Editing Thramas Crusade (section)

===Savage Weapons===
After one year of fighting and getting nowhere, Curze offered a parley to the Lion on the world of '''Tsagualsa'''. They each brought their honor guard to the meeting: [[Sevatar]] and '''Shang''' for Curze, '''Corswain''' and '''Alajos''' for the Lion. The talks ended in battle as Curze revealed to the Lion that while they had fought for two years in the dark whilst the galaxy burned, he had foreseen that future generations would look to the legacy of the Lion with doubt; because of the delay caused by this campaign, the Lion's name and deeds would be forever tarnished by suspicion and mistrust. Where was the Lion, people would ask? Could he have been waiting to see who was victorious before declaring for a side? Somewhat oddly, he also flat out told the Lion that he was deliberately wasting the Dark Angels' time and that the whole thing was a strategic trap to keep the Lion occupied; it was this revelation that made him completely change his strategy for the second year of the campaign.

The Lion would never be trusted ever again (the audience is meant to believe hunting an entire traitor legion and its Primarch going on a murder spree would cause them not to be trusted; yes, we know, GW doesn’t understand people and it's not like records of the campaign wouldn’t exist on worlds fought over by the two legions, exonerating the Dark Angels). To be entirely fair however, practically all the civilians who would have kept such records would die during the fighting, the Dark Angels keep practically everything about them a secret, and they already had such a poor reputation that the aforementioned White Scars, when given a choice to support the Dark Angels or the ''Night Lords'', chose the latter.

The Lion, not giving a shit about how he looked in the future, ''because ("loyalty is its own reward")'', apologised to his brother before impaling him through the gut with the Lion Sword. The meeting instantly devolved into an all-out brawl. As the brothers fought, so too did their honour guard; this would prove to be the first time the two brothers had matched blades, as the Lion mentioned that they had never sparred before. The Lion's skill with a blade proved to be the better as he continued to inflict injuries upon his brother. Curze was not the Lion's martial equal, but was so absurdly fast that he was still able to hold his own even with the giant stab wound. Eventually Curze just spear-tackled his brother, sending them both crashing to the ground. Curze ended up with the advantage in the brawl, and he started smashing the Lion's head into the ground while choking him.

As these two demigods fought in the dust of some forgotten world, their hands around each other's throats, Curze continued to rant and rave, claiming that the Lion should just die, and that the future would be far more kind to him if he did so (which amusingly enough was actually true). Sevatar and his companion fought Alajos two on one before removing his head from his shoulders (the last time Sev and Alajos had fought, Sev had removed the skin from his face) as he tried to hold them both off before reinforcements could arrive.

As Curze drew close to strangling the Lion to death, Corswain performed a heroic intervention. He leapt onto Curze's back and stabbed him straight through the spine, before wrapping a chain around his neck and riding him like a bucking bronco (the author's intent was to demonstrate the difference in attitudes and priorities between the two legions). This resulted in Curze getting up off the Lion, who regained his feet but had been seemingly [[what|injured badly enough in the brawl to not be able to finish off the now-twice impaled Curze]]. Reinforcements would arrive from both Legions and the bloodied and injured primarchs were dragged away, screaming abuse at each other. It also reveals an interesting bit of Primarch physiology in that Curze's ability to move was seemingly not hindered in any way by getting stabbed through the spine. This means that Primarchs must have some manner of redundancy in their CNS that allows them to remain fully functional even with a severed spinal cord.