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==Chaos Rising== {{Topquote|I doubt any of you will listen, but I feel I must explain a few things. The Chapter is my whole existence. I have seen its greatness, and I have seen its follies. More of the latter than the former, I fear. I have lost more brothers than I care to count — each victory has come at a terrible price. This time, I have decided to pay it myself. The Chapter cannot continue in its weakened and misguided state. The ranks are barely half of what they should be, and grow thinner everyday. Raw power is needed to turn the tide — and if the cost is my own damnation, so be it.|Tarkus' parting message if he's the traitor}} If he becomes the traitor, it's because he wants to save the chapter using the raw power of Chaos against itself. Yes, you read that correctly. As he's just a regular grunt marine, said raw power comes in the form of a [[Warp]]-tainted [[bolter]] which is implied to have him under its thrall, given that he talks to/about it as if it were alive. In a neat example of story and gameplay integration, you can find the actual bolter over the course of a game and true to the lore it's a bit of a beast. Before the fight, Tarkus uses it to casually obliterate a [[Black Legion]] [[Chaos Dreadnought|Dreadnought]] in under a second then blows away all of the [[Chaos Space Marines|Chaos Marines]] backing him before charging you and quoting the [[Codex Astartes|Codex]] all the while. Out of all the betrayals, Tarkus' stands out from the others as he doesn't act all that much differently than normal or blame the conflict on the Blood Ravens when compared with [[Avitus]] and [[Cyrus]]' anger, [[Thaddeus]] and [[Martellus]]' fanaticism and [[Jonah Orion|Jonah's]] possession. He never says anything actively threatening to the squads and even gives advice like he's still fighting ''with'' you, something that ''really'' pisses off Avitus and Cyrus. For Tarkus, he believes he is still fighting with his squad- he believes everything he does to be for the greater good (and not the [[Tau|Blue Man Group]] variety of [[greater good]]) of the chapter. Perhaps most baffling and infuriating to his squadmates, he wanted to use it for their sake in particular; a fact that Cyrus finds so disquieting that his cool demeanor breaks. Tarkus sought to use the power of [[Chaos]] against itself, not unlike many a radical [[inquisitor]], but such a gambit is a dangerous one, even for such inquisitors. Likely succumbing to the [[daemon]] within the bolter, as he lays dying he mourns "We could have done so much, you and I. Why are you abandoning me? Why?!" and while Jonah believes he said this to the daemon (which is plausible), it is just as possible that he genuinely meant this for his comrades - once friends, now his vanquishers. Whether or not Tarkus was misguided or possessed, no one speculated - but it can be said that without a doubt that while he gave everything to those he had believed in, in the end they would not believe in him. Tarkus' corruption can also be a sign that the player is a Radical Inquisitor himself, as it usually requires repeatedly deploying Tarkus using the Blighted Bolter and other corrupted wargear. Furthermore, all the other squadmates drop a pure item upon their post-betrayal deaths, such as a purity seal warning against trusting daemons like [[Thaddeus]] did, or [[Jonah Orion]]'s deathmask that has become a protective relic. Tarkus, however, drops the very same bolter that corrupted him, possibly inviting the player to give it to someone else...
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