Editing Calael Bishop (section)

==The Great Crusade==
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The V<sup>th</sup> Legion was in a sorry state when Bishop took over, as a geneseed flaw prevented proper hypno-indoctrination, leaving new recruits undertrained and unprepared for combat. They were plagued with poor performance, and dogged by worrying a reputation of black luck and tales of strange spirits haunting the places where they fell. The previous Legion master had simply pushed his semi-competent men into the meat grinder to shore up the lines of more successful Legions. The Primarch immediately had his Hellbenders made into half-astartes and charged them to instruct the Terran marines in the ways of the Warders, having each outfitted with a tower shield. Constance Lainne was appointed the Legion's official Remembrancer, a position which pleased her to no end as she would assiduously chronicle Bishop's life during the Crusade. The best records of the Vth during this time were penned by her hand.
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Quelling the Casperian Rebellion marked the beginning of the Legion's psychic awakening, as they saw the first manifestations of Ghost-Martyrs among fallen Wardens. The strong bonds of fellowship between psychically-gifted members of shield crews resulted in a mind-linking that would come to be known as the Weave, allowing the souls of their dead brothers to briefly remain manifested on the battlefield after death. Following this event, the Legion began its training as psykers in earnest, with much help from the scholarly [[Lambach Kropor]] and his [[Chosen of Hecate]]. As the Astral Wardens' power grew they one by one began manifesting halos of their own, echoing the silvery crown bestowed upon their gene-sire.

Progress within the Wardens was going well, but the Crusade itself proved troubling. Bishop had never before been an invader, and had now seen, with no small horror, what some of his brothers were capable of when roused to anger. He decided the Vth could, if nothing else, try to spare the worlds they visited the fates that others might bestow upon them with a swift and painless integration. Never much of a public speaker before, Calael honed his oratory skills to better make his case to newfound worlds, leveraging his Legion's increasingly-divine aesthetic to lend weight to his words. His "sermons" often began with a simple exultation: "Behold, for we are only the first of twenty-one hosts, each more terrible and wrathful than the last." His colorful descriptions always left out the [[Watchers]], though, out of Calael's immense respect for Je'she's methods.

This measured approach would become a theme across the Crusade. The V<sup>th</sup> were slow to grow, and slow to progress, often taking more time to achieve compliance than the other Legions, even if they sustained fewer casualties in the process. Their stubbornness was such that even on worlds that were deemed a lost cause, the V<sup>th</sup> often dug in their heels, refusing to give up on the populace. This led to conflict with many of Bishop's brothers, most notably [[Einchurt]] when the [[Death's Heads]] were sent to decimate a world the V<sup>th</sup> had been assigned to pacify. Calael bears much guilt for that world's fate, and Einchurt bears the scar Calael gave him in repayment.

During the Compliance of Laer, Calael entrusted the process of integration to his companion and Hellbender veteran Percival Jackson, the premier swordsman and duelist of their lot and a onetime inheritor to the closest thing Providence had to nobility. The staunch warrior was nonetheless tempted by the Blade of Laer, and in his corruption led a cohort of Wardens into the arms of Slaanesh. [[Isekho the Unseen]] would put the world to the sword and exterminate the traitor Wardens, an act which earned him Bishop's trust.

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