Fortunately, for the XV th Legion the Emperor's Great Crusade finally arrived at the isolated world of Prospero and the Thousand Sons were reunited with their Primarch Magnus. The Flesh-Change had become a pandemic at this point, but the entire Legion was transported to the newly discovered world to meet their gene-father. After the initial reunion with one of His lost sons and the celebrations that followed, the Emperor and the vast majority of the Great Crusade's large fleet departed Prospero, leaving the Thousand Sons behind. Psykers have become more specialised in the new edition of Warhammer 40,000, but the sons of Magnus – as ever – defy convention. Each Ritual is a powerful psychic ability channelled through one of your THOUSAND SONS PSYKERS , greatly expanding the arcane techniques available to even the maddest Tzaangor Shaman .

The primarch had initially bristled at the jarl's cursory and demanding manner that was typical of the VI th Legion, and thus, had held off in giving the deputation a timely reply. You then make a Charge roll for the charging unit by rolling 2D6. The result is the maximum number of inches each model in that unit can be moved if a Charge move is possible. For a Charge move to be possible, the Charge roll must be sufficient to enable the charging unit to end that move: For unknown reasons, Tzeentch itself interceded, staying its Daemon Prince's hand. Why he did so remains unknown. Some say that even the Architect of Fate was impressed by the Rubric, yet others whisper that the whole incident was nothing but another plot masterminded by the Great Conspirator and played out by his unwitting pawns. Now, we know that LOTS of armies use these weapons, whether supplied by the Tech-Adepts of Mars or perhaps even “acquired” through less Imperium-friendly means to turn on their former masters. In any case, when Codex: Space Marines arrives in October, every other unit that utilises the same wargear – regardless of Faction – will get their weapon profiles upgraded accordingly. The Rubric of Ahriman was a cataclysmic end to the existence of the Thousand Sons Legion within the Imperium of Man. When the Emperor of Mankind neared completion of the Primarch Project in the late 30th Millennium, He enhanced the psyker genes that existed within one of the nascent primarch zygotes he had genetically engineered.

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The first three stories are available in Ahriman: The Omnibus , but the Chief Librarian’s most mind-bending adventure takes place in Ahriman: Eternal . The short story collection Ahriman: Exodus further explores the deeds of Ahriman and his servant Ctesias the Twice-dead, and also features the shadowy Daemon Prince Be’lakor. Surrounded, Magnus the Red finally comes forth to lead his Legion in a final showdown with the Space Wolves

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Some time later, the surviving Thousand Sons Marines began to suffer severely once more from the constant mutations of their genomes that were always a result of time exposed to the Chaos energies of the Eye of Terror. In addition, the Thousand Sons' patron Chaos power Tzeentch was the very embodiment of Change, and he often gave mutational "gifts" to those who served him. Soon after their arrival in the Eye of Terror, several of the Thousand Sons' Battle-Brothers were mutating out of control into mindless Chaos Spawn. All their medical efforts to staunch the spread of mutation were for naught. The Thousand Sons were losing the only thing they had left after the Horus Heresy and the destruction of Prospero -- their humanity. The Rubric of Ahriman was the name given to an immensely powerful ritual spell cast by a cabal of Chaos Sorcerers from amongst the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion, who were led by the XV th Legion's former Chief Librarian Ahzek Ahriman, not long after the Legion had fled from their homeworld of Prospero to the Planet of the Sorcerers during the Horus Heresy. Like all of their predecessors among the Legiones Astartes, the XV th Space Marine Legion was first forged on Terra by the Emperor of Mankind and its original members were recruited from the Terran population. Their gene-seed was first derived from samples of the psychically-gifted DNA of their genetic father Magnus the Red and then implanted into the first Thousand Sons Astartes in the gene-laboratories of Luna during a brief resurgence of Warp Storms within the boundaries of the Sol System.

After transforming nearly the entire Legion into soulless suits of armour, Ahriman found himself understandably spurned by many of his remaining brothers, and condemned by his father, Magnus the Red.

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Despite the punishing pace of the campaign, the Thousand Sons helped play an instrumental role in the final defeat over the Avenians when they took the objective named Raven's Aerie 93. This final battle was won in a matter of hours, with only a fraction of casualties incurred by Imperial forces. The Avenians surviving leaders and military forces withdrew and retreated to their capital world of Heliosa. With the precognitive abilities of the Thousand Sons' Corvidae Cult members, they were able to determine the location of hidden enemy forces, whom the Space Wolves savagely killed with their warriors, while the Word Bearers burned their fortresses with purifying flame. Global prices have been estimated from similar-priced products. Boarding Patrol: Thousand Sons – Price, Value & Savings Summary Magic Made Manifest (999.M41) - Powered by the death of Midgardia and its inhabitants, the Planet of the Sorcerers bursts violently from the Warp into realspace, coming to rest in sight of the burnt husk of Prospero. Sitting atop his throne, Magnus gazes outwards at a galaxy irrevocably changed. The most affected by this was Magnus himself, who felt every bolt, every burn and every entrapment as if it were on his own armour, body and soul. Disabled by the overwhelming sensations, it was only after his whole Legion had been affected that the primarch intervened, wresting control of the spell away from Ahriman and putting an end to it when his Chief Librarian could not. By then the rampant mutations within the Legion had spontaneously gone out of control after the departure of the Emperor. The Thousand Sons Primarch Magnus intervened to save his genetic children, and through mysterious means was able to save those that had been the least affected by the rampant mutations. In the end, the XV th Legion only numbered a thousand battle-brothers that had managed to be saved.