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Kor Phaeron
Black Cardinal, First Captain of the Word Bearers
Also known as The Black Cardinal, Master of the Faith
Homeworld: Colchis
Kor Phaeron was Lorgar’s foster father on Colchis, a mortal priest who took Astartes gifts he was never built for. He turned a primarch toward gods, then toward the Warp, and called both of those piety.
He drove the Word Bearers into heresy, survived Calth by running when the Ultramarines finally understood the sermon, and has spent the millennia since playing Black Cardinal in the shadows of Sicarus. Erebus is the other knife. Kor Phaeron is the older one.
He still speaks as if Colchis were a church he can reopen. The Word Bearers still make room for that voice, which is how the Legion stays damned.
Colchis–Calth–Sicarus–Terra is his graph with Lorgar and Erebus: the theocracy that raised a primarch, the Shadow Crusade betrayal that burned Ultramar, the daemon-world seat of the Black Cardinal, and the Long War that still answers his older sermon.
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