I Still Owed Her a Date

A week after arriving in this world, Hogg and the Angel finally figured out the state of the Imperium.

Just as Hogg had expected, this unlucky timeline was the so-called Guilliman Heresy, with only a few differences involving the married couple Ferrus and Fulgrim. And if you set aside the Primarchs' influence, the biggest difference was the young Abaddon.

Here, the Luna Wolves were as loyal and righteous as could be, and Horus truly lived up to his name as the Wolf-Herder God. But as Sigismund had said, the Council of High Lords' benevolent rule was far too human. Even with Angron working himself to the bone as a bureaucratic Servitor, he still couldn't cover every base.

Even more fucked up, the Council of High Lords here was just as inhuman as ever, but somehow, it was loyal. It was countless times better than the vermin in Hogg's world, but its abilities were limited. It couldn't govern the entire Imperium, so its underlings paid lip service while ignoring its orders.

After a few minor disputes, the once-proud Abaddon finally fell out with the Council of High Lords. He neither sided with Chaos nor remained loyal to the Imperium. Instead, he went to Badab and set himself up as king, becoming the Abaddon the Despoiler known in the underworld as the timely rain.

As for the Corvus Corax whom Dorn feared so deeply, it was better not to bring him up. That bastard had become a terrifying monster of Chaos Undivided, looking even stranger than Hogg's true form. He didn't even have to move; everyone around him would fall into madness indiscriminately. He'd become something straight out of a Cthulhu story.

So the forces of Chaos dared not speak of him, and neither did the loyalists. Both sides treated Corvus Corax