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Before As the Great Crusade spread throughout the galaxy and the warriors of the Emperor of Mankind subdued the stars in the late [[Horus Heresy30th Millennium]], a single company of [[Word Bearers]] [[Space Marines]] was detached from their Crusade force to assist Imperial colonists settling a freshly scoured planet designated only by a meaningless series of letters and numbers. Kor Megron won many glories for was the Space Marine in charge and, under his direction, the planet was swiftly settled. As was the wont of the Word Bearers, the work of the Crusade, and of conquest, appeared to take second place to that of glorifying the [[ImperiumEmperor]]as the God of Mankind. Within a decade, the world of Eydolim boasted a thriving planetary culture centred on the new, and radical, including conquering concept of worshipping the Emperor of Mankind as the Master of Humanity. Upon the world of Khur, the Emperor would later censure the entirety of the XVIIth Legion and put an end to the indulgent practices of the Word Bearers, demanding that they conform to the atheistic confines of the Imperial Truth and end their religious devotions to Him. The Emperor also demanded that they accelerate their prosecution of the Great Crusade. The rancour of the scorned XVIIth Legion was palpable. [[EydolimLorgar]], their [[Primarch]], was humiliated, and the none-too gentle chiding meted out upon his Legion left a sting like a freshly-dealt slap. Soon, the dismay and betrayal the Word Bearers felt at the Emperor's harsh judgement festered into bitterness and then heresy. They forsook their allegiance to the Emperor and spiralled into the worship of the Dark Gods. Until then, the life's work of Kor Megron had been to glorify the Master of Mankind and conquer the galaxy in His name. Now, a new path lay before him. The Word Bearers were once renowned for their fanatical loyalty and religious zeal in persecuting the enemies of the Emperor of Mankind.{{Fn|2}} However following But when the Warmaster Horus, the greatest of the Primarchs and the Emperor's most favoured son, betrayed his oaths of loyalty and launched a galaxy-spanning insurrection against the Imperium, the once-loyal Word Bearers were one of the first Space Marine Legions to openly declare for the Warmaster. They turned their former adoration of and devotion to the "False Emperor" towards the unholy pantheon of the Chaos Gods. They betrayed all that they had striven to build, ripping down the temples and edifices dedicated to the saviour of Mankind, bringing untold numbers of blasphemies and great sacrilege across the length and breadth of the nascent Imperium of Man. What pivotal event wrought Kor Megron's change of heart and drove him from the most loyal, worshipful of sons to a vengeful, embittered foe of the Emperor, is unknown -- for each Traitor finds his own route to damnation. The result, however was clear for any to see: Kor Megron, and the company of Word Bearers who had served alongside him, swore new oaths, dark pacts that would bind their souls in unity until the end of time. Each vowed that their greatest work, their one, true masterpiece, would not be complete until every icon of the False Emperor was cast down and destroyed and the Imperium was naught but trampled ruins and fading memories. Sealing their pact with blood, they anointed themselves as the Foresworn -- a brotherhood of damnation who would topple the deceitful worship of an uncaring and undeserving Emperor. Following the defeat of [[Horus]], Kor Megron sought continued to fight the Long War against the hated "Corpse Emperor", seeking to undo what all that he had wrought as a once-loyal Astartes. Over the passage of ten thousand standard years the Foresworn have continued to assail Mankind. At [[Hyberone Primus]] they defiled the reclusiam of [[Saint Benefactos]] and piled the weakling dead five thousand high. Throughout the bloody nights of the Faith Scourging, they hunted down and executed the nine blessed Cardinals of Anopon. The Foresworn slaughtered [[Saint Krisabel]] and instead showed allegiance her immortal bodyguard and they tempted Hareld the Anchorite to the worship of [[Chaos GodsSlaanesh]]and left his bone shrine a scorched ruin. His {{Fn|2}} Megrons greatest work took place upon the [[Cathedral World]] of [[Rhodax]] where for three months the Word Bearers fought against the hastily gathered warriors of the Imperium. During the battle Megron toppled a forty-foot tall statue of Saint [[Petch]], a beloved Imperial saint to whom the world looked for salvation, and piled the bodies of dead [[Imperial Guard]] around it to form a blasphemous offering to Chaos. As the Imperial Guard attacked once more, now bolstered by the [[Inquisition]], Megron stood atop his Chaotic shrine and roared his devotion to the Dark Gods. In return they rewarded his loyalty by changing and mutating his body until it became the towering form of a Daemon Prince. Megron tore the marbled blade of Saint Petch free and the power of change also flowed through it, corrupting the once holy relic into a weapon of cruel destruction. Megron then strode from the Basilica to continue fighting for his dark masters.{{Fn|1}}