Editing Tialoc Ekans (section)

==Early Life==

When the [[Gods of Chaos]] scattered the Primarchs through the galaxy, each was touched by the [[Warp]] as they traveled through it.  Tialoc was "gifted" with extensive body mutations, and left with a rather snake-like appearance: he was covered from head to toe in green scales, his eyes were slitted and unblinking, and his noseless face concealed a pair of venomous fangs and a forked tongue.

Fortunately, the world on which Tialoc landed was home to a cult that worshiped a snake god, and Tialoc was found by members of this cult.  Their god had promised that he would send his son to be their champion, and so Tialoc was taken in.

Tialoc measured up to the cult's expectations, and then some, as he led them to victory over the other tribes on their homeworld.  When the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] arrived on the nameless jungle world and explained that Tialoc was his son, and offered him command of the [[Sky Serpents | Eleventh Legion]], Tialoc readily accepted; he had been raised from birth to conquer in the name of his father and god, so he saw the [[Great Crusade]] as the natural next step.