Tarik Torgaddon
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Tarik Torgaddon was the Captain of the Luna Wolves 2nd Company and member of the elite Mournival, an informal council of four captains meant to advise the Legion's primarch, Horus. He was known as a joker but an extremely skilled warrior.
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Biography
He was also a member of the warrior lodge that existed in the Luna Wolves Legion. After Horus was brought to Davin and people were crying out against certain practices of the Astartes, it was proposed to rid the fleet of these dissenting voices. Tarik refused to take part in this. This earned him the resentment of key lodge members such as Chaplain Erebus of the Word Bearers, who introduced the lodge to the Luna Wolves[Needs Citation].
During the Isstvan III incident, he was one of the loyalists whom Horus hoped to purge through a fiendish virus bombardment. However, once the loyalists received word of the treachery from Saul Tarvitz of the Emperor's Children, Torgaddon was among those captains who led the resistance against the Traitor Legions[Needs Citation].
Towards the end of the grim battle, he and Garviel Loken received word that their former Mournival brothers Ezekyle Abaddon and Horus Aximand would be landing on the planet's surface to oversee the final elimination of the loyalists. Hoping to kill their betrayers and slow Horus' plans, they planned an ambush at the landing site, but Tarik met his death at the hands of the reluctant but resolute Aximand, while Loken looked on in horror[Needs Citation].
Aftermath
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This page contains spoilers for: | Garro: Legion of One (Audio Book) |
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This page contains spoilers for: | Know No Fear (Novel) |
During the Word Bearers' surprise attack on the Ultramarines, their Dark Apostles carried piecemeal remains of the massacred loyalist Marines to Calth, to serve as offerings in a ritual to summon hordes of daemons to the planet's surface. Erebus purported to recognize one of these relics as belonging to Torgaddon5a.
The horrors of the massacre drove Loken temporarily insane, and he spent months prowling the ruins of one of the cities, repeatedly talking to Torgaddon's beheaded corpse and demanding to know why Torgaddon had been given the release of death, while Loken had not4a.
Sources
- 1Horus Rising by Dan Abnett
- 2False Gods by Graham McNeill
- 3Galaxy In Flames by Ben Counter
- 4Garro: Legion of One (Audio Book) by James Swallow
- a: Track 3
- 5Know No Fear by Dan Abnett
- a: Target//Acquisition: Chapter 8, p. 100
