Editing Plague of Unbelief (section)

==The ''First'' Plague of Unbelief==
The first Plague of Unbelief, and the most fleshed out one of the lot, occured towards the end of the [[Age of Apostasy]], during the few years between the Reign of Blood and the Thorian Reformation. A rogue Cardinal named Bucharis, jealous over his peers' greater achievements, decided to build the biggest temple EVAR. To accomplish this, he enslaved the entire population of his home planet, Gathalamor. Apparently this wasn't enough, so he invaded and enslaved the neighboring planets too.

As is their wont, a Warp storm decided this would be a great time to appear, coincidentally hiding Bucharis' empire from the Imperium at large. Because travel was all but impossible, Bucharis could suppress knowledge of the Thorian Reformation and let the enslaved masses believe Terra was a corrupt mess led by a bloodthirsty tyrant. As such, Bucharis claimed Terra was a lost cause and humanity should start over, centered on Gathalamor (although, apparently, he wasn't smart enough to think of what would happen to him after the Warpstorms abated). From there, he would conquer the rest of the galaxy, including eventually Terra itself. This did not work because he first tried to invade ''[[Fenris]]'' with Guardsmen and a few religious fanatics. Needless to say, the Wolves were not amused.

Meanwhile, trouble was brewing back at home. The newly-occupied world of Chiros was falling into chaos (no, not that kind), thanks to its valiant woodsmen. Eventually, after suicide bombings on commanders' tents, the army lost its backbone and fled.

And then another planet rebelled.

And another.

And another.

On the agricultural planet of Colcha, Bucharis' navy (or what was left of it after the Space Wolves were done) destroyed a rebel fleet except for one shuttle. This shuttle landed on Colcha and Bucharis' Guardsmen waited.

A few months later, the quiet, peaceful planet went berserk and murderized most all of the Guardsmen. With this army depleted, Bucharis found he was having trouble keeping his coffers filled. And that's when a mysterious messenger came to Bucharis' palace and declared himself the emissary of Dolan Chirosius, later to be known as the Great Confessor.

Dolan Chirosius is basically the most potent Confessor of all time. All those rebellions and revolutions? Yep, Dolan's oratory caused ''all of them.'' This understandably, pissed off Bucharis, who ordered him found and put on trial (after all, no need giving the people a martyr). Dolan gave a massive, hours-long speech about all of the rebellious actions he had done and how Bucharis was a despicable tyrant. Bucharis basically went "you're guilty as shit" Idiocracy-style and threw him into the dungeons to be tortured for a few months. His corpse was all-but-unrecognizable.

[[Derp|This backfired spectacularly.]] The people, angered that Bucharis killed Dolan, finally began a rebellion on Gathalamor. Old men, women, and children faced down guns with their bare hands ''and won'', such was their fury. They stormed the walls and smashed the gates. Bucharis ran for a shuttle, but [[Grimdark|the great mass of the faithful threw themselves at the electric fence until its generators short-circuited.]] Bucharis did not get to the choppa and was torn apart by the mob's bare hands. Not one single bit of the mad Cardinal was left to identify.

Eventually, the Warp storms dispersed, and Dolan was canonized into an [[Awesome|Imperial Saint]] by the [[Ecclesiarchy]].

This would normally have been the end of it but Bucharis' actions had caused such a resonance in the warp that it became an incredibly potent warp presence. During the opening stages of the Indomnitus Crusade, Gathalamor was attacked by Chaos forces and Bucharis's hidden tomb was found. Using his signet ring as a focus, the chaos forces were able to construct a device that somehow twisted the echo of the warped faith of "Bucharis Gift" into a weapon that could destroy whole fleets. 
Gathalamor was retaken but not before the important parts of the weapon were taken away.