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Though a useful weapon, as shown with the defeat of Pharaa'gueotla, the Angel was flawed and would often cause more harm than good. One incident written in ancient tomes, described a city named Coranis, reduced to ashes by the Angel. Judging the population unworthy of the Emperor's love, it wiped out the entire population of Caranis in a single night. From there it moved out and destroyed the rest of the planet Coranis resided on, until it was emptied of all life. In order to quell the Angel's thirst for vengeance and cause it to fall into a slumber, the Emperor placed a piece of the corrupted flesh of the Daemon Prince Pharaa'gueotla into it's coffin, the Angel immediately returned to it's coffin, in order to destroy the flesh and this allowed the Emperor to activate the locks and wards on it's coffin, sealing it once again.{{Fn|1d}}
Though believed to be one of the Emperor's greatest weapons against [[Chaos]], this flaw, this thirst for vengeance , caused the Emperor to send the Angel back to Terra. Slated to be destroyed, the Angel was somehow smuggled out of the Sol system before the Emperor could dispose of it.{{Fn|1a}} It's location was unknown for milliena, though recently it was thought to be somewhere on the planet Karis Cephalon.
Millenia later the Daemon Prince Pharaa'gueotla was freed through the actions of the misguided [[Radical]] [[Inquisitor]] [[Lichtenstein]]. The daemon had tricked the Inquisitor, into helping free a fragment of the daemon's consciousnesses from it's prison. Soon after it began to roam the planet of Karis Cephalon, looking for a host body.{{Fn|1c}} Eventually, it located a suitable host, [[Cardinal]] Kodazcka. Using the followers, it had gathered to it's side, it has had them kidnap the Cardinal. Following a daemonic ritual, the daemon possessed the body of the Cardinal and began laying waste to the city of Cephalon.{{Fn|1g}}
Deciding the only way to stop Daemon Prince, was to use the very weapon that had defeated it millenia earlier, Inquisition agents were sent to find the Angel. Learning the information they sought was located in ancient tomes, the agents searched the ''Cephalon Institute of Ecclesiastical Antiquities''. Finding the tomes, that were secreted to the Institute thousands of years ago, they learned how to awaken the Angel as well as how to imprison it again.{{Fn|1d}} Armed with this knowledge the agents searched for the location of the Angel. With luck they found that it has been hidden in [[Cephalon]] itself, deep in the ruins of the Amethyst Palace, in a glowing stasis-coffin
