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{{Character|Portal ={{DeathGuardPortal}}[[|Name ={{PAGENAME}}|Image: =MorturgLegions.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Caption ={{PAGENAME}}{{Fn|4}}|Title =|Homeworld =|Birth =c. [[M30]]|Active Period =[[M30]] - ???|Death =|Cause of Death =|Species =[[Human]]|Type =[[Astartes]]|Gender =Male|Relatives =[[Mortarion]] <small>("Father" via [[gene-seed]])</small>|Occupation ='' ''*[[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenant]] [[Destroyer Marine|Destroyer]] of the [[Death Guard]] <small>(Former)</small>*[[Blackshields|Blackshield]] Leader*Captain of the 108th Independent Company|Preceded by =|Succeeded by =|Faction ='' ''*[[Imperium of Man]]**[[Death Guard]] <small>(Former)</small>**[[Blackshields]]|Notes =}}
'''Crysos Morturg''' was a member of the [[Death Guard]] during the early days of the [[Horus Heresy]]. A bitter and morbid warrior, he was disliked by his fellow [[Battle-Brother]]s despite his talents as a warrior and commander.{{Fn|1d}} He was one of the few Loyalist [[astartes]] to survive the [[Isstvan Atrocity]] and went on to become a [[Blackshields|Blackshield]]{{Fn|2}}, and later [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[108th Independent Company]].{{Fn|3}}
===Biography===
Born on neither [[Terra]] or [[Barbarus]], Crysos Morturg was taken into the legion during an emergency influx of recruits from the induction pool of the [[Expeditionary Fleet|18th Expeditionary Fleet]] after the Death Guard suffered near catastrophic losses in the [[Rangdan Xenocide]]. Despite this origin, Morturg soon rose to [[Lieutenant (Space Marine)|Lieutenant]] and manifested his latent [[Psyker]] powers. However, this only served to further isolate him, and he had barely begun training as a [[Librarian]] when Mortarion disbanded his Legion's [[Librarium]] and ordered all 'witchcraft' suppressed.{{Fn|1d}}
====Horus Heresy====
Reassigned to the Legion's [[Destroyer Marine|Destroyer Corps]], he was frequently assigned Legionaries judged to be fractious or unstable and his units took heavy losses in the worst fighting the Legion endured. He was later marked for death in the [[Battle of Isstvan III]]. However, he survived the treachery of his [[Primarch]], rising to become one of the most prominent loyalist commanders in the battle. He managed to escape [[Isstvan III]] with a few scattered remnants of his loyalist troops, swearing revenge against his former brothers.{{Fn|1d}}
Later on, around 7 or 15 days after the Precentor's Palace had fallen, Crysos Morturg found himself seriously battered and injured and commanding 19 legionaries from his legion, all wounded as well with their last [[Apothecary]], [[Daeka]], cut in half by a [[Medusa (Siege Tank)|Medusa]] shell in the attack that had driven them from their last holdfast. Joining them were [[Shabran Darr]] from the World Eaters with six of his brother berserkers who called themselves 'Revengers' and [[Calleb Decima]], a [[magos]] from the [[Ordo Reductor]] with his [[Thallax Cohort]]s, who had taken care of stacking away supplies.{{Fn|1c}}
Few in numbers and fuelled fueled and sustained by pure spite, the group of loyalists vowed to make an end of it while they were strong enough to do some damage still, an [[Oath of Moment]], to die and in dying make the traitors bleed. To Morturg's surprise, Decima agreed, arguing that "The Logic of war is to consume life and material. All things die, only death is eternal."{{Fn|1c}}
Morturg's group chose the outer concourse of the starport as the site for their stand, and to draw them in Decima had his last adepts crew a pair of armoured [[Proteus Land Raider]]s and a Grav-attack which were to attack a known staging point and feign flight. Though it was a suicide mission the adepts did not say a word. Moments later, one proteus returned to the group aflame with Morturg baffled at its survival, and in pursuit came a [[Fellblade]] at the head of four [[Rhino]]-mounted squads wearing the liveries of the Sons of Horus and the Death Guard. After the Fellblade destroyed the [[Land Raider]] and a Death Guard Land Raider had joined the rest of the armoured group, the traitors placed themselves where Morturg’s team wanted them.{{Fn|1c}}
After surviving Isstvan III, the mutilated body of Crysos Morturg was reshaped by Magos Decima leaving only the scarred head and a fraction of his body, converting Crysos into a fused entity of unholy tech and biomancy. After this reshaping, Crysos, alongside Decima, continued to fight throughout the Horus Heresy becoming a [[Blackshield]] and gathering the remains of the XIVth Legion still loyal to the Throne, members of the [[Shattered Legions]] and other Blackshields, which he would lead aboard the [[Strike Cruiser]] ''[[Malice (Strike Cruiser)|Malice]]'' against isolated elements of the Death Guard.{{Fn|2}}
====Independent Company====
Morturg survived the Heresy and was made [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the 108th Independent Company. He was given command of the far rim monitoring station [[Occludus]], from which the strike craft of Spectre squadron ran deep range patrols along the edges of restricted [[sector]]s bordering the [[Ghoul Stars]].{{Fn|3}}
===Images===
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===Sources===
*1: [[The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal]]:
**{{Endn|1a}}: pg. 47
