Argel Tal was born in the village of Singh-Rukh on the world of Colchis, the homeworld of the Primarch Lorgar. Argel Tal's name meant "The Last Angel" in the Colchisian dialect of the southern-steppes tribes, as he was the final child to be born in his family. Tal was inducted into the Word Bearers Legion of Space Marines by its First Chaplain Erebus, who at first had chosen him to become one of that Astartes Legion's Chaplains before he rejected that honour. Instead, Argel Tal eventually became the Captain of the 7th Assault Company of the Serrated Suns Chapter of the Word Bearers. While aboard the light cruiser Orfeo's Lament alongside the former Cadian priestess and Daemon Prince Ingethel the Ascended, Argel Tal was among the first humans of the Imperium of Man to discover the Realm of