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[[Image:MortarionYoung.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Young Mortarion{{Fn|18a}}]]

[[Image:MortYoung.jpg|thumb|right|220px|A young Mortarion attempts to scale the mountains of Barbarus to reach his father, [[Necare]] ]]

The only consistent information regarding Mortarion and his homeworld come from a single source: the ''Stygian Scrolls'' of Lackland Thorn, a historian and polymath attached to the explorator fleet that discovered [[Barbarus]].{{Fn|6b}}

====The Unification Struggle====

Only the top of the mountains denied him access. After hundreds of battles and wars, there was just one inaccessible mansion, one which Mortarion knew well, the one where his adoptive father resided. Mortarion returned to his village, confident in the knowledge that he would return for his final battle. When he returned, there was word of an amazing visitor who brought promises of salvation. The mood of the primarch darkened. His final battle had been building for years and he was not happy that someone else would share his glory.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|6b}}

In 901.[[M41]], during the [[Battle of Kornovin]], Mortarion killed [[Geronitan]], Supreme Grand Master of the [[Grey Knights]]. Geronitan's subordinate, [[Kaldor Draigo]], assaulted the Daemon Primarch and spoke the [[true name]] that the [[Emperor]] had originally intended for him{{Fn|8}}. His physical form devastated and his spirit sent to the [[Immaterium]], Draigo carved his forebear's name into the Daemon's heart, an insult Mortarion has never forgotten.{{Fn|4}}

After [[Roboute Guilliman]] was resurrected in the closing days of the [[41st Millennium]], Mortarion sensed his brother's rebirth. Guilliman's return sparked Mortarion's interest in material affairs once more, and for the first time in 10,000 years he decided to lead the whole of the Death Guard in a renewed campaign.{{Fn|16}} In anticipation he created 7 new diseases with the [[Hand of Darkness]], one of which was a blindness-inducing plague that swept through [[Ultramar]]. Only Guilliman's presence could cure the sickness.{{Fn|14}} Later, Mortarion personally led a massive invasion of Ultramar in what became known as the [[Plague Wars]]. Mortarion massacred the population of entire worlds in an attempt to goad Guilliman to battle.{{Fn|15}} During that campaign, Mortarion appeared during the [[Invasion of Konor]] where he led the Death Guard in an attempt to break through to [[Macragge]] itself. The Daemon Primarch later aided [[Typhus]] and [[Ku'Gath]] in their trap against Guilliman on [[Parmenio]] but was foiled by a mysterious young girl who may have been a [[Living Saint]].{{Fn|20}}

==Images==

FWMortarion.jpg|[[Forge World (Company)|Forge World]] Heresy-era Mortarion

MortarionMiniNew.jpg|[[Warhammer 40,000]] [[8th Edition]] [[Daemon Prince]] Mortarion

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*{{Endn|26}}: [[Codex: Death Guard (8th Edition)]], pg. 23 — ''The Chronicle of Virulence: Rust and Ruin''

*{{Endn|27}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination]], pg. 129 — ''Fearful Weapons''

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