Shattering of the 4th

"Father! Hear me, please! We need you, I need you. FATHER!"

- The cry of Theoderaf

The Shattering of the 4th was a major event in the downfall of the Red Eyes legion during the Second Ruin, the second great turning point for the Legion's fall to Khorne. The faith of the Red Eyes and Theoderaf in the God-Emperor was irrevocably broken by the losses that day, and a significant portion of the legion's high command was wiped out.

Rushing back to the world of Iroruki, an important world for the Red Eyes, Theoderaf and an elite section of the Red Eyes deployed in an attempt to overawe the rebels. The column would be ambushed by the foul powers of the Warp, inflicting heavy casualties and bringing the legion to its knees. Something within Theoderaf snapped, and in a rage the capital city of Iroruki was slaughtered before Theoderaf could recover his senses. In the grim aftermath, the entire world was subject to exterminatus to finish the destruction.

From that point on, the Red Eyes renounced their faith, and a new faith began to creep into the legion.

Prelude
Thirteen years had passed since the Vanishing, and faith in the Emperor's return had nearly dissipated in the Legions and Imperial High Command. As the years went by, the resources available to the Reclamation Command decreased, as Primarchs withdrew their sons for more important duties and Imperial Army regiments were redirected to new frontiers. Theoderaf refused to give up, despite the creeping doubt and then the loss of one of his closest friends, Rang Talyc. Isolated from his closest brothers, Theoderaf and his sons grew increasingly agitated and morose, believing themselves let down by the Imperium who had given up on their Father.

As the Legiones Astartes of the Imperium moved to face the Necron threat, Theoderaf was informed by agents that the world of Iroruki, one of the first worlds that the Red Eyes conquered when Theoderaf joined them and the home of the Irorukian Wraiths, was on the verge of rebelling against the Imperium. [[Category:S]]