The purging of the other chaos legions

[SlangWhanger]

At istvann 3 the four main traitor legions had to purge the loyalists from their ranks, yet at istvann five all the other chaos legions seem pretty chill with killing the loyalist legions.

 

Do these other chaos legions go through and clear out the loyalists in their midsts before istvann five? If so, where and how? Is all this in the novels i haven't read yet?... If not, how come the entire legion is loyal to Horus only?

[M@verik115]

Spoiler Alert




Word Bearers - They were butthurt the longest and started everything.
Iron Warriors - Tricked by Horus into destroying Olympia. That set them on a downward slope before iistvan.  
Night Lords - They were also formerly reprimanded and wanted vengeance. 
Alpha Legion - Alpharius/Omegon/Rank and File Trooper 1333421, thought he was doing it for the greater good.
Thousand Sons - Forced into it by Leman Russ's attack. 

[SlangWhanger]

Fair enough, thanks!

[Petitioner's City]

I think it has been alluded to that the Traitors eliminated loyalists within their legions. The Purge shows what happens to an unfortunate Word Bearer who loves the Emperor too much....

[Calas Typhon]

Iron Warriors were mustered to war at Issvan V after the conflict and before as far as we know, many far away did not know the larger picture. The IV on the whole were one of the Legions that would have followed the orders of the Primarch and followed him to the letter. With exceptions (Dantioch and Kyr Vhalen)

 

The Alpha Legion it is impossible to tell. I doubt there were purges, there were many splits within the Legion, its hinted Alpharius and Omegon were at odds.. however that might become clear later.

 

Night Lords, no doubt butchered those who did not follow the Primarch, murder was rife within the legion. Again, they seem to be a Legion that would have some that would follow the Emperor over the VIII.

 

Word Bearers were covered in The Last Heretic and The Purge as Petitioner's City pointed out. Loyalists slowly cut out of the Legion over 60 or so years if I remember correctly.

[Sandlemad]

Night Lords, no doubt butchered those who did not follow the Primarch, murder was rife within the legion. Again, they seem to be a Legion that would have some that would follow the Emperor over the VIII.

 

Not sure about following the primarch. Kurze even said that the idea of purging his ranks for legionaries who hated his guts was laughable as he wouldn't know where to start. That's not to say the NL wouldn't jump on the idea of claiming their sergeant was a loyalist and slipping a dagger in his back to take his position; it was common enough before the heresy so it's just dressing it up with a better excuse. I would expect a wave of random violence across the legion rather than a systematic purge.

 

There were a handful of NL loyalists though, that guy that wound up with the Raven Guard and the librarian Fel Zharost, who wound up on Terra. The latter might be a bit of an inadvertant loyalist but at any rate Sevatar made it clear that he didn't care what happened to him one way or another.

 

RE: Iron Warriors: Perturabo definitely offered Dantioch a 'join us or die' ultimatum, Krendl arrived with a big enough force to convince or destroy him.

Khyr Valen was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I don't think anyone within the IW marked him down as someone who needed to die and regardless the Alpha Legion made that decision for him.

[Fire Golem]

Even Calth was used as a purge for the Word Bearers, not of loyalist elements but of legionnaires too wrapped up in revenge against the Ultramarines for what happened at Monarchia.

[Calas Typhon]

 

Night Lords, no doubt butchered those who did not follow the Primarch, murder was rife within the legion. Again, they seem to be a Legion that would have some that would follow the Emperor over the VIII.

 

Not sure about following the primarch. Kurze even said that the idea of purging his ranks for legionaries who hated his guts was laughable as he wouldn't know where to start. That's not to say the NL wouldn't jump on the idea of claiming their sergeant was a loyalist and slipping a dagger in his back to take his position; it was common enough before the heresy so it's just dressing it up with a better excuse. I would expect a wave of random violence across the legion rather than a systematic purge.

 

There were a handful of NL loyalists though, that guy that wound up with the Raven Guard and the librarian Fel Zharost, who wound up on Terra. The latter might be a bit of an inadvertant loyalist but at any rate Sevatar made it clear that he didn't care what happened to him one way or another.

 

RE: Iron Warriors: Perturabo definitely offered Dantioch a 'join us or die' ultimatum, Krendl arrived with a big enough force to convince or destroy him.

Khyr Valen was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I don't think anyone within the IW marked him down as someone who needed to die and regardless the Alpha Legion made that decision for him.

 

 

Sorry I did not go into more detail, by following the Primarch  of the Night Lords, I mean of course taking war to the Emperor's forces not actually caring about him!

[Corsovitt]

I think that the Night Lord's are an exception to the list as they had already chosen primarch over emperor two decades earlier when they destroyed Nostromo and fled imperial censure...

 

Any Loyalists would have probably chosen this point to slip away and do there own thing be it returning to Imperial space and becoming black shields continuing there own versions of the great crusade or choosing neither emperor or primarch carving out there own petty empires on the edge of known space...

 

As there is little to no information on this subject you can speculate how you wish...