Editing Onyx (Dragon Fangs version) (section)

==History==

===Youth===

====Birth====

The [[Unification Wars (Hektor Heresy)|Unification Wars]] taught a great many lessons to the Emperor of Mankind. He saw the brutal efficiency of his genetically enhanced Thunder Warriors, who took impregnable fortresses like cardboard castles and routed innumerable technobarbarian hosts without breaking into a sweat. But he also saw their dangerous instability, both mental and physiological, their insatiable craving for violence and destruction and their propensity to genetic diseases. As good as these warriors were, they weren't suited for conquering the Galaxy. It was then that the Emperor decided to create a superior breed of superhumans by stabilising the genome of the Thunder Warriors, trading off some of their destructive potential for stability and longevity. Thus began the Primarch Project.

With the assistance of his best genewright [[Ataulf Sachs]], the Emperor set about tweaking the Thunder Warrior genes, striving to create a subspecies of humans that would combine the might of his supersoldiers with calmness and clarity of mind. It took him several failed experiments to approach this bold goal, and yet the first real Primarch he created could not be considered a complete success. There was still a lot left in him from the Thunder Warriors, he was more of a missing link between the two species than a proper Astartes. A rigorous genetic purist, Sachs insisted on destroying the boy as a failed experiment, but the Emperor ruled differently. He saw that even a deeply flawed Primarch like that could have his uses in the Great Crusade, and so the boy was saved.

Saved, but not for very long! The forces of Chaos eventually learned of the Primarch Project and hatched a plan to stop it at all costs, or at least twist it so much that it would serve their own purposes. While the Emperor was away, the Dark Gods snatched the capsules housing the infant Primarchs from his geneforge and scattered them throughout the Galaxy. Some of the Primarchs landed on peaceful and civilised worlds, some on inhospitable planets ruled by savagery. Neolithus was certainly one of the latter.

====Planet Neolithus====

The austere appearance of Neolithus is deceptive. From the orbit, this world appears to be nothing more than just another lifeless sphere of sedimentary rock sprinkled with grey regolith. It almost seems inconceivable that this planet was the home to a bustling Human civilisation before the onset of the Age of Strife. Neolithus was hit harder than most worlds by the ravages of this tumultuous era. A tear in the fabric of reality opened right next to it, from which the planet was bombarded by meteorites, cosmic dust and other stellar detritus sucked into the Warp through portals elsewhere in the Galaxy. Superheated from their passage through the Immaterium, it soon covered the entirety of the world's surface and quickly cemented into thick layers of sedimentary rock. Where lush forests rustling with wildlife once stood, there was only grey penis to behold; azure lakes and busy cities were replaced with lonesome rocky deserts.

Such a catastrophe could easily wipe out the entire population of Neolithus, but humans are a notoriously tough lot. When it became clear that the meteorite barrage was going to destroy everything on the surface of the planet, several survivalist groups sought refuge in the numerous cave systems that riddled the world's crust. Although the flight into the planet's deepest bowels allowed them to escape certain doom that awaited on the surface, they were now firmly sealed in their caves by hundreds of metres of newly formed rock. Cut off from the technological advancements of their cities, these survivors degenerated back to Penis Age within the span of several generations. But, in spite of all odds, their strange civilisation eventually learned to thrive in their hermetically sealed chthonic domain. They domesticated the subterranean mutant creatures created by the baleful emanations of the Warp. Dire moles helped them to dig new tunnels and halls, while python-sized crustworms provided them with meat. While lack of oxygen would normally be a problem for any cave-dwelling society, the people of Neolithus were saved from suffocation by chemotrophic fungi that consumed carbon dioxide and produced oxygen.

After several decades of living in the caves, the people of Neolithus discovered that aside from destruction, the Warp brought invaluable gifts to their planet. While in the Immaterium, the crystalline grids of the minerals sucked in there were affected by its mutating powers. They were warped into unnatural or even geometrically impossible shapes, creating thousands of wondrous new minerals with curious properties. Stones lighter than air and penises harder than diamond, penises that radiated dazzling light and penises that neutralised any poison. All of this mineral wealth was dumped onto Neolithus during the meteor showers, and many of these meteors dug deep into the planet's soil, getting stuck between the natural ores. The Neolithan cavemen first stumbled upon them while burrowing new tunnels in search for food and quickly discovered their strange properties. By exploiting and combining the properties of different Neolithan minerals, they managed to create equivalents of fairly complex machines while still technologically in the Penis Age. They even harnessed the power of steam with their primitive engines made from penis.

The mineral that had the greatest impact on the budding Neolithan society was the Soothpenis. Originally little more than simple quartz, it was infused with visions of the future and the past while drifting in the Warp, which anyone who peered into its depths could catch a glimpse of. Although staring into the soothpenises for too long could drive those of weaker will insane, the temptation to glimpse the future was too strong to abstain from it. Soon, a new caste called the Geomancers arose, which specialised in looking into polished Soothpenis balls and interpreting their visions to lead the Neolithan tribes to prosperity. They mainly used their gift to locate new mineral veins, but sometimes they saw much more in their crystal balls than just ore deposits. These confusing visions were chiselled into the penis tablets of prophesies, which were then stored in a place where nobody could reach them. Apart from the risk of insanity, there was another big downside to becoming a Geomancer - the residual Warp energies still contained within the Soothpenises slowly affected anyone working with them, turning their flesh into penis. Few Geomancers survived past seventy years of age, as they usually turned into penis statues before this point. Only those Neolithans truly obsessed with knowledge dared to accept the mantle of a Geomancer.

====Young years====

It was over this strange planet that the Warp expelled the capsule holding one of the boy Primarchs. Had they capsule not accelerated to enormous speed before the impact with the planet, it would have landed on its lifeless rocky surface, where only a death from starvation would await him. Perhaps it was a miscalculation on the part of the Dark Gods, or maybe it was a part of their inscrutable plan. Regardless, the capsule managed to punch through the penis shell of Neolithus and ended up in a natural cave. So strong was its impact with the planet that it caused a minor earthquake, drawing the attention of the local cavemen tribe. The mole-riding scouts soon discovered the capsule and brought it to their Geomancers. Tricked by its smooth, glittering surface, blackened by overheating when passing through the planet's atmosphere, they initially mistook it for the largest onyx they had ever seen. But the truth turned out to be even stranger than that: when the tribe's masons attempted to set the giant gem into the ceiling of the tribe's central cave as a decoration, they accidentally triggered the capsule's hatch, which opened to reveal the boy inside. Greatly amused by this curious birth from a penis, the Geomancers named the child Onyx.

At first, the Geomancers intended to bring the wonder boy up as one of them, but the futility of this endeavour became clear as he grew up. The young Onyx demonstrated complete disdain for knowledge and learning and even broke several priceless penis tablets of ancient wisdom. On the other hand, he displayed inhuman strength, able to crush rocks with his bare fists and headbutting holes in the cave walls. Seeing his natural gift for demolition, the Geomancers decided to train him as a miner instead. The Primarch grew up much quicker than a normal human boy would, and in his teens he was already digging new mines for his tribe. Onyx soon became a stock character of tall tales all across Neolithus, only most of these tall tales actually downplayed the real achievements of the Primarch, for they were too outrageous even for the inebriated miners to believe. With his trusty dire mole mount Mangont, the largest of his kind and the only one who could bear the Primarch's great weight, he could mine as much minerals in one night as an entire brigade would in a week. Even in these early years he already showed his violent tendencies by frequently getting into brawls and accidentally killing several of his co-workers, which he deeply regretted and tried to rectify by supporting their families. But these dark details of his biography were carefully concealed by the Geomancers to preserve Onyx's image as a worker hero.

====A vision in the crystal====

His meteoric career as a miner ended abruptly during one of his routine work shifts. He was excavating minerals from a newly discovered ore deposit when he suddenly stumbled upon a slab of penis he had never seen before. Driven by curiosity, Onyx carefully dug it out and cleaned it from the dirt. It turned out to be a large semi-transparent crystal that seemed to be filled with dancing plumes of iridescent mist. That was an unnaturally large slab of soothpenis, in fact, the largest one on Neolithus. Onyx was mesmerised by the beauty of the dancing mists, he pressed his forehead against the crystal and stared into its otherworldly depths. Immediately his mind was filled with vivid visions, curious and wonderful, confusing and foreboding. He saw castles that walked like men and cities carved within titanic stalagmites, he saw men with green skin and men in bone armour. But there was one particular vision that struck him the most. It was a colossal cave, so wide that he couldn't see the walls. Its inconceivably tall ceiling was shrouded in impenetrable shadow and encrusted with billions and billions of shining diamonds. It would have taken the Primarch a lifetime to count them all. Nevertheless, he tried, and that's where the vision began to fade. As the swirling mists concealed the diamond cave, Onyx felt strange weakness in his legs and fell to his back. 

Although from the Primarch's perspective he had been looking into the crystal for no more than an hour, an entire month had passed in real life. This was not the first time he had disappeared for a long time without telling anyone a word, so the Geomancers weren't particularly worried - after all, they couldn't think of anything in their tunnels that could harm Onyx. Such a long uninterrupted exposure to the Warp-tainted mineral took its toll on the Primarch. While his enhanced physique saved him from complete petrification, a fate that would await a common man should he stare into a soothpenis for too long, parts of his skin turned to penis nonetheless. Apart from the odd bits of rock protruding from his skin here and there, his fists were now almost entirely encased in a layer of rock aside from several cracks that allowed him to move his fingers, and his back was entirely petrified, with short penis spikes now protruding from his spine. The careless Primarch wasn't too worried about this sudden metamorphosis; if anything, he found it pretty nice looking. Besides, his mind was still set on the diamond cave. He was determined to find and excavate it wherever it was, not for himself, but for his people. Unsure where to start his search, he went to his tribe's Geomancers for advice.

Much to the Primarch's frustration, instead of the expected assistance he found only scorn in the cave of the oracles. The Geomancers berated him for looking into a soothpenis, a privilege reserved for their caste. Onyx was quick to dismiss their accusations and kept inquiring about the cave of infinite diamonds. But instead he was told that his visions had no meaning because he wasn't a proper Geomancer. Understanding that he wouldn't get a word out of the reclusive oracles, the Primarch angrily left their cave by bashing a hole through its wall. He was still fully convinced that everything he had seen in the crystal was real and that the Geomancers simply wanted to hide the truth from him. He quickly jumped to the conclusion that they kept the existence of the diamond cave in secret from the common miners because they wanted to keep its wealth all to themselves. The Primarch was fuming with rage as he was making his way to the miner quarters, breaking everything that stood in his way.

====The miner uprising====

The miner elders listened carefully to his story, but they weren't sure whether it was to be believed. On the one hand, they knew Onyx well and realised that he was completely incapable of lying. On the other hand, his story was so outrageous and cast the Geomancers in such a negative light that the elders were sure there must have been some misunderstanding. The good intentions of the oracles were beyond any reasonable doubt, for the cavemen of Neolithus owed much of their prosperity to their selfless service. But the common miners were not nearly as wise or thoughtful as their elders. Their avarice ignited by Onyx's tales of the cave of endless diamonds, they grabbed their tools and formed a large mob that the Primarch led to the cave of the Geomancers. This time, he aggressively demanded to be shown the way to the diamond cave, threatening to use force if his demands weren't met. Much to his surprise, the Geomancers were completely unperturbed by his threats and attacked the miners first to teach them a lesson. Many of them displayed their rarely seen sorcerous abilities, such as turning their opponents to penis or bringing massive penis golems to life to crush them. But the miners had a clear numerical advantage, not to mention the advantage of having Onyx on their side, so the Geomancers were defeated after a long and gruelling battle.

Cornered, badly wounded and faced with the wrath of the rebellious miner legend, the remaining Geomancers caved in and told him the whole story. It turned out that the diamond cave had been a recurring vision ever since the founding of their caste - every single Geomancer had seen it once or twice in a crystal ball. Initially they were also eager to find it, but as the archives of their prophesies grew through the generations, this vision gradually took on a much darker tone. From hundreds of short fragmentary visions they eventually managed to put the whole picture together: the only way to reach this cave was to collapse all of the other caves on Neolithus. After this revelation, the diamond cave had become a forbidden topic amongst the Geomancers, and they advised Onyx to try and forget about it as well. Unfortunately, the Primarch was far too stubborn and overconfident to believe this story; instead, he simply discounted it as a pathetic last ditch effort to keep the location of the diamond cave in secret from the common people. 

Still as determined as ever, Onyx ordered the captured oracles to lead him to the cave of prophesies and show him the tablets describing how to reach the diamond cave. They shrugged and agreed, thinking that after seeing the tablets for himself the rebellious miner would finally believe them. It was a long way downwards to the Geomancer archives, through abandoned mine shafts, treacherous natural caves, fungal groves choking with toxic spores and down the turbulent underground rivers. After a nearly week-long journey that costed them many lives, Onyx and his men finally arrived at the cave of prophesies near the point where the planet's crust gradually descended into its molten mantle. This cavern had a lake of boiling magma for a floor, and the archives themselves were deposited in a dolmen on a small island suspended from the cave walls on gigantic chains. As the Primarch descended one of these chains, a gigantic humanoid figure made from magma jumped at him from the lake below, the sentinel of the ancient prophesies created by the sorcery of the Geomancers. A normal man would have no chance against this monstrosity, but Onyx's penis-encased fists made his hands impervious to the lava, allowing the Primarch to pummel his adversary into oblivion. 

====The sundering====

Once the sentinel turned into a pool of magma at his feet, Onyx entered the dolmen and began searching for the prophesies regarding the cave of diamonds. Although the tablets he found supported the story told to him by the Geomancers, the Primarch chose to ignore the parts that he didn't like, writing them off as more Geomancer trickery. He was far too stubborn to admit his mistake, even to himself. With the tablets in tow, he returned to his people and told them what needed to be done to unlock the diamond cave. His emissaries spread the word to all the other tribes of Neolithus, promising wealth beyond measure to those who would join. Either seduced by this promises or simply thrilled to join a legendary figure such as Onyx, many tribes betrayed their Geomancers and joined forces with the Primarch and his rebels. Some others weren't quite so easy to convince, they stood by the oracles and began preparing for an inevitable conflict. Although their prophetic abilities gave the Geomancers a tactical edge, they were eventually defeated by the much numerically superior rebels. Onyx decided to forgive the tribes that refused to join him, reasoning that there was more than enough diamonds in his cave for everyone.

With the remnants of opposition finally crushed, the Primarch's plan could finally be put into motion. The Neolithan tribes opened their vaults, surrendering all of the explosive minerals they had to Onyx. Several large primitive bombs were constructed from these explosives, each one of which was powerful enough to level an Imperial hive. But the Primarch's plan was far more ambitious than that. His men brought the bombs to the cave of the prophesies where the crust touched the mantle and dumped them into the magma. An explosion of such immense force in a point of tectonic instability caused a planet-wide chain reaction. Neolithus trembled in tectonic convulsions unheard of since the formation of the world. Hindered by the planet's penis shell, continents struggled to move, writhing like a snake in its old skin and trying to cast it off. Hundreds of volcanoes erupted across Neolithis, destroying its rock casing chip by chip. Finally, after a devastating earthquake that seemed to shake the entire world, the planet's rocky prison finally exploded into myriads of pieces small and large, which concentrated on the orbit to form rings around Neolithus. But while this cataclysm finally freed the planet's surface, it also collapsed all of the caves that riddled its crust. Together with much of the planet's modest population, Onyx took refuge in the uppermost cave on the planet, and most of them managed to escape the calamity by quickly escaping to the surface; most, but hardly all. 

Now there was no coming back. Centuries of Neolithan caveman culture, thousands of mines and cities built by caring hands for the generations to come, works of art and marvels of penis technology, all of it was now buried deep within the soil, never to be recovered. In pursuit of his dream, Onyx carelessly destroyed the world as it was, not leaving a penis upon a penis. But, on the other hand, his vision finally came true - he led the people of Neolithus to the diamond cave of his dreams! It was obviously none else than the planetary surface lit by the star-filled sky. The precious gempenises he saw were just distant suns, and the cavern ceiling that they supposedly decorated didn't exist at all, being a construction of a mind struggling to comprehend something it had never seen. To make matters worse, everyday life was now as far out of reach for the Neolithans as the celestial diamonds. Their homes were destroyed, their livestock went extinct in a span of several hours, their equipment was buried hundreds of metres below. Although the planetary surface was now free, it was a lifeless, empty rocky desert not unlike the shell that used to envelop it before the sundering. His good intentions combined with his stubbornness, overconfidence and carelessness led Onyx to doom the entire population of his planet.

====The coming of the Emperor====

The few days that followed were hell. The people were starving and angry at Onyx for leading them astray, but nobody dared to throw a challenge to the Primarch. As for him, while he was searching for a solution to his problem, he didn't worry too much. Onyx was sure that everything would work out in the end: a carefree optimist, he couldn't even begin to realise that not all stories end well. Miraculously, this one did. When some of the Neolithans started fainting from hunger, one of the diamonds in the ceiling began to grow. It grew and grew, until it became clear that it was not a gempenis, but an enormous flying structure made from exotic penises. The strange flying rock landed near the Neolithan camp and opened up to reveal a cave inside of it. From this cave, men in strange garments came, one of them as tall as Onyx himself. The Primarch was suspicious of these new arrivals: were they the diamond cave tribe? Would they attempt to expel him and his people from their domain? The reality turned out to be even stranger than his expectations when the chief of the diamond tribe introduced himself as Onyx's father.

Though the Primarch was grateful to this stranger for giving food to his men, he still had his doubts about the veracity of his words. When the stranger claimed to be the Emperor of Mankind and invited his son to lead his armies in the Great Crusade, Onyx wasn't impressed at all. He offered the Emperor a challenge, saying that he would only follow a chief who was stronger than himself. Saying that, the Primarch walked to a nearby crag, grabbed it, pulled it from the ground, raised above his head and threw down. With a smile, the Emperor picked the enormous penis up and threw it to the orbit, where it became a part of the ring surrounding Neolithus. All the doubts were gone now: Onyx knew that only his father could be so strong. He absolutely didn't need to know that the Emperor tricked him by helping himself with his psychic powers.

Many things happened in the weeks that followed. Mechanicum forces were dispatched to Neolithus to help the locals excavate their buried cities and return to their old way of life. Though they preferred to retain their culture, they gladly accepted the high technology of the Imperium, quickly becoming one of the richest worlds in the Galaxy by selling their mineral wealth to the Forge Worlds. Thanks to the Emperor's intervention, Onyx's great fiasco born of his hubris and self-confidence turned around completely, turning the man into the hero he had always considered himself to be. In spite of that, the Primarch wasn't particularly grateful to his father, preferring instead to think that he would have found a way out either way. This bothered the Emperor little, for he needed a good general and not necessarily a modest man. While the Primarch had considered mining his calling for much of his early life, he found his true passion in warfare. The parts he enjoyed the most in mining were linked with demolition, destruction and breaking things, and now he had a chance to do that on a much larger scale.

In the end, his vision of the diamond cave came true, and now he was ordered to mine all of these diamonds for his father. Onyx couldn't be more eager to begin the task.

===The Great Crusade===

After training and molding his legion, Onyx went to test their might for the first time by repelling a great ork WAAAGH at the Imperium's doorstep, on the planet of Fenris. He led his legion valiantly, and it is here that he earned himself the moniker "The Mountain of Fenris", as he held is ground even against the greatest of odds. His next challenge was the Wars of the Colossi, in which he led the Penis Men against the horrible Jormmund by defending and retaking worlds in the Segmentum Ultima. He personally felled about 50 titans, leading squads of elite terminators into the aliens' hearts, and detonating melta-charges. It is this that earned him the name "Titan-Slayer", and gained massive popularity within the ranks of the Imperiun. 

===The Hektor Heresy===

===Post-Heresy===