However the Thousand Sons forces outnumbered them greatly and Stern knew they would need to call upon the Dark Angels for help. With the path now revealed to them, the Grey Knights and Grand Master marched towards the Chaos ritual site. A warp portal appeared instead and out from it emerged their lost Grand Master Kaldor Draigo, whose power cast away the illusions. Though they knew doing so could draw in Daemons, the Grey Knights' Librarians used their powers to try and banish the illusions. As their attack commenced, however, the Grey Knights became entrapped by powerful illusions created by the Thousand Sons, which prevented them from reaching the ritual site. Both in the hopes of disrupting the power protecting the ritual site and to draw in enough of the Thousand Sons' forces, so that the Grey Knights could succeed. Because of their special nature, the Grey Knights directly attacked the ritual site, while the Dark Angels attacked the temple. The site itself was protected from orbital bombardment, due to power supplied by a nearby temple-complex and so the two forces split before launching their attack. The two strike forces would meet in the Prospero System and as they approached Sortiarius, they determined that Magnus was conducting a massive Chaos ritual. The Dark Angels agreed, but they too had suffered in the Great Rift's wake, and were able to send Master Lazarus' reinforced 5th Company to aid the Grey Knights. It was then ultimately decided to call upon the Dark Angels for aid, as they were among the few Imperial forces that both knew of the Grey Knights' existence and had the strength to aid the Chapter in their attack. While it would be reinforced with additional forces, the Chapter knew this would not be enough to invade the Daemonic Homeworld of the Thousand Sons. The Great Rift, though, had caused the Grey Knights' forces to be stretched thin and only Brother-Captain Arvann Stern's 3rd Brotherhood could be spared. It was merely a preview for Magnus' ultimate plan, which was to lead Humanity's psychic evolution to its fullest potential.
The other aspect of the ritual was to send out a wave of psychic energy that would rapidly accelerate the psychic power and development of any across an entire Sector. Some of those drawn to Sortiarius would become Daemonhosts, others sacrifices to Tzeentch. In truth, Magnus observed the new Psychic Awakening and planned to create a psychic beacon to gather Psychic beings across the galaxy to Sortiarius in order to replenish his numbers. They could not determine, however, what exactly the Daemon Primarch was plotting, so a strike force was gathered to stop Magnus before he succeeded. The Grey Knights' Prognosticars determined with the Speculum Infernus, that the Daemon Primarch Magnus was gathering significant warp power on Sortiarius. The Assault on Sortiarius was an attack by the Grey Knights's 3rd Brotherhood and the Dark Angels' 5th Company on the Daemon World Sortiarius, sometime during the Age of the Dark Imperium.
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