3rd Black Crusade
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The Third Black Crusade, also known as the Host of Tallomin and the Desecration of Gerstahl was one of the Thirteen Black Crusades waged by Abaddon the Despoiler against the Imperium[1], taking place in 909.M32.[Needs Citation]
"In an Age of Apostasy
The Wolf Warriors bay and howl".[2]
Overview
During the Third Black Crusade, to distract the Imperium from his desecration of the Saint Gerstahl's tomb on the Shrine World of the same name, Abaddon launched an attack on Cadia. Here the Warmaster unleashed the Daemon Prince Tallomin, so-called 'Prince of Princes', against the Cadian Gate. Abaddon had convinced the creature that the blood of the Adeptus Astartes could grant him unheard-of strength and the power to crush his rivals within the Eye of Terror. In a brutal assault, Tallomin and his daemonic minions slew many millions of Imperial soldiers and lured no less than a dozen loyalist Space Marine Chapters to battle. In the end, the ferocious warriors of the Space Wolves finally drove the Daemon Prince into the Warp, but Abaddon had already achieved his aim: destroying the remains of Saint Gerstahl and forestalling any chance of his prophecy's fulfillment.[1]
Sources
- 1: Black Legion - A Codex: Chaos Space Marines Supplement (E-Book), "The Desecration of Gerstahl", pg.32
- 2: Liber Chaotica: Khorne, Black Crusades
- 3: Imperial Armour Volume Three - The Taros Campaign, pg. 19