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The declaration made by the Emperor and the War Council was something that few common folk knew would affect each of their lives. To place it simply the idea that the Emperor would sanction one of his sons was something anathema to the understanding of both the Legions and the Auxilia that followed them.
When that understanding was flipped upon its head with the banishment of Tyberos, it was when the Emperor started taking matters into his own hands.
Roughly three years after the Exile of the Eleventh came the next judgment. The one subjected to what was a near lethal scrutiny was Lorgar Aurelian, Primarch of the Seventeenth Legion Word Bearers.
His crime was a simple one where the Imperium was concerned. He had been charged with the conquest of planets in the name of the Imperium yet the Word Bearers have only been claiming tens of planets when their fellow Legions have been claiming tens of thousands within a given year. The reasoning for this, after an inquiry, was realized to be that the Word Bearers had been constantly trying to turn the populace of these planets to their faith.
That faith being that the Emperor was a God, the God Emperor of Mankind.
Primarchs such as Konrad Curze had placed forward the idea of skinning Lorgar for this transgression. Rogal, Roboute, and many others suggested some form of censor against their brother. TalOS, for he was Priest, decided it was best not to send any condemnations or such because it would simply be used against him.
None of what was suggested was enacted however. Instead the Emperor decided that Lorgar’s achievements were to be made an example of. With the Ultramarines at his beck and call, he had the City of Mondarchia burned.
There was not much information on the city of Monarchia when TalOS decided to look into it. The Word Bearers had isolated the world in question and there was not a Priest of the Mechanicum upon the vessels of the Word Bearers thanks to TalOS’s recent purge of heretics. What was known was learned from the Imperial Decree, which was that it was a fervently religious city that was burned down by Orbital Bombardment after evacuation.
Serves Lorgar right, was what TalOS considered of the situation. It was rather a belated to the event, but to TalOS it was punishment for damning the human race with technology that should have stayed within the Mechanicum.
The Custodians were sanctions to watch over Lorgar from that moment onwards. Which to TalOS was the best thing that could be done to make sure Lorgar did not do anything stupid in what was surely several years of grief.
