Editing Barabas Dantioch (section)

===A Heroic Legacy with Unforeseen Consequences===
Later when the Ultramarines 199th was formed into the Scythes of the Emperor, they retrieved Dantioch's mask and modified it into a helmet which they used as a symbol of office in his honour as the "Warden of the Pharos", dedicated to protecting Sotha (and the Imperium) from the dangers that still reside within the Pharos. However, by M41, Warsmith Barabas Dantioch's name has been lost to the fog of time. Even the Scythes of the Emperor no longer remembering him, only having vague myths of a "traitor redeemed" as one of many surrounding his funeral pyre.

Worst of all, Dantioch's final legacy would end up being a dire curse to plague the entire Milky Way Galaxy. No one at the time, not [[the Emperor]], not [[Eldrad]], perhaps no one in the galaxy except the Chaos God [[Tzeentch]] himself, could have foreseen the apocalyptic consequences of Dantioch's last living act 10,000 years later. It turns out that [[Games Workshop| The Powers That Be]] have pretty much confirmed that Dantioch's supercharging the Pharos device is what [[Not As Planned|initially caught the attention of the extragalactic Tyranids]], resulting in their making a beeline for Sotha, wiping the planet of all life in millenia later, and [[Hive Fleet Behemoth|almost dooming]] the realm that he had pledged to protect. The destruction of Sotha also eliminated the Scythes of the Emperor's need for a "Warden of the Pharos" and Dantioch's mask was left abandoned on the planet Miral after the chapter was nearly completely wiped out by the Tyranids, while the last Scythe of the Emperor to even remember his myths was killed in a final mission to the Pharos. For such is life (and death) in the 40k universe; even if you are lucky enough to die a true hero, [[Grimdark|no good deed goes unpunished after all.]]

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