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Added a section to list Karkasy's literary works
After the pacification of [[Sixty-Three-Nineteen]], Karkasy was among the first remembrancers to be allowed into an [[Astartes]] warzone. He cared little for the contrivances of the [[Great Crusade]] and the new plans to reform the conquered planet's culture, and instead wandered into the ruined capital city to find his muse. After composing some inspiring new verses based on defiant civilian graffiti, he was accosted by [[Imperial]] military personnel who beat him nearly to death for his subversive comments on the future of the [[Imperium]].{{Fn|1b}} Afterwards he was destined to be shipped back to [[Terra]] but [[Garviel Loken]], [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the tenth company and member of Horus' [[Mournival]] became his sponsor because he thought a man like Ignace, who tells the truth no matter how ugly, was needed.{{Fn|1c}}
When Astartes from the newly-dubbed [[Sons of Horus]] legion brought their dying [[Primarch]] Horus back to the [[Vengeful Spirit]], Karkasy witnessed their brutal attacks upon the unarmed throng of grieving fleet personnel who had gathered to catch a glimpse of the fallen [[Warmaster]]. This horrific incident led the poet to print newsletters warning of the hypocrisy of the Astartes' position.{{Fn|2a2c}}
His subversive ideas brought him to the attentions of the increasingly paranoid Warmaster Horus, who eventually resorted to having him murdered by his civilian enforcer [[Maggard]]. Karkasy's death was disguised as suicide, with Maggard's pistol planted in the dead man's grip and a note constructed from his own writing.{{Fn|2d}} ==Known literary works==*''[[Blood Through Understanding]]''{{Fn|2b}}*''[[Fanfare to Unity]]''{{Fn|1b}}*''[[Meditations on the Elegiac Hero]]''{{Fn|2a}}*''[[Ocean Poems]]''{{Fn|1b}}*''[[Reflections and Odes]]''{{Fn|1b}}
==Sources==
**{{Endn|1c}}: Part Two, Chapter Three
*2: [[False Gods (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|2a}}: Part One, ''Epigraph before Chapter One''**{{Endn|2b}}: Part One, Chapter One**{{Endn|2c}}: Part Two, Chapter Twelve**{{Endn|2b2d}}: Part Four, Chapter Twenty-One
