Apollyn

"*I am death.*"

- One of the only recorded instances of Apollyn, the Lord of Ruin, speaking

Apollyn, also known as the "Lord of Ruin" or the "Ruinlord", is the Primarch of the LX Legion, the Legion of Ruin. He was the last to attain the Primarch status during the Third Legion Founding.

Very little is actually known of him, as he speaks with such a dark and threatening tone that even other Primarchs are fearful around him. His Legion is also only rumored to exist on most planets, and his very mention causes planets to go silent in fear of attracting his attention.

His sheer disregard for civilian life has made even the Marines Malevolent and Night Lords believe that the Legion of Ruin and Apollyn himself have gone completely insane as they have such a careless regard for civilian life that once they completely exterminated 5 entire planets' worth of civilians just for suspected heresy.

During the Custodian War, Curze once told Apollyn that he should focus more on peace, but Apollyn merely remained silent and proceeded to give the signal to butcher the entire population of Dustam IV. This horrified both Curze and Perturabo, who were both present at the time.

The Emperor of Mankind once said that his greatest fear was Apollyn almost purely because that he was worse than the entire Marines Malevolent Chapter combined, and remarked that they would fear him almost just as much as the Imperium.

He and his Legion dwell in the darkest regions of the Halo Stars, and is the only Primarch other than Perturabo that has made Tyranids make a mad retreat away from him.

## History

### Early Years

Apollyn was born on the world of Schrynadis, the very world that would become the later Ruinworld, with no name. He was abandoned from his parents for having an unusual psychic power to immediately dim lights and cause temporary blindness. Due to these conditions, Apollyn grew up to become deathly silent, never knowing kindness in anything but to put down a life.

He was frequently bullied, and had a remarkable tolerance, but one day Apollyn snapped and revealed his psychic powers. The bullies were so frightened that they tried to plead for their lives, but Apollyn instead gave each one of them a slow and agonizing death. This attracted the attention of the Iron Warriors garrisoned on the world as part of their old Legion Star Empire.

The Iron Warriors immediately knew that such a talent would greatly benefit them, so they contacted Perturabo and stated that they found a remarkable candidate that displayed psychic powers. As Perturabo was on a campaign known as the Final Cry of the Apostles, he was unable to meet the yet unnamed Apollyn, but expressed interest and wanted him recruited as a potential weapon to make any future campaigns the Iron Warriors Legion participate in easier.

However, Apollyn accepted, believing that the Astartes Legions could be monsters far worse than him, only to realize that they weren't. This left Apollyn with a bad taste, but accepted nonetheless. He passed every trial, eventually becoming a new Astartes, but when Perturabo checked the rest of the new recruits, he found all of them to be murdered.

This left Perturabo to consider killing Apollyn but stopped, knowing that killing Apollyn would mean losing a potentially vital weapon.

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