The Emperor personally attended this event and ordered the entire legion, Lorgar included, to bow before the Emperor and the Ultramarines. He had the Ultramarines level a city that stood as a shining example of their accomplishments on the planet of Monarchia.
It was during the Great Crusade that Lorgar wrote the Lectitio Divinitatus, a biblical tome that reputedly was used for the creation of the Imperial Cult.Įventually The Emperor decided that their religious worship of him had gone too far. The Word Bearers would spend extra time on each world the brought into compliance building great monuments to the Emperor and converting the entire populace to share their beliefs. The Word Bearers venerated the Emperor, continuing to worship has a god despite the Emperors insistence that he was not divine. Lorgar renamed his legion The Word Bearers and joined the Great Crusade. The Emperor, having refused any divine mantle so far, was not happy, yet satisfied Lorgar by having him assume command of the Imperial Heralds. When the Emperor arrived on Colchis, Lorgar was overjoyed and celebrated his arrival and proclaiming him the god his people had been waiting for. By the time he was discovered during the Great Crusade, he had already subdued Colchis in a series of religious wars and forcibly converted the whole world to the Cult of the Emperor. Lorgar, a psyker, experienced visions of the Emperor's arrival and interpreted them as a fulfillment of a local messianic prophecy. When Lorgar vanished from Terra, he appeared on a feudal planet called Colchis, which worshiped the Chaos Gods.
The Word Bearers embraced the powers of Chaos during the Horus Heresy, many allowing daemons to inhabit their bodies and enhance their abilities. The Word Bearers are renowned for being fiercely loyal zealots to their cause, be it towards the Imperium during the majority of the Great Crusade or towards Chaos after the discovery of the Eye of Terror, several years before the Horus Heresy.
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