An interesting contest. Such was the way of the old plains: grievances would be heard, penance would be meted, bonds restored. The names themselves were symbolic, and no strict pattern has ever been enforced on newly marked White Scars. Indeed, the battle honour "Arco" would be borne on the banners of all five Legions, including the treacherous sons of Fulgrim, throughout the Horus Heresy and well into the latter age of the Great Scouring. The hall was still in torment, with Battle-Brothers at each other's throats, lost in a maddened world of battle-cries and muzzle-flares. He told Magnus that he had always been his friend. The spectres kept materialising, bursting into ghoulish life from all directions, spilling out of the air. Jan 1, 2019 - Jaghatai Khan, Primarch and leader of the White Scar space marines. Les tribus des steppes se battirent comme à leur chasse, en un cercle de cavaliers rapides frappant comme le tonnerre sur leurs proies humaines. They were clad in pale, thick-slabbed Terminator Armour and carried huge Power Scythes known as Manreapers. At dawn, Jaghatai's lightning raid caught the Traitor garrison at the spaceport completely by surprise, and reclaimed the spaceport for the Emperor. Some took their own lives rather than endure the shame of surrender, though most recognised the authority of the Khagan and offered up their blades in contrition. Most surrendered, but many resisted and were destroyed, utterly wiped from the face of the planet. 1-p.45. Undeterred, the Khan opted to teleport to the surface. The Khan now saw the larger strategic picture -- the Alpha Legion did not wish to fight the White Scars, nor did they want to join them. Despite these objections, whose foresight was to prove unfortunate, the full authority of Legion Master of the Vth Legion was invested in Jaghatai, known among his brothers as "the Khan" and among his own as the Khagan, the Khan of Khans. The walls curved upwards steeply, terraced like an auditorium and striated with bands of metallic ore. Brass instruments lay about it, each one smashed or warped. Somehow the Warp Storms around Chondax had been orchestrated by some mysterious outside force. It was hunting, and in a way that he understood: cavalry charges across open spaces, going up against prey that had no concept of capitulation or self-pity. In an instant, the Death Lord and his retinue were snatched away, sucked into the vortex of the Warp. But before his friend Qin Xa died, he told Arvida to do everything in his power to find a cure for the Flesh-Change. Qin Xa strode over to him, his own weapons drawn, but Hasik did not get up. If the enemy had been Greenskins, they would have kept going -- carving into the organs, making sure -- but these were their brothers. He and his men were not Traitors -- it would all be resolved. the Khan asked. But there were those who thought that Librarians were witches, ripe for burning, and those who thought they were still-forming gods. Cavaliers et archers aguerris, ces tribus disparates se battaient souvent entre elles pour le contrôle de pâturages ancestraux ou (comme l'écrivit Ogedei) pour la "joie pure du combat". Something burned in him, dark like old embers. Legionary fought Legionary, full-blooded and committed. Page Transparency See More. In every battle in which he fought, Jaghatai led the assault. This was their moment -- they would hold their position. The Alpha Legion had already been given every chance to explain themselves. Each company kept to their own, looking on those who should have been their brothers with suspicion and no little disdain, a gathering of strangers in a strange land. Yet, despite these qualities they were often seen as the least among their kin, followers and not lords, a fact that sat ill with warriors of such skill and dedication. Whatever else had happened, he thought he could come to Magnus for his counsel. Finalement, l'invasion de Jaghatai atteignit la forteresse de Palatine, à Cophasta; une magnifique cité sur la côte Est de Chogoris. Palatine, vaincu, et sa garde personnelle, échappèrent seuls au désastre de son armée et se réfugièrent dans la capitale. As long as the Warrior Lodge brothers held onto the capital ships, the others would fall into line. He was the champion, the sacrificial king. It became quickly evident that the Warrior Lodge faction of the Vth Legion had not truly understood what they had been working towards, for the Horus they venerated no longer existed. 8-chap. Within the space of a few short exchanges of weapons fire they were left aflame and crippled, though in recognition of their bravery, the Great Khan gave orders to allow them to withdraw. His flesh was somehow bleaker, his stance a little more crabbed, and yet the aura of intimidation around him had been augmented. Qin Xa and the surviving Keshig made their way back towards the central part of the ruined city of Tizca where their Primarch had been swallowed up by the massive hole in the centre of a ruined square. His sword glowed with aetheric residue, as though dipped in molten iron. Les apocryphes de Skaros parlent peu des White Scars; et le peu qu'ils relatent provient des White Scars eux-même. Ten summers after his arrival on Chogoris, as his tribe moved to their winter settlements, the Primarch was traveling on a mountainside with a group of his followers. A major star system like Prospero ought to have had thousands of ship-spores hanging in the void, the chemical residue of void engine release, but the routes inbound from the Mandeville Warp point were sterile. They surged back across the heaving terrain, lumbering away from the Psychneuein attacks as best they could, trying to reach the crumbling maw of the fissure that had swallowed their Primarch. The planet was entirely dark. This was but the first part of the Khagan's strategy, for tradition alone would not suffice. While most of his battle-brothers eschewed the wearing of Terminator armour, Qin Xa marched to war wearing a glorious suit of Tartaros-pattern plate. The White Scars had done it, as one -– with no extraneous prompting -- in five seconds. Hasik admitted that mistakes had been made, but nonetheless he and his Warrior Lodge brothers saw the truth. Nearly all of his Legion went with him, ranked in their various Brotherhoods, eager for the hunt. The Alpha Legion struggled to regroup in its wake, pulling warships from the far-flung cordon formation like an octopus clutching its many limbs back to itself. He commanded that the Primarchs were to close their Legions' Librarius departments forthwith and not to indulge the undoubted psychic talents of those Legionaries who possessed the gift. Jaghatai could see how his brother thought it would all play out; first hobble the sorcerers. But the Death Lord explained that this was why Mortarion had come to find Jaghatai. As Second Founding successors of the White Scars Chapter, the Storm Lords can trace their history back to a time when Jaghatai Khan hunted across the stars. Hasik's own keshig were amongst them, hulking in Terminator battle-plate. The Khan lurched away, stumbling, and Mortarion lumbered after him. Furthermore, the White Scars' fleet Astropaths continued to interpret the astropathic messages they received in a contradictory manner. Shiban urged his brothers onwards, trying to instill the virtues of greater speed, greater power. The knowledge gleaned from Magnus needed to be propagated swiftly, ending the long period of uncertainty that had blighted the White Scars Legion. They maintained the integrity of the cordon, warding the routes to the nearest suitable Mandeville jump-points and keeping the White Scars corralled within the vicinity of Chondax. The choice could be made, for the Traitor had been unmasked. The lightning-fast style of mobile warfare that had served Jaghatai Khan so well on the steppes of his homeworld proved to be equally effective on the many different battlefields of the Great Crusade. Jaghatai Khan, Primarch of the Vth Legion-The White Scars. On Chogoris, such rituals had held the tribes together through centuries of murder-raids and slave hunts, and Jaghatai knew well its power to harden the soul and bind warriors together. It was another thing, though, to witness what he had done, to see the truth of the White Scars star-speakers' (astropaths) testimony. Cette construction abandonnée faisait partie d'un vaste plan de l'Empereur d'étudie et exploitation de la Toile pour offrir à l'humanité un moyen plus sûr de voyager dans la galaxie. Jaghatai Khan frequently described Qin Xa as one of the finest warriors of the White Scars Legion, and who are we to argue with the Khagan? The constant rain of arrows from the tribesmen took their toll on the tight ranks of the Palatine's warriors. 10. Why the silence? Mortarion had spoken the truth about that, at least -- warships had engaged, Lances were being fired, shields were buckling. Falling for a long distance, the Primarch came to a sudden halt. The Khagan had come to Proserpo to find a friend. It was later revealed that the White Scars presence at the Kalium Gate was merely another diversion, as they had no intention of utilising the Warp Gate, for the Khagan's true purpose was to find the notorious senior Navigator, Novator Pieter Achelieux. None of them let loose with the flamboyance that they were used to. The standard breakout response was a full-scale assault on the containment net, aiming to drive it back through a massed volume of concentrated ship-to-ship fire. Of the others there is little recorded, possibly as there were few occasions where the Primarchs gathered in numbers and fewer still where the Khagan was present. 1-p.43, Mais bien que Jaghatai dominait ce vaste ensemble, il sut que son peuple n'avait aucun désir de gouverner un tel royaume. Everything had changed so quickly, garbled in a flurry of contradictory astropathy and secure comm-bursts: Russ of the Space Wolves had gone rogue; or the Warmaster had, taking several Legions with him; the White Scars were ordered to reinforce the Alpha Legion at the Alaxxes Nebula; Ferrus Manus had killed the peacock Fulgrim; Mars and the Mechanicum was in open revolt against the Emperor. Redbubble brings you unique and colorful iPad cases & skins. He inquired whether they had a fix on the Swordstorm. Nearly four Terran years later, the White Scars had successfully waged a guerrilla war against the Traitors' supply lines deep in the void. Wishing his brother the best of luck, Jaghatai decided to seek his answers elsewhere. There were also conflicting reports received from the Imperial Fists Legion's Primarch Rogal Dorn that urged the White Scars to return to Terra to help defend the Throneworld alongside Dorn and Leman Russ, supposedly now a Traitor, as soon as possible. But Magnus dismissed his misgiving, telling him instead to focus on the future. The Alpha Legion, for some unknown reason, wanted the White Scars to return to Terra and aid in its defence from whomever the real Traitors were. They needed to get away from the benighted planet, and that when they did, to take him with them. Arvida led the surviving Keshig far through the empty city, until they found themselves within the ruins of a grand audience chamber. Then the armoured figure spoke, and all became clear. L'historien Carpinus qui compila une histoire détaillée de la Grande Croisade, (appelée Speculum Historiale) nota que les armées de Jaghatai Khan achevèrent de ruiner le royaume de Palatine seulement 6 mois avant que l'Empereur n'atteigne Chogoris. The citizens of the Imperium at large were taught that humanity had moved beyond religion and superstition. The Chogorians had always known of the existence of the Warp and the dangerous entities of Chaos that lurked within. Unfortunately, the White Scars were not able to make use of this Warp Gate, as their tactics and patterns had become predictable to the Traitors, and Lord Commander Eidolon correctly deduced that the White Scars would attempt to utilise the Kalium Gate to reach Terra. The results were not encouraging -- no Vox signals were detected and there were no transports nor energy-trails. The White Scars inquired as to how the Thousand Sons Sergeant had come to be on Prospero and how long he had been there. Their only advantage was that the creatures were blind, yet they could still sense their prey. There are many instances of rivalries, and some of outright hostilities. Instead replaced with some weird mummy demanding a slab. The Keshig prepared to face the ghostly insects, knowing full well their weapons were useless against the Warp-spawned creatures. If he was dead, then the Imperium was finished. Description by the artist : This is a bit of fun, and a homage of sorts to two images of Sanguinius and Saint Celestine fav.me/dc9o532 and fav.me/dbxrg2c using Kharn, and my own design for a 40k era Lotara Sarrin ( she was active in the Horus Heresy, and her fate in the centuries since is uncertain, while her ship has made repeated appearances, so i figure she has since merged with the vessel ) Le duel fut acharné mais la vélocité du Khan lui permit de prendre l'avantage. A vast avalanche pushed him and his group back down the mountain, killing the normal men. Suddenly, one of the creatures blasted apart, spinning into a thousand fragments that sailed high across the ruins. The lightning never ceased, flickering away on the northern horizon. Il créa un service de guerre obligatoire où les guerriers de différentes tribus devaient combattre ensemble dans les mêmes formations, forgeant une loyauté allant en 1er à la horde, et finalement à lui-même. It was then that the Alpha Legion opened fire on its former brothers. He left his blade unsheathed, holding it loosely at his side. He towered over his fellows, clad in battle plate of bare brass and corpse-white Ceramite. Join Facebook to connect with Jaghatai Khan and others you may know. The entire formation -- tightly-knit, long and slender like a throwing javelin -- raced out into open space. Within its edifice was an ancient and powerful device known as the Dark Glass, a relic archeotech device from the Age of Technology. Mortarion did not make empty threats. He managed no great empire, nor wrote any great treatise of war, yet his actions guided the course of the Great Crusade with the quiet skill that was the hallmark of his Legion. Such symbolism was fairly common among the various warrior societies that made up much of the early Imperium's vast armies, with many of the Space Marine Legions employing similar trials for their recruits. Others went with him into confinement, among them Goghal, Hibou and Torghun Khan. Their gene-sire could fight the Psychneuein, for he was made to fight them. The world's wind howled in their empty wake, the ash stirred, the lightning forked. Psykers, the zadyin arga, were taught that if they strayed from this path, the Warp would eat away at their very souls. An opportunity soon presented itself when the White Scars discovered the Kalium Gate, an ancient Warp Gate that dated back to the Dark Age of Technology and had long been abandoned since the Age of Strife. Every eye was fixed upon the command dais. There were bodies buried beneath the ash and metal: human bodies, mortal in stature. A hard bang shot out, radiating across the entire bridge. They believed this inherent Imperial Truth, just as they were meant to. Suddenly, the bridge detected signs of a boarding party making their way towards the bridge. Reply. The tale of the Pale Emperor is known to very few. The Khan recognised the vile creatures immediately -- Psychneuein -- vile Warp entities drawn to the mental emanations of unprotected, badly-injured or nascent psykers whose minds they attack for the obscene purpose of gestating their progeny. Warriors of both sides had already fallen, their bodies caked in the drifting dust, but the fighting continued around them, bitter and unyielding. Overhead loomed an archway of the quivering, still-living flesh of what must surely have once been a man. All were needed upon the front lines as the expanding Imperium began to encounter more and more powerful xenos realms and fallen kingdoms of Mankind hidden in the dark void.