Editing Aubrey The Grey (section)

===The Hektor Heresy===
[[File:Voidwatcher2.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Voidwatcher]]
Other doubters within the Eternal Zealots were gradually weeded out, but Aubrey knew his own Legion would not be enough to draw humanity to enlightenment. As the second century of the Great Crusade began, Aubrey looked to the [[Black Augurs]] and their sinister Primarch, [[The Voidwatcher]] as potential allies. The two brothers had never been close, but the Hezeyar had supplied information to ensnare them. During the time before his rediscovery by the Emperor the Voidwatcher had studied much lore that was now forbidden to Imperial psykers. While in public the Black Augurs used nothing more than the powers allowed to Librarians of all Legions, they secretly continued sorcerous traditions born on the Voidwatcher's homeworld. This information was discreetly leaked to [[Shakya Vardhana]], Primarch of the [[Eyes of the Emperor]]. Predictably, the Vardhana brought his concerns to the Emperor and triggered a great trial of the librarians in general and the Black Augurs in particular at the [[Council of Nikaea (Hektor Heresy)|Council of Nikaea]].

Aubrey personally attended the Council but did not ask to speak. However, he made his influence felt. When the mood of the trial seemed to swing in favour of the librarians, Aubrey arranged for information on the blackest deeds of the Voidwatcher to be delivered to Gaspard Lumey, turning a friend of the Librarians into their bitter enemy. Gaspard's scathing indictment of the Black Augurs horrified many at the Council and left little doubt as to the Emperor's verdict. The Librarium project was suspended and the Black Augurs were severely censured. Aubrey didn't bother to offer his sympathy to the Voidwatcher, for such sentiments would be wasted on him. Instead, Aubrey waited for the Black Augurs Primarch to come to him. The discussion began with an almost innocent scheme for vengeance against Gaspard Lumey - a plot that bore fruit in the exile of Fifth Legion to the northern fringes - but quickly deepened into talk of the Primordial Annihilator. The Voidwatcher was hardly an innocent when it came to the denizens of the Warp, nor even to making a pact with them. He drew the line at accepting Aubrey's creed and venerating Chaos, but the two Primarchs still swore an oath to put an end to the folly of the Imperial Truth. Aubrey's Hezeyar allies would give sorcerous advice to the Voidwatcher and in return he would strike the first blow of the Hektor Heresy.

That blow struck at the heart of the Imperium. After the Emperor had withdrawn to Terra he had set up great psychic wards to protect a dangerous experiment with the ancient interstellar Webway. The Voidwatcher's magic shattered those wards and forced the Emperor to devote himself and many of his most powerful servants to fighting off a daemonic incursion beneath the Imperial Palace. This diversion left Malcador the Sigilite in command of the Imperium, and he swiftly proclaimed the Voidwatcher a Traitor to be exterminated. Knowing that this crisis was imminent, Aubrey had arranged to visit the Warmaster [[Hektor Cincinnatus]] and subtly manipulated him into calling for a conference of the Primarchs to investigate and rule on the Voidwatcher's alleged crime. This conference at Olmer was a grand opportunity for Aubrey and his Eternal Zealots to play on the weaknesses of the attendant warriors. Despite [[Tiran Osoros]] calling on the assembled Primarchs to disperse and obey Malcador, the gathering slowly convinced themselves - with Aubrey's help - that there was an underlying conspiracy against the Space Marines and perhaps the Imperium itself. The irony delighted Aubrey as he sowed dissent, but he retained his composure and went about his dark business. [[Inferox]] "The Burned King", [[Johannes Vrach]], [[Uriel Salazar]], and [[Cromwald Walgrun]] were all pushed further onto a road of damnation that would see them become mockeries of their former selves. Hektor himself was most resistant to outright corruption though the Warmaster's fears made him a puppet of Chaos none the less.

Of more immediate concern were the actions of [[Rogerius Merrill]]. Aubrey played on the [[Iron Rangers]] Primarch's strange loyalty to Hektor, leading Rogerius to wonder what might come of Tiran Osoros's departure. As a man of action, the Iron Ranger Primarch did not wonder long and departed Olmer to murder his brother. The death of Tiran Osoros rocked the whole Imperium. Malcador responded by appointing [[Alexandri of Rosskar]] as Warmaster and charging him to destroy the Iron Rangers. The Sigilite also demanded that the warriors at Olmer give up their warships and await reeducation into the Imperial Truth. Aubrey, now knowing the gathering better than they knew themselves, eased off the pressure and feigned concern and uncertainty while his brother Primarchs talked themselves into outright rebellion. Hektor led the rebel Space Marines on a direct attack towards Terra, hoping to end the war without any great suffering. When the Warmaster's plan was unraveled, Aubrey was secretly pleased. A quick victory might have meant consolidation around Hektor, while the anarchy and desperation of galactic war provided opportunities for "enlightening" more of humanity.

[[File:Inferox the Burned King.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Inferox]]
While campaigning alongside [[Inferox]], Aubrey worked to bring his reclusive brother deeper into the thrall of Chaos. The two Primarchs were tasked with crippling the [[War Scribes]] of [[Arelex Orannis]] in their [[the Atalantos Worlds|homeworlds]]. Due to the treachery of their TechMarines, the War Scribes had been robbed of much of their advanced technology and heavy hardware during the campaign and suffered terrible losses. Arelex Orannis's resolve stalled the traitors at Nahardul, where the Loyalist Primarch chose to burn one of his own worlds with Phosphex rather than surrender it to the Traitor cause. Yet Aubrey had use for the death of Nahardul. The unquenchable Phosphex fires were the instrument by which Inferox was transformed into a daemonic servant of the great god of Fire and Blood, Khorne.

Having achieved their primary objective in the Atalantos Worlds, the Eternal Zealots withdrew and set out on the long voyage to the northern reaches of the Imperium. For years Aubrey had maintained a correspondence with exiled Gaspard Lumey and his Fifth Legion, feeding them carefully selected facts about the civil war. Gaspard's replies had left his likely loyalties uncertain and Aubrey was resolved to either recruit the Fifth or destroy them. Talks at Gaspard's headquarter world Dolsene made little headway and Aubrey quickly tired of trying to persuade his brother into the Traitor camp. He strung out a final deceit, suggesting that Gaspard go to the Loyalists and lobby for peace with Aubrey doing the same with the Traitor camp, then feigned departure. However, the Eternal Zealots scarcely left Dolsene's surface before Aubrey and his bodyguard teleported back to Gaspard's headquarters, intending to decapitate the Fifth. However, sentries from the [[Dolsene Rifles]] put up an unexpectedly stiff resistance and killed Brother Olech Itharn. The death of one of their number entraged the Eternal Zealots and time was lost hunting down the last of the riflemen. The delay allowed the Fifth Legion warriors to ready themselves for a fight, though they were still at a disadvantage. Aubrey fought his way to Gaspard Lumey and struck his brother down with a lightning strike. Before delivering the coup de grace, Aubrey paused to savour the moment - and was interrupted by the Freeblade Knight [[Lord of Bones|Abdul Al-Sherar]]. Though neither the Knight nor Gaspard could defeat Aubrey on their own, together the two forced him from the field. As the Eternal Zealots retreated, Aubrey promised to make his foes suffer so much that they'd regret surviving the battle, a threat calculated to send Gaspard scurrying back to his beloved homeworld rather than into the thick of the fighting.

Aubrey then returned to Hektor's side to prepare for a final attack on Terra. All of the Traitor Legions had gathered their full strength and seized key systems close to Sol. Their vast hosts hugely outnumbered the defenders of Terra, but such numbers would be required to overcome the defenders' fortified positions. Once the landing sites were secured, Aubrey led his Eternal Zealots into the labyrinths beneath Terra's cities - claiming that this approach would outflank the Loyalists from beneath. His real objective was the remaining civilian population, those too poor or insignificant to be transported offworld or offered the protection of the Emperor. The Eternal Zealots gathered up innocents and offered them up to Chaos by the thousand at makeshift altars, desecrating the depths of Ancient Terra and weakening the barrier with Warp. Despite a pressing situation on the surface, [[Golgothos]] and his [[The Entombed|Entombed]] plunged into the depths to avert catastrophe. For all their morbid valour, the Entombed were too few to stop the Zealots and Aubrey disabled the mighty Dreadnought that sheltered his brother's remains. As a final perversion, Golgothos's withered body was pulled from the machine and murdered on the altar, tearing open Realspace and letting the daemonic minions of the Chaos Gods spill into the depths beneath Terra's now-ruined cities. Only the arrival of the Emperor himself brought the madness to a halt. Aubrey, ascendant in the favour of Chaos, faded back into the Warp to receive his reward rather than face his father. The Emperor used his great might to seal the rift to the Warp, but he was horribly wounded in the process and neither he nor the Imperium would ever recover.