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Targetdrone.gif This article is about the Artifact; for the Hive Fleet, see Ouroboris (Hive Fleet).

The Ouroboros, also known as The Consumer[2a] is an Old Ones[3a] artifact that was found on Caliban during the Horus Heresy. A sentient Warp device and a sister to the Tuchulcha and Plagueheart, the Ouroboros helped corrupt the Dark Angels Librarian Zahariel into becoming one of the Fallen. Zahariel claimed that the Ouroboros was a manifestation of Caliban itself.[1a] The Ouroboros was hated by the Watchers in the Dark of Caliban.[1b]

Much later in the 41st Millennium, Cypher revealed that the Ourobors was acquired by Typhus and Astelan in attempt to unite it with its sister devices and change history. Eventually all 3 devices were gathered and a warp rift was summoned over the ruins of Caliban. Convinced by Ezekiel to leave history be and trying to prevent nearby Fallen forces from accessing the rift first, Azrael destroyed the rift.[2x]

Ouroboros remained on a the ruins of Caliban. Vashtorr the Arkifane sought the Ouroboros along with its sister devices in order to create The Key in order to ultimately access an Old Ones device dubbed The Weapon. In the Arks of Omen Campaign, succeeded in gathering the Ouroboros (whose fragment was now converted into Wyrmwood) and Plagueheart but still needed the Tuchulcha. In the Battle of Idolatros, Vashtorr succeeded in contacting the Tuchulcha and moving it to Wyrmwood. Together with its sister devices, the Ouroboros created the Dissonance Engine which bore a tunnel into the space between the Materium and Warp not unlike the Webway. With this new rift, Vashtorr seeks The Lock and with it The Weapon.[3b]

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