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After the opening of the Great Betrayal, Angron and the World Eaters were invited by the primarch [[Lorgar]] to accompany him and a force of his [[Word Bearers]] on a campaign into the [[Ultramar]] [[sector]]; the [[Shadow Crusade]]. A force of around 70,000 World Eaters assembled around their Primarch and joined a smaller force of Word Bearers. While Lorgar had a specific first target in mind - [[Armatura]] - the World Eaters insisted on attacking four other worlds of Ultramar upon the way, killing all who stood against them. These bloody diversions caused a rise in tensions with the Word Bearers that almost resulted in void-battle between their fleets, but after an [[Eldar]] attack on them was jointly repulsed, union of purpose was reached and [[Battle of Armatura|Armatura was successfully assaulted]].{{Fn|27}}
It was then that Lorgar revealed to his brother the goals of the campaign; firstly, to finish creation of the [[Ruinstorm]], begun by another force of World Eaters Word Bearers during the [[Battle of Calth]]. Secondly, a more private goal of the Word Bearers primarch; the saving of Angron's life from the Butcher's Nails. Lorgar claimed that his abilities had allowed him to discern that the Nails were slowly killing Angron and destroying his mind. Thus, he had created a second purpose of the ritual necessary to finalise the [[warp storm]]'s creation, one that would ensure Angron's effective immortality. Exactly what Lorgar meant by this would not become clear until some short time later. To Angron's shock, the final phase of Lorgar's ritual had to be carried out upon Nuceria.{{Fn|16a}}
Upon arriving at the planet, a delegation from both legions descended to the long-abandoned battle-site in the Desh'elika Mountains which Angron had been teleported from, and where the Eaters of Cities had died, to find that the bones of Angron's fallen followers had been left to rot in the open air. Enraged by this, Angron led the delegation to the capital, to discover more of what had happened since his discovery and the induction of Nuceria into the Imperium as a compliant world. Learning that the legend of him told on the world portrayed him as a coward who abandoned his army to be slaughtered, Angron issued a simple order to the field commanders of the World Eaters and Word Bearers legions: Kill everything and everyone upon the planet.{{Fn|16d}}
