Pilgrimage of Lorgar - Trial of the Gods: Lorgar once again found himself on the Aeldari world of Shanriatha. When he picked himself up from the sand he saw that his Daemonic guide Ingethel appeared to be dying. The Daemon Prince had used its already diminishing strength to rescue Lorgar from the sorcery of Magnus the Red. Lorgar wanted to know why his brother would not speak with him. Ingethel informed him that Magnus was a tool of Tzeentch, the Changer of the Ways. Magnus was a creature of his own ignorance, manipulated at every turn, yet he believed that he was the manipulator.Some of Humanity's leaders could be lured to the service of the Chaos Gods by offers of ambition and dominance, while others like Magnus the Red had to be manipulated until they were ready to witness and accept the truth. Lorgar inquired as to which kind of leader he was. Ingethel told the primarch that he was the chosen of the pantheon, for he alone had come to Chaos out of idealism, for the betterment of his species. In this, as in all things, he was selfless.Convinced by the Daemon's prescient vision, Lorgar demanded to know his fate in the true war for Mankind's future yet to come. Ingethel told Lorgar that once the betrayal broke across the galaxy, there were countless moments in which he might meet his end. Some were likelier than others. The Daemon warned Lorgar that no being may know its future written out before it; yet, on a world named Shrike, if Lorgar interceded in an argument between Magnus the Red and Leman Russ, there was a concordance of possibility that he would be slain in their duel. If he ever drew a weapon against his brother Corvus Corax, in a battle he could never win, then he would almost certainly die.Pushing aside information about choices he would not have to make for many years, Lorgar asked why they had returned to the dead Aeldari world. The dying Ingethel explained that she did not intend for it to be so, for the Daemon had used up the last of its power dragging Lorgar from Magnus' chamber with crude force, not guile. It was not her intention to show this world again. Something else had returned them there. Something powerful.It appeared that one of the Chaos Gods desired to test Lorgar's worthiness to serve as the mortal champion of Chaos. Ingethel chided Lorgar for believing that the chosen of the pantheon might be allowed to leave the Realm of the Gods without first passing their test. It had been decided that the Chaos Gods would collectively choose one representative to pass judgment upon the primarch's worthiness to serve them. Yet the Chaos Gods were ultimately fickle, selfish beings and one of the gods broke the agreement that all four had made, wishing to test Lorgar against one of his own servants instead.With a bestial roar, An'ggrath the Unbound materialised. The Blood God Khorne had violated the temporary accord the Chaos Gods had forged concerning Lorgar and sent forth the mightiest of his Bloodthirsters, the Guardian of the Skull Throne, to test Lorgar's mettle. With no choice, Lorgar was forced to defend himself and duel the mighty creature, and he eventually proved himself the victor, though he was sorely wounded during the duel.Collapsing in the aftermath of his stunning victory, the primarch struggled to stay alive, breathing blood-wet air into weak lungs. He then heard a single voice and then another, similar to the first, but somehow flawed. Lorgar looked up at the sudden appearance of another winged figure -- a grotesque avian creature with withered wings and two vulture's heads.The creature informed Lorgar that it was the representative of all the Chaos Gods that had been sent to judge the primarch. The avian creature identified itself as Kairos Fateweaver, the Oracle of Tzeentch. The Lord of Change had come to bring the chance for a final choice: Lorgar could have personal glory or divine destiny. This moment of truth would come many solar decades in the future, during the infamous Battle of Calth.It would be there that Lorgar had to make the most momentous decision of his life: to fight his brother Roboute Guilliman, where he would succeed in killing him and by doing so, achieve a sense of satisfaction and the respect of his brother primarchs. Yet by doing so he would also lose the coming war. However, if he chose to turn his back on personal glory and let Guilliman live, he would taste bitter defeat in his personal quest for the destruction of Guilliman and his XIII Legion that had so insulted the Word Bearers on Khur. But the chance for him to succeed in the illumination of Humanity would be greater.The primarch had to choose whether he would stand amongst his brother primarchs as an equal, with vengeance as his goal, or work in the name of the Chaos Gods, tasting shame in return for a far greater victory. While Fateweaver's two heads normally made two predictions, one being the truth and the other a lie, in this one instance the Greater Daemon explained that both of his heads had told the truth. Leaving the bemused primarch with this perplexing conundrum, Fateweaver then disappeared back into the Aether.Left alone once more with the dying Ingethel, Lorgar demanded to know how much of what he had seen was true. The Daemon replied, "All of it. Or none. Or perhaps something in between." The Daemon Prince had shown him what the Chaos Gods demanded that he bear witness to, now he wanted Ingethel to show him what he wished to see. Ingethel agreed, for it was permitted. Lorgar had seen what he must do to ensure victory. He had seen the fate of the galaxy if the Emperor's lies were not challenged. Now, the primarch wished to walk other worlds in the Eye of Terror. If this was the gateway to the Heaven and Hell of Human myth, he wanted to be shown more of it. Lorgar wished to see the possibilities in these mutable worlds, to be shown what the Warp could offer Humanity, if they conceded to the merging of flesh and spirit.Ingethel replied that she could do all of this. But Lorgar had one final wish before he returned to the Imperium, for there was one last thing he must see above any other -- what would happen if the forces of Chaos lost the coming war? The vision he saw next left no doubt in Lorgar's mind that the future of Humanity required it to embrace Chaos and the merging of reality with the Warp.