Editing Inferox (section)

==Youth==
''Inferox saved our people from starvation and degeneracy, there shall never be another whom I trust more.''

'''-Adarhormazd, Head of the Sandaramet'''



[[Crematoria]] was once known as X-235891, a target of the terraforming efforts of ancient man. During crucial step in the terraforming process, the Long Night fell upon its inhabitants of scientists and laborers. Their technology was brought low; the planet remaining as it was, utterly unbearable to all human life. Its sun distant and dim, only giving Crematoria a few hours of daylight barely enough for anything to scrape by. Those few survivors left scrambled for supplies until only one settlement stood, a decrepit geo-thermal plant. As the decades grew into centuries, and centuries into millennia, cults and clans formed further dividing the Crematorians into various factions. 

The Primarch later known as Inferox was created upon the surface of Terra, in the genetic laboratories beneath the Imperial Palace. Torn away from his maker, the Emperor, he was cast throughout the galaxy eventually landing on the blighted world of Crematoria. His pod pierced several levels, coming into a cooling station manned by the scholarly cultists of ''Xerleth''. Through great sacrifice they managed to save the boy inside the capsule. However this could not be done before horrible scarring from the lava flows left permanent marks on the babe. Not even a Primarch's healing could remove all of the damage done.

[[File:1439923586552.png|thumb|left|160px|Priest of Xerleth]]
Inferox grew up in the Xerlethite tradition, which involved rites similar to the Mechanicum's own Priesthood. The machines that kept heat flowing, water steaming, and the husk of a colony alive were all maintained by the cult. Inferox became initiated into the ranks of the Xerlethite elite, the ''Pyrithim'' at the youthful age of twelve. Known in the Crematorian tongue as a fire-keeper, Inferox was responsible for keeping the more fragile systems alive. His secondary responsibility was to serve as guardian against the numerous raids they faced. Only the Xerlethites practiced modest lifestyles necessary to sustain their fragile environment. Others raided for more and more, leading to ever dwindling supplies and population.

The clans knew nothing but strength, ignorant of the furnace that kept them all alive. While the Xerlethites would have one or two children, outsiders sometimes bore as many as twenty or more. The Xerlethites were not without enemies either, for their practice of keeping the great fire sustained brought them targeted hatred. Prisoners would be cast bodily into the lava flows, out of the belief this sustained it. As the attacks gradually increased in severity and number, Inferox knew the days of his people were numbered. Drastic changes were needed if they were to survive.

In order to do this Inferox began recruiting from prisoners and outcasts, whom he would call the '''Sons of Fire''. These souls would act in ways the Xerlethites could not. He would lead raids upon those who threatened his people, but for every foe slain and territory expanded another would arise to take its place. Eventually all the Crematorians inside of the colony banded together, ignoring creed and faith to focus upon the Xerlethites. Inside of one of the great sanctums, a plaza known as a central battlefield, Inferox held in place thousands of invaders with a picked body of men. 

It would be here he would make his stand and die, buying the Xerlethites themselves time to fortify further inside of the colony. But it would not be as the Primarch had assumed.