And Alaric survives, and in the next book, along with less than ten Grey Knights, a few Mechanicus adepts and Inquisition agents managed to take down the Castigator, the Father of the Titans (basically the original and most powerful titan ever created), the daemon who possessed its data core and fool a Chaos Lord to destroy an entire chaos titan legion.Tancred: I am the hammer, I am the sword in His hand, I am the point of His spear, I am the gauntlet about His fist, I am the bane of His foes, and I am the woes of the treacherous, I am the end. He doesn't survive the resulting explosion, but he went out like any great Grey Knight should giving his life to hold back the darkness. Justicar Tancred gets one in Grey Knights when he rises up after the possessed corpse of Saint Evisser nearly kills him, marches up to the Saint while roaring the battlecry of the Grey Knights, and then decapitates the heretic.Ghargatuloth ain't a greater daemon of Tzeench for nothing. Then he goes on to explain how he manipulated the Grey Knights themselves, knowing that he could count on them to believe that the sword of Mandulis would banish him again when it was actually the final piece needed for his rebirth, essentially making a mockery of the entire Grey Knight order and the sacrifices they made a thousand years ago. He manipulated events behind the scenes for thousands of years, including purposefully setting up an Imperial Saint and gradually corrupting the Trail of Saint Evisser with innumerable deep-cover Chaos cults in order to facilitate his rebirth.

Ghargatuloth himself has an epic moment despite being the villain of Grey Knights, when he is revived and the extent of his scheme becomes clear.That is our memorial -carved into the heart of Chaos. When Chaos is dying, its last thought will be of us. We will hurt it so badly that it will never forget us until the stars burn out and the Emperor vanquishes it at the end of time. The Chapter might lose us and the Imperium might never know we existed, but the Enemy - the Enemy will know. No one will remember us now and we may never be buried beneath Titan, so we will build our own memorial here. We do not know what we are facing, so we fight as if it was the dark gods themselves.

'We do not know what our chances of survival are, so we fight as if they were zero.

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