Alpharius Omegon - Understanding 40K Lore (Alpha Legion)

[Music] my name is atul nothing more an identifier the records will call us dishonorable traitors to the imperium but all records lie i am the hydra the threefold serpent i am avarious [Music] [Music] victory matters everything else is just delusion with victory we can build dreams but without victory they remain just dreams peace peace is the hardest thing to achieve military victory and the disarmament of our enemies could be achieved through strength of arms but peace is an altogether different beast its fragility cannot be maintained by those who are good people nicolo machiavelli tells us that a good leader should have what he coined as criminal virtue wisdom strategy strength bravery and ruthlessness surgical and infrequent cruelty is the uncomfortable truth of peace for all of us who get to bask in the light of peace there are those who have to operate within its shadows there are people who have to make those ethical tradeoffs in the defense of their home kingdom or imperium i think to myself am i capable of committing evil in defense of something would i make the hard decisions expected of a soldier in the shadows it is deception subterfuge assassination and lies that are found in the arsenal of the imperium soldiers of shadow primarks of the alpha legion alpharius and omegon two parts of a joint facade that is presented to the galaxy a single primark alfarious the face of the 20th legionnaise astartes in the 40th millennium the primark of the alpha legion is seen as a betrayer a dishonorable combatant a figure that has been confirmed dead numerous times but all records lie so what is the truth what is the journey that has shaped this outcome what has made these primarks who they are what made them choose the path of perceived betrayal it begins deep below the himalayan mountains upon terror near the end of the 30th millennium foul entities of the war burst into the gene labs of the emperor of mankind's most inner sanctums and stole away 20 capsules one of these capsules race through the wall claws scratching upon the glass trying to get in it was this capsule that emerged back into the material universe and began to fall like a comet engulfed in flames the capsule crashed high upon a snow peaked mountain it was from the wreckage that the large boy emerged opening his eyes for the first time where was he what had happened who am i i am alvarious it was like the name was emblazed across his soul as the boy spoke for the first time he said his name but it was no momentous moment even amongst the confusion of experiencing his senses for the first time he knew the truth about his name my name is a tool nothing more an identifier a starting baseline to be used when convenient and discarded weren't not it was as if his very nature was imprinted within him he began to rationalize and understand his environment to a level and speed that was superhuman as the boy used his eyes for the very first time he looked into the night sky and the smoldering wreckage that was his gestation capsule he was alone but not for long as the sound of distant rumbling roams something was coming towards him he was young and small and concluded hiding was his best course figures came forward covered in thermal and rebreather equipment to examine the wreckage the conditions on the mountains were a freezing low oxygen environment yet somehow the boy was fine scavengers coming to examine the wreckage were prowling until a golden ship descended from the sky and a glowing figure clad in ornate beautiful armor let from the ship and landed amongst a smoking wreckage the boy felt a wave of power wash over him the presence of this figure filled a void within him he felt an undying obedience to him the vigor told the boy to come out and as the boy stepped over the corpses of the scavengers he stood and looked up upon his father the emperor of mankind as did the emperor look back at his first found son [Music] i remember the first time malcador let himself into my quarters we stared at each other for some time as i was weighing him up and he i am sure was doing the same i concluded he intended me no harm but i could feel the power within him it was tightly shrouded unlike in my father but there nonetheless had i been required to kill him i was not at the time certain how i would have gone about it i am here to teach you he said at last i nodded to signify my understanding and acceptance what are you to teach me what do you think you should be taught he replied and those dark sharp eyes of his were on me like a predator watching a prey animal to see in which direction it was going to flee this was a test i am to watch and learn i replied it had not been long since i had been found but i was already growing in both body and mind there were some texts available in my quarters and i now had a great understanding of my context and of the world outside they had mainly brought home to me how very unusual i was i am to watch and understand you are to watch and to understand and to act magdal corrected me you are the secret of secrets but you are no use if you do not act he walked to a desk in which were arrayed playing pieces and sat down with exhalation the emperor has revealed himself to the world because he must he is visible i am visible constantine valdor is visible he cocked his head and regarded me with a little humor valdor does not yet know about you see how long you can keep it that way you may treat that as a test i nodded i had already learned of constantine valdo and the legio custodies thanks to the information i had available i strongly suspected there was far more to learn you are not visible you are you could be the secret shield the sword in the darkness the weapon our enemies do not expect because their focus will be on us you will do what you must preserve what we have built even without instruction even if he trailed off and sighed this was not intended to be your destiny but it is the hand that fate has dealt you has doubt us all in fact i was intrigued as to what my intended destiny had been but i kept my silence if margot did not elaborate i could return to the subject and ask him and then he might answer and he might not if he kept talking he might give me information i would not have thought to ask about he tapped the board instead come sit opposite me i'm presuming you have already familiarized yourself with the rules of this game i did as he asked i have it is called regicide simple to learn very difficult to master makador replied we were within a meter of each other now and i could smell his breath which was as sharp as his eyes or at least that is how it is for most people i suspect it will be a different matter for you let us find out he was to watch and to understand and to act he was to be the secret shield the sword in the darkness the weapon their enemies do not expect because their focus will be on those who are visible alvarez will do what he must to preserve what the emperor has built even without instruction only a handful of the upper echelon in the imperium knew that one of the primarks the emperor's sons had been found on terror no one else could know not yet for it was far more valuable to keep this weapon a secret especially from the architect of the primary scattering the emperor was overjoyed to have one of his sons he was afraid that all of them had been lost but the survival of alfarius was hope that the others were alive the emperor knew what al-faris had to be and so his early tutoring came from malcolm the sigilite one of the few trusted with the knowledge of his existence it was not in body but in mind that the sigilite began to train the young primark teaching him to mask his thoughts from even an incredibly powerful psycho such as malcold it was with the sigilite that alfaris began to develop a skill unique to him apharis learned not to be invisible but to completely mask his presence for us a regular human to be in the presence of a primark conscious feelings of innate majesty and wonder loyalty similar to how the presence of the emperor feels akin to seeing a god but al-faris learns to mask it he could change the way people perceived him as such he could look like a regular human while still being a demigod-sized primark the way this ability must have affected him must have been profound unlike his brothers who could never quite live a normal life alfaris knew how it felt to be a normal person he began to master this gift becoming the sword in the darkness infiltration subterfuge and deception were taught to the young primark and he learned with frightening speed whilst many of his brothers would despise being seen as a tool this never bothered alpharius he knew what he was how he had to operate the emperor was building a unified imperium that will unite humanity and he was a tool to bring that future and protect it he was the imperium's greatest secret but by far not the only one it was during the latter part of the 30th millennium that our forest was shown one of these closely guarded projects of the emperor using his ability alphares masked his presence and strode to the constructing imperial palace with his father all the way down to the gene laboratories it was there for the first time he saw the legione's astartes sons to him like how he was a son to the emperor they were the next generation for the imperium's elite warriors and the 20th legion were the luckiest of all as they had a primark alvarez was there from the beginning there to mold the legion as he saw fit the earliest known activity the legion saw it conduct abductions targeted strikes and assassinations to the imperium's enemies on terror they like their primark were a secret too a small elite force that often disguised themselves as other legions in fact alfarius and the first of the 20th legion were there when it came time to cleanse the imperium of the thunder warriors disguised as the first legion alfaros has spent decades within the imperium shadows weaved amongst disguises infiltration and lies as part of his training but that era had come to an end as with all the preparations met the emperor launched the great crusade criminal virtue wisdom strategy strength bravery and ruthlessness nicolo machiavelli's criteria for a good leader coincides with what can also be a perfect soldier without pharise's decades on terror he was trained ruthlessly to become the greatest black ops agent within the imperium through his time honing his skills at deception amongst the populace of terror it also gave him sympathy for common people though at times he had to be ruthless too even if he took no pleasure from it during his time on terror he sought to expose a weakness within the defense of the imperial palace with a combination of manipulation and disguises and ingenuity he managed to infiltrate the defenses only to be caught by a custodian guard who he killed and took his armor as a disguise he justified it to himself too as it was in the name of something greater the defense of the imperium and the emperor managing to sneak his way through alfarez took position overlooking the emperor's landing pad only to be at the last second caught by malcador and then attacked by constantine valdo a brief jewel took place until the citylight stopped it wearing the armor of one of his murdered soldiers must have been a strenuous first encounter between the two demigod figures alvarius placing an override on a gun turret has showed that he'd outwitted the defense of terror and it needed shoring up though arfarius had made his point it just shows how far he was willing to go in the name of his duty it was in a way for the greater good it was this ideology that the primark took to the stars during the great crusade as the forces of the imperium spread out it would be alpharius who was tasked with investigating for the emperor rumors of individuals who surpassed human it was alfarious who even before the emperor came to find the others the prime maxi was spread across the stars it was on the world of cothonia that he found a brother horus lupercal but he did not embrace him nor accept him as it was his nature to distrust and observe using his gift alphares observed his brother to see what he had become and to evaluate him for that was his wrong horus was the second primark found but he could become a rallying point a spark of hope someone to be visible something alfarious could never be perhaps he may have wanted to just let down the facade and embrace his brother as to finally have an equal someone to understand him is something we all desire but he is alfaris the shadow to the imperium's light in fact alvarez may have felt this desire to unshackle himself many times as he was there for when most of his brothers were found often disguising himself as a member of the other legions he witnessed how many of his brothers saw the emperor for the first time seeing how like him they felt something fill a void within their heart but for our faris he was different when many had felt complete he felt this gnawing feeling within he felt like something was missing like a part of him was lost he felt incomplete alfarius felt like he was one half of a home he could sense something else someone else [Music] a gestation capsule roared through the warp clawed at by creatures made of pure thought it burst into the material universe and in a blaze of fire it crashed upon a world amongst a burning wreckage a boy crawled out having survived something that should have killed any mortal man the boy was not a helpless child and started to rationalize his surroundings in a way that would astound us where was he what had happened where had i come from there was only one thing he knew for certain i am omigon the inbuilt genius of his mind let him discern that the inherent skills and knowledge he was born with was no accident someone had placed them there as the boy looked around he saw only emptiness he was alone as the boy grew he scoured around the surface of the planet he had crashed onto only to find no one only the ruins of a civilization even for a primark growing up in isolation must have affected him as it would us conrad kurz and lionel johnson similarly spent their early years without normal human contact which also had its consequences the boy grew scouring through the remnants of the world's dead civilization finding a strange-looking xenos spear and a baroque scaled set of armor as the boy grew to a man he thought more upon his hypothesis that he was in some way created he'd always felt like something was missing like he was one part of a whole like something out there would complete him perhaps this was his creator the one who had imprinted all his knowledge and physical prowess he looked to the stars and he knew he would find the truth out there it is perhaps the greatest secret amongst all of the imperium the truth of the primark of the 20th legion something had happened during the scattering of the primarks that no other had experienced the 20th legion had two primogs twins alfarius and omegon two halves of one whole the incredibly tumultuous energies of the warp had split the primark of the alpha legion into two it was his hollow feeling that al faraz had felt all his life though both of them were extremely practical rational and even somewhat emotionless they were still human a refined pinnacle but still men alfaris having landed on terror had experienced the emperor and his presence and the wonder it filled him with but still there was that sense of being incomplete alfaro is determined that he had a brother out there one who was closer to him than any other the years of the great crusade progressed alfares and his elite alpha legion had gone from a small elite force to a ghost legion a unit that lived within their shadows they had had their primark from the very beginning and he had molded them into an extremely effective fighting force the warriors acted and spoke with an independence unheard of amongst the adeptus astartes for if one were to cut off the head of the legion it still needed to operate and function the alpha legion had spent decades as an advanced force carving forward the path for other legion's victories but they had become tired of this even alvarez was not without some ego he wanted to bring his legion into the light to reward them for all of their accomplishments all 19 primarks have been found over the decades of the great crusade none who alpharest was searching for until the rumors came of a superhuman warrior who had been seen on a world invaded by the horrifying slaw alphares and an elite squad infiltrated the world infested by the brain devouring xenos one by one they were picked off each marine sacrificing themselves for their primark until on the brink of being overwhelmed a warrior in baroque scaled armour barrelled in the two demigod figures fought side by side leaving no foul xenos alive i approach cautiously the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend and there are any amount of creatures in the galaxy who exist in a mockery of humanity's form it was possible that my apparent new ally was not human at all in fact i suspect that was not the case but then again nor was i thank you for your aid i said as i reached them the armor's helmet a baroque visor crested with rearing serpents turned towards me but although they still held their strange spear they did not raise it towards me and you for yours they replied their voice was as deep as my own and curiously unaccented i have not yet met a warrior who can slay even one of these fiends constructs by himself let alone four truly the legions of starters are even mightier than this world's legends give them credit for you know the astartes i asked by reputation only the figure reached up and removed its helm and i found myself looking into a mirror i am omigon i had never felt such joy no victory no celebration no praise from my father had ever sparked within me the same rush of euphoria i experienced in that moment finally after decades of searching of yearning for something i only partly understood i had it in front of me well met brother i said disengaging this sealed on my courgette and lifting my own helmet from my head i am alfarious i could feel your existence of course onagon said to me we were in the control room in the bowels of the power station in which he had been hiding and from whence he would venture out to search for supplies and kill any slaw he encountered i had always assumed it was the soul of the one who made me but now i see my error you knew you were created i asked i studied his face it was such a strange sensation after being surrounded by my own gene sons who would embrace surgical alterations to resemble me to see a face not my own that mirrored mine exactly i possessed a high level of innate deductive reasoning my twin replied sufficient to realize that the ruined device from which i'd crawled seemed an unlikely method of natural gestation i laughed what world was this on i do not know its name omegon said slightly wistfully it had been settled once but the civilization had died despite my best efforts i was unable to determine how or even what they called themselves i was the only sapient being on the entire planet so far as i could tell it wasn't until pirates landed looking to pick the ruins that i was able to take to the stars and escape it did the pirates not tell you its classification i asked omegon glanced at his weapon which he called the saracen they were not in the mood for conversation all for passengers so i never got the opportunity to ask i nodded an understanding i was able to make short warp jumps using the ship's navigation charts and slowly began to find my way towards systems inhabited by humans omagon continued i heard rumors of the imperium and the emperor given the stories about him i felt certain he would have been the one who created me i had never felt such joy no victory no celebration no praise from my father had ever sparked within me the same rush of euphoria i experienced in that moment finally after decades of searching of yearning for something i only partly understood i had it in front of me the twins were reunited the alpha legion had the three heads of the hydra alphareus omegon and the legion alvarez was elated to be reunited with his brother the other half of his soul he spent over eight hours telling him everything about his life and his gifts they shared so much more than just aesthetics a brilliant calculating mind an adept understanding of subterfuge manipulation and espionage but something unnerved them the emperor of mankind spoke of 20 sons yet here they were twenty-one did the emperor keep omagon a secret just as al-faris was a secret to his brothers or perhaps as omargon proposed they were two beings and one soul per se perhaps their time in the immaterium has split one into two perhaps the emperor does not even know the galaxy shaking secret the last primark had been found and though both of the twins were superhuman experts in being in the shadow to the imperium's light they are still human and not without little human ego they were unsatisfied with the 20th legion forever being unrecognized in their sacrifice it was time to bring the 20th legion and its primark into the forefront the great crusade it had to be done right as to maintain the secrets of the legion's pre-crusade history and knowledge of the nature of the twin primarks for this secret could be extremely useful the primark of the alpha legion would become alfarious omegon a facade just as how the emperor malcador and constantine valde were visible the character of alvarius omegon would be too a careful act to be played by both of them and their legion a figure who could be everywhere a symbol for the 20th legion but who would play the role spending over a century in anonymity in the imperium seeing its rise from the start alvarius knew all of his brothers though he was a master of manipulation and possessed his gift of masking his presence the scrutiny of a primark may see through this over time alfaros had even noted the times he stood before lionel johnson and had felt his keen eyes it was to be armagon the man who had grown up in isolation who'd become the face of the legion his reaction would be genuine the twin primarks enacted the next greatest secret of the imperium a secret they kept even from their own legion they traded places arthurious discarded his name for it was only a starting point a tool and he became omagon and omagon became alpharius a lie that even their own sons believed omnigon set up a deceptive ambush masquerading as a ragtag pirate fleet he infiltrated the flagship of his brother horus lupercal playing his part well he stormed the bridge and fought with a skill only capable of a primark horus screamed at the intruder he was elated because he had found a brother for who else could it be gripped by the charisma of horus omagon removed his baroque helm genuinely awestruck by his presence and uttered the lie i am alfarious the last primark had been found in the imperium's eyes the 20th legion came into the light and set out to join the great crusade as a fully fledged legion we did not need to kill them that is true we could have waited for you to grind your way through that troop step by tedious step the future cannot be won by a war waged in shadows it will not be won any other way then that future will be dead before it can begin do not moralize at me brother spat alfarius and now it was his turn to flick from control to anger with the deaths of all those that you would have killed been acceptable because they died in open battle yes said dawn how far is held dawn's gaze i think we see the universe very differently rogel no i do not think we see the same universe at all they looked at each other both of their faces set so similar for all their differences the end matters said alfarius at last victory matters everything else is just a delusion with victory we can build dreams but without victory they remain just dreams and how would you salvage a dream from your victory here and now on this world we cannot trust the world prince to rule for us and you have removed those who could have taken his place even a defeated people prefer rule on their own you have won this battle but you have done it by seeding the ground with resentment and bitterness some would call what i did gentle compared to the ways of our other brothers curse mortarion angron even the khan and fetid horus would you call what they would have done preferable they began dawn you are certain that you are right said al farias but if you disdain me then wind up my maker why not our father dawn shook his head and begun to turn towards the door archamos moved with him he could feel the pressure of his lord's anger aching through the air like cold from the glacier dawn stopped at the doors and turned back your initial strikes were misdirected he said to our faris you infiltrated one hive and made it fall by a systematic destabilizing of authority but you should have waited you could have used it as a node from which to disperse your human operatives and agents into the other hives you manage that to a degree but you could have forced a total collapse in their defenses across the planet and not just surrender by assassination that move was also mistimed another 37 hours and the pressure from our assault would have been eroding their ability to communicate secondary psychological fear doubt and confusion would have been rising to a peak you could have ridden that played and controlled its pace forcing hives to fall or change sides at the exact moment when it would amplify whatever effect you wanted what you did was effective but it was not optimally so by your own criteria dawn stared at alfarius but the alpha legion primark did not reply i know you brother continued dawn i knew that you were here before i walked through the door i knew it was you on that throne but not because you made an error in your masquerade you made no mistake yet i still knew it was you think on that brother it is not that i do not understand what you are or what you do i understand both we are what we choose to be dawn turned and warped to the doors arcamus followed for the emperor said alfarias to hold and take part in the greatest secrets of the imperium has its consequences the twin primarks following their reunion spent decades on the forefront of the great crusade the alpha legion fought with expert precision infiltration and assassination they were the 20th legion but named alpha it was not an irony it was a statement they were on top they were the best it is understandable that we as people never want our sacrifices to go unacknowledged and unremembered but was this needed for a so-called ghost legion atharius armagon and the legion are still human and not without human ego is it how dawn says that the way they waged war was not ultimately so by their own criteria almost like they are showing off and what does it mean to chase victory by any means did the tactics of alfarius and the early alpha legion in the shadows of the imperium really belong in the light the truth is revealed in the words victory matters victory by any means is a choice an ethical outlook that says the ends justifies the mean dawn and even gulemon despite alfarious omegon who in a joint campaign with the ultramarines took to using overly complicated strategies over simple ones this caused a 90 casualty rate upon the world's human defenders when the raging gilman questioned the 20th primark before him alfarious omargon responded it would have been too easy an outcome that had been extremely uncharacteristic of alfarious the primark who has spent many years perfecting his presence altering gift amongst ordinary people learning to sympathize with them versus on the gone the primark who had grown up with no one and perhaps not with the experience that would humble him to base humanity they were twins two halves of one whole the closest amongst all brothers perhaps not everything about them aligned their ethics would be tested in the latter days of the great crusade by a man named john kramaticus an agent of the alien organization known as the cabal the cabal revealed to arferius and omagon the outcome of horus being named warmaster it would set them down a path of war that would burn the imperium from within the horus heresy two psychic visions end developed the twin primarks if the emperor won the impending civil war the imperium of man would slowly decay over millennia becoming a rotten mockery until it and trillions of souls were ultimately consumed by chaos immense foul warp entities that called themselves gods the other vision showed that if horus won the war after two to three generations horus will be racked with guilt for slaying his father and would ultimately obliterate all chaos tainted factions in the galaxy but humanity would be destroyed in the process taking down the dark gods with them it was defeat down each path one a slow death and victory for chaos or the other a quick end that would destroy the foul dark gods what would you do with such information how do you react when the fate of the galaxy rests on your shoulders alvarez and armagon began to decide what side they would be on for the wars to come he was to watch to understand and to act it was the teachings of malcador that formed the foundation of what al-farias took to every mission war zone and decision the cabal were dangerous but what was more important was the information that they had given the alpha legion likely played along in the beginning as it was more useful to let an enemy reveal more information the legion and the primarks contemplated their choice secrets and lies was the way of the legion that often made choices without approval so they chose victory it was their responsibility as it always had been just like the custodian guard who was killed in the name of imperial defense the alpha legion chose to side with the traitors in the defense of the galaxy they believed the visions of the kebab perhaps if presented to any other primark they would have run straight to the emperor but they were warriors of shadow they knew no other way the dark gods of the warp corrupted horus just as the visions had predicted reviving him from his mortal wounds and set him down the path of betrayal and when the now corrupted war master asked the primark alpharius omargon answered after the virus bombing of isfahan 3 the presumed loyalist alpha legion was one of the space marine legions sent by the emperor to destroy horus and the traitor legions upon isvanify assigned to the second wave the legion instead turned on their loyalist allies it became a bloodbath and was known as the dropsite massacre one of the most violent battles in the imperium's history yet curiously some of the survivors have been allowed to escape including corax of the raven guard though this was used as an opportunity to place disguised operatives amongst the survivors the alpha legion agents followed the survivors all the way to kieva where a rebellion was incited the operators used his cover to poison the fresh genestock sent to rebuild the legion turning the new marines into monsters leaving the raven guard decimated or out of the way the years of the heresy progressed and alphareus omegon and the legion slaughtered their loydis brothers across the imploding imperium even managing to blockade the uninformed white scars upon their homeworld of jagoris it was during this standoff that lord omegon came to one of his captains offering his blood amongst all the primarks it was not just the gift of mass presence that belonged to the twentieth primarks legionaries who ingested their blood could temporarily gain a small portion of their power and access to the primark memories the captain was given a task so secretive it could never be recorded a crack team alpha legion squad were tasked by lord omgon to destroy a local pylon orae garrisoned by their own brothers the squad were successful but were sacrificed to keep the knowledge secret with the destruction of the array a signal roared onto chicorus informing them of the truth of the heresy it was alfarious having traded places with omegon decades ago he'd assumed the title in secret from his legion alvares loved his brother and was doing what he was taught to watch to understand but now he was acting he was engaging in operations in secret against his own legion and brother he was steering the course of the war through the shadows of his own legion after all he was the weapon the imperium's enemies did not expect [Music] omar gone woke he had never slept never dreamed or felt the tug of mortal fatigue in all the days of his existence yet here he was waking from black oblivion to the cold deck of the ship beneath him the darkness of his arming chamber closed about him the pulse of baiter engine was a distant rumble on the edge of silence coldness poured through his flesh moisture beaded his skin he could taste blood in his mouth thick and harsh with iron his hands were numb the fingers hooked as though grasping something that had vanished he moved the fingers and then brought them up to his face sharp needles of pain prickled beneath his touch and then a new feeling came crushing in its weight undeniable in his truth though he could not tell how it had arrived he was alone words began to form on his tongue but the door to the chamber was already opening archos stood in the light of the door his battle plate humming as he stepped within lord omargon archos said bowing his head briefly then stopping as his eyes fell upon his primark is there something wrong no no is there he blinked cold spirals of light were briefly at the edge of sight alone is there a word from lord elfarius omagon asked still looking at his hands he could sense as frown without needing to see it none he said but there is something else omigon looked up the muscles of his neck cold as they moved war master horus wishes to consult directly with lord alfarius do we have any indication of what his concern is no lord said archos our sources within the war masters court have become unreliable omicon nodded glancing over his shoulder as though he had heard something in the empty dark prepare the metatron he said i will speak with my brother archos nodded his gaze lingering on his primark for an instant before he left alone omugon armoured himself the blind servators bolted in the blades of armor over his flesh as the numbness in his hand and neck became a smouldering pain i am alone the knowledge rose through the coldness of his thoughts certain and inescapable that we could not say how he knew that it was fact not fair he had never been alone not truly even from the first spark of thought in his consciousness he had known that he was one of many a fragment of a greater whole a piece of great destiny he walked from his armory the scaled and crested helm of the primark of the alpha legion under his arm archos was waiting in the sealed chamber where they kept the metatron omargon nodded and the attendants began to unbolt the mask from the one-time astropath's head he watched as the famine-thin figured writhe ghost light and smoke pouring from its mouth to form a shadow in the air above it a shadow with a face and fall frost spread across the floor and his armor he bowed his head even as the shadow turned to look at him what had happened what was happening what was he now as he realized that the words he was about to say would trap him for the rest of existence the jest turned into mocking truth i am alfarious what is your will my war master [Music] he is alone that feeling of being incomplete returned over the years the heresy ravaged the imperium alfaros had been sabotaging the traitors doing so in secret as perhaps he did not want to so openly confront his brother and tear the legion apart especially as he was omargon and the legion has spent over two centuries in loyalty to al-farius who was secretly omargon after their reunion the heresy progressed all the way to the solar system with the alpha legion leading the charge upon the station on pluto as the legion fought its way onto the platform they were counter-charged by the imperial fists and the primark roguel dawn a jewel broke out between omagon masquerading as alfari's omargon and the praetorian of terror the clash was fierce and was so blindingly violent it truly was a battle between demigods omegon overconfident fell into dawn's trap and he killed him alfaria's back on his flagship felt it instantly he felt the shock i believe alfaria's along the way began to question their path he had spent his early life right at the heart of the imperium he was the first primark found and his loyalty must have been just as strong as any of his brothers but he is torn in the direction of his twin and his loyalty to him to the path of victory the psychic predictions of the cabal has started to play out it made the twins believe it was real and they chose what they thought their father would do victory over time perhaps he lost his surety in the cabal's predictions maybe not everything is written in stone the cabal even stated to them that they knew al-fari's omargon was the last primark found but that was true for only one of them alfaria steered his legion and brother through the tactics that were in his blood lies and deception it was in a way to try and fight for the imperium but also to protect his brother from a legionary civil war he loved him their bond was closer than any one of us could really understand they were two halves of a whole even the rational alpharius must have struggled with the fact that he had to deceive the one he was closest to sometimes we all lie to protect the ones we care for but all of it was in vain omagon was dead the primoca grew up alone the last found primark the one who joined the legion upon its unveiling to the imperium the man who only knew the victories the legion had brought to the great crusade alpharius was alone and as if it was a cruel joke he alone ascended to the facade he and his brother had created he became alpharius armagon he could no longer discard this name it was no longer a tool sometimes we forget the cost that lies have upon us the facades we create can often be crushing as they are ideal versions of what we have to live up to alfares had enjoyed anonymity for so long and now it was all taken away in the name of a cause he did not believe in alphares appeared alone on ulinor during the master of traitor forces in preparation for the siege of terror no other alpha legion forces were present in the system making many of the other traitors wonder how our forest could even be there at all before horus dark triumph on arnold alfaros appeared in the war masters command tent and gave him a cylinder which contained a detailed layout of all the sole system's defenses and infrastructure alfaria then took out a dagger and shattered it in his hand throwing the pieces at horace's feet before leaving the legion had been branded traitors they had killed their loyalist counterparts they had sacrificed a primark alfarious was done and the traitors would have to assault terror without them a legion divided the 20th had chosen to sacrifice humanity by siding with the traitors and directing the path of time towards the destruction of the foul dark gods but their primark was dead the one they believed to be alfarious the one who had molded them from the very beginning the one who had imprinted the creed that if one head of the hydra was cut off another would take his place altharius who became omagon had assumed the single title the facade alpharius omegon but where did his legion's loyalty lie perhaps there were many who believed in the victory at all costs because it was how they were trained how many would defy the ascension of who they saw as one who was portraying the wishes of their founding primark though lies had often been useful in how the 20th operated it had its consequences too alpharius was in charge of an independently spirited legion whose information and layers of secrecy put them on the brink of collapse how could artharius face horus with his divided legion versus the assembled traitors alfarez had chosen the other path he chose the slow decay of humanity but why did he believe he could change his fate because all records lie he understood and weaved lies like it was an absolute of his nature alvarez could not choose a path that sacrificed the common people a part that truly betrayed the emperor i believe alfari has recognized what he truly was what part he had to take to create the ultimate victory it is the words of malcador spoken two centuries ago on terror that still ring true he must be the sword in the darkness the secret shield the weapon their enemies do not expect al-faris had to return to the shadows he had to become the ghost just like he was before he had to be the traitor amidst the traitors with the close of the siege of terror the emperor slew horus but was crippled and interred upon the golden throne the alpha legion did not follow the retreating trait allegiance into the eye of terror it was years later on the world known as escridor that alfarious and rubute gileman a primark that despised the facade of alfari's omargon would meet for the last time believing that gulemon would adopt his standard deployment procedures as later outlined in the codex astartes alvarez was surprised by the ultramarines a splinter force including their primark made a quick strike at the alpha legion's headquarters alfaria's playing up his role was reportedly happy with such a development as it allowed him to demonstrate his forces superiority both primarks met in combat and alfaro's omagon for a second time was reportedly killed believing the combat over for what astati's legion could ever survive the loss of their primark in battle the ultramarines were taken by surprise by the remaining elements of the alpha legion they were struck back a soul a day later the ultramarines who had launched the attack on the traitors legion's headquarters were harried so mercilessly that by the time they had returned their casualties were almost total they had lost the battle but they had won the war but it felt easy the alpha legion known for their flexibility subterfuge and deception had fallen for such a simple strategy not renowned for his combat skills compared to his brothers gilman too felt the duel was too easy the consequences for the battle was that alfaro's omargon was dead and the leadership of the 20th legiones astartes was gone [Music] life is often shaped by our formative years we take the education the culture and beliefs of our environment into the world and in turn those ideals and values are challenged alphareus was found on terror the first primark but he was hidden and kept a secret he was trained by the sigilite to be secretive cunning and observant he trained his gift and was able to mask his presence allowing him to infiltrate but also experience a mortal person's life he was to be the sword in the darkness one who was willing to kill loyal soldiers such as a custodian in the name of the defense of the imperium he was there blending into his brother's legion and even finding them across the galaxy all his life he had felt incomplete and knew a part of him was out there in the stars on a gun the boy who grew up with no one who had to learn to be strong to survive when the twins met the usual cold and calculating was replaced with joy and fulfillment they rejoined their legion and brought them into the light to honor their sacrifices for humanity but war changes everyone the legion began to show off reveling in their superiority as the best legion the legion of lies and deception was shown two futures by the kabar a choice that they took as sacrificing humanity to save the galaxy but alfarius chose different why did he take action that defied the choice of betrayal why did he have the pylon already guarded by his own sons destroyed why not be open to his legion it was subtle actions taken in the shadows because he was betraying his brother it was in that moment of omagon's death that show shock his death was a surprise he himself had killed loyalists in the name of something greater but he never wanted this grief is a hard thing to bear we have all felt the pain of losing someone unexpectedly even the genius calculating primark is not immune to the pain of loss he has suffered so much yet he cannot return to his father's side the facade of betrayal is too important he has to bear this suffering and loneliness for the imperium in order to protect it just like malcador taught him the legion following the heresy is divided the layers of secrets that once had been their weapon had become their crunch alfaris knew that the future of the imperium needed to be protected he had to be what he was always meant to be the weapon their enemies did not expect the alpha legion following the supposed death of alfarius omargon shattered into warbands for millennia the various warbands have diverged and changed such as the redacted legionaries who still see themselves as loyal to the emperor and consider their activities a cull of weak elements in the imperium but this has coincided with many legionary remnants that have accepted the power of the dark gods and regularly offer innocent people and worlds to them but yet still not as all as it seems on the world of sardrecker in late m41 deep in imperium nihilus captain kassar of the alpha legion warband known as the unsung was sent to corrupt a human psyche in the name of the dark gods but the alpha legion faced competition for khan the betrayer of the world eaters had arrived to lead the final assault and claimed the life of the beacon for corn saint celestine appeared from the warp not long after to aid in this crucial fight but surprisingly celestine entrusted the psycho to castle stating that the emperor had shown her a vision that the psycho was safe in their care it seemed that the emperor has someone in the shadows a sword in the darkness someone who has sacrificed everything to bring victory because with victory we can build dreams the records call alpharius dishonorable a traitor to the imperium but all records lie [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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