In the labyrinthine intrigues of the Warhammer 40,000 universe, no figure stands more tormented than the mighty Primarch Corvus Corax, the Raven Lord. While the Emperor was embroiled in his own cosmic strife, Corax yearned for an audience with his father – a yearning repeatedly met with rejections and excuses.
In the shadowy world of Terra, Corax found himself and his loyal Raven Guard separated, housed in a meticulously designed abode by an underground lake. The dwelling was a testament to the Emperor’s care, considering the Primarch’s towering stature and formidable build. Nearby, twenty similar homes stood, prompting Corax to ponder – perhaps post the galaxy’s conquest, the Emperor planned to settle his sons next to him on Terra. The idea warmed the Primarch’s heart as he envisioned a future where he could relinquish his duties and devote his twilight years to composing a treatise on political science.
However, even the comfort of this sanctuary could not alleviate Corax’s mental torment. The Raven Lord bore his physical wounds with grim resolve, asserting that his pain was a mere trifle compared to the sacrifice of his sons who had fallen on Istvan’s bloody fields.
In an attempt to process the horrors he had witnessed, Corax embarked on a mission to document every detail of the betrayal and ensuing battle, hoping these accounts could prove useful to allies. Yet, certain memories, like the duel with Lorgar and the escape from the Night Haunter, were too painful to recount in depth, leading him to skirt around these haunting episodes.
The Primarch’s world was further rocked by news of fresh betrayals, the burning of Prospero and a demand from a brother Primarch to bring all surviving Raven Guard to Terra. Enraged by the Lord Regent Rogal Dorn’s words, Corax attempted to storm the Throne Room, yearning for direct instructions from the Emperor to counterattack the traitors.
The Emperor, through the Sigite, finally communicated with his desperate son. But instead of sanctioning a suicidal battle, he revealed a fragment of the creation of superhumans’ secret – a knowledge that could help replenish the 19th Legion’s numbers.
Corax also learned of the Emperor’s plan to control the Webway and that Horus’ uprising was, in fact, a full-scale war instigated by the Chaos Gods. The genetic assets of the Primarch project, initially presumed destroyed, were revealed to be safely hidden in a secret vault. The Emperor entrusted Corax with a singular task – to protect these precious samples from falling into the wrong hands.
With a contingent of the Raven Guard, Adeptus Mechanicus priests, and Adeptus Custodes, Corax infiltrated the secret laboratory beneath the Imperial Palace and retrieved the crucial samples. Back on Deliverance, he initiated the process of legion restoration. In a few weeks, a stable gene-seed sample was created, purer and more potent than the standard, derived directly from Corax rather than the original 20 Primarch genome combinations.
But amidst this hope of revival lurked the ominous presence of Alarus Omegan, a traitor hiding among the Emperor’s loyal warriors. He instigated a rebellion among the Tech Guilds of Kiavahr and amassed a contingent of traitors near Corax’s home system, damaging 2,000 gene-seeds with an unknown virus. This catastrophe unleashed terrible warp mutations amongst the warriors; many were incarcerated.
Yet, Corax refused to abandon his afflicted sons, vowing to find a cure for their mutations. As a final blow, Omegan’s Alpha Legion attempted to steal and destroy the remaining precious gene-seeds, managing to seize the material and uncover its secrets. The saga of the Raven Lord, fraught with betrayal, despair, and resurgence, continues to unfold in the grim darkness of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
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