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Lorgar was an unusually pious Primarch. While other Legions were rapidly conquering planet after planet, the Word Bearers proceeded much more slowly, as they would build temples and shrines in veneration of the Emperor, who was also deemed the God of the [[Imperium]] by Lorgar, on each newly conquered planet. All forms of blasphemy and heresy that threatened the Emperor's realm, all manner of ancient scrolls, books, artworks and icons were burned and smashed before the advancing ranks of the Legion. In their place, vast monuments and cathedrals, all dedicated to the Emperor, were erected upon the mounds of dead of those who had resisted conversion. The greatest [[Chaplains]] of the Legion produced enormous works on the divinity and righteousness of the Emperor, and Lorgar himself delivered countless speeches and sermons, converting millions to the Emperor with his words alone.
However, the Emperor became impatient with the Word Bearers, and ordered them to cease this activity, as their mission was to reunify the galaxy under the Imperial banner, not preach of the Emperor's personal divinity. Lorgar is said to have been stunned by this reproach, and to have fallen into a melancholy melancholic state. Feeling betrayed, he refused audience to all but [[Kor Phaeron]], his lieutenant and ally since Colchis. Kor Phaeron sympathised with Lorgar, and felt that the Word Bearers should serve Gods truly worthy of worship. What's more, he knew of such gods. And thus, Lorgar discovered the [[Chaos Gods]], who not only were worthy of worship (in according to his opinionviewpoint), but in fact demanded it. Thus the seeds of heresy were sown, and when Horus turned against the Emperor in the name of Chaos, the Word Bearers quickly joined the rebellion, and the worlds they had conquered since their conversion also joined, having been secretly corrupted by the Word Bearers.
===The Horus Heresy===
When the Heresy erupted and the pretence pretense of loyalty was cast off, the Word Bearers set upon the [[Ultramarines]] with unbridled hatred. The Ultramarines were surprised and pushed back to [[Ultramar]], the region of space that the Ultramarines govern and defend. It was upon the world of [[Calth]] that the final battle would take place.
When the Word Bearers launched their attack against the Ultramarines, the strike against Calth was led by Lorgar's greatest champion, the former Master of the Faith, Kor Phaeron. He swore to utterly destroy the planet, and was very nearly successful. From his personal battle barge, now renamed ''Infidus Imperator'', Kor Phaeron directed a full-scale invasion of the Calth System. Calth's three sister planets were all destroyed, massive geo-nuclear strikes ripping them apart at the core. Its once gentle sun was laced with deadly metals and substances that increased the star's radiation output tenfold; within a century after the Heresy's end, the final elements of Calth's atmosphere were burned off and the world left airless, its populace forced to live in gigantic underground caverns.