Legions at different times, but Horus and the Luna Wolves stood beside him for many of his greatest victories. The Emperor fought alongside all of the Primarchs, and led all of the The position of Horus as the Emperor's favoured son undoubtedly enhanced their triumphs. Spread across hundreds of Expeditionary Fleets and on countless battlefields, the Luna Wolves broke the enemies of the Imperium and pushed the Great Crusade forwards. Legion in earning thousands of battle honours over the span of the 200 standard years of the Great Crusade.įew other Legions could match their achievements and of those that could few could rival the XVIth Legion for the brightness with which their victories shone. While Horus ultimately lost his bid for power and was slain by the father he had once so loved during the Battle of Terra, his actions damaged the Imperium of Man beyond repair and inaugurated the current Age of the Imperium, when Mankind is beset by countless horrific dangers to its existence and the Imperium itself has become a stagnant, repressive, and dehumanising galactic presence.Īfter the Emperor discovered the Legion's Primarch Horus on the world of Cthonia, and gave him command of the Luna Wolves, Horus went on to lead the XVIth Horus was responsible for unleashing the horrific 9-year-long civil war known as the Horus Heresy upon the Imperium of Man in the early 31st Millennium which killed billions of men, women and children in pursuit of his mad ambition to overthrow the Emperor of Mankind and replace him as the ruler of the human race. The most favoured son of the Emperor of Mankind, and ultimately, the greatest traitor in the history of Mankind. Horus was the Primarch of the Luna Wolves Legion of Space Marines, later renamed the Sons of Horus, the first Imperial Warmaster, Horus was thus the first Primarch to be rediscovered by the Emperor after the GreatĬrusade began in the early 31st Millennium.Īn ancient Remembrancer's sketch of Warmaster Horus Lupercal. Space Marine Primarchs created by the Emperor of Mankind from the foundation of his own DNA before the start of the Great Crusade to lead the armies of the newborn Imperium of Man. Horus, also called Horus Lupercal, or more simply The Lupercal during his lifetime by the Astartes of his Luna Wolves Legion, was one of the 20 genetically-engineered
Horus' homeworld was the Hive World of Cthonia which lay only a few light years from Terra. In earning thousands of battle honours over the span of the 200 standard years of the Great Crusade. The Luna Wolves were the XVIth Space Marine Legion raised by the Emperor of Mankind on Terra at the dawn of the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium.Īfter the Emperor discovered the Legion's Primarch Horus on the world of Cthonia, and gave him command of the Luna Wolves, Horus went on to lead the XVIth Legion
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