Kor Phaeron - Priest of the Covenant: Kor Phaeron was born on the desert Feudal World of Colchis and raised in an orphanage. He eventually became a priest of the ruling theocracy known as the Covenant of Colchis, a polytheistic religion devoted to the four deities known as the "Great Powers" who were actually another guise for the Chaos Gods.Kor Phaeron was eventually exiled from Colchis capital city of Vharadesh by the Covenant for having advocated more aggressive measures in pursuing conversions. He gathered a small band of followers in a caravan and began to preach the word of the Great Powers to the lower caste of desert nomads known as "The Declined" when he discovered that the infant Primarch Lorgar lived among them.When the Primarchs were spirited away from the Emperor's hidden gene-laboratories on Terra through the Warp by the power of Chaos and scattered across the galaxy, Lorgar found himself cast to the world of Colchis. Following the end of the Age of Strife, the Covenant had helped to rebuild their shattered society. The Covenant's strict dogma was harsh, but a monolithic belief structure soon formed that permeated every facet of daily life.Sensing greatness in the boy he had discovered among the nomads and seeing him as an instrument of the Great Powers, the ever power-hungry Kor Phaeron adopted him as his own in the hopes of one day using his extraordinary gifts to supplant the Covenant's ruling caste of priests.Kor Phaeron then had his caravan members slaughter the band of desert nomads led by Fan Morgal, the Declined chieftain who had discovered Lorgar to ensure the Primarch's existence remained a secret from the Covenant. Though Kor Phaeron raised Lorgar as his own son and taught him the tenets of the Covenant's faith, he often was physically and emotionally abusive to the golden-skinned Primarch.When Lorgar claimed to have seen visions of a divine being in bronze armour he claimed to be the One God of all Mankind, Kor Phaeron at first rejected the notion and berated his son for heresy, insisting that there were only the Great Powers. Lorgar's superhuman charisma soon began to gather new followers known as the "Godsworn" who were drawn to the tale of The One. As a result, Kor Phaeron softened his opposition to Lorgar's religious ideas.Kor Phaeron consistently attempted to manipulate Lorgar for his own ends, primarily the pursuit of power, but Lorgar always remained intensely loyal to him. However, as Lorgar's fame and the devotion of his followers grew, Kor Phaeron's direct control over his adopted son weakened.When Kor Phaeron ordered Lorgar beaten by the members of his caravan over a minor transgression, his own enforcers refused to carry out the punishment and mutinied against the priest. Lorgar slew the mutineers and saved his foster father's life, which surprised even Kor Phaeron. As a result, Kor Phaeron thereafter was no longer physically abusive towards Lorgar and proclaimed him the Covenant's true "Bearer of the Word."No longer teacher and student, Kor Phaeron was named Lorgar's arch-deacon, the official who served as his chief adviser and the manager of all secular affairs, and the two now joined together to overthrow the Covenant's rule. Kor Phaeron, though he still saw Lorgar as a means to ultimate power, had now developed a genuine fondness for the Primarch.However, he still kept many secrets from his foster son, including his leadership of a sect of the Covenant known as the Dark Heart. Kor Phaeron had no true allegiance to Lorgar's concept of The One and hoped to use the Dark Heart to one day restore the Great Powers to their rightful place as the predominant gods of the faith.Lorgar's fame spread quickly thereafter, as he began liberating slaves held across Colchis. He slowly amassed a great army of the Godsworn that marched on the Colchisian capital city of Vharadesh, the City of Grey Flowers.After a fiery sermon before the city gates, they opened to him. The lower priests of the Covenant within the capital presented the corpses of the ruling Covenant Ecclesiarch and Hierarchs as a gift to the city's new conqueror. After taking Vharadesh, Lorgar's Godsworn forces moved from city to city, taking them either peacefully through conversion or in some cases putting all within to the sword for their heresy in refusing the faith of The One.After several Terran years of fighting, the last city to stand against Lorgar's army was Gahevarla, which was protected by an artefact dating back to the Age of Technology known as a "storm generator" which was capable of unleashing a raging storm front in its area of effect. In what appeared to be a miracle, Lorgar approached the raging maelstrom around the city and parted the storm, allowing his army to swarm through the gap and capture Gahevarla. With the fall of Gahevarla, Lorgar found himself the master of all Colchis and he immediately named Kor Phaeron as the High Priest of the Covenant. But without pause, Lorgar proclaimed to the faithful that they still had much to do.