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In another record, Interrogator Chaplain Uzziel was attempting to draw a confession from a Fallen in the bowels of the Rock. The Fallen decried Uzziel's attempts saying that the Dark Angels sent to Caliban with [[Luther]] were abandoned by [[Lion El'Jonson]] and the [[Emperor]] and robbed of the glory of the Great Crusade. Eventually the Fallen made a false repentance that led Uzziel on a crusade to recover the [[Lion Sword]]. Uzziel realized the repentance was false when he recovered the weapon only to discover it was in fact Luther's Sword.{{Fn|3}}
This perspective is backed up by another record of a Fallen known as Cephesus. When finally tracked down by Interrogator Chaplain Bareus he claimed the same reasoning, that the Dark Angels on Caliban had been abandoned with [[Luther]] while the Lion claimed the glories of the crusade. Bareus was mortally wounded by Cephusus, but eventually the Fallen was slain by Brother Kaelan of the Dark Angels who received a field promotion to rank of Interrogator Chaplain by the dying Bareus.{{Fn|4}}
This also ties in with the perspective given in [[Fallen Angels (Novel)]] where [[Luther]] declares that the Lion has forgotten about them. He then secedes from the Imperium and is joined by many of the Dark Angels stationed with him including the [[Chapter Master]] [[Astelan]] and the [[Librarian]] [[Zahariel]] {{Fn|5}}
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Those Fallen that are captured are taken back to the Rock, where [[Interrogator-Chaplains]] attempt to make them repent. Occasionally they do and so die quickly. More often than not though, the captured Fallen refuses and suffers a long, agonising death at the hands of those who would save his soul.{{Fn|1}}
==The Fallen Perspectives 's Perspective==In another record, Interrogator Chaplain Uzziel was attempting to draw a confession from a Fallen in the bowels of the Rock. The Fallen decried Uzziel's attempts saying that the Dark Angels sent to Caliban with [[Luther]] were abandoned by [[Lion El'Jonson]] and the [[Emperor]] and robbed of the glory of the Great Crusade. Eventually the Fallen made a false repentance that led Uzziel on a crusade to recover the [[Lion Sword]]. Uzziel realized the repentance was false when he recovered the weapon only to discover it was in fact Luther's Sword.{{Fn|3}} This perspective is backed up by another record of a Fallen known as Cephesus. When finally tracked down by Interrogator Chaplain Bareus he claimed the same reasoning, that the Dark Angels on Caliban had been abandoned with [[Luther]] while the Lion claimed the glories of the crusade. Bareus was mortally wounded by Cephusus, but eventually the Fallen was slain by Brother Kaelan of the Dark Angels who received a field promotion to rank of Interrogator Chaplain by the dying Bareus.{{Fn|4}} This also ties in with the perspective given in [[Fallen Angels (Novel)]] where [[Luther]] declares that the Lion has forgotten about them. He then secedes from the Imperium and is joined by many of the Dark Angels stationed with him including the [[Chapter Master]] [[Astelan]] and the [[Librarian]] [[Zahariel]] {{Fn|5}} ==The Testimony of Astelan==
A record of the apparent motivation for the actions of those Dark Angels who would become the Fallen exists: the confession of [[Astelan]], once a Dark Angels [[Chapter Master]]. This testimony, extracted by Interrogator-Chaplain [[Boreas (Dark Angel)|Boreas]], contains the following claims: Astelan himself is supposed to have ordered the attack on the Lion's approaching fleet, with the approval of Luther, because the Dark Angels on Caliban believed that El'Jonson had fallen sway to the powers of Chaos. Astelan claimed that while the Lion had been lost in the woods of Caliban as a child, he had had a brush with Chaos and had never quite lost the taint of darkness from the incident. He pointed out that while El'Jonson had moved through the Warp towards Terra to join the defence of the [[Imperial Palace]], he had moved at what was believed to have been a deliberately slow pace; a pace slow enough to determine who the true winner of the conflict would be before committing his forces. In other words, Astelan believed that El'Jonson would not have hesitated to join Horus if it had seemed that he would have been the ultimate victor in the Heresy. Why else would the Lion, a man renowned for his strategic brilliance and speed of attack, have waited so long before leading troops to [[Terra]]? Astelan believed that by attacking his fleet, the Dark Angels stationed on Caliban were doing the work of the Emperor.{{Cite this}}
This entire point of view, as told by a member of the Fallen, should be considered suspect at best and complete fabrication at worst; it could simply be a series of malicious lies or just a warped, inaccurate view of the entire incident. Often, those who fall under the sway of Chaos do not even realize that they are serving its ends, except that at the end of 'Angels of Darkness', Boreas asks for a tranmission to be sent to a solitary cell in the rock saying simply: 'You were right'. This cell is believed, by readers, to be that of either Astelan or Luther himself. This, from a loyal Dark Angel throws in to question the loyalty of the Dark Angels, The Fallen and Lion El'Johnson himself.{{Cite this}}
==Known Fallen Angels==
