Argel Tal

Argel Tal was a native of Colchis, the homeworld of the Primarch Lorgar, and was inducted into the Word Bearers Legion by First Chaplain Erebus, who at first had chosen him to become one of that Astartes Legion's Chaplains before he rejected that honour. Instead, Argel Tal eventually became the Captain of the 7th Assault Company of the Serrated Sun Chapter of the Word Bearers. While aboard the light cruiser Orfeo's Lament alongside Ingethel the Ascended, Argel Tal was among the first to discover the Realm of Chaos that existed in the Immaterium within the Eye of Terror Warp rift while the Serrated Suns Chapter carried out the Pilgrimage of Lorgar. While in the Immaterium, he was possessed, unknowingly at first, by the daemon called Raum. He eventually returned to the Legion after a 7-month-long subjective ordeal in the Eye of Terror that lasted for only moments for those of the Legion waiting in realspace for the Serrated Suns' return, and through questioning by Lorgar, Tal detailed what he had experienced in the Eye of Terror, providing useful insight for the heretical Book of Lorgar. In honour of his achievements, Lorgar made Tal the Captain of his Gal Vorbak (the "Blessed Sons" in the Colchisian dialect) an elite cadre of Astartes made up of the surviving members of the Serrated Sun Chapter who were the first to wear the crimson colour on their Power Armour that would eventually become the standard colour for the entire Legion after their turn to Chaos during the Horus Heresy. Leading the Gal Vorbak, Argel Tal battled on Istvaan V during the infamous Dropsite Massacre against the Raven Guard Legion and their Loyalist allies, the Salamanders and Iron Hands Legions. Argel Tal was the only Word Bearer trusted by the Adeptus Custodes sent to watch Lorgar by the Emperor of Mankind after the Primarch's betrayal of the Imperial Truth on the world of Khur. This made his ultimate betrayal of them all the more poignant when he was responsible for their murder after they discovered that the Word Bearers had become Traitors to the Imperium. After the Horus Heresy, Argel Tal became known as the Crimson Lord of the few remaining Gal Vorbak.