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'''Malcador the Sigillite''', also known as '''Malcador the Hero''' by decree of the [[Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]]{{Fn|1}} was the [[Regent of Terra|First Lord of Terra]] as well as the [[Grand Master of Assassins]]{{Fn|2a}} during the [[Horus Heresy]]. He was a powerful [[psyker]] who could communicate over long distances and wield immense power. He was a close adviser to the Emperor during the [[Unification Wars]], and the man credited with founding the [[Administratum]] of [[Terra]].
 
 
 
==Biography==
 
The origins of Malcador remain a mystery, and are unknown save to the Emperor himself. According to Malcador himself, by the time of the [[Horus Heresy]] he was over 6,700 years old and remembers his date of birth to the second.{{Fn|16}} Malcador was a surviving member of an ancient order known as [[The Sigillites]], which sought to gather and preserve the greatest and most powerful artifacts in Human history.{{Fn|15}} Malcador met the Emperor when he was just another Terran Warlord, and was the one who recommended he take on the title Emperor.{{Fn|16}} Nonetheless many rumors said he was the Emperor's kin, but this can not be verified. Malcador first appeared in Imperial records during the [[Unification Wars]], where he served as the Emperor's adviser and administrator.{{Fn|9}} The cradle of his ancient order became the foundations of the [[Imperial Palace]].{{Fn|15}} As the [[Primarch]]'s were discovered, the Emperor began to become more predisposed to the Crusade, leaving Malcador on Terra for management. During this time, he was accompanied by the newly discovered [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]], who was taking time adjusting to Imperial culture, and the two bonded to an extent.{{Fn|17}}
 
 
 
As the Emperor's primary representative, Malcador often acted in his stead, or preceded him, the intent being for the Emperor to make his presence known only in the event of Malcador's failure.  One such event was the humbling of the [[Word Bearers]] in the ruins of [[Monarchia]]. During the incident, an enraged [[Lorgar]] slapped Malcador 20 metres through the air with the back of his hand, but he not only survived but got up afterwards.{{Fn|4a}} In a statement Malcador to a dying servant, which he stated was a lie to comfort humanity, he claimed that he andthe Emperor conspired to agitate the Primarchs and turn them against one another, with the resulting war purging certain unworthy individuals and the [[Space Marine Legion]]s just as they had the earlier [[Thunder Warrior]]s. This would lead humanity, not bio-engineered superhumans, as the rulers of the galaxy. However, the [[Ruinious Powers]] intervened before their plan could be fully formulated, leading to disaster in the [[Horus Heresy]].{{Fn|16}}
 
 
 
[[Image:Malcador the Sigillite.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Malcador the Sigillite, First Lord of Terra.{{Cite This}}]]
 
Very soon after the outbreak of the Heresy, the Emperor told Malcador to summon "men of character, skill and determination" who would be tested and trained to become an elite group of investigators with the task of rooting out treachery and [[Heresy]]. This marked the founding of the Imperial [[Inquisition]]. Among the first Malcador approached for this duty were [[Death Guard]] hero [[Nathaniel Garro]] and former [[Sons of Horus]] Captain [[Iacton Qruze]].{{Fn|3a}}  Malcador would subsequently task Garro with recruiting a select group of individuals for him in aid of this endeavour{{Fn|5a}}{{Fn|5c}}; these individuals would be termed (at least for a time) Malcador's [[Knights-Errant]],{{Fn|5b}} and later formed the root of the [[Grey Knights]] [[Space Marine]] [[chapter]].{{Fn|7}}  Qruze was retained closer to home, acting as Malcador's "hand" in investigative matters such as the case of [[Solomon Voss]].{{Fn|6}} Malcador is noted for having given the [[Chaplain]] Edict at (presumably) [[Nikaea]]: a group of Marines that would maintain the order and discipline of their fellow Marines, and to keep watch for heresy and psychic powers, the former to be dealt with summarily, the latter to be referred to the Legion Librarium.{{Cite This}}
 
 
 
Malcador was active in many ways during the Heresy.  As well as orchestrating the above inquisitive endeavor and aiding [[Rogal Dorn]] in organising the defence of Terra, he would use his secret position as [[Master of Assassins]] to attempt to have Horus assassinated several times.  Whilst several of his dispatched [[Imperial Assassin|Assassins]] - including the first ever [[Execution Force]] - came close to their target, none connected, and the attempt was eventually permanently given up, on the orders of the Emperor himself.{{Fn|2b}} Malcador later worked with [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]] to assassinate Horus with the Knights-Errant as the traitor Warmaster [[Battle of Molech|fought on Molech]]. Malcador selected [[Garviel Loken]], only recently recovered from insanity following [[Isstvan III]], to lead the mission.{{Fn|14}} Malcador next appeared at the Council between Dorn, [[Sanguinius]], Leman Russ, and [[Jaghatai Khan]] as they discussed their war strategy. Malcador accepted Russ' decision to leave Terra to face Horus directly, but nonetheless attempted to quietly convince Russ to stay during a chess match. Malcador admitted he had grown sentimental of the Wolf King, and wished that the Emperor had engineered the Primarch's to be more amicable towards one another.{{Fn|17}}
 
 
 
===Founding the Grey Knights===
 
During the final chapter of the Heresy, Malcador would complete his ultimate project. He brought twenty men before the Emperor to set his ultimate plan in motion. Four were lords and administrators, and eight were [[Space Marine]]s from both loyalist and traitor [[legions]]. These included many of his Knights-Errant such as [[Nathaniel Garro]], [[Tylos Rubio]], [[Macer Varren]], [[Janus]], [[Epimetheus]], [[Khyron]], and [[Garviel Loken]] as well as humans such as [[Kyril Sindermann]], [[Lemuel Gaumon]], and [[Amendera Kendel]].{{Fn|11}}{{Fn|12}}{{Fn|13}} Many of the Space Marines that joined the cause hailed from Legions that had turned traitor, though they themselves had remained loyal to the Emperor. Once they had been gathered, the Emperor surveyed the chosen recruits and granted both his approval and consent to proceed with the project. So the recruits split ways to go off towards separate tasks; the four lords ventured off to lay the framework of the [[Inquisition]], whilst the Space Marines and Malcador traveled to [[Saturn]]'s moon of [[Titan]].
 
 
 
Titan, through Malcador's mystical means, had been hidden away from the ravages of the Horus Heresy. When they arrived they found a [[Fortress-monastery]] already fully prepared and stocked with everything necessary to create a new army of Space Marines including supplies of [[gene-seed]], which is suspected to have been taken from the Emperor directly, and all the necessary armaments. The fortress was also already populated with hundreds upon hundreds of suitable recruits from across the [[Galaxy]]. Some were raw and untrained, whilst others were selected in secret from among the ranks of loyalist Legions. This new army would be a Chapter - a smaller, tighter brotherhood of Space Marines than a Legion. Malcador could no longer remain and thus he appointed [[Janus]], one of the eight original Space Marines, to be the Grey Knights leader and take the title of [[Grey Knights Supreme Grand Master|Supreme Grand Master]]. Before leaving, Malcador cast his greatest enchantment yet; he hid Titan away from Horus in the most unlikely of places, inside the [[Warp]] itself. Titan was protected by Macro-Geller fields and sigilic rites whilst the final battles of the Heresy took place in Real Space. When Titan reemerged into the Materium, the war was over and due to the longer passage of time within the Warp Titan had raised an army of a thousand Battle Brothers: the Grey Knights.{{Fn|10}}
 
[[File:The Sigillite clean.jpg|thumb|250px|Malcador the Sigillite.{{Fn|8}}]]
 
 
 
===Death===
 
Later at the height of the [[Battle of Terra]] when the Emperor decided to face [[Horus]] aboard the [[Vengeful Spirit]], he told Malcador that he had to take his place on the [[Golden Throne]] - providing the psychic sheath to protect the human-built sections of the [[Webway]]. His original choice of replacement on the throne had been the [[Primarch]] [[Magnus]] but since he had sided with [[Horus]], Malcador was now his chosen successor.{{Cite This}} Though he was a powerful psyker in his own right, Malcador's mental powers were nothing compared to that of the Emperor, and so when Rogal Dorn brought the severely injured ruler of mankind back to the Golden Throne, he found Malcador sitting wasted, energy lashing across his shrivelled body, tortured by the psychic bombardments of the [[Webway]]. He was almost dead. [[Tech-priest]]s then made the exchange - disengaging Malcador from the machine. As he was removed, the last flicker of life left him and the dust of his corpse blew across the stone floor.{{Fn|1}}
 
 
 
At the instant of Malcador's death, the Emperor awoke from his coma - Malcador had saved a last kernel of strength and passed it on to the Emperor so he could give his servants their final orders.{{Fn|2a}}
 
 
 
==Appearance and Abilities==
 
 
 
A slender and unassuming figure dressed in pale robes, at first glance Malcador appeared no different from a thousand other [[Administratum]] functionaries, except for his staff of office and the force of his psychic presence.{{Fn|3b}} Malcador appeared to be very frail and sickly, and in fact this was an image he deliberately cultivated in order to have his enemies underestimate his formidable power. However as the Heresy wore on, Malcador's haggard appearance became more and more the reality.{{Fn|14}}
 
 
 
Malcador was the most powerful human psyker in the [[galaxy]] after the Emperor himself and potentially [[Magnus the Red]],{{Fn|5a}} and demonstrated this psychic ability on several occasions.  During the aforementioned confrontation at [[Monarchia]], he showed physical resilience unnatural for a man of his apparent age and frailty; when smashed from his feet by the [[primarch]] [[Lorgar]], he landed on broken ground after a distance of some twenty metres, and survived with but a few broken bones.  He also demonstrated telekinetic ability, retrieving his fallen staff and bringing it sharply into his hand.{{Fn|4a}}
 
 
 
==Known Agents of Malcador==
 
*The [[Knights-Errant]]
 
*[[Khalid Hassan]]
 
*[[Yasu Nagasena]]
 
 
 
==Images==
 
[[File:Sigillite-icon.jpg|thumb|150px|center|The Sigil of Malcador{{Fn|8}}]]
 
 
 
==See Also==
 
*[[Malcador's Chosen]]
 
 
 
==Sources==
 
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Horus Heresy: Visions of Death]] by Alan Merrett.
 
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Nemesis (Novel)]] by [[James Swallow]]:
 
**{{Endn|2a}}: {{Cite This}}, p. 47
 
**{{Endn|2b}}: {{Cite This}}
 
*{{Endn|3}}: [[The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel)]] by '''James Swallow'''
 
**{{Endn|3a}}: {{Cite This}}
 
**{{Endn|3b}}: {{Cite This}}
 
*{{Endn|4}}: [[The First Heretic (Novel)]] by [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]]
 
**{{Endn|4a}}: Chapter Three
 
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Garro: Oath of Moment (Audio Book)]] by '''James Swallow'''
 
**{{Endn|5a}}: Track 5: Flashback
 
**{{Endn|5b}}: Track 6: Something Approaches
 
**{{Endn|5c}}: Track 7: A Mission
 
*{{Endn|6}}: ''[[The Last Remembrancer (Short Story)]]'' by [[John French]]
 
*{{Endn|7}}: [http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/the-high-lords-of-terra-convene.html Black Library Blog: The High Lords of Terra Convene] (last accessed April 4, 2012)
 
*{{Endn|8}}: [http://www.blacklibrary.com/Blog/you-sigillite-horus-heresy-art.html Black Library Blog: You Sigillite Horus Heresy Art, So Here's A Brand New One] (last accessed August 8, 2012)
 
*{{Endn|9}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book One]] pg.16
 
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Codex: Grey Knights (5th Edition)]] pgs. 6-7
 
*{{Endn|11}}: [[Garro: Oath of Moment (Audio Book)]]
 
*{{Endn|12}}: [[Garro: Legion of One (Audio Book)]]
 
*{{Endn|13}}: [[The Last Remembrancer (Short Story)]]
 
*{{Endn|14}}: [[Vengeful Spirit (Novel)]]{{cite this}}
 
*{{Endn|15}}: [[The Sigillite (Audio Book)]]
 
*{{Endn|16}}: [[Malcador: First Lord of the Imperium (Audio Drama)]]
 
*{{Endn|17}}: [[Wolfsbane (Novel)]] Chapters 4-9
 
 
 
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