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| - As the Great Crusade spread throughout the galaxy and the warriors of the Emperor of Mankind subdued the stars in the late 30th Millennium, a single company of Word Bearers Space Marines was detached from their Crusade force to assist Imperial colonists settling a freshly scoured planet designated only by a meaningless series of letters and numbers. Kor Megron was the Space Marine in charge and, under his direction, the planet was swiftly settled. As was the wont of the Word Bearers, the work of the Crusade, and of conquest, appeared to take second place to that of glorifying the Emperor as the God of Mankind. Within a decade, the world of Eydolim boasted a thriving planetary culture centred on the new, and radical, concept of worshipping the Emperor of Mankind as the Master of Humanity.
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| - As the Great Crusade spread throughout the galaxy and the warriors of the Emperor of Mankind subdued the stars in the late 30th Millennium, a single company of Word Bearers Space Marines was detached from their Crusade force to assist Imperial colonists settling a freshly scoured planet designated only by a meaningless series of letters and numbers. Kor Megron was the Space Marine in charge and, under his direction, the planet was swiftly settled. As was the wont of the Word Bearers, the work of the Crusade, and of conquest, appeared to take second place to that of glorifying the Emperor as the God of Mankind. Within a decade, the world of Eydolim boasted a thriving planetary culture centred on the new, and radical, concept of worshipping the Emperor of Mankind as the Master of Humanity. Upon the world of Khur, the Emperor would later censure the entirety of the XVIIth Legion and put an end to the indulgent practices of the Word Bearers, demanding that they conform to the atheistic confines of the Imperial Truth and end their religious devotions to Him. The Emperor also demanded that they accelerate their prosecution of the Great Crusade. The rancour of the scorned XVIIth Legion was palpable. Lorgar, their Primarch, was humiliated, and the none-too gentle chiding meted out upon his Legion left a sting like a freshly-dealt slap. Soon, the dismay and betrayal the Word Bearers felt at the Emperor's harsh judgement festered into bitterness and then heresy. They forsook their allegiance to the Emperor and spiralled into the worship of the Dark Gods. Until then, the life's work of Kor Megron had been to glorify the Master of Mankind and conquer the galaxy in His name. Now, a new path lay before him. The Word Bearers were once renowned for their fanatical loyalty and religious zeal in persecuting the enemies of the Emperor of Mankind. But when the Warmaster Horus, the greatest of the Primarchs and the Emperor's most favoured son, betrayed his oaths of loyalty and launched a galaxy-spanning insurrection against the Imperium, the once-loyal Word Bearers were one of the first Space Marine Legions to openly declare for the Warmaster. They turned their former adoration of and devotion to the "False Emperor" towards the unholy pantheon of the Chaos Gods. They betrayed all that they had striven to build, ripping down the temples and edifices dedicated to the saviour of Mankind, bringing untold numbers of blasphemies and great sacrilege across the length and breadth of the nascent Imperium of Man. What pivotal event wrought Kor Megron's change of heart and drove him from the most loyal, worshipful of sons to a vengeful, embittered foe of the Emperor, is unknown -- for each Traitor finds his own route to damnation. The result, however was clear for any to see: Kor Megron, and the company of Word Bearers who had served alongside him, swore new oaths, dark pacts that would bind their souls in unity until the end of time. Each vowed that their greatest work, their one, true masterpiece, would not be complete until every icon of the False Emperor was cast down and destroyed and the Imperium was naught but trampled ruins and fading memories. Sealing their pact with blood, they anointed themselves as the Foresworn -- a brotherhood of damnation who would topple the deceitful worship of an uncaring and undeserving Emperor. Following the defeat of Horus, Kor Megron continued to fight the Long War against the hated "Corpse Emperor", seeking to undo all that he had wrought as a once-loyal Astartes. Over the passage of ten thousand standard years the Foresworn have continued to assail Mankind. At Hyberone Primus they defiled the reclusiam of Saint Benefactos and piled the weakling dead five thousand high. Throughout the bloody nights of the Faith Scourging, they hunted down and executed the nine blessed Cardinals of Anopon. The Foresworn slaughtered Saint Krisabel and her immortal bodyguard and they tempted Hareld the Anchorite to the worship of Slaanesh and left his bone shrine a scorched ruin.
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