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|Name = Horus Heresy

|Image = Horus vs The Emperor.jpg

|Image caption= The [[Emperor]] confronts [[Horus]] aboard the [[Vengeful Spirit]]

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|Location = [[Imperium]]

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|Combatant1 = [[Imperium of Man|Loyalists]]

|Combatant2 = [[Chaos Space Marines|Traitors]]

|Commanders1 = [[Emperor of Mankind]] (WIA) [[Malcador the Sigillite|Malcador]]† [[Image:IF Icon.png|20px]] [[Rogal Dorn]] [[Image:DA Icon.png|20px]] [[Lion El'Jonson]] [[Image:WS Icon.png|20px]] [[Jaghatai Khan]] [[Image:SW Icon.png|20px]] [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]] [[Image:BA Icon.png|20px]] [[Sanguinius]]† [[Image:IH Icon.png|20px]] [[Ferrus Manus]]† [[Image:UL Icon.png|20px]] [[Roboute Guilliman]] [[Image:SAL Icon.png|20px]] [[Vulkan]] [[Image:RG Icon.png|20px]] [[Corvus Corax]] [[Constantin Valdor]] [[Zagreus Kane]] [[Jenetia Krole]]

|Strength1 =[[Image:DA Icon.png|20px]] [[Dark Angels]] [[Image:WS Icon.png|20px]] [[White Scars]] [[Image:SW Icon.png|20px]] [[Space Wolves]] [[Image:IF Icon.png|20px]] [[Imperial Fists]] [[Image:BA Icon.png|20px]] [[Blood Angels]] [[Image:IH Icon.png|20px]] [[Iron Hands]] [[Image:UL Icon.png|20px]] [[Ultramarines]] [[Image:SAL Icon.png|20px]] [[Salamanders]] [[Image:RG Icon.png|20px]] [[Raven Guard]] Loyalist [[Imperial Army]] [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] [[Custodian Guard]] [[Sisters of Silence]]

|Strength2 =[[Image:EC Icon.png|20px]] [[Emperor's Children]] [[Image:IW Icon.png|20px]] [[Iron Warriors]] [[Image:NL Icon.png|20px]] [[Night Lords]] [[Image:WE Icon.png|20px]] [[World Eaters]] [[Image:DG Icon.png|20px]] [[Death Guard]] [[Image:TS Icon.png|20px]] [[Thousand Sons]] [[Image:SOH icon.png|20px]] [[Sons of Horus]] [[Image:WB Icon.png|20px]] [[Word Bearers]] [[Image:AL Icon.png|20px]] [[Alpha Legion]] Traitor [[Imperial Army]] [[Dark Mechanicum]] [[Daemons]] [[The Lost and the Damned]]

|Casualties1 = Massive, Emperor forced to ascend to the [[Golden Throne]], [[Sanguinius]] KIA, [[Ferrus Manus]] KIA [[Malcador the Sigillite|Malcador]] KIA

|Casualties2 = Massive, Traitors banished to the [[Eye of Terror]], [[Horus Lupercal]] KIA [[Alpharius]] KIA

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==Preliminary causes==

In addition, the Emperor's disciplining of [[Lorgar]] and the [[Word Bearers]] was a contributing factor to the Heresy and the event which set it directly into motion. After Lorgar and the entire Legion were publicly humiliated, scolded, and forced to kneel in front of the Emperor for spreading their belief that the ruler of mankind was a divine being, the pious Word Bearers felt betrayed and desperately sought any power in the universe to worship. This eventually led Lorgar and his Legionaries to the [[Eye of Terror]], where they pledged themselves to the forces of [[Chaos]] and began to conspire against the Emperor. Thus the Word Bearers had secretly become the first [[Chaos Space Marines]]. Secretly planning to make war on the Emperor, the Word Bearers quietly established [[Warrior Lodge]]s with their [[Chaplain]]s throughout the rest of the Astartes Legions. Though harmless at first glance, many of these lodges would become hotbeds of support for Horus' rebellion in the war to come.{{Fn|3}}'''MISSING SPECIFICATION'''

According to First Lord of the Imperium [[Malcador (Character)|Malcador the Sigillite]], the Heresy's causes may have been deliberately put into motion by both himself and the Emperor. According to Malcador, both deliberately agitated the Primarchs and turned them against one another, with the resulting war purging certain unmanageable Primarchs and their respective [[Space Marine Legion]]s just as they had the earlier [[Thunder Warrior]]s. This would lead humanity, not bio-engineered superhumans, as the rulers of the galaxy. However, the [[Ruinious Powers]] intervened before their plan could be fully formulated, leading to disaster in the [[Horus Heresy]]. This account may be either a partial or total lie, as Malcador himself seems to keep its validity ambiguous.{{Fn|15}}'''MISSING SPECIFICATION'''

==Horus's Corruption==

However, the Horus Heresy truly began after [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]] was wounded by the possessed [[Eugen Temba]] wielding the stolen [[Anathame]] on the moon of [[Davin]], a place that was cursed by the foul [[Chaos God]] [[Nurgle]]. The wound caused by the blade refused to heal, despite Horus's super-enhanced immune system or the efforts of the [[Sons of Horus]]'s best [[apothecaries]]. The [[Mournival]] took Horus to the Davinite [[Serpent Lodge]], which they were told could heal him. [[Erebus]] and the [[Word Bearers]] had orchestrated the battle on Davin, unknown to all involved.

During the rituals, Horus's spirit was transferred into the [[Warp]] where [[Erebus]], disguised as the Warmaster's closest friend [[Hastur Sejanus]], showed him a terrible vision of the very future which his actions would bring about - the [[Imperium]] as a repressive, violent, and superstitious regime where the [[Emperor]] and some of the [[Primarch]]s (but not Horus) were worshiped as divine beings by the fanatical and ignorant masses of humanity. The Chaos Gods portrayed themselves as the victims of the Emperor's psychic might who had no interest themselves in controlling the material world. Horus, already having grown jealous and deeply resentful of his perceived poor treatment at the hands of his father, the Emperor, and was one of many afraid of the concept of a peace where all for which that they had fought was given to weak willed men whilst his legions were cast aside and left as peacekeepers. Horus therefore proved all too willing to accept the Ruinous Powers' false visions of an Emperor determined to make himself a god at Horus's expense.

===[[Burning of Prospero]] (004.[[M31]])===

Magnus's brute force assault on the wards allowed the Warp and its myriad inhabitants [[War Within the Webway|to invade Terra]]. In the [[City of Sight]], the tremendous rush of raw psychic energy obliterated the Choir Primus and shattered nearly every whisperstone. Millions died as their minds were burned out or daemons tore them apart. Warp storms consumed entire settlements. Shockwaves flattened structures around the world{{Fn|5}}.'''MISSING SPECIFICATION''' Having already outlawed the Primarch's use of sorcery and refusing to believe that Horus, his most beloved and trusted son, would betray him, the Emperor instead perceived the traitor to be Magnus and his Legion. The Emperor ordered the Primarch [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]] to mobilise his [[Space Wolves]] Legion and take Magnus into custody; Horus, however, persuaded Russ that Magnus was a threat and should not return to Terra alive. The Wolves of Fenris [[Battle of Prospero|descended upon Prospero]], destroying all in their path. Magnus, betrayed, defeated and forsaken by his beloved father, retreated into the Warp and pledged himself to [[Tzeentch]]. The Thousand Sons had never planned to join Horus, but the trap that the Changer of Ways had laid for the Red Sorcerer's legion led them to the Warmaster's side regardless. Meanwhile the catastrophe on Terra forced the Emperor to deal with a new [[War Within the Webway|crisis]] that consumed most of his attention. He led the [[Custodes]] and [[Sisters of Silence]] to deal with this, while he left management of the rebellion to [[Malcador (Character)|Malcador]] and [[Rogal Dorn]].{{Fn|6}}'''MISSING SPECIFICATION'''

===[[Battle of Isstvan III]] (005-006.[[M31]]){{Fn|39}}===

[[Image:Galaxy in flames clean.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Luna Wolves battle the traitorous [[Death Guard]] in the [[Battle of Isstvan III]]]]

[[Image:HHTraitors.jpg|thumb|right|The Court of Horus at the height of the Heresy. From left to right: [[Erebus]], [[Kelbor-Hal]], [[Maloghurst]], [[Abaddon]], [[Horus]], [[Red Angel]], [[Ahriman]], [[Ingethel]], [[Fulgrim]] ]]

===The Formation of [[Imperium Secundus]] (009-011.M31)===

[[Image:Unremembered.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Roboute Guilliman]] proclaims [[Sanguinius]] as ''Imperator Regis'' of [[Imperium Secundus]]]]

Despite the traitor defeat on Calth, [[Erebus]] was successful in creating the [[Ruinstorm]] which threw the [[Astronomican]] into disarray and rendered navigation and communication difficult. The Blood Angels and Dark Angels under their respective Primarch's sought Terra, but were unable to navigate the Ruinstorm and instead locked onto the [[Pharos]] beacon, ending up in the Realm of [[Ultramar]] instead. As a result, [[Roboute Guilliman]] feared the Imperium lost and created a second empire, [[Imperium Secundus]], as a contingency with [[Sanguinius]] as its ''Imperator Regis'' and [[Lion El'Jonson]] as its Lord Protector.{{Fn|6}}'''MISSING SPECIFICATION''' Early tests for Imperium Secundus came from both the [[Battle of Sotha]] and the unleashing of [[Konrad Curze]] on [[Macragge]].

===The Path of Heaven===

[[Image:JagathaivsKeeper.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Jaghatai Khan]] and the [[White Scars]] Legion fight against [[Slaanesh]] [[daemon]]s on their way to Terra]]

After the discovery of the [[Dark Glass]] and the subsequent [[Battle of Catallus]], the [[White Scars]] managed to return to Terra to defend the capital world with their force{{Fn|4}}'''MISSING SPECIFICATION'''.

==Final Phase (010-014.M31)==

===The [[Solar War]] (010-014.M31)===

After years of bitter fighting, Horus and his forces finally arrived at [[Terra]], capital of humanity. For several years previous, traitors had been wresting control of the [[Sol System]] from the [[Imperial Fists]] in the [[Solar War]]. During these battles, the [[Alpha Legion]] [[Battle of Pluto|struck at Pluto]] and [[Alpharius]] himself was seemingly killed by [[Rogal Dorn]].{{Fn|13}}'''MISSING SPECIFICATION'''

===The Dissolution of [[Imperium Secundus]] (011.M31)===

The Imperium Secundus was constantly undermined thanks to the political clashes between Guilliman and Lion El'Jonson, with Sanguinius proving unable to negotiate settlements between the two.{{Fn|19}} Due to the visions of both [[Sanguinius]] and [[Konrad Curze]] of the Emperor, it became apparent that he still lived and Terra still endured. This, along with the many disagreements between its ruling triumvirate, resulted in the dissolution of [[Imperium Secundus]]. Sanguinius, [[Roboute Guilliman]], and [[Lion El'Jonson]] attempted to breach the [[Ruinstorm]] to reach Terra, but in the end [[Second Battle of Davin|only Sanguinius and the Blood Angels were successful]].{{Fn|14}}'''MISSING SPECIFICATION'''

===The [[Battle of Trisolian]] and the [[Battle of Yarant|Wolf Cull]] (012.M31)===

Shortly after the arrival of Sanguinius on Terra, [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]] left with the intent on confronting Horus himself. Thanks to runes planted by infiltrating [[Knights-Errant]] during the [[Battle of Molech]] the Space Wolves were able to track the location of the ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]'', and Russ and Horus [[Battle of Trisolian|engaged one another in a duel as battle raged around them]]. Russ was badly wounded, but in turn wounded Horus with the [[Spear of Russ]], cleansing much of the corruption that had befallen the Warmaster since [[Molech]]. However the battle cost the Space Wolves dearly, and they fled to [[Yarant]] with Russ in a comatose state.{{Fn|16}} The Wolves narrowly [[Battle of Yarant|avoided destruction]] at the hands of Sons of Horus [[First Captain]] [[Ezekyle Abaddon]] thanks to Corax and the Raven Guard.{{Fn|16}}'''MISSING SPECIFICATION'''

==The Muster on Ullanor and Lorgar's coup (013.M31)===

After the titanic [[Battle of Beta-Garmon]], Horus' fleet was within range of the [[Sol System]] and mustered their forces on [[Ullanor]]. Horus during this time was still suffering wounds inflicted by Russ at the [[Battle of Trisolian]], and the traitor war effort would have fallen apart had it not been for [[Maloghurst]] who gave his life to restore the Warmaster. During the muster of the Traitor Primarch's at Ullanor, [[Lorgar]] revealed that he saw Horus as weak and doomed to fail and attempted to usurp him. However Horus defeated the coup, and exiled Lorgar from his sight. Alpharius apparently quit the traitor war effort after giving the Warmaster a detailed map of the Sol System defenses, but Horus still mustered Angron, Magnus, Perturabo, and Fulgrim to his side on Ullanor as well as forces from the Night Lords and Word Bearers.{{Fn|17b}}'''MISSING SPECIFICATION'''

===[[Battle of Beta-Garmon]] (012-013.M31)===

[[Image:Titandeath.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Titans battle in the Beta-Garmon campaign]]

Horus' armies had by now finally arrived at the gates of the [[Sol System]], and sought to move onto the Imperium Throneworld. However to do this, they would first have to capture the strategically vital [[Beta-Garmon Cluster]]. The resultant [[Battle of Beta-Garmon]] was one of the largest of the Heresy, seeing massive casualties on both sides. Particularly hard hit were the [[Titan Legion]]'s, which led to the battle being referred to as the '''Titandeath'''. However in the end Horus' forces prevailed, despite the Warmaster himself falling to wounds inflicted at [[Battle of Trisolian|Trisolian]] by [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]].{{Fn|17a}}'''MISSING SPECIFICATION'''

===The [[Siege of Terra]] (014.M31)===

[[Image:Visions-large.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Horus and the Emperor battle on the Vengeful Spirit]]

In 0000014.[[M31]], the first day of Primus, Horus' armada at last arrived at the [[Sol System]]. During the final intense phase of the [[Solar War]], the traitors captured the Solar System from loyalist forces despite the best efforts of [[Rogal Dorn]] to stall until the arrival of reinforcements from [[Roboute Guilliman]] and [[Lion El'Jonson]].{{Fn|25}} Once within range of Terra, Horus and his forces destroyed [[Luna]]'s naval bases and within thirty days had destroyed the Terran system's defences. Terra was bombarded and devastated. The corrupted Marines from the Sons of Horus, Death Guard, World Eaters, Emperor's Children, Iron Warriors, Thousand Sons, Word Bearers, and Night Lords eventually landed on Terra, experiencing heavy resistance from the defenders which were led by the Imperial Fists, Blood Angels, and White Scars. Vast amounts of traitor Imperial Army, [[Dark Mechanicum]], [[Chaos Cult]]ists, and [[Daemon]]ic forces joined the traitor Astartes in their assault on Terra. The loyalists were outnumbered and the battle for Terra turned into a siege of the [[Imperial Palace]]. By the fifty-fifth day the rebels had reached the walls of the Inner Palace but Sanguinius managed to hold the [[Eternity Gate (Imperial)|Eternity Gate]] despite a vicious assault led by the [[Bloodthirster]] [[Ka'Bandha]]. Eventually a stalemate set in with not even the siegecraft of Perturabo and the Iron Warriors being able to break the tide. Horus, who had remained in orbit aboard his battle barge, was at that point warned that the Ultramarines and Dark Angels were returning to Terra and would arrive shortly. If this were to happen, Horus's advantage in numbers would be eliminated and he faced the prospect of attacks to his rear. In a final gambit he deactivated the [[Void Shield]]s protecting the ''Vengeful Spirit'' to lure the Emperor in a final battle that would decide the war.{{Fn|2e}} At the same time, [[Typhus]] led a [[Death Guard]] assault against the [[Astronomican]], seeking to stop its reactivation by [[Corswain]] and his [[Dark Angels]] as well as [[Euphrati Keeler]] and [[Sigismund]].{{Fn|}}

==Aftermath==

The Emperor's final command began the [[Great Scouring]]. Under the leadership of the remaining loyalist Primarch's the forces loyal to Horus were hounded into the [[Eye of Terror]] and locations such as the Isstvan System sterilized. All records and the remaining homeworlds of the traitor legions were destroyed. Inside the Eye, the remaining Traitor Primarch's, now nearly all [[Daemon Prince]]s, became detached from the affairs of the [[Materium]] and let their children fend for themselves.{{Fn|21}} Without the Primarchs, the traitor legions themselves engaged in a bitter [[Legion Wars|civil war]] until [[Ezekyle Abaddon]], assuming the epithet "the Despoiler," would become closest the traitor legions would have to a unified leader and lead a number of [[Black Crusade]]s into the Imperium in the millennia to come.{{Fn|20}}'''MISSING SPECIFICATION'''

Ultimately, the Horus Heresy was instrumental for the ten-thousand year decay that has since set into the Imperium. The Emperor's grand ambition, the [[Webway Project|Imperial Webway]], was abandoned and [[Chaos]] continued to plague humanity. The hope and reason of the [[Imperial Truth]] was gradually replaced by the repression and superstition of the [[Imperial Cult]] which now worships the Emperor, still kept alive upon the Golden Throne through the daily sacrifice of a thousand [[Psyker]]s, as a god.{{Fn|24}} Technologies from the Great Crusade era were lost over time, and eventually even the Heresy itself became the subject of myth to the citizens of the Imperium.

==Alleged sources containing relevant information==

*[[Horus Heresy (Artbook Series)]], pg. 101

==Old talk==

I know there is already a citation being called for but this "Mortarion, already a close friend of his brother's, was too easily persuaded, having been turned long before the Heresy through the efforts of his first captain Calas Typhon." The IA, I believe, states that Mortarion and his legion minus Typhus turned after they became stranded in the warp. And that was after the Istvann massacre IIRC

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