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During the Heresy at the orders of Horus, Lorgar would team up in the [[Shadow Crusade]] with [[Angron]] and his [[World Eaters]] to strike at [[Ultramar]] in an attempt to distract the Ultramarines in conjunction with the [[Battle of Calth]]. Lorgar and Angron were on tense terms at first, with the Red Angel delaying the advance by butchering strategically worthless worlds. However the two avoided inter-Legion war when a [[Dark Eldar]] assault unified them against a common enemy.{{Fn|11}}
Lorgar, recognizing Angron's instability and hidden sorrow over his forced departure from Nuceria, recommended that Angron return to his adopted homeworld to find a sense of closure. Lorgar also had the intention to summon a great [[Warp]] storm known as the ''Ruinstorm'' which would cut off the rest of Ultramar from the Imperium. When the two Primarchs arrived on Nuceria however they discovered that the slave-lords of Nuceria had massacred Angron's comrades and told the population that he had fled during their last stand. Infuriated, Angron ordered that the World Eaters and Word Bearers purge Nuceria of its population {{Fn|10c}} and Lorgar willingly took part in the slaughter.{{Fn|1010d}} Eventually the Ultramarines and [[Guilliman]] himself arrived, pursuing the traitors from Calth, and the Lord of Macragge battled first Lorgar then Angron. However this had all gone according to Lorgar's plan, who used the immense rage Angron was emitting to begin a [[Khornate]] ritual which transformed the World Eaters Primarch into a monstrous avatar of Chaos, allowing him to overcome the slowly debilitating effects of the [[Butcher's Nails]].{{Fn|10}}
Following the [[Shadow Crusade]], Lorgar began to believe that Horus was too weak to lead the Forces of Chaos to victory over the Emperor. He was disgusted by Horus' refusal to submit before the power of the Gods, and had foreseen that Horus would lead the traitor war effort to defeat. Ultimately, Lorgar became secretly committed to killing Horus and taking his place as [[Warmaster]] of Chaos and anointed of the Gods. Lorgar made his move following Horus' fall at [[Beta-Garmon]], appearing on the ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]'' with [[Zardu Layak]]. Though Horus was comatose, he agreed that the traitor's needed to be assembled at [[Ullanor]] in preparation for the drive on Terra. However, not all of the traitor Primarch's could be found nor were they all obeying the summons. Thus Lorgar proposed that [[Perturabo]] journey to find [[Angron]] while he commit himself to finding [[Fulgrim]].{{Fn|15a}}
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Even after suffering the worst effects of the Word Bearers' treason, Guilliman said he felt his brother's pain, felt that Lorgar had been manipulated by forces beyond his control and was agonized at what these forces had pushed him to do.{{Fn|7c}} However after the [[Drop Site Massacre]] and his duel with [[Corax]], it was said by those around him ([[Magnus]]{{Fn|10a}}, [[Horus]]{{Fn|10b}}, and [[Guilliman]]{{Fn|10c10e}}) that Lorgar had changed and became a different person. Dubbing himself the "Minister of Chaos Absolute", he became more accepting of war and violence, developed grand schemes and manipulations, enhanced his combat prowess, and his mastery of the [[Warp]] rapidly outpaced that of [[Erebus]] and [[Kor Phaeron]] who began to realize they could no longer control him.{{Fn|10a}}
Lorgar himself was bitter over his existence as a soldier bred for nothing but war. Wanting to understand the greater nature of the universe and build a society to venerate these universal truths, Lorgar never mastered the arts of tactics and combat like his other brothers and looked down upon acts of conquest. Because of this, he often found solace with [[Magnus the Red]], whose personality and mindset most closely resembled his own.{{Fn|3d}} Much like Magnus, Lorgar quickly developed his psychic potential over the physical.
**{{Endn|8a}}: Prologue
*{{Endn|9}}: [[False Gods]], Chapters 14–17
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Betrayer (Novel)]]:**{{Cite thisEndn|10a}}: ch. 1**{{Endn|10b}}: ch. 8**{{Endn|10a}}: Chapter 1ch. 18**{{Endn|10b10a}}: Chapter 8ch. 20**{{Endn|10c10e}}: Chapter ch. 21
*{{Endn|11}}: [[Butcher's Nails (Audio Book)]]
*{{Endn|12}}: [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (8th Edition)]], pg. 40
