Horus has spent the Heresy levelling up, seizing masses of daemonic power on Molech and generally preparing to kill the Emperor Himself… So who would be crazy enough to attack his flagship and take him on?

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Some estimates indicated that an attempted Imperial Compliance would take as long as ten standard years. Unbeknownst to the III rd Legion, the serpentine Laer species were corrupted xenos worshippers of the Chaos God of Pleasure, Slaanesh. But while he did not require of the Medusans worship and did nothing to encourage it, he demanded obedience to his will, and bloodily broke any who would contest his word. I will turn them away from the gifts of the machine and bid them relearn the mysteries of flesh, bone and blood.In fact, the Iron Tenth grew so obsessed with the idea of personal invulnerability that many elected to replace their soft, fleshy parts with bionics – appropriate, given their Primarch’s living metal hands.

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The only Space Marines who were pleased were the Iron Hands, and even they were grumbly about Ferrus bringing an Emperor’s Children along as his equerry. He admires you, you know,’ said Fulgrim, with the near-telepathy that only the closest of brothers could share. Both were like gods unto the terrified artisans, who prostrated themselves before these two mighty warriors as though fearing a terrible battle might ensure between them. Obviously, he brought Second Captain Akurduana to light a fire in his Legion’s forges, thus improving them overall.Their Primarch’s arrival only made his Legion better, stronger, angrier – with even more technology. The Daemon-Fulgrim sensed the burgeoning Warp touch upon the swordsman and had presented him with the silver daemonblade within which the Laer had originally bound a fragment of the daemon's essence, as he now wielded the far more potent Kinebrach Anathame, a gift from Horus. Like the living cells of biological creatures they will seek out damaged areas and cluster around them, mouths the size of atoms chewing up matter and forging it back together.

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It has been hypothesized by some Imperial savants after the Imperium of Man made first contact with the Necrons that Asirnoth, the strange Silver Wyrm that the primarch of the Iron Hands Legion, Ferrus Manus, battled on the volcanic world of Medusa over 10,000 Terran years ago may have been a Necron construct created from necrodermis.There have been many who have studied the formative situations of the Primarchs who have drawn parallels between the conditions in which Vulkan found himself on Nocturne and Ferrus Manus encountered on Medusa; both were found on savage, barren worlds riven by hostile conditions and both were home to primitive cultures, long cut off from the rest of Mankind during the Age of Strife. Oh, wait, no, he encouraged warfare between its people as a means to test their strength, with bigger and better guns. The Blade of the Laer, known also as the Silver Blade of Laer, was a Chaos Daemon Weapon recovered by Fulgrim, primarch of the Emperor's Children Legion, in the aftermath of the Imperial xenocide campaign known as the Cleansing of Laeran during the latter years of the Great Crusade.

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Instead he took the wonderous weapon that he had once crafted in brotherhood for Ferrus as a reminder of their former friendship, and left behind Fireblade, which Ferrus had forged for him. Thinking the whispers in his mind was only his own subconscious speaking to him, Fulgrim began listening to what it offered. In a scant few years, Ferrus Manus was transferred full control of the X Legion which he took command of body and soul, renaming it and remaking it in his image. As Ferrus pushed himself to his feet and staggered towards the wounded Fulgrim, he cried out as he brought the flaming blade towards his brother's neck. Unlike the Phoenician, Ferrus Manus had little time for art, music or any of the cultural pastimes the III rd Legion's Primarch so enjoyed.A second wave, comprising the Night Lords, Iron Warriors, Alpha Legion and a contingent from the Word Bearers Legions, would follow them and support their initial attack. Iron Warriors Primarch Perturabo holding the reforged Forgebreaker, following its conversion into a Daemon Weapon. The lord of the Blood Angels had brought enough to fill a dozen wings of the Palace with the greatest wonders imaginable. C'tan Shards can also shape powerful slashing or cutting blades from their bodies at will or shapeshift in such a way that they can appear to be a member of almost any species.