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Zufur the Hermetic was a Chaos Lord, who took part in the Horus Heresy and was among the first of the Traitor Legions to join Abaddon the Despoiler's Black Legion, during the Legion Wars.[1a]

The Chaos Lord did so, after recognizing that Abaddon and he both knew that after the Traitors' defeat, they would never be able to destroy the Imperium through battle alone. Its people bred too quickly for that. Instead Zufur thought a large scale plan, to increase the size of the Eye of Terror was needed and that Abaddon was the only Warlord with the vision and drive to do it. Though Zufur was never able to discover how Abaddon intended to do this, he speculated that the Pylons on Cadia were the key that would see the Imperium destroyed. The Pylons became his obsession and the Chaos Lord would spend the next ten thousand years researching them, while using his biological talents to murder millions in the Abaddon's name. However because Zufur was never able to capture a Pylon, his understanding of them reached a plateau - until the 13th Black Crusade began.[1a]

He was among the Black Legion's forces that invaded Cadia during the 13th Black Crusade, and though he was charged with attacking Kasr Kraf, Zufur knew he would never have a better chance to further his goal. With that in mind, he led his Warband in search of an undamaged Pylon, which he intended to immediately bring back to his Archo-smithy, in the off-chance that Abaddon's invasion failed. When he finally found the object of his obsession though, Zufur's Warband was attacked by the Space Wolves Great Company of the Wolf Lord Ottar, who sought to stop the Warband from removing the Pylon. In the battle that followed however, Zufur's Warband was able to separate Ottar from his Great Company and they severely wounded him. But now that the Wolf Lord was no longer a threat to Zufur, the Chaos Lord stopped his Warband from killing Ottar. He wanted that honour for himself alone and stabbed the Wolf Lord with a Daemon Sword that devoured Ottar's soul.[1a] However the Wolf Lord's death sent his Great Company into a frenzy and they tore into the Warband with reckless abandon. Such was the ferocity of the Warband and Great Company's attacks though that they destroyed each other and only the Space Wolf Skarp-Hedin survived the battle.[1b]

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