Like all of the Astartes of the Word Bearers Legion, Jarulek was born on the world of Colchis and had participated in the Primarch Lorgar's first holy war where his faction had cast down the devotees of the Colchisian Old Faith and conquered the entirety of their world, uniting the disparate masses in the service of Lorgar's sect of the single religious faith called the Covenant. Jarulek had been there from the beginning, inspired by the reverent words of the blessed Urizen, following him in rebellion as they overthrew the followers of the Old Faith. After the Emperor came to Colchis and reunited with his long-lost son, he had brought Lorgar into the Imperial fold and gave him command of the XVIIth Legion of Space Marines who had been created from his genetic code. Jarulek had been one of