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'''Sor Talgron''' , later known as '''The Warmonger''' , was a member of the [[Word Bearers]] [[Chaos Space Marine]] [[Legion]].{{Fn|1}}

==Early History==Born on among the lower castes of [[Colchis]] and originally commanding the 34th [[Company]], Sor Talgron was a member of inducted into the [[Perpetual Spiral Chapter]]. Talgron was one of the few of the Word Bearers at the time who did not worship the [[Emperor]] as a god. On his [[PrimarchLegion]] at some point during the [[LorgarGreat Crusade]]'s orders. His mentor, Talgron led the massacre of the inhabitants of [[Forty-Seven SixteenVolkhar Wreth]]. Shortly after , predicted that he would rise far within the legion and was proven right when Talgron and the 34th Company were dispatched was elevated to [[TerraCaptain|Captaincy]] to commit acts of sabotage by Lorgar, who had since turned to [[Chaos]]the 34th Company. During his time on Terra, Talgron killed was present when his past mentor and [[Crusader Host]] member [[Volkhar Wreth]]. Despite the embracing legion was humiliated for their worship of the [[Ruinous PowersEmperor]] by his at [[Dark Apostle]] [[JarulekMonarchia]], Talgron proved reluctant to give himself over and although not particularly devout, especially by Word Bearer standards, he carried the [[Warp]]shame of that moment for many years afterwards.{{Fn|1a1}}

During the Great Crusade Talgron left Terra shortly after, commanding Word Bearer forces participated in the war against the inhabitants of [[Shadow CrusadeForty-Seven Sixteen]] where he despite advocating for their re-education rather than destruction and Jarulek argued over was one of the Dark Apostles attempt first marines to sacrifice [[Ultramarines]] reach their central citadel, where he was horrified to [[Daemon]]s.{{Fn|1b}} During discover that the people of the planet worshiped the [[Percepton Campaign]] Talgron was badly wounded. As Jarulek oversaw a dark ritual over Emperor and that the shattered Captains corpse, Talgron war against them had been a vision where mistake. Alerting legion command, he was pulled into the further confused when [[WarpLorgar]] and embraced by , [[LorgarErebus]]'s light. He was subsequently revived as a part-bionic part-and [[WarpKor Phaeron]] powered abomination with a human faceordered the people massacred, unaware that his legion's commanders had secretly turned against the Emperor. After Despite his resurrection, Talgron finally embraced confusion his faith in Lorgar proved strong enough for him to accept the Ruinous Powers event and became a [[Dark Apostle]]he joined his superiors in betrayal.{{Fn|1b2}} He was badly wounded once more during the Heresy at the [[Battle of Terra]] and subsequently had his remains entombed in a [[Dreadnought]].

Shortly after, Talgron and the 34th Company were dispatched to [[Terra]], ostensibly to maintain a Word Bearers presence in the [[Sol system]] and assure the Emperor of Lorgar's loyalty but in truth to covertly pave the way for the eventual invasion. When news reached Terra that [[Horus]] had betrayed the Imperium [[Rogal Dorn]] summoned Talgron to the palace and ordered him and his garrison to join the rest of the Seventeenth Legion in mustering for the loyalist counter-attack at [[Isstvan V]]. Dorn also released Talgron's old mentor Volkhar Wreth, who was serving on Terra as the only Word Bearer representative in the [[Crusader Host]], into his custody. Before leaving the palace Talgron lured Wreth into an ambush and along with [[Dark Apostle]] [[Jarulek]] converted him into a living conduit that would allow [[daemons]] to breach the palace when the time of the invasion came.{{Fn|1}}  Talgron left Terra shortly after, commanding the 34th Company in the [[Shadow Crusade]] during the [[Horus Heresy]]. During the [[Percepton Campaign]] Talgron hunted down a team of [[Ultramarines]] that had retreated to an underground bunker but was too late to prevent them from triggering a bombardment of [[phosphex bombs]] that burned away all life on the planet. His flesh melting into his armour, Talgron was rescued from the surface and died on the [[Apothecary|apothecary's]] slab, but in near-death experienced a vision of Lorgar that opened his mind to the wonders of [[Chaos]] and allowed him to live. His body rebuilt with a mixture of augmentics and [[Warp]]-mutations, Talgron became a Dark Apostle.{{Fn|1}}  Talgron was badly wounded once more during the [[Battle of Terra]] and subsequently had his remains entombed in a [[Dreadnought]].  == Later History ==After the Heresy, Talgron became a feared [[Chaos Dreadnought]] known as '''The Warmonger'''. Due to his formidable mental power, he is was the only Dreadnought on the Word Bearer Ship 's ship ''Infidus Diablous'' who had retained some of his sanity, though he often remembers The remembered the [[Siege of Terra]] while in the heat of battle.{{Fn|2}} He was killed during the [[Battle for Boros Prime]] when he attempted to kill The the [[Undying One]], the [[Necron Lord]]'s death explosion killing the already wounded Warmongerfinally ending his life.{{Fn|3}} His shell was later inhabited by [[Burias Drak'Shal]].{{Fn|3}}{{Fn|4}}

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