Editing Abaddon (section)

==Overview==
During the [[Great Crusade]], Ezekyle Abaddon was the First Captain of the Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus, and Horus Lupercal's right hand man (well, at least after his more balanced comrade Hastur Sejanus was murdered by a treacherous enemy). All the Cthonian recruits to the Luna Wolves were influenced by their origins among the criminal gangs, Abaddon more so than most. In 200 years as a Luna Wolf he demonstrated a street-fighter attitude and a desire for dominance, typically favoring the most violent option (he even had a straight-up row with Horus over whether or not to attack the Interex on first contact). Like most legionaries, he had a father/son relationship with his [[Primarch]], but Abaddon is noteworthy in that his devotion and loyalty to his Primarch was so great that it puts Lorgar's previous devotion to the Emperor to shame. At one point, he'd gotten every bone broken down one side of his torso and refuse Horus' suggestion that he take a breather (in a battle with Orks).

Turns out that his legendary daddy issues go right back to [[Cthonia]], when he killed his biological father in a disastrous coming-of-age ritual. In this, he was meant to kill the "oath-companions" who he had fought alongside since he was a boy. Abaddon refused the kingship he was offered, gutted his father and then went into an exile in which he killed everyone who remained in his old clan and many more besides. The Luna Wolves eventually found him after a battle which took out several whole gangs, and it was the promise of brotherhood that persuaded Abaddon to submit. He also retained his heritage more than any other Mournival officer, scratching gang-marks onto his armour (which worried Sejanus a little).

When Horus was wounded on Davin, Abaddon agreed to First Chaplain [[Erebus]]'s idea that they heal Horus at the Serpent Lodge. When Horus came back corrupted by Chaos, Abaddon didn't notice a thing and was corrupted along with his Primarch, gladly following him into the [[Horus Heresy]]; in fact he was the first Son of Horus to stand by this decision (well if anything, the change was more Horus moving closer to Abaddon's views than the other way round, particularly when it came to elevating the SMs above ordinary people). From there, Abaddon was at the forefront of many of the major events of the Horus Heresy, from the [[Drop Site Massacre|Isstvan massacres]] to the [[Siege of Terra]].

In the Solar War, Abaddon led a fleet against Luna itself, killing Jubal Khan en route (though Jubal nearly killed him posthumously with a Caestus Assault Ram). He and his warriors stormed the Selenar fortresses that the XVIth Legion earned their old name conquering, and secured them for the Warmaster. Though arguably his biggest struggle was resisting the temptation to dismember [[Zardu Layak]]. It was during the early stages of the Siege of Terra that Abaddon began losing faith in Horus, seeing his increasing disinterest in the materium and chaos fugues as a sign of weakness. For all respects and purposes, he took over the role of his Legion's master as it became obvious that Horus was no longer able to form a coherent plan of attack. Taking matters into his own claws, Abaddon attempted to convince Perturabo to accept an accelerated plan of attack that would make victory come faster, albeit without Horus's direct knowledge. It involved using the entirety of the Emperor's Children legion as a distraction whilst several elite Sons of Horus company's launched an underground assault on an apparently unprotected section of Saturnine Wall. Rogal Dorn however, had been canny enough to spot the gap and set a trap for whoever came knocking. Despite taking total casualties (and his plans for a quick assault ruined by multiple parties), Abaddon and his squads managed to kill almost everyone at the ambush sites, fighting balls out and going through every stage of grief back to front before being glad that this fight would end him. Just as he was about to be killed, he was teleported away by his transport, begging to be sent back to die with his brothers. According to Zardu Layak, he had already been chosen as Horus' successor as Warmaster by the Chaos Gods at this point and they had no intention of letting him die so soon.

[[Cowardice|He, however, wasn't with Horus during his duel with the Emperor, as he was busy keeping the rest of the Emperor's retinue under control while the two had their fight to the death.]] When Horus was killed by the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]], Abaddon completely lost his shit and led a frenzied counter-attack against the loyalist remnants on the [[Vengeful Spirit|''Vengeful Spirit'']] to recover Horus' body, before promptly running away (knowing that the Space Wolves, Ultramarines and Dark Angels, probably with elements of the Shattered Legions and every other army that remained Loyal, were hurling burning promethium towards the Traitors).

During the [[Legion Wars|Slave Wars]], he basically wandered the Eye of Terror feeling sorry for himself/exploring. Not until [[Fabius Bile]] made a clone of Horus did he actually start caring; whereupon he became enraged and [[Battle of Harmony|launched an attack on the]] [[Emperor's Children]], destroying the clone and Horus's body. After this, Abaddon, utterly disillusioned with his mentor with what he perceived to be Horus' failure, declared himself the new Warmaster of Chaos and renamed the Sons of Horus the Black Legion, ordering them to paint their armour black and expunge the memory of the "failure" from their name (in a vain attempt to try and remove the stain of Abaddon's flight at Terra)... or so the Imperial histories claim. In truth, Abaddon considered the Sons of Horus long dead and conceived the Black Legion as a wholly new army, one that would take in every Traitor willing and able to fight for his cause. Their first battle was fought to prevent Fabius from trying to repeat the past.

Most other Traitor Legions didn't take his claim very well, and so he spent his first millennium-or-so [[Legion Wars|beating the shit out of other Chaos Space Marines and Chaos Primarchs until they all recognised him as a new Warmaster]]. Though this process wasn't completed until after the First Black Crusade, at which time he was still vying with Thagus Daravek for the right to lead the various armies of Chaos. And with a strength of all Legions behind him he started to launch his [[Black Crusade|Black Crusades]] against the Imperium...