Lorgar - Coming of the Emperor: This continued belief in the Old Faith, also maintained by many other Colchisians after the Godsworn's victory, would lay the foundation for the Word Bearers' eventual turn to Chaos. The Emperor and His Great Crusade Principia Imperialis Expeditionary Fleet reached Colchis in 857.M30, less than a local year after Lorgar's final victory over the Covenant. As the golden-armoured Emperor of Mankind descended from His landing craft with the one-eyed primarch Magnus the Red and two Legion Tactical Squads of Thousand Sons Astartes at His side, there could be no doubt in Lorgar's mind that he finally knelt before his god.Beside him a planet knelt and believed the same. Lorgar saw this preordained meeting as the confirmation of his many visions and prophecies, and so the primarch and his people wholeheartedly embraced the ruler of the Imperium of Man as their promised messiah and God-Emperor.When the Emperor finally met His long-lost gene-son face-to-face, as Lorgar had foreseen, the primarch immediately dropped to one knee in obeisance, leading the population of his world in rejoicing and worshipping the Emperor as the one, true god of Mankind. At the conclusion of these festivities, the Emperor bade Lorgar to take his best warriors and induct them into the XVII Space Marine Legion, the Imperial Heralds, who had been created from his own genome.Lorgar gratefully took up the Emperor's purpose, expressing his deeply-held desire to spread his faith in the God-Emperor to every world in the Imperium, despite the Emperor's continuing admonishments that His Imperium was to be built on the foundation of the Imperial Truth, an atheistic, rationalist doctrine that forbade the practice of religious faith as mere superstition.Lorgar then joined his father and his Legion on the Great Crusade to reunify the Human worlds of the galaxy under the rule of the new Imperium. Lorgar appointed trustworthy regents to rule over Colchis in his absence and devoutly complied with what he believed were his father's divine commandments. That the Emperor claimed He was not divine paradoxically only further strengthened Lorgar's faith in Him, as who else but a true god would claim that He was not divine?Every facet of the Covenant's belief structure was reorganised around the worship of the Emperor as the divine saviour of Mankind, and the people of Colchis united behind their new living god. The elaborate celebrations and displays of piety lasted for solar months, although it was said that the Emperor did not approve of this, wishing to rejoin the Great Crusade as soon as possible and being dismissive of organised religion in general. The Emperor had not begun the Great Crusade to reshackle Humanity within the chains of superstition and ignorance but to spread the light of reason and science.At the conclusion of the celebrations, Lorgar was made commander and master of the XVII Legion, the Imperial Heralds. Kor Phaeron survived the difficult genetic augmentation process to become an adult superhuman warrior similar to a true Space Marine and became Lorgar's chief adviser, lieutenant and the commander of the Imperial Heralds' elite 1st Company as the Legion's first captain.