Magnus
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Early Life
Magnus the Red is the Primarch to the renegade Thousand Sons Chaos Space Marine legion. They are the most unique legion since the pronunciation of the Rubric of Ahriman. Their bodies were turned to dust and their armour sealed, trapping their souls in eternal damnation. The only way to free them is to break open their ancient armour and hope the spirit will leave.
Magnus the Red however, was not the one to do this, though he was the primarch. He was a physical giant among men, coppery skin, fiery red hair and a single cycloptic eye. It is said that his towering height relates directly to his amazing intelligence, and his single eye shows his uncompromising single mindedness. At the height of the Great Crusade, Magnus was the most imposing Primarch, putting his will above even that of Horus, second in command to the Emperor.
Magnus, as an infant, dropped onto the remote colony world of Prospero. He was incredibly fortunate to land here, as anywhere else his cyclopean eye would have made him an outcast, shunned and hunted. Prospero was a world of outcast human psykers, making him nothing special in the eyes of the colonists. They had chosen Prospero just because of its remoteness from Terra. When Magnus fell from the skies, it was like a protentious comet. His pod landed in the central plaza of all the places on the planet.
He became a ward of the scholars and quickly gained their powers, surpassing them in many ways. Magnus mastered every psychic training programme and soon surpassed the greatest adepts of the commune. By the time he was this much in control of his psychic powers, he was by far the largest person on the planet. One day, Magnus performed something to change the world forever. Instead of channeling warp energy from the warp to the materium, he looked into the warp with his cyclopean eye, going from the student to absolute master instantly.
Discovery by The Emperor
With such a mind in the warp, it was not long until the Emperor noticed him. When his fleet arrived, it as was if the two had known each other for years, although not in the flesh just in the mind.
The Thousand Sons Magnus inherited were rife with psychic mutations, being based on Magnus' genes. He took them in as his own and began training them in the ways of the psyker. Individuals from within the Imperium who were fearful of these rampant mutations began to voice their opinions openly, but Magnus silenced them. The further from Terra the crusade went, the more strange warp powered creatures they came across. This naturally made Magnus look bad, his control of the warp being similar to these creatures. Leman Russ and Mortarion both distrusted Magnus due to his use of the warp and because of his use of deceit where they would have used overwhelming numbers.
To solve this dispute, the Emperor called for a debate on the use of psychic powers. They gathered on Nikaea and the Emperor presided over the debate. The results meant that sorcery was illegal, but psykers were to be trained for the benefit of the Imperium. Magnus was not happy, but was forced to comply, which he did. It would be the last time Magnus and the Emperor would meet however.
The Horus Heresy
The events on Davin were eclipsed by this debate, but when Magnus returned to Prospero and looked into the warp, he saw the entire event unfold in front of him, seeing the roles of all the legions, except his own. He contacted the Emperor, certain that this would prove his psychic methods correct. Unfortunately, the Emperor denounced him, saying he had fallen to the side of Chaos.
The Emperor, fuming at what he considered his own personal failure, ordered the Space Wolves to attack Prospero and the scholar soldiers of Magnus. Magnus and Leman Russ clashed in combat, but just as Leman Russ was about to strike the final blow, Magnus disappeared into the warp. Here he saw what he had wanted, unrestricted psychic powers. It was at this point that he changed his allegiance to the forces of Chaos.
Magnus took all that he had from Prospero, from the Imperium into the warp forever. The next time Magnus was seen, he was fighting next to Horus on Isstvan V. Magnus had become a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch. Tzeentch was the changer of ways, and as such mutation was rife among the Thousand Sons. Some of the older veterans were horrified by this, and joined together to form a new commune.
After the Horus Heresy
After the failure of the Horus Heresy, the newly formed commune joined together with Ahriman to find a way to stop the mutation. They cast a mighty spell to counter the corruption. The Planet of Sorcerers, the new world of the Thousand Sons, was arching with violent blue and yellow streaks of lightning. They would strike down every Marine until Magnus had to intervene.
The legion had practically been destroyed, their bodies turned to dust and their armour sealed tightly shut. They had become automatons, and Magnus was angry. He ascended his tower in despair, and announced to the galaxy that he would see it burn.
Magnus banished Ahriman and his council, and they still wander the galaxy, looking for relic of a former time of psychic prowess and control. It is said he even has access to the Eldar webways although this is unconfirmed.
In M32, Magnus attacked the Space Wolves largest defensive site, The Fang, in revenge for their attack on Prospero.
