Editing The Cabal (section)

==Assassinating Vulkan==
The Cabal's next move was to arrange for [[Perpetual#John Grammaticus|John Grammaticus]] to kill Vulkan using divine cast-off energy from the Emperor. According to the Cabal, only a Primarch was capable of using the fulgurite cast-off, so John was ''supposed'' to pass the artefact off to [[Konrad Curze]] and let him do it, but [[Eldrad]] co-opted Grammaticus and got him to do the stabbing instead. The end result being that Vulkan ''was'' slain after being stabbed by the weapon, but it doesn't kill him permanently as the Cabal had anticipated. Because the Cabal was too retarded to realize that, perpetual or not, you cannot kill a being made of the Emperor’s power using the Emperor’s power, a characteristic that sets Vulkan apart from other perpetuals.

The reason for this is because [[Eldrad|the dick]] had started trying to undermine the Cabal and was attempting to save [[Vulkan]]. Eldrad believes that an actual victory for the Emperor would be bad for the Chaos Gods ([[Derp|a being Chaos is mortally terrified of, and uniformly refer to as “The Anathema” winning against Chaos being a good thing!? What a silly idea!]]), and if Vulkan is at the Siege of Terra, he would affect the outcome of the Heresy in such a way that would be beneficial to the Galaxy as a whole; a theory that has born out to be true multiple times as the ''[[Siege of Terra]]'' series has progressed. Eldrad later appeared within Mount Deathfire on [[Nocturne]] in the guise of an old man, and met a newly-resurrected [[Vulkan]], who had just forged an artefact called the ''Talisman of Seven Hammers'', [[Emperor|his father]] having remotely [[Meme|Assumed Direct Control]] of Vulkan's body while in the process of convalescence. Eldrad directed Vulkan to the [[Webway]] so that he could reach Terra and fulfill his destiny. Apparently Vulkan gave Eldrad a drake tooth as a mark of trust between them.

After a short stop off with the Shattered Legions and destroying the remnants of his brother [[Ferrus Manus]], Vulkan eventually made it through the webway to the Terran portion of it, which was being assailed by countless daemons. Vulkan used the last remnant of the fulgurite's power to permakill much of the army (including a hilarious ''truedeath'' for a [[Greater Daemon]] of Nurgle) and make it through to the Imperial Palace, where he discovered the Talisman of Seven Hammers acted as a kill-switch for the Golden Throne. In the event that Chaos won, the planet would be destroyed in a fiery inferno that would kill all traitors and loyalists alike, but also, according to Big-E, dealing the Great Enemy themselves a blow from which they would never recover, though he did not go into further detail (though with the release of ''Godblight'', we can probably take some educated guesses). 

Considering that the Cabal wanted Terra to fall and for Horus to win; it can be understood why the installation of the kill-switch would be an outcome they wished to avoid. Plus having a [[Perpetual|regenerating]] [[Primarch|demigod]] standing in defense of the Eternity Gate against the daemonic hordes in the Webway would probably make it a lot more difficult for the Emperor to lose too.