Today delve into the only man most chargeable for the Horus Heresy. The father of lies – First Chaplain Erebus of the Word Bearers.

Erebus is among the most outstanding members of the Word Bearers Chaos Space Marines and a member of the Dark Council of Sicarus. He was the harbinger of the Horus Heresy, instrumental in changing first Lorgar after which Horus to Chaos^{. Erebus refers to himself because the Hand of Destiny, the mortal instrument of the plans of the Ruinous Powers.}

Lorgar, Primarch of the Word Bearers

Heresy Actions

It is unknown precisely how or when Erebus fell to the Dark Powers, although a possible time would have been the Battle of Davin and his discovery of the Serpent Lodge throughout the Great Crusade. However on the onset of the Heresy and the top of the Great Crusade, Erebus held the distinguished place of First Chaplain of the Word Bearers Legion. He was a fearsome and intimidating Astartes warrior, sections of the Book of Lorgar tattooed throughout his shaven scalp to terrify his enemies. Feeling abject humiliation after the Emperor‘s punishment for their legion’s deification of him, Erebus started to inform Lorgar that have been different gods within the universe that may very well be worshiped. Thus Erebus, aided by Kor Phaeron, have been in a position to slowly poison Lorgar into accepting Chaos. After the pilgrimage of the Word Bearers into the Eye of Terror, Lorgar and his legion totally embraced Chaos. Erebus would play an important function in his legion’s new plans. ^{It is unknown when Erebus himself started worshiping Chaos, however it might have been via his religion within the Covenant of Colchis earlier than becoming a member of Lorgar, which worshiped features of the Chaos Gods. Like Kor Phaeron, Erebus saved these secrets and techniques from his primarch.}

Some time earlier than the time of first contact with the Interex, Erebus started associating with the Luna Wolves legion and with the Warmaster particularly. During negotiations with the Interex, Erebus stole an archaic anathame sword from their carefully guarded Hall of Devices, precipitating the struggle. This was not merely out of greed – it was all a part of his fastidiously managed plan to deprave the Warmaster and produce him beneath the affect of his personal secret masters, the Warp powers of Chaos^.

Erebus gave the weapon to the traitor Governor of the planet Davin, Eugen Temba, and performed Horus’s pleasure to get him to guide his expedition fleet again to Davin and personally deliver it again to compliance. Temba performed his half, wounding Horus with the anathame as Erebus supposed, and the Luna Wolves’ apothecaries couldn’t heal his wounds. Erebus urged to the Mournival that Davin’s Serpent Lodge may heal their primarch. The grief-stricken Ezekyle Abaddon and Horus Aximand turned Horus over to their care and Erebus projected himself into Horus’s fever visions disguised because the late Hastur Sejanus. Opposed by Magnus the Red, Erebus gained over Horus to his trigger with visions of a future that deified the Emperor and a choose few primarchs, rejected the remainder, and had seemingly forgotten Horus’s contributions in comparison with the supply of changing the Emperor and possessing unimaginable energy^.

Erebus continued to pour honey into Horus’s ear, directing him farther from the Great Crusade and pursuing his personal ascension. By displaying the Warmaster the powers of the Warp and urging him to make pacts with the gods of Chaos, he finally set Horus on the trail to heresy towards the Emperor.

Along with Horus, Erebus masterminded the Isstvan III betrayal, ever aware of the necessity to eradicate these loyalist components of the Traitor Legions earlier than the struggle on Terra may start. Garviel Loken suspected Erebus as a traitor and conspirator, which solely led the corrupt Chaplain so as to add him to the listing of doomed Astartes brethren despatched down forward of the virus bomb assault on the planet. Erebus remained with Horus all through the Heresy, appearing as his darkish religious adviser and co-conspirator.

He later proved instrumental within the aftermath of the Battle of Calth, efficiently summoning the Ruinstorm to successfully break up the Imperium in two. ^{During the identical battle he captured and brainwashed Tylos Rubio into changing into a sleeper agent to at some point assassinate Malcador. Later throughout the Shadow Crusade, Erebus manipulated Argel Tal to his demise after foreseeing that the Gal Vorbak grasp would intrude with Kharn‘s future of changing into the Blessed of Khorne.}

As Kharn and Tal have been shut comrades, Erebus was practically killed by the World Eater after he found his hand in his pals loss of life. Erebus was viciously overwhelmed by Kharn earlier than being pressured to teleport himself from the Conqueror. ^{Erebus once more suffered a humiliation after the Battle of Signus Prime, a plan he initiated regardless of repeated warnings that it might fail from Lorgar. There he let his conceitedness slip in Horus’s presence, blaming the Warmaster for disrupting his plans for the Blood Angels and Sanguinius. Horus punished him for his insolence by flaying Erebus’s heavily-tattooed face from his cranium together with his personal athame.}

Kharn practically killed Erebus in retribution for the loss of life of Argel Tal.

Erebus, his face regenerating slowly however now horribly mutated, later reappeared to dispatch a power of Word Bearers beneath Valdrekk Elias and Barthusa Narek as a way to purchase the Fulgurite.^{After Elias tried to betray Erebus, he reappeared in individual on Traoris to kill his apprentice, give John Grammaticus the Fulgurite, and allowed him to depart with it. Erebus by this level had been banished by each Horus and Lorgar, however nonetheless considered himself because the shadow king of the Heresy who was closest to the Dark Gods.}

Erebus on the Vengeful Spirit

Post-Heresy

Erebus is presently a member of the Dark Council, the ruling physique of Sicarus and is usually participating in energy struggles for management of the Legion with Kor Phaeron. During the thirteenth Black Crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler, Erebus would seem main a military of Word Bearers throughout the Cadian Sector, sacrificing thousands and thousands of human captives to summon an enormous military of Daemons throughout the Sector.

Inspiration

In Greek mythology, Erebus is the son of the primordial god Chaos.

~Do you suppose there may be any higher villain within the Grimdark than Erebus?

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