Editing Black Legion (section)

===Post-Heresy===
When the Traitors fled to the Eye of Terror, the blame game for the failure at Terra began. The Sons of Horus, being... well, the Sons of Horus took the brunt of this blame, proceeding to retreat to the world of Maeleum, where they built a fancy tomb for Horus's body and sat around feeling sorry for themselves. They didn’t even bother to select a new commander - after all, who could possibly succeed where Daddy failed? It also didn’t help that pretty much anyone competent died during the Heresy and Abaddon was nowhere to be found.

The bitterness between the Traitor Legions broke out into open war once the Emperor's Children decided they needed more slaves for their Slaaneshi-related [[/d/|shenanigans]]. Being the Legion that had ran away first at Terra, the Children began to raid other warbands for their slaves and resources, culminating with sacking Maeleum and taking the body of Horus (and Worldbreaker) for Fabius Bile's genetic experiments. Strangely enough the Iron Warriors and the Emperor’s Children themselves recieved no such scorn from the other traitors, despite the former largely abandoning the siege when Perturabo threw a shit-fit, and the latter spending most of the siege turning civilians into meth.

The former Justaerin captain Falkus Kibre, with the assistance of several other Chaos warbands, eventually managed to track down Abaddon and the ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]'' deep within the Eye of Terror, and told him about the theft and cloning of Horus. He knew all this allegedly in a "you found me because I wanted to be found" kind of way. Abaddon was planning on taking command of the Sons of Horus at this point, returning from his self-imposed exile of hunting monsters and thinking about who he is. His ultimate vision: creating a pan-Traitor Legions army with himself and the [[Cthonia|Cthonians]] as the head. This new force would be open to any traitor Marines, regardless of previous rivalries or Chaotic alignments, Slaanesh dude and Khorne dude calling each other bro, etc. Chaos Messiah then used the ''Vengeful Spirit'' to crush the Emperor's Children at the [[Battle of Harmony]], with Abaddon personally killing the clone of Horus with his own Talon in an act of symbolism and such. So, rather pathetic clone.

Abaddon unified the Sons of Horus soon after and dubbed them the Black Legion. The black is either to show mourning for Horus, or segregation from him. Either way is fine. Possessed became huge in the Legion, although not without a rocky start, as daemons were pissed when Astartes would switch gods. Unaligned daemon beasts are probably the best way to go. The Sorcerers got a hold of this quickly enough and formed a regulated possessed guild known as The Tormented, not so open market anymore. Next they began boosting their numbers like crazy, made friends with other cool dudes that liked black armor and hated the Imperium, and curb stomped a Death Guard upstart company that was pirating Abaddon's intellectual property and graphic design work, largely ending the Slave Wars.

The new ADB novels indicate that the Black Legion is an open institution for anyone who is serious about waging the Long War against the Imperium (and not just raiding / pillaging / winning favour with the Chaos Gods / feeling sad about it) and is strong enough to prosper. The founding members came from a variety of different legions.

The Black Legion was the first to "come out" of the Eye of Terror (not counting those of the Night Lords, Word Bearers and the Alpha Legion who never went inside Slaanesh's pink folds) to assail the Imperium after the Great Scourging. In their first Black Crusade they killed Dorn allegedly, picked up goth Excalibur, and caused a number of the High Lords of Terra to get hemorrhoids from the butt clenching. After the Crusade the Black Legion broke up and the warbands did their own shit. Until the Second Black Crusade. Abaddon knows that his forces are not large enough or organized enough to break through the massive quantities of Imperial forces that stand between him and Terra, and thus plans to cause enough chaos (heh) to allow legions of daemons to enter realspace and overwhelm the defenders of the Imperium. This has received a mixed reception among the fanbase.

[[File:Black Legion.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A Black legionnaire in the thick of combat on Cadia. Why's there a head in his armpit?]]
Prior to Talon, there had only ever been five awesome members of the Black Legion: [[Horus Lupercal]], [[Araghast the Pillager]], [[Neroth]], [[Kain]], and [[Eliphas]] (who wasn't even originally from the Black Legion). And the middle two are kind of iffy on the cool factor. Neroth is a whiny bitch, but he makes up for it by shitting free doombolts. Kain knows better than to speak given most of Chaos' shitty Abaddon admiring script, which makes him cool. With the new fluff we've gained an impressive cast in the Black Legion's founders, taking in a former [[Iskandar Khayon|Thousand Sons sorcerer]], a [[Lheorvine Ukris|World Eaters Havoc]], an [[Telemachon Lyras|Emperor's Children swordmaster]] and a Fallen Angel.

Due to his massive [[Fail|fail]] factor, it was thought to be only a matter of time before someone overthrows Abaddon. We betted on Eliphas, a revived Araghast, or [[Huron Blackheart]]...probably Eliphas (it's in his name after all, Eliphas, the ''Inheritor'' of the Black Legion)...but still...BRING ARAGHAST BACK!