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===History======= Dark Apostle ====
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'''M'kar the Reborn''' was a [[Daemon Prince]]. His original name was '''Maloq Kartho''', a [[Dark Apostle]] of the [[Word Bearers]].{{Fn|4a}}
During the [[Horus Heresy]], Maloq Kartho was [[Dark Apostle]] to [[Hol Beloth]], one of the [[Word Bearers]] commanders during the [[Battle of Calth]].{{Fn|6a}} After Beloth's force was annihilated by orbital bombardment, the Word Bearers were forced underground by the gradual dispersion of Calth's atmosphere and the lethal solar radiation coming from the damaged sun.{{Fn|6b}}
During the [[Underworld War]], Kartho sacrificed [[Foedral Fell]] and the last remnants of his forces, as part of a trap to lure [[Remus Ventanus]] out of one of the main arcologies,{{Fn|8a}} so Kartho could detonate a [[virus bomb]] inside it.{{Fn|8b}} Ventanus would return just in time to stop the detonation and slay a daemonspawn-turned Hol Beloth with Beloth's own ''athame''. The rapidly-changing Kartho was thrown by an impact with a [[Land Speeder]] into a [[warp rift]] that he himself had opened. The virus bomb was likewise thrown into the warp rift, averting Kartho's attempted genocide of the remaining Ultramarines and Loyalist survivors.{{Fn|8c}} But as a reward for his bloody deeds on Calth - including wiping out several millions of survivors with atomics, offering Fell and Beloth's remaining forces as a final sacrifice, as well as attempting to definitely erase all life on Calth with the virus bomb - the [[Warp]] granted Kartho daemonhood, and he merged with the daemonic entity called M'kar.{{Fn|4a}}
In 799.[[M41]] M'kar attacked the world of [[Acralem]], seeking to turn it into his throneworld from which he could create an empire. The Imperial counter-offensive was spearheaded by [[Grey Knights]] and in the final battle M'Kar was slain by a young [[Kaldor Draigo]].{{Fn|5}}
In 997.M41, M'kar transformed the entire [[Agri-World]] of [[Sondheim V]] into his private pandemonium. Shortly after, [[Hive Fleet]] [[Leviathan]] (or Hive Fleet [[Kraken]], depending on the source{{Fn|5}}) descended upon the planet, and the [[Sky Sentinels]] [[Chapter]] were dispatched to reclaim it. However, upon seeing the situation, they opted to call in [[Exterminatus]].{{Fn|3}}
A stay of execution was ordered by [[Grey Knights Grand Master|Grand Master]] [[Vardan Kai]] when he arrived at the planet leading a [[Grey Knights]] strike force. The [[Exterminatus]] was to be delayed to give enough time for the Grey Knights to capture the [[Book of Pandegaras]], a cursed tome which had given M'kar the power to alter the planet. The Grey Knights made planetfall and made it through the twisted landscape to the temple in which the book was stored, but they quickly became overwhelmed and trapped by both [[Tyranid]] and [[Daemon|Daemonic]] ic forces. Kai contacted the Sky Sentinels fleet and ordered them to bombard the temple site. The Grey Knights' superior armour protected them from the bombardments, but the Daemons and Tyranids were not so fortunate. As the bombing stopped, the Grey Knights evacuated with the Book of Pandegaras whilst the Sky Sentinels began Exterminatus of the planet. When the cleansing of the planet was completed, the Sky Sentinels surrendered themselves to the Grey Knights for [[mindwipe]].{{Fn|5}}
M'Kar returned to attack Acralem in 999.M41, and once again, Kaldor Draigo also returned, this time alone, seeking to again banish the Daemon Prince.{{Fn|5}}
{{Main|Invasion of Ultramar}}
In 854.999.[[M41]], M'kar attacked Ultramar again, this time with a large Chaos force. Some time before then, Warsmith [[Honsou]] of the [[Iron Warriors]] had learned of M'kar's existence and his long-standing hatred for the Ultramarines. With the help of [[The Despoiler]]'s damned seer, [[Moriana]], Honsou learned that Calgar had not, in fact, been able to destroy the Daemon in 935.[[M41]], but only to imprison its defeated essence inside the [[warp core]] of the ''Indomitable''. Calgar detailed half of the Ultramarines' [[5th Company (Ultramarines)|Fifth Company]] to garrison the star fort and guide it on a constant, random journey in and out of the warp, but M'kar's hatred for the Ultramarines was so powerful that he always left a faint trail that could lead their enemies to him.{{Fn|7a}}
Uriel pronounced M'kar's [[True name|mortal name]] aloud, and threw the Shard to Calgar, who stabbed M'kar in the throat{{Fn|4}}. The power of the Shard was enough to destroy M'kar's essence, a [[True Death]] that destroyed the Daemon Prince once and for all.{{Fn|4a}}
*''"The inferno of my vengeance fills you! It will burn you, my bearers of the holy word, it will fill your veins with power and fire until Ultramar is in ashes. As my power flows in you, so too will I see what you see, feel what you feel and know what you know. With each death I will grow stronger. With every fortress burned my reach will stretch further. You will be my army of dark righteousness. You will be the Bloodborn and your name shall strike terror into the hearts of men! Spread throughout Ultramar and take my fire to the Ultramarines! Burn them from their fastnesses until no trace remains. This is my holy word!"''{{Fn|4b}}
{{Citation issues}}
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]], pg. 40
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition)]], pg. 16
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)]], pg. 28
*{{Endn|4}}: [[The Chapter's Due (Novel)]],{{Cite thisMarker End}}
**{{Endn|4a}}: Chapter Twenty-Four
**{{Endn|4b}}: Chapter Five, pg. 74
