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→Dark Apostle
During the [[Horus Heresy]], Maloq Kartho was [[Dark Apostle]] to [[Hol Beloth]], one of the [[Word Bearers]] commanders during the [[Battle of Calth]].{{Fn|6a}} After Beloth's force was annihilated by orbital bombardment, the Word Bearers were forced underground by the gradual dispersion of Calth's atmosphere and the lethal solar radiation coming from the damaged sun.{{Fn|6b}}
During the [[Underworld War]], Kartho sacrificed [[Foedral Fell]] and the last remnants of his forces, as part of a trap to lure [[Remus Ventanus]] out of one of the main arcologies,{{Fn|8a}} so Kartho could detonate a [[virus bomb]] inside it.{{Fn|8b}} Ventanus would return just in time to stop the detonation and slay a demonspawn turned Hol Beloth with Beloth's own [[athame]]. The rapidly-changing Kartho was thrown by an impact with a [[land speeder]] into a [[warp rift]] that he himself had opened.{{Fn|8c}} But as a reward for his bloody deeds on Calth - including wiping out several millions of survivors with atomics, offering in a final sacrifice Fell's and Beloth's remaining forces as a final sacrifice, as well as attempting to definitely erase all life on Calth with a [[virus bomb ]] - the [[Warp]] granted Kartho daemonhood.{{Fn|4a}}
=== Daemon Prince ===
