Cypher: Lord of the Fallen (Warhammer 40,000) [Hardcover] French, John

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Some few have even suggested that Cypher will kneel before the Emperor, offering him the blessed blade and by this deed seeking final redemption for the Unforgiven. Even on the rare occasions when both pistols were struck from his hands, the robed figure did not draw his blade. In the deep emptiness of space, they halted the Rapier, yet when they boarded they found only Chaos Cultists. Yet Cypher alone was able to locate the Overfiend's fortress, penetrate its defences and gun the miscreant down -- instantaneously freeing billions from Tyrannex's unnatural subjugations. After following such a labyrinthine trail to find them, there is seldom anything of value to be learned from those whom Cypher enlisted to aid his hidden agenda.

Yeah I don’t see what is wrong with establishing actual factual events to enhance the setting that people play in. With precision timing and deadly accuracy, the Unforgiven made headway through the outermost defences, working their way inwards. Across the Imperium, it is no longer known exactly how many successor Chapters were made from the existent Legions. An elderly human Lord Cypher, who advised Luther and Lion El'Jonson during the campaign against the Great Beasts. Since that time, the elusive Fallen known as Cypher has been on the run, eluding capture for nearly ten thousand standard years.So long as a single member of the Fallen remains alive and unrepentant, the Dark Angels would refer to themselves as the Unforgiven. The grim realisation that the Space Marines –- the ultimate warriors of Humankind –- had proven vulnerable to corruption was a severe shock. Now loose in the Imperial Palace, they are hunted by warriors of the Dark Angels, forces of the Adeptus Custodes, and Imperial Assassins. After the action on Brigia, several Inquisitors had already been dispatched to look into the reported presence of the despised Alpha Legion. Tylius was indeed a Fallen, and he had made a fell pact, fully immersing himself in a labyrinthine Alpha Legion scheme.

The Dark Angels go out of their way to assume these targets were chosen and slain by Cypher himself, but often the facts that led them to these conclusions are ambiguous. Gathering long-range scans and widely collected reports, the Angels of Vengeance Strike Cruiser uncovered nothing untoward save for an encrypted signal beamed from the mining world of Lemnos. Although the Black Templars captured him, they were forced to hand him over when the pursuing Dark Angels fleet threatened to fire on the Gulf. Meanwhile, the largest chunk of what remained of shattered Caliban was chosen as the new headquarters for the Dark Angels.

However, they were eventually forced to explain the loss of their primarch and their homeworld of Caliban over and over again, telling their fabricated tale to the High Lords of Terra, and eventually the newly established Inquisition. On every world where he has been sighted, Cypher has always borne a sword, yet no matter how pressed he has been in combat, he has never yet drawn the blade forth, either to attack or even in his own defence. During a raid upon the Forge World of Voss Prime, Cypher arrived in the centre of a formation of Chaos Space Marine Terminators from the Black Legion.