In his quest for perfection, one primarch fell the furthest of all of the Emperor’s sons – Fulgrim of the Emperor’s Children.

Fulgrim (also referred to as the Phoenician, the Illuminator, the Prefector of Chemos) was one of many twenty Primarchs created by the Emperor within the earliest days of the Imperium, simply after the top of the Age of Strife. Fulgrim, like the opposite Primarchs, was sucked from Terra by the Gods of Chaos and positioned on a faraway world in an try to stop the approaching of the Age of the Imperium. Constantly searching for to emulate the Emperor by perfecting himself, Fulgrim’s obsession bred a hubris that drove him to finally turn into consumed by the Chaos God Slaanesh.

Youth on Chemos

Tullea, Corrin, and Sullax have been laborers of the resource-poor world of Chemos despatched to research a meteorite impression. Sent with out transport, the three needed to take shelter from a wire-storm in an deserted manufacturing unit. When they reached the impression web site, they didn’t discover a fallen satellite tv for pc or spacecraft, they discovered an ever-shifting mass of sunshine. Sullax was cautious, however Corrin felt that it was innocent. Corrin watched the sunshine take form and it touched his thoughts, studying all the pieces he did, earlier than it took the form of a perfectly-formed child boy. Sullax needed to kill the kid, seeing it as a burden on their sources, however the baby had entranced Corrin and refused. Tullea shot Sullax and neither of them felt any guilt over killing him to save lots of the proper child. Noticing {that a} stream of pure water had shaped the place the infant had landed, Corrin determined to call the kid after the water-bringer of Chemos’s creation delusion, Fulgrim.

Fulgrim spent his early years as a humble manufacturing unit employee, however quickly turned a legend in his personal proper. At half the age of his fellow staff, he was capable of fulfill his obligations to the continuous working of the fortress-factory of Callax with ease. He shortly grew to grasp the expertise he needed to work with and commenced to change it, rising effectivity dramatically. By the time he was fifteen years of age, Fulgrim had risen from the rank of employee to turn into one of many executives ruling the settlement. Learning of the gradual deterioration of each Callax and all the opposite settlements of Chemos, Fulgrim determined that he would save his world.

Under Fulgrim’s management, groups of engineers travelled removed from their factory-fortress, reclaiming and repairing lots of the far-flung mining outposts. As minerals poured again into Callax, Fulgrim supervised the development of extra subtle and energy-efficient equipment. As recycling effectivity grew to the purpose the place Chemos was producing a surplus for the primary time in years, Fulgrim started to foster a re-emergence of artwork and tradition, facets of humanity sacrificed within the battle for survival. The different settlements allied themselves with Callax and, fifty years after arriving on Chemos, Fulgrim was its sole chief.

The Great Crusade

It was not lengthy after this that the planet’s isolation got here to an finish. From the gray sky got here a flight of dropships, armored and battle-scarred, every bearing the identical image, a two-headed eagle. On listening to of this, some fragment of reminiscence stirred in Fulgrim. Chemos had no formal military, however the dropships’ touchdown zone had been surrounded by the Caretakers, the police-soldiers chargeable for sustaining order within the factory-fortresses. Fulgrim despatched phrase to the Caretakers to face down and permit the guests from above into Callax.

In his spartan quarters, Fulgrim was confronted by armored warriors from the celebs. Their faces bore the scars of many battles, and from their shoulders hung scrolls itemizing their achievements. Their armor and weapons have been finely-worked, and their banners and pennants have been artistic endeavors. Fulgrim acknowledged that these males weren’t merely superior, however civilized — his misplaced brothers from the celebs had preserved the humanities he had longed to return to Chemos. From the midst of those warriors stepped their chief, the Emperor of Humanity. Fulgrim surveyed him and, and not using a phrase, knelt and supplied his sword. On that day Fulgrim swore to serve the Imperium with all his coronary heart. From the Emperor, Fulgrim discovered of the distant world of Terra, of the Great Crusade to reclaim the sundered galaxy, and of his personal origins. It is unknown when precisely this occasion occurred; nevertheless, it’s recorded that the development of a starship for the Primarch of the III Legion was accomplished round 160 years earlier than the start of the Horus Heresy.

Traveling to Terra to satisfy his new Legion, Fulgrim discovered that an accident had destroyed nearly all of the gene-seed designated for his legion, and with out their Primarch, changing it was a gradual and laborious course of. Fulgrim got here to handle the 200 Space Marines of his legion, and the phrases he spoke have been mentioned to encourage the Emperor a lot that he named the legion the Emperor’s Children, and allowed them to bear the signal of the Aquila, the double-headed eagle that was the Emperor’s private image, on their Power Armour.

Fulgrim turned pushed by the notion that his Legion ought to attempt to reside as much as this honor and the perfection of the Emperor and his imaginative and prescient of Imperial tradition. This drive to attain perfection quickly utilized to all issues the Primarch and his Legion turned involved with, from army ways to the embrace of inventive tradition that didn’t exist on Chemos to their very appearances. Fulgrim was a very imposing sight, with shimmering white shoulder-length hair, giant, friendly-seeming eyes, and a mouth that was by no means removed from a smile. His armor was of the best high quality, and intricately embellished. Over it he typically wore one in all a wide range of high-collared cloaks.

Fulgrim was anxious to make his contribution to the Great Crusade, however the comparatively small measurement of his Legion meant that the Emperor’s Children have been positioned underneath the command of Horus and his Luna Wolves. Horus and Fulgrim grew shut to 1 one other whereas pacifying the Eastern Fringe. Eventually, swelled by recruits from each Chemos and Terra, Fulgrim was quickly capable of lead a campaign of his personal, bringing numerous worlds into the sunshine of the Imperium. Fulgrim additionally established a detailed friendship along with his brother Ferrus Manus, who additionally tried to purge imperfection from himself. Ferrus and Fulgrim finally got here to every attempt to construct the proper weapon, leading to Fulgrim crafting Forgebreaker and Ferrus Fireblade. The two exchanged weapons and so they turned synonymous with their respective Primarch’s thereafter. In the later phases of the Crusade the Emperor’s Children quickly made a made for themselves in the course of the Crusade, battling fearsome enemies such because the Megarachnids and Diasporex.

During this time, the Emperor’s Children initiated the Cleansing of Laeran, a marketing campaign that required nice effort, dedication, and sacrifice from the Imperial forces. At the conclusion of this marketing campaign, Fulgrim acquired a trophy from the sector of battle; a xenos-manufactured sword recovered from a Laeran temple generally known as the Silver Blade of Laer. He would start to wield this sword extra typically than Fireblade, his customary private weapon. With the good thing about hindsight, it may be acknowledged that the Laeran sword was a Daemon Weapon

Horus Heresy

Fulgrim himself met with the famend Farseer Eldrad Ulthran of Ulthwé on the Maiden World Tarsus, by which the Farseer tried to warn Fulgrim of Horus’ grievous wounding by the hands of Eugen Temba and his Anathame, and the way he was slowly starting to show to Chaos as he recuperated. Fulgrim reacted with outrage on the Farseer’s accusations on account of his shut friendship with Horus, second solely to his bond with Ferrus Manus. This was spurred on by the affect of Fulgrim’s Laeran blade, which was infused with a Slaaneshi entity. Fulgrim furiously attacked Eldrad alongside his captains and the Phoenix Guard, destroying each Khiraen Goldhelm, an historic and revered Wraithlord in addition to an Avatar of Khaine within the course of, forcing Eldrad and his beleaguered forces to withdraw. This victory to Fulgrim’s subsequent destruction of varied Eldar maiden worlds utilizing virus bombs as a way to finish the supposed treachery of the Eldar.

Whilst the precise timing and placement of it varies between variations of the story, it’s clear that Fulgrim quickly met Horus in particular person, demanding a private account of his actions. Instead, Horus was capable of sway Fulgrim to his trigger. Fulgrim’s respect for Horus allowed Chaos to seek out its method into Fulgrim’s coronary heart, destroying Fulgrim’s loyalty to Terra, and changing it with a burning need to destroy the person who held humanity again from the perfection Fulgrim desired. Fulgrim was instantly despatched to satisfy with Ferrus Manus, Primarch of the Iron Hands.

Great bonds of friendship and brotherhood existed between them, and Fulgrim felt that he may persuade Ferrus of the righteousness of Horus’ trigger. He was improper, nevertheless, and their assembly didn’t go effectively, and concluded in violence. When subsequent the brothers met, it will be as enemies. Their path chosen, the chaotic rot unfold shortly, from Fulgrim to his lieutenants, the Lord Commanders of the Legion, then to firm and squad leaders, and eventually, all however a naked handful of Marines adopted Slaanesh fairly than the Emperor. Perfection turned good hedonism. Fulgrim’s psychological state shortly deteriorated, he started speaking to a portray by Serena D’Angelus and killed the Sculptor Ostian Delafour after he inadvertently slighted the Primarch.

When the loyalist legions arrived within the Isstvan system, the Emperor’s Children have been on the forefront of the preventing, aiding within the bloodbath of their former brethren. During the notorious Drop Site Massacre, Fulgim and Ferrus Manus met as soon as once more and had their ultimate and fateful duel. Fulgrim wielded the weapon he had made for his brother, the Thunder Hammer Forgebreaker, whereas Ferrus did the identical with the sword Fireblade. Though each weapons have been shattered Fulgrim proved the victor after taking over his Silver Blade, however found he couldn’t deliver himself to kill his brother. It was at this level that the daemon certain throughout the Laeran blade absolutely exerted itself, and Ferrus Manus was struck lifeless. Fulgrim was shocked into clear-thinking by the loss of life of his brother, aghast at what he had achieved and on the horrific betrayal and carnage round him.

In an extra second of weak point he agreed to the daemon’s supply to ship him to oblivion and allowed the Warp-creature to flee from the sword. It took however a second for it to own his physique and soul, trapping his consciousness in a tiny nook of his thoughts. From that second on, Fulgrim turned a prisoner in his personal type, his existence absolutely managed by the Slaaneshi daemon. Fulgrim’s soul was trapped within the twisted portray of Serena D’Angelus. The solely particular person conscious of the destiny of Fulgrim was Horus, who acknowledged the Daemonic possession nearly instantly throughout their subsequent assembly however thought of Fulgrim too priceless an asset to lose. Lorgar and Magnus additionally turned conscious of the true nature of Fulgrim upon encountering him.

However within the months afterward Fulgrim was capable of regain his physique by unknown means, trapping its essence in the identical portray he had been trapped in. This was solely revealed to his Legion when a gaggle of Captains led by Lucius realised what had occurred to their Primarch and took Fulgrim captive, he allowed them to do that to show he was now not possessed and tried to make the Daemon launch its maintain over him by way of excessive torture. Fulgrim revealed that he had pressured the Daemon out and had been himself for a while, and had chosen to dedicate himself to Slaanesh absolutely and of his personal free will.

Daemonhood

Fulgrim quickly joined forces with Perturabo, Primarch of the Iron Warriors on the world of Hydra Cordatus. Promising the Lord of Iron perfection, the 2 launched into a quest to tip the steadiness of the revolt in Horus’ favor by journeying into the Eye of Terror and retrieve a weapon generally known as the Angel Exterminatus. Shortly earlier than they have been to go away, Fulgrim was hit by a direct headshot from the vengeful Sisypheum crew member Nykona Sharrowkyn. Fulgrim survived the wound nevertheless due to the efforts of Fabius Bile. After a quick boarding battle with the Sisypheum that noticed the ship escape but once more, the 2 Primarchs arrived within the Eye and shortly landed on the Crone World of Iydris. Entering an historic Eldar citadel generally known as the Amon ny’shak Kaelis, the Emperor’s Children and Iron Warriors needed to contend with a military of Wraithguard and Wraithlords that had awoken from their slumber.

At the peak of the vicious battle Fulgrim tried to betray his brother and slip away, however was pursued by Perturabo. Both quickly arrived in an enormous spherical chamber, and Fulgrim revealed to his brother that there was no Angel Exterminatus, however he fairly was destined to turn into such a weapon on this world. Furious, Perturabo tried to assault Fulgrim however was drained of his energy when Fulgrim activated the Maugetar stone that Perturabo had beforehand acquired underneath the guise of a present. Now with the Iron Warriors Primarchs’ energy in hand, Fulgrim revealed the aim of his plan: to attain Apotheosis, higher generally known as Daemonhood.

However simply as Fulgrim was about to finish his ritual and obtain Daemonhood, Perturabo gathered sufficient energy to cost at his brother however have been interrupted by an ambush of Salamanders, Iron Hands, and Raven Guard who had been stalking the traitor fleet in quest of vengeance for the reason that Drop Site Massacre. One of the loyalist Astartes in the course of the battle shattered the Maugetar stone, liberating a few of Perturabo’s power and giving him the power to strike down Fulgrim along with his Thunder Hammer. However Perturabo solely managed to destroy the Primarchs mortal pores and skin and was reborn as a Daemon Prince of Slaanesh. Now an enormous however elegant serpentine creature, Fulgrim advised his brother that they might meet once more then vanished in a burst of Warp power alongside along with his Emperor’s Children.

Horus’ revolt unfold, bringing your complete Imperium into civil battle. All hint of decency amongst the Emperor’s Children had vanished by the point they partook within the Siege of Terra. While different Traitor Legions assaulted the Imperial Palace, the Emperor’s Children embarked upon a spree of terror and gratification amongst the helpless citizenry of Terra. Under Fulgrim, billions of defenseless civilians have been used as experimental topics within the effort to create ever-more highly effective stimulants and pleasure-inducing chemical compounds, used to undergo daemons, or have been merely killed to sate the bloodlust of the Legion.

Post-Heresy

When Horus was defeated by the Emperor, the Emperor’s Children left a path of depopulated worlds of their wake as they fled in the direction of the Eye of Terror. As their provide of slaves was exhausted, they resorted to raiding the opposite Traitor Legions for contemporary meat, resulting in a collection of conflicts generally known as the Legion War. ^{Fulgrim was seen in fight a century after the Heresy on the Battle of Thessala with Roboute Guilliman, the Primarch of the Ultramarines, the place he slashed his brother’s throat and laid him low with a deadly poison, earlier than disappearing from data for a lot of centuries.}

The Emperor’s Children claimed that Fulgrim was gifted by Slaanesh with a hidden world of limitless pleasure for him to rule. ^{Several centuries after the Heresy, he was mentioned to be asleep on this world and never lively in guiding the Emperor’s Children. Warbands of Emperor’s Children, different Slaanesh-worshiping Chaos Space Marines and Cultists, and the Imperial Inquisition have sought out this world, however none have returned.Abaddon the Despoiler was additionally capable of someway discover Fulgrim and was capable of achieve the favor of Slaanesh by buying and selling an unblemished Pythosian Psyker with the Primarch.}

During the Thirteenth Black Crusade, it’s thought that Fulgrim appeared to bloodbath Imperial Guard in the course of the Cacophony of Extremis Six.

Fulgrim made one other look on the conclusion of the Ultramar Campaign within the closing days of M41. Through the efforts of the Mechanicum and Eldar Roboute Guilliman was healed from the injuries inflicted by Fulgrim. Fulgrim sensed his brother’s revival and took the time to own the Arch-Consul of Macragge as a way to gloat to Guilliman throughout his first public look in ten thousand years. Through the physique of the Arch-Consul, Fulgrim proclaims that Guilliman would have many temptations to withstand and that any feeling of self-satisfaction could be his doom.

At some level within the forty first Millennium, Fulgrim was lured again to Isstvan III by a sonic beacon. There he was confronted by the only surviving loyalist Emperor’s Children, the Dreadnought Rylanor. As Fulgrim tore the Dreadnought aside, an unexploded Virus Bomb was detonated and engulfed the planet. Though Fulgrim’s type survived, his delight was wounded.

Fulgrim’s Perfect Clone

Sometime earlier than M41, Fabius Bile managed to create an ideal clone of Fulgrim. ^{Unlike all earlier makes an attempt, this clone was pure and uncorrupted, with not even a touch of the warp affecting him. Why this one had succeeded was unknown, even to Fabius. The clone aged to maturity shortly, his Primarch genetic reminiscence permitting him to study shortly, in addition to bear in mind the occasions of the Horus Heresy. Expressing remorse for his actions and downfall, he swore to wipe away the sins of his previous and atone for his treason. This Fulgrim was taken by the Necron Trazyn the Infinite when Fabius betrayed him, fearing the clone would go down the identical route as earlier than.}

Personality

Before the Heresy, Fulgrim was a warrior that loved the finer arts of civilization and tradition of his individuals resembling artwork, music, and celebration. He believed that there was little level in conquering the galaxy if they didn’t bask in these civilized traits. Fulgrim himself additionally engaged within the arts and created marble statues of his two three first captains although he felt that his work was not good.

One of Fulgrim’s famous character traits which have been adopted by his Legion was the hunt for perfection. He believed that Mankind was the proper creation and that they have to attempt to emulate his father, the Emperor. As such, he was tremendously angered at any time when this purpose was challenged. He demonstrated this in his hostility to adopting the Laer as a protectorate and believed that solely Humanity had the suitable to rule. There was, nevertheless, a flaw right here as he secretly believed that there was one thing improper with him and his Legion because of the near-disaster that claimed half their quantity earlier than the beginning of the Great Crusade. This allowed others to use him and was the explanation why he accepted Fabius Bile‘s genetic remedies of the Legion.

Among his fellow Primarchs, Fulgrim’s friendships have been deepest with Ferrus Manus and Horus although the previous was a stronger bond.

Wargear

Fulgrim wielded many weapons all through the Heresy. He is probably most well-known for the Silver Blade of Laer, the Daemonic weapon that drove him to corruption. However, earlier than wielding this weapon, his major weapon was Fireblade, a Power Sword constructed for him by Ferrus Manus. After the Battle of Isstvan III, Fulgrim additionally got here into the possession of the Anathame. During the Drop Site Massacre, Fulgrim successfully wielded Manus’ Thunderhammer Forgebreaker for a time. Fulgrim’s private firearm was the Volkite Charger Firebrand, whereas is Power Armour was an ornate artistically crafted go well with generally known as the Gilded Panoply

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