Editing Crysos Morturg (section)

==Biography==
===Great Crusade===
Morturg was inducted into the Death Guard as part of an emergency intake of recruits during the [[Rangdan Xenocides]], which had mauled the XIV Legion so badly that they had to bring in recruits from planets other than Mortarion's homeworld of Barbarus. As the Barbaran Astartes were already hilariously prejudiced against anyone who wasn't from the toxic, smoggy shithole they called home, Morturg faced an uphill battle for acceptance and glory within the legion's ranks, made even harder by his morbid and introspective personality. Nevertheless, he prospered and even reached the rank of lieutenant, at which point his latent psyker powers manifested themselves. The Death Guard, of course, was the one legion that despised psykers above everything else, so Morturg was promptly shunted out of his command and reassigned to the [[Destroyer Squad|Destroyer corps]]. This was effectively a death sentence, considering the toxicity of the rad and phosphex weapons that they used. Though this probably didn't improve Morturg's attitude any, he took it in stride, even when they handed him the worst recruits to work with and sent him into the heaviest fighting. He remained totally loyal to the Imperium and the Emperor, and so was sentenced to die on Istvaan III.

===Horus Heresy===
Morturg got righteously fucked up during the fighting on Istvaan to the point where his psychic abilities were the only thing keeping him alive. Magos Calleb Decima of the Ordo Reductor stumbled across his broken body in the wreckage and rebuilt him with cybernetic components, leaving only his head and a few other squishy bits. He was [[Meme|more machine now than man]], a weird and unholy fusion of biomancy and technology, held together by improvised power armor and his own bloody-minded determination. Morturg officially became a [[Blackshield]] at this time, and proceeded to acquire a ship and put together a warband of other Astartes: loyalist Death Guard like himself, survivors of the [[Drop Site Massacre]], and others with no clear allegiance, knocked loose from their legions by the shocks of galactic civil war. This warband ranged across the galaxy for part of the Heresy, running traitors down and killing them, until they encountered a renegade [[Deathshroud]] named Khorak, who had broken off from the XIV Legion after Mortarion had used sorcery on Molech. Khorak and Morturg recognized each other as fellow sons of the Death Lord, and had a brief chat about how much their dad sucked and why they wanted to kill him. Khorak was about to talk himself into allying with Morturg's crew until one of his fellow renegades tried to shoot Morturg, who deflected the bolt with his psychic powers. Khorak immediately tried to kill him, and Morturg's men put him down. Dispirited by this waste of a potential ally, Morturg opted to return to Terra to seek an audience with the Emperor, and at some point he testified to the Terran War Council as to what had happened on Istvaan III.

===Post-Heresy===
Morturg survived the Heresy and was made captain of the 108th Independent Company, suggesting that not all the [[Traitor Legion Loyalists|loyalists from Horus' side]] were absorbed into the loyal legions. He and his men spent the remainder of their days on patrol near the Ghoul Stars. They might possibly have evolved into the [[Marines Malevolent]].