Maloghurst - Dark Martyr: Maloghurst eventually agreed to accept the aid of the Primarch Lorgar and his fellow Word Bearer Zardu Layak, who worked with Sota-Nul, a high-ranking magos of the Dark Mechanicum, to gain access to where Horus' body sat upon his throne in the Lupercal's Court of the Vengeful Spirit without the permission of Falkus Kibre, the Sons of Horus captain who fiercely guarded the comatose Warmaster.Once before the Warmaster's body, Maloghurst invoked a sorcerous blood ritual similar to that once used by Erebus on Davin to enter the Warp by slitting his own throat. Once within the Immaterium, Maloghurst sought to use the Daemon Amarok as a guide to find the fragment of Horus' soul still trapped within the Warp.Though Amarok sought to take the equerry's soul in payment for this service, Maloghurst turned the tables on the Daemon and used his sorcery to bind the Neverborn to his will.With Amarok's aid, Maloghurst discovered Horus' soul-self on an immaterial battlefield where he was combatting enemies across a landscape constantly shifting in space and time.Despite Maloghurst's desperate entreaties, the Warmaster refused to leave the fight, and before the equerry could further make his case his own soul was pulled back to reality as he was woken up by the Sons of Horus' Justaerin Terminators and hauled before an enraged Captain Horus Aximand, who had deeply disagreed with Maloghurst's proposed course of action to awaken the Warmaster.Aximand explained to the equerry that a sudden surge in the Warp had seen the Vengeful Spirit and the Traitor fleet unexpectedly translated from the Immaterium before the Fortress World of Heta-Gladius which was held by a substantial force of Blood Angels. Aximand planned to assault the world, though he knew that such a battle would be largely futile and cause massive casualties to the Traitor fleet.On Aximand's order, Maloghurst was jailed within a maze whose walls constantly moved to prevent its occupants from finding the way out, and a Warp-nullifying restraining collar was placed around Maloghurst's neck to prevent him from using his sorcery to escape. With no other options, the equerry could do nothing but wander the maze's blind corridors.Maloghurst was eventually freed from the maze by Captain Kalus Ekkadon, the commander of the Catulan Reavers, and was able to reach the Lupercal's Court and Horus' throne once more. As the pair made their way, there were attacked by both other Sons of Horus and squads of Blood Angels from Heta-Gladius who had managed to board the Vengeful Spirit during the battle.Once before the Warmaster's comatose form once more, Maloghurst once more conducted his ritual and had his soul enter the Immaterium, where he once again discovered the fragment of Horus' soul locked within a tormented landscape created from his own memories, this time of the battle on Ullanor before the Triumph.In truth, the portion of Horus still within the Warp was that fragment of his psyche that recognised that his fall to Chaos had transformed him into a puppet of the Chaos Gods. His constant combat in the mental landscape was actually an expression of the part of Horus that had become anguished by his choice to turn on the Emperor as a result of his wounding by the Spear of Russ which had partially broken the Ruinous Powers' grip on his soul. He was determined to never submit to their foul ends and become their slave.But Maloghurst urged Horus to finally submit fully to the wishes of the Chaos Gods, for he had gone too far down the path of rebellion to now turn back. Maloghurst also claimed that no matter what happened, Horus could never be their slave for he had chose this course of his own free will. He must return to reality, for only ending the war with the Emperor could truly bring victory.Realising what he had to do to free Horus, Maloghurst took his knife and plunged it into the wound in Horus' side that had been made by the Spear of Russ and was still represented in the Warmaster's soul-form.This action sacrificed Maloghurst's own life, but the fragment of Horus' soul was reunited with his body. The Warmaster immediately regained consciousness and took up command of the Traitors' drive on the Throneworld once more. The Siege of Terra began soon afterwards.But now Horus was wholly in the grip of the Chaos Gods, filled with their terrible power and purpose.After his death, Maloghurst was replaced as Horus' equerry by Kenor Argonis, another Sons of Horus Astartes.