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===Great Crusade===
Thousands of planets would fall to the remorseless [[Iron Hands]] under Ferrus's leadership. Each weak link in humanity was to be purged if mankind was to grow stronger. Scholars spoke of the wave of piety and faith that spread before the Iron Hands, with many planets suddenly motivated to look into themselves when they heard that the Iron Hands were approaching{{Cite This}}. During the Great Crusade the Iron Hands battled the [[Human]] [[Diasporex]] alongside the [[Emperor's Children]]. This was symbolic of the bond shared by Ferrus Manus and the Emperor's Children Primarch [[Fulgrim]], who were close friends.{{Fn|2}} However during the [[Conquest of One-Five-Four Four]] he received visions from the [[Eldar]] alluding to his eventual demise at Fulgrim's hands. Distrustful of the Xenos, Ferrus rejected the prophecy.{{Fn|11}}
Ferrus was one of the four primarchs privately referred to by [[Roboute Guilliman]] as ''"the [[Dauntless Few]]"'', the four of his brothers who most exemplified their father's design and whose Legions reflected their best qualities (the others being [[Rogal Dorn]], [[Sanguinius]], and [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]]){{Fn|5}}