Taking Erebus's identity for his own, the boy departed his village and became an aspiring priest of the Covenant of Colchis in the planetary capital city of Vharedesh.Įrebus cared little for his religious studies at first, but gradually began to appreciate their spiritual insights.
Taking his parents' advice to be more like Erebus perhaps a little too literally, the boy strangled the more accomplished child with a garrote and replicated Erebus' facial tattoos. His parents often scolded him for his troublesome behaviour and lack of educational achievements like his peers, comparing him in particular to the boy who was the pride of his village - a highly religious and studious child named Erebus.
He felt a thrill testing his own limits with such immoral acts, which as a boy first manifested in his teasing and torturing of Colchis' desert scorpions. Even at a young age he felt it was his purpose to manipulate, deceive, and sow discord among his fellows. The boy who would become Erebus was born to common parents on the world of Colchis in the late 30th Millennium. Unknown transmission intercept// Calth war zoneĪn ancient Remembrancer sketch of First Chaplain Erebus during the Great Crusade. In their name we will have our revenge, and the Emperor will regret that he spurned our loyalty in the ashes of Monarchia." " The Emperor has denied all claims to godhood, but there are other gods, older gods, gods who will hear our pleas and reward our service with more than empty promises and false dreams. He was a fearsome and intimidating Astartes warrior and had tattooed whole sections of the Book of Lorgar across his shaven scalp to terrify his enemies.Įrebus had willingly turned to the service of Chaos even before he had ascended to become an Astartes and was personally responsible for corrupting his own Legion's Primarch Lorgar, Horus and the Death Guard First Captain Calas Typhon to the worship and service of the Ruinous Powers.Įrebus refers to himself as the "Hand of Destiny," the mortal instrument of the Chaos Gods in the material realm.Įrebus is presently one of the Dark Apostles that comprise the ruling Dark Council of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion on their Daemon World of Sicarus, and fights a subtle, but constant war against the Black Cardinal Kor Phaeron for control of the XVII th Legion's direction in his primarch's continued absence. He originally held the prestigious position of first chaplain of the Word Bearers Space Marine Legion at the end of the Great Crusade and during the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium. The Dark Apostle Erebus, architect of the Horus Heresy.Įrebus is a senior Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion.
Erebus, First Chaplain of the Legio Astartes Word Bearers (attrb.) For Man to truly flourish he must willing to abandon the ever shrinking island of such petty 'truth' and surrender himself to the reality of that which is beyond." " That which we foolishly call truth, is only a small island in a vast sea of the unknown.
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