Editing Jaghatai Khan (section)

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[[Image:Giant horse.jpg|300px|thumb|[[Meme|LOOK AT HIS HORSE! HIS HORSE IS AMAZING!]]]]
It is said that after being mysteriously transported from Terra through the Warp by the Ruinous Powers of Chaos, Khan landed on a planet in the Segmentum Pacificus named Mundus Planus by the Imperium, or as the native population called it, Chogoris. Less well known however, is the fact that the Khan was never supposed to have landed there at all, but instead had been on course to land upon a world called [[Chemos]]. It was in fact another of the Khan's brothers, Fulgrim, who was aimed for a landing upon Chogoris. This is significant because the Chaos Gods had planned for millennia to corrupt as many of the Primarchs to their cause as possible, and the environments in which each of the Primarchs spent their formative years would dramatically impact which of them would fall. By way of landing on Chogoris rather than Chemos, the Khan was spared the fate of falling to the Ruinous Powers, as he had apparently been one of the Primarchs targeted by the Chaos Gods from his inception. Fulgrim, on the other hand, had not been one of the Primarchs intended to fall (which might be an in-universe reason why his heel-turn amounted to basically just being mind-fucked by a [[Keeper of Secrets]]). The reason why the two Primarchs were swapped in the Warp [[Doomrider|is unknown]], but the perpetrator of the switch, [[Cegorach]], is known for being a plotter on the level of Tzeentch and Big E. However, we can certainly speculate. By virtue of being an Eldar deity, Cegorach is not at all fond of Chaos, and he is particularly ill inclined towards Slaanesh. Given that Fulgrim eventually fell to Slaanesh, it can be surmised that Cegorach wanted to screw Slaanesh in one of the very, very few ways it ''wouldn't'' like (aaaaand now you are all imagining what the Khan as a champion of Slaanesh would look like).

Chogoris is a fertile world with wide, open, green plains and tall, white mountains and blue seas. At the time of the Great Crusade, the Chogoran people had managed to restore their technological level to one similar to the pike-and-shot level of the late Renaissance on ancient Terra. The dominant empire was a well organized feudal aristocracy which had conquered most of the planet with well equipped and highly disciplined armies, maintaining armored horsemen and tight blocks of pike and arquebus-armed infantry. Their leader was the Palatine, and he won all of his battles with this great army. To the west of the Palatine's empire was the Empty Quarter, a barren grassland with few resources, and as such it was never invaded by the Palatine's armies. It was home to wandering tribes of vicious horsemen who fought each other for their ancestral lands. The Palatine would sometimes lead forces into the Empty Quarter to capture slaves or merely to hunt the tribesmen for fun. Khan's legacy began here. He was found by Ong Khan, leader of a small tribe called the Talaskars, who saw the young Primarch as a gift from the gods. It is said he had a fire in his eyes, the sign of a great warrior. He was hated by the other tribes because of his ability to see beyond the constant warfare on the steppes to a vision of unity for all the downtrodden peoples of the Empty Quarter.

It is said the most influential moment in Jaghatai's life was the slaying of his adopted father by the rival Kurayed tribe. Khan, even as a young child, was the greatest warrior of the tribe and gathered Talaskar troops to avenge the death of his father. They moved on the Kurayed tribe and razed it to the ground, killing every man, woman and child in a frenzy. Khan took the head of the enemy tribe leader and mounted it on his tent. This is what shaped him into a man of fierce honor, loyalty and ruthlessness. From then on, he swore to end the fighting, unite all the people of the steppes and bring an end to their practice of brother fighting brother.

Khan fought hundreds of battles against other tribes and defeated hunting packs sent by the Palatine. Each tribe the Talaskars conquered was absorbed into the Talaskar confederacy and Jaghatai made military service mandatory while splitting tribes up and merging them with others to remove and ameliorate tribal differences and long-standing feuds. His warriors were fiercely loyal and Khan promoted from the ranks based on merit and ability. Ten summers after his arrival on the world, as the tribe moved to their winter settlements, the Primarch was traveling on a mountainside with a group of his followers. A vast avalanche pushed him and his group back down the mountain, killing the normal men. Jaghatai survived, but could not get back up the mountain in time before the tribe moved on. Khan was caught by one of the Palatine's hunting bands, led by the Palatine's own son. All that returned of that band was one mutilated rider with the head of the Palatine's son and a note saying that the people of the steppes were no longer his toys.

When the snows cleared, the enraged Palatine gathered his massive army and determined to march west to wipe the tribes from the face of the planet. He had, however, underestimated the power and ability of the Khan and brought his highly-disciplined army of heavily armored warriors and arquebusiers. This proved to be his downfall as they could not catch the lightly armored Talaskar tribesmen. The constant rain of arrows from the tribesmen took their toll on the tight ranks of the Palatine's warriors. Eventually the tribesmen defeated the army of the Palatine, who escaped back to his capital with a select few bodyguards. The rest of the army was slaughtered, almost to the last man. After the battle, the tribal elders gathered and announced that Jaghatai Khan was now Great Khan of the Empty Quarter.

The Khan now began the long process of conquering the rest of the planet, which possessed only a single continent. He gave those cities he besieged two choices: surrender or be wiped out. Most surrendered, but many were destroyed, utterly wiped from the face of the planet. Eventually they came to the Palace of the Palatine, where he demanded the head of the Palatine on a spike. His request was obliged by the capital city's population, which turned on its own ruler to save their own lives from the fierce tribesmen. Jaghatai Khan adorned his tent with his greatest conquest's head, just as he had with his first enemy two decades before.

In only twenty years he had conquered the largest empire in his world's history. He now had the problems of ruling that empire, not something he had originally expected. His nomadic people had no wish to rule these new, settled lands, only to carry on living in their old ways. The Talaskar people dispersed back to a tribal existence and Khan ruled over them all with his generals by his side.

During this time the Khan revealed his fear to one of his generals, a psyker-shaman who became his closest companion and one of the most important [[Stormseers]] of the [[White Scars|V Legion]]. He feared, more than anything, to be trapped in what he called the greatest lie: you are the strongest, there is nobody left to oppose you, and now all you can do now is build bigger walls. Jaghatai regarded this as the worst fate imaginable for a leader, to grow fat and soft behind sturdy walls, to lose his killing edge to a life of comfort and luxury, and he refused to succumb to this lure.
 
Fortunately for him, the Emperor of Mankind arrived on the world as part of the Great Crusade, and the Khan knew at once that this man could fulfill his dream, to unite all of the stars above them and all of humanity in one mighty empire (though the fact that opposition meant destruction and that service was a way off that stupid throne he never wanted might have been factors, too). In front of all of his generals, he dropped to one knee and pledged his service to the Emperor. It is known however that the Khan did have some misgivings about doing so. The Emperor was... well, an emperor, and the Khan had a less than flattering opinion of emperors in general. He knew that with great power came a lot of opportunities for indolence and corruption, and part of the reason why he disliked the idea of being an emperor on Chogoris was that he did not want to fall into those traps. While the Emperor of Mankind showed no outward signs of corruption or sloth, the Khan still had his guard up. Upon his acceptance of the Emperor as his liege lord, he was given command of the V Legion of the Space Marines, the Star Hunters, who had been created from his own genetic material.

===But What About the Horse?===
The fact that Jaghatai grew up a horseman raises some interesting questions. Namely, Jaghatai ''is'' a Primarch after all, and Primarchs are huge, so... what kind of ''monster'' of a horse was bred and raised just to carry Jaghatai, and why haven't we ever heard of it? We know of [[Leman Russ]]'s wolf brothers, so why haven't we heard anything about what we can only assume to be the 30k reincarnation of [[Fist_of_the_North_Star#Kokuoh|Kokuoh]]?

We know that the Lion and the rest of the Calibanite Knights used to ride these giant super horses, so let's just assume Jaghatai had a similar breed.

Chogorian horses are MASSIVE, like, carry a Primarch and then some massive. Hawks have a twenty-foot wingspan and pick these things up.