Kol Badar was born upon the Feudal World of Colchis, growing up on the streets as a cult gang member. Inspired by the fiery oratory of Lorgar, Kol Badar later participated in Lorgar's holy war known as the Great Purge, where his faction cast down the devotees of the Colchisian's Old Faith and conquered the entirety of their world, uniting the disparate masses in the service of Lorgar's sect of the single Colchisian religious faith called the Covenant. After the Emperor of Mankind came to Colchis and reunited with His long-lost son, He brought the Primarch into the Imperial fold and gave him command of the XVIIth Legion of Space Marines known as the Imperial Heralds. They were gene-bred warriors who had been created from variants of the Emperor's own genetic code. Kol Badar had been one of