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Nearly two months into the fight, the last of the great storms began to wane and a the loyalist situation rapidly worsened. Tarvitz and his Emperor's Children still held the Precentor's Palace and the Luna Wolves still held the Siren's Hold, but in the northwest the loyal Death Guard were finally smashed by Mortarion and Angron's onslaught. In a confusing battle dubbed the "Veil of Grief", the legendary discipline of the Death Guard broke down as some surviving loyal elements within Mortarion's own armies turned their guns upon their traitorous brothers or the World Eaters. Traitor and Loyalist became lost in the maelstrom, with Death Guard Marshal [[Durak Rask]] being killed by [[Crysos Morturg]]. Mortarion himself is said to have been wounded in the battle, burned by plasma fire from one of his own [[Predator]] tanks before he and his [[Deathshroud]] hacked it to pieces. The respite the confusion brought allowed some of the surviving loyal Death Guard to withdraw. In the aftermath a spiteful Mortarion used the waning storms to land massive amounts of reinforcements and poured heavy armor and Titans into the area, annihilating what resistance they still encountered. The loyalist Death Guard did not give up however, and withdrew to subterranean bunker and catacomb networks to continue to fight on. Mortarion had expected this however, and brought in [[Vortex Weapon|Vortex charges]] and [[Hades Breaching Drill]]s to clear out these remaining bastions.{{Fn|1m}}