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Upon landing on Perlia and laying siege to the planetary capital of Havensdown, Varan assembled his prisoners, including Planetary Governor [[Lio Trevellyan]], into the scrumball stadium and began to speak, swaying the entire assemblage into swearing fealty to him with his powerful psychic influence{{fn|1e}}{{fn|1f}}. In a desperate gambit, Commissar [[Ciaphas Cain]], aiding in the defense of the planet, contacted Varan's forces and summoned him to the defense headquarters, based at the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] shrine at the Valley of Daemons, to discuss terms of surrender. But when When Varan arrived, he engaged a [[Servo-skull]] equipped with a [[Pict Recorder]] to record the moment for propaganda, and demanded Cain's surrender. Cain (protected from Varan's psychic dominance by his [[blank]] aide, [[Ferik Jurgen]]) stated took a theatrical moment to laugh and remarked that there was a bit of a misunderstanding, and that he had summoned Varan so that the Warmaster would surrender to ''him''Cain himself{{fn|1g}}.

With his psychic talents rendered unexpectedly useless, and his mind-controlled Sororitas bodyguards temporarily disoriented by Jurgen's presence, Varan unleashed the other "gifts" received from his foul gods, including talons that protruded from his fingers and some form of sub-dermal [[carapace armour]]. Despite these, Varan was narrowly defeated in single combat with Cain, who kicked , due to Varan's mutational armour, had to resort to kicking the ''"self-styled invincible warlord"'' from the roof of the shrine to his death. The event was recorded via a the servo-skull that Varan had brought along to record what he had thought was Cain's surrender to the forces of Chaos, further boosting Cain's already-legendary reputation as a Hero of the Imperium{{fn|1g}}{{fn|1h}}.

After Varan's death, the contingent of his personal army that served as his entourage immediately attacked the meager military force that was the surviving and undominated Perlian defenders, nearly overwhelming them before Varan's entourage was destroyed by a [[necron]] scouting force, which then claimed the Shadowlight for themselves before vanishing with their prize{{fn|1g}}. The rest of his army, without his influence, splintered into feuding groups, which were defeated in detail by arriving Imperial reinforcements{{fn|1h}}.