Editing Fabius Bile (section)

==The Great Work==
[[image:FabiusBileModel.png|right|thumb|The previous model of Pater Mutatis]]
After ditching the Emperor's Children after the party planet got smashed, Fabius commenced his "Great Work", his self styled New Men, a new human species that would be able to survive whatever xenos or Chaos based threat the galaxy could throw at them. Yes, you read that correctly. He's loyal to humanity and is simply willing to do literally anything to save humanity (or maybe to get the credit for saving humanity). Makes you almost want humanity to lose and die rather than owe him anything, eh? He set up [[The Consortium (Warhammer 40,000)|the Consortium]], a loose group/warband of Apothecaries and hangers on who helped advance his work considerably. This kept him busy for a few centuries, during which he began the process of transferring his consciousness/soul into fresh bodies. At this point, Fabius could only transfer into one body at a time and had to be in immediate proximity to the fresh body. The blight gradually kept getting worse, leading Fabius to try and delay its onset as much as possible so he could finish his work. Nevertheless, he succeeded in creating the first draft of the New Men, which he called Gland-hounds; pack orientated superhumans who were capable of taking down Astartes. He seeded the new species across many worlds, along with labs and caches of spare bodies in case he needed one.

A former pupil of Fabius', Oleander Koh, attempted to bring Fabius back into Legion politics once again, by cutting a deal with the [[Harlequins]] and prompting an attack on the [[craftworld]] of Lugganath. It was from this that Fabius developed a fascination with [[Eldar]] technology, the [[Webway]], [[Spirit stone|soul transference]], and [[wraithbone]], eventually gaining some mastery over them. He was informally reinstated back into the Emperor's Children after being strong-armed into it receiving a cache of pure gene-seed from the [[Great Crusade]] from Eidolon. This led him to an interesting encounter with [[Trazyn the Infinite]], who appeared to quite like the [[Assholetep|insufferable old coot]].

After trading an uncorrupted clone of Fulgrim for the gene-seed stash, Fabius's interest was piqued by the [[Dark Eldar]]. An amusing 'anecdote' about Bile, that just shows how fabulous he is, is that (like his old pal Lucius), he went on a sabbatical to the Webway, and deliberately got himself captured by the Dark Eldar. Instead of pissing himself in fear at the thought of whatever awaited them like every other prisoner, he just frowned with annoyance at the setback and kept on experimenting. On his fellow prisoners. With whatever he had on hand. This unusual behaviour made [[Haemonculus|another bunch of sick fucks]] raise an eyebrow in curiosity and they invited the 'mere mon-keigh' for a pleasant chat between academics. The Thirteen Scars noted that although Bile was but a novice at cutting and reshaping things painfully compared to the haemonculi, his knowledge of the Warp and other sciences allowed him to conclude a mutually beneficial pact with them. He concocted an elixir that allowed the haemonculi to [[grimdark|craft and keep alive a mobile tower made of the flesh and bones of their still-living victims]], giving them a base of operations that existed in constant agony and fed their shriveled souls. In exchange, they let Fabius go unharmed after giving him a few pointers for his own research (plus, in true Dark Eldar fashion, they realized they would cause much more suffering by letting Fabius go about his business). Yup. [[Wat|Bile managed to be enough of a sick fuck that even a bunch of the most twisted Dark Eldar nodded in appreciation.]]

However, despite being a friendly guest in [[Commoragh]] itself, the Thirteen Scars haemonculi quickly realised that Bile couldn't be allowed back into the Materium. Bile managed to escape by engineering a civil war between several aligned Kabals, leaving the Scars in a delicate position hoping that Bile wouldn't abuse (HA!) the knowledge he'd gained from them and praying that [[Asdrubael Vect|Vect]] didn't find out about their indulgent fuckup. Neither option was acceptable, and the Scars used the afflicted [[Kabal]]s (and the knowledge of a captured Oleander Koh) to surgically strike at Fabius's hidden facilities and former colleagues. By this point, Bile was nearing the conclusion of his great work, and although he'd managed to partly stave off the blight from killing him, time was beginning to run out.

His attempts to fight back against the Scars failed hugely, and the Consortium largely broke apart and went off to do its own thing. Desperate to ensure his work would survive the coming storm, Fabius made a journey to the Pleasure Planet and made a deal with Fulgrim, finally allowing the [[Chaos Gods]] to influence his life, however grudgingly. He made his final stand with the last of his allies, giving his finalised New Men from across the galaxy time to evacuate to the Omega Redoubt, a section of the webway he'd discovered and fortified to continue the existence of his new race.

The Thirteen Scars attacked in force, even bringing the colossal Tower of Flesh headquarters that Fabius had helped them create. Before the final battle, he sent [[Abaddon]] one of his followers and a huge stash of uncorrupted gene-seed as a "sorry about the whole cloning your dad thing" present. [[Dawww]].

Due to the double machinations of both Melusine and the Harlequins, Fabius ended up scoring a victory of sorts, although he subsequently appeared to die in the process, apparently for real. However, it turned out that his final innovation actually worked. Bile had managed to create a batch of resilient bodies with Wraithbone laced brains, that would be a mirror for his consciousness. In other words, ''he dramatically surpassed the Eldar's own Infinity Circuit.'' This removed the risk of the Blight, and allowed individual Fabius clones to operate at the same time, nominally orchestrated by the original (mentally) Fabius kept safe and hidden away. The individual Bile clones were largely left to their own devices and, combined with his Great Work being finished and the spiritual covenant made with Fulgrim and the Chaos Gods, started doing all the seriously hardcore space-Mengele shit that he would become famous for to the present day. What eventually happened to his New Men, his attempt to ensure human survival for the future, remains a mystery to this day. The best part for Fabius is that even if his clones end up turning independent, they still all have the same mind and goal, so it wouldn't matter. As for why each clone seems to be indentical down to the wargear, power armour can be readily modified, human skin trenchcoats are easy enough to make, deamon's can be readily exploited and turned into pain rods like Torment, and the original Chirugeon had already figured out how to reproduce itself in an in-universe moment of WAT even for Fabius.

On top of this, rebuilding his Consortium probably would be effortless for him. Especially since everyone involved with him knows refusing him would be a very bad idea. It is also highly unlikely that Fabius has decided his New Men are good enough. Or he's already set in motion a way for them to improve themselves. Perhaps they possess high intelligence and knowledge and are hopefully very well equipped, considering his loathing of stupidity and ignorance and that he intends for them to survive and spread under the Imperium's nose throughout the galaxy.

Oh yeah, and he might be a minor Chaos God now. When he was with the Haemonculi, they dissected him in an attempt to find the cause of the Blight, only to discover that it was incurable because it was actually a warp-based affliction. They speculated that because of how long he survived with it, the Blight itself was mutating into some kind of extradimensional being that will emerge out of his body like a butterfly leaving its chrysalis. In addition, a Word Bearers diabolist working for him notes that due to all the mutants he created worshipping him as the god Pater Mutatis, Fabius Bile is beginning to leave a mark in the Warp. And somehow, despite it being confirmed that he died for real at the Battle of Belial IV (with the kill-switches he implanted inside Saqarra going off), the "original Bile" as of the present day is now some kind of [[God-Emperor of Mankind|undead being spending most of his time in a life-support capsule]], implying that he somehow resurrected. The whole deal is kinda ambiguous.