaos as he leads half of his brothers (and not necessarily the ones you might think) in rebellion against the Emperor. 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 Emperor claimed "Mortarion smelled like shit from day one. The warlord smiled when Mortarion advanced upon him and withdrew to the apparent safety of the deadly fog, only to be pursued and butchered by this inhumanly resilient Primarch. As each battle in the mists was fought, Mortarion and his Death Guard would learn how to better adapt the armour, and themselves, to reach the more poisonous heights. Eventually the Khan found the answers he sought in the crystal caves deep underground, beneath the destroyed Prosperine capital city of Tizca. 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. He pledged himself to Nurgle and the torture ceased. 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. 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 shaped it so well that Nurgle promoted him to Daemon Prince. Mortarion made his peace with the truth, believing that it was better to be a master of the Warp than its pawn. "Say what you like about the Fourteenth Legion. Following the Heresy, the ascended Mortarion shut himself off from the affairs of the Materium. It was during this time that Typhon caught a glimpse of what the Astartes could truly become if they shrugged off the yoke of the Emperor's ambitions. When the Warmaster Horus turned to Chaos, it did not require much effort to drag Mortarion and his Legion down with him. Published by on October 31, 2021. the emperor speaks to mortarion. He was in the dust of a corpse-king's court. 'Divine One,' he said, before he knew he was going to say anything at all. 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. Once the Astartes who remained loyal to the Emperor were purged, the Death Guard then fought alongside their Traitor brethren during the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V. Mortarion, the Death Lord, during the Horus Heresy. 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. 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. 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. Jaghatai had been right -- the Death Lord was on his own with them. Events would prove the Emperor sorely mistaken. They were condemned to an endless life of servitude and were in constant fear of those who moved above them. 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. Such an opportunity had not presented itself in thousands of years, and the Great Unclean Ones hummed a cheerful ditty as they began to concoct a sickness fit for a demigod. At present, Mortarion is the greatest Daemon Prince of Nurgle and the Daemon Primarch of the Death Guard Chaos Space Marines. . Within his private quarters he interrogated the woman, who in truth was a daemon in possession of the woman's body. Jaghatai Khan remarked that besides himself, Mortarion was the only Primarch whose deeds and history were not well known to the greater Imperium. Mortarion proceeded to explain the reason for his recent arrival; he told Jaghatai that he had sought him out, for things had changed. Perhaps he is actually opening up a tiny chink in mortars armour. Rank 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. Mortarion got what he wanted, a world of his own. Mortarion is the Primarch of the Death Guard, and fourteenth son of the Emperor. 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. Mortarion turned away and began the ascent to the final mansion, that of the man he had called father, alone. During their meeting, Mortarion survived an assassination attempt by Shadrak Meduson, who assaulted the Primarchs with a trio of Fire Raptors. The constant exposure to the toxins hardened his warriors, a useful and transferable skill retained by the Death Guard. The glorious stink of learned sorcery and hedge-magick was now pungent and inescapable. Mortarion then revealed his trump card: unleashing the deformed Ignatius Grulgor from his confines. The Fortress World of Cadia, which had long stood sentinel over the Cadian Gate, finally fell to the Despoiler during that campaign. Mortarion ordered the orbital bombardment immediately. Jaghatai explained that the reason neither one of them would ever rule the galaxy is that both of them were never the empire-builders. There had been no detail then, no authentication, just stray astropathic messages of dubious provenance. Couch theft as redemption in whatever way you'd like. Upon Typhon's advice, Mortarion would make the journey inside the Terminus Est as opposed to the Endurance. 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. The silent Deathshroud were just as implacable as their master, as they fought the White Scars keshig amidst the wreckage of a lost world. [14] Later, Mortarion personally led a massive invasion of Ultramar in what became known as the Plague Wars. He would not countenance a new Emperor -- neither himself nor Mortarion. Mortarion revealed his true colours during the scouring of Istvaan III, when he willingly sent potentially Loyalist elements of the Death Guard into Horus' trap. I control it. I dont think they would take it well if Morty came back and their primarch didnt. 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. Mortarion himself left his humanity far behind and was transformed into Nurgle's greatest mortal Champion: the Prince of Decay, the very image of death. Something terrible came out of the Warp Storms as they roiled through the southern reaches of the Ultima Segmentum. 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 emperor speaks to mortarion. !" . During the Siege of Terra Mortarion was the last of the traitor Primarch's to appear in the Sol System. Warhammer 40k Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. 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. After Mortarion himself became infected, he confronted Typhon aboard the Navigator's station on the Terminus Est. [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. 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. And yet the question is a fair one. . The Death Lord informed Jaghatai that their respective fleets in orbit of Prospero were now at war. On the highest peaks where the air was most poisonous lived the Overlord, who claimed Mortarion as his foster son. 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. [1][6b], As Mortarion descended, he began to realise he had found his people. '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. Whether that is because of his: 3. Eventually, Mortarion could suffer no more and gave himself over to Chaos to stop the pain. Cheryl: Living Saint of the Adepta Sororitas "The emperor speaks to me from the Throne and he tells me everything must burn !!! "Pain is an illusion of the senses, fear an illusion of the mind, beyond these only death waits as silent judge o'er all.". I agree with the others that emps was probably serious. "So the choice has been made.". 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. But as others have said, 'salvation' can also just mean death. He formed them into elite units and drilled them himself. Wouldn't it make more sense for Mortarion to join the emperor due to his hatred of magic? If not, Mortarion had to swear fealty to the stranger and the Imperium of Man he represented. Mortarion continued to improve the breathing apparatus and campaigned ever higher into the fog. Didn't Khan come back to life and end up fucking off into the webway after that?