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== History ==
Beloth gained infamy during the [[Great Crusade]] for purging billions of [[human]]s on [[Serenity Alpha]] after condemning their decadent lifestyle that relied completely on robotics and technology.{{Fn|3}}An extremely ambitious individual, Beloth was eager to become more than a commander than a conduit. [[First Chaplain]] [[Erebus]] and his own [[Dark Apostle]] [[Maloq Kartho]] promised him such ambitions, but he wished to be more than part of the [[Gal Vorbak]], to achieve a [[Daemon Prince|higher purpose]], joining the [[Primarch]] [[Lorgar|Lorgar Aurelian]] in terms of power.{{Fn|1a}}
During the [[Battle of Calth]], Beloth was one of the [[Space Marine Commander|Force Commander]]s selected for the assault, charged with taking and securing [[Lanshear]] for the Word Bearers.{{Fn|1a}} When [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Remus Ventanus]] lead the [[Ultramarines]] 4th Company into Lanshear to secure a [[cogitator]] with a kill-code, Beloth soon realized that they were attempting to achieve something specific and unleashed [[Titan]]s, [[Terminator]]s, and the Gal Vorbak upon the Ultramarines.{{Fn|1b}} Before his forces could finish off the 4th, reinforcements from Ultramarines 19th, 111th and 112th Companies under Captain [[Aethon]] and [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] [[Anchise]], Titans and Land Raiders under [[Tetrarch]] [[Tauro Nicodemus]], and the Neride 41st under Tetrarch [[Eikos Lamiad]] and the [[Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought]] [[Telemachus]] arrived to reinforce Ventanus. The strength and coordination of the reinforcements shocked Beloth's forces and two of his senior captains were killed by Telemachus. While this effectively served to concentrate Hol Beloth's victims in one place, the tide was soon turned on the Word Bearers when [[Magos]] [[Meer Edv Tawren]] took control of the planetary defense grid and opened fire on the Word Bearers from orbit, obliterating most of Beloth's forces.{{fn|1c}}
**{{Endn|1c}}: Ruin//Storm: Chapter 4
*{{Endn|2}}: ''[[The Shards of Erebus (Short Story)]]'' - [[Mark of Calth (Anthology)]], by [[Guy Haley]]
*{{Endn|3}}: [[THe Horus Heresy Book Five]] pg.252
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