Lorgar - Lorgar Confronts Fulgrim: Only one last order of business remained. Lorgar traveled down to the surface of Istvaan V to seek out and confront "Fulgrim." When the Daemon-Fulgrim tried to forestall Lorgar, at a signal, his Astartes of the XVIIth Legion teleported aboard forty-nine Emperor's Children vessels, holding their commanders hostage at gunpoint.Once Lorgar had made his point, he demanded to speak to the Daemon-Fulgrim alone. Following their conversation on the surface, the XVIIth Legion recalled their strike teams via teleportation. Fulgrim and Lorgar teleported from the surface as well.Once together, the Urizen asked after the fate of his brother Fulgrim and whether or not he was still alive. The Daemon-Fulgrim took Lorgar aboard the IIIrd Legion's flagship Pride of the Emperor. Lorgar was escorted to "La Fenice," the former lounge and theatre of the Remembrancers of the 28th Expeditionary Fleet, where the Emperor's Children had undergone their final apotheosis as true servants of Slaanesh during the performance of the Maraviglia.Lorgar regarded the devastated theatre. Whatever last performance had taken place there had been one of supreme decadence. Bodies, already gone to rags and bones, slumbered in cadaverous repose across the chairs and aisles. Discarded weapons and broken furniture lay strewn across the scene. Nothing was unmarked by the black stains of old blood.The Daemon-Fulgrim led Lorgar to the stage and gestured behind a thin, silk curtain revealing an exquisite portrait of the Phoenician. The painting stole Lorgar's breath for a long moment, and he was complicit in his awe, glad to let it do so. Few works of art had moved him as this one did. Fulgrim, triumphant in this rendering, wore his most ostentatious suit of armour, as much Imperial gold as IIIrd Legion purple.He stood before the immense Phoenix Gate leading into the Heliopolis chamber on board his flagship, a vision of gold against even richer gold. At his shoulders, reaching out in angelic symmetry, the great fiery pinions of a phoenix cast burning light against his armour, lighting the gold to flame-touched platinum and enriching the purple to a deep tyrian hue.The Daemon-Fulgrim indicated the painting and explained that he had upheld his end of the bargain, for Lorgar had now seen his wayward brother. Thinking himself being mocked, Lorgar reached for his Crozius, threatening violence. The Daemon-Fulgrim told the Word Bearers primarch to look closer at the painting and he would see the truth.This time, Lorgar let his eyes slip across the image, seeking no details, merely drifting until they rested where they chose. He met the image's soulfully-rendered eyes, and at last, Lorgar breathed through the faintest of smiles and greeted his brother. The Daemon asked if Lorgar now saw the truth. Lorgar replied that he saw more than the Daemon realised.Facing his brother's captor he informed the Neverborn that if he thought to relish all of eternity while playing puppeteer to his brother's body, than he would find himself fatally disappointed one night. The Daemon said that the Urizen spoke with the lies of a desperate and foolish soul.Lorgar merely laughed and smiled at the Daemon sincerely, replying that the creature's secret was safe with him and to enjoy his stewardship of Fulgrim's body while it lasted.Returning to the Fidelitas Lex, Lorgar convened the Council of Sanctity to speak once more of his plans for Calth. Then in the hours that followed, he summoned Argel Tal and his most trusted subcommanders, to speak of other, more secretive plans. For Lorgar's most trusted son, like him, had other wars to fight even as the Calth System burned.