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{{CSMPortal}}[[image:Eliphas_DOWDC.jpeg|right|thumb|250px|Eliphas at the beginning of Dark Crusade.]][[image:Eliphas Inheritor.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Eliphas the Inheritor.]]'''Eliphas the Inheritor''' was the [[Dark Apostle]] leading the [[Word Bearers]] on [[Kronus]] during the [[Dark Crusade]]. While thought to have been killed at the end of that campaign, he returned during the [[Second Aurelian Crusade]] as a champion of the [[Black Legion]].

Later, during the opening phases of the [[Dark Crusade]], Eliphas and the Word Bearers were summoned back to Kronus by a [[Chaos cult]] at the Third Temple of Black Succession in the far south of the Deimos Peninsula. This cabal had turned to Chaos in light of their experiences with the recent rise of the [[Necron]]s on Kronus, and Eliphas had answered. Using the knowledge gained from The [[Book of the Epistles of Lorgar]], their leader [[Virgilius]] planned to bring Eliphas to Kronus. On the eighth night of their visit to the Temple, Virgilius led them to the great chamber at the temple's heart, where he and eight of his cultists were sacrificed on an icon of Chaos. The [[Warp]] opened between the points of the eight-pointed star and Eliphas stepped forth, heralding the beginning of the Ninth Inheritance.

Eliphas came to Kronus to turn the planet into a [[Daemon World]], and would go on to lead the Word Bearers against the other six factions all vying for supremacy on the planet. He began his conquest from the Daemon Gate situated in the Deimos Peninsula on the tropical southern coast of Kronus. Of all the powers on Kronus, barring the [[Blood Ravens]] of the [[Adeptus Astartes]] he despised the [[Necron]]s most as they had no souls to be devoured by his gods.{{Fn|1}}

* [[Slaanesh]]'s by cracking open all the [[spirit stone]]s left behind when the [[Eldar]] fled Tyrea, and offering the souls within to the Prince of Excess.

Deimos was eventually conquered by the Blood Ravens.{{Fn|2}} Eliphas was last seen trying to explain his failure to an unnamed [[Daemon Prince]]. The Daemon Prince declared that Eliphas was past redemption and refused to send him to the [[Basilica of Torments]] again, opting to destroy him outright instead, claiming that ''"It is a poor shepherd who blames his flock, Apostle. This failure is yours and yours alone."'' Eliphas attacked the Daemon Prince, but was lifted into the air by the Prince's power, and exploded in a huge gush of blood.{{Fn|1}}

Eliphas reappeared as a champion for the [[Black Legion]] against the [[Blood Ravens]] on planet [[Aurelia]], having been somehow resurrected. He led a warband together with [[Araghast the Pillager]], but later deserted him, causing [[Araghast]]'s death and leaving Eliphas as sole commander of the warband. He was later defeated by the Blood Raven [[Aramus]]. As punishment, Eliphas was tortured by [[Abaddon the Despoiler]], promising through his pain that he would succeed in corrupting the Blood Ravens.{{Fn|2}}

Eliphas returned during the [[Third Aurelian Crusade]], this time in [[Terminator Armour]]. He was sent by Abaddon to claim the souls of the Blood Ravens and the population of sub-sector [[Aurelia]].{{Fn|3}}

*{{Endn|1}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade]]*{{Endn|2}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising]]*{{Endn|3}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution]]