However, Erda was exhausted and badly wounded in the process. These forms unleashed a tornado of psychic energy, and after a vicious battle, struck down all four of the daemons.

Erda revealed her true essence to be a tripartite being: a dark-skinned woman wielding a staff, a crone capable of freezing anything she touched, and youthful girl wielding a sickle. Erda refused, and Erebus summoned all four types of Greater Daemons against her. Дuring the later stages of the Siege of Terra, Erda was confronted in her home by Erebus, who offered her a chance to join Chaos. She wished John luck in his endeavor to find Persson and gave him the services of Leetu. Consulting the stars and her tarot, Erda eventually came to the conclusion that Persson would arrive on Terra two weeks after Grammaticus. Though sympathetic to John's cause, she ultimately said she had no way to help him enter the Palace. Erda was shocked to hear that Oll had become involved in the affairs of the human race again, and expressed worry over his fate when he did not arrive. Grammaticus sought Erda's help in getting into the Imperial Palace and had also arranged to rendezvous with Ollanius Persson at her home. Living with a group of servants and the Space Marine Leetu, she was eventually visited by John Grammaticus. Д«y the time of the Siege of Terra, Erda was living in exile at Guelb, an ancient site in Mauritania close to her birthplace. While the Emperor raged at her betrayal, he never sought to retaliate against Erda even though he knew where she was. According to Erebus, Erda was unwittingly manipulated by the chaos gods into fulfilling their agenda. While they were still infants, Erda caused the creation of a warp vortex which scattered the Primarchs across the galaxy, and then went into hiding for many years. She despaired at the bitter future the Emperor had planned for them, with the Primarchs forcing humanity to claim the galaxy, and she tried to save her sons from him. Combining Erda's genes with the Emperor's resulted in the birth of the Primarchs (making Erda functionally their mother in the same way the Emperor is their father), but Erda was prevented from taking part in their lives as the Emperor prepared them for the Great Crusade. As the project began, Erda's skills as a geneticist greatly aided the Emperor, but he later also required her rare gene-stock for the Primarchs to be born. This led to the beginning of the Primarchs' creation, which both Erda and Astarte aided with. A few like Erda and the Sigillite stayed by his side, but the departures drove the Emperor to begin creating loyal artificial Perpetuals to ensure his plan would succeed. In time, though, the Emperor's arrogance and the risks he took to accelerate Mankind's future caused most of the Perpetuals to leave him. Erda grew to adore the Emperor and she became one of the many Perpetuals that aided him in his task. At that time, the Emperor was already shepherding Mankind into the path that would lead to the creation of the Imperium. History Spoiler!Д®rda met the Emperor in Terra's ancient past, when he was a warlord king known as Neoth in the age of the First Cities. Erda is a Perpetual that is considered to be the most powerful of her kind, after the Emperor.

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