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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}}
Shortly before the evacuation of the planet, [[Oll Persson]], an ex-[[Imperial Army]] trooper who was in fact one of the last surviving [[Perpetual]]s, had, at the direction of [[John Grammaticus]], cut a hole in reality with an ''[[athame]]'' dagger taken from one of the Word Bearers' [[cult]]ists, and escaped with a small party of survivors. The daemonic entity known as M'kar was tasked with hunting them down before they could arrive at their ultimate destination. M'kar dogged Persson's footsteps across several planets and time periods (appearing sporadically throughout human history, such as at the Siege of Verdun in '''1916'''[[M2]]). It was on the verge of killing Persson and his entire party when it was "called away", presumably to keep its assignation with Maloq Kartho.{{Fn|9}} 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 daemonspawn-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. The virus bomb was likewise thrown into the warp rift, averting Kartho's attempted genocide of the remaining Ultramarines and Loyalist survivors.{{Fn|8c}} But as a reward for his bloody deeds on Calth - including wiping out several millions of survivors with atomics, offering Fell and Beloth's remaining forces as a final sacrifice, as well as attempting to definitely erase all life on Calth with the virus bomb - the [[Warp]] granted Kartho daemonhood, and he merged with the daemonic entity called M'kar.{{Fn|4a}}
=== Daemon Prince ===