Horus Heresy · atlas

008.M31 · Shadow of War · date disputed

Battle of Nuceria · ascension of Angron

Place: Nuceria · Segmentum Ultima

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Traitor victory Lorgar raises the mortally wounded Angron to a daemon prince of Khorne.

The climax of the Shadow Crusade on Angron’s home world of Nuceria: Guilliman fought Lorgar and Angron in the city of Meahor and was overthrown, saved only by the intervention of the Ultramarines — as Lorgar had wished. At the height of the battle Lorgar completed a Khornate ritual, tearing the sky and raising the mortally wounded Angron to a daemon prince of Khorne, the “Red Angel”.

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Type
Warp
Scale
4 of 5
Casualties
On Angron’s orders the World Eaters and Word Bearers exterminated the entire population of Nuceria — the primarch’s home world scorched in full.

Significance

The first ascension of a traitor primarch through the power of Khorne; it saves Angron from death by the Butcher’s Nails.

Disputed in the canon

  • The year of the battle is disputed. Lexicanum (Shadow Crusade) retells it after the novel “Betrayer” (A. Dembski-Bowden) and dates only the main phase of the Shadow Crusade — 007–008.M31; Fandom (Angron) names no year. The date 008.M31 comes from Fandom’s Horus Heresy chronology, where the battle concludes the crusade.

Sources

  1. WH40k Fandom: Angron
  2. Betrayer (A. Dembski-Bowden)
  3. Lexicanum: Shadow Crusade
  4. WH40k Fandom: Horus Heresy Chronology

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