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Despite Kor Phaeron's abuse Lorgar quickly surpassed his master. He became a devout preacher, his skill in oratory and the power of his charisma winning him many followers, rising to the position of Archpriest of the Godsworn. After saving Kor Phaeron's life in the crew mutiny, Lorgar was named the new ''Bearer of the Word'' by the priest.{{Fn|12}} Lorgar's fame quickly spread thereafter, he began liberating slaves across Colchis and amassed a massive army that marched on the capital city of Vharadesh. After a fiery sermon before the city gates, they opened to him with lower priests of the Colchis presenting the corpses of the Covenant [[Ecclesiarch]] and Hierarchs as a gift. After taking Vharadesh, Lorgar's forces moved from city to city, taking them either peacefully or in some cases putting everyone to the sword for their heresy in refusing The One.{{Fn|13a}} After several years of fighting the last city to stand against Lorgar's army was Gahevarla, which was protected by a [[Dark Age of Technology]]-era storm generator. Performing a miracle, Lorgar approached the maelstrom around the city and caused the storm to part, allowing his army to swarm through the gap and capture Gahevarla. With that Lorgar was lord of Colchis, but proclaimed that they still had much to do.{{Fn|13b}}
However, as Lorgar grew in standing amongst the people, members of the Covenant began to grow jealous of his popularity. Lorgar's youth was plagued by visions of a mighty warrior in gleaming bronze armour coming to Colchis, a [[Magnus the Red|cyclopean giant in blue robes]] standing beside him. At one point, the visions reached such intensity that Lorgar claimed that the prophesied return of Colchis' god was soon to occur. He began to preach this news to the people of Colchis, causing disruptions to the rule of the Covenant as people converted to his beliefs. Lorgar's enemies in the Covenant saw this as the opportunity they had been waiting for to remove the threat that Lorgar was to the status quo, declaring him a heretic.{{Fn|6}}
Those who came forward to arrest Lorgar were killed by his followers. The Covenant split into two factions the followers of the Old Faith and the Brotherhood of Lorgar, and a holy war of immense proportions known as the Schism Wars erupted. Eventually the entire population of Colchis was forced to choose a side. This war lasted six years, ending when Lorgar and his supporters stormed the temple at which the Primarch had trained, killing the monks of the Old Faith within. Possibly as part of this conflict, or after it, one in three of Colchis were said to turn against Lorgar, and the first Great Purge was conducted by the Brotherhood's fanatically loyal warrior-monks hand-picked by Lorgar.{{Fn|6}}
===The Corruption===
[[Image:Betrayer_final.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Lorgar and [[Angron]] during the Heresy.]]
It was this event, roughly 43 years before the beginning of the [[Horus Heresy]], that turned the Word Bearers to [[Chaos]]. Whilst Lorgar brooded over the Emperor's reproach, Kor Phaeron and Erebus, his top lieutenants, whispered to Lorgar of the great Chaos gods: beings that welcomed, even demanded zealous worship and devotion. Lorgar was slowly poisoned against the Emperor by Kor Phaeron and Erebus, who were appointed Master of the Faith and First Chaplain respectively, and were tasked with converting the entire legion to Chaos. After a failed attempt to get answers on the nature of the universe from his close friend and brother [[Magnus]], Lorgar decided to go on a pilgrimage to discover the truth for himself{{Fn|3}}. Eventually Lorgar's psychic abilities lured him to newly-discovered [[Cadia]], insisting he heard a voice calling for him. There, he encountered [[Ingethel the Ascended]] who showed him the [[Chaos|"Primordial Truth" of the universe]]. Ingethel convinced Lorgar that humanity had to accept and welcome the Gods of Chaos, and failing to do so would have their race share the same [[Fall of the Eldar|fate as the Eldar]]. Finally, after being shown a horrifying vision of the future (hinted to be the [[Emperor]] on the [[Golden Throne]]){{Fn|3b}}, Lorgar was finally converted by the Ruinous Powers.{{Fn|3c}} The Word Bearers came to venerate the gods of Chaos, but instead of throwing their support to one god, they worshiped [[Chaos Undivided]], a pantheon composing the four Chaos gods{{Cite This}}.
Later, Lorgar journeyed with [[Ingethel the Ascended]] deeper into the [[Eye of Terror]] where he defeated an [[Eldar]] [[Avatar]] upon a shattered [[Crone World]] and went on to best the mighty [[Bloodthirster]] [[An'ggrath the Unbound]] in battle, a sign he was chosen by the Dark Gods. After the fight, Lorgar met [[Kairos Fateweaver]] who told him that Lorgar now had a choice: he could achieve either personal vengeance for his shame by slaying [[Roboute Guilliman]] in the future (a hint at the [[Battle of Calth]], still decades away) but thus doom [[Horus]] in his rebellion or put personal satisfaction aside and taste the shame and bitterness forever but work for the greater goal of illuminating humanity with the Primordial Truth. Fateweaver made it clear how vital this decision would be, as this was a rare occasion where both his heads spoke the truth. Contemplating his course of action the last stage of this pilgrimage, Lorgar demanded to see a vision of the future if the forces of Chaos lost the upcoming war with the Imperium. What Lorgar saw changed him forever.{{Fn|8}}
Now an agent of Chaos, Lorgar dispatched his trusted subordinate [[Erebus]] to [[Davin]]. There, the [[First Chaplain]] orchestrated a series of events in cooperation with Davin [[Chaos Cult]] priests that saw [[Horus]] corrupted by the Ruinous Powers.{{Fn|9}} The Legion kept their new devotion secret, until Warmaster [[Horus]] declared his own faith in Chaos, and began the galactic civil war known as the [[Horus Heresy]]. The Word Bearers quickly joined the rebellion, and many of the worlds they had conquered since their conversion turned as well, having been corrupted by the Word Bearers during their conquest{{Cite This}}. During the [[Drop Site Massacre]], Lorgar and his Word Bearers revealed their true colors along with the [[Night Lords]], [[Alpha Legion]], and [[Iron Warriors]]. Lorgar engaged [[Corax]] in combat, with the [[Raven Guard]] Primarch having the upper hand until the intervention of Curze.{{Fn|3b}} During the Traitor War Council after the battle on Isstvan V, Lorgar encountered the Daemonically-possessed [[Fulgrim]] and in a rage viciously assaulted the corrupted Primarch. Only the intervention of Horus himself stayed Lorgar's hand, for Lorgar saw total daemonic possession as opposed to a "shared" bond between vessel and Daemon as a perversion of the natural order.{{Fn|8}}
The majority of the Legion was ordered by Horus to see to the entanglement and possible destruction of the [[Ultramarines]] Legion, so that their vast forces could not be brought to bear against Horus' march towards Holy Terra. This was a task the Word Bearers took up with joy, for as the Emperor had chastised the Word Bearers for their faith, the Ultramarines had become his favoured Legion. The assault on [[Ultramar]] was led by [[Kor Phaeron]], who swore to utterly destroy the Ultramarines. The Word Bearers [[Battle of Calth|ambushed the Ultramarines]] at [[Calth]], an attack which eventually turned against them. When help from the Ultramarines' homeworld [[Macragge]] arrived the Word Bearers were routed from the system{{Cite This}}.
During the Heresy at the orders of Horus, Lorgar would team up in the [[Shadow Crusade]] with [[Angron]] and his [[World Eaters]] to strike at [[Ultramar]] in an attempt to distract the Ultramarines in conjunction with the [[Battle of Calth]]. Lorgar and Angron were on tense terms at first, with the Red Angel delaying the advance by butchering strategically worthless worlds. However the two avoided inter-Legion war when a [[Dark Eldar]] assault unified them against a common enemy.{{Fn|11}}
[[Roboute Guilliman]] echoed this sentiment, after a brief conversation with his brother:
:'''''He is so... changeable. He is so prone to extremes. Eager to please, so quick to take offence. He's so keen to be your best friend, and then, at the slightest hint of an insult, he's angry with you. Furious. Offended. Like a child.'''''{{Fn|7b}}
Even after suffering the worst effects of the Word Bearers' treason, Guilliman said he felt his brother's pain, felt that Lorgar had been manipulated by forces beyond his control and was agonized at what these forces had pushed him to do.{{Fn|7c}} However after the [[Drop Site Massacre]] and his duel with [[Corax]], it was said by those around him ([[Magnus]]{{Fn|10a}}, [[Horus]]{{Fn|10b}}, and [[Guilliman]]{{Fn|10c}}) that Lorgar had changed and became a different person. Dubbing himself the "Minister of Chaos Absolute", he became more accepting of war and violence, developed grand schemes and manipulations, enhanced his combat prowess, and his mastery of the [[Warp]] rapidly outpaced that of [[Erebus]] and [[Kor Phaeron]] who began to realize they could no longer control him.{{Fn|10a}}
Lorgar himself was bitter over his existence as a soldier bred for nothing but war. Wanting to understand the greater nature of the universe and build a society to venerate these universal truths, Lorgar never mastered the arts of tactics and combat like his other brothers and looked down upon acts of conquest. Because of this, he often found solace with [[Magnus the Red]], whose personality and mindset most closely resembled his own.{{Fn|3d}} Much like Magnus, Lorgar quickly developed his psychic potential over the physical.
[[Magnus]] once criticized Lorgar for being "selfless" and the chaos emissary said he was chosen by the Chaos gods because of these traits. {{Fn|10}} While many allied with the Chaos gods for power, Lorgar came as an idealist and that was why he was chosen to lead humanity into the embrace of Chaos. {{Fn|10}}
== [[Quotes Chaos#L|Quotes]] ==
==Etymology==
[[Wikipedia: Logar Province|Logar Province]] is a province of Afghanistan that during the Soviet-Afghan War was known as the "Gates of Jihad" due to the large amount of violence there. Aurelian was a Roman Emperor who like Lorgar was raised in impoverished conditions but eventually came to rule an empire. Lorgar's title, ''Urizen'', is a reference to the [[Wikipedia: Urizen|god of the same name]] in the works of William Blake.{{Fn|16}}
==Sources==
{{citeCite}}*{{Endn|1}}: ''[[Scions of the Storm (Short Story)]]'' by [[Anthony Reynolds]]*{{Endn|2}}: [[Dark Creed (Novel)]], {{Cite This}}, ppg. 9.*{{Endn|3}}: [[The First Heretic (Novel)]], {{Cite This}}, ppg. 48
**{{Endn|3a}}: Chapter 4
**{{Endn|3b}}: Chapter 27
**{{Endn|3c}}: Chapters 13-1413–14
**{{Endn|3d}}: Chapter 10
**{{Endn|3e}}: Chapter 25
**{{Endn|7b}}: Target//Acquisition, Chapter Eight, pg. 95
**{{Endn|7c}}: Ushkul//Thu, Chapter Two, pg. 350
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Aurelian (Novella)]] - — Part Four - Chosen of the Pantheon*{{Endn|9}}: [[False Gods]] Chapters 14-1714–17
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Betrayer (Novel)]]{{Cite this}}
**{{Endn|10a}}: Chapter 1
**{{Endn|10c}}: Chapter 21
*{{Endn|11}}: [[Butcher's Nails (Audio Book)]]
*{{Endn|12}}: [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (8th Edition)]] pg.40
*{{Endn|13}}: [[Lorgar: Bearer of the Word (Novel)]]
**{{Endn|13a}}: 3-1-1
**{{Endn|13b}}: 3-6-1
*{{Endn|14}}: [[Sons of the Emperor (Anthology)]] - — ''Shadows of the Past''
*{{Endn|15}}: [[Slaves to Darkness (Novel)]]
*{{Endn|16}}: [http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2012/11/40k-whats-in-a-name-primarch-edition.html Bell of Lost Souls]
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