Once he had established himself as a ruthless conqueror, Garul I banned all worship of the Dead God. Instead, all were forced to worship the God-Emperor himself. Thus the first age of the Heretic Kingdoms began.
Garul knew of the power of the Godslayer, but could conceive of no way to harness it. As it could only be touched by the descendants of Arkor, he realised that it was imperative to both maintain and control Arkor’s bloodline. Garul placed the Godslayer in a fortress he named the Reliquary, and kept those humbled descendants of Arkor that he had captured enchained there.
Six hundred years later, this bloodline would lead to the fall of the Garulian Empire.