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Warhammer 40K Darktide Review - Left To Shred

While Horus ultimately lost his bid for power and was slain by the father he had once so loved during the Siege of Terra, his actions damaged the Imperium of Man beyond repair and inaugurated the current Age of the Imperium, when Mankind is beset by countless horrific dangers to its existence and the Imperium itself has become a stagnant, repressive, and dehumanising galactic presence. Horus was responsible for unleashing the horrific civil war known as the Horus Heresy upon the Imperium of Man in the early 31st Millennium which killed billions of men, women and children in pursuit of his mad ambition to overthrow the Emperor of Mankind and replace Him as the ruler of the Human race. Horus was thus the first primarch to be rediscovered by the Emperor after the Great Crusade began in the late 30th Millennium. Horus' homeworld was the Hive World of Cthonia which lay only a few light years from Terra. He was also the first Imperial Warmaster, the most favoured son of the Emperor, and ultimately, the greatest traitor in the history of Mankind. Horus was the primarch and master of the XVI th Legion of Space Marines, the Luna Wolves, later renamed by him the Sons of Horus. Horus, also called Horus Lupercal, or more simply The Lupercal during his lifetime by the Astartes of his Luna Wolves Legion, was one of the 20 genetically-engineered primarchs created by the Emperor of Mankind from the foundation of His own DNA before the start of the Great Crusade to lead the armies of the newborn Imperium of Man.

An ancient Remembrancer's sketch of the Warmaster Horus Lupercal, Primarch of the Sons of Horus Legion illustration taken from Carpinius' Speculum Historiale.