Eldrad Ulthran tries to warn Primarch Fulgrim of Horus’ betrayal but is it too late? Did he get to him in time to be heard? Let’s take a look!
Eldrad, first to warn the Imperium of Horus’ treachery, set out to warn Fulgrim of Horus but instead attempts to end his life.
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Before his apparent death, Eldrad was over 10,000 years old, and was the first to warn the Imperium of Horus‘s treachery. On the Maiden World of Tarsus, Eldrad attempted to warn Fulgrim of Horus’s betrayal to no avail, only later discovering that Fulgrim had already been corrupted by Slaanesh and was beyond reasoning. Eldrad then attempted to end the lives of the Primarch and his bodyguards but this would end disastrously for Ulthwe’s warriors, resulting notably in the loss of Eldrad’s trusted adviser, the ancient Wraithlord Khiraen Goldhelm and an Avatar of Khaine. The supposed perfidy of the Eldar would culminate in Fulgrim’s widespread virus bombing of many maiden worlds.
It was this fateful event that would cause Eldrad’s massive distrust of the human race. Nonetheless, Eldrad again intervened in human affairs when he appeared before the Cabal agent John Grammaticus. Ulthran revealed to John that he opposed the Cabal’s aims and that their belief that Horus would usher in Chaos’s ultimate demise was not set in stone.
He believed that humanity were meant to be the firebreak against Chaos, and that without them the Eldar would fall and the galaxy shortly afterwards. He offered John a way to leave the Cabal and a chance to stop being a traitor to his own race. Using the Fulgurite originally intended to kill the Emperor and then Vulkan, Grammaticus was instead convinced by Eldrad to use it to heal Vulkan’s shattered psyche.
At some point, Eldrad and Vulkan came into contact and (according to Eldrad) as a token of friendship the Salamanders Primarch gave him a tooth of a Nocturne Drake.
Later during the War of the Beast, Eldrad led a ritual to transport ShadowseerLhaerial Rey and her Harlequin Troupe into the Imperial Palace to deliver a message to the Emperor himself. Ultimately Lhaerial was captured, and as an olive branch displayed the tooth Vulkan had given Eldrad.
