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When Horus was mortally wounded on the moon of [[Davin]] and people were crying out against the grief-driven killing of humans by Astartes, it was proposed by the Warrior Lodges to rid the fleet of these dissenting voices. Tarik refused to take part in this and quit the lodges over it. When it became apparent that the Legion's apothecaries could not save the dying Horus, Mournival and lodge members [[Ezekyle Abaddon]] and [[Horus Aximand]] proposed entrusting Horus to the Davinite priests, and move which both Torgaddon and Loken opposed, and for good reason, as it was the Chaos-worshipping Davinites who allowed [[Erebus]] to enter Horus's mind and sway him to [[Chaos]]. With Chaos's evil influence spreading throughout the 63rd expedition Torgaddon and Loken vowed to oppose it. When he and Loken discovered the Kinebrach blade used to injure Horus, they realized Erebus's treachery. When Tarik encountered Erebus, he held a knife to his throat.
During the [[Isstvan III]] incident, Torgaddon was one of the loyalists whom Horus deemed too loyal to the [[Emperor]] to rebel against him and hoped to purge through a fiendish [[virus bomb|virus bombardment]]. However, once the loyalists received word of the treachery from Saul Tarvitz of the Emperor's Children, Torgaddon was among those captains who led the resistance against the [[Traitor Legions]] during the Isstvan III ground war. {{Fn|3}} Towards the end of the grim battle, he and Garviel Loken received word that their former Mournival brothers [[Abaddon|Ezekyle Abaddon]] and [[Aximand|Horus Aximand]] would be landing on the planet's surface to oversee the final elimination of the loyalists. Hoping to kill their betrayers and slow Horus' plans, they planned an ambush at the landing site, but Tarik met his death at the hands of the reluctant but resolute Aximand, while Loken looked on in horror. Tarik died physically on [[Isstvan III]] but his gene seed was removed and taken to [[Calth]] by Word Bearer [[Erebus]]. Erebus sacrificed his gene seed, along with gene seed from the [[Salamanders]], [[Raven Guard]], [[Iron Hands]] and even some from the [[Traitor Legions]].{{Fn|5}}
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*{{Endn|5}}: [[Know No Fear]] by [[Dan Abnett]], Target//Acquisition: Chapter 8, pg. 100
*{{Endn|6}}: ''[[Luna Mendax (Short Story)]]'' by [[Graham McNeill]]
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