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[[Image:Lucius6.jpg|thumb|right|Lucius the Eternal{{Fn|4}}]]

==History==

===Post-Horus Heresy===

[[Image:Luciusart.jpg|thumb|right|160px|Lucius after the Heresy{{Fn|1}}]]

Lucius continued to hone and improve his combat skills after the Emperor's Children began to worship Slaanesh. Fulgrim organized gladiatorial games on their new home planet whenever the Legion was unable to vent its need for the pleasure of the kill on other worlds, and Lucius was undefeated in these, an unstoppable force until he fought Lord Commander [[Cyrius]]. Lucius died, and his death was an experience of such transcendent pleasure that Slaanesh himself took notice: he could not let such a promising marine slip away. In the following days, Cyrius began to change: lines began to appear over his skin, and his hair started to fall out. Lucius was back in the world of the living, and all that remained of Cyrius was a screaming face in the warped [[artificer armour]]. This has happened many times since then: whenever his killer takes even the tiniest moment of enthusiasm, pleasure, or satisfaction from besting Lucius, they will begin to change into him and become just another swirling face, a memory in the armor in which Lucius is clad.{{Fn|1}} Not even the mechanical [[Necrons]] are immune from this curse, as the [[Phasing Sword]] has learned. After every "death" Lucius has been reborn again, as arrogant and maniacal as ever and immediately looking for a new challenge to fight.{{Fn|15}}

After the [[Battle of Thessala]], Fulgrim left his legion to its fate and retired on a [[Daemon World]] called [[Callax]].{{Fn|24}} Many Emperor's Children saw this as a rejection by their Primarch, though Lucius did not.{{Fn|17c}} As Fulgrim was gone, a leadership struggle erupted in the legion, with Lucius, Eidolon, and Fabius emerging as the leaders of the most prominent factions.{{Fn|24}} Lucius was involved in the [[Legion Wars]] and fought in the [[Battle of Skalathrax]],{{Fn|17a}} though his influence among the Emperor's Children ultimately dimished. As time wore on, he was reduced to the leader of a small warband dubbed the "[[Cohors Nasicae]]" after his old bodyguard.{{Fn|17c}} Regardless, he remained infamous and renowned among Chaos followers{{Fn|17a}}{{Fn|17b}} and continued to operate as Fulgrim's champion. At one point, the Primarch employed Lucius to kill a Fulgrim clone created by Fabius Bile.{{Fn|17c}}

Lucius would later appear at the head of an army of Emperor's Children during the [[13th Black Crusade]] of [[Abaddon the Despoiler]], inflicting untold suffering on the Imperial world of [[Belisar]].{{Fn|3}} He was also a commander in [[The Speartip Alliance]], an coalition of Chaos and [[Xenos]] forces during [[The Fall of Medusa V]].{{Fn|25}}

==Appearance and Wargear ==

The scarring on his face is self-inflicted. At one point he was a truly handsome man, but he resented being called "too pretty" by some of his fellow marines. His "perfect" features were forever marred after the sparring match with Loken; the Luna Wolf's punch had broken Lucius's nose{{fn|18}}, and - much to his fury - it had refused to set properly, despite the attentions of the Legion's apothecaries. Some time before Isstvan III, Lucius received a pair of scars across his cheeks from [[remembrancer]] [[Serena D'Angelus]], a painter in the [[28th Expedition Fleet|28th Expedition]] who had already been corrupted by Chaos, to remind him of Loken's insult to his perfection.{{fn|26a}} He subsequently marked himself with more scars to commemorate his victories, eventually creating an intricate network of scars distorting and deforming his features.{{fn|9a}}

Lucius is armed with the [[Lash of Torment]], a [[daemon]]-infested whip, as well as the ornate sword known as the [[Blade of the Laer]]{{Fn|8}}. Before taking up the Blade of Laer, Lucius was known to treat his weapons callously and wielded a master-crafted sword simply known as [[Nineteen]].{{Fn|23}} His [[Armour of Shrieking Souls]], powered by the thousands of souls now trapped in it, offers him unnatural protection and allows him to discharge the cacophony generated by the tormented souls as a devastating sonic attack.{{Fn|1}} To further augment his superhuman abilities, Lucius carries a [[Commorite Stimm-rack|Combat Stimulant rack]] on his back designed by the [[Dark Eldar]]. He won the device after emerging as a champion in the gladiatorial arenas of [[Commorragh]]. In battle, this stimm-rack will inject him with combat drugs.{{Fn|8}}

==Images==

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LuciusHeresyMini.jpg|Heresy-era Lucius miniature with the [[Blade of the Laer]] and [[Nineteen]]{{Fn|22}}

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=={{Endn|Conflicting sources}}==

**{{Endn|17c}}: Chapter II.VI

**{{Endn|17d}}: Chapter IV.VI

*{{Endn|18}}: [[Horus Rising (Novel)]], Part Two, ch. 2

*{{Endn|19}}: [[Fabius Bile: Clonelord (Novel)]], Chapter 9

**{{endn|26a}}: ch. 16

**{{endn|26b}}: ch. 20

===Uncited===