Eliphas
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In Dawn of War: Dark Crusade, Eliphas The Inheritor was the Dark Apostle leading the Word Bearers on Kronus.
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Biography
Eliphas came to Kronus to turn the planet into a Daemon World. He begun his conquest from the Demon Gate situated in the Demios Peninsula on the tropical south coast of Kronus. Over the course of the conflict Eliphas can gain new equipment to enhance his powers, such as the same helm worn by the Word Bearers Primarch Lorgar 10000 years previously during the Horus Heresy. Of all the powers on Kronus, barring the Blood Ravens of the Adeptus Astartes he despises the Necrons most as they have only disgustingly weak souls to be devoured by his gods.
Throughout the Dark Crusade, Eliphas is given ample of opportunities to gain favor with the four Chaos Gods and other Chaos figures through the defeat of his enemies.
- Khorne's by offering to him the skull of Lord Crull, a champion of the Blood God slain by Warboss Gorgutz.
- Slaanesh's by cracking open all the spirit stones left behind when the Eldar fled Tyrea, and offering the souls within to the Prince of Excess.
- Nurgle's by freeing the Plague Daemon imprisoned within the Hellstorm Cannon in Victory Bay, using the rotting corpses of the Imperial Guardsmen as sacrifice.
- Tzeentch's by defeating the Necron army beneath the Thur'Abis plateau.
- Warmaster Abaddon's by defeating the Blood Ravens Space Marines in North Vandea, although it is unknown why the defeat of a chapter whose history does not date back to the Horus Heresy would be especially pleasing to Abaddon.
- Word Bearers Primarch Lorgar's by defeating the Tau forces in Or'es Tash'n, who is said to hate the irreligious above all others.
Outcome of the Dark Crusade
If Deimos is conquered, Eliphas is shown conversing with an unnamed Daemon Prince inside a rapidly collapsing Warp Gate and attempting to explain his failure. The Daemon Prince declared that Eliphas is past redemption and refused to send him to the Basilica of Torments again, opting to destroy him outright instead, claiming that "It is a poor shepherd to blame his flock, Apostle. This failure is yours and yours alone." Eliphas attacked the Daemon Prince, but was lifted into the air by the Prince's power, and exploded in a huge gush of blood. This is extremely similar to the animation shown when a Bloodthirster is summoned, only without the existing Bloodthirster.
Should Eliphas prove victorious in his conquest, Kronus becomes a Daemon world, and Eliphas is granted the reward of Daemonhood through the favor of all four Chaos Gods, Warmaster Abaddon, and primarch Lorgar. Warp storms wracked the sky above Kronus, and the very earth cracked with the foul Chaotic energies unleashed during the conflict. The Word Bearers raised black cathedrals in all of Kronus' cities, and the entire population either converted to the blasphemous faith of Chaos Undivided or became fodder for its blood sacrifices. Sorcerers called forth legions of daemons and Chaos forces from the Warp. The ascended Eliphas' next conquests would cut through much of Ultima Segmentum as it drove towards Holy Terra itself.
