

Religion of Evil: Most would be content with founding one, but this 40K, he went up to eleven and founded two: the Cult of the Emperor and Chaos Undivided.Psychopathic Manchild: Roboute Guiliman described him as such.Following the Drop Site Massacre he starts using them more. Psychic Powers: He displayed psychic powers as a youth but suppressed them as he grew older.

Orcus on His Throne: Has been sitting on his throne on Sicarus for thousands of years, leaving the Dark Council to monitor things in his wake.Old Shame: His eventual reaction to the Lectitio Divinatus.It Was a Gift: Illuminarium, his crozius arcanum, was a gift from Ferrus Manus.I Just Want to Be Normal: All he wanted was just to be a priest.

Currently he waits within his sanctuary on the daemon world of Sicarus, ordering none to disturb his meditations. Following the Heresy, Lorgar's actions in bringing about the Chaos Space Marines resulted in him ascending to the status of Daemon Prince. Learning of the existence of Warp entities, Lorgar masterminded the corruption of Horus and several other legions, resulting in the Horus Heresy. Now believing that the Emperor's divinity was false, but still believing faith was central to the human spirit, Lorgar was susceptible to the whispers of First Captain Kor Phaeron and First Chaplain Erebus about the Old Faith. After a century with the Word Bearers, the Emperor rebuked Lorgar by ordering the Ultramarines to destroy the city of Monarchia, which exemplified the Word Bearers accomplishments, and forced Lorgar and the Word Bearers to kneel before the Emperor, Roboute Guilliman, and Malcador the Sigilite. However, Lorgar also built vast temples to the Cult of the God-Emperor, and wrote his arguments for the Emperor's divinity in the Lectitio Divinatus, in violation of the Imperial Truth espoused by the Emperor. Whole worlds were swayed to the Emperor's rule by Lorgar's speeches. After a month of oath swearing, Lorgar was given command of the XVII Legion of the Adeptus Astartes, the Imperial Heralds, which he renamed the Word Bearers.ĭuring the Great Crusade, Lorgar brought about compliance not with conquest but with conversion. Soon after, the Emperor arrived on Colchis, and Lorgar bowed to him as both Emperor and God.

Forming the Brotherhood, Lorgar struck first, removing the rival preachers in a war that lasted six years. Suffering visions of the coming of a messiah, Lorgar soon became a threat to the established power of the Covenant. However, some within the Covenant grew to fear Lorgar's growing power. Growing up in the temple, Lorgar became an amazing preacher, able to convert thousands with mere words. Landing on Colchis, Lorgar was taken in by the Covenant, the dominant religious order of Colchis which worshiped the Chaos Gods. One of the twenty Primarchs created by the Emperor of Mankind for the Great Crusade, Lorgar and his brothers were scattered to the stars by the Chaos Gods to prevent the coming of the Imperium. Characters belonging to the Word Bearers, both on the tabletop, the background, and the novel series.
