Editing Medhammer 40,000 Primarchs (section)

==Lupercal==
[[File:MH40k Drafts Lupercal.JPG|200px|thumb|left|The Former Warmaster, has discarded much of the embellishment that marked his arrogance in the great crusade, now his armor is marked with the symbols of those Legions he failed to protect, and allowed to be destroyed by forces he was powerless to fight against. Replacing the wolf, is a great symbol of the Warmaster, the Droplet and wings of the Warmaster.]]
The Lord of The <tt>XVI<sup>th</sup></tt> goes by many names, The Lord of Luna, The Legion Master, the Faceless Lord, the Herald of Sanguinius, the Favored Son, the Great Wolf, and The Mournival. During the Great Crusade, he was appointed Warmaster, by the Emperor himself. Loved by many and respected by all, He rechristened his Legion after himself, in a name that now exists to haunt him. When Lorgar, the Heresiarch, led his great rebellion against the Emperor, Lupercal was tricked by Alpharius, by Lorgar, and by his own sons into massacring his Legion on Isstivan V. Taken prisoner by Horus Aximand, now a champion of the dark gods, Horus was physically and spiritually tortured for months. His face was cut off, only to grow back and be cut off once again as corrupted masks for his traitorous children. And perhaps worst of all, he watched as his own ship, and his own forces massacred, desecrated and destroyed the planets and populations he had spent so many decades uniting for his father. He was able to escape, only to learn that he was too late to save his father from alpharius' schemes.

Disgraced and humiliated, Lupercal, defaced himself, and donning a faceless mask, he surrendered the role of Warmaster to his brother, Sanguinius. Since then, he serves as the Legion Master for Sanguinius, ensuring that the Imperial forces are capable of carrying out Sanguinius's plans. The Faceless Lord, will not speak of his sons, nor will he repeat their names. But there are days when the memories of his life aboard the Vengeful Spirit become too much, and in deep inside the cavernous hold of "Luna's Fallen" one can still hear the anguished shouts of the Man who destroyed him. "Horus!"

===The Many Faces of Lupercal===

Amongst the many casualties of Lorgar's Treachery, one casualty that often goes unspoken is the mind of The Former Warmaster. Prior to the great Heresy, the Primarch of the XVIth was capable, charismatic, proud -even brash or arrogant. But that changed with the many defeats at the hands of Lorgar, a  man he dismissed as an incompetent warrior, and treated with pity and condescension. Isstivan changed that, Lorgar showed that he understood Horus' stratagem better than Horus did, and fought him in battlefields he didn't even conceive. 

When his son, Horus Aximand mutinied against him, Horus was a helpless pawn of his own sons and could only watch as his name and likeness was used to commit unspeakable horrors. When he escaped and killed the mournival, he learned the truth of the Anatheme blade and was forced himself to into his destiny face to face, gaze into his own eyes and kill his sons.

And perhaps the final coup d'grace was that Alpharius, the Brother he found, trained, and trusted for information had betrayed the Emperor. Wounding him, and forever crippling the imperium. Lupercal could no longer trust himself, his ideas, or his strategy. Instead Lupercal of the Luna Wolves takes comfort in distancing "Horus" from himself so that he is a complete alien being, and instead finding refuge in the identity of others.
Lacking a face himself, for it was stolen from him, Lupercal will wear a variety of masks. These masks often serve to demonstrate under what capacity Lupercal is currently serving.

====The Mask of Sanguinius====
When acting as Legiarch, or Legion Master, the Primarch Lupercal will often don a silver mask of Sanguinius, The Warmaster, as a reminder to others of his authority, and who he is representing. Mentally broken from the events of the greatLupercal takes his position as aid to the stragic genius of The Warmaster very seriously.

====The Mask of The Emperor====

Often worn when fighting alongside of Imperial Guard and Auxiliaries, Lupercal will don a golden mask of The Emperor of Mankind. With his father no longer able to lead his Imperium thanks to his failures, Lupercal will act in The Emperor's stead as punishment for his past arrogance.

====The Mask of Abbaddon====
{{Topquote|Horus was weak, Horus was a fool|Lupercal}}
Worn amidst the The Luna Wolves, Horus wears the Mask of his most loyal son, who died attempting to lead the loyalist Sons of Horus in their Father's absence. Though most believe this is simply Lupercal's way to honnor the Mournival leader, there are many who speculate that the Mask is a sign of Lupercal's survivor's guilt, and that in his mind, it should have be he who died and Abbadon who leads the legion.

===During the Great Treachery===
It seems that Horus was destined by the Chaos gods to lead the rebellion against the Emperor, but the Primarch refused to transgress his father. The Ruinous powers, not one to take refusal lightly ensured that the Warmaster would be sufficiently punished for his sins against him. The majority of the Treachery, Horus was tortured humiliated, and helpless. The warmaster was brought low and forced to watch his brothers struggle without his leadership, while all of his work was undone.

====Isstivan and The Great Treachery====
What was supposed to be a swift end to what he percieved to be an Uprising of Gulliman and Magnus against the Council of Nikea turned out to be Horus' greatest humiliation. Hearing from his trusted sources in the Alpha Legion, Horus learned that The Ultramarines, The Lion's Dark Angels, Death Guard, White Scars, and Thousand Sons were amassing against the Imperium. Horus brought his own army, the Alpha Legion, The Iron Warriors, Raven Guard, Emperor's Children, and numerous Imperial Guardsmen as Auxilaries to Isstivan IV. The Plan was to ambush the armies and coordinate with the Word Bearers and World Eaters legions, who would join in the fight to surround the Rebellious forces. Additionally, Horus prepared numerous traps, minefields and fortifications (courtesy of the Iron Warriors) to end the rebellion in a swift and brutal stroke.

But it was a lie. The Word Bearers, World Eaters, Alpha Legion, and Iron Warriors were all collaborating with each other. The loyalist elements of the Dark Angels, were imprisoned on Calliban along with their Primarch. The White Scars and Thousand Sons were trapped in the warps storms that engulfed Prospero as the Space Wolves fell to Khorne. Horus was unwittingly walking into a trap Horus Aximand and Lorgar had prepared for him. 

Instead of a quick descisive battle, what happened instead was a bloodbath. The Sons of Horus, Iron Hands, and The Emperors Children found themselves surrounded by traitor legions and never before seen hosts of demonic forces. His imperial guard, broken and unprepared, flung themselves into Horus' own minefields and fortifications hoping that the Emperor's peace would free them from the horrific nightmares bearing witness on the battlefield. The Emperor's Children legion was almost completely destroyed, and many of Horus' most noble sons lie dead before him. Horus himself lost his Left Arm in his fight against Angron. Horus and the others were forced to teleport to their ships, leaving millions of Guardsmen at best to die. 

====Aftermath====
In grim conclusion to such a harrowing defeat, Horus returned to his ship, only to learn that it was his own son, Horus Aximand who had betrayed him, leading most of the Mournival in mutiny against Horus. Horus Aximand, now imbued with the power of the Dark gods and referring to himself as Horus Optimates. Defaced Lupercal, tortured him, flaying his skin, and removing his limbs. Lupercal watched as the Segmentum Obscurus and Pacificus was subdued by Horus, unraveling decades of work. It wasn't until Sanguinius and Jaghatai Khan led their daring assault of the Vengeful Spirit that Horus was freed from the clutches of the his treacherous sons, and only then as a bargaining chip and hostage for their escape.