Editing Magnus the Red (section)

==Horus Heresy==
[[File:DaemonMagnus.jpg|right|thumb|He doesn't get much press-time because of how bad he and his Legion got dicked by Tzeentch, but when he DOES, watch your fucking [[FATAL|ass]]!]]
When Magnus learned that Horus intended to betray the Emperor and slaughter like half the galaxy, he resolved to use any method possible to warn the Emperor. He claimed that the best way to accomplish this was to conduct a massive ritual which would allow him to project his essence all the way to Terra to warn the Emperor in person. Now, this was almost certainly ''not'' the best way to accomplish this, and Ahriman even suspected that Magnus' true goal was to impress upon the Emperor how useful unrestrained psykers could be in the hope that he might reverse his decision at Nikea. This is especially true considering that the ritual needed to make this astral projection work required '''human sacrifice'''. Once his essence managed to make its way to Terra however, he found a massive psychic barrier surrounding the Imperial Palace which he could not penetrate. So he made a deal with Tzeentch again to combine their powers and smash the psychic seal The Emperor had installed to protect the Webway from the warp (Magnus simply did not bother to walk around the wall through one of the entrances that the Webway has).

Unfortunately, this deed completely ruined the Webway project the Emperor had been working on for over 9000 years, which would have made the dangerous warp-travel obsolete and would [[Awesome|unify the Imperium of Man using a human-engineered version of the Eldar Webway gate]]. Big-E called Magnus out and banished him back for breaking it and using sorcery to get through the Webway. He was so furious that he didn't even listen to Magnus about Horus's betrayal and declared Magnus a [[Extra Heresy|DOUBLE HERETIC]]. And can you really blame Emps? He told Magnus in 'A Thousand Sons' that he was returning to Terra to master the webway, that it was in a delicate phase, and that Magnus needed to chill out with the sorcery. He also put giant 'DO NOT FUCK WITH THIS' wards around the webway, which should've been all the hint someone supposedly as smart as Magnus needed to back off. And now, he's learned that one of his most important sons ignored basic instructions and caused total catastrophe for the species in the process. Magnus realised that the Imperium was comprehensively fucked and that he needed to do all he could to protect it and Prospero. 

When Horus learned of this, he was quietly amused. The Emperor ordered Horus to have Russ bring Magnus back to Terra to stand trial for what he had done, and Horus being a [[Eldrad|dick]], quietly altered Russ' orders to lay waste to Prospero instead and slaughter the Thousand Sons. As Magnus was already officially a (slightly tolerated) heretic, Russ stoically accepted the order to bring a third of his brothers down. (Seriously, [[Companion|Constantin Valdor]] is way more out for Magnus' blood than Russ himself is.) Russ took his whole Legion to the party, and accompanying the Space Wolves were a full contingent of Adeptus Custodes (led by aforementioned Valdor), millions of [[Imperial Army]] troops and an elite anti-psyker unit: the Sisters of Silence (think a unit of [[Culexus|Culexus Assassin]]s and you get the general idea). Barring a last-ditch attempt to Skype Magnus through Kasper Hawser, an agent that had been brainwashed to visit Fenris and spy on the wolves that Magnus was not connected to(because [[Tzeentch|reasons]]).

When the psychic skype call failed, Russ then attempted to contact Magnus and his legion several times via mundane vox channels in an attempt to get them to explain their actions. Even when he was directly above the planet he kept sending Magnus calls to try and get him to just talk to him, but Magnus had put the planet on lockdown and kept denying any contact with the fleet, which royally pissed off Russ. A shame too, if he said fucking anything he probably could have stopped his people from getting fucked. Why exactly Magnus decided to do this is unknown, as it was... well, seemingly no more retarded than any other decision he made during the Burning of Prospero. A potential in-universe explanation for this might be the possibility that Magnus had essentially just shut down mentally after realising the magnitude of his fuckup. He had, after all, quite literally ruined everything for everyone forever despite his best intentions, and there was nobody in the entire Imperium who was more of an idealist than Magnus. However, it took Russ's fleet several months to get to Prospero, which you'd think would be more than enough time for Magnus to get over himself and come up with a halfway intelligent plan. Or, you know, pick up the damn phone.

Magnus, sensing this and realising that this had been [[Just as planned]] by Tzeentch and that it has done this to completely destroy both the Thousand Sons and the Space Wolves, apparently decided to counter-dick-move the Lord of All Fate. Instead of calling Russ back and peacefully working out what had happened (which would have solved everything), he decided to accept the destruction of everything that he had worked for, so that [[not as planned|Tzeentch's ultimate goal would only be half-fulfilled]], [[derp|because letting your enemy accomplish half of what they want and making the Imperium far more vulnerable to Horus is better than making them fail and giving your traitor brother a harder time]]. Finally, it was also noted by Vulkan that Magnus' absurdly overblown pride was almost certainly at play in his poor decision making here. While not directly admitted to by Magnus, he almost certainly would not have wanted to admit fault to someone like Russ, who he considered to be beneath him (along with everyone else, but Russ especially). He would also not have wanted to let his Legion in on the fact that he, Magnus, galaxy-brained philosopher king of Prospero, had managed to destroy the hope of the Imperium by being almost hilariously stupid. Of course, Magnus also could have just talked to Valdor if he couldn't bear the thought of Russ shouting "fuckyouIwasright" over and over again through the vox. But, of course, he didn't do that either. Sadly, it is all so nonsensical that an out-of-universe explanation is really the only reasonable one. Prospero had to burn because it was already established lore that it had happened. However, making out either Magnus or Russ to be the bad guy wasn't something any of the writers wanted to do. So instead, they compromised by having Russ, Valdor, and particularly Magnus act like complete retards in order to justify the Burning. If any of them had displayed even average human intelligence, to say nothing of the '''three superhuman intellects''' they had between them, Magnus would have just gone back to Terra peacefully.

As Prospero burned, Tzeentch and Magnus engaged in act after act of dickery and counter-dickery; with Magnus finally pushed into a towering rage and taking to the battlefield at his capital: crushing his enemies with volleys of MIND BULLETS (forgetting the whole reason he refused to talk to Russ), before he engaged Leman Russ himself in close-combat. The two fought fiercely and Magnus managed to Falcon pawnch Russ so hard, his breastplate shattered ''and one of his hearts punctured''. [[bullshit|Russ was going to die until his two wolves interfered and allowed him to take out Magnus' second eye, and then performed a back-breaker on him that ended the fight (Russ would have died had his wolves stayed out of the fight)]] (actually, this isn't true at all. The book "A thousand sons" clearly shows that Russ' wolves were quickly swatted away by Magnus, who then proceeds to use some shiny tric-I mean, magic attack that harms Russ badly enough to actually make him howl in pain. Only that this prompts the latter to wave his sword around on instinct alone; and it is in THAT moment that the Wolf King managed to stab Magnus in the eye. Russ actually won the fight on his own, fair and square, even if luck seemed to really be head over heels his WOLF VIKING OVERLORD IN SPESS look in that moment. Suck it up NEEEERRRRRRRRRD. Also there is not reason to believe that the giant-ass warp storm over Tizca that was dramatically empowering the rest of the Thousand Sons was not giving Magnus a similar boost). Tzeentch was even further amused by all of this because it's rare for anyone, let alone a mortal, to predict and out-manipulate the plans of the Architect of Fate himself (though ultimately Magnus didn't really do either). He thus made Magnus an offer: Become Tzeentch's servant and preserve what was left of his Legion and homeworld or watch it all burn in a pool of his own blood.

Pussying out, Magnus agreed because the thought of actually dying to atone for his mistakes only seemed like a good idea until he had to put it into practice. As a result, Magnus' cowardice ruined everything he'd been working towards and explicitly doing the one thing he'd been trying to prevent. The response of Magnus' new patron was immediate: for once, Tzeentch was true to his word. The City of Light was transported into the Eye of Terror onto a Daemon World. Prospero was destroyed that day, but Magnus and (some of) his Legion survived. It is unclear ''when'' they ended up on the Planet of the Sorcerers; before or after the Siege of Terra, but Magnus the Red had been so damaged by his battle with Russ and the psychic effort of teleporting to Sortiarius that his soul had fragmented across time and space [[what|(soul-shattering back break?)]]. The shards represented different aspects of Magnus' personality, all tied to various places and people in the galaxy (one existed in the past many decades before the Heresy) and all had different motives. One shard helped the Salamanders resurrect Vulkan, whilst another had gone full daemon and tried to kill as many knight-errants as possible. Ahriman and co gathered several of the more powerful shards back together and managed to perform a Rubric to bond them back together into a stable form called the Crimson King. Magnus was saved from fading away but effectively became a daemon prince and the most powerful of all Tzeentch's servants. One of the shards, representing Magnus' good side was bound into the dying Revuel Arvida, becoming Janus. Magnus originally planned to join the assault on Terra purely to get this part of his soul back but seeing as Janus appeared later in The Beast Arises series, we can assume this didn't go to plan. (Though Magnus shows that Perpetuals can be permanently killed by Psyker Powers/Chaos Sorcery when he perma-kill REDACTED)

[[Just as planned|Magnus had never served Tzeentch willingly, but now had no choice - exactly as Tzeentch HAD PLANNED from the very beginning (we might think), and now he was committed to the very cause he had tried to foil]].