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===Founding the Grey Knights===
During the final chapter of the Heresy, Malcador would complete his ultimate project. He brought twenty men before the Emperor to set his ultimate man in motion. Four were lords and administrators, and eight were [[Space Marine]]s from both loyalist and traitor [[legions]]. These included many of his Knights-Errant such as [[Nathaniel Garro]], [[Amendera KendelTylos Rubio]], [[Macer Varren]], [[Janus]], [[Tylos RubioEpimetheus]], [[Macer VarrenKhyron]], and [[Garviel Loken]] as well as humans such as [[Kyril Sindermann]], [[Lemuel Gaumon]], and [[Amendera Kendel]].{{Fn|11}}{{Fn|12}}{{Fn|13}} Many of the Space Marines that joined the cause hailed from Legions that had turned traitor, though they themselves had remained loyal to the Emperor. Once they had been gathered, the Emperor surveyed the chosen recruits and granted both his approval and consent to proceed with the project. So the recruits split ways to go off towards separate tasks; the four lords ventured off to lay the framework of the [[Inquisition]], whilst the Space Marines and Malcador traveled to [[Saturn]]'s moon of [[Titan]].
Titan, through Malcador's mystical means, had been hidden away from the ravages of the Horus Heresy. When they arrived they found a [[Fortress-monastery]] already fully prepared and stocked with everything necessary to create a new army of Space Marines including supplies of [[gene-seed]], which is suspected to have been taken from the Emperor directly, and all the necessary armaments. The fortress was also already populated with hundreds upon hundreds of suitable recruits from across the [[Galaxy]]. Some were raw and untrained, whilst others were selected in secret from among the ranks of loyalist Legions. This new army would be a Chapter - a smaller, tighter brotherhood of Space Marines than a Legion. Malcador could no longer remain and thus he appointed [[Janus]], one of the eight original Space Marines, to be the Grey Knights leader and take the title of [[Grey Knights Supreme Grand Master|Supreme Grand Master]]. Before leaving, Malcador cast his greatest enchantment yet; he hid Titan away from Horus in the most unlikely of places, inside the [[Warp]] itself. Titan was protected by Macro-Geller fields and sigilic rites whilst the final battles of the Heresy took place in Real Space. When Titan reemerged into the Materium, the war was over and due to the longer passage of time within the Warp Titan had raised an army of a thousand Battle Brothers: the Grey Knights.{{Fn|10}}
[[File:The Sigillite clean.jpg|thumb|250px|Malcador the Sigillite.{{Fn|8}}]]
===Death===
Later at the height of the [[Battle of Terra]] when the Emperor decided to face [[Horus]] aboard the [[Vengeful Spirit]], he told Malcador that he had to take his place on the [[Golden Throne]] - providing the psychic sheath to protect the human-built sections of the [[Webway]]. His original choice of replacement on the throne had been the [[Primarch]] [[Magnus]] but since he had sided with [[Horus]], Malcador was now his chosen successor.{{Cite This}} Though he was a powerful psyker in his own right, Malcador's mental powers were nothing compared to that of the Emperor, and so when Rogal Dorn brought the severely injured ruler of mankind back to the Golden Throne, he found Malcador sitting wasted, energy lashing across his shrivelled body, tortured by the psychic bombardments of the [[Webway]]. He was almost dead. [[Tech-priest]]s then made the exchange - disengaging Malcador from the machine. As he was removed, the last flicker of life left him and the dust of his corpse blew across the stone floor.{{Fn|1}}
