Editing Ferrus Manus (section)

===Horus Heresy and Death===
It all went well until Fulgrim found a new [[Slaanesh|boyfriend/girlfriend/hermaphroditic freak]], and decided to make Ferrus [[heresy|join the dark Side]]. [[Fulgrim]] totally outmatched Ferrus with his [[heresy|HAWTNEZZ]] but Ferrus wasn't interested and they had a fight. Ferrus twisted apart the sword he made for his now ex-boyfriend with his own hands; in response Fulgrim reclaimed his brother's warhammer and knocked him out with it.

When the Horus Heresy officially started, Ferrus impatiently charged off with his fastest ships and his most badass of veterans ''(leaving the bulk of his Legion behind)'' in order to give his traitorous brothers the boot and arrived at [[Drop Site Massacre|the face-off at Isstvan V]]. Ferrus was so pissed off and eager to get stuck in that the Loyalists did so [[Derp|in spite of poor tactical prospects]] - possibly because Ferrus wasn't going to take no for an answer anyway. It started well: Ferrus brought his army down right at the edge of the enemy's shields, and forced Horus' troops into retreat despite all the shenanigans the Traitors pulled. But then they got totally fucked up by a bunch of reinforcements turning on them while Ferrus (now with a rebuilt Fireblade instead of Forgebreaker) challenged Fulgrim. The prancing ninny was on the verge of getting his ass handed to him... until he became Slaanesh's boyfriend for real and proceeded to cut Ferrus' head off (well, it depends on who's writing it, in most Ferrus was losing even before his glorious haircut). [[Awesome|Ferrus' death was said to include great flashes of light,]] but the Inquisition isn't helping with research. Horus was pretty fucking pissed at this.

Ironically, Ferrus' death was caused by the same self-flagellating urge that drives his sons to turn themselves into cyborgs. When Fulgrim came to convert him to Horus' side, Ferrus thought this meant there was some flaw inside him that needed to be expunged by killing Fulgrim. This was why the Iron Hands stayed in the field when everyone else disengaged, and got screwed over harder than everyone else (well, the [[Salamanders]] taking a nuke aside).

Ferrus' death (or fridging, as some would say) is arguably more impactful than anything else he did in the setting. It catalysed his legion's descent into toaster-fucking, fully-damned Fulgrim, and showed that the Heresy was serious business. Guilliman was saddest over him moreso than Vulkan and Corax's supposed deaths, going as far as to call him "Ultramar's most stalwart ally". Despite his anger at Fulgrim, or perhaps because of it, Horus kept Ferrus's head, removing the remaining flesh and leaving it a bleached skull for his throne. Sometimes he would talk to it, lamenting that he had nothing but [[Magnus|dishonored]] and [[Konrad Curze|broken]] [[Angron|psychopaths]] on his side instead of [[Sanguinius|angels]] and [[Roboute Guilliman|strategists]] as his generals. Waging a galaxy wide heresy is a tough job, it seems.