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Baelor, also known as "Baelor the Imposter," is a Fallen Angel and Chaos Lord who served as the second-in-command of the warhost of Chaos Space Marines known as the Ten Thousand Eyes during the Era Indomitus. Baelor was the closest friend and primary lieutenant of the warhost's Sorcerer Lord, Seraphax. Ultimately, Baelor supported Seraphax in his conflict with Primarch Lion El'Jonson who had finally awakened beneath The Rock after the formation of the Great Rift and begun to travel to various worlds in the Imperium Nihilus through the sub-realm of the Immaterium called Mirror-Caliban.
Seraphax slaughtered much of the population of the world of Sable in the Ten Thousand Eyes' conquered interstellar pocket empire in the Imperium Nihilus to draw the Lion to him so he could be captured to be used by the Sorcerer Lord in an insane plan to kill the Emperor and then use Him to eliminate the Chaos Gods.
When the Lion was rescued by a force of The Risen, former Fallen who had not been corrupted by Chaos and had been forgiven by their primarch, Baelor betrayed his friend, who had mutated into a bestial form to subdue the Lion. Baelor stabbed Seraphax through the back using his Daemonsword, ending his life, for Baelor believed he had finally become too corrupted by Chaos to be allowed to live.
Baelor asked for the forgiveness of the Lion for his crimes and was granted it briefly before the primarch gave his wayward gene-son a final gift, the Emperor's Peace. Baelor's long use of the Daemonsword had corrupted his body and he was slowly mutating, so he gladly embraced his end once the Lion had granted him absolution.
History[]
Origins[]
Baelor was one of the Fallen, the Space Marines of the Dark Angels Legion under the command of Luther who had been ordered to garrison the Legion's homeworld of Caliban during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. When Luther embraced Chaos and betrayed Lion El'Jonson after the end of the Heresy, the Fallen were cast through time and space in the Immaterium by the will of the Dark Gods as Caliban imploded. The Dark Angels and their Unforgiven successors spent the next ten Terran millennia hunting them down in a quest for absolution for their shame.
While hunting for Baelor unsuccessfully in the late 40th Millennium in the Nephilim Sector, the Dark Angels discovered the lost STC template for the advanced "Lionheart Engine" which allowed the Chapter to create the Nephilim Jetfighter, named for the sector where the discovery was made. The new technology was used to modify older Imperial fighter designs by the Chapter to create the Dark Angels' signature interceptor.
Ten Thousand Eyes[]
By the time of the Great Rift's birth during the Era Indomitus, Baelor had come to serve as the second-in-command of the Heretic Astartes warhost known as the Ten Thousand Eyes under the command of his fellow Fallen and friend, the Sorcerer Lord Seraphax. Seraphax used his sorcerous abilities to keep Baelor free of mutation, and both still saw themselves as working for the betterment of Humanity through the use of the power of Chaos.
When the Primarch Lion El'Jonson reemerged on the world of Camarth in the Imperium Nihilus, a planet that the Ten Thousand Eyes had conquered from the Ruby Crescents Chapter and now garrisoned, Baelor was disturbed by Seraphax's plan to capture the primarch and use him as a means to kill the Emperor. Seraphax hoped that by elevating the Master of Mankind through His death to the status of a new god in the Warp He could defeat the Chaos Gods and all of Humanity's xenos enemies.
While Seraphax succeeded in capturing the Lion by luring him to the nearby world of Sable after he ordered the massacre of most of its population, those of the Fallen the Lion had met on his journeys and forgiven, now known as The Risen, arrived to interfere with Seraphax's plans.
Seraphax called upon the power of the Warp to transform himself into a bestial mutant form, but was slain by Baelor who stabbed him from behind with his Daemonsword before he could subdue the primarch. Baelor saw the return of his primarch as a chance to gain his own redemption and become one of The Risen. He also saw Seraphax's mutation in his fight with the primarch as the final proof he needed that his friend had fallen too far to the corruption of Chaos to be allowed to survive.
After Seraphax's death, Baelor asked for and received the forgiveness of the Lion, joining the ranks of The Risen for a short time. However, Baelor's body was slowly degrading and mutating under the influence of the Daemonsword Seraphax had gifted him long before, so he requested and the Lion granted him the quick and noble release of the Emperor's Peace.
Sources[]
- Codex: Dark Angels (6th Edition), pg. 73
- The Lion: Son of the Forest (Novel) by Mike Brooks, Chs. 5, 15, 31-33