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====A Shadowed Purpose====
After the opening of the Great Betrayal, Angron and the World Eaters were invited by the primarch [[Lorgar]] to accompany him and a force of his [[Word Bearers]] on a campaign into the [[Ultramar]] [[sector]]; the [[Shadow Crusade]]. A force of around 70,000 World Eaters assembled around their Primarch and joined a smaller force of Word Bearers. While Lorgar had a specific first target in mind - [[Armatura]] - the World Eaters insisted on attacking four other worlds of Ultramar upon the way, killing all who stood against them. These bloody diversions caused a rise in tensions with the Word Bearers that almost came to blows between their fleets, but after an [[Eldar]] attack on them was jointly repulsed, union of purpose was reached and [[Battle of Armatura|Armatura was successfully assaulted]].{{Fn|27}}
It was then that Lorgar revealed to his brother the goals of the campaign; firstly, to finish creation of the [[Ruinstorm]], begun by another force of World Eaters during the [[Battle of Calth]]. Secondly, a more private goal of the Word Bearers primarch; the saving of Angron's life from the Butcher's Nails. Lorgar claimed that his abilities had allowed him to discern that the Nails were slowly killing Angron and destroying his mind. Thus, he had created a second purpose of the ritual necessary to finalise the [[warp storm]]'s creation, one that would ensure Angron's effective immortality. Exactly what Lorgar meant by this would not become clear until some short time later.{{Fn|16a}}
The World Eaters were instrumental in the battles of the [[Shadow Crusade]], and the [[Siege of Terra]] itself.{{Cite This}}
