Editing Crysos Morturg (section)

===Horus Heresy===
Morturg got righteously fucked up during the fighting on Istvaan to the point where his psychic abilities were the only thing keeping him alive. Magos Calleb Decima of the Ordo Reductor stumbled across his broken body in the wreckage and rebuilt him with cybernetic components, leaving only his head and a few other squishy bits. He was [[Meme|more machine now than man]], a weird and unholy fusion of biomancy and technology, held together by improvised power armor and his own bloody-minded determination. Morturg officially became a [[Blackshield]] at this time, and proceeded to acquire a ship and put together a warband of other Astartes: loyalist Death Guard like himself, survivors of the [[Drop Site Massacre]], and others with no clear allegiance, knocked loose from their legions by the shocks of galactic civil war. This warband ranged across the galaxy for part of the Heresy, running traitors down and killing them, until they encountered a renegade [[Deathshroud]] named Khorak, who had broken off from the XIV Legion after Mortarion had used sorcery on Molech. Khorak and Morturg recognized each other as fellow sons of the Death Lord, and had a brief chat about how much their dad sucked and why they wanted to kill him. Khorak was about to talk himself into allying with Morturg's crew until one of his fellow renegades tried to shoot Morturg, who deflected the bolt with his psychic powers. Khorak immediately tried to kill him, and Morturg's men put him down. Dispirited by this waste of a potential ally, Morturg opted to return to Terra to seek an audience with the Emperor, and at some point he testified to the Terran War Council as to what had happened on Istvaan III.