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== HH Narrative Timeline In Depth ==
Made by me a while ago, needs rechecked and thoroughly updated. There are errors, not least that I think all the given dates are off. I plan to fix this. With a TABLE!
This isn't going to be exact unless they print an exact date. The current starting place is year 203 and the attack on 63-19, which I've unilaterally decided takes place near the beginning of that year.
{|align=center border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|style=background:#4F4F4F align=center|'''Actual Year'''
|style=background:#4F4F4F align=center|'''Great Crusade Year'''
|style=background:#4F4F4F align=center|'''PlusTime Marker'''
|style=background:#4F4F4F align=center|'''Location'''
|style=background:#4F4F4F align=center|'''Events'''
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|202nd0||[[Terra]]|The [[Great Crusade]] begins. At this point the 14th Legion is known as the [[Dusk Raiders]]. They will be renamed as the [[Death Guard]] upon the discovery of their [[Primarch]]. [[Nathaniel Garro]] already serves with the Dusk Raiders, as does [[Iacton Qruze]] with the [[Luna Wolves]].|-||c.3rd|Almost 200 years before [[63-19]].||The first meeting of the [[Mournival]].|-||123rd|80 years before 63-19|[[Keylek]]|The Luna Wolves exterminate the [[Keylekid]] species. A keylekid cadaver is placed in the ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]’s'' Museum of Conquest. |-||143rd|60 years before 63-19|[[Davin]]|The Luna Wolves and [[Word Bearers]] Legions bring [[Sixty-Three Eight]], or Davin, of the Davin [[system]], into compliance. [[Chaplain]] [[Erebus]] of the Word Bearers introduces the Davinite practice of Warrior Lodges to the Luna Wolves. [[Eugen Temba]] is made [[Governor]] of the Davin system. At some point not much later, after the 63rd moves on from the system, Temba and his forces are corrupted by the [[Chaos]] power [[Nurgle]].|-
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|174th
|29 years before 203.GC
|Terra
|[[Mersadie Oliton]] born.
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|183rd
|20 years before 63-19
|[[Dahinta]]
|The Luna Wolves war against the [[Overseers]]
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|c193rd
|No more than 10 years before 63-19
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|The Luna Wolves find a perfect relief map of ancient Terra on an otherwise dead world.
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|c201st
|The best part of 2 years before 63-19
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|The Imperial Fists Legion is commanded to return to Terra by the Emperor to fortify the [[Imperial Palace]].
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|202
|Around 1 year before 63-19
|[[Ullanor]]
|Conclusion of the [[Ullanor Crusade]] and The [[Ullanor Triumph]], where [[Horus]] becomes [[Warmaster]].
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|202
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|The [[Emperor]] leaves the Crusade, returning to Terra. He forms the [[Council of Terra]], which supplants the [[War Council]].
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|202|1 year before the arrival of [[Remembrancers]] at 63-19|Terra|The Emperor creates the Remembrancer Order. Almost 4.3 million remembrancers are sent out into the Crusade within months.|-||202|8 months before 63-19||[[Primarch]] [[EmperorRogal Dorn]] and 2 [[companies]] goes into retreat on of Imperial Fists join the [[Terra63rd Expedition]].
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|203rd
|"About a year"Stated as fact|'Terra' or [[63-19]]|Pacification of ‘Terra’ by the [[63rd Expedition]]. The 63rd translates into the system by chance, forced there by a sudden [[warp-storm]]. ‘Terra’ is renamed as [[Sixty-Three Nineteen]] during the later stages of compliance. It is the 19th planet to be brought into Imperial Rule by the 63rd Expedition.
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|203
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|63-19
|Death of [[Hastur Sejanus]].
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|Death 63-19|[[Maloghurst]] is believed killed in action.|-||203||63-19|[[General]] [[Rakris]] is named as [[Lord-Governor Elect]] of Sixty-Three Nineteen.|-||203|6 weeks later|63-19|Open resistance on 63-19 is confined to the Whisperhead Mountain Range, but proves impossible to quell.|-||203|3 months after the first attack on 63-19|63-19|Remembrancers join the 63rd Expedition.|-||203||63-19|Maloghurst is found alive, but badly injured. The phyisical scars of these injuries appear permanent and only serve to add to the effect of his epithet as 'Maloghurst the Twisted'.|-||203|1 week after Maloghurst is found|63-19|[[Garviel Loken]] joins the Mournival. |-||203|A few days later|63-19|10th Company of the Luna Wolves excises the Whisperhead resistance group in a police action. [[Hastur SejanusSergeant]]Xayver Jubal is possessed by a [[daemon]] called [[Samus]], and subsequently killed by Loken and Sergeant [[Nero Vipus]], though not before causing the deaths of several marines. Remembrancer [[Euphrati Keeler]] witnesses the daemon’s banishment.|-||203||63-19|Remembrancer [[Ignace Karkasy]] gets himself into trouble. Shortly afterwards, Garviel Loken agrees to sponsor and accept responsibility for him.|-||203||63-19|The Imperial Fist contingent of the 63rd Expedition leaves.|-||203||[[Murder]] or 140-20|The [[140th Expedition]] gets itself into trouble on [[140-20]], later to be known as Murder and later still also called Spiderland. They transmit a request for assistance.|-||203|6 weeks later|In transit|Garviel Loken is introduced to the Warrior Lodge of the Luna Wolves. He does not join, but ceases in his disapproval of its existence.
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|203
|c.5 weeks later
|Murder
|While the main body of the [[Emperor's Children]] prepare to invade the [[Lesser Bifold Cluster]], 1 Company under the command of [[Lord Commander]] [[Eidolon]] reinforces the 140th Expedition at One Forty Twenty .
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|203
|c.1 week later
|Murder
|10 Companies of the Luna Wolves from the 63rd Expedition reinforce the 140th. The remainder of the Expedition arrives within a week, as do other reinforcements.
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|203
|Within the week
|Murder
|Primarch [[Sanguinius]] leads a [[Blood Angels]] force to reinforce the 140th.
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|203|Between 1 week and 6 months since the 63rd arrived at Murder|Murder|A detachment from the [[Maloghurst88th Expedition]] severely woundedarrives at Spiderland to reinforce the Crusade forces already present.
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|203
|Between 1 week and 6 months since the 63rd arrived at Murder
|Murder
|The Council of Terra’s proclamation that all Imperial worlds begin contribution of tithes reaches the ears of Warmaster Horus, along with the personage of [[Administratrix]] [[Aenid Rathbone]].
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|c.203/c.204
|2 weeks before first contact with the [[Interex]]
|Murder
|First Chaplain Erebus of the Word Bearers Legion joins the 63rd as an envoy from [[Lorgar]]. He quickly becomes a top adviser to Horus.
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|c.204 (over a year has passed since the attack on 63-19)
|6 months after the 63rd arrived at Murder
|Murder
|Contact is made with the Interex, in the [[Urisarach]] (Spiderland) system.
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|c.204
|9 weeks later
|[[Xenobia]]
|A detachment from the Crusade Forces gathered at Murder, including Horus and Sanguinius, arrives in the Interex system as invited guests and halts at the planet Xenobia.
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|c.204 |2 weeks later|[[GeneralXenobia]] |Primarch Sanguinius and the Blood Angels forces leave the company of Horus and the 63rd Expedition to return to their own affairs.|-||c.204 |2 days later|[[RakrisXenobia]] is named as |First Chaplain Erebus secretly steals an [[Lord-Governor Electanathame]] from the Interex, sparking off the [[Battle of Xenobia Principis]] ; hostilities break out between the 63rd’s forces and those of Sixtythe Interex. Imperial forces conduct a fighting retreat from Interex territory. Afterwards, Erebus increasingly beings to counsel Horus alone, without the Mournival.|-Three Nineteen||c.204 |"Some weeks later"|In transit|The 63rd Expedition returns to Imperial Space. Horus exercises his right to rename his legion; from this time on the Luna Wolves are to be called the ‘[[Sons of Horus]]’. The Legion’s colours and main iconography are altered.
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*29,838: The second Primarch (after Horus, the first) is discovered.
*c. 29,908: Garviel Loken becomes a Luna Wolf Space Marine.
*29,921: The Luna Wolves and Word Bearers Legions bring Sixty-Three Eight, or Davin, of the Davin system, into compliance. Chaplain Erebus of the Word Bearers introduces the Davinite practice of Warrior Lodges to the Luna Wolves. Eugan Temba is made Governor of the Davin system. At some point, beginning shortly after the 63rd moves on from the system, Temba and his forces are corrupted by the Chaos powers.*29,931: Destruction of the Keylekid species by the Luna Wolves. A keylekid cadaver is placed in the Vengeful Spirit’s Museum of Conquest. *29,991: Destruction of the Overseers on Dahinta by the Luna Wolves.
*29,992: Maggard becomes bodyguard to Petronella Vivar.
*30,000: The 27th Expedition brings the Istvaan system into compliance. Baron Vardus Praal becomes Governor of the system.
*+ 15 days: Garviel Loken begins to distrust Erebus, suspecting him of stealing the anathame and therefore initiating hostilities with the Interex.Erebus leaves the 63rd Expedition to join with other Word Bearers and travel to the Davin system. At some point here he must cause the anathame to come into the possession of Eugen Temba.
*+ 1 week: The 63rd Expedition travels to the Davin system to meet with Erebus and the Word Bearers, at his request.Petronella Vivar becomes the Warmaster’s personal remembrancer.Euphrati Keeler devotes herself to worship of the Emperor as God. She begins to distribute the (banned) text of the Lectitio Divinatus throughout the Vengeful Spirit.The 63rd Expedition, along with a detachment of Word Bearers, descends upon Davin’s moon to exterminate the traitor forces of Governor Eugen Temba. Petronella Vivar and Maggard join the assault without permission and become involved in events .The Imperial forces come under attack from daemonic forces of ‘Nurgh-leth’, (Nurgle), and suffer many casualties. Warmaster Horus himself is grievously wounded by the daemon-possessed Eugen Temba, whom he in turn manages to slay.Magnus the Red receives prophetic knowledge of Horus’ fate. He begins preparations to both contact his brother and their father psychically.Captain Verulam Moy is among the Sons of Horus fatalities.In their haste to get the injured Warmaster to the Apothecary deck, the Mournival accidentally kill over 21 civilians, fleet staff and soldiers by rushing through a crowd and causing a stampede and crush. This scene is witnessed by, among others, remembrancer Ignace Karkasy.Warp-disturbances around the Davin system increase dramatically.News of the Warmaster’s critical condition begins to spread through the 63rd Expedition; preachers of the Lectitio Divinatus begin to move around somewhat more openly, and there is an influx of new followers to the fledging religious movement.Loken recovers the weapon which wounded Horus from the moon of Davin; the anathame, stolen from Xenobia. He and Tarik Torgaddon begin to suspect Erebus of manipulating the events around the wounding of the Warmaster. He surrenders the anathame into the safekeeping of Apothecary Vaddon.Horus, during a period of lucidity and believing himself dying, dictates his valediction to Petronella Vivar, before falling into a coma.Erebus persuades the Warrior Lodge of the Sons of Horus to allow him to take the injured Warmaster to a mystic healing lodge on Davin, the Lodge of the Serpent.Here, Horus begins a mystic, Chaos-inspired ‘dream-vision’ of both the past and the future. He is guided through it by Erebus, who at first takes on the identity of the deceased Hastur Sejanus. Erebus attempts to coerce Horus into treating with the Chaos gods. Magnus the Red invades the ‘dream-vision’ psychically, unveiling Erebus and attempting to warn Horus off his path of succumbing to the temptations offered by the Chaos powers. He fails.
*+ 3 days: The Emperor’s Children and Sons of Horus loyalists link up in the ruins of the Precentor’s Palace on Istvaan III. The World Eaters and Death Guard fight alone.
*+ ‘2-3 months’: Lucius kills Chaplain Charmosian in single combat, but makes a deal with Lord Commander Eidolon to sell out Tarvitz and the other Loyalists in exchange for being allowed to return to the Emperor’s Children Legion.Fulgrim is unable to sway Ferrus Manus to Horus’ cause. The Warmaster sends him and a detachment of his Legion to fortify Istvaan v.Lucius guides the Emperor’s Children into the Loyalist lines. Capatain Loken defeats and seriously wounds Captain Kharn in combat.Lucius turns on Saul Tarvitz, although their duel is interrupted by the arrival of Loyalist reinforcements, saving Tarvitz and wounding Lucius.Tarik Torgaddon, although offered a chance to return to his Legion, refuses and is killed in single combat with Little Horus Aximand.Garviel Loken falls in single combat with Ezekyle Abaddon. Both Aximand and Abaddon suffer wounds.The last remaining Loyalists, less than one hundred in number and led by Saul Tarvitz and Nero Vipus, are wiped out by an orbital bombardment.The battle of Istvaan III purged the Legions of the Sons of Horus, Emperor’s Children, World Eaters and Death Guard of their loyalists. All 4 Legions took unnecessary casualties; the World Eaters are reduced to just over half original strength.
== Notes ==
*The Mournival exists for 200 years. Seeing as it is an advisory body to Horus made from Luna Wolves captains, this implies that Horus has been on the Great Crusade for that long, which is only about 3 years less than it's gone on for. Horus was likely found almost as soon as the GC started.
**The Luna Wolves warrior-lodge is said to exist since the start of the Legion - the Mournival is an offshoot from it - which contradicts the warrior-lodge being introduced to the legion on Davin, only some 60-odd years before the Heresy. The probable explanation is that the Davinite version of the lodge is different enough to the original version that the lodge-master Seghar Targost can claim the Davinite influence made it a new thing, whilst an old and somewhat casual member like Tarik Torgaddon considers them one and the same.
*Despite being recalled to Terra around the Crusade year 201, the Imperial Fists are apparently still trying to get there when the actual Heresy breaks out, years later.
