Editing Isstvan III (section)

==The Ancient's Last Victory==
{{topquote|I am Rylanor of the Emperor's Children, Ancient of Rites, Venerable of the Palatine Host, and proud servant of the Emperor of Mankind, beloved by all! I reject you now and always!|Rylanor, telling Fulgrim to take his Chaos bullshit and shove it up his cloaca like the badass he was.}}

Several millennia later, a group of sorcerers from the [[Thousand Sons]] detected a mysterious transmission emanating from a remote region of the galaxy. The broadcast consisted of only three words: "The Ancient awaits." Curious, they traced the signal to its source and found that it was emanating from a dead ball of rock in orbit of a forgotten star. Upon landing on the planet's sere, scorched surface, they realized that they had in fact made landfall upon Isstvan III itself. They followed the broadcast into a half-collapsed hangar deep beneath what had once been the Precentor's Palace. There, they found a battered, broken Dreadnought lying next to an unexploded virus bomb. This Dreadnought was revealed to be none other than [[Ancient Rylanor]] of the Emperor's Children, who had been trapped on the planet since its destruction thousands of years prior. Despite having been driven to near-insanity by his long isolation, Rylanor had remained loyal to the Emperor. The purpose of his broadcast was revealed when [[Fulgrim]] arrived in all his daemonic splendor. Fulgrim attempted to convince Rylanor to hop on the party bus with the rest of the III Legion, but the Ancient told him to get fucked in glorious fashion and set off the virus bomb. One of the Thousand Sons attempted to contain the blast, but one of the other sorcerers, inspired by Rylanor's unshakable loyalty and disgusted by Fulgrim's corruption, killed him and let the bomb go off (the three sorcerers psychically agreed to let it detonate, but the guy holding up the bomb couldn't drop the shield so he allowed his brother kill him). The detonation killed Rylanor and the Thousand Sons and temporarily unmade Fulgrim, though as a daemon prince it couldn't permakill him. That said, it had one lasting effect: Fulgrim's pride was permanently wounded by Rylanor's rejection, a wound from which he could never recover.

{{40k-Planets}}

[[Category:Imperial]]