And so it was, the conflict with the White Legs was resolved. Lorgar's presence, even as one so young, shifted the fragile balance of power.
Demoralized by the relentless and decisive attacks by the Dead Horses and Sorrows, led by their War Chieftain Joshua Graham, the White Legs attempted to retreat out of Zion and back to their traditional homeland of the Great Salt Lake. But their days were numbered. While the Courier convinced Joshua Graham to spare Salt-Upon-Wounds life, Lorgar merely waited until the Courier left the Valley before pursuing the White Legs himself.
By the Years End, Salt-Upon-Wounds was dead. The 80's attempted to claim the Great Salt Lake themselves only to find the White Legs had a new Chieftain. It was Lorgar himself.
As Joshua Graham himself preached "A day will come when our Lord returns to judge us all. Until then, we must honor his laws and start others along the path of salvation if we can." While all of Lorgar's companions desired a non-violent solution to save Zion from those too ignorant to know what they were destroying, eventually only Lorgar knew he possessed the ability to be God's instrument and bring salvation to the ignorant.
Both Daniel and Joshua Graham mourned the loss of innocence of the Zion tribes but thankfully the tribes soon learned that retribution could be tempered with mercy. And with the help of the New Canaanites and new trade routes from the South, the tribes of Zion soon joined those of the Grand Staircase, the Great Salt Lake and even to the lands of the Great Khan Empire in Wyoming in flourishing.
The Battle of Hoovers Dam, the death of House, of Caesar and Lanius, all of this was ephemeral to the events of the North. It would be many years until Lorgar's Covenant moved south to the newly Independent Vegas, the lands of the New California Republic and the disparate tribal lands once ruled by Caesar's Legion. Though war did not come with him, much conflict did. His desire to spiritually uplift the people of the West was a boon to most, and only those truly abominable would face Lorgar's terribly swift justice.
Though he had convinced himself that he was not a Missionary or Leader of men himself, he was still a Warmaster. And though he always struggled with his mercurial nature, a short temper that could often transform him to anger and rage, it was always tempered by the teachings of his Missionary upbringing. He saw himself as an instrument of divine justice, that his bloody work was nothing more then a righteous chore, and one tempered by mercy. He knew that all of creation was a gift of God and all of its peoples could learn to honor his laws and start others, even those who seemed abominable along the path of salvation. Most importantly he learned that his anger... should never become God's and so in a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it was a great comfort to know that, in the end, there was light even in the darkness.
The myth of the Burned Man soon faded, replaced by a reverence for the man he had become after. A missionary whose religious tenets and teachings eventually rooted deep into the faith and consciousness of the Northern tribes. When Joshua Graham finally passed, his adopted son Lorgar had taken those teachings of his abbreviated Youth to heart.
Humanity was soon able to stand on its own. It had developed far enough to protect and sustain itself through technology and stability. The tribes he was raised by, and later raised up became custodians of God's monuments to creation while the New California Republic became the seat of future Human civilization. In the decades, generations and centuries that came to past, this progress eventually helped usher in what one casualty of the Legion-NCR wars hoped for, a Golden Age of Humanity, as soon even the stars did not seem so far away. Discovering that be was undying, Lorgar himself simply faded into the annals of history of the world that would soon become known as Terra.
