Barbarus
From Lexicanum
Barbarus was the homeworld of the Death Guard prior to the Horus Heresy. It was the planet on which Mortarion landed and was of such a poor atmospheric quality that even Mortarion could not breath at the top of the mountains.2
| Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name: | Barbarus |
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| Segmentum: | Unknown | ||
| Sector: | Unknown | ||
| Subsector: | Unknown | ||
| System: | Unknown | ||
| Population: | Unknown | ||
| Affiliation: | N/A | ||
| Class: | Destroyed1, former Feral World2 | ||
| Tithe Grade: | Unknown | ||
It is a Feral World which orbited near its dim yellow sun. The atmosphere is thick with virulent gases and a constant fog is spread across the planet. This makes it a very dark, dismal place of night with short, shadowy days. Only below the fog could humans survive, in the valleys and low plains.
Beings immune to the toxic fog survived within the toxic cloud and built great grey keeps in the mountains. The higher beings began to use the humans as slaves and spread terror among them. What these creatures were, no one will ever know, although recent scholars suggest that they were Dark Eldar.2
On the surface of Barbarus was the Wall of Memory, where the names of every Space Marine of the Death Guard legion killed during the Great Crusade were carved.[Needs Citation]
