Editing Ahzek Ahriman (section)

==Rubric of Ahriman==
Seeing as to how the Thousand Sons were quickly succumbing to the flesh-change, since Tzeentch is the God of Change and all, Ahriman attempted to permanently cure them of their mutations. (Yes, he actually tried to use the energy of change to stop change. Tzeentch is still chortling ten millennia later.)(Hey, Tzeentch makes this change, Ahriman was trying to change that). Without Magnus' consent, he, along with a cabal of other sorcerers, cast the spell known as the Rubric of Ahriman. On the upside, all the psychics in the legion stopped mutating and became more powerful than they had been before. On the downside, everyone else in the legion who wasn't a psyker was cursed to be turned into dust and sealed in their armor for all eternity, turning them into [[Rubric Marines|soulless automatons]] who are unable to think for themselves. At first, Ahriman was [[Just as planned|satisfied]] with the results of his spell since it did prevent [[Tzeentch|a certain troll]] from having some chaotic and messy fun with his fellow Thousand Sons. However, once he realized all the implications of [[not as planned|what he'd done]], Ahriman went [[derp]]. In HH novel The Crimson King, there was a Thousand Sons captain named Hathor Maat, who changed something in the [[Book of Magnus]] as the price for a way to cure his flesh flesh-change. The person who offered it was [[Lucius the Eternal]], maybe that has something to do with Ahriman's failure with the Rubric spell.

After Magnus learned of this, he really wasn't happy and confronted Ahriman. Believing he'd succeeded in saving his fellow Thousand Sons, Ahriman flipped him off, with the result of Magnus flying into a nerd [[rage]] so great that even an [[Angry Marine]] would take pause to admire it. Magnus was about to kill Ahriman, but Tzeentch himself ([[troll|who had been rolling on every floor of the Infinite Labyrinth simultaneously laughing his gribbly ass off]]) intervened, told Magnus that everything was [[just as planned]], and so the Cyclops kicked Ahriman's ass off of the Planet of Sorcerers instead.

Ahriman was initially remorseful and went incognito for a few centuries until <s>his emo phase had ended</s> his former brothers tried to capture him so he could undo the Rubric. With the help of some renegade Marines, Ahriman came out on top, got rid of his rivals, donned the bitchingly horned helmet he wears to this day (of which he took from Amon's dusty remains), and began his "War Against Fate". Since that day, he made a second Rubric spell, which failed in trying to restore the Rubricae to flesh but managed to heal Magnus from the soul-splitting effect he suffered from teleporting everyone to Prospero (despite Magnus kicking him off his lawn earlier; shows how much of a bro he is) and he also managed to turn one of his Rubric Marines back to normal. It is revealed during these events that Ahriman believed he had to sacrifice his own life to make the Rubric work as he intended, and he went on perfecting it anyway. I repeat, here is a Chaos Space Marine who is still willing to die for his brothers. Also, there was a part of him who still wanted to serve the Imperium despite all what had happened (even if it meant disrupting his second Rubric), although in the book Ahriman: Unchanged this fragment of his mind is supposedly destroyed by another part of his mind (which wanted to save his brothers with the second Rubric, even if he died); [[grimdark|this speaks volumes of what a bro he was in his earlier centuries and how far he has fallen by the 41st millennium]] *sniff*.

Unfortunately, the second Rubric ended up having disastrous side-effects. A complex backlash phenomenon, called the Pyrodomon, ended up afflicting every single non rubric Thousand Son. Initially manifesting as an agonizing fugue, it rapidly started rubric-ing Thousand Sons at random, with absolutely no way to stop it. So, Ahriman actually ended up making everything worse. AGAIN.

Just to show that it takes A LOT more than a simple Rubric to change Tzeentch's plans, Khayon had this to say about Ahriman's Rubric in the latest novel about his vacation with the [[Inquisitors]] and his tales about his time in the [[Black Legion]]. Note that, as with everything Khayon says, you should take it with an enormous grain of salt:

"Ahriman's Rubric banished mutation from the Thousand Sons, yes, but only amongst them who had little in the form of psychic talent and only by destroying their physical forms. The rest of us are as prone to the whims of the Warp and our own sins, just as any other being dwelling inside the Eye. If you believe my former brother Ahzek is entirely unchanged beneath his Eye-touched armour, you are as dangerously naive as he was when he unmade our Legion. Ahriman believes he is perfectly unaltered, hmm, did you know that? Yet I have seen the void that screams where his face used to be."

Seems like Tzeentch just [[troll|LOVES to mess with poor little Ahriman]] as much as GW likes to change their fluff.