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M'kar the Reborn is a Daemon Prince.

History

His original name was Maloq Kartho, a Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers. During the Horus Heresy he took part in the ambushing of the Ultramarines on Calth, where he was slain by Captain Ventanus using a small flint dagger known as the Shard of Erebus. As a reward for his bloody slaughter on Calth, the Warp granted Kartho daemonhood.4

In 799.M41 M'kar attacked the world of Acralem, seeking to turn it into his throneworld from which he could create an empire. The Imperial counter-offensive was spearheaded by Grey Knights and in the final battle M'Kar was slain by a young Kaldor Draigo.5

In 878.M41 M'kar attacked Ultramar with a force of Chaos pirates and claimed several uninhabited worlds on the Ultramar borders. Captain Sicarius confronted M'kar in the Helamar Rift and destroyed much of his pirate fleet. M'kar himself managed to escape back into the warp.1

M'kar was sighted again in 935.M41 when a daemonic horde took control of the star fort Indomitable located in the outer orbit of Calth. Marneus Calgar, commanding Terminators from the Ultramarine's 1st Company, boarded the star fort and tore M'kar limb from limb, according to the official Chapter record.1

However, M'kar resurfaced in 965.M41 when he traped Mephiston in the crystal caverns of Solon V. He then attempted to lure Mephiston into joining Chaos as a Renegade, claiming Mephiston is already firmly on the path to Daemonhood. Mephiston rejected his captor's claims and throttled the life out of M'kar.2

In 997.M41, M'kar transformed the entire Agri-World of Sondheim V into his private pandemonium. Shortly after, Hive Fleet Leviathan (or Hive Fleet Kraken, depending on the source 5) descended upon the planet, and the Sky Sentinels Chapter were dispatched to reclaim it. However, upon seeing the situation, they opted to call in Exterminatus.3 A stay of execution was ordered by Grand Master Vardan Kai when he arrived at the planet leading a Grey Knight strike force. The Exterminatus was to be delayed to give enough time for the Grey Knights to capture the Book of Pandegaras, a cursed tome which had given M'Kar the power to alter the planet. The Grey Knights made planetfall and made it through the twisted landscape to the temple in which the book was stored, but they quickly became overwhelmed and trapped by both Tyranid and Daemonic forces. Kai contacted the Sky Sentinels fleet and ordered them to bombard the temple site. The Grey Knights superior armour protected them from the bombardments, but the Daemons and Tyranids were not so fortunate. As the bombing stopped, the Grey Knights evacuated with the Book of Pandegaras whilst the Sky Sentinels began Exterminatus of the planet. When the cleansing of the planet was completed the Sky Sentinels surrendered themselves to the Grey Knights for mindwipe.5

M'Kar returned to attack Arcalem in 999.M41, and once again Kaldor Draigo also returned, this time alone, seeking to again banish the Daemon Prince.5

In 854999, M'kar attacked Ultramar again, this time with a large Chaos force. Some time before then, Warsmith Honsou of the Iron Warriors had learned of M'kar's existence and his long-standing hatred for the Ultramarines. With the help of the Despoiler's damned seer, Moriana, Honsou learned that Calgar had not, in fact, been able to destroy the daemon in 935.M41, but only to imprison its defeated essence inside the warp core of the Indomitable. Honsou and his newly formed army captured the star fort and freed M'kar, which possessed the Dreadnought armor of Brother Altarion, one of the Ultramarines assigned to guard the fort.4

M'kar personally led the onslaught against Talassar, while other Chaos warlords attacked Calth, Espandor and Tarentus. Calgar himself led the 1st Company to Talassar, determined to once again slay M'kar.4

After weeks of being besieged in the ancient fortress of Castra Tanagra by M'kar's daemon army, the defending Ultramarines reached their lowest ebb when Chief Librarian Varro Tigurius was finally overcome by weariness, and the psychic barrier he had erected around the fortress failed. M'kar arrived in person to finish Calgar. Calgar was nearly overwhelmed, since M'kar was able to draw limitless power from the Indomitable, but Tigurius suddenly rallied and unleashed a psychic burst that drove M'kar back and severed his connection to the star fort. Calgar rallied the 1st Company for a final charge against the daemons. Calgar was nearly defeated by M'kar, when reinforcements from the Ultramarines' 2nd and 4th Companies arrived, led by Uriel Ventris, who had retrieved the Shard of Erebus from Captain Ventanus' tomb on Calth4.

Uriel pronounced M'kar's mortal name aloud, and threw the Shard to Calgar, who stabbed M'kar in the throat, sending M'Kar back to the warp once again4.

Sources

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