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Later during the Heresy as Horus fell deeper and deeper into Chaos and his mental state perhaps began to deteriorate, he took the skull of Ferrus Manus, mounted it on his throne, and began to increasingly speak to it. During their one-sided conversations, Horus lamented that he only had bloody-handed tyrants, mass murderers, and daemons for his generals instead of strategists and men of duty like Ferrus.{{Fn|9}}
During the final climactic struggle of the [[War Within the Webway]], the [[Emperor]] summoned the souls of fallen heroes of the [[Imperium]] to serve as an army against the [[Daemon]]ic hordes. Ferrus was reanimated as a blazing spectre and briefly fought at the Emperor's side.{{Fn|13}} Later during the final stages of the [[Siege of Terra]], Ferrus Manus reappeared before [[Sanguinius]] aboard the Warp-corrupted ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]''. Apparently the real Ferrus and not a mere hallucination or trick, the deceased Primarch stated that he had been brought back by Horus as a demonstration of his power and as a form of psychological torture of Sanguinius. Ferrus guided Sanguinius to [[Lupercal's Court]] to face the treacherous Warmaster. He was able to anchor himself to the material realm longer than Horus had anticipated, and wished Sanguinius the best of luck against his traitorous brother.{{Fn|23}}
When the [[Emperor]] was [[Horus|mortally wounded]] in the [[Siege of Terra]], this created a [[psychic]] apparition of Manus which briefly appeared before the [[Iron Hands]] on [[Medusa]]. According to the [[Iron Council]]'s logs, their [[Primarch]] warned them that a calamity would come to befall [[Mankind]]. When it occurred, though, Manus promised he would return to lead the Iron Hands against it and the apparition then disappeared.{{Fn|22}}
