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===The Heresy Begins===
[[Image:KharnNoHelmet.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Khârn during the Horus Heresy{{Fn|28}}]]
During the infighting on [[Isstvan III]], Khârn was believed killed in action while fighting [[Garviel Loken]] of the [[Luna Wolves]], a [[loyalist]] determined to stop [[Horus]]. Khârn engaged in close combat with Loken, only to be thrown against the dozer blades of a nearby vehicle, impaling his chest. It was believed that the blow was fatal, but this proved false.{{Fn|3}} His mangled body was recovered discovered by one of the members of his company, [[Skane (World Eaters)|Skane]]. Khârn's friend, [[Apothecary]] [[Kargos]], who subsequently saved his the Centurion's life.{{Fn|12a}}
Khârn, and a squadron of World Eaters, were later dispatched to [[Prospero]] to retrieve the Moon Wolf, a sigil gifted to [[Magnus The Red]] by Horus, to prevent any other Psykers from using it to contact him, as Magnus had done in his attempt to prevent the Heresy. As an aside, Khârn also had a personal objective of locating 'mind-healing' devices of the Thousand Sons. While there he interrogated Captain [[Menes Kalliston]] of the Thousand Sons, captured after a brief battle with the World Eaters. Captain Kalliston admitted that the devices Khârn was searching for had all been destroyed but offered to use his Athanean Psyker powers to salve the guilt and pain of Kharn's mind. Decrying himself as beyond saving, Khârn rebuked Kalliston's offer and, after a brief struggle, beat the Thousand Sons Captain to death.{{Fn|9}}
Khârn next appeared leading an attack from a [[Spartan Assault Tank]] on the [[Lion's Gate Spaceport]], though the attack faltered in the face of the Emperor's psychic shield of the [[Imperial Palace]].{{Fn|22}} During the renewed assault on the Spaceport, Khârn fought alongside [[Abaddon]], [[Kroeger]], and [[Zardu Layak]]. Almost completely feral from the Butcher's Nails and influence of Khorne, Khârn penetrated deep into the Imperial lines in order to battle [[Sigismund]]. The two former allies dueled, and while Sigismund was the superior swordsman he could not match the Khornate power swelling through Kharn. Sigismund was only saved thanks to [[Rogal Dorn]], who swatted away the berserk Khârn like an insect. Khârn was only saved from death due to a rescue launched by Abaddon.{{Fn|22a}} Later Khârn and Angron both led a massive World Eaters assault on the [[Eternity Wall Spaceport]]. As the Port fell, Khârn slew [[Sisters of Silence]] Commander [[Jenetia Krole]] without even realizing what he had killed.{{Fn|23}}
During the drive into the [[Inner Palace]], Khârn was at the forefront of every assault. However he was eventually confronted by the [[Imperial Fists]] [[First Captain]] and his old sparring partner [[Sigismund]]. In the battle that followed not even Kharn's Warp-infused might could best the Imperial Fist, who much to his frustration refused to speak or acknowledge the World Eater. Finally Khârn was struck down by Sigismund, but before the final blow was struck the World Eater Captain remarked that even he was not as damaged as the embittered Sigismund had become. Sigismund then slew Khârn upon the soil of his original homeworld.{{Fn|24}} His corpse was later discovered by Kargos who ordered his comrades to bring Khârn back to the ''Conqueror''.{{Fn|29c}} After this point, an apparition of Khârn stalked the halls of the ''Conqueror'' alongside the wraith of his long-time comrade Lotara.{{Fn|29a}} When Lotara's ghost finally began to realize that her physical self had mutated into an undead monstrosity, the apparition of Khârn warned her not to look until eventually admitting that the monster was the ''true'' Lotara. Afterward, both spirits faded away.{{Fn|29b29c}}
After Horus was defeated on ' defeat and their retreat from Terra, Khârn's fellow the World Eaters carried his corpse away with them as they fought their way back to their ships. Once on board they discovered that by some dark miracle, he Khârn still lived.{{Fn|1a}} Whether Khorne himself breathed life back into the berserker's body or whether the relentless clamour of battle revived his blood-lusting spirit remains a mystery, but since the Heresy Khârn has survived the bloodiest battles to the current age and never came so close to death again.{{Fn|1a}}
===Skalathrax===
*29: [[The End and the Death: Volume I (Novel)]]
**{{Endn|29a}}: Chapter 1
**{{Endn|29b}}: Chapter 4**{{Endn|29c}}: Chapters 34-35
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