Editing Inferox (section)

==The Great Crusade==
''I raise him up high, for his humility would leave his achievements where they lay.''

'''-Hektor Cincinnatus, on Inferox'''



Even as Inferox continued his education of the many facets of the Imperium and its enemies, Crematoria was advanced along Imperial lines. The Hammers of Terra were morphed by Inferox's guiding hand into a renewed Legion, the Sons of Fire. Out of the Legion's abnormally high Psyker population, Inferox made the ''Sandaramet'', which was the mythical elite spirit guard of Xerleth in Crematorian myth. The newly reconsecrated Sons of Fire were called to war soon as they were ready. What was initially intended by Imperial strategists to be a simple defense of a system threatened by an ork raiders, turned into a [[Flenching of Skythykos|thorough campaign]]. Eager to show the capabilities of his Legion, Inferox pressed the Ork raiders all the way to their origin and destroyed them utterly. 

Over the course of that first brutal campaign Inferox shaped his legion’s aggressive, straightforward fighting style. Though the more advanced weaponry still had its place, he taught the Sons of Fire the simple pleasures of fire, of using smoke to obscure their advance, and the destruction that could be wrought by a simple chainaxe. Committed to waging total war, Inferox began an almost systematic destruction of those who might oppose the Imperium. Something began to grow however as the Legion's hidden tendencies towards battle mania grew. 

On the world of Aŋra VI, Inferox witnessed this disorder in full. Having to brave the flames he had started, his mind began to grow concerned. Imperial Soldiers had died on his watch, what about elsewhere? Great Crusade is a colossal endeavor, without even a Primarch to govern all that transpires. His inquiry saw this was not an isolated event, with friendly fire and raging collateral starting to turn into a norm. Fearing what his Legion might become, Inferox appealed to the War Council. He asked if the Fourth Legion could be limited in targets for the Great Crusade, only facing against Xenos and worlds not deserving of Compliance. Appealing to Hektor, Inferox managed to sway enough voices in the Council to allow this motion to pass. 

Inferox would not have a single citizen die due to his Legion's negligence or lapse in conduct. He believed heartily in the status of the Astartes as examples to the rest of humanity. If humans were to rise above their desires, their base nature, then how could they when seeing the Astartes acting out? As a result of this the Sons of Fire became Xenos Killers. Adept at tackling any inhuman beast's pitiful stellar realms. Though Inferox begrudgingly complied with the destruction of human realms that had rebelled after Compliance or had committed an unforgivable act to be disallowed that right.

Under Inferox’s command Xeno Empire after Xeno Empire was turned to ashes. The Ork empires of DaGrotz and Mudd Mordrag were burned to nothingness by the Sons of Fire, so were the Hrud of the Gulgaan Deeps too. In one of the most famous triumphs of its time, the Legion ran down and surrounded the Eldar Craftworld of [[Craftworld Arkendar|Arkendar]]. The intensity of the fighting there would see Inferox be consumed for days by his destroyer desire, his personal code being brushed aside. In this hour, Inferox became morose realizing that he would never overcome his inner compulsions. On the cusp of suicide he was visited by his brother, and Warmaster, [[Hektor Cincinnatus]] who showed him that the Imperial Truth was just as faulty as the Crematorian religions. 

Hektor showed him a new way as well. A way that would make Inferox's weaknesses into supreme strengths.