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Encouraged by [[Erebus]] and [[Kor Phaeron]], who had in truth already fallen to worship of the [[Ruinous Powers]], Lorgar came to realise that all of the belief systems which featured in countless other [[human]] cultures across the galaxy shared a common origin and underlying message. He believed that because all the countless legends of divinity, from so many disparate cultures, all agreed on other powers than exist beyond the veil, that the human species' most natural instinct could not be false. Thus he took [[The Pilgrimage]], a mythological journey to [[Eye of Terror|the place where gods and mortals meet]] in an attempt to discover the universal truth of the universe and enlighten humanity and his father.{{Fn|7d}}
The Word Bearers Legion rejoined the Great Crusade as a front for the Pilgrimage and scattered itself across the stars, bringing more worlds into compliance than any other Legion in the last fifty years of the Crusade. Lorgar himself joined the [[Expedition Fleet|1,301st Expedition Fleet]] and eventually came to [[Cadia]] where they received validation for their theories that all of the Old Faiths across the galaxy shared similar origins, and thus shared a universal truth. [[Ingethel]], a native of Cadia was anointed by the [[Gods of Chaos|gods]] as Lorgar's guide in revealing the Primordial Truth and undertook a ritual to do so which elevated her to the ranks of the [[daemon]]ic as Ingethel the Ascended.{{Fn|7e}}
Ingethel the Ascended led the Serrated Sun Chapter of the Word Bearers into the [[Eye of Terror|Great Eye]] where the failure of the [[Eldar|Eldar Empire]] was witnessed first hand. Ingethel informed the Word Bearers that the Eldar failed and suffered [[Fall of the Eldar|the Fall]] because at the moment of their ascension they were unable to accept the [[Chaos|Primordial Truth]]. They gave birth to a [[Slaanesh|god of pleasure and promise]], yet they felt no joy. Their new god awoke to find its worshipers abandoning it out of ignorance and fear, thus was the endless storm of the [[Eye of Terror|Great Eye]] formed, an echo of the birth-cries of the Eldar's new god. The nature of the Primordial Truth was revealed to the Word Bearers in the ashes of the Eldar Empire, they learned that in order for humanity as a species to survive they must not commit the same sins the Eldar did, they must instead accept Chaos.{{Fn|7f}}
