Legends speak of a fiery comet smashing into the foremost temple of the Covenant which was the gestation capsule bearing the infant Primarch, whilst another tale tells of the arrival of a strange, golden-skinned child at the doors of the Covenant's largest temple, requesting to be schooled in their ways. It was Kor Phaeron, one of the Covenant's numerous priests, who helped shape the growing demigod in ways his true father, the Emperor, had not. The young Primarch came to value Phaeron's counsel above all others. When visions of the Emperor's imminent arrival on Colchis plagued the young Primarch, it was Kor Phaeron who pressed him to take his prophecies to the people. Soon the Covenant split into two factions, each deeply opposed to the others' beliefs. A holy war of horrific proportions