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'''Zagreus Kane''' was [[Forge Master (Adeptus Mechanicus)|Forge Master]] of [[Mondus Occulam]] and [[Fabricator Locum]] of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] in the days before the [[Horus Heresy]].
==History==
The subordinate to [[Fabricator-General]] [[Kelbor-Hal]], Kane was loyal to [[Terra]] and the [[Emperor]] and as a result refused to submit to Hal's new [[Dark Mechanicum]] that was pledging its allegiance to [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]]. Controlling a vast Forge Complex, Kane became one of the key leaders of the resistance to the Dark Mechanicum in the [[Schism of Mars]], the devastating civil war that ripped through [[Mars]]. In the end however , when it became clear that the traitor forces would emerge victorious, loyalist forces, including Kane, evacuated the planet with the aid of [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Sigismund]] of the [[Imperial Fists]].{{Fn|1}}
Following the exile of the loyalist Mechanicum to Terra, Kane was named the new Fabricator-General of Mars but ruled in name only. Embittered, he became increasingly inhuman in his augmentations. By the late Heresy, he had few human features left and moved by tank threads treads in place of his legs. He had grown disdainful of many of his loyalist Mechanicum followers, casually shooting a thrall that attempted to pray to him while he was busy. During the [[War Within the Webway]] Kane was a loyalist commander but sought to work with [[Arkhan Land]] to find a way to reach Mars through the [[Webway]].{{Fn|2}}
Kane's status during the Heresy was unstable. The Mechanicum considered the division of the Mechanicum with Hal and Kane both claiming the title of Fabricator General an unresolved equation, known as the "binary succession". In an attempt to resolve this, Ambassador [[Vethorel]], Fabricator General Kane's representative on the [[Council of Terra]], proposed to resolve this by the creation of a new Adeptus, the '''Adeptus Mechanicus'''. Despite the Mechanicum's concerns for their independence and the council's fears of a Martian power-grab, the resolution passed after the [[Collegia Titanica]] threatened to abandon the [[Solar War]] and the [[Imperator Titan]] ''Magnificum Incendius'' of the [[Legio Ignatum]] marched on the [[Great Chamber of the Senatorum Imperialis]].{{Fn|3}}
