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===The Fall of Batavium===
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Like most other Vates, Wieland used the Battle of Terra to further his own goals. As soon as the forces under his command made a landfall, he headed towards the great Hive of Batavium with the intention to sacrifice its whole population. Although the [[Scions of Europa]] managed to discern his dark intentions and did their best to stop him, ultimately they failed. As the last Batavian perished in an apocalyptic thunderstorm conjured by the Hammerfist and his closest apprentice Jove Ampere, two Greater Daemons were summoned into the material world: a Bloodthirster and a Lord of Change. But as soon as they appeared, Wieland trapped them in his own hands, thus turning his bare fists into mighty Daemon Weapons.

With his ultimate goal on Terra achieved, the Hammerfist saw no reason to stay with his Legion any longer. After hijacking a Loyalist battleship orbiting the planet, he set course for the Eye of Terror, thus being one of the first Traitors to choose it as his refuge. But whereas most other Chaos Marines fled there seeking refuge from the Great Scouring, Wieland deliberately chose it as the perfect location for his new forge. Although a lot of Black Augurs followed him for different reason, he quickly singled out those who were more interested in wielding Daemon weapons that in forging them. With a band of his closest followers, he hunted those unfortunate fools down, stripped them of their power armour and bound in a fetal pose with runic chains. Ever since then, he has been using their bare backs as anvils for forging new weapons. 

Eventually, Wieland's coven reached the Eye of Terror and started searching for a new home. After a while, they discovered a planet that suited them perfectly: a Daemon World composed entirely of different metals and alloys, with clockwork predators stalking wind-up prey in telescopic forests and submarine whales dreaming in the oceans of molten iron. Although the planet had already been inhabited by lesser Daemons and Wieland's men were few in number, they managed to clear it of all hostile life in a few months, for the weapons they wielded made each one of them equal to a small army. Renamed Adranum by its new masters, this world has been the base of operations for Wieland's followers ever since.