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Some years later, Azkaellon was dispatched with [[Task Force Ignis]] to locate a scientific colony on [[Nartaba Octus]], following rumours that there was a scientific facility that could help with dealing with the Red Thirst.{{Fn|2b}} However, the Blood Angels discovered that the planet was overrun with [[Dark Eldar]], who had destroyed the facility. Azkaellon would take little part in the battle of Nartaba Octus following this discovery,{{Fn|2c}} but did come to see [[Apothecary]] [[Meros]] when he learned that the battle-brother had been injured by a Dark Eldar soulseeker. Azkaellon had assumed that Meros would perish, but was impressed to discover that the Apothecary survived. He then relayed to Meros, Sergeant [[Cassiel]], and [[Sarga]] that the entire IX [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]] was to rendezvous and converge on the [[Signus Cluster]], as per the orders of [[Warmaster]] Horus.{{Fn|3}} Before Task Force Ignis departed, however, a ship of the [[Space Wolves]] Legion carrying [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Helik Redknife]] and his squad arrived, carrying orders from [[Malcador (Character)|Malcador the Sigillite]] that the Wolves to observe. Azkaellon rebuked Redknife both for his reckless flying and the presence of [[Rune Priest]] [[Jonor Stiel]], saying that the [[Edict of Nikaea]] had forbidden [[Librarian]]s from using their powers. Redknife told Azkaellon that Stiel's power came from [[Fenris]], not the [[Warp]], and that was all the explanation they needed.{{Fn|2c}}
Azkaellon was present for the subsequent translation to the Signus Cluster, where a group of [[Word Bearers]] under [[Chaplain]] [[Tanus Kreed]] accompanied the Fleet. He Azkaellon listened to strange background noise in [[vox]] transmissions, and dismissed it as merely a communications countermeasure.{{Fn|2d}} Upon reaching the bridge with his Primarch, he bore witness to the destruction of [[Phorus]]{{Fn|2e}} and subsequent meeting of the [[Council of Angels]], where Sanguinius ordered a scout team dispatched to [[Holst]] of Blood Angels and Word Bearers.{{Fn|2f}} However, the planet itself began attacking the Blood Angels, destroying the ''Paleknight''. Azkaellon then witnessed something he had never seen before: Sanguinius ordered Holst subjected to ''[[Exterminatus|exterminatus extremis]]'', destroying the whole of Holst. {{Fn|2g}} Azkaellon then debriefed the warriors who were present for the mission, along with First Captain Raldoron and [[Warden|High Warden]] [[Dahka Berus]], and was extremely skeptical of Apothecary Meros's tale.{{Fn|2h}} After the second mission to [[Scoltrum]] found survivors, Azkaellon was eager to know what they knew of the Nephilim, but Captain [[Dar Nakir]] said that they did not recognize them.{{Fn|2i}} As the Blood Angels fleet approached [[Signus Prime]], a psychic scream assailed the non-Astartes aboard the ship. Azkaellon was with Sanguinius and Raldoron when [[Kyriss]] the Perverse, the [[Keeper of Secrets]] who claimed rule of the Signus Cluster, greeted them.{{Fn|2j}} Admiral [[Athena DuCade]], the [[Shipmaster]] of the ''Red Tear'', then went mad and set the battleship on collision course with Signus Prime. Azkaellon advocated that they abandon ship, but Sanguinius refused, and the Blood Angels rode the ship down to the planet. Later, at a meeting of the Council of Angels, Meros told the assembled warriors that the ''Dark Page'', the vessel that carried the Word Bearers, had fled, leaving the ''Red Tear'' open, which Azkaellon confirmed. Captain [[Nassir Amit]] then revealed his concerns that Signus was a trap for the Angels, and that they had been betrayed by the Warmaster. Sanguinius nearly killed Amit in anger, but was stopped when Helik Redknife revealed that [[Magnus]] the Red, Primarch of the [[Thousand Sons]], had disobeyed the [[Edict of Nikaea]]. Azkaellon reacted by denying the revelations to himself, until Sanguinius ordered the Blood Angels to swear and [[oath of moment]] to eradicate the enemy.{{Fn|2k}}
==Sources==
**{{Endn|2e}}: Chapter 6
**{{Endn|2f}}: Chapter 7
**{{Endn|2g}}: Chapter 8
**{{Endn|2h}}: Chapter 10
**{{Endn|2i}}: Chapter 11
**{{Endn|2j}}: Chapter 12
**{{Endn|2k}}: Chapter 13
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Bloodline (Short Story)]], by '''James Swalllow'''
