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Shortly after, Talgron and the 34th Company were dispatched to [[Terra]], ostensibly to maintain a Word Bearers presence in the [[Sol system]] and assure the Emperor of Lorgar's loyalty but in truth to covertly pave the way for the eventual invasion. When news reached Terra that [[Horus]] had betrayed the Imperium [[Rogal Dorn]] summoned Talgron to the palace and ordered him and his garrison to join the rest of the Seventeenth Legion in mustering for the loyalist counter-attack at [[Isstvan V]]. Dorn also released Talgron's old mentor Volkhar Wreth, who was serving on Terra as the only Word Bearer representative in the [[Crusader Host]], into his custody. Before leaving the palace Talgron lured Wreth into an ambush and along with [[Dark Apostle]] [[Jarulek]] converted him into a living conduit that would allow [[daemons]] to breach the palace when the time of the invasion came.{{Fn|1}}
Talgron left Terra shortly after, commanding the 34th Company in the [[Shadow Crusade]] during the [[Horus Heresy]]. During the [[Percepton Campaign]] Talgron hunted down a team of [[Ultramarines]] that had retreated to an underground bunker but was too late to prevent them from triggering a bombardment of [[phosphex bombs]] that burned away all life on the planet. Increasingly doubtful and disgusted by the path his Legion tread, Talgron chose not to evacuate alongside Jarulek, and instead face his death. His flesh melting into his armour, Talgron was later rescued from the surface and died revived on the [[Apothecary|apothecary's]] slab, but in near-death experienced a vision of [[Lorgar]] that opened his mind to the wonders of [[Chaos]] and allowed him to live. His body rebuilt with a mixture of [[augmetic]]s and [[Warp]]-mutations, Talgron became a [[Dark Apostle]].{{Fn|1}}
Talgron subsequently fought in the [[Siege of Terra]]. During the final battles for the [[Inner Palace]], the hulking Sor Talgron, now fully consumed by [[Chaos]], met [[Imperial Fists]] [[Captain]] [[Fafnir Rann]] in battle. Talgron had known Rann during the [[Great Crusade]], and between his maddened chantings of the "[[Dark King (Entity)|Dark King]]" expressed disappointment that the Imperial Fist was rejecting the gifts of Chaos. Despite his formidable combat prowess and strength, he was cut apart by Rann after a difficult battle. Talgron's butchered corpse was carried away by the Word Bearers and he was subsequently reborn as a [[Dreadnought]], despite it being the one fate he always rejected.{{Fn|5}}
