"After the Dropsite Massacre on Isstvan V, the Sigillite and the Terra Guard will hunt down rebel Legion members on Terra," Nimrod ordered, leaning back against The Throne.
"Go to the underground prison in Arabi immediately and find the Night Lords' former Chief Librarian, Fel Zharost."
Nimrod knew that Zso Sahaal was not the only one who had discovered the Eighth Legion's fall. Fel had discovered it as well.
At the same time, he had worried about the future of the Legion Library after the Council of Nikaea.
So he sought out Jago Sevatarion and demanded that the First Company captain make a clear decision.
But Sevatar did not care in the slightest about the Librarians' fate. Fel's stubbornness enraged him, and he knocked Fel to the ground.
Fel angrily told Sevatar just how far the Eighth Legion had fallen, but Sevatar dismissed it as the complaints of an unsuccessful Terran-born.
Fel attacked with Psionic Energy. Sevatar suppressed him with his hidden psychic power, but did not kill him, instead expelling him from the Legion.
Fel later returned to his birthplace beneath Arabi, until Malcador sent someone to find him not long afterward.
[Without my intervention, Fel would have become Khyon, one of the founding Grand Masters of the Grey Knights.]
He recalled the Council of Nikaea, when Fel and fourteen other Chief Librarians had stood before him like knights.
[Being a Grey Knights Grand Master is no better than following me.]
"Your will be done."
At the very moment Kion was swallowed by black mist, the killing fields of Isstvan V were dyed red with Astartes blood.
A thousand heaps of corpses sent towering columns of black smoke into the sky, while orange flames reflected off the fused glass sands.
Fulgrim extended his tongue, tasting the greasy, ashen flavor