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{{Character|Portal ={{WordBearersPortal}}|Name ={{PAGENAME}}|Image =|Caption =|Title =|Homeworld =[[Colchis]]|Birth =c. [[M30]]|Active Period =[[M30]] - 007.[[M31]]|Death =007.[[M31]], [[Battle of Calth]]|Cause of Death =Killed by [[Remus Ventanus]]|Species =[[Human]]|Type =[[Astartes]]|Gender =Male|Relatives =[[Lorgar]] <small>("Father" via [[gene-seed]])</small>|Occupation =[[Space Marine Commander|Force Commander]] of the [[Word Bearers]]|Preceded by =|Succeeded by =|Faction ='' ''*[[Imperium of Man]] <small>(Former)</small>**[[Word Bearers]]*[[Chaos]]**[[Chaos Undivided]]|Notes =}}
'''Hol Beloth''' was a senior [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]]{{fn|2}} of the [[Word Bearers]] [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]] during the [[Horus Heresy]].
===History===
Beloth gained infamy during the [[Great Crusade]] for purging billions of [[human]]s on [[Serenity Alpha]] after condemning their decadent lifestyle that relied completely on robotics and technology.{{Fn|3}}
His ambitions shattered, Beloth retreated with the rest of his surviving forces into the Uranik Radial arcology as Calth's sun turned radioactive. Safely underground he brooded on his failure until Maloq Kartho goaded him into joining the [[Underworld War]], taking the fight to the Ultramarines once more. Beloth joined a strike team led by Kartho which recovered a [[virus bomb]] from the surface and followed Kartho up a damaged skyscraper from which the two of them could see Remus Ventanus's forces attacking the stronghold of [[Foedral Fell]]. Kartho then detonated an atomic bomb which wiped out the Uranik Radial, sacrificing Beloth's forces to further his bid for [[Daemonhood|daemonhood]] and collapsing the skyscraper into a deep cave system. Remarkably Beloth survived the fall and was able to join Kartho's assault on Arcology X, stronghold of Ventanus's forces which had been left lightly defended whilst Ventanus took his forces to assault Foedral Fell. During the battle Beloth mutated into an unstoppable [[daemon]], and was only slain when Ventanus detonated a pair of grenades within his body and revealed Beloth's subsumed [[athame]], which Ventanus used to slay the mutated former commander.{{Fn|4}}
===Sources===
*1: [[Know No Fear (Novel)]]
**{{Endn|1a}}: System//Kill: Chapter 2
