Cassor (Lieutenant)
Cassor is a Lieutenant in the Ultramarines Chapter.[1]
History
In M42, he was part of the strike force that Captain Aurus led to Persiphon, after Astropathic messages from the Imperial world declared that it was suffering a civil war. The messages also reported that unidentified Xenos monsters had begun tormenting Persiphon's population, but before the strike force reached it, they were intercepted by Inquisitor Rudran Luc. He had heard the messages as well, but Luc had already sought to investigate Persiphon beforehand, when whispers circulated about a deviant religion growing within the world's six Halls of Excellence. These Halls trained Persiphon's highly rated Guardsmen and they competed against each other to be judged the best at doing so. However the civil war had prevented the Inquisitor from even beginning his investigations, but he suspected something more insidious was at work. When Luc learned that Captain Aurus was going to stop the war, the Inquisitor had rushed to meet him before the Ultramarines arrived at Persiphon. The two would then reach the world and the Inquisitor's worst fears were realized, as they saw that Persiphon was being invaded by the Daemons of Slaanesh. Their interrogation of remote data-augurs revealed how the competition between the Halls of Excellence, to train the best Guardsmen, turned sour and plunged Perisiphon into a shockingly savage civil war. The need to achieve victory, later led each of the Halls' war clerics to appeal to dark powers and caused the Daemons to invade Persiphon.[1]
Chief among them were six Keepers of Secrets, who each ruled a realm from a corrupted Hall of Excellence. Seeing such Heresy led the Ultramarines to launch an attack and on Aurus' orders, his forces separated so they could strike at different parts of Persiphon. Cassor and his forces would land amidst the swaying golden fields and sighting statues of beautiful Patiri and the sight left them initially wrong-footed. This changed soon enough, when Slaanesh's Daemons came pouring from glades and palaces after being summoned by the self-destructive carnal rites of the pleasure-lost Patirians. Meanwhile Inquisitor Luc had stayed in orbit and listened with growing dismay as Persiphon's debauched insanity converged on the outnumbered Ultramarines. He also watched the weave of the Warp thinning on the world and realized a huge Daemonic incursion threatened to appear on Persiphon. In response to this, Luc had his Astropaths immediately send an encoded summons to the Grey Knights, as the Chapter's strength would now be needed to defeat the Daemons.[1]
Sources
- 1: Codex: Chaos Daemons (9th Edition), pgs. 26-27 - War Zone: Persiphon
