Monarchia

Monarchia was the name of the capital city of the planet Khur, built as a beautiful shrine to the God-Emperor by the XVII Legion, the Word Bearers of the Adeptus Astartes during the Great Crusade. It was on this planet that their primarch, Lorgar Aurelian, and the entirety of the Legion were shamed by the Emperor for their deification of him in 964.M30. The XIII Legion, the Ultramarines, reduced the city to ash from orbit. The distress of the people of Khur summoned the Word Bearers to the planet, where they met the Emperor, his confidant Malcador the Sigillite and the primarch of the XIII Legion, Roboute Guilliman. In the ashes of the city, the XVII legion was forced to kneel to the Emperor - for the majority of whom was their God - and deny their faith. Lorgar himself was especially shamed, and the combination of the razing of the city and his own self-doubts would see Aurelian be manipulated by his advisors, Kor Phaeron and Erebus, into accepting the old Gods of Colchis - ultimately the four of Chaos - as replacement deities.