==History==
===Pre-HeresyThe Great Crusade===
[[Image:Word Bearers Marine.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Pre-Heresy Word Bearer]]
The [[Primarch]] of the Word Bearers, [[Lorgar]], vanished while still an infant, just like all of the other Primarchs. He was discovered on a [[Feudal World]] named [[Colchis]], which he had eventually unified in a series of brutal religious wars in response to his visions of the [[Emperor]]'s coming arrival. When the Emperor did arrive, as Lorgar had foreseen, the Primarch dropped to his knee, leading the population of his world in rejoicing and worship of the Emperor as a god. At the conclusion of these festivities, the Emperor bade Lorgar take his best warriors and induct them into his Space Marine Legion and join him on the [[Great Crusade]]. Lorgar appointed trustworthy regents to rule over Colchis and devoutly complied with his father's direction.
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===A Legion Kneels===Despite being pledged to the Great Crusade for around a century, the Emperor became impatient had never once rebuked Lorgar or his Legion for their zealous worship even though such doctrine clashed with the Emperor's [[Imperial Truth]]. However 43 years prior to the events of [[Isstvan V]] the Emperor brought his wrath to bear on the Word Bearers, and . The Emperor ordered them the [[Ultramarines|XIII Legion]] to cease this activityutterly destory the city of [[Monarchia]], as their mission a perfect city that was testament to reunify all that Lorgar and the galaxy under Word Bearers stood for. In the ashes of the city the entire XVII Legion gathered to be reprimanded by the Imperial bannerEmperor, not preach [[Roboute Guilliman]] and [[Malcador the Sigilite]]. The Legion in its entirety was forced to kneel in the ashes of their greatest achievement and repledge themselves to the [[Great Crusade]] and to the Emperor's personal divinity. <sup>7</sup> In time, Lorgar is said came to have realise that his worship of the Emperor as a god had been stunned false. He still however maintained his view that faith was central to the human psyche and that it was still plausable that his views could be validated. His search began by this reproachinvestigating the [[Chaos|Old Faith]] of his homeworld, which in his certainty that the Emperor was a god he had destroyed during the [[The Brotherhood|First Purge of the Brotherhood]] prior to being discovered by the Emperor. He returned to Colchis to seek the answers he so desperatley needed and sought the council of [[Magnus the Red]], the wisest among the Primarchs.<sup>8</sup> ===The Pilgrimage===Lorgar came to have fallen into realise that all of the belief systems which featured in countless other human cultures aross the galaxy shared a melancholic statecommon origin and underlying message. Feeling betrayedHe believed that because all the countless legends of divinity, from so many disparate cultures, all agreed on other powers than exist beyond the veil, that the human species' most natural instict could not be false. Thus he refused audience took [[The Pilgrimage]], a mythological journey to all but [[Kor PhaeronEye of Terror|the place where gods and mortals meet]], in an attempt to discover the universal truth of the universe and enlighten humanity and his lieutenant father.<sup>9</sup> The Word Bearers Legion rejoined the Great Crusade as a front for the Pilgrimage and ally since Colchisscattered itself across the stars, bringing more worlds into compliance than any other Legion in the last fifty years of the Crusade. Kor Phaeron sympathised with Lorgarhimself joined the [[Expedition Fleet|1, 301st Expedition Fleet]] and felt eventually came to the planet [[Cadia]] where they recieved validation for their theories that all of the Old Faiths across the Word Bearers should serve Gods truly worthy of worship. What's more, he knew of such godsgalaxy shared similar origins, and thusshared a universal truth. [[Ingethel]], Lorgar discovered a native of Cadia was anointed by the [[Chaos Gods|gods]], who not only accepted zealous worship, but as Lorgar's guide in fact demanded itrevealing the Primordial Truth and undertook a ritual to do so which elevated her to the ranks of the [[daemon|daemonic]] as Ingethel the Ascended.<sup>10</sup> Ingethel the Ascended led the Serrated Sun Chapter of the Word Bearers into the [[Eye of Terror|Great Eye]] where the failure of the [[Eldar|Eldar Empire]] was witnessed first hand. Thus Ingethel informed the Word Bearers that the Eldar failed and suffered [[the Fall]] because at the seeds moment of heresy their ascension they were sownunable to accept the [[Chaos|Primordial Truth]]. They gave birth to a [[Slaanesh|god of pleasure and promise]], yet they felt no joy.<sup>11</sup> Their new god awoke to find it's worshippers abandoning it out of ignorance and when Horus turned against fear, thus was the Emperor in endless storm of the name [[Eye of ChaosTerror|Great Eye]] formed, an echo of the birth-cries of the Eldar's new god.<sup>12</sup> The nature of the Primordial Truth was revealed to the Word Bearers quickly joined in the ashes of the Eldar Empire, they learnt that in order for humanity as a species to survive they must not commit the same sins the rebellionEldar did, they must instead accept Chaos. The Pilgrimage ultimately proved that the Emperor's [[Imperial Truth]] was in fact a lie and that gods truly did exist. Lorgar and the Word Bearers spent the remaining years of the Great Crusade attempting to enlighten humanity about the universal truths of the worlds they had conquered since universe, swaying several Primarchs to their conversion also joinedcause, the most notable being [[Horus|Horus Lupercal]]. When it became clear that humanity could not be enlightened without bloodshed whilst it remained shackled to the lies of the Emperor, having been secretly corrupted by Lorgar helped orchestrate the [[Isstvan V|Massacre at Isstvan V]] and the Word Bearers[[Horus Heresy]] itself.<sup>13</sup>
===The Horus Heresy===
*<sup>5</sup>:[[Battle for the Abyss (Novel)]] by [[Ben Counter]]
*<sup>6</sup>:[[Dark Creed (Novel)]], p. 9.
*<sup>7</sup>:[[The First Heretic (Novel)]], pp. 60-66.
*<sup>8</sup>:[[The First Heretic (Novel)]], pp. 155-169.
*<sup>9</sup>:[[The First Heretic (Novel)]], pp. 166-169.
*<sup>10</sup>:[[The First Heretic (Novel)]], pp. 236-263.
*<sup>11</sup>:[[The First Heretic (Novel)]], pp. 289.
*<sup>12</sup>:[[The First Heretic (Novel)]], pp. 290.
*<sup>13</sup>:[[The First Heretic (Novel)]], pp. 341-343.
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