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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. To Angron's shock, the final phase of Lorgar's ritual had to be carried out upon Nuceria.{{Fn|16a}}
Upon arriving at the planet, a delegation from both legions descended to the long-abandoned battle-site in the Desh'elika Mountains which Angron had been teleported from, and where the Eaters of Cities had died, to find that the bones of Angron's fallen followers had been left to rot in the open air. Enraged by this, Angron led the delegation to the capital, to discover more of what had happened since his discovery and the induction of Nuceria into the Imperium as a compliant world. Learning that the legend of him told on the world portrayed him as a coward who abandoned his army to be slaughtered, Angron ordered issued a simple order to the field commanders of the World Eaters and Word Bearers legions: Kill everything and everyone upon the planet.{{Fn|16d}}
The slaughter would ultimately be interrupted on the sixth day , when an armada belonging to the [[Ultramarines]] legion, led by Roboute Guilliman himself, arrived and engaged the traitor forces. Battering aside the enemy fleet, the Ultramarines were able to land ground forces, bringing the legions to battle. During the ground war, the three primarchs present would all meet in hand-to-hand combat, with Lorgar being beaten back, leaving Guiliman and Angron to duel. It was then that Lorgar discerned the fateful moment, the opportunity the slaughter and rage of the war around him and titanic duel in front of him afforded him; the culmination of his ritual to save Angron was at hand. Despite a last-minute attempt to prevent the sorcery by the World Eaters' surviving [[Librarians]], the ritual was completed: Now a transcendent being of claws, steaming, red flesh and pure, volcanic rage, Angron roared to the heavens as Guilliman and his Ultramarines withdrew in disarray. The primarch of the World Eaters was [[Daemon Prince|transformed]].{{Fn|16e}}
{{QuoteBox|quote = '''''What did you do? Answer me.<br>I saved him, Kharn. It was the only way.'''<br>-World Eaters Centurion Kharn and the Primarch Lorgar.{{Fn|16f}}
