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When the Flesh Change was a gradual onset, afflicted Legionaries could feel their flesh rebelling beneath their skin, and their appearance often took on a pallid, waxy, look. When the change took over suddenly, the results were immediate and spectacular: the flesh and blood of the legionary was in complete flux, with power armour shattering and mutating flesh spewing out as the former Space Marine grew larger and monstrous. [[Phosis T'Kar]]'s changing form at the Burning of Prospero grew to such proportions he dwarfed [[Constantin Valdor]].{{Fn|3x}}{{Fn|38x}} In addition to the riot of change that wreaked havoc with their flesh when the condtion took over, in the overwhelming majority of cases when a legionary was lost to the Flesh Change, he devolved into a mindless monstrosity—an especially horrific fate for the Thousand Sons, who took pride in their learning and culture. When the Flesh Change struck the ranks of the Thousand Sons during the final stages of the Burning of Prospero, legionaries who succumbed to the Flesh Change attacked anything within reach, regardless of whether they were Space Wolves or Thousand Sons.{{Fn|3r}}{{Fn|38n}}
When Ahriman cast his infamous Rubric, the Thousand Sons were cured of the Flesh-change at a stroke, albeit with a heavy price paid - those Legionaries with little to no psychic ability were reduced to dust and sealed within their power armour, little more than automata, while those Thousand Sons with greater psychic ability had their power greatly amplified.{{Fn|1}} It was noted by [[Ctesias|one of Ahriman's cabal]], however, that while the Rubric cured the Legion of the Flesh Change, it did not grant immunity to mutation, as Thousand Sons (such as [[Ichneumon]]) who had pledged themselves to Tzeentch, often looked on the mutations granted by their patron god as a 'blessing'.{{Fn|27d}}
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