Editing Tialoc Ekans (section)

==Post-Heresy==

As the ''Vengeful Spirit'' prepared to flee to the [[Eye of Terror]], Tialoc managed to escape in a traitor dropship, but the daemon-possessed vehicle would not obey his commands, and it fled to the Warp before Tialoc could contact Imperial forces.  As he was the last of the [[Sky Serpents]], his Legion was, by any reasonable measure, dead and irrecoverable.  Their records were placed into a deep archive, and lost in the tumult following the Horus Heresy.

When Tialoc emerged from the Warp, he found himself in a transformed [[Imperium]], where the Emperor was worshiped as a god and the Space Marine Legions had been [[Second Founding | divided]] into [[Codex Astartes | Chapters]].  Tialoc felt some measure of responsibility for the Emperor's death, as he had failed to join him on the ''Vengeful Spirit'', and so he resigned himself to a lonely one-Primarch crusade against [[Chaos]].

However, the Sky Serpents' tithed [[gene-seed]] was still in storage (though its origins had been lost to the ages), and was used in a later Founding.  The Librarians of the resulting Chapter, the [[Rainbow Warriors]], felt instinctively that their Primarch was alive, and Tialoc felt that he was not alone, either.  The two happened to cross paths later, and while Tialoc did not feel worthy to lead a Legion again, he taught the Rainbow Warriors all he knew, and they parted ways with a sense of closure: the Rainbow Warriors had solved the mystery of their ancestry, and Tialoc knew that, in some sense, his Legion still lived on.

Tialoc has heard persistent rumors of a Legion of [[Space Marines]] who are all nulls, led by a mighty warrior with enough anti-psychic power to challenge a Daemon Prince.  Most dismiss those rumors as sightings of [[Grey Knights]] distorted by many retellings, but Tialoc knows better: they are signs that [[Rachnus Rageous]] is still active.  As the forces of [[Chaos]] grow bolder, Tialoc's resolve to join his brother and repay his debt to Rachnus and the God-Emperor grows, too, and his present course is taking him inexorably towards the [[Eye of Terror]].