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|The [[Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]] comes to [[Chemos]] and recruits [[Fulgrim]] to lead the III Legion. After Fulgrim addresses the two hundred surviving Astartes, the Emperor accepts the name he had given them, the [[Emperor's Children]].
|[[Index Astartes]]: [[Emperor's Children]]; [[The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal]] pg. 104
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|[[Luther]] finds a feral child in the forests of [[Caliban]] and names him [[Lion El'Jonson]] (The Lion, Son of the Forest).
|[[Descent of Angels (Novel)|Descent of Angels]] Prologue
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|[[Lion El'Jonson]] leads the knights of [[Caliban]] in a ten-year campaign to exterminate the great beasts that haunt the forests. The Knights of Lupus refuse to join the hunt and are destroyed.
|[[Descent of Angels (Novel)|Descent of Angels]] Prologue, Book Two
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|840.M30 <!-- 160 years before Laeran -->
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|The [[Emperor of Mankind]] comes to [[Colchis]]. and recruits [[Lorgar]] joins to lead the Imperial Heralds. Lorgar renames his legion the [[Great CrusadeWord Bearers]].
|''Ibid.''; [[Index Astartes]]: [[Word Bearers]]; [[Aurelian (Novella)|Aurelian]] Prologue
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|[[Index Astartes]]: [[Night Lords]]; [[Shadows of Treachery (Anthology)#Prince of Crows|Shadows of Treachery: Prince of Crows]] Chapter Six
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|<!-- 10 years after Lion's arrival -->|The [[LutherEmperor of Mankind|Emperor]] finds a feral child in the forests of comes to [[Caliban]] and names him to recruit [[Lion El'Jonson]] (to lead the First Legion. [[Zahariel El'Zurias]] narrowly averts an assassination attempt on the Emperor. The Lion, Son dubs the First Legion the [[Dark Angels]] after figures of the Forest)Caliban myth.|[[Descent of Angels (Novel)|Descent of Angels]] PrologueBook Three|-|ca. 860.M30 <!-- "Korchin ... had been the language of the Legion for the hundred and twenty years since the Master of Mankind had made himself known to us." Jaghatai named among Primarchs at Molech compliance, so this must pre-date that event. -->|The [[Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]] comes to [[Chogoris]] and recruits [[Jaghatai Khan]] to lead the [[White Scars]].|[[Index Astartes]]: [[White Scars]]; [[Brotherhood of the Storm (Novella)|Brotherhood of the Storm]] Part I
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|The In the presence of the [[Emperor]], [[Horus]], [[Fulgrim]], [[Lion El'Jonson]], and [[Jaghatai Khan]], the [[Knight World]] [[Molech]] is brought to compliance. Cyprian Devine of [[House Devine]] is named [[Planetary Governor]]. The Emperor garrisons Molech with almost a hundred Imperial Army regiments, three [[Adeptus Titanicus]] cohorts, and detachments from two legions to protect a secret that he suppresses in the memories of his sons.|[[The Imperial Truth (Anthology)#The Devine Adoratrice|The Imperial Truth: The Devine Adoratrice]]; [[Vengeful Spirit (Novel)|Vengeful Spirit]] Chapter 2
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|The 611th Expeditionary Fleet bloodlessly brings [[Zavarich]] to compliance.
|[[The Horus Heresy Book Four - Conquest]] pg. 68
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|[[Angron]]-Thal'kr disappears on the eve of the Battle of Desh'elika Ridge, teleported to the [[Emperor of Mankind]]'s ship. [[Nuceria]]n forces assume that he fled the field and Angron's fellow slave-gladiators are slaughtered. He kills every War Hounds officer who meets with him in the depths of the ''Adamant Resolve'' until [[Khârn]] convinces him that they are to serve him. Angron declares that the War Hounds will now be called his [[World Eaters]]. The flagship would later be renamed ''[[Conqueror (Ship)|Conqueror]]''.
|[[Index Astartes]]: [[World Eaters]]; [[Betrayer (Novel)|Betrayer]] Chapter Eighteen<!-- a hundred years before the Nucerian extermination -->; [[Tales of Heresy (Anthology)#After Desh'ea|Tales of Heresy: After Desh'ea]]
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