Lorgar - Youth: Colchis was a world of old gods. It was said that religion was in the air, in the touch of the sun and the taste of the dust. To its people, worship of higher powers was as much a part of them as the beating of their hearts and the crying of their children. Bound in feudal traditions, Colchis had once been a world of high technology, but those days lay forgotten in Old Night.Life was easy for some and hard for others, and all the people knew the same truths that their fathers had known and their mothers had taught. That disease came and culled generations, but that these times would pass for nothing could remain unchanged. That war would come like rain and stain the land with blood, but there were always the promises of joy even when all seemed lost. All men died, and kings fell and new kings rose, but the gods remained.Primarch Lorgar vanished from the Emperor's gene-laboratory beneath the Himalazian (Himalayan) Mountains on Terra while still an infant in his gestation capsule, along with the 19 other primarchs, who were all transported through the Warp and scattered to random Human-inhabited worlds across the galaxy. His gestation-capsule came to rest on the theocratic Feudal World of Colchis. When the infant Lorgar fell from the sky, his Legion had yet to be born on Terra, and the faith of Colchis was held in the hands of a ruling priesthood called "the Covenant."A nomadic tribe of desert outcasts called "The Declined" led by the chieftain Fan Morgal found the strange infant's shattered capsule and took him in. They named the child Lorgar, or the "Rain-caller" in the Colchisian tongue. Seventeen local days later, Lorgar, already grown to the size of a young child, was discovered by Kor Phaeron, an exiled priest of the Covenant and his caravan of exiles. Kor Phaeron had been exiled from the Colchisian capital of Vharadesh, the City of Grey Flowers, for advocating that the Covenant be more forceful and aggressive in its conversion tactics.The predominant religion on Colchis was that of the Covenant, later known as the "Old Faith" or the "Old Ways." It was a polytheistic religion dedicated to the worship of four entities that were in fact the Chaos Gods in more benevolent guises.Immediately sensing greatness in the boy and believing him blessed by the Colchisian gods he called "The Powers," Kor Phaeron convinced Lorgar to become his disciple and promptly killed Fan Morgal and The Declined to cover up the boy's true identity and origin. Despite enduring Kor Phaeron's vicious emotional and physical abuses, Lorgar came to fervently believe in the faith of the Covenant and researched every aspect of its theology that he could find. He came to believe that there was a single god he named "The One" that led and bound together in his being the polytheistic pantheon of the Covenant which comprised four lesser gods.Kor Phaeron dismissed such notions initially as heresy and often abused Lorgar in an attempt to shape the young primarch's personality and create an emotional dependency upon him. At the same time, Kor Phaeron saw something special in Lorgar and attempted to manipulate him in order to use the boy's obvious extraordinary talents to take over the theocracy of the Covenant and rule over Colchis.Nonetheless, despite the abuse, Lorgar remained intensely loyal to Kor Phaeron and even saved his life during a mutiny by the caravan's crew after they were asked to beat Lorgar once more by his foster father for some minor transgression. Lorgar also grew close to others in Kor Phaeron's caravan of exiles, which included the mercenary captain Axata and the enslaved Covenant teacher Nairo.Despite Kor Phaeron's abuse Lorgar quickly surpassed his master. He became a devout preacher, his skill in oratory and the power of his superhuman charisma winning him many followers, allowing him to rise to the position of archpriest of "the Godsworn" as the followers of Lorgar's branch of the Covenant and believers in The One called themselves.After saving Kor Phaeron's life in the mutiny, the priest ended his physical abuse of the primarch and began to show him some affection. He named Lorgar the new "Bearer of the Word." Lorgar's fame spread rapidly 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.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 his assistant hierarchs as a gift to the city's new conqueror. After taking Vharadesh, Lorgar's Godsworn forces moved from city to city across Colchis, taking them either peacefully through conversion or in some cases putting all within to the sword for their heresy in refusing to accept the faith of The One.After several Terran years of fighting the last city to stand against Lorgar's Godsworn 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 divine 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.