Editing Medhammer 40,000 Primarchs (section)

==The Lion El'Johnson==
Compared to some of his brothers, one might say that The Lion emerged from the Desolation of Lorgar relatively unscathed. He did not lose his life as Guilliman did, nor did he lose his legion as Russ, Magnus and Fulgrim did. But the damage Lorgar wrought upon The Lion's heart was deep, as the Heresy robbed The Lion of his faith in humanity, his brothers, and even in his own legion. Like Lupercal, the treachery and helplessness during the heresy, what drove him to ensure the Imperium was never caught backhanded again.

Alpharius knew that the Lion was an unparalleled Tactictian, and masterful warrior, and so rather than fight the Lion, he neutralized one of the Imperium's greatest assets. Using Luther, whose jealousy of his adoptive son had already corrupted him, and the warrior lodges of the First Legion, Erebus and Luther began secretly corrupting the rest of Calliban against the Lion. Rather than the hero who defeated the beasts and bringing Calliban to a glorious new future under the imperium, Propaganda began to be spread that The Lion was a stooge of a distant tyrant, placed on calliban by Terra to undermine Calliban's revered traditions. The Lion's bluster and rage towards these developments did not help matters, but The Lion was unaccostomed to treachery, backhandedness, and unchivalric behavior on display in Calliban. To make matters worse, the Beasts of Calliban had returned once more, in order to distract The Lion. The Lion, outraged at developments that the ancient beasts had returned to ravage his kingdom, took the bait, and brought his entire legion to calliban to handle Caliban personally.  It was here that Luther, and his corrupted fallen abandoned El'Johnson on the Calliban, taking the entire First Legion's fleet with them along with a mysterious weapon hidden on the planet (a gift for perturabo). Trapped on a primitive planet infested with horrorific monsters, The Lion was caged, and while the Desolation ravaged the Imperium, the lion was unable to come to the aid his father and brothers. Meanwhile his Legion, under the command of Luther, was believed to have joined Gulliman, Magnus, and Khan in a revolt against the imperium. These lies and misinformation campaigns, led by Alpharius led to the Events of the Dropsite massacre that saw the fall of Horus Lupercal to his traitorus sons.

Between Alpharius' Manipulations of Luther, The Destruction of Calliban, and almost getting manipulated by Alpharius into starting a Civil War with the Ultramarines. Lion El'Johnson is obsessed with Counter-intelligence, and information networks. Unlike Vanillahammer The Lion's Dark Angels have made the Existence of The Fallen well known, and alert other legions to its activities. They "stay in the Dark, to help others see the light." The Lion is now also very deliberate and slow moving in his actions. To the point where some have claimed he is "Sleeping" on the Rock. He is not. He is just paranoid about being manipulated again.