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{{Planet
|Map=Galaxy-Rift-Solar.jpg
|System=Unknown
|Population=Unknown
|Affiliation=[[Imperium]]([[Ecclesiarchy]])
|Class=[[Cardinal World]]
|Tithe Grade=Unknown
}}
'''Gathalamor''' is an [[Imperial]] world in the [[Segmentum Solar]], to the galactic south-west of [[Terra]]. Gathalamor is known mostly as being the [[diocese]] of the heretic [[Cardinal Bucharis]] during the [[Age of Apostasy]], whose heresies reached such an extent that they became known as the [[Plague of Unbelief]].{{Fn|1}}
==History==
===Plague of Unbelief===
The world's population was not rich and many lived in abject poverty. Bucharis took over and enslaved the population, forcing them to build a gigantic [[Cardinal Palace]]. He also took a large number of thugs and cut-throats and assaulted the nearby world of [[Rhanda]]. The resulting empire made Gathalamor fairly rich, although Bucharis' ideals of survival of the fittest meant many of the poorest died.{{Fn|1}}
Gathalamor is the site of the tomb of the Great Confessor [[Dolan Chirosius]], who was martyred on the world by Bucharis. His martyrdom quickly inspired the population to rise up and kill Bucharis. At the end, all that remained of his body was a small pile of ashes. From then on, the world was back under the rule of [[Terra]] and remains so to this day.{{Fn|1}}
===Later history===Later, Gathalamor was infiltrated by a [[Chaos Cultist]] known as the [[Manskinner]]. He [[Traitor Guard|corrupted]] the [[Gathalamor 24th]] [[Imperial Guard Regiment|regiment]] before escaping the planet and going on to form an army of the [[Lost and the Damned]] that carved a path towards [[Macharia]]. The Ecclesiarchy tried to suppress knowledge of this, unable to admit that the piety of Gathalamorians was not absolute.{{Fn|5}} Gathalamor was later [[Battle of Gathalamor|invaded by the Forces of Chaos]], in the aftermath of the [[Great Rift]]'s creation. The world was only saved with the intervention of the [[Indomitus Crusade]].{{Fn|2}}
==Known Places==
*'''Mount Amalath''' - Site of a great [[Inquisitorial]] conclave that saw the creation of the [[Amalathian]] ideology.{{Fn|4}}
==Related ArticlesSee also==
*[[Planets (List)]]
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Sisters of Battle (2nd Edition)]], pgs. 39–42
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (8th Edition)]], pg. 20 — ''The Indomitus Crusade''
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Adeptus Custodes (8th Edition)]], pg. 64
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Inquisition]], pg. 22
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Words of Blood (Short Story)]] - [[Let the Galaxy Burn (Anthology)]]
[[Category:Age of Apostasy]]
[[Category:Cardinal Worlds]]
[[Category:Segmentum Solar]]
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