Fulgrim the Water-Bringer was an ancient purple-hued God of Chemos and was the namesake of the Emperor's Children's Primarch, Fulgrim.[1]
History
He was part of Chemos' creation-myth and was said to have brought life to the barren world, after emerging from its primordial waters. Nothing had been able to grow there, but after Fulgrim's emergence, Chemos became a fertile paradise and the God was known as the Water-Bringer. Little else is known about Fulgrim, save that Chemos' pantheon of Gods would partake in sumptuous banquets of endless goblets of pure water and rich food.[1]
All this information came from an old and brittle chapbook, that was owned by the Callax factory worker Coryn, but it did not represent the Chemos he knew. The paradise shown in the chapbook was now a radioactive wasteland, where what water was available was pulled from the toxic atmosphere by machines and food was made from recycled waste. It is not clear what knowlege of Fulgrim's existence still remained at that time, but Coryn's fellow factory worker Ptolea did not believe the Gods shown in his chapbook were real. To her, they were nothing but stories to tell children and she felt it was a waste of time to think otherwise. However when they and the factory worker Sullax later discovered the crashed capsule of the Emperor's Children's infant Primarch, water began to rise up from where it landed. This led Coryn to open his chapbook to a picture of Fulgrim bringing life to Chemos and he decided to name the Primarch after the God.[1] However any knowledge of the Water-Bringer was likely lost, after Chemos was destroyed by the Dark Angels Legion, during the Horus Heresy.[2]
Sources
- 1: Angel Exterminatus (Novel) - Theogonies – III
- 2: White Dwarf 478, pg. 105
