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==The Children of Armok and their Dual Loyalty==

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This will detail how the Children are able to maintain their double agent position in the loyalists camp, while being a traitor legion, and how they work on the Traitors side of the divide. 

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Naturally inclined towards deception and duplicity, the Children of Armok felt at home living double lives, so after Hektor failed the Children adapted to the post Heresy status quo, slipping naturally into the double agent role within the Imperium.
However, this was not a normal situation for the Children to adapt to; the Heresy had just been fought and won by the loyalists, with tensions and emotions still running high, suspicion and distrust was rife.


Just prior to Aubrey revealing himself as a traitor at the culling of the Gorgers etc, Uriel warns the Imperium of the treachery, partly to maintain their cover, and partly to have all eyes be on Aubrey, and away from Uriel and Hektor. 

Uriel continues this calculated revealing of the Traitors plans, sometimes in a way that means the loyalists win at the expense of another Traitor legion - Uriel thinking nothing of selling out an asset to keep his larger game of duplicity going. 

Paramar is set up, as far as the loyalists are concerned, Uriel warns that Hektor will attack Paramar, and sets off to protect it. Once there he is besieged and assaulted by the Traitors, sustaining heavy casualties in the process - this is not what really happens however, the Children gifting the world to Hektor and staging a fight, having their "casualties" repaint their armour in the colours of the Heralds and Zealots, so that they may hide in plain sight, and continue their operations on the Traitor side of the civil war. 
Having "fought and died" for the Imperium, some of the suspicion is averted, all witnesses on Paramar having been killed by the Children or the Traitors.  
 
Various small battalions of the XIIIth Legion that were scattered across the Imperium on their assigned missions were now ordered to find the nearest loyalist legion, and pitch in to help - Uriel making a lot of use from the legions loyalists, kept in the dark about the Childrens fall by exploiting the one way information chain that a cell-structure organisation allows, and keeping them busy out of the reach of the main legion.

For the rest of the Heresy, the XIIIth are largely out of reach of all the major events, only present in small numbers. 
Their intelligence helping in places, and harming in others - a picture of the XIIIth being outsmarted by Hektor becoming a popular take on the legions involvement among much of the Imperial leadership. 

Uriel and Hektor have a small disagreement over strategy when the Traitors reach the Sol System leads to Uriel not warning Hektor about the approaching 3 loyalist legions, the Void Angels, Silver Cataphracts, and Steel Marshals until it was too late. (Uriel cautioning Hektor to wait and build up strength before taking Terra, Hektor stubbornly sticking to his unforgiving and relentless attack philosophy.

Post-Heresy, Gaspard Lumey investigates the XIIIth personally, but due to careful manipulation, doctoring of evidence, and careful blackmail, assassination, and coercion of witnesses, the Children are found to be innocent of any actual wrong doing, although come out of the investigation looking to be incompetent and uncoordinated - something very far from the truth. Uriel leads Lumey to this conclusion of incompetency as a means of getting Lumey off of his back - operating on the assumption that the investigation needs to find something or the Children would look "too clean" in the investigation. 


After the legion is broken down into Chapters, it continues to operate as it did before, just now in slightly smaller organisational formations than they used to operate.
Counter-intelligence becomes paramount, with all information about the Legion controlled and obscured. 
Due to the distrust towards Space Marines, the legion is forced to make even greater use of its Kokolny agents than before.
Generally, the legion will mainly pursue Xenos threats, leaving the Chaos side warband that split off at Paramar, and Group 13, to do the dirty work on the Imperium itself. Although, the Children and their successors still occasionally will be involved in deniable operations, due to the increased scrutiny they are under, especially from certain Inquisitorial factions, these types of operations are eschewed to maintain a more codex image.