Cypher: Lord of the Fallen (Warhammer 40,000) [Hardcover] French, John

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This is the terrible secret borne by the Dark Angels these last ten millennia; that the incorruptible I st Legion fell to corruption when the Legion's second-in-command, Luther, corrupted many of their brethren through the foul lure of Chaos.

Thus it was revealed that those defeated Dark Angels Traitors -– known as the Fallen Angels, or just the Fallen –- were not all destroyed when they were sucked into the Warp.

This, perhaps, gives a hint as to the real reason why the I stLegion switched from black to green colours in the aftermath of the Fall of Caliban. These defeated survivors are known as the Fallen Angels or just the Fallen, mercilessly hunted down by the elite Deathwing and Ravenwing companies and made to repent by the fearsome Interrogator-Chaplains of the Dark Angels before they are executed. It was decreed by the most senior members of the Legion that no outsider must learn the dreadful truth -- none must know that members of the Dark Angels had proven as corruptible as any mortals and turned to the Ruinous Powers. M33) - Cypher's timely intervention prevents the Orks from looting the Lion Helm and the Sword of Secrets from the slain body of the fallen Supreme Grand Master Alloken. This is the side where it can become dumb, because if everything is a mystery and nothing might be true then what is the point in the book?

Certainly the Massacre on Olney and the loss of the Legion's last remaining Stormbird on the moons of Sestus bear his mysterious hallmarks.Many went down beneath that cascade of fire, spouts of Ork blood, steam and black oil jetting out from the collapsed piles of blocky armour. The world of Lemnos was embroiled in a bitter war over mining rights –- a battle of greed, rather than ideology. Across the galaxy, the legend of Cypher –- the mysterious loner who fights for freedom –- has been known by many names. Less than a hundred Space Marines from an original contingent of a thousand managed to escape, and they did so only because they pursued Cypher, who, in his attempt to flee, also led them to a secret teleportation device.

Deep within the dungeons of the Rock, behind many locked doors of adamantium, can be found the Enigma Chamber.At times, Cypher has been linked with demagogues, those who rise up to agitate the masses, while at others he has been associated with military commanders. To the Imperium at large, Cypher is either wholly unknown, or a being of shadowy rumour that seems to be somehow connected to or sought by the Dark Angels and their Successor Chapters.

There, for a time much greater than the years that pass in realspace, he makes contact with various groups of Fallen. Gathering long-range scans and widely collected reports, the Angels of Vengeance Strike Cruiser uncovered nothing untoward save for an encrypted signal beamed from the mining world of Lemnos.Only those who prove their ability to aggressively pursue, but at the same time anticipate the enemy's traps and ruses, survive for long in the Dark Angels 2 nd Company. Regardless of whether other factions arrive to ask questions, the Dark Angels always follow the trail. Cypher seldom instigates the violent acts that invariably occur when he is present; it is rather that he seems to act as a catalyst, fanning the hatred and mistrust of those around him into a raging fire.