The Emperor did not seem eager to speak of his teacher. Instead, he continued with the events before Terra's unification.
"When I wandered lost through Terra's wastelands, Malcador found me. He said humanity needed an absolutely just master to lead everything, and the mistakes of Old Night must never be repeated."
"The mistakes of Old Night? What mistakes?" Lin Fan asked.
The Emperor fell silent for a moment, not answering directly. "The Order of the Sigillites. You know of it, don't you?"
"I do. An ancient secret organization. I also know Malcador's original name was Brahm al-Khadour. I know he was a Perpetual, and that he seemed to have committed serious crimes. As for what exactly they were, I don't know."
"You truly know history's broad outline." The Emperor smiled. "But unfortunately, like me, you have no grasp of its details."
"Malcador never told you?"
"He erased his memories of the past, leaving behind only an organization seeking atonement and a man seeking atonement." The Emperor continued describing the shattered Terra to Lin Fan.
Amid yellow sands and wastelands, Malcador found the Emperor. Through their conversations, he convinced the Emperor to accept his ambition of becoming humanity's unquestionable leader.
Whatever Malcador and the Order of the Sigillites had done, the Emperor had no time to concern himself with such matters back then.
Rather than dwell on the darkness of the past, he might as well devote more time to looking toward the future.
The techno-barbarians of Terra were deadly, and there were even cults worshipping the Chaos Gods and bands of raiders hunting their own kind.
Blood soaked this land, and the Emperor resolved to stop it all.
Terra was unified through the advance of the first generation of gene-warriors—the Thunder Warriors. As the first Space Marines, the Thunder Warriors