Archived: Molos

Molos, also known as Molos the Archtraitor, once named Molosan Trein, is the Warmaster of Chaos, Chosen of the Chaos Gods, a Chaos Lord and the greatest Champion of Chaos Undivided in the galaxy. He is the commander of the Host, a vast conglomeration of Chaos Space Marine Warbands and is considered to be the greatest Traitor in Imperial history. At one time he was the most favoured son amongst the Space Marines of the Knights Azure Legion. He is now infamous for leading Great Reavings, the terrible military campaigns during which the normally fractious Forces of Chaos unite under his leadership and launch a massive attack against the Imperium from within the Eye of Terror. The most recent of these attacks, the 13th Great Reaving in 999.M41, is currently besieging the world of Cadia.

The name of Molos, the Chosen of Chaos, has become a bitter curse within the Imperium. During the Great Crusade, Molos rose to become Captain of the 1st Company of the Knights Azure. It is unknown exactly when he fell to Chaos, but is has been speculated that his various personal knightly quests into the region near the Eye of Terror began his descent during the middle years of the Great Crusade. He sowed the seeds of the Great Sundering, through various machinations fatally wounding the Emperor and allowing tensions between the Primarchs to fracture the Imperium.

While initially remaining outwardly loyal to the Imperium, he spread the seeds of Chaos throughout the Legions, with his work culminating in the Battle of Valinkesh in which many Loyalist Legions were crippled or taken out of action, allowing him to gamble everything on an invasion of Terra. The Siege of Terra ended in defeat for the Traitor Legions, and Molos was grievously wounded in a duel with Uriel Februa and Cleophus Crios, his Chaos infused form no match for two Primarchs, after having slain the Primarch of the Furies, Pluton Dirae, and claimed his weapon Cerberus for his own.

His disappearance into the warp for centuries led Imperial authorities to regard him as having died of his wounds, but his return at the head of a diabolic horde ravaging star systems around the Eye of Terror in M32 convinced them otherwise. His Heretic Astartes, a combined force known as the Host, as well as numerous warbands and forces from several of the Traitor Legions, proves a grave threat to the forces of both Imperiums. During his 1st Great Reaving, Molos formed many bloody pacts with the Chaos Gods. In the Foge of Despair, he bound the soul of a minor Chaos God into the Cerberus, making him nigh unstoppable. Since then, Molos has dreamed of forging an empire of Chaos upon the ruins of the Imperium and ascending to become the one and only God, of Chaos, the Warp, and the Material Realm.