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==Youth==

According to Perturabo himself, he is estimated to have been born around 792.[[M30]].{{Fn|12}} When the primarchs were scattered to the ends of the galaxy, Perturabo landed on a planet named [[Olympia]]. For at least a year, he was alone in the rural regions of Olympia and became a famed wanderer that would slay legendary beasts. However, he was first discovered climbing the mountains below the city state of Lochos with no memory of anything prior.{{Fn|12a}} The guards, having realised this was no normal child, brought him before the [[Tyrant of Lochos|Dammekos]], the '''Tyrant of Lochos'''. Dammekos was intrigued by the child and brought him into his house and treated him as family. Dammekos noticed the boys overwhelming intellect and skill with everything from architecture to the arts to political debate to combat, and he became a wonder with which Lochos secured alliances with other city-states. The young Perturabo, though he knew he was not of this world and was made by design as opposed to nature, was disgusted by the religious Olympians and believed in the cold logic of science and reason.{{Fn|12a}}

Supposedly, Perturabo never trusted the Olympians and refused to return any affection given by Dammekos. Dammekos spent plenty of time with his new son, but never got anything in return. Perturabo shunned his siblings [[Herakon]] and [[Andos]] and only enjoyed the company of his foster sister [[Calliphone]]. Many saw Perturabo as a cold and brooding child but when considered that he had been thrown onto a world with no idea of his origins or purpose, this is perhaps a little harsh. Nonetheless Perturabo took the name not of venerated Olympian heroes as was expected of nobility but rather an ancient title for those with prodigious ability. Perturabo waged wars against rivals for his adopted father, and due to the many warring city-states of Olympia gathered enormous experience in siege warfare. Overseeing the construction of many siege engines once thought technologically impossible on the planet, Perturabo soon scored victory after victory and became known as a merciless bloody-handed warlord.{{Fn|9}} Throughout his life Perturabo was haunted by visions and feelings of a [[Eye of Terror|Great Malestrom]], though he told none of it as he feared it would be seen as a sign of weakness.{{Fn|7}}

==Horus Heresy==

[[Image:angel-500.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Perturabo and his brother [[Fulgrim]], after their fall to [[Chaos]], battle [[Eldar]] Revenants (not to be confused with 'Revenant Titans').{{Fn|4}}]]

Shortly after the [[Sak'trada Deeps Campaign]] Perturabo learned that his homeworld, Olympia, was in rebellion. Dammekos was dead and in his absence the politicking and bickering of the city-states had resumed. Perturabo demanded the Olympians themselves enact decimation, killing one in every ten of their own or face extermination and enslavement. Many refused, and Perturabo purged Olympia city by city, overrunning the fortresses he had built and sparing no one. Iron Warriors that refused to take part in the genocide suffered the same fate.{{Fn|12b}} By the time the massacre was over, five million Olympians had been killed and the rest put into slavery. While storming [[Lochos]]' palace, Perturabo came across his old foster sister [[Calliphone]] and strangled her to death after a furious argument where she blamed the Primarch for what had befallen their world. As Olympia died, Perturabo looked on in cold silence. After the pyres were burning, the Iron Warriors realized what they had done. They were no more the saviours of the [[Imperium]], destroying the Hrud one moment and the next they were committing genocide. Perturabo realized the Emperor could never forgive him for what he had done.{{Fn|12c}} Horus on the other hand commended Perturabo for his decisive action and the Lord of Iron swore an oath of loyalty to the [[Warmaster]]. Horus made the most of the opportunity by presenting Perturabo with a hammer named [[Forgebreaker]], the gift symbolic of a signing of a pact between them. {{Fn|7}}

It was in that time that disturbing news of the [[Horus Heresy]] and new orders came from Terra. Leman Russ and the Space Wolves had attacked [[Magnus]] and his [[Thousand Sons]] on [[Prospero]]. [[Horus]] had turned renegade with his legion the [[Sons of Horus]] besides some other legions. The whole of the Imperium was on the brink of a civil-war. The new orders were to join with six other legions and then to face Horus and his forces on [[Isstvan V]]. The result of the following [[Drop Site Massacre|battle]] was that the Iron Warriors, Night Lords, Word Bearers and Alpha Legion all joined Horus and almost completely destroyed the three remaining loyal legions on the '''Drop Site Massacre'''{{Cite This}}. After that the Iron Warriors were let loose and Perturabo relished the opportunity to fight in a way that did not rely on massive sieges and trench warfare. Because of their massive deployment throughout the galaxy, dozens of [[Warsmith]]s took over planets and demanded tithes to support the heresy.

After the [[First Siege of Hydra Cordatus]] Perturabo was approached by [[Fulgrim]], Primarch of the [[Emperor's Children]], who promised the Lord of Iron near unlimited power. The two embarked on a quest to tip the balance of the rebellion in Horus' favor by journeying into the [[Eye of Terror]] and retrieve a weapon known as the '''Angel Exterminatus'''. After a brief boarding action with the ''[[Sisypheum]]'' (which Perturabo allowed to escape due to his disgust of Fulgrim's Legion), the duo arrived in the Eye and quickly landed on the [[Crone World]] of [[Iydris]]. Entering an ancient [[Eldar]] citadel known as the ''Amon ny'shak Kaelis'', the Emperor's Children and Iron Warriors [[Battle of Iydris|had to contend]] with an army of [[Wraithguard]] and [[Wraithlord]]s that had awoken from their slumber. At the height of the vicious battle Fulgrim attempted to betray his brother and slip away, but was pursued by Perturabo. Both soon arrived in a massive spherical chamber, and Fulgrim revealed to his brother that there was no Angel Exterminatus, but he rather was destined to become such a weapon on this world. Furious, Perturabo attempted to attack Fulgrim but was drained of his power when Fulgrim activated the ''Maugetar'' stone that Perturabo had previously received under the guise of a gift. Now with the Iron Warriors Primarchs' power in hand, Fulgrim revealed the purpose of his plan: to achieve ''Apotheosis'', better known as [[Daemon Prince|Daemonhood]].{{Fn|7}}

*{{Endn|14}}: [[The Solar War (Novel)]]

*{{Endn|15}}: [[The Lost and the Damned (Novel)]] - Chapters 17 & 24

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