Editing Tollund Ötztal (section)

===The Hektor Heresy===

When Hektor's revolt began, Tollund Ötztal and much of the Eighth Legion were at Tisenjoch, refitting after hard campaigning in the Ultima Segmentum.  News of civil war threw the Primarch into melancholy and he forbade his men from joining the war.  Yet in the great struggle between the Imperium of Mankind and the Ruinous Powers, there was no middle ground.  Onyx and his Stone Men came to Tisenjoch to demand that the Mastodontii take up arms against the traitors, but Tollund Ötztal would not greet them.  Infuriated by this insult and seeing the Eighth Legion's "neutrality" as nothing more than a traitor's ruse, Onyx ordered his Legion to attack.

Even the impact of a Space Marine Legion assaulting Tisenjoch failed to rouse Ötztal from his bleak state.  When the Praetorians of the Mastodontii confronted their master and begged him to take action, Ötztal only closed his eyes and turned his back on them.  He said nothing to a second plea, but the third was answered by an old voice, once thought lost.  Ötztal's twin, Tollund, spoke.  "For so long, you went about your business without me.  You used my name, but you tried to forget I had even existed.  And now comes the crisis, a time that you are too weak to handle on your own."

Ötztal's eyes snapped open and he beheld a mirror to his own face.  Tollund laughed over the murmuring of the Mastodontii Praetorians, then continued, "Don't be afraid.  I am not merely taking the chance to mock you.  I will take the field.  I will do the hardest tasks.  I will not shrink from taking brother's blood."

"But you will pay my price of asking."