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[[Image:Mortarion2.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Mortarion]]
'''Mortarion''' (also known as the '''Death Lord''', '''The Pale King'''{{Fn|21}}, or the '''Reaper of Men'''{{Fn|17a}}) was one of the original twenty [[Primarch]]s. He was given command of the [[Death Guard]] [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]] on the arrival of the [[Emperor]] to his world of [[Barbarus]] but turned to the forces of [[Chaos]] during the [[Horus Heresy]].
People say that Mortarion flattened the wooden door to the banquet room and he found the elders and a stranger who was their opposite in every way. Where they were gaunt and pale skinned, the stranger had bronzed flesh and a perfect physique. The connection between father and son immediately formed and was plain to see, although Mortarion knew nothing of the link. The stranger challenged the young primarch to capture the last mansion alone, but if he failed he would join the stranger in total obedience. Mortarion turned away and began the ascent to the final mansion, that of the man he had called father, alone. He marched to the top with the anger given by years of building hatred for the final warlord. He climbed higher than he had ever gone before, ignoring the increasing toxins.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|6b}}
When the confrontation came, it was mercifully short. Even the hoses of his suit began to corrode and rot down and Mortarion was gasping for breath. The last thing he saw was the overlord walking towards him to fulfill fulfil the promise he had made years before. Then, the stranger stepped between them and, defying the fog, killed the warlord with one mighty sweep of his sword{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|6b}}. When Mortarion had recovered he bent his knee to the stranger and pledged his service. Only then did the stranger reveal himself to be the Emperor of Mankind and Mortarion's father. He then was given command of the fourteenth legion of the Space Marines, the Dusk Raiders.{{Cite this}}
===Great Crusade===
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*{{Endn|1}}: [[Index Astartes]]: [[Death Guard]] ([[White Dwarf 264 (US)]])
*{{Endn|2}}: [[The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel)]] by [[James Swallow]], Chapter One, pgs. 28–29
*{{Endn|3}}: [[White Dwarf 150 (UK)]]{{Cite this}}
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Grey Knights (5th Edition)]] , pg. 38*{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (6th Edition)]] , pg. 22*6: [[The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal]]:
**{{Endn|6a}}: pg. 25
**{{Endn|6b}}: pgs. 122–126
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Horus Heresy (Artbook Series)#Collected Visions|Horus Heresy: Collected Visions]], pgs. 347–349
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Mortarion's Heart]]
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Scars (Novel)]]{{Cite this}}
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