Editing Nikephoros Galen (section)

==Current situation==
[[File:Nikephorosgalen.png|thumb|left|300px|Nikephoros Galen, The Tree of Woe]]
Luckily for the Imperium, Galen is no longer an active threat. After a great campaign of terror colloquially known as the Great Sowing he ascended to Daemonhood and turned into an abominable hybrid of a man and a tree. Thankfully, he didn't get an opportunity to unleash the power of his new form on the Imperium, as during a meditation that followed his arrival to his homeworld, he took root in its soil and turned into a colossal daemonic tree known to the Green Men as the Tree of Woe. Some Inquisitors assume that this was a punishment from the Ruinous Powers for having fought their influence back in his Life Bringers days, although, as it is always with the Chaos Gods, the line between a boon and a punishment is blurred to the extreme.  

Unfortunately, even though he can no longer personally lead incursions into the Imperial space, his toxic influence still plagues the realm of Mankind. The Green Men are very keen on founding and nurturing the so-called Galenic cults that worship Daemon Prince Galen as the God of Plants. Their common tactics entail landing on a Garden or Agri-World in secrecy, causing great droughts with their meteorological sorcery, unleashing hurricanes of genetically modified locust on the crops and causing the trees to wither and rot by poisoning the land with herbicides. Once the locals get desperate enough to sign a pact with the Ruinous Powers, the Chaos Marines reveal themselves and start preaching the Green Gospel of Galen. In exchange for an eternal fealty to the God of Plants, they gift the impoverished farmers with the seeds and saplings of their wonder plants that yield fabulously, can grow in any conditions and even defend themselves against the locust. Soon after their introduction these aggressive plants choke the local crops with their roots and replace them completely. But this is only the beginning, as after that they actually start replacing humans. Rapidly encroaching on their settlements, they eradicate all human life with great clouds of pollen akin to chemical weapons. Eventually, the whole world turns into a toxic jungle that can sustain no life except for that grown in flasks by the Genetors of the Green Men. 

Although Galen is not a true deity by any stretch of the imagination, rumours persist of unique species of Daemons who answer the summons of Galen's deranged worshippers. Those include walking trees with leering faces and branches ending in swords, gibbering mounds of moss that corrode everything they touch and giant rolling tumbleweeds with tens of hands protruding from them, all of them clenching pitchforks, scythes and sickles. Although the Grey Knights may possess information confirming or denying the existence of these horrors, they are understandably uneager to share it with anyone.

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