Editing Crysos Morturg (section)

===Great Crusade===
Morturg was inducted into the Death Guard as part of an emergency intake of recruits during the [[Rangdan Xenocides]], which had mauled the XIV Legion so badly that they had to bring in recruits from planets other than Mortarion's homeworld of Barbarus. As the Barbaran Astartes were already hilariously prejudiced against anyone who wasn't from the toxic, smoggy shithole they called home, Morturg faced an uphill battle for acceptance and glory within the legion's ranks, made even harder by his morbid and introspective personality. Nevertheless, he prospered and even reached the rank of lieutenant, at which point his latent psyker powers manifested themselves. The Death Guard, of course, was the one legion that despised psykers above everything else, so Morturg was promptly shunted out of his command and reassigned to the [[Destroyer Squad|Destroyer corps]]. This was effectively a death sentence, considering the toxicity of the rad and phosphex weapons that they used. Though this probably didn't improve Morturg's attitude any, he took it in stride, even when they handed him the worst recruits to work with and sent him into the heaviest fighting. He remained totally loyal to the Imperium and the Emperor, and so was sentenced to die on Istvaan III.