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Similar to the other Clades, the Vanus were formed during the age of the [[Great Crusade]] by a secret pact at Mount Vengeance on [[Terra]] consisting of the five other primary Clades that sought to eliminate the enemies of the [[Emperor]] in the shadows. Their founder was Sire Vanus who served as the Director Primus of the Clade and served under the [[Malcador (Character)|secret]] [[Grand Master of Assassins|Master of Assasins]].^2-p22 The Clade is known to had removed many enemies of the [[Imperium]] as part of their duties which they accomplished by the manipulation of data rather then than outright termination.^2-p40

During the outbreak of the [[Horus Heresy]], the Clades met at the [[Shrouds]] where Sire Vanus revealed that his assassins ' predictive engines along with their most diligent infocytes concluded that the [[Venenum Temple|Venenum Clade]]'s assassin [[Tobeld]]'s survival to complete his mission to eliminate [[Horus]] was zero point two percent. The margin of error was reported to be negligable negligible and marked an improvement in proximity to the renegade [[Primarch]] compared to all the previous Officio Assassinorum operations.^2-p22 In order to eliminate the rogue [[Warmaster]], the Master of Assassins ordered the assembly of the first [[Officio Assassinorum Execution Force]] and Clade Vanus dispatched Fon Tariel as their representive to the strike team.^2-p39 After the failure of the mission on [[Dagonet]], the Clade's infocytes were engaged with the information emerging from the Taebian Sector and were in the process of performing adjustments in overt as well as covert media in order to better reflect the Imperium's position during the rebellion.^2-p249