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Unbeknownst to those at the time, the Warp storm on Caliban and the subsequent scattering of the Fallen throughout time was the result of a [[Wikipedia:Causal loop|causal loop]] in the [[41st Millennium]]. After [[Cypher]] surrenders himself to the [[Inner Circle]], perhaps in a desperate bid to change history, Cypher reveals [[The Rock]] has been host to an ancient device known as the [[Tuchulcha]] which when combined with two others (the [[Ouroboros]] and another held by [[Typhus]]) can create a bridge through time. Cypher warns that [[Astelan]]'s Fallen are seeking the same devices in cooperation with Typhus, and that the two plan to create a new "Death Angels" legion by combining the [[Plague Fleet]] with the original army of Fallen. It takes the [[Watchers in the Dark]] supporting Cypher's mission for the Dark Angels to agree to aid him, and eventually all three devices are brought within proximity to Caliban and a time portal is opened. But as enemy Fallen [[Battle of the Caliban System|close in on the portal]] [[Ezekiel]] convinces [[Azrael]] to destroy it, arguing that history should not be rewritten and the Fallen may bring catastrophe on mankind by changing history. Azrael commands Tuchulcha to scatter all those near the rift, inadvertently including the Fallen ten thousand years previous.{{Fn|12}}
Sometime later, the Dark Angels' [[Librarian]]s are struck down by a shock wave of terror and fell visions. Most of these are too fragmentary and fleeting to be recalled in detail, but the vision that strikes [[Ezekiel]], seers sears itself into the mind of the [[Grand Master of Librarians]]. What he sees shakes Ezekiel to his core, as the entirety of the Fallen are revealed to him and he realizes that during the [[Horus Heresy]], Luther had built a Legion-sized force of Dark Angels that were loyal to his cause. Worse still, Ezekiel now knows that the Fallen's numbers are even greater than the [[Inner Circle]] had feared, as a greater portion of them were still trapped within the Warp. Before Ezekiel or his Chapter can act on this though, the [[Great Rift]] is created and sends the [[Imperium]] into turmoil{{Fn|17a}}. Later during the [[Terran Crusade]], Cypher and a group of Fallen proved vital in the rescue of the reborn Primarch [[Roboute Guilliman]], but were arrested by the [[Custodes]] on [[Terra]] shortly after.{{Fn|16a}}
[[The Rock]] itself, is later [[Siege of The Rock|invaded]] by a [[Daemon]] army led by the Fallen [[Daemon Prince]] [[Marbas]], after the Great Rift's creation, and though they defeat the Daemons, the Chapter suffers heavy casualties{{Fn|17b}}. Years later rumours, psychic signatures, and the torture-wrought confessions of captured prisoners tell the Dark Angels Chapter, that a large number of the Fallen are mustering within the darkest recesses of the warp-shrouded [[Imperium Nihilus]]. The rumours claim the gathered Fallen are the size of a Legion, that could bring the entire galaxy to heel and are being led by a single commander. Only [[Supreme Grand Master]] [[Azrael]] suspects this commander could be their [[Primarch]]'s betrayer [[Luther]] himself{{Fn|17c}}, as the Fallen was freed from his hidden dungeon during Marbas' invasion of The Rock.{{Fn|17b}}
