Argel Tal - Death: During the Pilgrimage of Lorgar into the Eye of Terror, when the Primarch Lorgar followed the Serrated Sun into the Warp rift after they returned to report their experiences to him, he was shown many Chaos visions by the daemon Ingethel the Ascended of events that were soon to transpire or come to pass in a number of possible futures. This is especially true of some of the events surrounding the galaxy-spanning conflict known as the Horus Heresy, which occurred over 40 Terran years after the Pilgrimage.One of these visions included the Battle of Terra, the final battle of the Horus Heresy. Lorgar saw in this vision Argel Tal transformed in the midst of battle into a gargantuan daemon-possessed Astartes. In his daemonic form Tal appeared quite powerful and significantly larger and taller than his Primarch.The vision showed that the daemonic Tal would go on a bloody rampage through the ranks of an Imperial Fists squad before finally dying at the hands of the Primarch Sanguinius at the threshold of the Imperial Palace's inner Eternity Gate. Whether or not this vision came to pass is unknown, as visions granted by the Ruinous Powers are sometimes outright false or only contain a kernel of the truth.Following the events of the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V, Argel Tal was the sole surviving original member of the Gal Vorbak, having been seconded to the World Eaters Legion for temporary duty before the Word Bearers' assault on Calth. Argel Tal forsook his oaths to the annihilated Serrated Sun Chapter and gained permission from his Primarch Lorgar to form a newly constituted formation, known as the Vakrah Jal, the Chapter of Consecrated Iron, who rose from the ashes of Word Bearers companies devastated on the killing fields of Istvaan V.This new elite formation of Possessed Chaos Space Marines trained for solar months in the fighting pits aboard the World Eaters' flagship Conqueror. When they were finally deemed ready, Argel Tal led the Vakrah Jal in the Shadow Crusade, a joint military campaign conducted during the opening days of the Horus Heresy into the Realm of Ultramar by the Word Bearers and the World Eaters Legions.The two Traitor Legions proceeded to lay waste to the Ultramarines Legion's stellar empire in the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy, rapidly destroying twenty-six worlds in quick succession. This campaign ensured the success of the sorcerous Ruinstorm that had been conjured by the Word bearers during the Battle of Calth, which would ultimately divide the galaxy in two, effectively cutting Ultramar off from the rest of the Imperium of Man. This was intended to make it impossible for the Ultramarines and several of the other Loyalist Legions to travel through the Warp to reinforce the Loyalist defenders on Terra.During this campaign, Argel Tal fought alongside the World Eaters' 8th Assault Captain Khârn, whom he had developed a kinship with during the course of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, becoming "honour brothers" in the process. During one of the Shadow Crusade's early campaigns, the joint Traitor fleet was to assault the War World of Armatura, a vitally important planet that fed the Ultramarines Legion with recruits and munitions.Argel Tal also took part in the massacre upon Angron's homeworld of Nuceria when the World Eaters Primarch sought to purge his hated homeworld of all life. Enraged by the lies that had been told about him over the last century, that he had abandoned his fellow gladiators out of cowardice on the day they had all been slain, Angron ordered his Legion and the supporting Vakrah Jal to kill everyone in the capital city of Desh'ea, the masters of which had once claimed to own him. Then they were to wipe out every other living thing on the cursed planet.Argel Tal eagerly took part in the slaughter, but at the height of this bloody campaign, the World Eaters and Word Bearers were confronted by the wrathful Ultramarines Legion, led by their Primarch Roboute Guilliman. Argel Tal was ultimately betrayed by the Word Bearers' First Chaplain Erebus, who viciously stabbed the Crimson Lord in the back with his Athame dagger.Erebus later claimed that Argel Tal's influence over his friend Khârn would prevent the World Eaters Assault Captain from embracing his fate, by becoming a servant of the Ruinous Powers, and that this would cost the Traitors the war.The Daemon Prince Ingethal the Ascended's prophecy given during the Pilgrimage of Lorgar was thus fulfilled -- Argel Tal indeed died "in the shadow of great wings," since he was slain in the shadow of a large Imperial Aquila located on top of the Imperator-class Titan, Corinthian.