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Following the withdrawal of [[Perturabo]] and the [[Iron Warriors]] from Terra Horus gave Mortarion the [[Lion's Gate Spaceport]], which he turned into his own personal headquarters. However, this was assailed in a massive counterattack led by Mortarion's old foe [[Jaghatai Khan]], leading a force of White Scars and [[Imperial Army]]. During the fight for the Spaceport the 2 Primarch's once again came to blows. Faced with Mortarion's new Daemonic endurance and strength, the Khan was brutally beaten down and nearly defenseless. However, he was able to find a weakness in the Death Lord with his pride. Jaghatai Khan scolded Mortarion for being weak and giving into the powers of the Warp, while he himself had resisted the temptations of Chaos and remained true to the Emperor. Mortarion flew into a rage, which the Khan took advantage of to launch a second wave of dizzying attacks that overwhelmed the Primarch. In the end the badly wounded Jaghatai Khan was impaled on the blade of Mortarion's scythe, but simply pulled his body along its length to get face-to-face with the Death Guard Primarch. The loyalist Primarch decapitated Mortarion, who was banished into the Warp in a massive explosion similar to that of a [[Vortex Weapon]]. Later the Khan's badly wounded body was recovered by Imperial forces.{{Fn|23}}
After Horus was defeated, Mortarion reappeared and claimed the [[Plague Planet]] in the Eye of Terror as his new base. He shaped it so well that Nurgle promoted him to [[Daemon Prince]]. Mortarion got what he wanted, a world of his own. He From the [[Black Manse]] he ruled over a toxic death world of poison, horror and misery, with his own position ironically mirroring the one his monstrous step-father had held on Barbarus. He had come home.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|16}}{{Fn|25}}
===Post-Heresy===
