Editing History of the Green Men (section)

===Far beyond redemption===
The masters of the Eye of Terror have been watching the Great Sowing with wicked glee that they hadn't experienced in ages. Ultimately, they all agreed that Galen deserved a great boon for his feat, and so on the way back to Arboria he ascended to Daemonhood. His skin turned into rough bark, a pair of wing-shaped branches sprouted from his back with leaves in place of feathers, horn-like gnarls adorned his head, his hair became moss and his nails and teeth turned into venomous thorns. But this was far from the full extent of the transformations Galen was destined to undergo. Once he landed on Arboria, instead of celebrating his great victory he went to relax and contemplate his next move to his favourite poison pond. As he sat there, looking at the pond's mirror surface, he felt a wave of wonderful peace and tranquillity wash over him. For days he sat there without as much as moving an inch, looking at the pond and savouring his peace of mind. Eventually, his wooden legs took root in the soil, and branches started growing haphazardly out of his body. Foliage ensnared him, and the jungle's residents built nests in his canopy. After a week, the transformation was complete - what was once Nikephoros Galen had turned into the Tree of Woe. To this day this enormous daemonic tree keeps growing, already the size of a mountain, with its branches piercing Arboria's atmosphere and its roots wriggling in the planet's magma. 

With their irreplaceable leader and spiritual liege gone, Tribulus Bercilak took the reins of the warband. Under his leadership, it cemented its position as an implacable threat to the Imperium, the Traitors and the Xenos alike. He personally spearheaded countless raids modelled after the Great Sowing that turned many a prosperous Forge or Hive World into a forsaken jungle with no place for humans. Raiding, however, is hardly the extent of their operations. The Druidic Circle, led by Vertumnus Alraun, for the most part occupies itself with the cultivation of blasphemous cults worshipping Daemon Prince Galen as the God of Plants on the Imperium's Garden and Agri-Worlds. Arguably, their activity has been even more damaging to the Imperium than Bercilak's raiding, for there will never be a shortage of fools willing to stoop down to human sacrifice to ensure a bounteous harvest. In the worst case scenario, the cultists of Galen even plant seeds given to them by the Druids on their planets, thus setting off a chain reaction bound to eventually transform their world into a Death World.

Although the loss of Galen was a devastating blow to the warband's research capabilities, it still employs a number of talented Genetors, several of whom have worked with Galen back in his Life Bringers days. Lately they have shown a keen interest in Eldar biotechnology, which led to several Green Men raids on Exodite worlds, as well as the destruction of the Craftworld Aleolan, once known as the Garden of Isha. This has certainly been a very welcome development for the Imperium, and one that a number of radical Inquisitors have intentions to build on.

Their rivalry with the Life Bringers remains as bitter as ever, with several unsuccessful attempts at the life of Wilmut Sachs undertaken by Bercilak's forces. On a number of occasions they have even joined forces with Gaius Martinus Vira and his Plague Doctors, although Vira makes no secret of the fact that he only considers Galen and his spawn marginally better than Sachs. Another long standing feud of the Green Men is that with the Void Angels, who have never quite forgotten Antonelle's sacrifice. Of all of the Emperor's chosen, it is the sons of [[Gaspard Lumey|Lumey]] and their numerous successors that are most willing to fight the green pest.

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