Editing Be'lakor (section)

==Age of Sigmar==
[[Meme|Somehow, he's returned]], escaping the gem and into [[Age of Sigmar|the new world]]. While there are hints that he ruled Ulgu before the god formerly known as [[Malekith]] rose to power, Be'lakor's first appearance had him get his ass royally handed to him by the [[Lizardmen]] dive bombing him with Pterodactyl riders. Embarrassed by this poor showing (which could actually be a reference to a battle in a white dwarf, at the time of lizardmen 7th edition, in that battle report Be'lakor was killed during by being stoned to death by pterodactyl riders), he took to hiding from the spotlight once more. That said, [[Archaon]] seems to be following his footsteps, as Archie's been elevated to the "High Marshal of Chaos", which gives him almost free reign to control or kill the champions of Chaos while still claiming no exclusive loyalty to any of the four (now five with the [[Horned Rat]]'s ascension) - the only difference being that he's still arguably human. As of Wrath of the Everchosen, he's the Starscream to Archaon's Megatron, forming his own faction of Chaos followers with the (kinda-secret) goal of (eventually) overthrowing Archaon. Despite that, Be'lakor worked with Archaon to defend the Eightpoints against the armies of Nagash, managing to personally slay the Mortarch Lady Olynder (As much as one can slay a Mortarch), sending her soul back to Shyish.

After this Be'lakor set some big plans he had brewing into motion. Either he or a servant freed one of the Stormcast Morathi captured after her ascension to godhood so the soldier could warn Sigmar of Morathi's treachery, hoping to distract the two gods from Chaos' plans. While this was happening, Be'lakor destroyed some of the Seraphon's future scrying devices to blind them and then tricked them into killing one of Archaon's Gaunt Summoners by having them crash the Summoner's Silver tower into Chamon and then nuking the thing, thus setting back his rival's plans to use Varanite to breach the Realm gate into Azyr. As an unexpected bonus, the explosion set off a chain reaction that destroyed several Realmgates connected to the Tower and also ends up weakening the fabric of the realms allowing Chaos stuff to seep into reality. This inspired Be'lakor with a new plan to set about nuking other realmgates both in order to cut off the realms from each other and also to allow daemonic forces to pour into reality and overwhelm the forces of order, something which Archaon had never thought to try as he and most of his forces were still technically humans and thus needed the Realmgates to move about on their campaigns. But before Be'lakor could do this, there was an issue he had to deal with first. When he killed Olynder, she put a potent curse on Be'lakor that would kill him when the sands in her hourglass ran out; a curse only Olynder could undo.

To deal with this mess Be'lakor took an army to Shyish and used it to track down Olynder (who was coping quite well with Nagash's defeat by Teclis). Having figured out how to destroy Olynder - by destroying her body in its tomb in Dolorum - he held his blade over her corpse and the two struck a bargain; he would give Olynder the souls of an entire Stormhost and she would free him from the curse. She agreed, and the two attacked a realmgate known as the Golden Gate that linked a city called Vindicarum in Chamon with several other towns then attacked the city itself. The resulting battles end up collapsing the realmgate and causing a Chaos storm that stopped the souls of the Stormcast slain at the Battle of Vindicarum (including that of Lorrus Grymn, who Be'lakor personally killed) from travelling back to Azyr. The Chaos storm doomed most of the Hallowed Knights and Celestial Vindicators to be cut off from Azyr, while the Sigmarite Brotherhood was completely wiped out, a feat not even Archaon had managed. When Kharadron forces later arrived to use their fleet to evacuate the surviving civilians, Be'lakor himself went to personally wipe out the fleet's leaders, but stopped at the sight of a duardin steeped in godly power made him decide to retreat (the Dwarf being Grungni himself). Having accomplished his goal and knowing he was outmatched, Be'lakor retreated and gave the Stormcast souls captured by the Chaos storm to Olynder, who removed her curse and left him to his machinations.

Be'lakor made one final appearance in the Broken Realms saga in the epilogue of Broken Realms: Kragnos where he throws shade at the Newborn twins for their failed attempt at conquering the city of Excelsis and their lackluster first attempt to make waves in the mortal realms. They retort by pointing out they got closer than Tzeentch's followers did and mock him for fleeing Vindicarum due to one mortal. He responded by pointing out that so-called mortal he encountered at Vindicarum was actually a powerful god, and mentioned his other plans before leaving.

Despite his failure to finish off Vindicarum and Grungni introducing Thunderstrike Armour to counter his cursed skies, Be'lakor has managed to regain a lot of favor with the Chaos Gods and now stands as the first serious threat to Archaon's status as leader of Chaos. While no outright declaration of war has been made, both have sent their forces to raid the other. Indeed, the damage and mayhem he had wrought had proven to be extremely disruptive not only to the forces of Order, who are now scrambling to recover lost ground and rescue their forces trapped in Chamon while Be'lakor's storm persists all the while; but with Archaon once again being disrupted and stalled in his own schemes to break into Azyr, Be'lakor has proven that he is a force to be reckoned with in the Mortal Realms. Well, at least that's what he would like to think, being jealous of his son by rape and all.

Apparently the 3E Slaves to Darkness Battletome would expand his assets there as well with the reveal of Eternus, Blade of the First Prince. With his (metaphorical and likely literal) son Archaon growing far too powerful to be manipulated in any capacity, he's likely had to make do and elevate another champion to be his personal herald and puppet. Also if some clues from 40k is any indication he may also be the answer to how Unaligned Demon Princes are becoming a thing again as he elevates them himself. What's more, this Eternus was once one of Archaon's servants, who betrayed Archaon to serve Be'lakor, being tossed into the Cursed Skies and singed by the trapped souls of Stormcast Eternals before Be'lakor healed him and infused those souls and their power into Eternus, basically turning him into a Chaos Stormcast Eternal. Alongside this, Be'lakor has moved on from just manipulating other forces to fighting his battles for him, and now has his own army, the Chaos Legionnaires, swearing fealty directly to him, with the newly arisen Eternus as their leader.

The new warcry box set ”Heart of Ghur” has some of his new private army fighting it out with troops belonging to Archaon, Nurgle, and [[Hashut]] of all things over a place called the Gnarlwood located on the continent of Thondia in Ghur. In addition to being filled with all kinds of nasty carnivorous plants that could be used to ruin someone’s day, the forest is also loaded with powerful Seraphon artifacts that were left there after a bunch of Seraphon ships crashed in the area. Seeing an opportunity to score a victory by gaining the artifacts and thus further convince people he deserves to be the true Everchosen, Be'lakor has sent his troops out to conquer the Gnarlwood.