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HERALDRY OF THE FIRST LEGION
These banners show both

the original winged reaper
insignia of the old Terran
First Legion, and the later
banner of the Lion's Dark
Angels. Of particular
note is the emblem of
the Hexagrammaton in
conjunction with the winged
sword, while the facing
banner shows the original
symbol of the old Hosts of
the First.
The Reaper is an honour mark Bearing the ornate mark of This Mkll pauldron bears the The Golden Lion emblem
often associated with the the First Legion and of the mark of a lesser initiate of the shown on this Mkll pauldron
Legion's Terran veterans, those Hexagrammaton, this MkII Firewing, and despite its low marks the command staff of the
who had served during the pauldron belongs to a warrior of station, it belongs to a Consul 48"' Order, all of whom were
conquest of the Sol System. the Great Crusade. Invigilator of the 9"' Order. drawn from Caliban.
The mark of the Stormwing The crossed swords of the By the time of the Thramas This icon is the personal
was a common sight on the Deathwing on a field ofbone- Crusade, this stark symbol had heraldry of a praetor. The
panoply of the First Legion's white, marking a warrior that become the standard Legion display of such personal arms
infantry, signifying their status has survived a mortal wound. icon in use by the First Legion. was a common feature of the
as infantry veterans. First Legion.
DARK ANGELS LANCE-DECURION
PELAGOR MARNER, SQUAD ADJUTANT,
EwI-7 DESPOILER SQUAD
52N° CHAPTER OF THE FIRST Hosr
ORDINATION OF THE FIRE wING
THE DARK ANGELS LEGION
Pelagor Marner was a Calibanite Legionary of
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the Dark Angels whose chapter was based upon
the famed pre-Imperium warship, the Dark
Sovereign, and whose presence is recorded in the
order of battle logs for the Sibelius Campaign
of 002.M3r. This was the last confirmed action
of the Dark Sovereign prior to the Horus Heresy.
The path and activities of the Dark Angels relic
warship between this time and its surprise attack
during the covert operation known as the Xana
Incursion remain unknown to surviving Imperial
records, but evidence indicates that it was not part
of the marshalled Dark Angels fleet during the
Thramas Crusade.
Armour and Livery: The insignia and

ornamentation displayed by Lance-Decurion
Pelagor Marner is highly indicative of the
developed systems utilised by the Dark Angels
Legion by the end of the Great Crusade. This
combines elements oflater Unification era Av-
Am techno-coven glyphographia, early iteration
Principia Belicosa designated iconography for the
Legiones Astartes and elements of the distinctive
heraldic devices of the feudal Calibanite culture.
As is noted in numerous sources, this fusion
'language' of livery was employed to deliver
information on a number oflevels by the Legion;
these layers of meaning, being largely opaque to
outside eyes, and maybe only visible to certain
individuals within the Dark Angels. Of further
note is the armour, which is of the distinctive
'Paravane' sub-type, an idiosyncratic variant of the
widely issued Mark II pattern produced by the
artificers of the I" Legion, and renowned for its
enhanced void endurance and systems.
Dark Angels Legion Tactical Markings Dark Angels Legion Icon,

Late Crusade era Common Armorial Use
DARK ANGEL LEGIONARY
LEGIONARY ZEDIEL ARnARAL OF 1HE 42"" ORDER
Though a simple Legionary of the line, an ordinary warrior within the host, Legionary Ardaral also bears the rank of Proctor
within the Storm.wing, and that of cenobite within the Order of the Crimson Field. Within his unit he held a higher rank
within the Stormwing than any other and was often called upon to advise the sergeant of his squad on appropriate tactics and
organisation, as well as setving outside his squad in a cenobium of the Crimson Field during two separate engagements. Overall,
he serves as an excellent example of the distributed command structure utilised by the Dark Angels, one designed to put skills and
experience before simple rank and too complex to be made easy use of by those not well-versed in its intricacies. Of particular note
in this pkt-record is the Edict of Incorporation attached to his left vambrace, the left hand being that associated with the Orders
Militant, and signifying a warrior honoured by selection to stand as part of a cenobium in battle.
Legionary Ardaral would survive the Thramas Crusade to great honour, fighting in the vanguard of the assault on Sheol IX. There
he and his unit formed a vital part of the force that cut the Night Lords off from their ships, allowing the Lion and the secondary
waves of the attack to catch their elusive foe off-guard and vulnerable. By the end of the battle, his company had been rendered
almost combat ineffective, with casualties near halving their numbers, though the tally of their own kills more than proved their
valour and skill in the face of such a fierce foe.
DARK ANGELS DEATHWING VETERAN
KNIGHT-SERGEANT IDRAVAIN MoRS, SENESCHAL OF lHE DEATIIWING, 23'" ORDER 'THE SHAmREo MANTLE'
Knight-sergeant Mors was inducted into the inner circles of the Deathwing after the battle on Mykana, where he took a Mykanan
phase-lock musket shot meant for his commander, leaving him on the brink of death once victory was secured. His armour bears a
number of elements of the unique heraldry used by the Dark Angels, and often considered indecipherable by their brethren in the
other Legions. Of particular note are the white plating segments of his modified MkIV battle plate, which signify a warrior of the
Deathwing that has taken a mortal wound meant for another and survived, the votive ceramite plug on the left section of his chest
plate marks the breach in his armour as a badge of honour with few equals among the pragmatic Dark Angels. Also of note are the
crossed keys on his left greave and the Deathwing initiation icons on his right pauldron, both of which are intended to mark him
as a warrior who is master in the arts of the Deathwing, as a champion and linebreaker, on the field of battle should he be needed.
Knight-sergeant Mors would fall again on the fields of Sheol IX, once again shielding the Knight-praetor of the Shattered Mantle,
though this time from the vengeful talons of the Night Haunter himself His shattered body was recovered from the field of battle
and interred in a Dreadnought sarcophagus in honour of his sacrifice.
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DARK ANGELS FIREWING OPERATOR

KNIGHT-SERGEANT ALAIS DECUR
One of the few remaining Gramaryan recruits still with the main force of the Legion as of the late Great Crusade, with most
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having been reassigned to chantry houses within the Imperium proper or the oft overlooked fortifications of Gramarye itself,
Knight-sergeant Decur was assigned to the Seeker cadre of the I4lh Order during the Shield World campaign and accompanied
the Primarch’s Expeditionary force during the attack on Diamat. The MkVI battleplate was highly favoured by the Firewing for its
advanced augur and vox systems, which fit well with the doctrines of the Firewing, whose focus had ever been on the acquisition
and use of accurate battlefield intelligence. Most such sets of battleplate in Dark Angels hands had been part of the original
prototype shipments, and many had seen either extensive battlefield modification or featured experimental gear not present on
later production issue MkVI battle plate. Indeed, many of these modifications would be replicated on standard issue MkVI armour
captured from the Night Lords or acquired from Compliant Forge Worlds during the long years of the Thramas Crusade.
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UNKNOWN DARK ANGELS LEGIONARY-PRIMARIS
AssuMED: r 3™CHAPTER OF THE THIRD Hosr
TERMINATOR ASSAULT SQUAD .
ORDINATION OF THE DEATHWING
THE DARK ANGELS LEGION
THE XANA INCURSION
Taken from a fragmentary vis-vox transmission
recording recovered from the cortex of a fallen
Xanite Mechanicum Tech-Priest at the Battle
of Gaunt's Hollow in 009.M31 , this image is
believed to relate to the infamous Xana Incursion.
Pictured in the record is a Terminator assault
force engaging Thallax cohorts within the
outer docking bays of a large void freighter,
provisionally identified from ident-iconography
as the Thorn-Macro-878 , a former chartist High
Conveyor suborned by the Xana Mechanicum
faction prior to the incursion and included as part
of their vast withheld fleet of supply. The identity
of the Dark Angels Terminator shown in this pict-
image cannot be conclusively confirmed, however
from the insignia and armorial detailing, it can
be ascertained that his unit is of the 13 1h Chapter
of the Third Host; a formation not known to
be assigned to the Dark Sovereign as a matter of
course and its involvement in the incursion
remains a mystery.
Armour and Livery: The individual pictured

here is armoured in late-production, forge -
modified Cataphractii pattern Terminator armour,
with livery and insignia unique to the later
deployments of the Dark Angels Legion in the
era of the Great Crusade and early wars of the
Horus Heresy. As well as ornate depictions of
his Legion's symbol, the 'A ciarium' -the ancient
Terran symbol of the angel of death of Old
Night and the crossed blades of the Order of the '.
Deathwing, the Legion's elite, also in evidence are
the star of the Hexagrammaton, one of the more
arcane and little understood of the Legion's core
heraldic forms to outsiders, ciphered glyph forms
of unknown meaning and the award of symbolic
keys to this Legionary as the recognition of some
onerous duty successfully discharged.
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DARK ANGELS TERMINATOR CENOBITE

CENOBITE Asrn.AEus, TIIE ORDER OF TIIE EMm SKY, SECOND BATILE OF THRAMAS
Deployed as part of the landing force that would eradicate the Night Lords' presence in the ruins ofThramas, Cenobite Astilaeus
and the other members of his cenobium made the specialised skills of the Order of the Empty Sky available to the Dark Angels'
spearhead and were experts in the prosecution of close-quarters battle in conjunction with lethalis category artillery support,
exploiting the chaos of lethalis category fire support as shells burst in the very midst of their assault. It was a tradition that had
begun on Caliban, with the heavily armoured knights fighting even while their serfs and armsmen showered the field with
shafts and shot from primitive projectile weaponry, and many of its adherents were of Calibanite stock. The heavy Cataphracti
Terminator armour granted them by the Lion as part of his vaunted First Legion, allowed them to weather the storm of shrapnel
and flame produced by the terrible weapons of the Great Crusade with limited risk and bring the fury of their assault into the
heart of enemy formations that were cowering in the face of the artillery's fury.
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DARK ANGELS CoNTEMPTOR DREADNOUGHT
VENERABLE-l'RAEFECTUS ORAMAS, AR.CHON OF FLAME
Weapons such as the conversion beam cannon borne into battle by Venerable Ora.mas are rare weapons, even among the Legiones
Astartes, for the technology required to keep such potent weapons operating is both all but lost to modern scholars and dangerous
to employ. It is only in the ranks of the First Legion that such technology is found in great numbers, often employed en-masse in
order to overwhelm the terrible foes against which the Dark Angels are often pitted. Indeed, the panoply of Venerable Oramas,
who in his former life was a simple initiate of the Firewing and no towering hero of the Great Crusade, includes a number of
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weapons noted for their rarity. The Kheres pattern assault cannon, whose temperamental nature limited its use amongst many of i
the younger Legions, combined with the volatile conversion beam cannon, represents a significant deployment of firepower, but
one that was commonplace among the ranks ofthe Dark Angels.
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VENERABLE-PRAEFEcrus CoRioIANus, ARcHON OF STONE
Venerable Coriolanus once served as the Marshal of the Host of Stone, a warrior whose dedication to the cause of the Imperium
had stretched for more than two centuries. He would be declared lost on Nadress III, leading the defence of the outer bastions
when the Night Lords began their final assault on that world. Yet, his armour does not grace any Night Lords champion's trophy
rack, for in the final moments of the assault the venerable warrior used his grav-flux bombard to collapse the fortress around him,
entombing both himself and the Night Lords vanguard in rubble.
THE BATTLE FOR KENRAC
Among the initial objectives of the Dark Rather than waste manpower and munitions suddenly and with overwhelming force, with
Angels as they pushed outwards from Triplex in the direct annihilation of the slave the bulk of the Dark Angels battle group's
was the world ofKenrac, its modest industrial regiments that the Night Lords placed in the heavy assets landing with pinpoint precision
output marking it as a target of some value frontline, Knight-praetor Logaine made use amongst the Night Lords' own units, seeking
in the ongoing war for the Thramas sector. of the Firewing's doctrine of precise strikes to overwhelm them with the sheer speed of
Before the arrival of the Dark Angels, the and the careful accumulation of intelligence. their assault. Without the screening force of
Night Lords had seen to the extermination of Initials attacks on the surface were limited slave-soldiers, the small Night Lords garrison
Kenrac's planetary defence force and begun to small Firewing teams of Seekers and found itself hopelessly outnumbered, with
a process of forced conscription in order to reconnaissance Legionaries directed to plot even their command post within the fortified
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form new slave regiments to feed the war enemy positions and secure the Night Lords hive spire swiftly falling to the onslaught of
effort, and it would be these forces and a overseers scattered amongst the bulk of a combined force of heavy transport vehicles
small core of Night Lords warriors that would the slave regiments. With the information and Terminator assault squads.
oppose the Dark Angels' landings. The Lion gained from traditional scouting and the
assigned elements of the 19th and f1'" Orders to interrogation of the captured Night Lords, the
the assault, placing Logaine, Knight-praetor of location of the main Night Lords host itself
the 17'1'" Order and Marshal of the Firewing, at
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was quickly ascertained, these forces would
the head of the battlegroup, his orders clear: be the main target of any assault, leaving the
eliminate all occupying forces and secure the ill-motivated conscripts out of the real battle
planet for the First Legion. for the planet. The final assault would come
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DARK ANGELS SrcARAN-0MEGA

BRAND OFTRum
Operated under the aegis of the Firewing, and incorporated into the 19•h Order at the time of the Thramas Crusade, the tank hunter Brand of Truth
was one of the few Dmega pattern Sicaran tank hunters within the ranks of the First Legion. During the assault upon the Night Lords defence
force, it would be the Brand of Truth and other swift tank-hunters that would be assigned the task of destroying the hidden Night Lords armoured
vehicles, isolaring each position using the intelligence gathered by the first wave and then obliterating it with overwhelming firepower.
The Brand ofTruth would garner four kills, including a Cerberus super-heavy tank caught in the middle of the complex procedure required to
service its internal atomantic reactor.
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Though technically an asset of the Ironwing, the Grim Visage is shown here during the fighring Ii' '
on Kenrac bearing the emblem of the Deathwing. This was common practise for vehicles
carrying infantry assets from other Wings, with the transport compartment of the Spartan .t
showing not only the symbol of the Deathwing, but also the personal heraldry of its cargo's
commander. For the battle to retake Kenrac, the Legion Terminator squad commanded by
Knight-captain Dariel made use of the Grim Visage as their assigned transport, taking part in
the final assault upon the hive spires of Kenrac. The Grim Visage would endure a blizzard of
anti-armour fire in order to bring its cargo to the optimal insertion point, conrinuing to advance
even after a salvo of Kraken penetrator missiles had shattered its glads plaring and injured the
vehicle's driver, unwilling to force the Terminators to suffer under the hail of enemy fire in
order to reach their objective.
In the wake of the battle, Knight-captain Dariel and his warriors, whose swift insertion into
the heart of the enemy's fortifications allowed them to put a quick and bloody end to the Night
Lords' commander, gave up the honours they had earned for the victory. These would instead
go to the crew of the Grim Visage, adorning the rebuilt glacis armour for the remainder of the
tank's service.
SWITI WRATH AND SURE BLADES
As with all the Wings of the Dark Angels, singular whole, often deployed to blunt the ahead of the main host to harry the Night
the Ravenwing was intended to gather and advance of more traditional Legion hosts Lords as they drew up their lines for battle
focus the Legion's expertise within a singular or to deny ground to a larger enemy army and to discourage enemy forces from
banlefield art. In this case it was that of without attempting to directly contest them, attempting flanking assaults of their own.
skirmish warfare, of the swift advance and and resorting to spoiling attacks and swift It was a tactical convention that would
sudden withdrawal, to engage the foe and raids to keep a superior force at bay. survive the Thramas Crusade and continue
frustrate its strategies rather than simply throughout the Horus Heresy, and given
grind down its will to fight in a simple During the Thramas Crusade, this gambit the Ravenwing's doctrine of limited war and
war of attrition. As such, the Ravenwing would be employed on a number of occasions hit-and-run strikes, it would see them survive
tended to focus on battlefield assets that with great success, with a number of worlds Horus' rebellion with one of the largest
complemented this style of warfare, with along the fringes of the Dark Angels' advance and most cohesive forces still combat ready
their ranks comprising the largest numbers being denied to the Night Lords by the within the First Legion. What had begun
of Land Speeders, aircraft and strike tanks presence of small Ravenwing task forces. as a quirk of the Horus Heresy's dire needs
in the First Legion, all scattered across the It became only natural that in the larger would become tradition during the Scouring
various Orders and Companies that formed engagements of the crusade, at Sheol and that followed, seeing the Ravenwing become
the vast host of the Dark Angels. During the Yaelis amongst others, that the Ravenwing a force unto themselves in the new age of the
long years of the Great Crusade, the wartiors continued to act as a unified force, ranging Imperium that followed.
of the Ravenwing served as experts in the
field of swift war, called upon to advise the
knight-praetors when their expertise was
needed and to lead those units that best
served their skills - only rarely would they
be gathered together as a singular host. Yet,
with the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, it
would be ever more common for the warriors
of this Wing to be called upon to fight as a
DARK ANGELS SABRE STRIKE TANK
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The third vehicle of a squadron assigned to the conflict on Mortain, a world on the far flank of the main Dark Angels assault into the
Thramas sector. Sabres were amongst the armoured vehicles most often assigned to Ravenwing veterans, for the design of these swift
hunter-killers complemented the tactics and temperament of the Ravenwing well.
DARK ANGELS SoKAR SroRMBIRD

LExrcoN OF GLORY
The Lexicon of Glory is one of the oldest Sokar pattern Stormbirds in Legiones Astartes service, being one of the original prototypes that entered
testing with the old Host of the Void. It is a testament to both the durability of its design and the skills of its Dark Angels pilots that after
a century and a half of the most brutal wars in humanity's long history, the Lexicon of Glory still operates at peak efficiency. As a mark of respect for
its glorious record of success in battle, it is a tradition within the Legion to allow the Lexicon of Glory to be the first craft to make planetfall during
an assault at which it is present, a tradition which has never failed to bring victory.
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f. Helmet crest denotes starus within the Legion's organisation, in this case the membership armour. Note: 'Maximus' pattern power armour, reinforced with molecular bonding studs
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Apothecarion. A native of Chemos, Comendius was be1rayed along with his Legion's forces: Note: 'Iron' parrern armour only in limited use within the Emperor's Children
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leading repeated attacks and sustaining multiple injuries while doing so. This included the
finest swordsmen in the Emperor's Children forces, tasked with seeking out and slaying
the foe's finest warriors in battle. Note: Inclusion in these elite squads was often marked
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VETERAN-TESSERARIUS NARVO QUIN
SQUAD ZHAMAR, COMPANY v,
BATIALION II, vnrn MILLENNIAL
IssrvAN V DRoPSITE MASSACRE,
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Veteran-Tesserarius Quin was a warrior known
in the surviving records of his Legion for
his ambition as much as for his skill-at-arms.
He proved his loyalty to his Primarch in the
aftermath of the Isstvan III Atrocity, during
which he is recorded to have tallied at least two
dozen notable kills.
Quin fell in battle to the massed charge of the

Iron Hands Avernii Clan, led by their mighty
Primarch Ferrus Manus. He and his squad were
obliterated by the Iron Hands attack, with Quin
himself believed slain by First Captain Gabriel
Santar in personal combat.
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unknown). Forged to Quin's personal
requirements. The axe's shattered remains were
later discovered lying near Quin's remains.
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[Pict-capture Isstvan III Atrocity]
The Techmarines of the Emperor's Children were famous for the detailed armorial work and artifice they
invested in their Legion's Dreadnoughts. A former champion of the 9•h Millenial, Sarancos was part of Lord
Commander Eidolon's traitor command, and is thought to have survived the battle on Isstvan III, although
became mentally unstable owing to a combination of battle damage and trauma. Note: Twin lascannon armament
favoured as principal heavy support weapon of the Emperor's Children Legion.
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This vehicle is an example of the modified Proteus Pattern which had become the standard battle tank of the
Space Marine Legions by the latter decades of the Great Crusade, employing extra armoured reinforcement and
abandoning the additional sensory sub-systems of the earlier Proteus patterns for enhanced carrying capacity.
Note: This particular example, like many of the war machines employed by the Emperor's Children Legion
displays considerable embellishment and aesthetic modifications to its basic design carried out by the Legion's
Tcchmoiirw artificers.
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EMPEROR'S CHILDREN LEGION WAR MACHINES
The Emperor's Children lost an enormous
number of their armoured vehicles in
the protracted intra-Legion battles which
followed the Isstvan III Atrocity. Due to
these losses, the Legion had need of every
asset it could field at Isstvan V and so
deployed a wide variety of types, classes and
patterns of vehicle to the defence of the
Urgall Depression.
Given the favoured rites of war of the

Emperor's Children, the most demand was
placed on transport vehicles, with which
the Legion could launch rapid counter-
strikes and encirclements, engaging
cornered Loyalists where and when they
least expected it. Other types of vehicle, in
particular super-heavy tanks and mobile
artillery, were assigned at battalion or
millennial level to be utilised by each
commander as he saw fit, given the quickly
evolving nature of the battle.
Deimos Pattern Predator Infernus Tank: This vehicle from the Legion's reserve was
assigned to the V'hMillennial in preparation for the battle. Though the tank's fate remains
unknown, it was last recorded in the massacre's bloody third hour supporting Emperor's
Children tactical support squads as they blunted an attempted break-out by a mixed force of
Raven Guard and Iron Hands Legionaries.
Legion Stormblade Super-heavy Tank

(Designation Unknown): The provenance of
this super-heavy vehicle, recorded in action with
the Emperor's Children, is unclear. However,
owing to the Stormblade's use in specialised
siege formations, it is likely that this vehicle was
captured or seconded to the Legion after the
action at Isstvan III, and pressed into service
with the expectation of combat against opposing
heavy Legion units.
bleak violence and bitter paranoia. It brurally across the lmperium and its increasingly fanatically loyal and highly trained human
oppressed the worlds it garrisoned with isolationist tendencies in the years before the auxiliary force, the Thorakata, as a tool of
renewed savagery and unleashed genocidal war. It is believed that the Legion had further oppression and client army in its own right,
force upon the first hint of open rebellion, accelerated its indoctrination and recruiting to serve the Legion. These measures can
with many of its commanders growing program, as well as local shipbuilding at now be seen as the beginning of rhe bloody
ever more unhinged and isolated from the Olympia in the lead-up to the rebellion, and Empire of Iron, centred on damned Olympia,
Imperium they served. so the lower division of these estimates may that was to take root in the years that
indeed be erroneous. followed of rebellion and civil war.
At the time of the outbreak of the Horus
Heresy, the Iron Warriors Legion is Further to this the Legion, according to So it was that, rotting from within with
estimated to have had an active strength evidence uncovered later, appears to have loathing and bitter spite, the iron fa~ade
of between 150,000 and r8o,ooo Legiones increased its ties to certain factions of the the Legion presented to the Imperium hid
Astartes, along with a very substantial war Mechanicum and the Legio Cybernctica in the extent of how rapidly and how deeply
Aeet of over a hundred Capital class vessels. particular during this period, and is believed it had descended into homicidal madness;
More accurate assessment than this is, to have begun to shelter some renegade or until at last it was called on to help in the
however, impossible given the considerable outcast elements of the Machine Cult under punishment of the rebellious Warmaster on
portion of sub-deployments and garrisons Perturabo's protection. It is also known to Isstvan V, and the dark truth was revealed.
that were maintained by the Legion scattered have raised up from the ashes of Olympia a
IRON wARRIORS LEGION TACTICAL MARKINGS
Grand Company Command Legion Command Tactical Line Unit with Tactical with
Personal Heraldry Legion Icon & Numeral Legion Numeral
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Unit Chevron Chevron Variant Subtype with Legion Numeral Undesignated
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Sergeant Heraldry Line Variant Approved Sub-type Approved Variant
Like most of the Legiones Astartes, the Iron Warriors employed a wide range of symbols, icons
and heraldry, much of it derived from the earliest precepts of the Dictorum Armourial, some
from the cultural idioms of the worlJ on which their Primarch was discovered and still more
evolved as the Legion developed its own unique identity. The Iron Warriors are notable for their
characteristic focus on brutally functional kens devoid of superfluous embellishment and a
relative lack of individualisation or personal ornamentation, traits very much in line with the
Veteran Sergeant -
personality of their Primarch.
Standardised
IRON wARRIORS LEGION TERMINATOR
LEGIONARY Kuoruus REx
3RD GRA.~D COMPM'Y,
?111 GRA~O BATIALIO!\
PURSUIT PHA~E, AmRMATH,
lSSTVAN v DROPSlTE MASSACRE
A veteran of the Tyranthikos -informally
known as the 'Dominators'-Legionary Khorius
Rex trod a hundred worlds and more in the
service of the Great Crusade. Once an ideologue,
for Rex the Imperia] TruLh was long rendered
down to but a kernel of cold, hard fact; the
galaxy is no place for the weak and only those
prepared to endure any hardship have any right
to prevail. This moment of utmost clarity came
when the th Grand Battalion was recalled to
Olympia and bore witness to the rebellion that
had gripped the Legion's home world. In the
bloodshed that followed, the man Khorius Rex
had once been died forever, to be reborn and
recast into a warrior whose hearL was as cold
and as hard as the ceramite skin of his Tactical
Dreadnought Armour.
Khorius Rex is depicted here as he appeared

throughout the Iron Warriors Legion's
extermination operations in the aftermaLh of
the Dropsite Massacre. Like many his master
considered lacking or unstable, he was abandoned
on Isstvan V when the bulk of the Legion was
pulled out to pursue the Warmaster's war against
the Imperium. As far as records indicate, he chose
to remain, and his final fate is unrecorded.
Panoply of War
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UNKNOWN LEGIO\ SUB-UNIT
S01 U'lJFICATJON, PAcmcAnoN OF THE KurPER Bar
THIRD QUADRA'ff
This Legionary is depicted at the outset of the
lV1h Legion's campaign Lo pacify the numerous
void-faring inhabitants of the Kuiper Belt, the
remainder of the Sol System having been brought
into Compliance throughout the long and bloody
UnificaLion Wars. The bulk of this campaign was
fought againsL small, but unyielding groups of
non Compliant humans whose existence amidst
the cold hulks and blasted dwarf planets over
countless generations had stripped them of all
sanity and reason. Militaris annals relate how this
hard-fought campaign was the crucible of the
I yih Legion's early void-fighting battle doctrines,
from boarding an<l counLer-boarding tactics to
planetary decimation protocols .
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t power annour, which at this stage in history
had not yet been dubbed 'Crusade' armour. He
bears the heraldry of a veteran of the Terran
Unification, the lighming bolts surmounting
the head of a bird of prey indicating he fought in
the ranks of the glorious hosts of the Emperor
himself The meaning of the icon displayed
on his right shoulder is lost to history, its use
discontinued when the Primarch Perturabo took
command of the IVU' Legion.
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the rank of captain. Dionor was assigned to the
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Legionary Zhinnon was recruited into the IV'h
Legion in 849.M30, the very same year that Lord
Perturnbo took control. Though untested in battle
at that time, Zhinnon's native martial bearing
saved him from being swept up in Perturabo's
purge of the IV'h Legion. Zhinnon saw extensive
service throughout the five decades of the Great
Crusade preceding the Triumph at Ullanor, and
at the time of the Warmaster's great betrayal was
serving under Warsmith Vhalen in the 771h Grand
Battalion, and is known to be one of the few
Loyalist survivors of the 1 ;1 Battle of Paramar.
Legionary Zhinnon wears early production

MkIV Astartcs power am1our, the left knee plate
displaying the Iron Warriors' characteristic black
and yellow chevrons. In addition to the Legion
iconography on his left shoulder and chest plate,
he displays the triple chevron of a heavy support
unit on his right shoulder, and wears variant
tactical markings on his right knee plate, marking
his assignment to rhe 3oi1' Heavy Support squad
of the 5'" Sub-unit (in this case a company-sized
counter-armour group) of his Grand Battalion.
Panoply of War
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squa<l standard issue sidearm.
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IRON wARRIORS BREACHER LEGIONARY
UNKNOWN LlCIONARY
UNIDEt-.llflED LEGION BREACHER SQUAD
D EFENCE OF 11-lE CONTRAOOR,
BATIU OF THE PHAll SYSTEM
The depiction of this u nk nown Legion ary has
been compiled from pict-captures ex-loaded from
the power armour sensorium cores of several
Imperial Fists Breacher Legionaries. When the
Imperial Fists instigated boarding operations
against the Iron Warriors battle-barge Contrador,
several of the spearhead assault groups found
th emselves opposed by Iron Warriors Breacher
squads serving in the role of counter-breach
defence un iLs. The ensuing battles between these
two rival groups were biller and hard fought, both
sides equipped and trained for the murderous
close range fury of combat in the guts of a
warship. This unknown Legionary is confirmed to
have fallen in battle launchi ng a counter-charge
against Im perial Fists boarders consolidating
their possession of Ventral Launch Bay Delta 23,
his b lasted form being cast to the void when the
bay's vacuum sh ield failed.
The Legionary wears sped aI issue 'void hardened'

MkIII Astartes power armour, enabling him to
figh t in and survive the cold of the void as well as
companionways alight with plasma fire or bathed
in hard radiation . He carries a MkIIk boarding
shield with integrated auto-sense coupling,
capable of surviving rhc heaviest of defensive fire
as he closes on his foe.
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SCOURING OF THE WHEEL OF FIRE
Legionary Krovorn was once a member of the 14'h
Grand Company of the Legiones Astartes Iron
Warriors. Having been wounded almost unto
death at the Siege of the Schadenhold however,
he was removed from the line as punishment and
reassigned to a hunter-slayer force tasked with
scouring the Wheel of Fire region of Loyalists
thought to have fled there in the aftermath of
Traitor ambushes along the coreward edge of the
Hangman's Void. The Iron Warriors Primarch had
little concern whether or not the force returned,
and as a consequence it was constituted in a very
similar manner to the Loyalists it was to pursue,
acting in effect as a Traitor Shattered Legion.
Scars of Battle
Legionary Krovorn is depicted here as he
deployed to the hunter-killer operation, still
clad in the Mark III Legiones Astartes battle
plate which, with deliberate symbolic intent,
still bore the damage sustained at the fall of the •
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bonding studs embedded in the right shoulder

pauldron-the application of such ad-hoe armour
reinforcement became so prevalent on both sides
of the civil war that it was officially integrated
into the specifications of Mark Vand Mark VI
Legiones Astartes power armour and informally
retrofitted to many individual suits.
IRON WARRIORS TACTICAL LEGIONARY
LEGIONARY KERTHELON
3RD SHOCK ASSAULT DETACHMENT,
II 4'" GRAND BATTALION
BATilE OF M EZOA
Newly inducted into the Grand Battalion shortly
before the beginning of the Mezoa campaign as
one of the few replacement warriors granted the
mauled formation, Legionary Thelon did not
suffer through the betrayals heaped upon his new
brothers by the Alpha Legion. He and those few
others that were seconded to the unit remained
staunchly loyal both to their Primarch and the
Warmaster, held in thrall by the rushed hypno-
indoctrination of their training and shunned by
much of the 1141h for it.
In the grim, fire-scoured landing zones and the

long siege of Mezoa's forge spires, Ker Thelon
and his brothers saw their baptism of fire; part
of a growing breed ofLegiones Astartes whose
sole experience of war was the brutal attrition of
Legionary against Legionary. Surviving where
many others fell, Legionary Thelon soon acquired
an impressive tally of kills, and by the time of
Autilon Skorr's last push on the forge-fanes of
Mezoa, he had risen to the rank of senior sergeant
among the 3'd Shock Assault Detachment and was
a vocal rival ofNarik Dreygur.
With the events of the final climactic battle of

that campaign, Legionary Thelon and many of his
confederates disappeared from the roster of the
n4 h Grand Company. No record of their fall in
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the final battle exists, nor any official mention of

sanction against them by either Narik Dreygur
or the Loyalist Legiones Astartes that he chose to
side with.
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IRON WARRIORS CoNTEMPTOR DREADNOUGHT
ANclEt--'T VHAKis
7™ AssAULT CouoRr, 23RIJ GRAND BAITAUON
ScouRING OF THE URCALL H r1LS, ArnRMArn, l sS'IVAN VDROPSITEMASSACRE
Ancient Vhakis was born heir to one of the many warlords of Olympia, his father forced to bend knee to tbe Primarch
Perturabo. When the Imperium came to Olympia and Perturabo took his place amongst his trne-father's Prim arch sons,
Vhakis was judged worthy of joining the fV1h Legion and underwent the arduous transformation into a Space Marine of
the Legiones Astartes. He served for seven decades before falling whilst leading the final assault on the Aethereal Bastion,
his stoic devotion to duty and his unquestioning loyalty to Pcrrurabo earning him internment within rhe armoured
sarcophagus of a mighty Contemptor Dreadnought.
Vhakis utilised his favoured weapon - a rare and highly valued heavy conversion beamer- to deadly effect upon the
black sands of the Urgall Depression. He is believed to have slain scores of Loyalist Astartes during the three hours of the
Dropsite Massacre, primari ly the sons of the Gorgon. Much later, he committed himselfwith cruel single-mindedness to
the hunt for the elusive Raven Guard before he fell in battle alongside a dozen other Iron Warriors Dreadnoughts deep in
the Illium Rifts.
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Ancient Khragan was once a member of the 141h Grand Company of the IV'h Legion under Warsmith Dantioch. The 14th was heavily defeated in
battle against a massive Hrud migration, and when Dantioch blamed the migration on the actions of other Iron Warriors units in a neighbouring
war zone, he and many of the survivors were censured by their Primarch. Khragan was amongst those assumed to have been slain in that battle,
and so his appearance, along with several dozen other Iron Warriors also thought fallen, in a Shattered Legions attack force at Constantinium is a
mystery. It was by Khragan's hand that the Traitor Magister-Militaris of Constantinium was slain, earning him the epithet 'King-Killer'.
Ancient Khragan's Contemptor Dreadnought bears the hallmarks of the IV'h Legion's forge, its main body wrought according to the brutalist
sensibilities of the Iron Warriors, including additional armour plating and reinforcing bonding studs. The Dreadnought is equipped with the
multi-melta that Khragan used to burn through the Magister-Militaris' twenty metre-high, two metres-thick throne room doors, and the power
claw which he used to choke the life from the Traitor leader at the climax of the Constantinium Incursion.
IRON WARRIORS DEREDEO pATTERN DREADNOUGHT
ANCIENT 0RGOL
VANGUARD ECHELON, II4rn GRAND BATIALION
BATILE OF M EZOA, TERTIAL-05 BREAKOUT
Long known amongst the Iron Warriors of the oft-maligned n41h Grand Battalion as a consummate survivor and one of the few among the
Legion's early ranks given to independent action and a mastery of reconnaissance actions, Sor Orgol walked untouched from the fires of the
Great Crusade and passed through the Legion's trial at Perturabo's hands and at Isstvan, only to fall at Fortress Stranivar, his seeker detachment
abandoned by the Alpha Legion elements placed in support. Interred in the armoured shell of a Deredeo pattern Dreadnought, Orgol became
a sentinel at the back of his battle-brothers, obsessing over operational deployments and the possibility of betrayal, his twinned hellfue plasma
cannon ready to support both advance and retreat. On Mezoa, when the Gravewalker called the n41h to deliver on his oath of vengeance against
the Alpha Legion, Orgol was at the forefront of the charge.
The Iron Warriors deployed the bulk of Massacre1 the 23rd Armoured Company many historator-savants hold the belief that
the Legion's armoured units to Isstvan V1 suffered overwhelming losses 1 effectively Perturabo had no expectation or desire to sec
many of them transported en masse in ceasing to exist as a chapter-level formation them return.
gargantuan heavy drop conveyors. At the by the close of the operation.
moment of the second wave's bettayal 1 The ad-hoc formation known as 'Armoured
massed formations of tanks of all classes It is said that the Primarch's displeasure at Purgation Group Trador' led the pursuit
charged forth from the Iron Warriors' Trader's self-imposed losses was so great, the and extermination phases of the Dropsite
rapidly deployed drop fortifications, in commander was fortunate indeed to come Massacre aftermath and is thought to have
many cases rolling ~traight over the stunned away with his life. Instead of execution, accounted for several thousand Loyalist
Loyalists and crushing their bodies into ComrnanderTrador was in effect exiled from deaths. Trador's campaign of bitter slaughter
the black ground before a shot could be the Legion, along with several hundred other came to an abrupt end when the force was
fired in response. One of the very first Iron officers and Legionaries who had earned ambushed by Raven Guard survivors .in the
Warriors armoured units to surge forth and Perrurabo's censure. Trador was ordered to depths of t he lllium Rifts. The ultimate fate
begin the slaughter was the 23rd Armoured gather what remained of his armoured units of CommanderTrador himself is unknown,
Company, its rapicl attack squadrons led by and to take them out into the Urgall Wastes but it is certain that the last tank of the 23rd
the cold-hearted commander Zhigo Trador. in pursuit of loyalist survivors. It is doubtful Armoured Company burned at the hands of
So .fiercely did Commander Trador press if any arrangements to reunite these forces the vengeful warriors of Lord Corax.
the assault on the Loyalists at the Dropsite with the parent Legion were ever made and
Sicaran Battle Tanlc The Sicaran had only recently been introduced to the armoured forces of the Legiones Astartes at the
I time of the Isstvan battles and the lron Warriors had procured more than their fair share. This particular vehicle was used by
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1: and integrated sensor systems making it ideal for bunting down and eliminating the scattered remnants of the Retribution force.
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Destructor was by far the most numerous. In the Extermination phase of the Isstvan V operation, scores of
Predacors scoured the Urgall Wastes for survivors, sometimes operating in massive armoured columns, at other
times serving as scouts and outriders for more ponderous vehicles such as the Thunderstrike assault tank.
Th e Unbreakable Litany of the I ron Warriors: This vehicle bears one

of the many dicrums of the lron Warrior's Primarch Perturabo upon its
armoured .flank. In this case, the phrase translates as 'From Honour, Iron', a
key verse from the 'Unbreakable Litany by which the Iron Warriors fight.
IRON WARRIORS KHALEKAORUS
SUPER-HEAVY TANK COMPANY
I'rBATILE OF PAR.AMAR, PAR.AMAR TERMrnus WAR ZoN.c
One of a number of independent specialised detachment to the 77th Grand Battalion acquiring fresh vehicles and munitions to
armoured formations which were part of as part of the ongoing operations o[ the replace losses incuned against the denizens
the I ron Warriors Legion order of battle, Thcrikon Suppression Taskforce with of the Therikon Wastes, particularly in heavy
but not <li recLly parL of Lhe institutions roughly half their operational strength combat against the mutant Ork strains and
of its Grand Batta lion structure, the based upon the 77t11's flagship, the Tyche's unclassified void-phasmids which haunted
Khalckaorus were comprised of a nominal Lament, and therefore present at Paramar the area. The force which fought at Paramar
strength of thirty super-heavy battle tanks, during the Alpha Legion's surprise attack. was destroyed completely in combat,
alongside a number of lighter tank and fire Many of the Khalekaorus' war machines however the remainder of the Khalekaorus
support squa<lrons, and a demi-company of were of older and second-line patterns, as and the 77'h Grand Battalion, who by chance
dedicated Legionary infantry. alongside the rest of the taskforce they had had remained on station in the Therikon
been left for several decades as a self-reliant Wastes, would fight on bitterly for the rest of
The Khalekaorus, named for a mythical battle group, with periodic replenishment the great conflict that was evolving to avenge
beast of Olympian myth, were on permanent at the Para mar Nexus their sole means of their fallen.
Mars pattern Rhino Armoured Transport 77/235: One of the less common pauerns of
the ubiquitous Rhinos used by the Legiones Astartes of this period, with the Deimos pattern
considered to have superior environmental and secondary systems, the Mars pattern was
nevertheless a perfectly serviceable and particularly easy to reproduce design. This example
was attached as a supporl vehicle to the Khalekaorus infantry support units and possesses
considerable additional ablative armour plating over lhe norm. t
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commanders slain in battle, this was one of five Typhon pattern war machines which fought
as part of the Iron Warriors deployment at Pararnar. Known informally by the legion as
'spine-breakers' owing to the massive recoil generated by the main gun if fired on the move,
the Typhon was particularly suited to the Iron Warriors' preferred mode of warfare and its
design was attributed in part to their Primarch Perrura bo.
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The Iron Warriors Legion maintained a large number of Battle-automata, bonded to servimde by ancient ties of debt
and honour with the Legio Cybernetica. The majority of those deployed to the second wave of the Issrvan V drop
operation were assigned to the Legion Reserve and mustered within the massive fortifications deployed from orbit.
The presence of the Battle-automata was only fully revealed once the act of betrayal was itself complete. Several
hundred Castellax and other classes of automata were deployed to block the escape of any Loyalists who survived the
slaughter and attempted to break through rhe Traitors' lines into the Urgall Hills beyond.
Being permanently bonded to service with the Iron Warriors, Lambda Three Six bears the functional heraldry of that
legion. In common with standard. Iron Warriors schemes, several elements of the automata's form have had distinctive
yellow and black chevrons applied and the shoulder displays a simple asset identifier, its exact meaning known only to
the Iron Warriors. Note also the presence of the skull and cog icon of the Cult Mechanicus, indicating the machine's
It origins. The text applied to the right forearm cowling is assumed to represent a votive extract from the vast and
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A vessel of immense size, llllbreakable calculation and firepower, and that viewports specifications of Lord Perturabo himself Her
strength and brute .firepower, the Iron Blood's into the void were nothing but a vanity. slab-like armoured flanks are blackened by
craggy flanks are clad in armour tens of the fires erupting from the carcasses of dying
metres thick She is without view ports, The Iron Blood is known as the oldest foes smashed asunder by bruLal ramming
for the war doctrine of Perrurabo makes it and mightiest of her class, constructed at attacks, and her spine is a mountain bristling
clear that battle should be conducted by Olympia at the order and to the exacting with weapons turrets of all types.
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THE CoNTRADOR
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At the Battle of Phall, the 'Legarus' class already formidable armour and weapons Despite her extensive modifications, the
battle barge Contrador was commanded by were heavily enhanced over many decades Contrador conformed to a pattern that was
the lron Warriors war leader Erasmus Golg, of service. What she sacrificed in speed and coming into use throughout the war fleets of
who was also the commander of the Legion's manoeuvrability she more than gained in the Legioncs Astartes at the time of the Battle
n•h Company. Typical of the war ships of raw strength, as befitting the bellicose and of Phall and which would become a familiar
the Iron Warriors grand fleet, the Contrador's stoic nature of the Iron Warriors themselves. class of battle barge in the coming years.
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WHITE SCARS VETERAN LEGIONARY
LEGIONARY ALEKH DAUMAS, 2ND STALK.ER CADRE, 731" PIONEER COMPANY
Known informally as the Grey Ghosts, the 731" Pioneer Company primarily saw service as outriders and forward scout elements
for the 98'h Expeditionary Fleet, alongside the warriors of Primarch Rogal Dorn's Imperial Fists Legion. They were tasked with
identifying potential targets ahead of the fleet's main advance and assessing the threat of each, either withdrawing in the face of
overwhelming opposition or staging a campaign of disruption and subtle murder where they discovered weakness. They served
to arrange the grand battles and campaigns which the Imperial Fists prosecuted, moving on when the warriors of Dorn arrived in
orbit to secure the victory with pomp and fanfare. The Cold Shroud and Sorrow Vector, the two cruisers attached to the 731" Pioneer
Company, were ever on the move, perpetually steered from one desolate war zone to another by the advance of the Great Crusade.
Legionary Daumas fought as one of the so-called 'Stalker' cadres for which the Grey Ghosts were renowned. Armed with old-
pattern anti-materiel rifles converted for use as sniper weapons and a sophisticated catalogue of camouflage techniques, these
Stalkers marked priority targets for the invasion force that followed on their heels and perpetrated pinpoint strikes on those
deemed vulnerable by the Pioneer Company's commanders. Legionary Daumas rose to prominence during the initial foray on
Altus-coriola, where he and his cadre were responsible for destroying 34 grounded fighter craft, ensuring minimal losses in the
later Imperial Fists drop assault. Later fully initiated into the reborn White Scars Legion, Daumas took the name Munokhoi to
show his loyalty to the Great Khan.
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design which differs from system where this banner
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The Chogorian symbols Legion. Here the Chogorian
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list the most renowned battle . lists the various Khans of the
honours of the Brotherhood, Brotherhood.
later modified to include the
name~ Chondax and Byfrust.
This MkIII pauldron shows a Another variation on the Light recon plate displaying A pauldron from the ceremonial
variant of the Tactical insignia Tactical insignia, this time the icon of the Falcon's Claws, armour of the Karaoghlanlar,
worn by line infantry units shown on a MkIV pauldron. a specialised formation within as the Destroyer Corps of the
within the White Scars. the ranks of the White Scars. White Scars was known.
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On this pauldron, the standard This MkIV pauldron bears the MkVI armour issued to the Assault doctrine emblem and
pattern Legion icon has been mark of the Brotherhood of the White Scars prior to their insignia of the Brotherhood of
replaced with the Brotherhood Sable Wolf, as well as a brief departure for Chondax, the Blue Hawk.
of the Gold Star emblem. passage in Chogorian script. emblazoned with Black Axe.
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WHITE SCARS TACTICAL LEGIONARY
LEcroNARY YEKE NrnuN, QARA VAcmR's TACTICAL SQUAD, BROTHERHOOD OF THE GornEN STAR
Legionary Nidun bears a common example of the later White Scars heraldry pattern, as typified by the absence of more standard
identification markings other than the Legion emblem on his pauldron. Instead of the approved Divisio Militaris icons, the
White Scars made use of a complex set of glyphs and icons of their own, mostly derived from the culture of Chogoris and largely
indecipherable to their allies. As an example, the right greave of Legionary Nidun's newly issued MkVI power armour bears the
emblem of his Brotherhood, a formation roughly analogous to the more standard company, as well as marks indicating his rank,
specialisation and commanding officer. These are mostly recorded in the complex glyphs of Chogoris, though other icons are
simply modified versions of more standard icons, such as the altered Tactical symbol on the left greave.
As noted by the glyphs adorning his forearm and pauldron, Legionary Nidun is a veteran of a number of campaigns, having
fought with the Golden Star for 27 years prior to the fighting at Chondax. Of these campaigns the most infamous is the disastrous
drop assault of Anthalmax, where the Golden Star and its Khan won renown holding the landing grounds alone for six hours as
the Iron Warriors fought to establish beachhead fortifications. Nidun himself claimed 18 confirmed kills over the course of the
engagement, receiving honours from both his Khan and the Iron Warriors commander in the field.
LEGIONARY KHASAR
BROTHERHOOD OF THE foRESWORN
PALE STARS W AR ZoNE [PHARGOS REx INTERVENTION /
FLAME N EBULA W AR]
The Brotherhood to which this Legionary
originally belonged had its honorific revoked in
955.M30 following its near-total destruction in
battle against the xenos Barghesi. The defeated
force was referred to as the Foresworn when
mentioned at all, and appears in no official
primary Legion records of the Great Crusade.
Over six decades later however, elements of the
Foresworn appeared fighting for the Loyalist
cause, first in the Pale Stars and later in other far
flung theatres of war. The Foresworn were but
one Brotherhood represented among the ranks
of the White Scars that answered the call of
Nathaniel Garro and attended the Conclave
of Optera, the others equally shrouded in
their founding.
White Scars Armour Modifications

Legionary Khasar's battle plate is typical of that
worn by the White Scars, being clearly derived
from a suit of Mark II 'Crusade' armour, the helm
and chest plate substantially modified by Legion
Techmarine armourers. The Legion frequently
served as far-ranging pathfinders ahead of the
Expeditionary fleets of the Great Crusade, and
was therefore separated from reliable lines of
supply for extended periods. Where most Legions
were supplied en masse with new marks of
armour, weapons and war machines, the White
Scars often retained items they were issued at the
outset of a campaign, repairing equipment when
damaged, adapting it to their needs and adorning
', it with elements unique to the culture of their
home world of Chogoris .
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LEGIONARY SuRENTAI, THE EBoN KEsmG, KHARAsH OF THE SIEGE OF BLACK· BLIGHT
This pict shows one of the Tactical Dreadnought Armours of the V'h Legion in the field, a rare occurrence within a Legion
dedicated to speed and finesse over brute force. The black heraldry denotes this armour as one of those that formed the Ebon
Keshig, in this case the Cataphractii pattern armour pictured bears the title Monqara Erden, which can be roughly translated from
the Chogorian tongue to read as 'Eternal dark jewel'. The majority of the V'h Legion's Terminator armour suits were assigned to the
vaults of the Ebon Keshig, waiting until the Legion had need of their stolid might and then temporarily assigned to a warrior for
one glorious battle before returning to the storage vaults. Many of these black-painted armour suits had accrued a long and bloody
history oflast stands and forlorn assaults into the teeth of the enemy's guns.
Legionary Surentai served with the Brotherhood of the Sable Wolf's line infantry before the assault on Black-blight, a warrior
of proven mettle but little distinction. He was one of many who volunteered to fight as one of the Ebon Keshig when the Great
Khan called for the formation of a Kharash, the name by which individual iterations of the Ebon Keshig were known. Assigned
the armour Monqara Erden, Surentai would claim a high tally of enemy dead and was gravely wounded in the prosecution of the
assault. Lauded for his bravery by the Khan himself, Surentai returned to the ranks of his Brotherhood as Kavkhan, marked for
glory by his deeds as one of the Ebon Keshig.
WHITE ScARs CoNTEMPTOR DREADNOUGHT
TEcusAr or THE UHAAN SoLBAN
Rarely are the Dreadnoughts of the White Scars seen outside of the fortresses of Chogoris and Terra, and only for those key battles destined
to shape the Legion. It was perhaps a sign of what was to come that more Dreadnoughts were present at Chondax than any other
campaign of that time, a precursor of the Time of Waking that would follow in the Age of Darkness. Tegusai is shown here shortly
before the revelation of the Alpha Legion's betrayal at Chondax; he would be lost on Honderal while he fought to defend the wounded
as they were loaded aboard waiting Storm Eagles.
WHITE SCARS BROTHERHOODS
Each Brotherhood of the White Scars Indeed, some Brotherhoods were even supplied on the long, solitary campaigns
is a highly mobile task force unto itself, known to specialise in the use of mobile favoured by the V'h Legion. By the time of
endowed with the means to transport its artillery, experts at the rapid displacement the Chondax campaign, most of the larger
complement oflegiones Astartes warriors of batteries after the completion of a fire Brotherhoods of the V'h Legion had been
to the battlefield with a speed that was the mission, and at providing close range assigned at least a single Thunderhawk,
hallmark of their Legion. As such, the White support bombardments. with some fielding enough to transport
Scars were known to favour the use of aerial their entire complement into battle without
and contragravity vehicles of all kinds, with Among all of the Emperor's Legions, the recourse to more cumbersome landing craft.
a noted preference for smaller craft due to White Scars were the most enthusiastic
the lowering maintenance requirements and adopters of the newer Thunderhawk Integral as they were to the mobile style of
greater manoeuvrability of such vehicles. pattern gunships, smaller mass produced warfare and operation favoured by the White
Their usage of massed squadrons of Scimitar, replacements for the ancient and vast Scars, these vehicles were the focus of many
Shamshir and Falcata class jetbikes is well Stormbird pattern dropships that had served of the small rituals within the Brotherhoods.
known and documented, but the various the earliest incarnations of the Legiones Upon their armoured flanks they bore the
Brotherhoods also made use oflarge numbers Astartes since their departure from Terra marks of those who lived and died as warriors
of Land Speeders, Fire Raptor gunships and itself These vehicles, while less powerful and of the ordu ofJaghatai, serving as the shrines
even armoured vehicles of certain patterns. imposing than the huge Stormbirds, were for the dead and fortresses for the living.
more easily customised by the Gan-khan of Each bore a name and history the equal of
the armoury to suit the needs of the White any other veteran of the Legion, and many
Scars, and far more easily maintained and enjoyed a fame more widespread among the
Legion than the warriors who crewed them.
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each time. Note the complex patterns and extensive glyphs applied as decoration.
WHITE SCARS THUNDERHAWK GUNSHIP

SKYFIRE
The longest serving Thunderhawk within the V'h Legion, having seen combat for over 62 ,I
years since its initial deployment as one of the first test units. Currently serving with the
Brotherhood of the Sable Wolf, it was initially assigned to the Brotherhood of the Solar Flame,
a formation slain to the last defending the landing zones of Makro-Themis, an action for which
they were posthumously honoured by the Great Khan himself. The inner hull bears the names
of each member of the Brotherhood of the Solar Flame who fell in combat, a memorial for the
fallen and a charm to protect the living.
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MOLORIAN REVOLT, 800.M30
Presented here is a rare example of a pict
recording of a VJ•h Legion warrior almost twenty
years prior to the return of Leman Russ. During
the earliest years of the Great Crusade, the VI'h
embodied feral ferocity and aggression, but
exhibited little of the control they later possessed.
As a consequence, the Legion employed a far
larger number of Disciplinary troops than almost
any other Legion, barring perhaps only the Xll'h.
These Disciplinary Corps served co maintain
order in the ranks, both during and away from
battle, as well as curb any attempts to disregard
or circumvent orders. The Consul-Opsequiari
were selected from among the most stable of the
veterans of the VI'h and granted the power of life
and death over their brothers, and were marked
by the distinctive emblem of that oft-maligned
Order, seen here on the right pauldron and
abdominal buckle of Consul Bercim's armour.
The Molorian Revolt stands as a prime example of

the need for such detachments. The world, only
recently brought to Compliance, had declared
an open rebellion against the Imperium's rule,
and the Eighth Company of the Legion had been
dispatched in response. What began as a surgical
strike against the renegade government's palaces
rapidly degenerated into a killing spree as the
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to slaughter all they encountered, to the extent
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efforts of the Discipline Corps that any of the
Molorians within the city survived, though that
survival was bought at the cost of a number of
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Common Heraldic Form Command Variant Command Armorial (associated with
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'Void Wolf' Armorial (associated Horns of Winter' (associated Legion Tactical Icon (Later Second Great Company
with Breacher troops and with Destroyer units) Great Crusade Armorial use) Grey Slayer Heraldry
ship-to-ship specialists)
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THE PANOPLY OF W OLVES

The wargear and armour of the Space Wolves Legion
were renowned for their use of unique Fenrisian cultural
artefacts, runic script and artisan modification in their
appearance. More than simply an aesthetic influence, these
carried various coded references to the history and deeds
of the bearer and his unit and Great Company, and their
markings could often carry multiple meanings depending
on their relation and positioning.
SPACE WOLVES TACTICAL LEGIONARY
HROTHBAD SfEELMANE
SPACE WOLVES LEGION
12TH COMPANY, BLOODED CLAW
Steelmane goes to war clad in early
model Legiones Astartes Iron armour,
a comprehensive suite of battle plate
designated as Mklll. This armour is
built around an extensive network of
fibre bundles and servo-motors that
amplify its wearer's already prodigious
strength, whilst supporting thick plates
of plasteel and ceramite. Exceptionally
robust, MkIII armour was never
intended to replace Mkll, but was
provided by the Mechanicum of Mars
as an optional heavy armour type
for unusually intense engagements.
The MkIII power armour places
considerable emphasis on frontal
protection, while the rear plates are
lightened to compensate. Iron armour is
reckoned ideal where cover is minimal
and combat is a matter of frontal
assault - as with many of the Space
Wolves' engagements.
I. The backpack power unit common

to all battle plate contains dozens
of bio-tech subsystems that enable
Steelmane to fight for weeks
without resupply.
2. Iron armour's auto-reactive pauldrons

are stalwart defensive shields that can
turn aside a killing bolt with ease.
3. The rivets studding MkIII armour

provide greater structural integrity to
reinforce its constituent places.
4. SpaceWolves usually wear their
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plate - in Steelmane's case, the
Blooded Claw icon.
5. Personal runic devices are common

amongst the packs of the Space
Wolves, usually emblazoned on the
knee plate or as an auxiliary icon on
SpaceWolves packs represent their The Legion icon of the SpaceWolves the pauldron.
designations with strident designs. is worn upon the left pauldron.
SPACE wOLVES LEGIONARY
LEGIONARY HRUGA
KARie OF THE NoRN's wARBAND,
EIGHTH GREAT COMPANY
THE PROSPERINE CENSURE Hosr, 004.M3I
Legionary Hruga and the bulk of the Eighth
Great Company spent the earliest stages of
the fighting on Prospero engaged in combat
with Imperial Army elements at the Palatinate
Mansions. Unlike the fighting against the
lightly equipped Spireguard infantry, the troops
entrenched within the Mansions' walls had access
to the full panoply of the Great Crusade's vast
armoury and proved more serious opposition for
the reavers of the Eighth Great Company. Hruga
and the other members of his warband were
tasked with the reduction of enemy self-propelled
guns and armour, a mission complicated by
the re la rive lack of heavy support weaponry
among the Eighth. Utilising the ornamental
hedgerows, culverts and canals of the Mansions'
gardens to assault enemy positions, Hruga and
his companions used melra bombs and other
improvised explosives to disable and cripple the
Medusas and the ironically named Leman Russ
battle tanks arrayed against them.
The Eighth was equipped primarily with

MkIV power armour, the advanced augur array
incorporated into that design proving beneficial
to their role as advanced scouts and skirmishers,
but even this newer armour had soon found
itself remade in the image of the Legion. The
suit worn by Legionary Hruga was brought into
service less than ten years before the fighting
on Prospero, assigned to the VI'h Legion from
a macro-cache manufactured on Anvillus and
shipped to the distribution yards at Bera-Garmon.
Despite its relatively short operational lifespan, it
has already undergone significant modification,
most notably the entire right pauldron has been
replaced with a reinforced MkIII pauldron, a
common field augmentation of the lighter MkIV
suits. Additionally, Hruga has engraved several
knorwork patterns across the chest and greaves.
Though the exact meaning of the parterns is
difficult to ascertain, they are likely warding
talismans against harm.
Shown is an alternative Legion icon in use among reconnaissance units of the vru. Legion,
the so-called 'Fimbul-wulf, the silent and deadly spirit of ice storms.
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VETERAN LEGIONARY ISEM
ORN THEL\l.'s WARBAND, SECOND GREAT COMPANY
THE PROSPERINE CENSURE HOST, 004.M31
Recovered from the cogitator unit of a destroyed
Spireguard Dracosan transport, this image shows
one of the veteran warriors of the Space Wolves
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Second Great Company as he appeared during the
early stages of the Battle for Prospero. The Second
bore a reputation for vicious efficiency in war,
and much of that Great Company was engaged in
campaigns against Hrud migration fleets in the
galactic south-west at the rime of the Prospero
campaign, where their skills were put to bloody
work. Thus, of its nominal strength of 10,000, only
Soo were able to join Leman Russ' crusade, largely
operating as reconnaissance and linebreaker
formations in the tangled streets of Old Tizca.
Many of the Second were still equipped with

the older MkII pattern armour of the early Great
Crusade, eschewing the option to requisition
newer wargear in favour of the armour in which
they had conquered a galaxy. These suits were
much modified from the base pattern, having
been in service for nearly rwo centuries in some
of the oldest examples, and many bore exotic
decorations and honour markings as evidence of
their long service. In this case, Legionary Isem
has added a number of engravings, including
a protective Othala rune upon his gorget, most
likely a recent addition in preparation for the war
on Prospero, for it is held on Fenris as a talisman
against the powers of sorcery. The series of runes
on his abdominal plating, comprising a triad
of Fehu- Algiz- Wunja, or status, protection and
success in old Fenrisian, are a testimonial to his
skills at war, a common practise among the Vl'h
Legion for denoting leaders within warbands.
The wolf hide affixed to the right pauldron of his
armour is another Fenrisian tradition adopted
across the Legion, similar to the drake hunting
tradition of the XVIII'h Legion, and is again used
as a method of denoting dominance within a
warband by a display of prowess.
Shoulder Pauldrons with typical Space Wolves Markings:

Tactical Designation Emblem and Legion Icon.
SPACE wOLVES LEGION TERMINATOR
TERMINATOR THECN THORWAL K.INc's-BANE
THORWAL KINc's-BANE's WARBAND,
TWELFfH GREAT COMPANY
XANrR!ss I NSURRECTION, 999.M30
Tartaros pattern Terminator armour was the last
iteration of the Tactical Dreadnought Armour
project to reach mass production before the
outbreak of the Homs Heresy proper. By the
rime of the Battle for Tizca, only a few hundred
suits had been shipped to any of the Legions,
with a large proportion of these being marked
for the use of the Twelfth Great Company of the
Space Wolves. The Twelfth was known for its
bloody predilection for engaging in firefights at
cut-throat range, having earned the epithet the
'Shield Gnawers' for its belligerence and impetuous
assaults. This body of warriors was deemed ideal
for the combat trials of the new armour, with
the first such action occurring in the final year
of the 30•• Millennium. The fighting on Xantriss
proved both the capabilities of the armour as well
as the bloodthirsty nature of the Twelfth Great
Company. Initially a disciplinary action targeting
a battalion ofrogue Imperial Army troops, it
escalated into a full-scale purge conducted across
the remote feral moon the battalion had claimed
for its own, culminating with the execution of the
Imperial Army colond turned king. The battle,
fought predominantly through the subterranean
passageways of the inhospitable moon,
established the Tartaros pattern's reputation for
a high degree of manoeuvrability compared to
previous panerns.
The high level of ornamentation on Thorwal's

armour is typical of the Space Wolves command
echelons, where the number and complexity of
these patterns serves to idenrify both the skill and
seniority of its members in place of more standard
rank markings. Of note are the runic emblems
along Thorwal's chesrplate, which are intended
to ward off ill-fortune and malefic powers, and
the small heraldic rounds which display icons
attesting to his specialisation in the various skills
of warfare.
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VARAGYR THEGN 0RTH£LN OF THE BLOOD-WORM
TH£ Wou KINc's RrnNUE, FIRsrGwrCoMPANY
THE PROSPERINE CENSURE HOST, 004M 31
One of the hundred-strong Varagyr retinue
which accompanied the Wolf King during the
fighting at Tizca, Ortheln saw combat throughout
the anomalous event known as the 'Impossible
Battle'. After-action reports filed with the Divisio
Militaris and even a stanza in the Fenrisian Saga
of Prospero list Ortheln among the dead, yet in the
campaigns following the Prosperine Crusade, he
appears very much alive and active in the ranks
of the First Great Company. According to several
eye witnesses and the oral saga, Ortheln was slain
in the last few moments of the battle, one of the
few Space Wolves to have breached the walls of
the Pyramid of Photep, locked in combat with
members of the Thousand Sons Scarab Occult.
This confusing anomaly has been put down to
the influence of the Thousand Sons sorcery
that occluded the fleet's sensors and warped the
weather, though as the Horus Heresy erupted,
Ortheln is present at a surprising number of
incidents involving aberrant Warp activity.
The armour worn by Ortheln bears a number

of ornate decorations. Ritual knotwork covers
his pauldrons and gorger, the patterns having
great ritual significance to the Fenrisian warrior
cult that had spread throughout the VI'h Legion.
The intricate patterns on his pauldrons act as a
marker of the legend Ortheln had forged over
years of battle, but also serve a more practical
purpose by illustrating his tactical specialities for
ease of identification during battle. In addition
to the various decorative and pseudo-religious
symbols, Ortheln also carries a Fenrisian wolf
pelt and a number of fangs from the same beast,
such trophies served as badges of rank within the
Legion, often borne by squad leaders and veterans
in lieu of any other mark of office.
Modified Pauldron - Featuring 'Wynn Mark' Decoration

Geigor Fell-Hand is a trusted member of
Leman Russ' own Einltrr1ar. As a young
man, his rough temper was a liability,
but it never led him into a fight he could
not recover from. Matured over the
long decades of battle in the service of
the SpaceWolves, Geigor has learned
to harness the fires within his heart,
letting them flare only when his Legion
has need of them.
Now the grizzledWolf Guard is as

much a mentor as he is a champion.
Geigor has recently been sent by Russ
to keep vigil over the Legion's new
recruits; usually impetuous youths that
still cling to the glory-seeking mindset
of Fenris' barbaric tribes. Having been
through a similar journey himself,
Geigor makes an excellent role model
for these young hotheads, tempering
their fi r e with the hard-won wisdom of
a hundred invasions.
When the SpaceWolves Legion

received its orders to invade Prospero,
Geigor made haste to seek audience
with theWolf King. He had fought
alongside the Thousand Sons before,
against the Orks ofDroggorn, and for
a while they made exceptional allies.
However, at a critical moment Magnus
ordered his Thousand Sons to withdraw,
for he had uncovered the location of a
cache of ancient artefacts on Droggorn's
moon. He left in haste, reasoning the
SpaceWolves were able to carry the
day alone. Though Magnus' prediction
proved correct, a squadron of Ork
aircraft, no longer held at bay by the
Thousand Sons' Stormbirds, killed every
one of Geigor's pack in front of him.
The grudge Geigor bears against the

sorcerers of Prospero runs deep, and he
relished the chance for vengeance in the
name of his lost brothers. Russ agreed
to Geigor's personal request - to lead a
spearhead deep into Prospero and hunt
down the most powerful psykers in the
Thousand Sons Legion. The chance for
Fell-Hand's revenge was nigh.
ELDTHURSAR HAR SKRINN
FLAME LoRD OF THE SONS OF YM!R, ANCIENT OF THE THIRTEENTH GREAT COMPANY
THE PROSPERlNE CENSURE Hosr, THE IMPOSSIBLE BATILE, 004.M31
Also known as the Sons ofMuspel and the Destroyers of Worlds, the Eldthursar are the most violent of the Sons ofYmir, as the Space Wolves
sryle their Dreadnought cadres. Most often these warriors have suffered terribly before being placed within the Dreadnought's sarcophagus and
the pain of their death drives them to bouts of killing mania when left conscious. Rarely are they awoken unless the Legion requires the uner
annihilation of the enemy, for these war engines are not subtle weapons.
Eldthursar Skrinn was destroyed during the fighting on Prospero when his berserk fury drove him to stand against the immense power of the
Can is Vertex, yet even after his metal body was laid low by the Titan, the Eldthursar continued to twitch and claw impotently at the churning
heavens, his fury unquenched even in his final death.
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lcE LoRD OF THE SoNs OF YM1R, ANcrENT OF THE FouRrn GREAT COMPANY
. THE PROSPERINE CRUSADE, THE BREAKING OF THE ACROPOLIS MAGNA, 004.M 31
Renowned among even the biner ranks of the Hrimthursar for his grim demeanour and unremitting wrath, Therod was among those present for
the sundering of the Acropolis Magna's gates and the slaughter of all within. The systematic slaughter of rhe Prosperine Guard, whose weapons
proved linle more than annoyances to Therod's Dreadnought shell, continued for some hours before the Ancient deemed his wor~ complete.
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As with all Space Wolves Dreadnoughts, Therod's shell is replete with decora1ive iuscriptious arid designs, mostl y cummcmurating past <lcds an<l
victories. Of note is the Hagalaz rune on the Dreadnought's left greave, the mark of the Hrimthursar, the most hateful of all the Sons ofYmir, as
the Space Wolves named their Dreadnought cadres.
Such was the nature of the war on Prospero In addition to ground based armoured This, combined with the sheer area which
that many of the largest war engines of the spearheads, the complete aerial superiority the craft had to cover, forced these wings
Legion proved unsuitable for deployment achieved by the Imperium's forces in the to act as support for ground assaults rather
during its initial stages. The tangled streets initial stages of th e battle allowed them to than engaging in a policy of indiscriminate
and difficulty of deploying them without utilise aircraft in continuous ground support bombardment.
access to a safe landing zone for the vast bulk of the advancing Space Wolves claws and war
landers such vehicles required forced the packs. Such missions fell mainly to Storm Within the Space Wolves, as with the
Space Wolves to rely on lesser war machines Eagle and Fire Rapror gunships, as these craft majority of other Space Marine Legions,
to support th eir assaults. This included the were both nimble enough to keep pace with armoured and airborne assets were
various main battle tanks small enough to the frantic advance of the Space Wolves lines distributed at the chapter level, with each
be air lifted by Thun derhawk Transporters and sturdy enough to brave the anti-aircraft chapter - or Great Company in the VI 1h
and Khonsu pattern Stormbird transports, fire of ground batteries and man-portable Legion- maintaining a pool of such vehicles
including Vindicator tanks and Land heavy weaponry. Any strongpoint that to be assigned to combat detachments as
Raiders of various patterns. These armoured, stymied the initial assaults or was bypassed required. For the assault on Tizca, the vasr
but still highly mobile vehicles cleared by the advance felt the wrath of the airborne majority of these assets were deployed for
II major roadways and crossroads of enemy

fortifications, punching a hole th rough the
Prosperine defences so the Legion could
predators, whose relentless attacks swiftly
reduced them to nothing but tattered ruins
and ashes. The only limiting factor to the
combat in support of the VJ•h•s main force.
This relentless use of their firepower was
essential in the rapid advance of the Space
i prosecute the close range assa ults they use of airborne assets during the assault on Wolves Legion's units and formed the core
• Tizca was the need to retreat to low orbit to
favoured without facing the full weight of of Leman Russ' initial tactics for combating
the enemy's fuepower. rearm, forcing the Space Wolves to utilise fellow Legiones Astartes warriors.
rotating wings of ground attack craft in
order to maintain pressure on the enemy.
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assa ult whose ancient augur arrays have long since been removed to allow these venerable vehicles to carry
a full squad of Space Wolves. The Pawn ofYmgr was part of the mai n advance on the ternple-arcologies, along
with a mixed formation of some fifty Land Raiders drawn from va rious Great Companies, one of several
whose hulls were scoured to burned and rwisted metal by the Thousand Sons.
Storm Eagle 'The Red Storm of Fenris':

Attached to the Second Great Company, this
Storm Eagle saw action through almost the
entire Battle ofTizca, making thirteen separate
orbital transfers to rearm and repair. By the end
of the fighting, the crew recorded an expenditure
of some fifty-two Tempest rockets, seventeen
lascannon macro-charge cells and eight
combustion flasks. The vast majority of these
munitions were expended in the reduction of
various redoubts concealed within the baroque
architecture of Tizca, often remaining undetected
by ground forces until the defenders opened .fire.
The Red Storm of Fenris met its end making low
altitude dive attacks with its melta cannon, having
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The temple-arcologies of Prospero's However, on arrival at Prospero a more In total, over fifty Caestus Assault Rams
principal psyker Cults were among the brutally direct strategy was made available, were deployed in three squadrons, targeting
primary objectives of any invasion ofTizca, one dictated by an unexpected rwist in those temple-arcologies in the direct path
for they served both as the headquarters the defe nce of the planet- the absence of the Censure Host, those of rhe Athanaen,
for the various branches of the Thousand of the Thousand Sons fleet. Considered a Raptora and Corvidae Cults. Of these assaults
Sons hierarchy as well as the most fortified significant threa t to the Censure Host, the the most dramatic was that made upon the
strongholds in that great city. Each of these massed void craft of the Thousand Sons Raptora Cult, for the razor edge of the 'kine'
structures encompassed training halls, fleet had been another focus of contingency shields that protected its armoured flanks
barracks and armouries for a full Fellowship planning, with the fleet possessing a number tore apart almost all of the aircraft assigned
as well as housing an d other facilities for of assets intended purely to combat it. Yet to the attack, releasing a shower of grey·
several thousand thralls and dependenrs, on arrival at Prospero, the fleet was not to be armoured corpses upo n the battlefield below.
all within a relatively small footprint due found and those assets sat unused, including Only two of the craft survived to im pact
i to the complex internal construction and several squadrons of fully equipped Caesrus the upper levels of the temple-arcology,
i! layered sub-levels. With deeply sunk internal
generators and extensive hydroponic
Assault Rams. These craft, designed to
pierce the armoured hulls of void craft and
releasin g over a dozen of the Black Cull into
the structure. Their numbers insufficient
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facilities, they were also close to self- disgorge Legiones Astanes warriors into to affect a full assault, the warriors of that
f sufficient and in the event of a siege could their vulnerable inte rio rs, were ill-suited to dour cult separated into smaller teams and
likely last for years without outside aid, a atmosphe ric operations or ground attack attempted to fight their way to the more
fact the Censure Host's planners were well roles, and had originally been disregarded vulnerable systems of the arcology, intending
aware 0£ As such, each of these fortresses by the distant strategists of Terra in such to set off the phosphex charges they carried.
would need to be taken by storm as early as actions. Yet, in the immediacy of t he battle Of their exact fare little is known for none
possible in order to avoid a pro tracted and for Prospero, the Space Wolves showed survived the assault, bur during the ferocious
costly siege. l ittle hesitancy in co-opting the unused craft fighting at rhe foot of the arcology, three
for a new mission: the assault on the separate internal explosions that served
remple-arcologies. to debilitate the structure's defe nces were
recorded by those fighti ng outside.
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squadron sent against the Raptora to survive the battle, this was one of rwo to finally penetrate the screen of
'kine' shields that protected the temple-arcology, breaking the armoured hide of the vast structure in a dive
at maximum velocity. This initial assault left the craft pinned in the jagged wound it had created, trapped by
the broken spars of the arcology's superstructure, and the crew abandoned the assault ram to join the attack
on the temple. After the battle it was recovered and returned to service with honour.
THE SKYFALLEN FORTRESS
The 6.rst and most vital step in the invasion bearing Khonsu class Stormbirds and along the foothills of the White Mountains
ofTizca was the creation and defence of a nearly 30 of the monstrous Apophis class to the warehouses that lined the border of
secure beachhea<l. The Space Wulves lacke<l Sturmbirds, whose uminous appe:mmce an<l the Palatinate Mansions gardens. Once on
the IV'h Legion's expertise with the orbital vast wingspan bad earned them the popular the ground, the void arrays of the assembled
dropping of pre-fabricated fortifications title of'Sunkillers'. ships formed a shimmering, overlapping
and they were forced to turn to other means barrier centred on the gathered Apophis class
of securing such a beachhead. The Wolf The fleet of Storm birds performed a complex Stormbirds and reaching almost half a mile
King chose the most direct approach and landing operation, forming up in a helix in height.
embarked the majority of the first wave pattern along the outskirts of Tizca's ancient
upon the various orbital transports available surface port, with the largest craft at the This combined energy screen was of such
in the fleet. This wave of Stormbirds and centre. Such an assemblage covered a vast potency that along its huge perimeter
transports included over 300 smaller Sokar area, visible from orbit as a jagged field of numerous buildings were damaged by arcing
class Stormbirds, nearly xoo of the vehicles grey that stretched from the port's outskirts power flares or short lived electrical storms
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directed at it by the Prosperine Guard was Sokar Class Stormbird, 'Ever-hungry Hawk of
repelled as if it were no more than errant Aelle': Identified by the runic inscription upon its
rain. Under this protective envelope of tail, this is one of the Srormbirds deployed by the
energy, the Space Wolves disembarked from VJ•h Legion during landing operations in Tizca.
their transports at little threat from enemy Unlike many of the combat vehicles employed
fire. The majoriry of their number was to by the Space Wolves, this Stormbird shows
immediately einbark on offensive operations
while a small number stayed within the
cordon to act as a securiry force in case of an
remarkably little in the way of decoration, bearing
only a few simple crimson stripes. Indeed, it was
not uncommon for the Space Wolves to display a
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by the orbiting tacticians as the 'Skyfallen
to keep their feet upon the ground, save in the most
dire of circumstances. Their dislike even extended
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Imperium's troops, as well as an ammunition of this particular vehicle being a reference to the
and supply depot and grand field hospital. ill-favoured vulture analogues ofFenris. tl
Without its presence, it is likely that the
conquest ofTizca would have reaped a far u fl
higher toll in lives from the attackers.
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Veteran Squad Command Legion lcon with Numeral Legion Icon with Legion Icon with
Vanguard Assaulr Badge Approved Assault Variant
Unification Wars Legion Icon Legion Icon legion Command

Veteran Honour with Veteran Badge with Tactica I Badge
Line Command Veteran Honour Legion Icon with Informal Destroyer Variant
with Legion lcon Heavy Support Badge
I \fPERJJ\l. F1~TS L EGION H ELMM ARKI NGS

At the time of the Battle of Phall, many variant helm markings were being formalised into an approved scheme. With the units of the
Retribution fleet being recalled from many disparate campaigns, a range of schemes were to be seen among the Imperial Fists who
fought at Phall. Displayed below are: Early Crusade Legionary, Mid Crusade Legionary, Late Crusade Heavy Support Sergeant,
Veteran Sergeant, Heavy Support Legionary and Veteran Sergeant.
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These approved secondary markings indicate a Veteran Where made possible by the configuration of a Legionary's
Sergeant, a long-service Veteran, a Tactical Legionary and an battle plate, additional markings may be worn, such as the
Assault Legionary. twinned headsman's axes of Seneschal Rann's company and
the heraldic cross worn by many Great Crusade veterans.
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Tm CoNQUEs1 on HE SoIAR SYSTEM
This depiction of an early Great Crusade era
warrior of the VII1h Legion is based upon a
sculpture rendered in stabilised unbinilium that
once stood in the Hall of Tribute in the Imperial
Palace on Terra. The specific markings indicate
the depiction represents an actual figure and is
not simply an idealised archetype. The newly-
forged Mkl I armour bears several motifs used
extensively throughout the Terran Unification
Wars, and the eagle and lightning flash device
on the left shoulder pauldron makes it likely the
warrior was a veteran of the very first wars of
Compliance fought beyond the Sol System.
Of particular note is the use of yellow heraldry on

several segments of the Legionary's armour. The
fact that the colouration is limited to the right
arm and shoulder date the original rendition to
just afler the Fall of Roma and the helmet stripe,
along with the arrow and laurel on the shoulder,
marks the Legionary as a sergeant of a Legion
Tactical squad.
Panoply of War
I. Phobos Pattern Bolter with Chainblade
Combat Attachment: Kepler-Dorsum Forge
Issue, 805.M30.
2. Combat Knife: Terran Unification Issue.
3. Krak and Frag Grenades.
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IMPERIAL FISTS TACTICAL SUPPORT LEGIONARY
l EGfONARY ARNFRfED
34Tll SQUAD, 140TI COMPM'Y,
lMPERfAL FTST5 LEGION wARSHIP- LACEDAEMON
BAITLE OF Pl-lALl
The 341h Squad had only recently joined the complement
of Lhe .Lacedaemon, having been recalled along with
the majority of the 1401h Company from Complian ce
enforcemen t duties in the turbulent region coreward
of the Hangman's Void. The new duty was welcomed as
a great honour, for the Lacedaemon was a veteran of the
first Imperial Fists eA.'Peditions of the Great Crusade.
The vessel sustained grievous damage traversi ng the
Warp to the Phall System and several dozen members of
the I401" Company were losr in what mighr have been
a catastrophic breach had not the section ofthe vessel
rhey were embarked in been jettisoned.
Legion ary Arn fried and his battle-brothers are known .i

to have defended the Lacedaemon against several
Iron Warriors boar<li ng actions during the Battle of
Phall, but further accounts of their stoic deeds go
unrecorded. Th e tacedaemon was destroyed during the
Imperial Fists disengagement from the l ron Warriors
fleet and it is held as extremely unlikely that Arnfrie<l,
or any warriors of the J 40th Company, could possibly
have survived the carnage.
The Legionary is depicted here clad in late production

MkIII banle plate, rhe raptor and lightning bolts
Unification icon worn prominently on the chest. The
crossed swords symb ol on his leg armour were used
as an army badge by many different Imperial units
underraking Compliance enforcem ent operations
near the Hangman's Void, and was still worn by the
members of the 140111 Company at the time of the Battle
of Phall. The arrow on the right forearm marks him as
a member of a Tactical line unit, in this case a support
squad, a symbol in widespread use by the time of the
Battle of Phall.
Panoply of War
Primus Mkll Pattern Meltagun.
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LEGIONARY Gmm-IER
64m SQUAD, 344TH COMPAl>.'Y,
IMPERIAL FISTS wARSHlP - OATH OF STONE
BArnE or PHAll
The 344 th Company was a veteran coumer-assault
formation, specialising in the active defence of
fortresses. Configured as a Legion assault squad, such
units were adept at sallying forth from fortifications
in order to deny any attacker the initiative. When
Dorn learned of the Warmaster's betrayal and gathered
the Retribution fleet, Gunther's unit was hurriedly
recalled from its assignment to serve on the Oath of
Stone. When the Iron Warriors attacked, Gunther and
his brothers were mustered to a void assault against
the grand cruiser Atropos, using Lheir jump packs to
propel themselves across the void as the enemy vessel
closed. Within minutes of the assault however, the
Oath of Stone was herself destroyed, casting any of 64th
Squad who had survived the explosion to the void.
Nothing more is known of the Atropos, and so the fare
of Legionary Gunther, like so many thousands of his
brothers, must remain known only to providence.
legionary Gunther is depicted wearing the

predominantly black heraldry of a veteran of the
catastrophe of the War of the Howling Gyre, as well
as the Great Crusade Veteran's Cross. The symbol on
his chest armour marks his unit as serving in fortress
defence, the lightning bolts indicating its participation
in the Terran Unification War.
Panoply of War
I. Thunder Edge Pattern Chainsword.
2. Phobos Pattern Bolt Pistol.
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VETERAN SERGEANT ARMAND
62s SQUAD) 55™ COMPANY,
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TAKING or THE CoNTRADOR, BATILE OF PHALL
The bulk of the 55'h Company was serving on
board the Tn.bune when the Retribution fleet was
formed. When, at the height of the battle, Polux
ordered the seizing of the Iron Warriors vessel
Contrador, only the 55•h Company's Breacher
squads were included in the counter-boarding
action, the remainder remaining on the doomed
Tribune to exact as heavy a toll on their attackers.
The 62nd Squad teleported onto the Contrndor
alongside Alexis Polux himself and Ahmand was
at his side throughout. Ahmand survived the
Battle of Ph all, though it was many long years
before accounts of it were recounted to and
recorded by the Order ofRemembrancers.
Ahmand's shield bears the chevron of a sergeant,

marked as a veteran by the central diamond,
as well as the numeral of the 62nd Squad. The
twinned axes symbol commonly was a battle
honour for triumph in Zone Mortalis operations
but was also entering use at this period as a
particular badge of those who had served with the
famed Imperial Fists Seneschal Rann. Ahmand,s
red helm also identifies him as a sergeant, and the
white stripe as a veteran, while the symbol on his
forearm was commonly used to identify vanguard
attack squads such as Breachers.
Panoply of War
r. Mars-Proteus Pattern Glaive-Axe.
2. Tigris Pattern Bolt Pistol.
3. MkXIX Lucifer Pattern Melta Bomb.

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AssAULT oN THE lRoN Bwou, BAmE OF PRALL
The 2nd Assault Echelon was amongst the first
units of the Tmperial Fists Legion to be issued
with Cataphractii Tactical Dreadnought Armour,
and its members were masters in a range of heavy
assault doctrines. At the Battle of Phall, all of the
Legion's Tactical Dreadnought Armour equipped
warriors were gathered into a single body and
placed under the command of Captain Amandus
Tyr, Kord's commanding officer. When Tyr led
the attack against the Iron Warriors warship
Iron Blood in a desperate mission to slay the
Primarch Perturabo, the 2 'J Assault Echelon
went into battle at his side. Practically nothing
is known of that attack, for contact was all bur
impossible once it was undenvay, meaning those
brave souls counted amongst its ranks could not
be recalled when the remainder of the Imperial
Fists fleet disengaged from the Iron Warriors in
the final stages of the Battle of Phall.
legionary Kord 1s depicted here in the black

and gold ofh1s particular company heraldry.
The armorial shield at his shoulder indicates
Kord's membership of a senior vanguard assault
formation, adorned with additional Icons of
Moment. Kord was a Terran, unlike most of his
peers in the 61h Company, who were born on
lnwit. Unlike many other Legions however, such
distinctio11s meant very little and were rarely
discernible; Lord Dorn teaching that, as the
sma1lest hairline crack might doom the mightiest
of walls, "division is weakness" and therefore
anathema to all that the Vllth Legion stood for.
Panoply of War
1. Phaestos Pattern Heavy Flamer.
IMPERIAL FISTS TERMINATOR
LEGIONARY FASOLr
I2lll SQUAD, 41} COMPANY,
IMPERIAL F1srs WARSHIP - BLADE OF PERnmoN
BA1 IU OF PHALL
Faso It fought under his Primarch's stern gaze
throughout dozens of wars of Compliance,
travelhng the length and breadth of the rapidly
expanding Imperium aboard the Phalanx.
When Dorn mustered the Retribution fleet,
the 4 1b Company was serving alongside others
of its Chapter under the notoriously bellicose
Seneschal Rann. During the Battle of Phall, Fasolt
participated in the Blade of Perdition's hit and run
action against the Iron Warriors heavy cruiser S1re
of Saba/des, teleporting into the warship's central
armoury and planting a melta charge that, when it
detonated, set off a chain reaction and destroyed
the entire vessel and its crew. By the time the
survivors of 121h Squad had rerurned to the
BLade of Perdition, Fleet Master Polux had issued
the order to withdraw and it is characteristic of
Seneschal Rann and his warriors that the Blade
was one of the very last to obey.
legionary Fasolt's Cataphractii Terminator

armour bears the twinned axes on a red shield
icon used by many units under Seneschal Rann's
command, and the cross on his right forearm
marks him as a veteran of his company. The fist
and lightning boles surmounted on black on the
armour's lefc grieve indicates that Fasolt fought
in a campaign led by the Emperor himself, an
honour I hat many mark for prosperity.
Panoply of War
1 . Charatran Pattern Chainaxe.
2. Phobos Pattern Combi-bolter.

IMPERIAL FISTS CONTEMPTOR DREADNOUGHT
Jusnc1 GttuNFRIED
TERRAN HousEHOLD GUARD (DETACHED m.m), lMPERIAL FISTS WARSHIP- TRIBlNE,
BArrLE OF PHALL
Justici Ghunfried was a Terran recruit of the VII1h Legion and a veteran of the earliest campaigns of the Great Crusade; amongst his numerous
battle honours are listed: Ummaos, Ur Secondus and Mount Orros. He rose to the rank of veteran sergeant of one of the very fust Phalanx Warder
squads established, and it was in this role that he fell in glory in the battle that saw the Dead Emperors of the Onyx Manse cast down in flames.
When his blasted body was recovered from the aftermath of that apocalyptic battle, life was found to linger yet and Ghunfried was interred within
the armoured sarcophagus of a mighty Contemptor Dreadnought.
Justici Ghunfried is depicted on the eve of the Battle of the PhaJl System, equipped with the artificer-wrought breaching drill created at his
behest. His Contemptor's armour bears numerous honours and sigils, including the red shield of the Legion's Terran Household Guard Chapter,
and the lightning flashes that mark him as a veteran of the Terran Unification. His red helm with white stripe is ati idiosyncratic reminder of the
Juscici's previous rank of veteran sergeant, an affectation for which he was well known and respected throughout the Legion.
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The Imperial Fists Legion committed of Terra, Mars and dozens of other centres to create a breach into which its passengers
almost its entire fleet of warships to the of materiel production. The Thunderhawk can assault the innards of its target. The craft
prosecution of the Warmaster's traitors at Gunship saw service in void combat is further protected by an array of shield
the lsstvan system, a naval force rivalling intercepting enemy torpedoes, screening generators, and without its inertial dampers
the grandest Expeditionary fleets of the larger vessels and mounting daring attack even the Space Marines within would be
Great Crusade. Jn addition to the hundreds runs against the foe's lighter escort ships. crushed by the impact.
of battleships, cruisers, destroyers and Dedicated boarding craft such as the
frigates of a staggering array of classes and Kharybdis and the Dreadclaw were fired The Imperial Fists were masLers in the
displacemenLs, Lhe fleet was possessed of across the void lo burn their way through deployment of entire aLLack wings of the
thousands of smaller attack craft used for the armoured flanks of an enemy. One of Caestus, utilising them according to the
a variety of roles in any battle in the cold the most potent craft in this class was the Legion's doctrine that void battles were in
void. ALLhe Battle of Phall, all were pressed Caestus Assault Ram, a brutal weapon used essence sieges in space fought not in two,
into service, and no effort was spared in large numbers by the Imperial Fists but in three dimensions. They committed
during the engagement against the Traitor legion throughout the Great Crusade. hw1dreds of Caestus to the Battle of Phall
Iron Warriors. and though scores were lost as the void itself
The Caestus is possessed of the heaviest burned with the sheer ferocity of the battle,
The Impe1ial Fists had access to a wide armour of any craft of its size, but even numerous boarding actions were successfully
range of attack craft, some unique and this is insufficient to protect it from the conducted and dozens ofrron Warriors
pre-dating the Great Crusade and others staggering forces generated when it smashes warships were reduced to burning hulks
wrought in their thousands in the forges and burns its way through enemy armour thanks to the efforts of their crews.
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from which the VII'h Legion of old once recruited, the Haraanburg was part of the 43'J Assault Wing. The craft was
deployed from the Imperial Fists warship Blade of Perdition at the Battle of Phall, completing three boarding actions against
enemy vessels before withdrawing along with the rearguard of rhc Legion's fleet.
THE TRIBUNE
IMPERIAL Frsrs FLAGSHIP AT THE BATILE OF PHALL
The Imperial Fists modified 'Victory' class fleet engagements and countless smaller The Tribune's long and glorious service
battleship Tribune served as the flagship of clashes throughout more than a century of came to a fiery end when Fleetmaster Polux
FleeLmasLer Alexis Polux al the Battle of Phall. war. Her pitted armoured flanks proudly was forced into the desperate measure of
She was destroyed in action against the Iron bear scars earned in battle against every sacrificing her to escape the lron Warriors'
Warriors battle barge the Contrador at the very conceivable foe, from the tyrants of Old attack at Phall with as many of his Imperial
climax of that devastating fleet confrontation. Night and remnant human empires denying Fists and crew as possible. Drawing the
Compliance, to the phantasmal void craft of mighty Contrador into a boarding action
The Tribune was a product of the ship yards the Eldar and the unnamed xenos horror- that saw the Tribune overwhelmed by the
oflnwit, the home world of the Legiones ships that lurk in the cold depths of space. vengeful sons of Perturabo, Polux led his
Astartes Imperial Fists. As such, she was
one vessel in a renowned class, the names •
of her sister ships appearing in countless
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rolls of honour throughout the mid and later
Great Crusade era. The Tribune is listed as
participating in over three hundred major
own sally, hundreds of his warriors crossing
over to the Contrador to take her intact even
as the Tribune floundered. Even before
the Contrador was taken, the Mechanicurn
enginseers left on board Lhe Tribune enacted
the Fleetmaster's final command, overloading
her plasma reactors and destroying herself,
Lhe bold defenders who remained to draw
the enemy, and hundreds ofiron Warriors.
Though a terrible loss, the Tribune's sacrifice

allowed thousands to escape that they might
serve their Primarch and the Emperor
anoth er day, adding crucial numbers to the
defence of Terra. 1. Navigators' Tabernacle: 4. Plasma Drives: Laid down at Jnw1t.
Retracts into armoured core during Modified 788.M30 b y Mechanicum
Materium voyages. plasma-wrights at Ryza.
2. 'Honourium Galaxia': Armoured stem, 5. Legion Icon of the Imperial Fists:
insec with stained annourglas panels Cur from a single piece of onyx rendered
depicting stellar cartography of galactic in tribute to the Imperium by the
regions conquered by the Tnbune and her recently Compliant Ring ofNimboth.
sister ships. 6. .tEtheric Augur Vanes: Mind impulse-
3. Broadside Weapons Batteries: linked to Navigator Primaris.
Massed weapons stations mount a 7. Armoured Prow: Bears golden Aquila.
wide range of ordnance, including 8. Prow Torpedo Tubes: Fire standard,
macro cannon, fusion beamers and short-burn and seeking ordnance.
plasma launchers. Some of the Tribune's Cyclonic, vortex and virus ordnance
weapons are far less classifiable, held in limited stocks in primary stasis
predating the rise of the Imperium and magazine.
are as yet unknown to the Machine Lore 9. 'Mundus Infernus':
Questers of the Mechanicum. Planetary Assault Petard.
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HERALDRY OF THE NIGHT LORDS
These banners are typical

of the later heraldry of the
Night Lords, and heavily
influenced by the hive gangs
ofNostramo, Cairn and
other benighted worlds of
that distant sector. Much
of the ordered heraldry
of the old Terran Legion
has been replaced by the
more haphazard icons
of individual warlords,
displaying favoured trophies
and sobriquets to intimidate
and terrorise a foe.
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This MkIII pauldron shows An older example of Legion A MkVI pauldron from The Screaming Skull insignia,
a traditional Nostraman heraldry, borne by a Terran Nostramo. The insignia is that shown here in crimson on
command insignia. The red veteran of the old Legion. of the Grave Lords street gang, a MkIV pauldron, is often
field indicates the owner was It features the newer icon which supplied a large number associated with those of the
under official sanction. favoured by the Night Haunter. of Night Lords recruits. Night Lords that favoured
the Warmaster.
The Cross 'o Bones that served Another depiction of the The Red Gauntlet, displayed A traditional Night Lords
to identify the Faceless Prince. Screaming Skull. The here on a Mklll pauldron, emblem. Likely this is intended
The inscription translates accompanying inscription had come to indicate a to serve during rare Imperium
roughly to 'The strong prosper, the features the Nostraman runes loyalty to Jago Sevatarion parades when the more macabre
wealt suffer. for 'empire' and 'destroy'. and the restoration of the battle plate would
Night Haunter. be frowned upon.
NIGHT LORDS TACTICAL SUPPORT SPACE MARINE
UNIDENTIFIED LEGIONARY
UNIDENTIFIED COMPANY
lSS'IVAN V, POST DROPSITE MASSACRE PURSUIT -
RECORDED IN CAPTURED PICT-FOOTAGE
Although his name and formation are unknown,
the Legionary depicted here is marked as a
member of a Night Lords Legion tactical support
squad by the white of his helmet and cuirass plate.
His corpse was discovered fifty kilometres north
of the Urgall Depression. Much of the extensive
weathering of the Legionary's MkIV power
armour is ingrained, suggesting he was operating
in the field under intense combat conditions
for an extended period, making it likely he was
involved in the ninety-eight day hunt for those
few Loyalists who escaped the slaughter at the
Isstvan V dropsite.
The lightning arc motif visible on several sections

of this Legionary's armour is generated by
sophisticated sub-surface arco projectors used by
many amongst the Night Lords to inspire fear and
dread in their enemies.
Panoply of War
I. Tigrus pattern bolt pistol: Standard issue
Legionary side arm. Note: Legion iconography.
2. Mars-Omega pattern volkite caliver:

A weapon much favoured by many tactical
support squads amongst the Night Lords legion
for its terrifying and highly destructive effect.
3. Tigrus-Exitus pattern boltgun: Heavily

modified Tigrus pattern bolter used by
designated Legionaries in a sniper role.
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SQUAD TYNOK ('TENTH BLOODED'),
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NIGHT LORDS 7iHCOMPANY ('HARBINGERS OF NOCNIT A )
IssrvAN V DROPSITE MA SACRE

The Tenth Blooded, under Squad Sergeant Uritzon Tynok, is known to have
been amongst the first of the Night Lords squads to have fired upon their
erstwhile brother Legions at Isstvan V Indeed, some have even suggested that
the squad took great pains to insinuate itself into a deployment position from
which they might be first to reveal their treachery, a perfidy compounded by
accusations that the squad actually fired before they were ordered to do so by
the 7ih Company's Captain.
As a Terror squad, the members of the Tenth Blooded display a range of grisly
adornments that would later become common throughout the entire Legion.
The hanging of bones and the application of death mask symbols to helmets
lend the Legionaries a fearsome aspect indeed, and one intended to deepen
still further the utter terror they delight in sowing in the hearts of the enemy.
r. MkIVc power arm.our auto-reactive pauldron, adorned with VIIIth

Legion winged skull iconography.
2. Nostram.an glaive-axe (kill markings patterned on ceremonial weapon

carried by court executioner).
3. Tigrus pattern bolter with com.bat blade attachment.
4. Phobos pattern bolter (note crudely applied kill markings).
5. Norn.us pattern rotor cannon.

Squad Sergeant Tynok
Legionary Vartan Legionary Kevark
Legionary Sevan Legionary Vosk
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NIGHT LORDS ASSAULT SQUAD SERGEANT
TALON-MASTER Vrnrns
TWELFTH FORLORN,
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22ND COMPANY (THE NIGHT-SCITHES )
URGALL PuRSurrTALo
Talon-master Vibius was a Terran, albeit one who
had only served with the VIIIth Legion for scant
months before it was united with its Primarch.
His records indicate that Vibius found his
dark nature compatible with that of the Night
Haunter, and adapted well when the Primarch
took command of his Legion. Vibius was quick
to ascend to squad command, but there found his
rise stymied as other, Nostramo-born, Legionaries
were promoted above him. He is known to have
engaged in a number of honour duels against
other Talon-masters, hinting at a bloody and bitter
feud simmering beneath the surface amongst the
ranks of the 22°d Company.
It is believed Talon-master Vibius survived the

lsstvan V battles, engaging in the pursuit of
surviving Raven Guard in the aftermath of the
Dropsite Massacre. He is known to have clashed
with several other Talon-masters throughout the
pursuit operations and to have slain a number of
them in a series of clashes which saw him wrest
control of the entire 22°d Company.
Panoply of War
I. MkIV Power Armour Detail: Talon-master
Vibius depicted on day nine of the Battle of
Isstvan V Note severed heads on chain about
waist; these appear too small to represent the
heads of other Astartes, but Vibius is known
to have defeated at least two dozen Loyalist
Legionaries on the first day of the battle alone.
Also note damage to arco projectors, leading to
limited replication of lightning motif
2. Ryza 'Sunspite' pattern plasma pistol.
3. MkXIX 'melta bomb' (note idiosyncratic

lightning charge adornment); MkVc 'krak'
grenade; Mkll 'frag' grenade.
4. Umbra pattern bolter with chainblade

combat attachment.
3.
VIIITH LEGION CRIMSON SONS VETERAN
UNIDENTIFIED LEGIONARY
CRIMSON SONS, 0ATHBONDED TO ROGUE TRADER
MILITANT LoRD GoTHA, KING OF OxrTANIA
lSSTVAN V DROPSITE MASSACRE, UNKNOWN PHASE
The Crimson Sons were formed from the
remnants of the VIII1h Legion's 9th Company
midway through the Terran Unification Wars
- that formation having suffered near total
destruction during the pacification of the
wasteland domain of Oxitania. The Emperor, in
his beneficence, offered the king of Oxitania the
rank of Rogue Trader in remission of execution
The Crimson Sons retained a degree of the

Legion's early heraldry and fought as a coherent
unit, serving alongside the Rogue Trader Gotha
before returning to the Legion's fold. The
current status and whereabouts of the Crimson
Sons is unknown, and it is possible they were
slain during the battles which followed the
Dropsite Massacre.
Panoply of War
1. Ceramite combat shield.
2. Breacher charge.
3. Phobos pattern bolt pistol.
4. Primus MkII pattern meltagun.
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LEGIONARY YERIAC GNAR
THRAMAS CRUSADE
44lH REAVER BATIAllON, 431D CHAl'I'ER
Legionary Gnar was attached to the forces that
ravaged the Thramas sector in the early stages of
the Thramas Crusade, one among the thousands
given orders to reap a toll of blood and carnage
upon those worlds that had fallen into the
possession of the Vlllth Legion. This was no
careful campaign of fear, enacted to force those
stubborn Loyalist strongholds that remained to
bow the knee before the Night Haunter, but one
whose sole aim was slaughter and the building
of petty kingdoms among the ruins of the failing
Imperium. Marked by the Cross of Bone, as seen
on Gnar's left vambrace, these reaver battalions
followed the lead of Night Lords warlords such as
Nakrid Thole and Cel Herec in taking what they
deemed their deserved share of the Imperium's
wealth and eschewed the aims and wishes of
Primarch and Warmaster.
These powerful warlords, whose influence had

grown within the Legion as the Night Haunter's
madness had swelled, gathered to themselves
the pick of those resources available to the Night
Lords. A prime example is the advanced MkVI
battle plate worn by Legionary Gnar, of which
the Legiones Astartes had received but a few
scattered shipments before the Horus Heresy
had put an end to the supply lines that had once
served them. Of all the Legions, the Night Lords
had received relatively few such shipments, and
armour of this mark was largely limited to the 9th,
14th, 27th, and 43rd Chapters - all of which bore the
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mark of the Cross of Bone.
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HEADSMAN REHK NAHMRIS, 9T11 DECIMATION BRIGADE, YAELIS EXPANSE CAMPAIGN
Operating as part of a deployment of three separate Chapters of the Night Lords, Headsman Nahmris and the Assault squads
assigned to his command participated in the cleansing of three worlds, a campaign lasting nearly three months. In each case they
faced only light opposition, most often in the form of Solar Auxilia detachments of the Thramassi Nightwatch, and were easily
able to slaughter those that openly opposed them. The majority of the campaign would be spent in the systematic and brutal
annihilation of the main planetary population centres, driving the inhabitants into the wilderness to starve. Such campaigns
served as an object lesson to those who would oppose the Night Haunter and were key in forcing a number of surrenders by
more heavily-forti1ied worlds. Headsman N ahmris himself was hailed for his zeal in such operations and would end the Thramas
Crusade at the rank of Centurion thanks to his efforts.
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HUNTMASTER THERUN
HUNTMASI'ER THERUN KAR.GAS
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Sporting the
Sporting the modified
modified MkIV
MkIV armour
armour that
that was
was preferred
preferred by
by the
the Night
Night Lords
Lords elite
elite Raptors,
Raptors, Huntmaster
Huntmaster Kargas
Kargas is
is typical
typical of
of the
the i
Night Lords
Night Lords as
as aa Legion
Legion by
by the
the end
end of
of the
the Thramas
Thramas Crusade.
Crusade. Of
Of particular
particular note
note are
are the
the numerous
numerous gruesome
gruesome trophies
trophies that
that adorn
adorn his
his +
armour,aa practise
armour, practise that
that had
had become
become ever
ever more
more common
common amongst
amongst the
the Night
Night Lords
Lords after
after the
the Night
Night Haunter
Haunter inherited his position
inherited his position 4
as Primarch,
as Primarch, and
and the
the Nostraman
Nostraman gang
gang signs
signs etched
etched on
on parchment
parchment andand affixed
affixed directly
directly toto the
the battleplate,
battleplate, each
each likely
likely noting
noting some
some ;
ongoing feud
ongoing feud within
within the
the Legion.
Legion. Little
Little remained
remained of
of the
the old
old VIIIth
VIII" Legion
Legion that
that had
had departed
departed Terra
Terra in
in glory,
glory, for
for even
even the
the oldest
oldest %
Terran veterans
Terran veterans were
were now
now subsumed
subsumed into
into the
the vicious
vicious and
and bloodthirsty
bloodthirsty Nostraman
Nostraman cultcult that
that had
had infected
infected the
the Night
Night Lords
Lords -—aa curse
curse :
that would
that would only
only grow
grow stronger
stronger as
as the
the Horus
Horus Heresy
Heresy continued.
continued. :
NIGHT LORDS VETERAN LEGIONARY
LEGIONARY ENDROS SHEK
THRAMAS CRUSADE
9™ TERROR COMPANY, r8™ CHAmR
One of many Night Lords warriors but recently
raised to the Legion from the ruined world of
Nostramo, Shek is typical of that malicious breed.
Raised among the street gangs ofNostramo, he
and his brethren paid more heed to the barbaric
honour codes that had governed those fractious
clans than to the dictates of the Principia Bellicosa,
the doctrines of war that were the basis of the
old Legiones Astartes. By the beginning of the
Thramas Crusade, the 18th Chapter of the Night
Lords had become little more than a warped
mirror of Nostramo's dark side, more piratical
marauders than soldiers of the Imperial Truth
and little given to the discipline that had once
characterised their breed.
During the Thramas Crusade, the 18th Chapter

was one of many involved in the reduction of
morale in the Thramas sector, striking at isolated
and vulnerable targets on Loyalist worlds with the
utmost ferocity. Such raiding forces left behind
little but gruesome trophies of their conquests,
seeking to break the foe's will to fight and spread
fear throughout the Loyalist defenders of the
sector. The 18th Chapter would see some early
success but falter when confronted by elements
of the Dark Angels during later battles, the First
Legion's fury stoked by the tales of the atrocities
committed by the Night Lords.
The Bloody Hand was the unofficial emblem of The standard heraldry in use by the Night Lords
the Night Lords terror battalions. at the time of the Thramas Crusade.
NIGHT LORDS VETERAN LEGIONARY
EXECUTIONER E NDROS SHEK
DESPERATION PACIFICATION DETACHMENT
9™TERROR COMPANY, 18™CHAITER
The VIII'h Legion had always been known for
its excesses; as renowned for the massacres it
left in its wake as for the victories it brought the
vast armies of the Great Crusade. Yet by 01r.M31
they had cast off the last semblance of rational
military logic, and where once the slaughters,
culling pits and flaying of the defeated had been
considered part of a greater military strategy, a
blood-spattered means to a more noble end, they
had become an end unto themselves. Lost in an
endless nightmare of blood and death, the Night
Lords Legion echoed the descent of their lord
into madness and abomination.
This pict recording, salvaged from the ruins of the

hive world of Desperation by the XIII'h Legion
in the wake of their assault, depicts Endros Shek,
whose infamous Terror units were amongst
those Night Lords forces who participated in
the Culling of Desperation. In the hours before
the Ultramarines made planetfall, the Night
Lords ofShek's detachment set to the slaughter
of the population of Desperation, preferring to
render those they could not control into gore-
spattered fetishes rather than allow them to fall
into the hands of the enemy. By the time the
first of the azure-blue landing craft of the XIII'h
Legion touched down on Desperation, the hive
towers were draped in the shorn skins of their
inhabitants, and the midnight heraldry of the
Night Lords was obscured by a glistening sheen
of arterial red.
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NIGHT LORDS CATAPHRACTII TERMINATOR
VETERA LEGIONARY URos KAsrAX
SCIONS OF THE BLOODY WARD, grn COMPANY
(THE 'CIRCLE OF INCLEMENCY)
lSSTVAN VDROPSITE MASSACRE
At the time of the Night Lords' deployment to
Isstvan V, Veteran Legionary Kastax was the
longest serving member of the gth Company's
Terminator Claw. Kastax is known to have
participated in the Scouring ofMorenna, the
Yoggoth Genocides, the Fall of the Lords of
Ephrath and countless other campaigns of terror
conducted by the Night Lords. He was the sole
~ survivor of the Succoth Perfidy, a battle which cost
: the 8th Company a fearful toll, including the last
~ of its Terran Legionaries. The exact circumstances
of that battle remain unknown, though numerous
dark rumours circulated in its aftermath.
Kastax is thought to have fallen in battle soon

after the Night Lords revealed their allegiance
to the Warmaster. The exact circumstances of
his death remain a mystery, for so few of the g rh
Company's Terminator Claws survived the Isstvan
battles. But some report his corpse lying amidst
those of his erstwhile brothers, and that few of his
wounds were to the fore.
Panoply of War
I. Phaestos pattern heavy flamer: Used by
Veteran Legionary Kastax throughout much of
his service. He was known to have developed
a cruel taste for the fear his foes evinced the
moment they realised the nature of their
impending death.
2. Phobos pattern combi-bolter/plasma gun:

Kastax is known to have carried this weapon
at Isstvan V, presumably considering it more
tactically flexible than his usual heavy flamer
given the anticipated nature of the battle.
ANCIENT CARROW, CTHE REAPER OF NOVAL V'
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The Nostraman sigil inscribed on Ancient Carrow's torso armour marks his allegiance to the 1 7th Company of the
Night Lords Legion, called at the time of the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre the 'Lords of Tempest'. Carrow is known to
have favoured a brutal form of ritualised close combat inherited from the shredder-cults ofNostramo.
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IsS1VAN V DRorsm MASSACRE
Reeve was once a Talon-master of the grh Company, which at the time of the Battle of Isstvan V was known as
the 'Circle of Inclemency'. Known originally as Klemen, he fell in battle against Eldar raiders, but through sheer
bloody-mindedness survived even though his entire central nervous system had been disassembled before his very
eyes. Having been interred within the armoured sarcophagus of a Contemptor Dreadnought, Reeve disavowed his
command rank and devoted himself to the glory of battle. Note: Totem-relics of significant enemies mounted on
armour, following traditions of numerous Nostraman gang-factions.
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HARBINGER MALTHAX THULE, DREADNOUGHf OF TilE sm CHAYrER
As a Terran veteran of the old Vlllth Legion, Harbinger Thule was viewed with a mix of wary respect and amused disdain
by his Nostraman cohorts. Prone to falling into a fugue where visions of past battles and glories replaced the gore and slaughter of
the Night Lords battles in the Thramas sector, the warrior within the Dreadnought found himself branded with the mark of the
outcast, the Red Gauntlet. The Night Haunter himself held the veterans of his father's wars, entombed now in coffins of ceramite,
as distasteful reminders of a past he chose to shun and often assigned them to the most gruelling battlefields and deadly
campaigns. Harbinger Thule would find the end of his long campaign at Sheol IX, believing himself once more at the side
of the Emperor and His hosts, and bellowing the old warcries of Uniry even as the Dark Angels cut him apart.
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LEGIONES AsTARTES NIGHT LoRDs, XoRTHORN AFTERMATH
A veteran of the later Unification Wars, Ancient-Reductus Vakuran fell in battle against a mighty Over-wyrd of the
Hambro-Cuth. Vakuran would be sealed within the Leviathan pattern Siege Dreadnought depicted in this pict-image, a
machine captured by the Night Lords at Xorthorn VII, the still-living body of its Ultramarines internee ripped from its
sarcophagus and cast to the bloody ground.
Vakuran in his Leviathan form is known to have participated in a dozen campaigns fought across the coreward marches of
the Ultima Segmentum and Segmentum Tempestus, in each case leading the Traitor Night Lords forces in direct assaults
against heavily defended Loyalist holdfasts. In each instance the Dreadnought's attack was more direct, brutal and crude,
leading observers to suspect that his sanity had been stretched to breaking point by the strain of operating the highly
taxing and demanding Leviathan Dreadnought.
NIGHT LORDS CARADARA ARMOUR CLAW
The Legiones Astartes Night Lords had command cadre when several companies individual concentrations of enemy troops.
access to the full range of war machines were fielded together as a battalion or Having done so, the Caradara destroyed
utilised by the Emperor's armies during the chapter and more substantial armoured its targets at its leisure according to the
Great Crusade, and even though the Legion support was required. proclivities of individual squadron or
favoured terror tactics and infiltration over vehicle commanders. The Caradara were
set piece battles, it still made use of such The Caradara Armour Claw is one such often noted to favour using prow-mounted
mighty vehicles. company-sized armoured unit whose dozer blades to bury enemy troops in
reputation had spread beyond its Legion their own trenches, while others gained
Because each of the Legion's companies before their treachery. The formation's unholy satisfaction from overrunning
tended to operate largely independently, masters have perfected a form of armoured helpless defenders and grinding their
most of the Night Lords' vehicles were held combat which mirrors that utilised by bodies beneath the tracks of their armoured
at the company level, squadrons operating the Legion as a whole. Striking when vehicles. Needless to say, few defences stood
in direct support of the company's squads. possible from the darkness of dusk or long against such brutal assaults.
A small number of companies within the dawn, the Caradara assaulted the enemy
Legion choose to operate exclusively as where they were weakest, rampaging
armoured formations , often acting on the through rear zones in order to sever lines
direct orders of the Primarch or the Legion of communication, and resupply and isolate
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utilised by the Night Lords Legion.
Deimos pattern Predator Destructor: This vehicle is depicted as it was deployed to the surface
of Isstvan V Evidence of extensive weathering suggests it has been rushed into service following a
prolonged campaign 1 after which there was no time to enact standard maintenance protocols.
Legion Spartan Assault Tank (designation unknown): Many of the Armour Claw's larger engines
of war bear terrifying symbols of death and woe, often drawn from the bloody culture ofNostramo 1 but
in most cases universal to all human cultures. Few can doubt the meaning of the winged angel of death
adorning the side of this Legion Spartan.
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The Legiones Astartes of the Night Lords
utilised a wide range of assets throughout
the Great Crusade, finding that even the
most standardised of weapons and armour
could be adapted and utilised in their
favoured manner of warfare. Armoured
troop transports of all classes were used by
the Legion to smash deep into the heart
of the enemy's positions, with flanks clad
in grotesque trophies to sow horror and
dread in all who looked upon them. Aircraft
were used to deliver death from the night
sky, descending without warning to strike
the enemy where least he expected it and
ensuring that no foe could afford even a Legion 'Tarantula' Sentry Gun: This particular Tarantula was
moment's rest or respite. They also made deployed along with several dozen other weapons at Isstvan V,
more use of automated systems such as where they were used to deny the Loyalists escape via the extensive
the Tarantula than many other Legions, network of ravines south of the Urgall Hills.
preferring to assign mundane duties as
static defence to such weapons, as well as
employing them as part of their offensive
strategies cunningly concealed and
programmed to funnel enemy refugees
into killing grounds pre-registered by the
Legion's artillery masters.
Deimos Pattern Rhino Armoured Carrier: N ostraman sigil identifies this vehicle as
assigned to the r7'h Company, the so-called 'Lords ofTempesf. Note extensive adornment in the
form of slain foe, as well as blood staining indicating unspecified atrocity.
Legion Storm Eagle: This Storm Eagle belongs to the Night Lords Forge and, as such, would have seen service
with any company that had need of it. The hatch bears the Legion numeral of the VIIIth. Of particular note is the
cockpit canopy, tinted red with blood so as to present a truly horrific last vision to its targets. ~
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Among the Night Lords' order of battle for Upon arriving at its target, a Pacification A Pacification Battalion rarely made any
the Thramas Crusade were a number of Battalion first deploys its heavy armour attempt to hold its ground, most often
divisions, innocuously named 'Pacification en-masse, with most worlds targeted for departing after a brief onslaught intended to
Battalions'. Despite the title borne by these attack unable to muster more than token inflict maximum destruction. In their wake
forces, they were primarily constituted of resistance to such a hammerblow of military would be left a scene of utter devastation -
heavy armour and shock assault infantry, might. Once the defenders were broken the desecrated corpses of the fallen and the
most often from the infamous Terror Squads and scattered, infantry assets and swift gutted remains of cities, not merely wanton
that were a unique feature of the Vlllth speeders and bikes are deployed to hunt destruction, but a weapon more potent than
Legion. In action these forces were deployed them down, both military and civilian assets any cannon or tank. Fear was the goal of
to isolated Loyalist worlds with the sole goal alike. Such operations are focused not on these operations and it was such fear that
of breaking whatever limited defences they the reduction of enemy military force, but tormented the Thramas sector during the
might possess and then ravaging the planet on collateral damage and a brutal culling of long years of the Night Haunter's crusade.
and its population, making of them a visceral the population, making certain that those
example to others of the price of defiance. few who might evade their hunt would have
secured little more than a slower death for
themselves.
N IGHT LORDS LAND RAIDER

MERCY-KILLER
Named ironically, as was the wont of the Night Lords, this vehicle is known to have participated in some 18 pacification operations, with a
potential tally of kills in the thousands. Its crew were known for their propensity for using the vehicle's lascannon to collapse hab-blocks upon
those civilians attempting to take shelter within or to cut apart fortifications, turning them into traps for the troops now entombed within.
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FLAY-THRA/NINE
Part of the large Land Speeder formations used by the Night Lords to harry retreating foes or to drive civilian forces into pre-arranged
ambushes. Such vehicles were a favoured tool of the VIIIth Legion for their ability to engage the enemy on their own terms and
withdraw before being outmanoeuvred, earning them the nickname 'Skathra Nar', a hilt-less knife from Nostramo used for sudden
strikes and unexpected attacks.
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Seen here on the Mercy-killer's rear/side embarkation port is another variation of the Screaming
Skull emblem associated with the Warmaster's advocates within the Legion, though it is
largely obscured by the grisly trophies secured to the hull of the Land Raider. Such gruesome
decorations were far from uncommon amongst the Night Haunter's warriors.
THE BLEAK COHORT
The Night Lords 17'1' Chapter, often known full panoply of the cohort would be drawn brethren evacuated. Despite their pride and
within the Legion as the Bleak Cohort, was up before the enemy, the serried ranks of long-honed skill, the Bleak Cohort found
one of the few fully-mechanised detachments its armoured vehicles an unbroken line of themselves put to shame by the deft tactics
of the Night Haunter's Legion. Its ranks steel and ceramite, engines roaring loud and relic war machines of the Ironwing,
included a large proportion of armoured enough to drown out all other noise. Many forced to commit their heaviest and most
vehicles, including several squadrons of a foe has broken and run in the face of such treasured vehicles to desperate ambushes:and
Kratos heavy tanks whose design had fallen an onslaught, the Bleak Cohort leading the holding actions to keep from being overrun.
out of favour with many Legions. When Night Lords to many a victory. Yet during Indeed, such was the carnage they endured
the Legion went openly to war, once terror the Thramas Crusade, the 17'1' would face that of the eight super-heavy vehicles
had done its job and weakened the enemy's its most fearsome challenge in the Dark attached to the Bleak Cohort, only two
resolve, the Bleak Cohort was often to be Angels Ironwing. On Sheol IX, the gathered would survive the battle and be successfully
found in the vanguard. might of the Bleak Cohort would be pitted evacuated, and both of those had sustained
against those elements of the Iron wing such severe damage that neither would be
In a unique variation on the Legion's assembled from the host of the First Legion combat ready for several months after the
philosophy, the Bleak Cohort deployed in a that assaulted that world, a battle that saw fighting.
manner that sought to set fear in the heart several hundred armoured vehicles thrown
of the foe. Before the onset of battle, the against each other as the Bleak Cohort strove
to hold the Dark Angels at bay while their
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VANGUARD
Attached to the 17th Chapter, this is a rare example of an artillery vehicle in the Night Lords' service. The Night Lords showed little favour to
artillery and the more static tactics that required its massed deployment. The Bombard, with its slow speed and blunt aspect, was most often
assigned rear echelon roles, typically used to eradicate enemy positions that had been isolated and bypassed by the Night Lords frontlines.
NIGHT LORDS FELLBLADE

MIDNIGIIT TERMINUS
The command vehicle of the 17th Chapter, and
often commanded by Praetor Cynvaer in person.
Its tally of victories during the Great Crusade
was a matter of some pride amongst the warriors
of the Bleak Cohort, and earned much honour
for its commander. During the fighting on Sheol
IX, the Midnight Terminus would score kills on
four Dark Angels vehicles, including a Mastodon
super-heavy transport, before its destruction ' I
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strike tanks.
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LEGIONARY ARVEN ScuRN, rf" SHOCK AssAULT DETACHMENT, 32" MERCIAN Rm GENE-Cun
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Taken into the early IX'h Legion from the blasted pits of the Mercian Rift in Old Alba, Legionary Scurn was transfigured, raised up
from the foul slums of his birth to stand as a model of perfection among the armies of the Emperor. His outward appearance was
that of angelic perfection, but within lurked a red-handed killer devoid of the noble aspect of their as-yet undiscovered sire. These
frenzied butchers with the faces of angels were the shock troops of the Wars of Unity within the Sol system, unleashed to kill and
burn in indiscriminate fury on the worst of battlefields. Legionary Scurn bears the Pentagram of Vesper, the battle honour of the
bloody wars waged on Venus, on his left greave signifying his participation in the worst massacres of the Wars of Unity, as well as
a variety of acid-etched markings of a more informal nature. The bloody smears that adorn many Legionaries of the IX'h in these
early years are intentional marks from the various bloodletting rituals adopted by the so-called Revenant Legion, rather than the
residue of battle.
Legionary Scurn was among the few survivors of the original Legion at the time of the Sign us muster, relegated along with many
relics of those bloody years to lesser companies. He now held the title of Centurion and bearer of the Word of Wrath within the
94th Company, and was among those martyred within the twisted eaves of the Daemonic forest on Signus Prime, exacting a high
price from the foe in exchange for his life. In death, he and his brothers would stand higher in the regard of the Great Angel than
they ever had in life.
BLOOD ANGELS HERALDRY
BLOOD ANGEL LEGION BANNERS

Two examples of company banners of the IX'h Legion, both carried to war in the Signus campaign. These show the highly decorative style
favoured by the Primarch Sanguinius, a testament to the artistic values and scholarly pursuits Sanguinius encouraged among his Legion.
This MkIII pauldron displays This ceremonial MkIII A rare example of the heraldry Heavily ornamented
the standard Legio Tactical pauldron shows the honour of the First Sphere Order Apothecary heraldry. Such
markings, of note are the marks of a Veteran assault known as the Ofanim, an lavish decoration was a
additional decorative details, Sergeant, including ornamental organisation charged with common factor oflater Blood
an affectation encouraged details common to the the internal security of the Angels' heraldic patterns.
by Sanguinius. IX'h Legion. IX'h Legion.
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insignia of the Sanguinary
Guard, the First Sphere
heraldry of the Keruvim, the
Crimson Paladins, shown on
honour markings that show a
blood-filled chalice, a common
insignia, this example is from
the battle-plate of Archein
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Order sometimes known as a MkIII pauldron. Likely for device within the IX'h Legion Nakir of the 24'h Company- a
the Seraphim. ceremonial use rather than that dates back to some of the noted warrior and favourite of
actual battle-plate . Legion's original battle rites. the Primarch.
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SERGEANT LEONIS HARUM, HARUM VETERAN TACI1CAL SQUAD, 202N D COMPANY, THE CRIMSON AEGIS
Shown in this pict-image is Harum, a veteran sergeant of the 202nd Company, in full battle plate and bearing a number of honour
markings. Of particular note are the embossed fold icons attached to his chest-plate and helm, both of which indicate separate
citations for bravery from an Archein of the IX'h Legion. The studded right pauldron is likely a battlefield replacement rather than
a standard piece of heraldry, and its inclusion has displaced the rank and company insignia to the greaves of the sergeant's armour.
One of the few to live through the wrecking of the Ifrit Nine, Sergeant Harum fell upon the battlefield of Sign us Prime following
the heavy cruiser's survivors' valiant defence of Legion armoured assets on the far flank- he and his battle-brothers were all
recognised as heroes and martyrs of the Legion. It is said that the 202nd were one of the few units to resist the worst excesses of the
rage that took hold of the Legion, steeling their spirits against the flaw in their gene-seed with the Liturgy of the Blood and holding
fast to their duty till death took them.
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Isr COMPANY, THE SILVER HOST
The heraldry shown in this pict-capture is
standard for the Blood Angels during the
final years of the Great Crusade, featuring
Divisio Militaris approved tactical markings
with only minor embellishments. The left
pauldron also bears a more ornate armourial
device for the Legion, alongside unit
insignia, while the right greave displays
infor~al chapter icons for the Silver Host.
Of particular note is the adoption of a silver
helm and gauntlets, a practise adopted by the
u 'h Chapter after the Absolom campaign in
the mid-years of the Great Crusade as a mark
of pride for their achievements.
Now believed lost, Sergeant Cast and his

Tactical squad were near the forefront of
the Blood Angels' advance across Sign us
Prime. Little is known regarding the fate
that befell Cast, however when the Legio'n
came to count their dead after the battle, no
physical trace of his body was located among
the fallen. Rather, various fragments of his
embellished armour were found scattered
across one of the known battlefronts
on which the Blood Angels fought the
Daemonic legions. The rolls of the fallen
kept to commemorate the Signus campaign
make no mention of Sergeant Cast and
his men, though whether this is a mark of
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LEGIONARY SABRAHAM
I2IST COMPANY
pALE STARS wAR ZONE [RAIDON KYRO IV]
Legionary Sabraham was a member of a Legion
tactical squad at the time the Blood Angels
were ordered to muster at the Nartaba System
in preparation for the campaign in the Signus
Cluster, but like the rest of the 121" Company
never deployed to that operation. When the
company's vessels were cast upon the tides of
the Warp, its members were spread across the
small flotilla , each sub-unit believing for a time
that it would meet its end upon the raging tides
of unreality, until finally translating to a pocket
of comparative calm coreward of the Maelstrom.
Sabraham was present at the Conclave of Optera
and survived the Alpha Legion's ambush to fight
in subsequent battles in the region.
Blood Angels Armour and Livery

Sabraham is depicted here as he deployed to
the fighting in the depths of the mines of Kyro
IV, where it is thought he fell in glory when his
squad was overwhelmed by a savage tide of the
eyeless abhuman slaves who worked the mines,
turned, so it is believed, into living weapons by
the machinations of the Alpha Legion. His Mark
IV Legiones Astartes power armour was newly
issued at the time of the Nartaba muster, and
Sabraham's suit is one of many such sub-types
unique to the Blood Angels. The suit's surface is
adorned with armorial detail added by highly-
skilled Legion serfs, as befits the traditions of this
most noble of Legions.
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VENERABLE-EXEMPLAR JoPHIAL, KERUVIM CoNvocATION OF ANcrnNTs
Venerable Jophial was aboard the Red Tear, still engaged with enemy forces in the outer compartments, when that venerable
warship smashed itself into the surface of Sign us Prime. It is a testament to the formidable armour of his Dreadnought chassis that
he survived the impact of the crash landing, and a tribute to his valour that he was among the first of the survivors to dig himself
free and secure the area around the wreck. After serving a vital role in recovery operations, the indomitable Ancient would go on
to serve as a linchpin in the defence of the wreck.
SECTOR GAMMA-010
On the far right flank of the Blood Angels Such vehicles could not operate alone, In Sector Gamma-010 of the battlefield on
advance during the battle at Signus Prime requiring vast quantities of ammunition, Signus Prime, all of these vehicles, both
is where Sanguinius is thought to have fuel and other supplies in order to function the artillery and its support, were thrown
gathered his artillery, those of his cannon at full combat efficiency. Worse, they proved into a crucible for which they had not been
and foot-borne heavy weapons that could easily vulnerable to close range assault by designed. The ability of their foe to appear
not keep pace with the main advance. the enemy and standard Divisio Militaris at point-blank ranges left them at a severe
Massing enough firepower to obliterate doctrine demanded a force of screening disadvantage; indeed many of the largest
any force of arms caught in the open, or infantry for such units. As such they went cannon were overrun and destroyed before
to crack and splinter the walls of even the to war in the company of a small army of they could fire even a single shot. Here the
grandest fortresses, for though the Blood conveyors and ammunition-barques, and escorts and close support guns stood at the
Angels were most famous for their audacious proceeded by a dedicated force of skirmishers fore, seeding a co-ordinated pattern of close
drop assaults, they were not unfamiliar with and scouts. At the battle for Signus Prime, range blasts and synchronised small arms
the brutal application of overwhelming there were Rhino armoured transports volleys that held the foe at bay for a time.
firepower. As with any of the Legions, the in number to match the heavier artillery Had it not been for the near-inexhaustible
IX'h kept an artillery train of substantial vehicles as well as a number of Mastodon and numbers of the enemy that fell upon them,
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size, though it could not match that of the Stegodon super-heavy transports. the outcome of the battle might well have
more specialised Legions, such as the Iron been far different.
Warriors or the Death Guard, and it included
examples of every style of self-propelled gun
and artillery piece in common use by the
armies of the Imperium, as well as several
more unique guns.
BLOOD ANGELS RHINO ARMOURED CARRIER
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The twelfth vehicle attached to the r46'h Company, assigned to transport one of the many Heavy
Supp_ort units of the r46'h. This vehicle was par't of the artillery train on the right flank, but would later
be abandoned during the advance after damage inflicted by a monstrous hulk of flesh and bone left the
disembarkation ports jammed shut. It would be recovered and repaired after the battle was concluded,
the damage analysed to aid in formulating counter-measures for any future encounters of this kind.
BLOOD ANGELS MASTODON

HEAVY ASSAULT TRANSPORT
CRIMSON FURY
Assigned to the 202"d Company and

embarked upon the cruiser Ifrit Nine when
it broke up in low orbit. Even as the cruiser
began to come apart, caught in the gravity
well of Sign us Prime, the Techmarines of
the 202"d worked to preserve the vehicles
they knew would be sorely needed on the
surface, sacrificing their lives to encase
them in ablative drop capsules. Crimson
Fury was one of almost a do2en heavy tanks
to survive the drop, and served as Archein
Jannus' command vehicle during the long
march that led to the battlefield. Of note in
this after-action pict is the heavy damage
to the vehicle's fore, where daemonic claws
proved a match for even hardened ceramite
composite intended to repel heavy cannon
and melta weaponry.
The Blood Angels Legion is possessed of so many have claimed of the III'd Legion for
the full panoply of war laid down by the example, but in pursuit of the higher purpose
architects of the wars of the Great Crusade, for which the Blood Angels were created-to
and masters in the use of them all. The engender hope and strike awe into the hearts
Legion's forge is noted above all others for of those long lost in the darkness of Old
the care and attention it lavishes upon its Night, and to inspire stark terror in those
equipment and war machines, from the most who would reject the gift that is the Imperial
ubiquitous boltgun to the mightiest of battle Truth or threaten the glorious future the
barges. This phenomenon is witnessed most Emperor intends for Mankind.
often in the exacting maintenance protocols
carried out on its armoured vehicles and, While the bulk of the IX'h Legion's armoured
most strikingly, in the adornment applied to might was mustered at the Nartaba System
their flanks. for deployment to the Signus Cluster,
hundreds, perhaps thousands of war
The IX'h Legion maintains a uniquely skilled machines of all classes remained in reserve
cadre of bonded artisan-serfs, its ranks filled at the Legion's fortress at Baal. Throughout
with individuals whose names may never the long years that the Blood Angels were
be known to the greater Imperium, but who lost, their fate unknown to the Imperium, the
must surely rank among the greatest artists artisan-serfs continued to produce the most
of the age. Their sole task is to render glory noble and wondrous of engines of war, ready
to the Blood Angels Primarch, the Angel to be wielded in righteous anger against the
Sanguinius, and through him the Emperor Traitors when at last their masters returned.
Himself. This is not done through vanity, as
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Legion Fire Raptor of the Blood Angels: This gunship is depicted as it appeared at the Conclave
of Optera, where it was deployed to provide air cover to the Blood Angels on the ground, but did
not at any point land. The level of adornment is typical of the lX'h Legion, which in other Legions
might only be applied to a vehicle in the personal service of a high-ranking officer.
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Angels and served as transport for the company's elite Legion Terminator squads. The mural
applied to the vehicle's flank is of a rype used throughout the Legion and an example of the work
of the master artisan-serfMarcellon of Primus. The vehicle was fielded by the 121" in at least a
dozen battles fought across the Pale Stars war zone in the aftermath of the Conclave of Optera, the
last of which was the assault on the surface defences of the mining world of Kyro IV:
IRON HANDS LEGION
EXAMPLE CLAN COMPANY HERALDRY
CLAN VuRGAAN CLAN AVERNII CLAN KAARGUL
CLAN MoRRAGUL CLAN RAuKAAN CLAN SORRGOL
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THE SEAL OF THE EYE OF VIGILANCE

For many years before the bloodshed of the Horus Heresy, the Iron Hands Legion had
fought closely alongside those who would turn traitor and once called them brother.
The Warmaster Horus, in particular, valued the Legion's ruthless power and expertise
as well as the generalship of Ferrus Manus. As a result of the Iron Hands' successes,
many laurels of victory were conferred among them, and nascent warrior lodges were
founded in the Legion, but never fully took hold, perhaps owing to the Iron Hands'
cold dependence on logic and rationality. One award in particular, known qy the Iron
Hands as 'The Seal of the Eye of Vigilance' was bestowed by the \Vi ter on the Imn
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IRON HANDS TACTICAL LEGIONARY

LEGIONARY KARATACUS
SQUAD TRENGUIT, TACTICAL COMPANY,
ORDER QuARI1 1 CLAN VuRGAAN
lsS1VAN VDROPSITE MASSACRE,
BAmE OF PHASE LINE UPSILON DELTA XV
Squad Trenguit is known to have deployed to the
surface of Isstvan V as part of the assault in support
of the second stage landings with the Legion's
armoured contingent. As such, the fate of the squad's
members is largely unknown, although a handful of
uncorroborated accounts suggest they survived the
landing and fought for at least forty-three minutes
before the maelstrom of battle consumed them
somewhere in the vicinity of the feature designated
Phase Line Upsilon Delta XV
As a veteran of several decades of service, Legionary

Karatacus went into his final battle wearing the suit
of MkII power armour that had served him well
throughout dozens of campaigns.
The numeral '4' identifies Legionary Karatacus as

belonging to the 4 th Order (or Order Quarii) of the
Isstvan V assault force.
Panoply of War
I. Iron Hands Legion icon: common armorial use.
2. Phobos pattern boltgun.
3. MkXIX thermic charge: Surviving records

suggest that at least half of the squads in
Clan Vurgaan's tactical companies were issued
with these charges to facilitate breaching
operations against the heavy Traitor fortifications.
IRON HANDS BREACHER LEGIONARY
LEGIONARY MAELOC
SQUAD CUNAEDA, ORDER PRIMII, CLAN GMRSAK
IssrvAN SYsrEM PENETRATION,
COUNTER-BOARDING ACTION
The r st Order (or Order Primii) of Clan Gaarsak
are recorded in surviving accounts of the Battle of
Isstvan Vas having taken part in the fleet actions
that took place in and around orbital space as Iron
Hands Legion warships attempted to reach their
brothers on the surface. In the event, the majority
of these operations were unsuccessful and
countless Legionaries perished in the transport
holds of their battle-barges, consumed by the
ravening fires of Traitor broadsides.
Squad Cunaeda is believed to have launched a

daring counter-boarding action against the World
Eaters battle barge Retiarius at the height of the
fleet action. It is likely the squad was on board the
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and how long they might have fought on against
an entire warship filled with savage enemy
warriors cannot be known.
Panoply of War
I. Autotellurian pattern graviton gun:
Specialised weapon as useful in disrupting
enemy counter-assaults as it is in engaging
the foe.
2. Phobos pattern bolt pistol: Standard issue,

vital for close-in fighting against enemies who
survive an initial assault.
3. Panoply Belicosa: Melta bomb, frag grenade

and krak grenade.
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LEGIONARY M oRKARcH
SHATTERED LEGION ATIACK CELL
(FORMERLY OF CLAN VURGAAN)
CAVOR SARTA INCURSION
Morkarch was a survivor of the Dropsite
Massacre, one of the few of Clan Vurgaan
to escape the Urgall Depression after being
outflanked by World Eaters and Death Guard
units. Morkarch linked up with a band of Raven
Guard survivors and was evacuated to orbit on
a XIX'h Legion Stormbird and carried from the
Isstvan System on the Iron Hands strike cruiser,
the Sisypheum.
In the months after the flight from Isstvan,

Morkarch fought in a mixed force of survivor
Iron Hands, Raven Guard and Salamanders,
each element united in bitter purpose as they
ranged the southern marches of the Segmentum
Obscurus hunting for Traitor pathfinder vessels
scouting ahead of the Warmaster's advance on
Terra. At length, the warriors of the Sisypheum
established contact with other groups of the so-
called Shattered Legions and coordinated their
efforts with them in a campaign of vengeance that
spanned half of the galaxy.
Battle Scars
Morkarch is depicted as he deployed to his attack
cell's operation on the Mechanicum fie£ Cavor
Sarra, where he was slain by a previously unseen
machine abomination wrought in the captured
forge-fanes by Traitor Mechanicum. Morkarch
retained the Mark III power armour he had worn
at Isstvan V. The destroyed left arm was replaced
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by elements of Mark IV power armour, a feat
that only Iron Hands Techmarines could achieve
given the underlying incompatibilities between
these two marks.
Iron Hands Legion Icon, Mid-Crusade Provenance Mechanicum forge-issue ident markings
IRON HANDS MEDUSAN IMMORTAL
[LEGIONARY NAME REDACTED]
M oRRAGUL CLAN-COMPANY
BATIIE OF T REDECIMMIA
The Medusan Immortals were a cadre of warriors
within the Iron Hands Legion who having
fallen in defeat had been brought back from the
brink of death in order to seek redemption in
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Medusan Immortals swelled to unprecedented
levels, the Legion having split into a number of
disparate elements, their Primarch dead and the
Clan-Council slain. Those declared Immortal
within the Morragul Clan-company were allowed
to fight alongside their brethren, presenting a
genuine opportunity to achieve absolution
not just in their own eyes, but in those they
had failed.
This particular warrior is depicted as he was

deployed to the assault on Tredecirnmia. The
Legionary was committed as part of a heavy
assault force carried into battle in the armoured
hold of a Mastodon armoured assault transport,
its objective to break through the lines held
by the World Eaters auxiliary forces south of
Tredecimmia to engage the XII'h Legion's forces
before they could counter-attack.
Clan Morragul Medusan Immortals

This Legionary displays the heavy cybernetic
modification common among Medusan
Immortals. The bonding studs on the left
shoulder pauldron are a nonstandard feature of
Immortal equipment at this stage-one probably
initiated by the Techmarines of the Morragul
Clan-company and later copied by others. Also
of note is the use of the 'red talon' icon of the
Morragul-up until this point all Immortals were
stripped of Clan-company markings
upon induction.
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ORDERTREDECIMII, CLAN MORRAGUL
The Red Talon, flagship of the Iron Hands
Morragul Clan, was one of the first Iron Hands
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treachery of the reserves had been revealed,
breaching into realspace amid the titanic space
battle that had erupted between the Loyalist and i
Traitor fleets. Autek Mor, master of the Morragul j
Clan, ordered his ship to attempt to breach
through the firestorm to reach Isstvan V, and the
infamously powerful grand cruiser succeeded in
punching through the battle, but took such heavy r
damage it was forced to bypass Isstvan V and
flee, managing to escape, unlike many of the Iron
Hands ships that would later arrive.
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all sides, during which the Morragul ‘Devastator’ I
heavy support squads were instrumental in
slaughtering any who attempted to wrest control
of the ship, taking heavy losses while doing so.
Ironwrought Veur, as shown here, bears the
distinctive crimson heraldry of Autek Mor’s |
personal guard , the Blood Wrought. s
Panoply of War
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2. Voss - Incarnadine pattern heavy bolter:
As a Devastator heavy support squad , Ist Squad ii
deployed equipped with an array of heavy
weapons, in this case a heavy bolter. Designed »I!
primarily for use against xenos such as Orks
the heavy bolter is a highly effective weapon,
however against the power armour of their
brother Legionaries, they were forced to rely
on sheer weight of fire to inflict multiple
casualties with this weapon.
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VETERAN LEGIONARY MoKAN
SQUAD DEMETAE, TERMINATOR CENTURY,
ORDER QuARII, CLAN VuRGAAN
lsSIVAN V DROPSITE MASSACRE,
ASSAULT ON SALIENT 7-7
Veteran Mokan was assigned to the leading edge
of Clan Vurgaan's deployment to the surface of
Isstvan V While many of the Clan's companies
deployed via drop pod, the Terminator Century
of the 4th Order (Order Quarii) is known to
have teleported directly to the dropsite in order
to secure the landing zone. While the massed
Terminators of the Avernii Clan assaulted the
Traitor fortress-line, Squad Demetae is known to
have survived into the battle's third hour before
destruction under heavy bombardment.
Veteran Legionary Mokan is depicted here

wearing a suit of Cataphractii pattern Terminator
armour) which had received numerous
embellishments and modifications at the hands of
the Legion's master artificers.
Panoply of War
I. Charatran pattern power-chainaxe: This
pattern was instituted in the second decade of
the Great Crusade) during the war with lords of
the Fade Continuum.
2. Phobos pattern combi-melta: One of a range

of armaments issued to Terminator squads, the
combi-bolter offers a balance between tactical
assault and anti-armour firepower.
IRON HANDS LEGION TERMINATOR
UNIDENTIFIED VETERAN LEGIONARY
UNKNOWN SQUAD DESIGNATION,
ORDER PRIMII, CLAN AVERNI!
Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre
This otherwise unidentified Legionary's insignia
is that of the r st Order (Order Primii), Iron Hands
Avernii Clan. Many of these warriors had been
slain at the hand of the Primarch Fulgrim and
his Phoenix Guard before the full extent of the
rebellion had even revealed itself. Many more
fought in the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre at the
side ofFerrus Manus, determined to avenge the
deaths of their brothers. Their fate instead was
to fall beside their master, loyal and resolute to
the end.
The Legionary is depicted here clad in a suit of

Tartaros Terminator. This pattern was held as one
of the most advanced products of the Tactical
Dreadnought Armour program.
Panoply of War
1. Meridius pattern power maul.
2. Anvilus pattern heavy flamer: A common

weapon amongst Terminator armour clad
warriors assigned to boarding actions and
similar 'Zone Mortalis' engagements, where
contact with numerous enemies in confined
battle zones is anticipated.
IRON HANDS CoNTEMPTOR-MoRrrs DREADNOUGHT
VENERATII URIEN
ORDER QuAru1, CLAN VuRGAAN
l SSTVAN vDROPSITE MASSACRE, PHASE PENULTIMA TERMINUS
Veneratii Urien was once Centurion of Clan Vurgaan's 4th Order (or Order Quarii), a warrior feared for his
uncompromising rule. Urien was a Terran rather than a Medusan, and one who had fought with the x rh Legion long before
its union with its Primarch. He fell during a battle against the xenos Psy-Gore less than a decade before the
Battle oflsstvan V, and was subsequently interred within a suit of Contemptor-Dreadnought armour, curtailing his rise to
high command, but ensuring he would continue to serve his Legion.
Veneratii Urien's Dreadnought armour is configured according to the Mortis sub-pattern, mounting a pair of Kheres
assault cannon, as well as highly advanced targeting systems. The primary use of this configuration is to engage enemy
aircraft, several dozen of which Urien is believed to have shot down in the one hour and twenty seven minutes he fought
for, having set foot on the bloody ground of the Isstvan V dropsite.
IRON HANDS CONTEMPTOR DREADNOUGHT
ANCIENT MORN
O RDER PRIMII, CLAN AVERN II
l sSTVAN VDROPSITE MASSACRE, PHASE TERMINUS
The warrior interred within the Dreadnought armour depicted here was one of Clan Avernii's most respected warriors.
The gold winged lightning bolt marks Ancient Morn out as one of only a handful of surviving veterans of the
Battle of lox. Ancient Morn once served in the Avernii's Terminator Centuries of the Iron Hands Primarch's honour
guard, fighting alongside Ferrus Manus himself throughout countless battles. Morn fell in battle at the height of the
Battle of Gardinaal Prime, his body crushed beneath the iron tread of one of the gargantuan walkers fielded by the
Lords of Gardinaal. Interred within the armoured sarcophagus of a Contemptor Dreadnought, he continues his sterling
service to his lord and master.
Morn's service is thought to have come to an end amidst savagery and bloodshed as he fell defending the decapitated body
of his slain Primarch upon the blood-soaked ground of the Isstvan V
ANCIENT-CLAVIGER KHALON
LEVIATHAN PATTERN SIEGE DREADNOUGHT
HEAVY ASSAULT ECHELON, ORDER NOVII, MORRAGUL CLAN-COMPANY
SCOURING OF TREDECIMMIA
Ancient-Claviger Khalon was once a Legion Consul of the Ungavarr Clan-company, a siege breaker of great renown, born of Terra and
who won countless honours throughout the early Great Crusade. Khalon fell in battle in the apocalyptic Battle of Rust, his life saved by
Legion apothecaries and his body preserved in stasis for future interment into the armoured form of a mighty Dreadnought. When at
last such a vessel was assigned, it was a prototype class intended for heavy assault and siege operations, the very discipline Khalon had
devoted himself to throughout his service to the Xth Legion.
Upon his internment into a Dreadnought suit however, Khalon was found to be temperamentally ill-suited to his new mode of existence
and prone to bouts of extreme instability. At the order of his Primarch, he was transferred from Clan Ungavarr to Clan Morragul, his
demeanour considered more suited to the orphans and outcasts gathered under the stewardship of the Iron-Father Autek Mor.
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IRON HANDS LEGION BATTLE TANKS
The core of the Iron Hands armoured units, war machines were oriented towards the in the first minutes after the treachery of
though limited in number by the capacity fortifications of the Sons of Horus, the Lorgar, Curze and Perturabo was revealed.
of the Ferrum, held some of the finest war Emperor's Children, the Death Guard and Nonetheless, the crews of every type of
machines and crews in the Legion. the World Eaters. Their less armoured rear armoured vehicle in the service of the Iron
facings were therefore facing towards the Hands fought on boldly, many sacrificing
Tragically, when the Legions of the second guns of the Word Bearers, Night Lords and, themselves at the last so that the surviving
wave revealed themselves as Traitors in particular, the Iron Warriors. As a result infantry could break out of the trap and
and opened fire upon the sons ofFerrus of the treacherous bombardment from the disperse into the surrounding wilderness to
Manus, Vulkan and Corax, many of these rear, they suffered staggeringly high losses fight on.
Legion Cerberus 'Intemperata': The Intemperata was one war machine

in an armoured wing of a dozen deployed to the surface of Isstvan V The
engine took part in supporting the Iron Hands' assault and, in so doing,
screened an entire Terminator Century of its parent Avernii Clan from
the heavy guns of the Death Guard. The Intemperata's unit came under
punishing and sustained fire from massed batteries of laser destroyers and
graviton cannon when the Iron Warriors revealed their true allegiance, all
but the Intemperata itself reduced to flaming wreckage within minutes.
The war engine was last seen engaging the Traitor God-Engine known as
the Dies Irae in order to draw its fire from Iron Hands infantry squads, a
noble sacrifice for which the Intemperata will always be honoured.
Predator Executioner: This unnamed Predator battle tank of the 1 Order of the Avernii Clan bears the symbol of a
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heavy support unit upon its turret 1 indicating its primary tactical role within the Iron Hands. The vehicle bears several
conspicuous icons of the Mechanicum upon its flanks 1 suggesting that it was bequeathed to the Iron Hands
directly from the forges of Mars.
IRON HANDS LEGION ARMOURED ECHELONS
The Iron Hands Legion utilised its many The armoured formations committed to are thought to have been destroyed under
war machines as support for individual the Isstvan V operation, were deployed the guns of the Traitors' overwhelming
companies and orders, but also fielded as part of the second phase of the Iron numbers. The heaviest formations, such
large units of heavy battle tanks as distinct Hands Legion's attack. Their orders varied as the Fellblade companies serving under
units. Such formations ranged in size from enormously, some committed to frontal Clan Ungavarr and the Land Raider
squadrons ofless than a dozen vehicles to assault and breakthough actions, others to echelons of Clan Avernii, are known to
company, even order-sized units of scores wide flanking manoeuvres. Some armoured have been engaged by Traitor Titans and
of vehicles. In the case of super-heavy tanks formations were tasked with engaging to have suffered incredible losses despite
such as the Fellblade, between three and five those of the Traitor Legions' as the Loyalist valiant attempts to concentrate their efforts
vehicles would be considered more than a Primarchs were well aware that the enemy against these mighty foes. Of the few eye
match for any foe less powerful than a battle had had plenty of time to prepare for battle witness accounts committed to record in
Titan. Units of Predators or Land Raiders and access to a great many war machines. the a&ermath of the Dropsite M assacre, few
might consist of forty or more vehicles and fail to make mention of the bold attacks of
be sub-divided in numerous commands. Despite their power, almost all of the Iron the Iron Hands armoured echelon against
Hands Legion's armoured formations staggering odds.
Legion Fellblade Super-heavy Tank 'Akhlys Astra':

This vehicle was part of the 1 51 Order of Clan Ungavarr, and
was named 'Akhlys Astra' in reference to an ancient legend
of Medusa. The Akhlys Astra was a relatively untested war
machine at the time of the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre, having
only served the Legion for a decade and only recently having
earned its title. The Akhlys Astra's fate in the aftermath of the
dropsite battles remains unknown, but it is believed to have
had its wreck taken as a prize by the Sons of Horus.
IRON HANDS ARMOURED PROTEUS LAND RAIDER
(W YVERN 1
ORDER PruMn, CLAN AVERNII
IssrvAN v DROPSITE M ASSACRE, ASSAULT ON REDOUBT THETA I 3
Wyvern was last seen bearing down upon the defences of Redoubt Theta r3, a Traitor fortification that was the objective of
a combined force of three entire companies. Soon after the death ofFerrus Manus, the Wyvern threw itself at the enemy,
either driven into an atavistic fury or simply intent upon martyring itself upon the guns of the Emperor's Children.
IRON HANDS LEGION RESERVE
The Iron Hands Legion maintained a notably The crews assigned to operate the vehicles by an Iron Hands sergeant is known to have
large pool of reserve and second line vehicles of the Legion reserve for the Isstvan V drop been struck by a Titan class weapon, its turret
of all types and classes. Such vehicles operation were drawn from many and varied breached and its command crew slain. In the
included many more commonly seen in the sources and combined in the confines of the heat of battle, the Legion serf manning the
service of the Imperial Army, or since made Ferrum's hold. forward secondary weapon station assumed
obsolete by the discovery and exploitation of control and kept the vehicle fighting for an
new Standard Template Construct imprints. Regardless of the unconventional estimated further eleven minutes before it
Much of the Legion reserve consisted of circumstances of their assignment, it was overrun by World Eaters infantry and all
war engines either awaiting attachment to a is generally held that all of these crews surviving crew were slain.
specific Clan, or otherwise intended for use comported themselves with honour and skill,
in operations that required more vehicles regardless of their station within the Legion.
than the Clan had immediately available. In one case, a Legion Baneblade commanded
Legion Malcador, ceded to Clan Ungavarr: This Malcador battle tank

was withdrawn from the Legion reserve having been stored for well over
a century. The binaric coding displayed on the vehicle's flanks refers to its
position within the reserve's vast storage facilities and, having been assigned
to the small Clan Ungavarr detachment of armour aboard the Ferrum, the
twinned serpent symbol of that Clan has been applied.
Rhino, ceded to Order Quarii, Clan Vurgaan: This Deimos pattern Rhino was withdrawn from the Legion reserve,
having been stored aboard the auxiliary fleet tender Toil ofKraterin anticipation of such need. The vehicle was assigned
to the 4 th Order of Clan Vurgaan and served with one of that Order's Devastator companies during the initial stages of the
Isstvan V drop. It is thought that it was destroyed when the Iron Warriors unleashed a fearsome counter battery barrage
against the Devastator positions, its exact fate unknowable amongst the unimaginable devastation unleashed that day.
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World Eaters fief world of Bodt was a the troop bays of which had been converted to evacuate ground units while those not
conglomeration of units drawn from Autek to accommodate additional munitions. This able to do so circled overhead, maintaining
Mor's own Legion, as well as elements from bomber element was escorted by other craft, such a heavy rate of fire that enemy units
the Imperial Fists and smaller numbers including Fire Raptor gunships to engage attempting to pursue were eviscerated.
drawn from several other Legions. With his enemy ground units and agile Xiphon
customary uncompromising demeanour, interceptors whose primary task was to Iron Hands Legion Xiphon Interceptor:
'' the Iron-Father melded these elements protect the less manoeuvrable bombers This craft is marked by its insignia of the
together into a fearsomely effective force of from the attentions of enemy fighters. veteran Iron Hands pilot Viton Tahn, a
many different arms, and this is as true of the Of all the highly skilled crews it was said Legionary whose skills throughout the
orbital strike wings as it is the ground units. that the Iron Hands pilots were the most later years of the Great Crusade made him
adept, utilising their Legion's expertise something of a legend even to his darkly-
Autek Mor's favoured modus operandi was and familiarity with cybernetic interface humoured peers of the Morragul Clan-
to launch overwhelming planetary assaults protocols to control their craft like an company. Following wounds sustained in
using multiple waves of orbital strike craft, extension of their own bodies. void battle at Isstvan V, when Tahn attempted
heavy orbital bombardment and massed in vain to break through the Traitors'
heavy landings delivered by drop pod, The Red Talon orbital strike wings were used orbital blockade, it was thought he would
landing craft and teleportation array. The to devastating effect at Bodt, where the first have to be interred within the sarcophagus
orbital strike wings were the first wave of waves neutralised the heavy ground defences of a Dreadnought or else perish. Tahn's
attack, relying on speed and manoeuvrability that surrounded the World Eaters Legion's fellow pilots suggested an unconventional
to engage key enemy installations before garrison installations in and around the city alternative, one which the Apothecarion
they detected the coming attack and raised ofTredecimmia. They were instrumental would only undertake with Autek
shield domes or armed ground-to-air and in ensuring large numbers of drop pod- Mor's personal blessing, which was duly
ground-to-orbit defences. borne assault units were able to deploy to forthcoming. That alternative was to strip
the surface, and continued to engage enemy Tahn's form of all but the most vital organs
The orbital strike wings were made up of a air and ground units throughout the seven and graft what remained into his Xiphon
mixture of craft, the majority of them based hours of the assault, returning to the Red Interceptor. The operation was a success, and
on Autek Mor's flagship, the Red Talon. Each Talon to rearm and refuel several times Viton Tahn remains the most skilled pilot
wing was organised around a squadron of without rest. At the very height of the attack, amongst the Red Talon's orbital assault wings.
IRON HANDS FLEET Aux1111A
In addition to heavy ground units, the Iron The ultimate fate of many of these aircraft was expended attempted to evacuate their
Hands committed every available air and is a salutary example of the spirit in which brothers to orbit. Others fought desperately
sub-orbital asset at their disposal to the the Legiones Astartes were forged. Even to fend off the attacks of enemy aircraft,
Isstvan V drop. In the case of the Ferrum's as the full and dire extent of the rebel while a few sacrificed themselves by
complement, this primarily consisted of Legions' treachery became clear, Loyalist crashing into the densest concentrations of
Thunderhawks and Caestus Assault Rams. Thunderhawks and other similar sized enemy forces they could identify. Though
Such vessels were utilised in a range of classes of aircraft worked tirelessly and noble in the extreme, such glorious acts of
different roles, from that of gunship to entirely without consideration for their self sacrifice failed to stave off the death
ferrying troops around the battlefield directly own safety to aid the beleaguered ground of the Primarch Ferrus Manus and the
in the face of enemy guns. forces. Those aircraft that were able to do near total destruction of the ground forces
so launched ceaseless strafing runs against so perfidiously betrayed in the Dropsite
the enemy, while those whose ammunition Massacre at Isstvan V.
Thunderhawk Transporter (Legion Forge, war engine designated 'n69'): This Thunderhawk Transporter belongs
to the Iron Hands Legion Forge. The craft is known to have conducted at least six interface missions during the three
hours or so of the battle, each time returning to orbiting warships laden with wounded Legionaries before returning to the
surface with reinforcements, every spare square metre of its interior filled with ammunition.
Caestus Assault Ram, Order Octii, Clan Avernii: This Caestus Assault Ram conducted numerous attacks against
ground targets, utilising its magna-melta, one of the most potent weapons of its class, against any enemy ground unit it
could engage. In most cases, these units were either static fortifications, heavy tanks or Titans, against which it launched
several bold attack runs. The aircraft is thought to have perished around the end of the first full hour of the battle, the exact
circumstances of its destruction remain lost in the havoc of battle.
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of Isstvan Ill in the wake of the viral bombardment: Note: 'Iron' pattern powered armour assault wave, can be seen as a recent initiate inro his Legion, owing both to tlH' rnndilion
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lsstvan III. Ile is recorded as being part of the assault force sent to take possession of a
This Legionary's armour shows modification of a rype not uncommon to the World Eaters
Legion, designed nor only to evoke fear but also to turn the armour's surface into a weapon
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Note: 'Crusade' pattern power armour with Serpha-V Jump pack system: the 'crossed-chain' incised into vambrace.
decoration on vambrace accords him status as having killed a fellow World Eater of higher
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The World Eaters were known to maintain a strong Destroyer cadre in their ranks,
the Legion favouring their tactical use against monstrous xeno-forms and during
extermination campaigns. Note: The Destroyer's 'Maxim us' pattern armour has been
subjected to radiation and thermic damage, most likely from the Destroyer's own
weaponry. This Destroyer carries the 'Red 1 land' across hh foccplat<.', denoting an :iwanl
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Cerberus Suppression task force]
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managing to survive the virus bombardment by virtue of being engaged against Isstvanian The War Hounds Legion were among the first to be equipped with the fully integrated ''l
rebels in the depths of a manufactory unit during the initial arrack. Incensed to the poinc and environmentally sealed version of power armour that would be later designated as
of madness by his Legion's betrayal, he fought relentlessly against them, finally falling 'Crusade' panem.
lighting alongside loyalist Death Guard forces in the northern city zone. Note: Early issue
'Crusade' pattern armour with 'Sarum' type respiration mask.
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SECUTOR-SERGEANT ZKORROTH
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3RD CHAPTER
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Secutor-Sergeant Zkorroth was known as
something of a tyrant within the ranks of the 3 rd
Chapter, having clawed his way to senior squad
command rank as much by the domination of
his peers as by the blood he shed in the wars of
the Great Crusade. He is known to have slain
at least three of his own brother Legionaries
as punishment for what he regarded as lack of
respect or commitment to the Great Crusade. It is
said though that Zkorroth found his true calling
upon the cratered killing grounds ofrsstvan III,
revelling in the opportunity to test his strength
and courage against so mighty an enemy as his
fellow Legiones Astartes. Witnesses claim that
later, as the Loyalist drop pods streaked through
the clouded skies of Isstvan V, Zkorroth strained
and bayed as a beast on the leash, so eager was he
to spill the blood of his foe.
Panoply of War
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2. Phobos pattern combi-melta with combat

blade attachment - Zkorroth is known to
favour the melee attachment over the projectile
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SIGNUS INTERDICTION
Legionary Balcoth served in Task Force
Ygethddon, a mixed Traitor Legion force named
for and led by a XVI'h Legion Centurion that
included units drawn from the Sons of Horns,
Night Lords and World Eaters. Its task was to
ensure that the Blood Angels Legion did not
escape the trap set for it at the Sign us Cluster.
While the Loyalists were able to avoid the
task force's interdiction, several other Loyalist
Legiones Astartes forces were less fortunate
and were destroyed wholesale by the bloody-
handed Traitors.
World Eaters Armour

Symbolic Modifications
Balcoth is clad in modified Mark IV Legiones
Astartes power armour, the chest pauldron
wrought by Legion artificers into a form redolent
of the World Eaters icon. The helm's distinctive
'cadae re renissum' side panels are a throwback to
the fighting pits in which the Primarch Angron
once fought, signifying a warrior whose sanity
had been burned away by lust for battle. Such
warriors were regarded as blessed, for they were
cleansed of all cares other than war.
World Eaters Mid-Heresy Heraldry

It is notable that Balcoth's armour shows very few
of the blue elements once worn proudly by the
Legion, most of which have been over-painted
blood red or simply been allowed to degrade. In
addition, the traditional crossed-chains duelling
honour on the left grieve appears to have been
neglected in favour of the crudely applied kill-
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wORLD EATERS RED BUTCHERS TERMINATOR
LEGIONARY ZHUKEL DROR
BATILE OF TREDECIMMIA
Once a member of the 8'h Assault Company of
the World Eaters, Legionary Dror was one of
many of his Legion betrayed at Isstvan III. His
mortally wounded body was recovered during the
aftermath, when it was discovered that he lived
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longer knew friend from foe. Whether as cruel
jest, experiment or retrieval of usable biological
matter, Dror was shipped to Bodt along with
hundreds of similarly wounded Legionaries,
where ultimately he was inducted into the ranks
of the Red Butchers.
Legionary Dror is depicted here as he and

others of the Red Butchers appeared when they
were unleashed upon the Loyalists invading
Tredecimmia. Accounts of the bloodshed that
followed are fragmentary at best, but Dror alone
stands accused of slaying at least a dozen Loyalist
Legiones Astartes and twice that number of
Solar Auxilia before he was crushed beneath the
armoured tread of a Mastodon armoured assault
transport of the Iron Hands Legion.
Armour of the Red Butchers

The distinctive Terminator armour of the Red
Butchers functions as a prison inbetween
battles, when it is remotely locked and rendered
immobile by Legion overseers. It is notable that
the original blue heraldic elements are being
supplanted by red markings, much of which is
simply the blood of the Legion's foes .
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Nul had the dual distinctions of being the first Master of Ordnance of the XIIth Legion-later known as
the War Hounds, and being one of the firsr of the Legion's officers interned within a Dreadnought frame
afrer being horrifically mutilated by Slaugrh murder-minds at Rangda. He served within a Lucifer patt ern
Dreadnought chassis for more than a century until this was damaged beyond repair during rhe liberation
of Sarum then, subsequent to recovering from dire wounds to his preserved body, he was re-interred in one
of the Legion's new Conremptor Dreadnoughts. An Imperial Loyalist whose Legion had changed around
him almost beyond recognition, he was betrayed to his death at Isstvan III and was finally destroyed during
the great battle between his Legion's two factions following Angron's landing, carrying many of his former
brothers with him into death's embrace. Nore: At the time of the Isstvan III assault , Nul's Dreadn o ug h t
frame was configured in the Conremptor-Mortis pattern and armed with two Kheres assault cannon.
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Barely conrrollable and subject to indiscriminate and savage bouts of rage thanks to the unpredictable
interaction between his psycho-surgical implants and the Dreadnought's conrrol systems, Styvath was kept in
deep coma between bartles. At Issrvan III he was unleashed by drop pod and rampaged across the battlefield,
caring not who he killed.
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The World Eaters are believed to have The first allowed them to close with their ammunition within the first hour of battle,
deployed every war machine at their disposal foe as quickly as possible, the second was forcing a withdrawal to rearm in many cases,
to the battles at Isstvan V, employing them a means to an end; the overwhelming and while in some instances, the World Eaters
as aggressively in defence as their Legion's swift destruction of the foe. tanks reduced themselves to brute rams in
bellicose reputation demanded. It is notable order to attack the Loyalist tanks and troops,
that many commanders amongst the Legion Testament to this factor is evidence suffering heavy losses while doing so.
valued two characteristics in the vehicles that many World Eaters vehicle crews
under their command: speed and firepower. had entirely expended their reserves of
Legion Cerberus Heavy Tank Destroyer

'Hell's Judgement': This most potent of the
Legion's war machines was held back from
the initial stage of the defence of the Urgall
Depression, and only committed once the
Iron Warriors, Night Lords, Word Bearers
and Alpha Legion had turned upon the
Salamanders, Raven Guard and Iron Hands
Legions. When the World Eaters super-
heavy tank destroyers, the Hell's Judgement at
their head, was unleashed against them, the
effect of their near-suicidal assault upon the
Loyalist Legions was catastrophic, shattering
any chance of organised resistance.
Scimitar Jetbike: This vehicle was one of a squadron ridden into battle by the Xll'h Sky Hunter
squad of the 91h Chapter. It was discovered abandoned and salvaged by the Alpha Legion. Records
indicate the Scimitar was largely intact, and it is assumed that its rider was either shot from
his mount or abandoned it to engage the enemy in the anarchy of hand-to-hand combat that
consumed the entire Urgall Depression at the moment the Warmaster's betrayal was fully revealed.
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In the aftermath of the XIIth Legion's As World Eaters battle doctrines became ever the longest serving of Legion veterans. In
participation in the great betrayal at the more focused on direct infantry assaults, it contrast, the reserve also contained vehicles
Isstvan System, the World Eaters accelerated remained nonetheless crucial to maintain which had only recently been entered into
their course along a trajectory begun years a strong reserve of armoured vehicles that the Legion's strength and which as yet
before, one that would ultimately see their could be mobilised to support such massed bore few if any identifying marks. Even
Primarch damned and his Legionaries assaults. The Legion fief world of Bodt was as the Homs Heresy ground onwards and
transformed into debased savages bearing the base of one such reserve of armoured savagery and chaos seized the entire galaxy,
scant resemblance to the champions of units, its vast armoured silos host to many the XII'h Legion maintained a constant
humanity the Emperor had intended them hundreds of Legion war machines of every flow of machines and materiel from such
to be. As a consequence of this change, the possible class, as well as a cadre of reserve Traitor-aligned Forge Worlds as Sarum and
distribution and deployment of certain units crew-masters able to train new crews and to M'Pandex, ensuring that its arsenals were as
within the Legion altered as they fell from operate the machines if called upon at short potent as those of any other Legion.
use, replaced in the line by other, often more notice to mount a defence of their base, as
direct, unsubtle and brutal war machines. happened when the city ofTredecimmia was With the coming of the Red Talon to Bodt
The World Eaters armoured reserve is an assaulted by the forces of Autek Mor. however, the entire reserve held there was
example of this phenomenon and indicative destroyed, even though the crew-master
of the shifting tactical doctrines (or perhaps The Tredecimmia armoured reserve was cadre that manned its vehicles mounted
the increasing abandonment of such) host to a range of war machines, the oldest a fearsome and determined defence that,
prevalent in the Legion throughout the of which had served in the latter days of the though they were doomed, reaped a heavy
period between Isstvan V and the end of the Unification Wars and which bore sub-unit toll on the Loyalist invaders.
Shadow Crusade. icons and battle honours known only to
World Eaters Legion Vindicator: This tank destroyer variant of the Legion Vindicator was only just
entering service among the Legiones Astartes at the time of Autek Mor's assault of Bodt, quickly finding
its way into the arsenals of Loyalist and Traitor alike. This vehicle displays the changing heraldry of the
Legion, as the use of blue receded to be replaced with a more bellicose and bloody crimson.
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converted to assault infantry when its vehicles were dispatched to Bodt in 999.M30. The vehicle
bears the icon of the War Hounds on its flank, possibly marking it as ill-favoured in the eyes of
the Legion's increasingly unstable Primarch.
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MIKA COVENANT, TAGHMATA SARUM BIO-RECLAMATION COHORT,
SCOURING OF TREDECIMMIA
Sarum Mechanicum Thallax Aleph-Nun-833: This Thallax belonged to the Mechanicum force assigned to Bodt under the binding compact
pledged between the World Eaters and the so-called Crimson Brotherhood of the Forge World of Sarum. Its primary role was to serve in a bio-
harvesting cohort under the supervision of a Sarum Tech-Priest of the Lacyraemara, tasked with scouring the wastelands ofBodt of undesirable
lifeforms, in particular outcast gun-clanners afflicted by sickness or the stigmata of mutation, and recover their remains for reconstitution into
Adsecularis Tech-thralls. Its final duty, alongside several hundred other Thallax, was to oppose the coming of Autek Mor to Bodt, a task it was
destroyed attempting to fulfil.
ULTRAMARINES TACTICAL MARKINGS
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Tactical Squad Tactical Squad variant Assault Squad Assault Squad variant
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Heavy Support Squad Heavy Support Squad Heavy Support Squad Variant Breacher Squad with
(Specialist weaponry) (Armour core) (Armour core) Chapter Numeral
ULTRAMARINES TACTICAL MARKINGS
AND HERALDRY
ULTRAMARINES LEGION APOTHECARION
Ultramarines Apothecaries replace some or ULTRAMARINES HELM VARIANTS
all of the legion's standard cobalt blue with Like many legions, the Ultramarines utilise a range of armorial variants unique to
white, making them easily recognisable their own legion Forge. The 'Praetor' pattern helm featuring its distinctive visor plate
on the field of battle. legiones Astartes is often worn as a mark of distinction and honour by veteran and legion officers.
Apothecaries bear the 'prime helix', the Shown here is a range of unit and rank markings used within the XIII'h legion.
symbol of their unique genetic inheritance. Variation exists between chapters, in particular those stationed or serving beyond the
This is frequently adorned with further borders of Ultramar.
iconography such as common Great
Crusade era symbols or motifs unique to the
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ULTRAMARINES LEGION
DESTROYER VARIANTS
The Ultramarines observe the common,
although not universal, legiones Astartes
convention of adorning their Destroyer
units with heraldry of black. This practice
has its origins in the earliest days of the
Great Crusade, where those warriors given Vehicle crew Destroyer Destroyer Sergeant
the often odious and invariably perilous
task of employing weapons forbidden to the
greater bulk of the Emperor's hosts were
often kept apart from their peers.
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Of all the many banners and icons borne by the Ultramarines, the Legion battle standards carry the most significance. These large, fabric
banners are individually commissioned by Legion High Command and issued to chapter sub-commands, often in honour of a great victory and
a symbol that the chapter's commanding officer bears the authority of the Primarch and the honour of the entire Legion.
ULTRAMARINES SHIELD ICONOGRAPHY

The Ultramarines Legion places a high value on the deployment of shield-equipped units, and aside from the standard Legion Breacher
squads commonly fielded across the Legiones Astartes, the XIII'h Legion equips its elite Invictarus Suzerain squads with artificer-wrought
boarding shields which many Invictarii continue to bear in their subsequent service in the ranks of the Legion's officer cadre.
ULTRAMARINES VETERAN TACTICAL LEGIONARY
LEGIONARY KRATO PELEOS
COMMAND COMPANY, i" CHAITER
EURYDICE RETRIBUTION TASKFORCE
Legionary Peleos is depicted here on the eve
of the final destruction of the xenos 'Psybrids'.
The bulk of the 71h Chapter was deployed to
the Eurydice Retribution Taskforce aboard th e
warship Thunder of Hera and took part in the
boarding assault against the alien nomad-ships.
legionary Peleos and his company fought as
part of the second wave against the xenos vessel,
moving through the interior in the bloody
wake of the 1" Chapter's Terminators, planting
charges and performing a key role in the ultimate
destruction of that vessel.
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production Mk II power armour, constructed on
Mars and common in the Legion in this era. He
bears Veteran Tactical Legionary iconography
and displays a marksmanship honour on his chest
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LEGIONARY NAEVIUS
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lANSHEAR COUNTER-THRUST
Legionary Naevius was recruited from Orpheus
Prime having not only survived, but excelled in
the ritual games associated with the annual tribal
levy, and at the time of the Calth Conjunction was
in his fourth year of Legion service, fighting in
the ranks of the n2' h Company. Having sustained
calamitous losses at the outset of the Battle of
Calth, the remnants of the 112'h Company were
rallied by Naevius' squad commander, Sergeant
Anchise, at whose side he fought throughout the
advance on Lanshear.
Legionary Naevius is depicted here on the

eve of the Erud Muster. He wears the Mk IV
('Maximus') battle plate he was issued upon
induction into the Legion, the Ultramarines
Legion numeral displayed upon his left knee
armour. Naevius served in a Legion Tactical
squad, as indicated by the icon on his right
shoulder pauldron, but this battlefield distinction
became all but irrelevant in the aftermath of
the Word Bearers' betrayal, Sergeant Anchise
re-organising the surviving warriors according to
the skills and experience of each Legionary.
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ULTRAMARINES LEGION BREACHER
LEGIONARY VARINIUS
97™COMPANY, 9TH CHAPTER
(ATIACHED TO 402"° FLOTILLA)
FLEET DEFENCE DETACHMENT, BATILE BARGE 'PHAUNos'
BATILE OF CALrn NEAR-SPACE
Legionary Varinius was a long-serving warrior
of the 9'h Chapter and marked for ascension to
one of his Chapter's Veteran Tactical squads. At
the time of the Calth Conjunction, Varinius was
serving in a Legion Breacher squad assigned to
shipboard security detail onboard the battle barge
the Phaunos, having displayed formidable skill in
this role during the scouring of the nine orbital
plates of Hydras Reach in 00I.M3I. Varinius and
his battle-brothers were especially noted for their
expertise in counter-boarding actions, and it was
in this role that they fought during the Battle
of Calth, successfully repelling three separate
breaching assaults against the Phaunos by Word
Bearers boarding parties.
Legionary Varinius is depicted here wearing late

production Mk III battle plate ('Iron' Armour)
and bearing a boarding shield displaying the
heraldry of a veteran Breacher squad. The
numeral 'CDII' on the shield refers to the 402"d
Flotilla of the Ultramarines fleet, of which
the Phaunos was the flagship, and the icon and
numeral 'IX' below it marks his membership
of the 9'h Chapter. On his right knee armour
Legionary Varinius wears an icon honouring his
skill in void warfare battle doctrines, bestowed
upon him after the conclusion of the Hydras
Reach campaign.
Panoply of War
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ULTRAMARINES LEGION DESTROYER
LEGIONARY Kr.rros
2" 0 DESTROYER COMPANY, 22ND CHAPTER
THRACIUS PROVINCE MUSTER
Legionary Kletos was deployed to one of
the many muster camps scattered across the
highlands ofThracius and served in one of the
'Nemesis' Chapter's Destroyer squads. The 22nd
numbered many specialised units, most of which
utilised unconventional weapons and tactics,
and so they were deliberately mustered far from
Calth's centres of population.
Legionary Kletos wears mid-production

Mk II ('Crusade' Armour) Astartes battle plate,
displaying the predominantly black heraldry
worn by Destroyer units within the Ultramarines
and several other of the Legiones Astartes. The
suit bears several common icons, such as the
veteran's laurel on the left shoulder pauldron and
the three-pointed destroyer icon on the right.
The Terran Raptor icon at the waist indicates the
bearer is a veteran of the early Great Crusade and
in this case ofTerran origin. The markings on
the forearms are highly idiosyncratic and have
only been observed in use amongst the Destroyer
cadres of the Legiones Astartes Ultramarines,
Emperor's Children and Raven Guard.
Panoply of War
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2 . Rad, frag and krak gren ades.
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SUPPORT ECHELON, 31D CHAPTER
OURO ENE PROVINCE MUSTER
Apothecary Theon was deployed to his chapter's
command post at the landing fields on the Bay of
Lisko. At the moment of the destruction of Calth
Veridian Anchor, Theon and his brethren from
the Chapter Apothecarion were embarking an
orbital transport, but as the burning debris began
to fall, they rapidly disembarked in anticipation
of the casualties to come. Within the hour, the
coastal landing zone was a.flame and thousands
of Legionaries, Auxilia and civilians were dead
and many more were wounded. There was little
Theon could do for the majority, but operational
records state he served with courage and
resolution that day, and recovered the progenoid
glands of dozens of battle-brothers fallen in glory.
Apothecary Theon wears modified Mk IV

Astartes battle plate, bearing not only the
specialised chirogenical systems crucial to his
role, but a number of honour marks conferred
upon him by Legion high command. The marbled
surface finishing of his armour is normally
reserved for formal occasions, indicative that the
Ultramarines were not anticipating imminent
combat at the time of the Traitors' attack.
Panoply of War
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lNVJCTARUS SARERVAN
ISTH CHAITER COMMAND CADRE
DAJNHOLD MumR
Legionary Sarervan was at the time of the
Calth Conjunction a fully inducted member
of the Invictarii, having served his Legion for
three decades and earned the approbation of
the Primarch himself Marked for high rank,
Sarervan was serving in the command squad
of his battalion's commanding officer, Captain
Teutona, at the time of the Battle of Calth. When
his immediate superior was slain by frenzied
Traitor auxilia, Sarervan assumed command of
the remaining Legionaries and led the dwindling
force for a further six hours before the Dainhold
Manufactoria fell.
As a member of the Invictarii, Sarervan wears

a highly ornamented, artificer-modified suit of
Mk IV ('Maxirnus') power armour. The armour is
typical of that worn by many Invictarii, featuring
adapted motifs drawn from the heraldry of the
Battle-kings ofMacragge and the armies ofTerra,
including the laurel wreathes of victory, the
ultima icon of Ultramar, the lightning bolts and
raptor head ofTerran Unification and the eagle of
the Imperiurn of Mankind.
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llMCTARUS CAS JAN
Xm111 LEGION HrcH COMMAND CADRE
At the time of the Calth Conjunction, Cassian
was serving with Legion High Command and
had recently completed service in the ranks of
the Invictarus Suzerains having been identified
as a candidate for company command by Firs t
Chapter Master Marius Gage himself Cassian
had served in the honour guard of the Primarch
on three occasions and fought in the ranks of
the Suzerains in a dozen battles. Although he
would never know the honour that was to be
bestowed upon him, Lucius Cassian had been
marked by Lord Guilliman for command of the
213 •h Company. During the Traitors' berrayal at
the Calth Conjunction, Cassian was on board the
Ultramarines flagship the Macragge's Honour. He
and his squad were last seen rallying an ad hoe
force of several dozen Legionaries and armsmen
in defence of the starboard primary enginarium
against a horde of warp entities. While the vital
location was saved, Cassian and his warriors gave
their lives for victory.
Cassian is depicted clad in artificer wrought

Mk IV ('Maxim us') Astartes power armour. His
armour's adornments and markings indicate
his former service in the ranks of the Invictarus
Suzerains and his helmet crest marks his rank as
that of a Centurion.
Panoply of War
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13m CHAPTER ELITE
CAREN PROVINCE MUSTER
Legionary Klion had served his Legion for
four and a half decades at the time of the Calth
Conjunction, and having been stationed on the
outskirts of the Prohibited Zone had not set foot
on any of the Five Hundred Worlds in almost
ten years. Klion was a veteran of the xenocidal
wars fought along Ultramar's frontiers and had
sustained such heavy injuries fighting ravening
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xenos that he had been considered for interment
within a Dreadnought. On each occasion, the
13 1h Chapter's isolation had necessitated arduous
surgery and an extended recovery period, Klion
returning to the fray after each injury more
determined in his duty than ever.
Legionary Klion is depicted clad in the

Cataphractii pattern Terminator plate he had
worn for the best part of ten years, which for the
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artificiers. At Calth, Klion was to sustain yet
another, near-mortal wound in his long service,
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time, at the hand of his brother Astartes.
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2. Mars-Omega pattern volkite charger.
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LEGIONARY SOLON
12™CHAPTER COMMAND CADRE
SYLATOR PROVINCE MumR
Solon was the standard bearer of the 3'd Battalion
of the 12•h Chapter, an honour earned in
recognition of a decade of line service. Solon's
armour bears numerous honour marks, notably
the laurel and skull icon indicating that his rank
was conferred by the hand of a Chapter Master.
The marking on Solon's right knee armour is a
personal motif, memorialising his service in the
ranks of his battalion's Veteran Tactical squads.
Legionary Solon served with distinction at the

Battle of Calth, bearing his battalion's standard
so that his battle-brothers could rally against
the Traitors at Sylator. Solon's battalion faced
the entire Traitor 199'h Thorion Yeomanry, an
Imperialis Militia unit serving under the Word
Bearers and deployed to Sylator for the Calth
Conjunction. Accounts of the clash between the
desperately outnumbered force of legionaries
of the 12' h Chapter and the thousands-strong
host of inducted militia state that Solon never
once faltered in his duty. Even when the enemy
revealed formerly concealed mutations and
unleashed the power of the Warp upon the
Space Marines, Solon fought on and by his
example Sylator was saved.
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HEAVY SUPPORT ECHELON, IIi" COMPANY
BATILE OF IrnRAcA, LANDING ZoNE MACRO- GAMMA
A former Consul-Centurion with three decades service and numerous citations for valour, Captain Marcellus fell at the
First Portresh Compliance when recidivist forces unleashed a bio-psionic weapon of forbidden provenance. He is depicted
here as he deployed to Ithraca City, where he mustered at Landing Zone Macro-Gamma. Marcellus stood against the
traitorous Calaq War Host at Macro-Gamma, his heavy weaponry cutting down scores of Traitors. He was last recorded
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in that region, and while his remains were never located, his name was added to the roll of honour of the many thousands
who fell during the Battle of Calth.
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Ancient Tyrennius was born a Terran and was inducted from the Midafrik Hive levies towards the end of the Emperor’s
campaign to bring Unification to Terra in preparation for the Great Crusade. He served in the earliest decades of the Great
Crusade before being appointed to command his Legion’s commitment to the First Magellan Expedition. Tyrennius was
among the few to return from that doomed endeavour, though he had sustained such terrible wounds that only interment
within the armoured sarcophagus of a Dreadnought saved him from death.
The Calth Configuration was to be Tyrennius’ first campaign for over a decade, having been held in stasis for many years. Having
been restored to full potency a mere ten hours before the Word Bearers’ betrayal, he fought with bitter resolve throughout the
Battle of Calth and was instrumental in the defeat of a large Word Bearers force assaulting the gates of Arcology XVk.
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The Ultramarines Legion was able to draw conveyance of massed squads across open Specialist Armoured Vehicles
upon the wealth and resources of Ultramar terrain, while many maintained sufficient The Ultramarines Legion armoured forces
and as such possessed extensive strategic numbers of Land Raiders to prosecute included a wide range of vehicle classes,
reserves of munitions and materiel amassed armoured spearhead assaults directly into the patterns and types, including the very
over many years. Not least among these assets teeth of enemy positions. These transport earliest patterns of war machines which were
was the mighty fleet of war ships, many of vehicles were bolstered by armoured support subsequently deployed in large numbers
which were constructed within the Five echelons of Predator and Sicaran battle tanks, across the entire Legiones Astartes. Some
Hundred Worlds or, in the case of the very with long range bombardment being supplied of these had been kept operational by
heaviest of classes, in the Forge Worlds of by batteries of Whirlwind missile tanks and constant field repair and had not received
Thramas. Of equal import to the Legion's other patterns of mobile Legion artillery. the attentions of the Legion Forge for many
ongoing operations were the large numbers decades. Conversely, the Legion's forces
of armoured vehicles which its chapters One body within the Legiones Astartes included vehicles only just beginning to see
were able to call upon, and the Ultramarines Ultramarines maintained especially extensive use, one of which was the Damocles pattern
were well versed in the many doctrines of numbers of armoured vehicles - the 4'h command Rhino, a Deimos pattern armoured
armoured warfare. Chapter, known with increasing formality carrier modified by replacing most of its troop
as the 'Aurorans'. This formation operated a carrying capacity with a suite of sophisticated
Each of the Ultramarines Legion chapters wide range of tanks, but was especially well communications equipment. Following the
maintained its own stocks of armoured known for its expertise in the deployment of Ultramarines' example, this command and
vehicles, allowing individual formations to super-heavy engines including the Fellblade, control platform was beginning to enter
deploy as befitted tactical and environmental Falchion and Glaive as well as other, far less service across the Legions by the close of the
conditions. All held large numbers of well known or prototype classes. Great Crusade, the sons of Guilliman leading
Rhino armoured carriers, used for the rapid by example and sharing their hard-won battle
doctrines with their brother Legions.
Whirlwind Scorpius Missile Tanlc: This missile tank belonged to the support echelon of the 12'h
Chapter, the ultima symbol on its rear superstructure marking it as belonging to a strike company and
the laurel wreath motif indicating it is that formation's command vehicle. The vehicle was deployed for
muster south ofNuminus City at the time of the betrayal of the Calth Conjunction and is depicted here
bearing the ceremonial heraldry applied for that muster. Its blackened shell was later discovered on the
shattered Malonik Transit, where it is surmised the tank was ambushed by elements of the Word Bearers
chapter identified as the Asps of the Sacred Sands.
Land Raider Proteus 'Lhatyrion Compact': This ancient, armoured variant of the venerable Proteus pattern Land Raider served with the 7'h Chapter
for over a century. Externally, the vehicle appears to be in very poor condition indeed. Mechanically however, the Land Raider is extremely well
maintained, its crew devoting all their efforts to keeping it operational and considering its external heraldry of secondary concern. Such a view is
regarded as a throw-back to the age before the Primarch joined his Legion, and is held by few outside the units serving far beyond Ultramar's frontiers.
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The Calth Conjunction was intended as others were so new they had never borne any machines were to be loaded onto combat
an auspicious gathering of the combined other colours. Heraldry of cobalt blue and transports and shipped to war, much of their
forces of two entire Legions and as such the white was often rendered with a distinctive finery to be obscured by more practical
Ultramarines mustered not only the war marbled surface pattern reminiscent of the battlefield markings. The phenomenon is in
machines of the line formations and those magnificent stone architecture ofMacragge, keeping with the traditions of the Imperium
of the Legion armoured reserve, but also polished to a sheen as bright as that of any however, for Roboute Guilliman had learned
hundreds of vehicles manufactured especially palace of governance. The flanks of many from his father the value of such a visible
for the campaign against the Orks of the vehicles were plated with gold, inspired statement. It was Guilliman's hope that the
Ghaslakh Xeno-hold. Many of these assets by the war-thrones of the Battle-kings of display would honour his sons in his own
were gathered together at Calth and mustered Macragge. Each was further adorned with a Legion and the sons of his brother Primarch,
at the macro landing fields in and around complex array of symbols, drawing from the Lorgar and bind them together in common
Ithraca City to be reviewed by the Primarch iconographic traditions of both Macragge endeavour.
Roboute Guilliman and the assembled and Terra, and exemplifying the shared
Chapter Masters before being loaded into cultural heritage of both worlds. The ultima One tragedy amongst the many heaped upon
heavy orbital transports. As with so many symbol, long associated with the region of the Ultramarines during the Battle of Calrh
other elements of the XIII'h Legion, all but a Ultramar and adopted as the Legion's icon, was the fact that many of their war machines
handful would be destroyed at the opening of was displayed prominently, as were the spear- met their deaths clad in the finery intended
the Battle of Calth. tipped lightning bolts of Unification. to honour their brother Astartes. Instead
of returning that honour, the Word Bearers
Many of the war engines of the XIII'h Legion The ostentation lavished upon the armoured offered only betrayal and death to their
Reserve had been formally prepared for the vehicles of the Legion Reserve might appear erstwhile brothers.
Calth Conjunction in a manner befitting excessive or superfluous to some outsiders,
the traditions of the Ultramarines, while especially given that within days the war
Sicaran Battle Tank 'Praetorian Prime': Detached from the XIII'h Legion Armoured Reserve
and assigned to the 16 h Chapter's sub-muster in eastern Erud Province, the Praetorian Prime led the
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Caren Lowlands. Though too distant to take part in the relief ofLanshear, the vehicle was instrumental I~
in scouring the wastes about the Holophusikon of retreating Word Bearers units. l'
Legion Spartan Assault Tank 'Ardentian': This mighty war machine was constructed on Mars and served with the n•h Expeditionary Fleet
before Roboute Guilliman assumed command of his sons. At the time of the Calth Conjunction, Ardentian had yet to be assigned to a specific
Legion sub-unit, but served with the armoured companies of 4'h Chapter throughout the Battle ofithraca.
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period. Note: Limited use of iconography and heraldry: Maintenance of superficial armour in the initial assault wave sent against the rebels of lssrvan I I I, and owing to damagt•
damage sustained on active service as a badge of honour: Modified 'Iron' Pattern armour sustained by his power armour during the battle, perished 10 the ravagl'S of the lift.> t'Jll't
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the Death Guard Legion, and fought with the traitors on Isstvan lll. Note: 'Iron' pattern 'Crusade' Pattern armour with enhanced breathing apparatus incorporated into reinforced
power armour utilising a prototype Anvilus pattern backpack unit - this variant has helm.
enhanced stabilising thruster vents to aid in void operations, but inferior rad-shielding.
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Believed to have been a member of the 7'h Great Company, (although markings of rank Sune was a noted veteran of his Legion, having distinguished himself in action in the
and role are sparse), this Legionary Space Marine was part of the traitor onslaught that Battle of Grhendal's Moon against the tainted Lirhovac chem-mutants, slaying their witch
encircled and exterminated the Loyalist forces in the northern zone redoubts. Note: mother using a damaged bracing spar as a weapon. He fough t with the rrairors to purge
Corroded damage to torso plate (likely to have been caused originally by an Ork cutting· lsstvan III and was elevated afterwards to the rank of Centurion. Note: Crossed scythes
torch weapon): I leavy 'Iron' pattern armour in extensive use by the Death Guard Legion emblem denoting 1he personal commendation of his Primarch Mortarion.
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Kalaeb Molor fought as part of a resistance group under the command of Crysos Morturg
and was valiantly slain in battle against the traitor forces of the World Eaters Legion. Original panoply and heraldry of the Dusk Raiders Legion. Note: Base pattern Legiones
Note: 'Maximus' pattern armour repaired with scavenged components from the Issrvan Astartes power armour (retroactively designated as 'Crusade' pattern) in storm grey with
lll battlefield: Defaced Legion Heraldry: Image of the Imperial Aquila incised by hand on crimson accent: Aquila lmperialis honour designating Legion's campaign role in the latter
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VETERAN SERGEANT KHoRAK that left many of Death Guard, but many them again. In the face of such redoubtable
SQUAD KHoRAK more of the Salamanders, slain. power, not even the elite of the Legiones
lSS1VAN V DROPSITE MASSACRE) COUNTER- Astartes could stand.
ATIACK AGAI sr SALAMANDERS AssAULT Squad Khorak was ever at the forefront of
Squad Khorak had the privilege of serving the counter-attacks against the Salamanders, Panoply of War
as part of their Primarch's silent honour their grim Deathshroud power scythes rising I. Deathshroud power scythe.
cohort and as such took part in numerous and falling with relentless finality, each
counter-attacks against the first wave of the sweep harvesting the lives of yet more of the 2. Forearm-mounted hand flamer:
Loyalist assault. The most bitterly fought of sons of Vulkan. At the height of the massacre, Modified by Legion armourers to project
these were against the leading edge of the Squad Khorak fought beneath the gaze of chem-munitions of unspecified nature.
Salamanders Legion attack, where pure flame their Primarch himself and were girded to
met noxious chem-cloud in a confrontation redouble their bloody efforts and to redouble
Death Guard Dreadnought Ancient Skorrvall, known also as the 'Bitterblood' (Pict-capmre T~~rvan TTT Atrocity)
A native of Barbarus from chat world's first intake into che Deach Guard Legion, Skorrvall was known as a
darkly-tempered warrior and a survivor against che odds. Rising to che honoured rank of Standard Bearer of
che 19<h Chapter of rhe 1 " Grear Company, he was monally wounded in battle wich che Eldar at Neverlighr and
interred in a Dreadnought frame. Fighting wich che Traitors in Monarion's Vanguard at Isstvan III he killed
indiscriminately during che 'Veil of Grief' incident and was badly damaged by cannon-fire bur survived to later
rake part in the massacre at Isstvan V. Notes: Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought chassis: Commander of che
Death Guard 7.a Dreadnought Talon.
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ANCIENT LHORGATH
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Ancient lhorgath was once the commander of the 14rh Chapter of the 2nd Great Company of the Death Guard legion, a
rank he reluctantly set aside upon being mortally wounded battling the Fane-Kings of Narbasi during their Compliance.
At Isstvan V, Ancient lhorgath led his Dreadnought Talon in a fearsome counter-charge into the midst of the Salamanders
legion in the battle's bloody final hour; it is claimed being struck down by Vulkan himself in the desperate fighting.
Lhorgath's Comptemptor chassis was an exemplar of the first prototypes of the type delivered to the Legion's armouries
which were subjected to numerous repairs and modifications by the legion's artificers. These included the incorporation
of enhanced multi-spectral visual scanners to better penetrate smoke and fog, and structural reinforcement of the main
armour plating.
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The Spartan is a development of the powerful Land Raider design, with increased size, payload capacity and
firepower. Note: This example is from the Legion Strategic Reserve armoury and is equipped with standard quad-
lascannon sponsons as primary armament: It was standard practice within the Death Guard Legion to use only
numeric designation for their vehicles rather than name them as was practice in many legions.
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The Death Guard Legion deployed large constructed earthwork defences so as to the Loyalists, cutting down infantry and
numbers of armoured vehicles of all classes gain protection from the Loyalist fleet's blocking the Loyalist armoured advance
to Isstvan V Fielded in support of their orbital bombardment. as war erupted across the entire Urgall
infantry as per the Legion's standard battle Depression. The Death Guard armoured
doctrines, these were believed to constitute The moment the Loyalists' preparatory forces remained engaged throughout the
the entire surviving armoured reserve of bombardment lifted and the drop operation brutal three hour battle and suffered further
the Legion. Many of these tanks were either was underway, the Death Guard armoured heavy losses, severely degrading the Legion's
placed in tactical reserve positions deep reserve units initiated counter-fire before capacity to wage armoured warfare.
within the ancient xenos structures of the moving out from their shelters, engaging
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initial phases of the Dropsite Massacre, where every missile fired found a mark amongst the
Loyalists so densely were the attackers deployed. This particular vehicle is recorded as having
expended its entire ammunition reserve in less than seven minutes of commencement of
hostilities, its crew later retrieving further stocks, first from other crippled Death Guard
vehicles and, as the battle of attrition ground on, those of the enemy.
Legion Fellblade Super-heavy Tank 1Crakatavas': This vehicle took part in numerous
armoured thrusts throughout the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre, its crew claiming three enemy
super-heavy kills, twelve battle tank kills and countless tertiary and infantry annihilations by
the battle's end. This depiction illustrates its status in an early phase of the battle, before its
right side sponson was destroyed by Raven Guard counter-fire.
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UNNAMED TERRAN VmRAN Lec10NARY
VII"' CHAPTER OF THE l\fTI1 HOST
Of THE XV"' l.eCIONES AsrARTES
THE COMPLIANCE OF Mrn'SAvoH, THE PRiosA CAMPAIGN
Depicted at the outset of the mission to
Mih'savoh, outer capital world of the Priosan
Hybrid, this shows an unknown veteran
Legionary of the XV'h Legion, known at this
point still only informally as the Thousand
Sons, a decade before their re-unification with
the Primarch Magnus. The Prisoa Campaign is
one of the last instances where the XV'h Legion
were at such strength that they would willingly
form part of a theatre-wide operation alongside
multiple other Legiones Astartes detachments and
Imperialis Auxilia regiments before the corrosion
within their ranks became too onerous. The
campaign was a brief but bloody affair, comprising
in the main a series of high-intensity assaults
against a morally corrupt but technologically
sophisticated human-led pocket empire at
the edge of the Segmenrum Paci.ficus. During
the Mih'savoh assault, the psykers of the XV'h
used misdirection and illusion ro foil planetary
defences, allowing their landing all but unopposed
and suffering only a fraction of the casualties the
IV'h Legion assaulting the nearby Priosan world of
Mend'iShar were ro take in their similar objective
by direct arrack.
The panoply of the XV'h legion shown here

cannot be more in contrast to that it was later to
take on, its colouration and armorials echoing that
of both the Achaemenid Empire and the Nor'hion
'Wirch-Mark' of Old Terra. Of addirional note
is that the Legionary is equipped with limited
production 'Stygian' variant MkII pattern power
armour produced as a temporary measure to cover
spiralling demand from the Space Marine Legions.
Early Great Crusade Iconography of the XV'h Legion

THOUSAND SONS LEGION HERALDRY
Fellowship Command Third Fellowship Legion Icon Votive Glyph Pattern Second Fellowship
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THOUSAND SONS LEGION H ELM MARKINGS

From the period of Magnus' reformation onwards, a number of
unique variants of power armour helms appear within the ranks of
the Thousand Sons. While not universal, they are believed to invoke
certain ritual factors and materials in their construction.
M kII 'Crusad e' Ach ean Sub -p attern

Introduced after 'Pesedjet' structural reform,
mid-Great Crusade onwards, and still used by
veteran and specialist formations by the time of
the Burning of Prospero.
MkIV 'Maxim us' Ach ean Sub-pattern

Introduced during the latter Great Crusade,
widespread adoption ofMklV sub-patterns
locally manufactured by Arkhadine sub-forge.
Tartaros Tactical Dreadnought Armour

Ach ean Sub-pattern
Variant aesthetic form and ritual materials
incorporated into recently issued Terminator
armour panoply, note also the use of'Nemes' Example Legionary Standards of the Second
- Prosperine adornment indicating rank and and Third Fellowships of the Thousand Sons.
status as one of the 'learned nobility'.
THOUSAND SONS TACTICAL LEGIONARY
RHOTANSZA
TACTICAL DIVISION
PAVONI CULT, 9TH ECHELON
TIZCA INNER PERIMETER
Rhotan Sza is armed and armoured in
heavy MkIII Legiones Astartes battle
plate. Though the power armour acts
as a fully enclosed warsuit that bolsters
Sza's resilience and physical ability,
the legionary considers the runic
sigils he has inscribed upon it to be of
greater importance. Each is an arcane
key of sorts, devised to open the path
between the limitless power of the
Empyrean and the material universe.
Rhotan Sza is part of the Pavoni cult,
and uses the esoteric abilities of the
biomancer to channelWarp energy
through his physical form. This gives
him a supernatural resilience that saw
him fight on through grievous trauma.
Despite having sustained gaping bolter
wounds in his torso during the opening
stages of the war for Prospero, Sza still
rook a heavy toll of the invaders that
spread fire in the streets of his home
before finally succumbing to the bite of
a Fenrisian wolf.
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armorial use.
2. Thousand Sons legionaries often wear

the device of the all-seeing eye, an
aeons-old mystical symbol that - after
their Primarch threw his lot in with
theWarmaster - came to echo the
sigil of Horus himself.
3. Every suit of war plate in service to

the Thousand Sons Legion has been
ritually embellished, psychically
attuned and strengthened with the
hermetic runes of the owner's cult.
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additional icon engraved inside. symbol of the Thousand Sons.
THOUSAND SONS VETERAN
LEGIONARY OF THE GREAT CRUSADE
VETERAN LEGIONARY lNrEP PRADES
GYAL-5 CIRCLE OF 11iE SECOND FELLOWSHIP
TACTICAL DEPLOYMENT, SERJSTANUS CAMPAIGN
Following the bloody prosecution of the
Kamenka Troika by the Thousand Sons Legion,
recently come under the direction and program
of renewal masterminded by their Primarch,
Magnus the Red, the xv1' were formally
reorganised into a system of Fellowships and
swiftly their form and panoply were altered
to a state recognisable for the rest of the Great
Crusade era.
Depicted here in the shape of one of its battleline

Legionaries, Intep Prades, here recorded as part
of the Serisranus Campaign taskforce, offers a
visual manifestation of those changes: the MkII
'Crusade' pattern power armour which was still
in general use by the Legion at this stage was
redressed in Prosperine crimson, while pauldrons
and helm have been refashioned or replaced
with so-called 'Achean' pattern modifications by
the Legion's own artificers. The symbolism and
decoration of these draws both from the culture
of Prospero in which their Primarch had long
been steeped and the lore of its temples, with the
crown of the helm echoing reliquary adornments
of ritual significance. Likewise, a tactical marking
upon the pauldron has been replaced with one 't
of the many variations of the scarab emblem
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the Legion, almost as much as the solar glyph
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which would become the Thousand Sons' official
armorial icon. In this case a white scarab, a symbol
of the attainment of higher learning, is used
in particular to denote Veteran status within
membership of the Second Fellowship of the
Legion during this era.
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typical of many of the forces which resisted the
onslaught of the Censure Host. The Legionary's
power armour is of the Mklll 'Iron' panern which
was still widely present in the Legion, although
being largely phased out in favour of increasing
stockpiles of the more advanced MkIV panern in
the Thousand Sons' line units.
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insignia on the Legionary's armour other than
lff' designations marking him as a tactical Legionary
of a line battle company, may be indicative that its
wearer was relatively fresh in his Legion's service,
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gilded Achean Scarab emblem and 'Solar Eye'
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discipline, marking him as an aspirant of promise.
Such promise was never to be fulfilled though,
as it is recorded that this unknown Legionary
fell, as did his entire squad, under the blades of
the Legio Custodes in the biner fighting to hold
the marble-walled compounds that made up the
so-called 'Priam Colonnade' against the Censure
Host. In this too is this unknown warrior of the
Thousand Sons representative of his kind, as on
that day were the flower of the XV'h Legion cut
down, veteran and novice alike, by the wrath of
the Emperor's chosen.
THOUSAND SONS LEGION CENTURION
SHAI-CAPTAIN TACHUS MAKT
F1rni FELLOWSHIP, THIRD TACTICAL SurroRr BATTALION
493"' EXPEDffiONARY FLEET
Pictured here shortly before his landing on the
desert world of Cazhat as commander of the
Compliance force, Shai-Captain (Centurion)
Tachus Makt commanded a detachment of
the Fifth Fellowship anached to the 493rd
Expeditionary Fleet during the latter years of the
Grear Crusade.
The Compliance of the desert world of Cazhat was

representative of the often unique means utilised
by the Thousand Sons Legion to meet their ends.
A feudal world sparsely populated with little
technological advancement past basic agriculture
and animal husbandry, small regressive human
colonies were crowded around the few oases
that provided water and respire from the searing
hear of Cazhar's sands, presenting no military
threat. These tribes were largely suspicious of the
emissaries of the 49~•d Expeditionary Fleer, but
unlike the tribal worlds previously encountered •
by the fleer, they were not immediately overawed t
and Compliance was swiftly rejected by rhe
elders of the largesr tribal group, who proresred
rhe Imperium as being 'impure'. Within hours,
the largest oases of Cazhar were devoid of all
warer, depriving the irrigation systems that
hydrated both the crops and the houses of its
defences against the dry hear of the desert. As
travellers between the tribes spread rumours of
the newcomers and their 'magic', the smaller tribes
were quick ro accept rhe offer of security and
wealth offered by the Imperium, sure that if they
refused, such a curse would befall them too. After
some sporadic internecine violence, rhe entire
planet came ro Compliance without a single shor
being fued by rhe XV'h.
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AroTHECARY-PRIMUs Pumm DMST
HERODITINE ClllCLE OF THE lEClON APOTHECARION,
ATIACHED TO THE EIGHTH FELLOWSHJP
THE BATILE OFTIZCA
Known beyond his Legion to a small extent
owing to his extensive writings on xeno-
morphology, which had gained the attentions
of the Magos Biologis of the Mechanicum and
the Imperial Planetary Assay during the Great
Crusade, Penthu Daast was one of his Legion's
foremost Primus Medicae. He had served as an
Apothecary in the dark times before Magnus
and been part of his Legion's fruitless efforts to
cure or at least withstand the Flesh Change. After
Prospero be had become a fanatic believer in his
Primarch, in no small part as he bad provided a
salvation and an end to bis Legion's decay where
none other had.
A biomancer of noted skill and member of the

Temple of the Pavoni - as indeed were many
of those who rose to high rank in the Thousand
~1 Sons Apothecarion- he was also known in
extant records to have been loudly in protest of
his Primarch's and Legion's censure, and vocally
against the prohibition of the use of the psyker's
gift by the Legiones Astartes. This ire seems to
have overruled his obedience, as pier-captures
from the attack on Prospero show Penthu Daast
leading early resistance to the Space Wolves
attack, using his medical skill and biomanric
powers to bolster his fellow Thousand Sons'
survivability to truly inhuman levels. Witnessed
fighting on despite wounds that should have been
mortal, even to a Space Marine, Penthu Daast's
final fate remains unknown.
Thousand Sons Primus Medicae Armourials - Late Great Crusade Era

LEGIONARY AooNIAS CALMET
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both the Fourth and Sixth Fellowships of his
Legion at various times, and was known as an
aspirant of the Pyrae Temple of the Thousand
Sons' psychic Orders. Formerly part of the
ship-to-ship boarding garrison stationed
on the XV'h Legion strike cruiser Portent
of the Western Dawn, both he and his squad
were transferred to Prospero's surface prior
to the Censure fleet's arrival and the fleet
despatched before their approach.
Trapped within the Tizcan shield as the

planet was set to flame around him, Calmer
held true to his Primarch's word and raised
no hand against the attackers, waiting
passively in the vaults of the temple of the
Pyrae until at last the order came to fight
i back. Imaged here in freshly commissioned
t Tarraros pattern Terminator armour (likely
!'' not to have been Calmet's customary battle
panoply but drawn in extremis from the
Legion's stores), he and his squad participated
in a savage counter-attack from within
the Prosperine portal network. He was
ultimately critically injured, subdued and
captured by the Silent Sisterhood, and
Calmet's testimony given under extreme
duress prior to his execution forms part of
the basis for this wider record.
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THOUSAND SONS TERMINATOR
LOPHOTIS JHELAC HESMUT Hesmut is one of the vaunted Adepts physical injury. The suit of Tartaros
rST COMPANY SEKHMET Exempli, expert psykers who stand pattern Terminator armour in which
SCARAB OCCULT, 2ND ECHELON but one step from the perfection of the he goes to war makes him all but
TIZCA INNER PERIMETER Dominus Liminus. His weapons are inviolable. Perhaps the most advanced
As one of the Sekhmet, Magnus' those of the Legiones Astartes, but also of all such warsuits, the Tartaros mark
Scarab Occult, Lophotis Hesmut no those of the Scarab Occult - hailing provides grearer mobility rhan rhe
longer exists as an individual in the from the Pyrae cult in his former life, widespread Cataphractii version, and
conventional sense of the word. Having Hesmur is able to bring whirling storms with no loss of power or durability.
put aside the sense of self in the quest of kaleidoscopic warpfire into being. Hesmut was instrumental in the Scarab
for enlightenment, he fights and follows Occult's defence of the Athanaean
orders with perfect calm, the eye of Though Hesmut's focus is such that Library at the devastating climax of
a storm of psychic flame and mass he could fight unhindered even when the Prosperine war, and later bought
reactive bolts that he sends blazing into grievously wounded, until the invasion time for his Legion to escape before he
his enemies. of Prospero he had never suffered a succumbed to the flesh curse.
THOUSAND SONS HONOUR GUARD TERMINATOR
HONOURED LEGIONARY KfilT.VASLCAS
CIRCLE OF AURAMAGMA,
EIGHTH FELLOWSHIP OF THE THOUSAND SONS
THE BATILE OFTIZCA
Little surviving is known of Khet Vaslcas' record
within his Legion prior to the Battle ofTizca, but
it can be assumed that it was one of distinction
to have afforded him a position as part of the
personal bodyguard of Malak Aura magma,
leading captain and praetor of the Eighth
Fellowship of the Thousand Sons Legion. What
is known from the evidence of battle is that like
his master Khet was an initiate of the Pyrae Cult
of considerable power, and fought wreathed
in a shimmering haze of molten heat which
was strong enough to force the detonation of
bolter rounds before they could even strike the
ceramite of his 'Nemes' Cataphractii sub-pattern
Terminator armour.
Alongside Malak Auramagma, Kher Vaslcas and

his fellow Terminators conducted a suicidal attack
directly upon rhe Wolf King Leman Russ and
his Varagyr at the height of the Battle ofTizca. It ..
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and outrage that would see the entire command
and elite contingents of the Eighth Fellowship
perish beneath rhe cold iron of the Space Wolves'
and the Silent Sisters' blades, but one that came
perilously close ro achieving its intended goal.
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AHZEK AHRIMAN
Ahzek Ahriman was the Chief
Librarian of the Thousand Sons.
During the Legion's founding, the most
psychically gifted of Magnus' disciples
were split into several distinct temples.
Amongst them were the Pavoni, a cabal
of gifted biomancers; the Raptora,
masters of telekinesis; the Pyrae,
who could conjure and control flame,
and the Athanaeans, who practised
telepathy. Alongside them fought the
Corvidae, who sifted the strands of the
future, with Ahriman as their Magister
Templi. Even with all his wisdom
and supernatural prescience, Ahzek
Ahriman was unable ro foresee the
doom that was to tear the heart from his
Legion and set his world afire.
Long before the invasion of Prospero,

Ahriman's twin brother Ohrmuzd was
lost to a cursed generic instability that
saw him devolve into fleshy ruin. Since
that dark day Ahriman has obsessively
searched for ways to influence and
predict the future. Ar first he desired
a harmonious accord between rhe
Thousand Sons and the wider galaxy, for
the loss of control was his greatest fear.
Ambitious and intensely capable, he
became a guiding light for his Legion.
Yet there was one who made him look
dull by comparison - his Primarch.
When Russ came for him, Magnus the

Red psychically shrouded the Imperial
fleet's onset from Ahriman and the
Corvidae. In this way he ensured his
legion would receive the punishment
he believed was their due. Ahriman, I
who had always looked upon Magnus ;
as a beloved father and mentor, was i

devastated when the Imperial invasion
hit home. How could Magnus have let
this happen? Ahriman's love for rhe
Primarch soured co bitter ire. Unwilling
to simply give up, he marshalled his
surviving brothers and fought back
hard, for Prospero's sake if nothing else.
With the swelling power of theWarp at
his fingertips, Ahriman's counter-attack
was to be powerful indeed.
THOUSAND SONS LEGION CONTEMPTOR DREADNOUGHT
UsHArr-Os1RoN liEDARA ProMALAc
GUARDIAN OF THE H OUSE OF THE JACKAL
One of a cadre of nine Dreadnoughts which 'slept' within the walls of the House of the Jackal, a large mortuary and memorial complex which sat
upon the western edge ofTizca's central district, serving as its ritual protectors, Hedara Ptomalac in life had been one of the first generation of
Thousand Sons inducted on Prospero. The archives of the Logistica Corpus list Ptomalac as serving with distinction as the commander of a heavy
t support squad during the Relief of Keene's Landing, there receiving Imperial Citation, and years later again as honourably falling in battle at the
infamous Last Stand on Rakotis and his subsequent internment in one of the first Contemptor Dreadnoughts issued to the XV'h Legion.
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~ surviving brethren tore free of the rubble and counter-attacked the Space Wolves' heavy armour at short range, Ptomalac personally accounting
Ji for two Typhon Siege Tanks before his obliteration.
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To the Thousand Sons, the use of armoured contingent of their own . Instead, these The 'Kar akh': This Land Raider Proteus,
transports within their line companies forces were released on an engagement by recorded prior to the Burning of Prospero as
was a means to an end rather than a engagement basis by the Legion's strategic the 'Karakh', was one such armoured carrier
preferred mode of warfare, as it was to some command, often as much in response to the deployed among the streets ofTizca at the
Space Marine Legions. Seldom massed urging of divination as forward logistical defence of the Pyzene Garrison tower, using
disproportionally in their deployments, the planning. Utilised agains t enemies its bulk to block an avenue so tha t a number
Thousand Sons Legion preferred to field only entrenched in highly defended fortifications of re treating Thousand Sons, and Legion-
such armoured transport vehicles needed against which only the heaviest of their thralls laden with rescued ammunition
to ensure the protection of its Legionaries muster could deliver an opening for the paniers, could flee to the temporary safety
in transit, and with a degree of defence and remaining forces to breach, their weapons of the tower. Against the mass assault of
mobility rather than striking power as their fire guided by preternatural forces, the ranks the Space Wolves forces, the Karakh could
goal. Smaller vehicles were rarely utilised of the Thousand Sons were a deadly, if largely not hope to withstand as, despite its heavy
in the front line among such armoured unsung componenc of their Legion's record armour, the sheer weight of weapons
contingents given their limited survivability, of victory. fire unleashed against it would result in
with the ubiquitous Rhino often relegated to its destruction. However, the delay this
second line and support duties in favour of During the Battle of Prospero, all surviving provided the re trieval effort ensured that the
the Land Raider Proteus which dominated armoured contingents, scattered in sub- munitions would not be lost to the oncoming
the Legion's deployments. Line of battle surface bunkers and armourium bays across horde and the Thousand Sons' defences
tanks such as the Predator and the Sicaran, the city ofTizca, were deployed hastily and would be able to stand against the Censure
as well as mobile artillery formations within in an ad hoe fash ion to delay the offensive of Host for a while longer.
the Thousand Sons were held by the Legion the Censure Host. It is estimated that these
in sizable numbers, but remained largely the vehicles numbered only one tenth to a fifth
purview of specialised armoured phalanxes of the Legion's overall armoured strength,
that had little, if any, direct infantry and the fate of the rest remains uncertain.
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pressed into a counter-assault force against the Space Wolves' offensive at Hysis Plaza, and shows the typical
intricacy of detail and decoration the Thousand Sons lavished eve n upon their support vehicles.
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Panel detail: The Land Raider 'Karakh': Showing archetypical ornamentation, this access panel displays
the legion's primary iconography below a compound glyph depicting the emblems of the winged 'Achean'
scarab, with secondary motifs of occult geometric forms and coded cartouche inlay honouring the vehicle's
past campaigns and service.
The Thousand Sons Legion made extensive Throughout the Legion's campaigns, it chose the garrisoning human Prosperine Airguard
use of sub-orbital strike craft both for to operate a considerable number of dual use for the main, little serious resist.ince could be
targeted attacks against enemy posi tions and fighter-interceptor craft for this escort role given to the Space Wolves landing.
for escort duties during planetary interface for its gunships and shuttles, ranging from
operations. This preference spoke both to the earlier adapted Terran patterns such as the Xiphon Interceptor : The 'Fea thered
Legion's general dislike of attritional warfare Atept-se/17 'Night Rake rs' dating back to Serpent': Noted for its distinct panoply
and 'unpredictable' drop pod assaults, an d the the Unification Wars, to afterburner-fitted of war, the Feathered Serpent, a veteran of
wider desire bred by its history to preserve hulking Mars pattern Thun derbolt heavy the aerial wars above New Carthage and
its rank and file from needless losses it could fighters and the tempe ram ental and soon Rovacallii, was one of the few Thousand
historically ill afford. Commensurately, the abandoned Ryza-Nistrus Voidstar, before the Sons' Xiphons which engaged in battle above
Thousand Sons utilised a sizable fleet of final development of the Xiphon Interceptor. the skies ofTizca. Buried with its hangar
heavily armed and well-protected gunships, To the pilot corps of the Thousand Sons during the barrle's opening stages tha nks to
many of which are believed to have been Legion, the Xiphon was the apotheosis of the gro und quakes caused by the planetary
uniquely modified by the Legion's artificers Legiones Astartes support fighter design, bombardment, it took to the skies after the
with additional defensive systems as well an d the XV'h were a strong and early adopter primary landings had already been made
as unknown technologies thought to take of the design, to the extent that it swiftly and struck with deadly effect at the landing
advantage of their masters' psych ic arts supe rseded all o ther fighters in their service. craft shuttling second wave troops and war
in prognostication, telekinesis and, most By the time of the censure of the Thousand machines to Prospero's surface. Believed
importantly, biomancy. This latter discipline, Sons Legion, by Logistica Corpus' estimates to have accounted for the loss of at least
it is believed, allowed the Legion's pilots th ere were in operation over three hundred one Space Wolves Storm Eagle gunship,
to endure stresses and maintain a speed Xiphon Interceptors, however most of these three Imperialis Armada supporr fighters
of perception which beggared the belief we re on-station aboard the Legion's core fleet and, mos t devastatingly, two Therium class
even of other Space Marines, and gave their and departed with them under the Primarch's heavy landers, it was eventually harried to its
squadrons an enviably lethal reputa tion. orders before the Censure H ost arrived at destruction by both Space Wolves and Legio
Prospero. Only a scattering remained in the Custodes fighter craft, its engines aflame as it
city, and with the air defence left primarily to crashed into the wasteland beyond the city.
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One of perhaps thirty such battle-automata kept in storage in deep sub-surface vaults below the Zhao-Arkhad sub-fane on Prospero, MLIII is
pictured here clad in the standard Iivery of the Taghmata forces that were attached frequently to the Thousand Sons Legion in the latter part of
the Great Crusade, and carries the icon of the Legion in addition to its own machine-cant designations upon its outer carapace.
In the aftermath of the initial stages of the Battle of Prospero and the destruction of the surface Mechankum fane by orbital bombardment,
this battle-automata and others like it contributed to the devastating counter-attack against the Legio Mortis forces detached from orbit under
their own direction to take control of what was expected to be a shattered forge. The victory of the Zhao-Arkhad forces was to prove short lived
however, after the landing of the Ordo Sinister to the area.
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strength was enough to inflict severe losses where they were deployed and withstand, at least for a time, the onslaught of even the Legio Custodes.
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ranks of the enemy. Unleashed during the Battle of Prospero as shock counter-assault units by the encircled Thousand Sons, their durability
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LEGIONARY REM DANIM
4111 COMPANY, r1)'11 INnEPENDENT BATIAUON
THE SCOURING OF OLD TlZCA
This pict·caprure, created during the muster
of Leman Russ' forces prior to their arrival at
Prospero, shows one of the several thousand Sons
of Horus legionaries assigned to the host. As
with much of that legion, the i61h Independent
Battalion was still in the process of reconfiguring
its component units to the newly established sea-
green heraldry, with many legionaries displaying
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of the invasion, and later events in the Isstvan
System, it would appear that the Sons ofHorus
deliberately used the campaign to identify those
among them unprepared for the coming changes.
•I Legionary Rem was among a number of the I6'h

recorded as a combat casualty; though the actual
I number of combat encounters that involved the
! i6'h Independent Battalion was relatively low,
1 they incurred an anomalously high casualty rate.
Legionary Rem and his unit are recorded as killed
in action in the vicinity of Old Tizca during the
final hours of the fighting-an area previously
cleared ofhostiles. It has been suggested by some
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SoNs OF HoRus LEGIONARY
CHIEFrArN OcRAM ADRAAN,
'THE BUTCHEROFTHE IcosJAN DISfRICTS'
411! COMPANY, 16'1' INDEPENDENT BATIAl!ON
THE ScouRINc OF Ow T1zcA
Adraan was commander of the 4 1h Company of
the Sons ofHorus Legion's r6'h Independent
Battalion, a unit assigned to clear the lcosian
Districts of Old Tizca of civilians. Ostensibly,
the Sons of Horus classified their operations in
Old Tizca under the category of'Enemy Populace
Reduction', a term used during the Great Crusade
to identify the massacre of non-Compliant
or genetically deviant civilian populations.
'Chieftain' Adraan, in fact a veteran sergeant by
formal rank, himself adopted the informal title
'Butcher of the Icosian Districts' in honour of the
award, and rumours persisted of his crucifying
captured Prosperine natives along principal
thoroughfares in the manner of a Cthonian
famine-purge of his world of origin.
However, tallies of the known population of the

lcosian Districts and the kill-counts of the 4 1h
Company do not march a discrepancy that on its
own is unremarkable considering the chaos of
that engagement. It is not the sole evidence of
some subterfuge on the part of the Sons of Horus
as there exist a number of other anomalies in
their records, most notably in the manifests of
their dropships. These show a marked increase in
the tonnage and consumption of supplies in the
Sons of Horns dropcraft on the return journey
from Prospero. The most logical assumption is
that the Sons of Horus took a number of civilians
from the surface of Prospero, a theory now almost
impossible to prove. However, later evidence of
the Sons ofHorus' deployme nt of large numbers
of rogue psykers during the Heresy would seem
to provide some credence to the theory.
Displayed here is the Command Emblem for Black on gold insignia were in widespread use
the 161h Independent Battalion. among the officer corps of the r6 1h.
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suits likely including battlefield scavenging during attrition campaign: Former Sons of
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as a support assault contingent during boarding action and siege operations. Note: 'Iron' of the First wave Isstvan III assault, Endall presumably was slain during the betrayal. Noll':
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environments: The Ruka! customarily preserved any blood spray from their previous displayed on chest plate: Transverse helmet crest or 'Centuria' is a Terran rank signifirr and
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Note: Customised 'Maximus' Pattern power armour: Cthonian glyph markings and helmet 'Iron' Pattern armour with weapon-slaved targeting monocular: Incurred Bolt Damage to
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[Pict-Capture Isstvan lIJ Atrocity]
Judd was part of the Traitor attack forces unleashed against the Siren-Hold defences in the
latter stages of the Jsstvan-III Atrocity, where he was slain by the Dreadnought Ghrasrak. The Catulan Reavers were one of the Sons of Horus elite formations, as dcnowd by tht•11
Note: Late Legion issue 'Maxim us' pattern armour with early model Sol-Harrier type Jump distinctive black armour specialising harrowing actions and hit-and run taCllcs. Nolt'
pack unit: Sarum pattern helm: Chest armour displays leonine marquetry commemorative Extensive Cl honian Glyph-markings, variant 'Eye of I torus' icon I hough1 ro d1•nu1t·
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M USTER-DRIVER U MMAOS LUDARCH
SoNs OF HoRUs DARK COMPLIANCE CADRE
AL-ARAcH M mTIA TRAITOR PLANETARY M USTER
Ummaos Ludarch served for over a decade
as a squad leader in the Sons of Homs 13 1h
Company under Luc Sedirae, and he took
part in the conquest of several dozen worlds,
culminating in the Dark Compliance of the world
ofDagonet. It was during that operation that
Ludarch's commander was slain, it is believed by
a clade of assassins dispatched from Terra, and
in the aftermath the Sons of Homs launched
a vengeance campaign during which many
thousands were punished, regardless of their
complicity in the assassinations. It was during
this period of brutality and punishment that
Ummaos Ludarch excelled himself in the eyes of
his superiors, leading to him being detached from
the 13'h Company and assigned command over a
Traitor muster of several thousand slave-troops in
future campaigns.
Panoply of Tyranny
Muster-Driver Ludarch is depicted here clad
in Mark IV Legiones Astartes battle plate, his
heraldry, as well as his helm and chest armour,
altered by the Legion's master artificers in
recognition of his role in leading an entire host
of indentured mortal warriors in service of the
Warmaster. He wears lodge tokens upon his left
shoulder, as well as sigils specific to the lodge to
which he belonged upon his right forearm. The
totem-skulls worn upon his belt are gold-gilded,
a practise that betrays Ludarch's roots in the
hyper-violent gangs of the Legion's home world
of Cthonia. He bears a whip at his belt which
is as much a symbol of his rank as a means of '~ '
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SoNs OF HoRus JusTAERIN TERMINATOR
VETERAN-JUSTAERI EKRON FAL
SEVENTH OCCLUDED) UMBRA SONS TERMINATOR COHORT)
12TH CHAPTER
IssrvAN vDROPSITE MASSACRE
Veteran-Justaeri Fal was a warrior of enormous
renown within the ranks of the I21h Chapter of the
Sons of Horus. He gained prominence in the later
battles of the Ullanor Crusade and was admitted
to the ranks of the Justaerin at its conclusion.
According to later cult-material captured in the
Sack ofHybarix, he also covertly held high rank in
several tiers of the Warrior Lodges operating within
the Legion.
Veteran-Justaeri Fal led his Justaerin Terminator

squad, known as the Seventh Occluded, throughout
the opening defensive phase of the battle, repelling
attacks on the fortress-line by the Salamanders,
Iron Hands and Raven Guard, before leading a
decisive counter-charge in the battle's final act.
Shortly thereafter, Ekron Fal was promoted to the
rank of Centurion by his Warmaster.
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I. Fal's armour is adorned with many subtle
symbols denoting his position within the Legion,

using the secret sigils of the Cthonian gangs, as
well as others utilised by the inner orders of the
Warrior Lodges.
2. Artificier-wrought power axe (based on the

Carsoran pattern).
3. Phobos pattern combi-melta fitted with a

chainblade close combat attachment.
Loyalist Sons of Horus Dreadnought Ghrastak [hulk recovered Issrvan III aftermath]
Ghrastak was a Cthonian by origin and former captain of the 13rh Battle Company, but he remained a staunch
devotee of the Emperor and of the ideals of Unification and so became a victim of the Warmaster's conspiracy.
Deployed via drop pod with the Sons of Horus first wave on Issrvan III. Note: Contemptor class Dreadnought
Chassis with heavy bolter and close combat power claw armament: His Dreadnought casing displays numerous
war trophies and battle honours, including the Aquila Miltaris, and the Black Eclipse denoting the purgation
campaign against the Khrave of Morduna in which he fell in battle.
Sons of Horus Legion Deimos Pattern Rhino Armoured Carrier [Pict-capture Isstvan III Atrocity)
Rhinos were utilised in prodigious numbers across the lmperium's armed forces, and were extremely robust
vehicles, easily maintained and easy to repair in the field. Their protection was sufficient ro resist small arms .6.re
and shrapnel, and they had the funher advantage of being able to operate using a sealed environment and even
in hard vacuum with little modification. Note: Standard Legion armament configuration - remotely operated
turret bolters.
Death Guard Legion Deimos Pattern Rhino armoured carrier [Pict-capture Isstvan lll Atrocity)
Nore: Vehicle designation code relates to the 19th Armour Reserve Company.
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In the aftermath of the Isstvan III Atrocity, Horus took to the field fully, annihilating
the Sons of Horus had suffered losses that what remained of the beleaguered Loyalist
had been unexpected and which threatened Vanguard force.
to impair the Legion's later ability to assault
Terra as part of the Warmaster's plans. Having been hurriedly redeployed to Isstvan
.. Evidence suggests that this led the Legion V, there had been scant opportunity to
f to deploy defensively during the Dropsite conduct even the most basic maintenance
operation, reducing the risk to its armoured protocols on many of the Legion's vehicles
reserves and letting other Legions bear and so many bore the scars of those battles,
the brunt of the Loyalist aggression. It was as well as crude kill-sigils derived from the
only when the trap was fully sprung that honour markings used by the savage gangs
the armoured spearheads of the Sons of of Cthonia.
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number of grisly trophies claimed during the Isstvan III battles, as further celebrated in
the Cthonian gang-sigils daubed crudely upon its hull. Also note the extensive blood spatter
on frontal sections, no doubt gained by the running over or running down of cornered
enemy warriors.
Shadowsword Super-heavy Tank 'Claw of Luna': This venerable Legion reserve Shadowsword was
deployed to the Isstvan V dropsite encirclement, and is known to have engaged in a prolonged armoured
duel with a company of Iron Hands Legion Predator battle tanks in a chaotic engagement during which it
was ultimately destroyed, but only after accounting for severe Loyalist losses in the intense fighting.
wORD BEARERS TACTICAL MARKINGS
AND HERALDRY
Legion Icon Legion Icon with Colchisian script Geometric symbols derived from the teachings ofLorgar
Heavy Support High command personal heraldry Unidentified sub-cult icon Legion Icon variant
WORD BEARERS BANNERS

The Word Bearers make extensive use of a wide range of banners, icons and vexillas at every level of the Legion's command structure. Initially
derived from the runic script of ancient Colchis, the banners have come to display ever more disturbing and debased symbols as the full extent
of the Legion's treachery and corruption has been revealed. In particular, the burning book icon which held such significance to the Legion prior
to its shaming at Monarchia changed dramatically, a leering devil face appearing from the flames and investing it with an entirely different and
highly portentous meaning.
WORD BEARERS
CHAPTER ICONOGRAPHY
The Unspeaking Chapter XVII'h Legion Tactical Squad
The Unspeaking Chapter, command cadre variants Legion Chaplain
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THE LEGION OF OLD

By the time of the Battle of Calth,
the arterial red and abyssal black
first worn by the Serrated Suns
Chapter had become widespread
throughout the Legion. Also
almost entirely supplanted was the
use of ancient Colchisian runic
script, once employed extensively
to denote a Legionary's rank,
Graven Star Chapter status, role and deeds in a manner
comprehensible only to other
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When first the Primarch Lorgar assumed
control of the XVII'h Legion, he imposed
his own ideals of organisation and hierarchy
upon its ranks. Informed by the mysteries
of Colchis in which Lorgar had been raised
by Kor Phaeron, these structures were
typically impenetrable to those not party to
the complex and mystical hierarchies of that
Serrated Sun Chapter Tri-fold Crown Chapter Star ofJudgement Chapter ancient culture.
The titles and iconography of the chapters

into which Lorgar first sub-divided the
XVII'h Legion were derived from the
constellations seen in the night skies of
Colchis. As the Word Bearers' descent
into treachery and corruption accelerated,
newly founded chapters drew their titles
and symbols from other, less visible and far
darker sources. Of the six chapters shown
Osseous Throne Chapter Broken Scythe Chapter Twisting Rune Chapter here, the Twisting Rune Chapter illustrates
this principle well, its title referring not to
the night skies of Colchis but the language of
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to outsiders but which holds ritual and esoteric meaning to those
ril privy to the teachings of the Book of Lorgar. Most of the Legion's
vehicles mount the Word Bearers Legion icon, often placed at the
convergence of an intricate web of geometric lines. This motif is
derived not from the mysteries of Colchis but from the fell wisdom
obtained by Lorgar in the aftermath of his fall to dark powers,
and by the time of the Battle of Calth it was commonly applied to
vehicles of all classes.
The white text often applied to the flanks of Word Bearers Legion
vehicles represents passages copied from the Book of Lorgar. It is
also common for vehicles to have paper prayer rolls applied to them
before battle, a practise derived from ancient Colchisian battle-rites
but twisted into new and debased significance as the Word Bearers
fell ever further from grace.
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wORD BEARERS LEGION: CHAPTER ICONOGRAPHY

From the Skies of Colchis
The Word Bearers Legion was subdivided
into many different Chapters, each bearing
a name and icon representing one of the
constellations of Colchis, the adopted
home world of their Primarch Lorgar.
Shown here is a selection of icons showing

some of the chapters known to have been
present at the Dropsite Massacre.
THE SERRATED SUN THE TRI-FOLD CROWN

Tactica: Tactical Drop Strikes Tactica: Attritional Warfare
THE STAR OF JUDGEMENT THE OSSEOUS THRONE THE BROKEN SCTIHE

Tactica: Scorched Earth Assaults Tactica: Infantry Wave Attacks Tactica: Infrastructure Reduction
would question the authority of a senior was thought to be approximately 140,000. accompanied them reached extraordinary
Chaplain. Given that the reasons for :fighting It is now clear that this :figure was a lie. numbers. In the extermination phase of the
were as important to the Word Bearers as Four decades earlier, when the Legion Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre, one survivor
victory, decisions about the course of a war or was rebuked at Khur, it was approximately estimated that a horde of 50,000 faced the
battle were often made by the Chaplains and 100,000 strong. That they had made a notable Loyalist enclave ofNurin. That such forces
enacted by the commanders. This blurring increase in recruitment was clear, but far were lost and yet more were unleashed on
and fusion of the spiritual and military from swelling their numbers by 40 1000, world after world in the years that followed
command was also present in Lorgar's the Word Bearers had grown to a far greater shows that behind the Word Bearers
inner circle. This group comprised the strength. Mass recruitment from every world themselves stood millions more willing to
Legion's ruling council, and included both they conquered, and the use of rapid gene- die at their command.
commanders and Chaplains. Even within seed implantation and hypno-indoctrination
this small group there were two who held meant that by some reports their numbers Given the actions of so called Abyss class
more power and authority than any others. might even have rivalled those of the vessels in later campaigns, it is also clear
The names of Kor Phaeron and Erebus are Ultramarines. Certainly the scale of their that Lorgar had increased his Legion's naval
now heavy with infamy, and one cannot help actions during the opening phases of the war, strength, possibly to levels which exceeded
but wonder if the Imperium's fate would not and the casualties they suffered, indicate that of the Imperial Fists, who were thought
have been different if these two had not been that few others could have approached them at the time to control the largest fleet of any
Lorgar's most trusted counsellors. in size. Legion. Such an increase in strength, and
the delicacy with which it was concealed,
War Disposition In addition to the surge in numbers of indicates that Lorgar went into the war ready
The strength of the Word Bearers at the the Word Bearers, the number of vassal to embrace the carnage that would follow.
time of the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre warbands and half-feral fanatics who
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LEGIONARY APIS MEREN KAR
N1MARRos TACTICAL SQUAD, t 1
AssAULT COMPANY,
THESERRATEDSUNsCHAPTER
Pictured here in MkIV 'Maxim us' pattern power
armour, which was standard issue for the Legion
at the time, Legionary Merenkar was amongst
the Gal Vorbak deployed into the foothills on
the Urgall Depression's right flank to oppose the
Raven Guards' attempt to reach their waiting
gunships. This area saw some of the battle's
bloodiest fighting as Corax scythed a path
through the massed ranks of the Word Bearers to
clear a path for his sons.
Merenkar's unit was last sighted engaging several

Raven Guard companies in a headlong charge,
well ahead of nearby Word Bearers chapters.
Evidence was later seized that his abandoned
wargear was recovered from the battlefield by
an Iron Warriors provender detachment, but no
identifiable corpse was found for Merenkar or
any member of his squad amongst the mounds of
slain Raven Guard rent apart and strewn across
the field.
Panoply of War
1. Tigrus pattern bolt pistol: Many of the Gal
Vorbak are evidenced to have augmented their
wargear with a variety of blades and barbs for
use in close combat.
2. Tigruspattern boltgun: One of the most

advanced patterns of boltgun currently issued
to Space Marine Legions.
LEGIONARY GRINDIS VAHN
wORD BEARERS TACTICAL LEGIONARY
AMESHDUN TACTICAL SQUAD, 8TH TACTICAL COMPANY OF
THE SUNDERED TowER CHAmR
As one of the largest and most prestigious of
the Word Bearers chapters, the Sundered Tower
was composed of eighteen separate companies
designated as frontline tactical companies for
the Legion. After the Legion's shaming on Khur
and subsequent re-organisation, these companies
appear to have been filled with the majority
of those Terran recruits who still remained in
the chapter, placed under Colchisian officers
of proven fervour and set to the hazardous
spearhead of the Legion's future attacks.
Legionary Vahn is a Terran veteran and one of the

longest-serving and most decorated line infantry
Legionaries in the Word Bearers, having served
since the Unification Wars. He was member of
the 8th Tactical Company of the Sundered Tower
and was deployed along with his squad as part of
the Orichalan Subjugation in early 05.M3r. Squad
Ameshdun suffered near total casualties during
the final confrontation between the massed
ranks of the Sundered Tower and the Orichalan's
war-simulacra, and while battle reports state that
Legionary Vahn, though badly injured, survived
the battle, there is no record of his assignment
to one of the chapter's many apothecaries for
treatment or his whereabouts afterwards.
Panoply of War
1. MkII 'Crusade' pattern armour: Long
employed by the Legions during the Great
Crusade, its reinforced armour makes it ideal
for hazardous environments and intense short-
range actions.
2. Phobos pattern boltgun: The carnage caused

by the heavy .70 cal shells of Phobos pattern
boltguns caused many units to retain these
weapons even once more advanced patterns
became available.
3. Phaestos pattern flamer: These old, but

reliable, flamer units have served the Legions
well since their departure from the Sol system.
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WoRD BEARERS LEGION APOTHECARY
APOTHECARY BAN XrsucAL
KrcAL MEDICAE PAcr, ATTACHED TO THE f 8 DROP AssAULT
COMPANY, THE OSSEUS THRONE CHAPTER
The Word Bearers deployed, by the evidence of their
own records later captured, almost two thousand
Apothecaries to the battlefields of the Urgall
Depression, a number far in excess of that indicated
by standard levels.
Apothecary Xisugal, pictured here from battlefield

pkt-capture, and his brethren plied their bloody
craft amongst the Legionaries of the 4th Word Bearers
Drop Assault Company, striking into trapped and
unsuspecting Loyalist Imperial Army forces in the
rear echelons. Despite the units they accompanied
suffering few fatalities, further pict-captures from
the battlefield indicate Xisugal and his Pact all ended
the engagement with their Vas 'Mortuis' and other
gene-seed and casualty containment pods fully
laden.
Panoply of War
I. Thunder Edge pattern chainsword: These
weapons see double service as both weapons and
surgical tools.
2. Umbra pattern boltgun: The reliable Umbra

pattern boltgun saw wide use amongst many
Legions.
3. Umbra pattern bolt pistol: The winged skull in

red, marking this weapon as one used to deliver
the final peace to mortally wounded Legionaries.
wORD BEARERS BREACHER LEGIONARY
LEGIONARY SHIR SHADIRU
ZARADNAR SIEGE SQUAD,
4mCOMPANY OFTHE FLAYED HAND CHAITER
Newly recruited from the teeming cities of
Colchis in the years immediately prior to the
lsstvan rebellion, Legionary Shadiru was blooded
in the fighting against his fellow Legiones
Astartes having known no other foes. Shadiru
was one of the first of a new generation of
Legionaries whose primary combat experience
was the fratricidal wars of the Horns Heresy;
warriors who never knew the glorious days of
the Great Crusade and the crusading spirit it
had engendered in the warriors of the Emperor.
This new breed of Legionary fostered a scathing
disregard for the achievements of the Great
Crusade and a brutal pragmatism regarding
the horrors ofHorus' rebellion. As the war
progressed, warriors like Shadiru became
increasingly common in the ranks of both sides .
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Shadiru, recorded here during the early stages of
the Calth muster by an Ultramarines monitoring
station, wears Mk III Astartes battle plate. Many
l Legionaries came to favour this mark over more
l advanced examples during the Heresy as its
reinforced frontal plating proved more resistant
to bolter fire than other marks, a trait armourers
had never thought to purposefully engineer in
the more advanced issues of armour.
Shadiru's armour is covered in meticulously

applied Colchisian runes, assumed to be
excerpted from one of the sedirionist texts
penned by the Word Bearers commander Erebus
or the Traitor Primarch Lorgar. Shadiru also bears
several trophy skulls alongside the emblem of
the Flayed Hand Chapter on his boarding shield,
considering the campaigns in which Shadiru had
participated, the origin of these skulls may be that
of Loyalist Legiones Astartes.
Panoply of War
I. Autotellurian pattern grav-gun.
2. Tigrus pattern bolt pistol.
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wORD BEARERS ASHEN CIRCLE LEGIONARY
lcONOCLASINDL VABER
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'IGNEUS MANI VERITATIS AsHEN CIRCLE COTERIE
ATIACHED TO THE UNSPEAKJNG CHAPTER
Iconoclast Vaber is one of the few remaining
Terran Legionaries in the Word Bearers' ranks.
During the fighting in Ithraca City, Iconoclast
Vaber and the other members of his coterie
engaged in wanton slaughter of civilians fleeing
the war zone and the destruction of Imperial
iconography, even to the point of ignoring more
tactically valuable targets. The final fate ofVaber
and the rest of his unit is unknown, as is that
of the vast majority of the Word Bearers units
operating in Ithraca.
The Ashen Circle is an organisation that predates

Lorgar's return to the XVII'h Legion, and as such
maintains a unique pattern of heraldry that is
distinct even within such a diverse Legion as
the XVII'h. By the time this pict was recorded,
few elements of this heraldry remain, with only
the modified destroyer icon on Vaber's belt and
the dark gun-metal grey colouring of his armour
unobscured by the Colchisian symbology and
trappings of Lorgar's new creed. The battle plate
worn by Legionary Vaber is a pattern ofMk III
'Maxim us' power armour unique to the Word
Bearers Legion.
Panoply of War
I. Astartes axe-rake.
2. Akkadic pattern hand flamer.
WORD BEARERS LEGION CATAPHRACTII
LEGIONARY 0RTAN C!NAPHER
UNKNOWN TERMINATOR SQUAD
UNKNOWN CHAmR
The Word Bearers force present at Calth was
intended in the earliest stages of the battle to
fool the Ultramarines Legion into thinking
that the entire Word Bearers Legion had been
committed to the muster, while in reality the
majority of the Legion was in the process of
assaulting a number of worlds across Ultramar.
Legionary Cinapher is one of many Legionaries
who took to the field under false colours to
further this deception, and was only correctly
identified post-action in various pict recordings
by the three hooded skulls on his chestplate -
an honour marking won in the wars to pacify
distant Corphyra.
Legionary Cinapher's cataphractii armour

bears the insignia of the Chapter of the Osseus
Throne upon his left greave. Alongside other
Legionaries bearing the insignia of the chapter,
this was intended to make it appear that the
entirety of the Osseus Throne was on Calth, a
ruse later exposed when several detachments of
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fighting on Armatura. In all, it is thought that as
many as 20,000 of the Word Bearers Legionaries
deployed at Calth were bearing false colours,
with small detachments noted as bearing the
ciphers of all known chapters of the Word
Bearers. Unfortunately, the Ultramarines would
not notice the deception until it was far too late.
Panoply of War
1. Meridius pattern power maul.
2. Phobos pattern combi-plasma.
wORD BEARERS LEGION COMPANY CAPTAIN
CAPTAIN NIMUR ENNAT
COMMANDER, STH HEAVY ASSAULT COMPANY,
THE SERRATED SUN CHAmR
Sub-Captain Ennat, seen here in the heraldry
of the Serrated Suns Chapter, was originally
attached to the command of First Captain Kor
Phaeron, a powerful if often unpopular figure
within the Legion. Kor Phaeron transferred
Ennat's company to the Serrated Sun Chapter to
act as his eyes and ears within the chapter now
that it bore Lorgar's favour.
Though part of the Serrated Sun, the 5th Company

were not Gal Vorbak, and during the fighting in
the U rgall Depression, they were left isolated by
the Gal Vorbaks' sudden and surrounded by the
Raven Guard attempting to force a breach in the
Word Bearers' lines. Ennat himself was slain when
a squadron ofrron Warriors' Typhon siege tanks
began the Raven Guard at his position, heedless of
the casualties caused among their allies.
Panoply of War
I. Proteus pattern power sword: As a sign of his
favour within the Word Bearers, Ennat's power
sword is engraved with one of the invocations
from Kor Phaeron' and Erebus' new scriptures.
2. Phobos pattern combi-bolter: Standard issue

to most Terminator squads within the Word
Bearers Legion.
THE BEAST OF ScAIDAVA
UNKNOWN LEGIONARY OF THE UNSPEAKING CHAPTER
Pier REcoRD, THE BATILE FOR IrnRACA Cm, CALTH
This pier was recovered via necro-cortical probe from the ruins of the town of Scaidava, northern Calth. The entire town was slaughtered
in the hours just before the Battle of Calth began, along with a dozen other nearby settlements, all in areas later untouched by the larger
battles which raged across the planet. Initial reports blamed such destruction on orbital debris or mistargeted artillery strikes, but eye
witness accounts by those who had fled the region revealed the truth. In every account, the slaughter of these towns was no random
accident, no tragic misfortune, but a deliberate act of callous and horrific brutality perpetrated by monsters clad in the remains of
blood-red Legiones Astartes plate. The creature depicted in this pier capture was identified as perpetrating the slaughter in Scaidava, and
clearly displays the insignia of the Unspeaking Chapter of the Word Bearers and other iconography of the XVII"' Legion. Though once a
Legiones Astartes warrior, some horrific transformation has rendered this Legionary into something almost unrecognisable.
WORD BEARERS DrAB011sr
UNKNOWN CENTURION-CONSUL
ATIACHED TO COMMAND ELEMENTS
OF THE CHAPTER OF THE INSCRIBED
Images of this Word Bearers officer were
recovered via neural cortical probe from
the remains of several members of the
Ultramarines 22nd Chapter recovered from
the Thrascian Highlands. Though it defies
current understanding of the denizens of the
aetheric medium, it appears that this Legionary
was directing the corporeal manifestations of
the Warp-manifesting what some observers
have referred to as warp magic. Vox records
from the few survivors of the 22nd Chapter
of the Ultramarines refer to such officers as
Diabolists, a designation later adopted en masse
by their brethren to identify those Word Bearers
commanders whose training appears to somehow
harness the aetheric medium as a weapon of war.
Carefully hidden from Ultramarines observers,

other officers of similar specialisation to those
observed atThrascia appear to have been present
in most of the Word Bearers units mustered
on Calth. Indeed, ritual use of psychic powers
by these individuals appears to have been the
source of some of the bizarre transformations
and illogical tactical choices made by certain
Word Bearers formations. One of many dictates
issued by Guilliman in the campaigns following !
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I. Charatran pattern chain axe.
2. Ryza 'Sunspite' pattern plasm a pistol.
WORD BEARERS LEGION DREADNOUGHT
ERIBAN OF THE ANNUNAKE
ATTACHED TO THE STAR OF JUDGEMENT CHAPTER
The Star of Judgement bear a mantle of dark renown within the Word Bearers, and were deployed only to those war zones where it
was deemed that the populace did not deserve the honour of Compliance. At Isstvan V, the full arsenal of proscribed weaponry and
toxic munitions available to the Star of Judgement was utilised against the unsuspecting Loyalists of the first wave.
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EDUHKAR OF THE ANNU AKE
ATIACHED TO THE SERRATED SUN CHAPTER
Before his induction into the Annunake, a Colchisian term meaning alternatively 'Princely Sons' or 'Judges of Hell', and
used within the Word Bearers Legion to denote those Legionaries granted the honour of continuing their service within
the armoured shell of a Dreadnought, Eduhkar was widely lauded in Imperial battlegroup records for his heroism during
the Sarapis Compliance against the monstrous Fra'al. As a result of irreparable wounds taken in the battles there, he was
interred into a Dreadnought frame.
In the aftermath of the massacre on Isstvan V, Eduhkar's flame-scorched sarcophagus was found amongst the foothills of
the Urgall Mountains, on the edge of the fighting where a small force of Salamanders had attempted to break through the
encircling Traitors. His broken Dreadnought body was still locked in his final struggle with the ruins of a Salamanders
Dreadnought, identified only by the legend 'Dragon of Sarapis'.
WORD BEARERS CONTEMPTOR DREADNOUGHT
CYRNAJR OF THE ANNUNAKE
AmcmmTO THE FLAYED H AND CHAPTER
DAJNHOLD, CALTH
An ancient of the Annunake, the name given by the Word Bearers to those members of their Legion that are entombed within
the metal shell of a Dreadnought, Cyrnair was at the head of the Flayed Hand Chapter as it mustered amongst the towering
manufactoria of Dainhold. Where once he had proudly worn the stone-grey of the Iconoclasts, Cyrnair was now adorned in
arterial red, and bedecked in runic symbols and engravings that hinted at the terrible change undergone by the Word Bearers.
Cyrnair was amongst the first of his brethren to break ranks in the aftermath of the Campanile's arrival, ploughing into the
ranks of the shocked Ultramarines and slaughtering them before they were even aware of the attack. By the end of that bloody
day, Cyrnair had claimed the lives of several dozen of Guilliman's warriors, including the Centurion Jorvan Dolomel, whose
sundered corpse he later bore strapped to his sarcophagus as a macabre trophy.
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CRIMSO BLADE
The complex geometric designs inscribed on this Rhino mark it as one attached to the Gal Vorbak of the ih Assault Company of
the Serrated Sun. Applied by the Legion's Chaplains using designs originating with Erebus, these symbols appear to bear some
special significance for the Gal Vorbak and seem to be based on the astrological charts of old Colchis.
WORD BEARERS LEGION PREDATOR TANK

THE VENGEFUL H EART
Newly built and consecrated, this vehicle is recorded as being part of the expansion of the Serrated Sun Chapter prior to the
outbreak of the Horus Heresy, the chapter being reinforced with several dozen squadrons of Predator tanks, as well as other larger
armoured units, considerably adding to its strength.
Never known for employing massed heavy Of all the chapters of the Word Bearers, the station alongside the Ultramarines super-
armour formations, the XVII'h Legion chapter of the Graven Star was known to heavy squadrons that had yet to embark.
preferred to focus its strength on infantry field the highest number of armoured units The phalanx slowly moved to positions
companies of various specialisations, and in the XVIIu. Legion. Aggressive use of these that offered interlocking fields of fire over
those armoured formations which it did units had led the chapter to many victories in the unsuspecting Ultramarines vehicles,
employ were intended to act in close support the Great Crusade, for which it also acquired remaining powered-up at battle alert under
of infantry. Its mechanised phalanxes a reputation for ruthless efficiency on the the guise ofbattle-readiness drills. When
included a spearhead of heavy armour attack and bloody-minded srubbornness in the Campanile struck the fatally unprepared
alongside a heavy infantry force, often defence. Ultramarines orbital docks, the vehicles of
including Cataphractii units, mounted in 'Invisible Truth' rurned their guns on their
Land Raider transports. In battle, the heavy The Graven Star was deployed to the brethren without hesitation. The opening
armour was tasked with sweeping aside muster zone at Khomesh, with several of salvo left the unpowered and uncrewed
screening enemy units and unleashing a its armoured squadrons operating under vehicles of the Xlllili Legion burning, while
bone-shattering barrage to prepare the way the colours of other chapters which were the charge of the Land Raider-mounted
for the infantry assault. not present at Calth. The phalanx 'Invisible infantry squads slaughtered the crews and
Truth', one of the few squadrons to field those squads of Ultramarines charged with
multiple super-heavy vehicles, took up the security of the armoured squadrons.
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'Animus Exuro' was to expend three full loads of ammunition in the destruction of the Ultramarines companies that made
a futile stand on what came to be known as the 'Slaughter-fields ofKhomesh'.
Legion Falchion 'Eightfold Lance: One of a handful of'Titan-killer' super-heavy tanks deployed by the Word Bearers, the
Eightfold Lance used its immense paired volcano cannon to obliterate the command bunkers of the Ultramarine chapters stationed
at Khomesh before they had any chance to rally their troops.
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Little is known of the Serrated Sun Chapter Where once the chapter had been routinely the chapter had grown to outnumber any
prior to the latter stages of the Word Bearers passed over for assignment of replacement other chapter of the Legion, and many of
1301 51 Expeditionary Fleet's 'pilgrimage'. troops and newly issued wargear, now the the newer patterns of war machines, power
Some fate that has remained hidden from the shattered companies of the Serrated Sun armour suits and weaponry produced for
Imperium's records befell the chapter, but it were the prime recipient of these resources the Legion were also issued first to Lorgar's
is known to have been reduced at one time and fresh recruits, and were set to expand far newly favoured sons. MkIV 'Maxim us' suits
to only three active companies in number. beyond their previous size. became common amongst its companies and
The direct favour of Lorgar was bestowed rarer patterns of vehicles, such as the Sicaran
upon the survivors, who would later become This remade chapter was the first to be battle tanks and Javelin attack speeders, were
known as the Gal Vorbak, and resulted in adorned with the dark crimson livery that fielded in greater numbers than elsewhere in
the elevation of their leader, Argel Tal, to the would come to signify the Legion. By the the Legion.
post of Chapter Master of the Serrated Sun. time of the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre,
Rising Sun: This Thunderhawk Gunship, pictured here prior to the fighting on Isstvan V, was assigned as the personal
transport of Argel Tal and the inner circle of the Gal Vorbak. The patterns applied to its adamantium hull are complex
astrological charts used in traditional Colchisian mysticism, but the purpose of these symbols on such a war machine is
unknown, save perhaps as decoration. The Rising Sun was destroyed during the closing stages of the Battle for Isstvan V
Scimitar Pattern Jetbike: Once assigned to Gal Vorbak Sergeant Dagotal, this jetbike was recovered
undamaged after the battle, apparently abandoned by its owner during the fighting.
SALAMANDERS BREACHER LEGIONARY
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BREACHER SQUAD AR'VAK, I7TH LINE COMPANY,
REALM OF EPITHEMUS
Breacher squads were a valuable component of
Salamanders Legion companies; often deployed at
the spearhead of any attack, or as the core of any
defensive line. Given this onerous duty, it was a
position of honour to be chosen to fight among
their ranks in the Legion. Induction was only
granted after a gruelling series of trials which
culminated with the hunting of one of Nocturne's
legendary salamanders and the forging of a shield
incorporating the beast's iron hard bones and
resilient scales.
Breacher squad Ar'vak was near the forefront of

the Loyalist advance, holding fast in the ruins of
a Traitor anti-aircraft bunker destroyed as part of
the initial drop assault. Barricading themselves
within after they were cut off, vox-intercepts
indicated that Legionary Nal'kor and his squad
were one of the last Loyalist holdout forces to be
eradicated, the Alpha Legion forced at last to use
massed Vindicator tanks to end the resistance.
Panoply of War
x. Acitus pattern boarding shield: Though
forged to the designs of the original pattern,
the Salamanders customarily produced items
of superior workmanship and quality, often
incorporating a variety of exotic components.
2. Autotellurian pattern graviton gun: Grav

weapons were slowly becoming rare in Legion
armouries at the outbreak of the Horus Heresy,
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required to maintain them.
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FIREDRAKE SQUAD KAL'sHo, REALM OF SKARROKK. ATTACHED TO AssAULT CADRE
CHIMERAE, ASSIGNED TO DESTROY THE DEATH GUARD FORTIFICATION DESIGNATED
OMICRON-633, CENTRAL URGALL BASIN.
Fortification Omicron-633 represented one of a chain of small ferrocrete
bunkers, erected by the Death Guard, which had weathered the Loyalist
bombardment with little damage. Its capture was considered a primary
goal of the first wave assault. Squad Kal'sho had reached its objective
just as the second wave emerged from its drop pods, and were engulfed
by a writhing cloud of toxic fog unleashed by the Death Guard's Grave
Warden Terminators, whose counter-attack had been signalled by the
arrival of their traitorous allies. Low on ammunition and caught between
the Death Guard's tenebrous wall of poison and the advancing ranks
of Word Bearers, Assault Cadre Chimerae was quickly overwhelmed
and scattered despite Squad Kal'sho's heroic efforts to fight their way to
Vulkan and the main body of the Salamanders.
r. Salamanders Legion icon, common armorial use.
2. Ryza 'Sunspite' pattern plasma pistol.
3. Ultima pattern combi-flamer.
4. Phaestos pattern flamer.
Master Barris Kal'sho. Missing in action, last sighted

engaged in combat with Word Bearers abomination units.
4.
Veteran So'bak. Confirmed lost, Veteran Ish'val. Missing in action,
slain in combat with Death Shroud Terminators. U rgall Depression - presumed slain.
Veteran Ven'tal. Isstvan V survivor, Veteran Nar'van. Missing in action,

evacuated with Raven Guard forces. Urgall Depression-presumed slain.
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LEGIONARY MARAEUS 0RASUS
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TACTICAL SQUAD FAL HON, REALM OFTHEMIS,
ASSIGNED TO SUPPORT CADRE IcAX.
Deployed at nearly its full strength to
Isstvan V, the Realm ofThemis and its
constituent line companies were subdivided into
dozens of Cadres. Each Cadre was formulated so
as to be capable of achieving its objectives with
minimal support, allowing the Cadres to achieve
their battlefield objectives without relying on
overwhelming numbers: a common tactical
concern of the Salamanders, and one which
stood in direct contrast to the tactics preferred
by others.
Squad Fal'shon and four other Tactical squads

were tasked with the close protection of the
ordnance squadrons which formed Support
Cadre Igax. Expending the majority of their
munitions in the early stages of the battle, the
Cadre was left woefully unprepared to deal
with the second wave's treacherous assault.
Surrounded by Alpha Legion units that had
approached to point blank range under the guise
of friendship before opening fire , Squad Fal'shon
fought to the last, expending their remaining
munitions, then grappling with the enemy in
hand-to -hand combat.
Panoply of War
I. MkII 'Crusade' pattern armour: This suit of
power armour has been artfully embellished by
its wearer. Such artistic additions to wargear are
just as common amongst the Salamanders as
those intended to improve its lethality.
2. Phobos pattern bolt pistol: Powerful and

utilitarian side arms, bolt pistols have seen
service within the Legions since their creation.
3. Phobos pattern boltgun: The Phobos pattern,

one of the first of its kind, is considered
temperamental and maintenance intensive by
some Legions, but the Salamanders prefer them
for their greater accuracy and power when
properly tended.
3.
XvnirH LEGION TACTICAL LEGIONARY
UNKNOWN LEGIONARY
SOL OUTER SYSTEM PACIFICATION EXPEDITION
Seen here rendered from a pict-frame from
the early Great Crusade-era is a member of the
XVII Ith Legion, before the discovery of Vulkan.
The exact identity of this Legionary is almost
impossible to determine as, unlike their later
incarnation as the Salamanders, the XVIIIrh
Legion made no attempt to record individual
deeds upon their armour and bore no informal
ranks. This particular Legionary bears the insignia
of the Saturnyne Ram, a symbol adopted by
XVIIIth Legion during the earliest stages of the
Great Crusade, as well as the crossed lightning
bolts and raptor's head icon of the Unification
Wars. The pict itself dates to the days of the Sedna
Campaign, where contingents of eight Legions
fought in utter darkness on the surface of a world
constructed by alien hands at the outermost edge
of the Sol system, finally leaving the Sol system in
human hands once again.
Panoply of War
1.. Thunder Edge pattern chainsword
2. Umbra pattern bolt pistol
3. Mars-Omega pattern volkite charger: At

the beginning of the Great Crusade, before the
Legion achieved the vast sizes it grew to during
the late Great Crusade period, volkite chargers
were the standard weapon of many Legionaries.
SALAMANDERS LEGION TERMINATOR
CHo EN KoBAL Ru'THAN, 'TRuE BLADE'
MEMBER OF THE BODYGUARD PHALANX OF
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LoRD PROTECTOR DA'Ru, 3R LINE COMPANY,
REALM OF THEMIS
Selected from amongst the finest warriors and
craftsmen their companies have to offer, the
personal bodyguards of the lords Protector
stand as an embodiment of the principles of the
Promethean Cult. These indomitable :fighters
invariably won many honours, and these victories
are celebrated on Ru'than's armour, a notable
example being the glyphs on his left greave.
In the final hours of the massacre on Isstvan

V, Lord Protector Da'Ru ordered his phalanx,
including Ru'than, to form up around him and
led a charge into the heaviest concentration of
the approaching enemy. Fragments of Chosen
Ru'than's distinctive armour were later seen as
trophies adorning Night Lords armoured units.
Panoply of War
1. Modified power sword: This sword bears
a custom-forged pattern welded blade, most

likely the personal craft of Ru'than.
2. Tigrus pattern combi-fl.amer.

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LEGIONARY NARVIK DRE HAAN
BAAL AuxrLLIARY DEFENCE FoRcE,
l'H PROVISIONAL BATIALION,
UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN l<ARTOR
Legionary Dre'Haan was one of three members
of his cadre to escape the massacre at Isstvan V,
managing to fight through the press ofTraitors
'' and secure one of the few orbital transports to
survive the firestorm in the skies of that dead
world. The battered squadron of Imperial Army
cruisers that carried Dre'Haan and the scattered
remnants of his brethren arrived at Baal months
after that fateful battle.
The Blood Angels, much reduced in number

with the departure of Sanguinius and the bulk
of the Legion, were quick to press these ragged
stragglers into service against any Traitor
assault on Baal. In total the Seneschal of Baal
commissioned eight provisional battalions, a force
of almost 8,ooo Legiones Astartes warriors, for
the defence of Baal. The 7'h Battalion, of which
Legionary Dre'Haan was a member, was typical of
these formations, consisting of a mixed company
of Salamanders and Iron Hands cataphractii, a
line company of Salamanders infantry, a demi-
company of Raven Guard reconnaissance units
and a single company of Blood Angels assigned
as custodians.
Pictured here prior to one of several Traitor

probing assaults on Baal's defensive fortifications,
Legionary Dre'Haan bears the ornate heraldry
typical of his Legion, painstakingly repaired
and restored after the damage inflicted on his
battle plate on the killing fields of Isstvan V The
Nocturnean symbols on his greaves mark his
expertise in both the forge and on the battlefield,
while the chest ornamentation marks his prowess
as a hunter of the fiery drakes that make their
home in Nocturne's many volcanic mountains.
Nocturnean Runic Cadre Symbols,

as used during the fighting on Isstvan V
ANCIENT TUSEOK
THE DRAGON OF SERAPIS
AITACHED TO CADRE 0BSIDIAX
A veteran of the Legion's battles before the XVIIIth was united with its Primarch, Tuseok bears a long list of
honours and advanced to the rank of Captain before his mortal wounding at the disastrous Battle ofKhur. Of
particular note is the Saturnyne Ram insignia on his left knee, indicating his participation with the Saturnyne
Armada in the Segmentum Solar pacification campaign, and the white Firedrake skull and lightning bolts icon
on his plastron- an insignia awarded by Vulkan for his heroic deeds during the conquest of Serapis.
Ancient Tuseok did not survive the Dropsite Massacre, though a small contingent of Cadre Obsidiax was able
to evacuate Isstvan V alongside Raven Guard forces, thanks in no small part to the Dreadnought's self-sacrificial
actions in repelling attacking waves of Night Lords gunships harrying the escape attempt.
SALAMANDERS LEGION TRANSPORT VEHICLES
Prizing short range engagements and the Though deployed in great numbers to the to a Traitor autocannon salvo and been
deployment of crushing force against their battlefields of Isstvan V, almost none of the evacuated to the medicae encampment
enemies' strongholds, the Salamanders Legion's auxiliary vehicles are known to before switching places with the slain pilot,
Legion maintained an extensive arsenal of have escaped. A notable exception is the and managed to dock with the cruiser
transport vehicles. These were assigned to Thunderhawk Ohidoran, which blasted a Warlock. Despite taking serious damage, the
units on an ad-hoc basis within the battle path through squadrons of Traitor Storm Warlock was one of the few Legion vessels
companies and often re-organised to suit Eagles and Primaris-Lightnings in order to that managed to evade the Traitor fleet
the nature of a given campaign. As with all land amidst the Loyalist Legion's medicae and escape the Isstvan system, reaching an
of the Salamanders' wargear, these vehicles encampment. There it was loaded past Imperial held outpost nine months later
were constructed and maintained to an maximum capacity with the most serious carrying thirty-eight wounded Salamanders,
exacting standard, often far surpassing of the injured. Once loaded, Ohidoran took seventeen Raven Guard and three Iron
the performance levels listed in their STC flight once again, under the control of the Hands from the massacre.
specifications and embellished as works of wounded Raven Guard Legionary Kirhane,
craftsmanship in their own right. who had lost his right leg below the knee
Salamanders Thunderhawk Gunship 'Ohidoran': Named for an ancient terror of Nocturne's primitive
mythology. Legends speak of the creatures as both destroyer and protector in equal measure, symbolising the
duality of violence, and these tales were oft quoted by Vulkan in his writings on the Promethean Cult.
Salamanders Legion Igniax Rhino Armoured Carrier: Rhino armoured carrier assigned to one
of the Igniax, as Chaplains were known amongst the Salamanders. Note the distinctive black colour
scheme and ochre Salamanders head insignia.
SALAMANDERS SIEGE CADRE MAGNOR
Like many other Legions, the Salamanders and again in situations that required the dig in, or attempt to fight free of the Urgall
often group their armoured vehicles into brute application of :firepower to spare the Depression, Centurion Ha'ken brought his
large special purpose formations. Siege Cadre Salamanders a costly infantry assault. tank, the Typhon Abraxus, to full power and
Magnor was one such formation and was signalled his Cadre to counter-attack. Using
based around a core squadron of Typhon Landing during one of the later drops on the sheer bulk of his two surviving Typhon
Siege Tanks, and supported by full squadrons Isstvan V, Cadre Magnor was not initially super-heavies, Ha'ken began to smash a path
of Predator Infemus and the new Sicaran deployed to the front lines of the Loyalist through the encircling Alpha Legion troops
battle tanks as outrider forces. Unlike many advance, forming part of the Salamander's in an attempt to reach Vulkan. The trail of
Cadres within the Salamanders, which reserve force not far from the Loyalist destruction forged by the Salamanders tanks
were ad-hoc formations formed for a single drop zones. With the betrayal of those was only ended when the Traitor Imperator
mission or campaign and then reassigned Legions making up the second wave of Titan Dies Irae directed a salvo of fire onto
as the course of the Great Crusade's endless the assault on Isstvan V, Cadre Magnor their position, obliterating a number of
battles dictated, Cadre Magnor, under the found itself surrounded by enemies and Alpha Legion units as well as the Loyalist
command of Centurion Magnor Ha'ken, had cut off from their Primarch and the force of tank squadrons.
achieved longevity, proving its worth time Salamanders trapped with him. Rather than
Typhon Heavy Siege Tank 'Abraxus': Though scorned by many as simply an upscaled Vindicator, the
Typhon is savagely effective at its assigned role: the destruction of heavily armoured bunkers and vehicles
at close range. The Typhon Abraxus was destroyed on Isstvan V, although later reports indicate it may have
been salvaged by Traitor forces.
Predator Infernus Strike Tank: Rightly feared for its combination of mobility and firepower,
the Predator Infernus' flamestorm cannon was widely used within the Salamanders Legion for
clearing fortifications and to decimate closely-packed bodies of enemy infantry.
Common armorial use of the Salamanders Legion icon. The addition of flames
to both the Legion icon and to other segments of both vehicle and personal
armour was common within the Salamanders, signifying a warrior or vehicle
tested on the anvil of war.
SALAMANDERS TACTICAL SUPPORT LEGIONARY
1
LEGIONARY DHA LOK
SHATTERED LEGION ATTACK CELL 'H Esroo'
ASSAULT ON DWELL
Legionary Dha'lok was once a member of a
Tactical Support Squad belonging to the 171h Line
Company, most of whom were slain by the Traitor
Alpha Legion at the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre.
Dha'lok was one of only a score of warriors from
his company to escape the massacre; having been
rendered unconscious by the blast of a Traitor
Vindicator, he awoke in the bay of a Salamanders
Storm Eagle in time to take part in the capturing
of the Sons of Horus warship, the Grey Talon.
Rescuing scores of Loyalists before being forced
to break orbit, the boarders fled into the Warp,
though the battle to root out every last Traitor
onboard would grind on for many weeks. At
length the vessel, renamed Hesiod in honour of
one of Nocturne's great cities, would join the
fleet of Shadrak Meduson and take its place in his
vengeance-fuelled Shattered Legions.
Shattered Legions Wargear

Dha'lok maintained his role as a member of a
Tactical Support Squad, and although his favoured
weapon was the phaestos pattern flamer he had
carried into the breach at the Urgall Depression,
he was also adept in the use of melta and volkite
weaponry. Dha'lok is depicted here clad in a
hybrid suit of Legiones Astartes battle plate
later codified as Mark V power armour. Dha'lok
retained the helm and pauldrons of the Mark III
armour he had worn at Isstvan V, marking the suit
as a non-production class of Mark V
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COMPANY OF THE EBON DRAKE
In the wake of the revelations bestowed upon the
1' company of the Ebon Drake at Isstvan V by Cassian
Dracos, a stark change overcame its complement
of Legiones Astartes. Many began to adopt the
obscure divinatory practice of their commander
Xiaphas Jurr's home world of Proximal, affixing
the resulting charms to their armour, while others
covered the original heraldry of their armour
with devotional scenes depicting the Primarch or
Cassian Dracos, who many consider his avatar.
Legionary Shaan is typical of the Legiones

Astartes who arrived at Mezoa, and much
changed in appearance from the spartan
Salamanders heraldry he wore at the outset of the
Ebon Drake's voyage. Much of his original drab
green armour has been obscured by patterns of
black ash and fire, along with ritual images of
the Dragon Revenant and Vulkan. Suspended on
chains across his armour are engraved bones and
fragments of the armour of the fallen from
Isstvan V, each an omen of events yet to pass,
cast in the presence of the Iron Dragon himself.
Suspended from his pauldrons are pages from the
writings ofXiaphas Jurr, the so-called Prophecies of
the Flame, some affixed with the seal of the Forge
World ofMezoa.
As with many of the Disciples of the Flames, the

final fate of Soh'rek Shaan is unknown outside
of the inner ranks of the secretive clades of the
Terran Archivists, and the tales of his exploits
under the banner of the Dragon Revenant have
been cleansed even from the records of the
Salamanders themselves.
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Established as a way station for the strongholds, these found new purpose. In found themselves replete with the finest
Great Crusade and the ever-expanding defiance of ancient treaties, which put strict ofMezoa's creations-chief among them
armies of the Emperor's attempt to reunite limits on both who might receive the fruits several newly finished super-heavy tanks that
the worlds of the galaxy under his rule, ofMezoa's labour and the quantity of arms had previously been intended for the IX'h
Mezoa had ever been dedicated to the which might be made available, the Norn- Legion and a number of command Rhino
construction of war machines for the regents of Mezoa granted gifts of tanks and variants whose design had only been recently
Legiones Astartes and many other branches weapons to those bands of the Legiones approved for production. These weapons of
of the Imperial armies. Under the watchful Astartes willing to carry the war to Horus, war were quickly adorned with the heraldry
eyes of the Tech-adepts of the Eternal Flame, both on the surface of M ezoa and across the of the Dragon Revenant and his fo llowers
uncounted armoured vehicles were produced sector. Many of those who had escaped the and prepared fo r war, in many cases proving
for the Emperor's finest warriors, yet with the wrath of the Warmaster chose to accept these vital to the defence of Mezoa in the battles
advent of the Horus Heresy, all supply routes gifts and make their stand on the worlds that followed. In particular, the glaive pattern
to those enclaves known to have remained around Mezoa, now with the tools to exact a super-heavy tank designated Dragon Eternal
loyal were cut off. Left with no means to high price in blood from the Traitors, but of was responsible fo r the defence ofMezoa's
disburse these armaments, the artificers of all those present, it was the company of the Septum Gateway for four hours, after an
Mezoa placed them into the vas t storage Ebon Drake who received the prize of Alpha Legion diversionary attack drew off
vaults beneath their forge-fanes to await the Mezoa's output. the other defending elements. Even in death
day when their anger would be unleash ed the tank did not abandon its purpose, the
against the Traitors. Where they had arrived at Mezoa few in crew manoeuvring the vehicle so that its
number and equipped with little beyond h ulk blocked all access to the gate fo llowing
With the arrival of Cassian Dracos and the their boltguns and man-portable heavy its fin al explosive end.
Ebon Drake, alongside other fleeing stragglers weaponry, the Disciples of the Flame now
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personal transport and command vehicle during the Battle for Mezoa. Adorned in the traditional colour
scheme of the Salamanders' Igniax order and bearing the results of the divinatory arts that obsessed the
Proximan recru it, it was a common sight at the forefro nt of Loyalist counter-strikes on Mezoa.
Glaive super-heavy tank, 'Dragon Eternal':

Among the heaviest of the defensive assets
deployed by the defenders ofMezoa, fighting
as they did on a world whose fragile crust could
not bear the weight of war Titans, the D ragon
Eternal was the lynchpin of many Loyalist actions
during the fighting. Accounting for forty-eight
vehicle kills and an uncounted toll of the Traitor
infantry before its destruction, the vehicle's hulk
was later reclaimed by the Mezoan priesthood,
who pledged to rebuild and restore it, that it
might fight eternally in Mezoa's defence. Over
the course of the Homs Heresy, the tank was to
be rebuilt eight times, and in these latter days it
stands as a monument of the wars in the primary
forge of Mezoa.
RAVEN GUARD LEGION TACTICAL MARKINGS
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XIXTH LEGION TACTICAL LEGIONARY
UNKNOWN LEGIONARY
tit BATIAlION
PRE-JOVIAN CAMPAIGN
This image has been compiled from a pkt-capture of
a Legionary of the Unification-era XIX'h Legion as he
appeared immediately before the conquest of the Jovian
Range. Records do not indicate if this unnamed Legionary
took part in the costly Battle ofLysithea, which saw the
Emperor's forces wrest control of the tenth moon of
Jupiter from the domination of its vile xenos overlords, or
if he fought alongside warriors of a brother-Legion.
The Legionary's MkII 'Crusade' power armour, however,

bears several symbols which do provide clues to his
identity. The skull and lightning bolt icon on his left knee
armour in particular marks him as a veteran of the Terran
{' Unification War. It is known that some of the 7rh Battalion
' survivors of the Battle of Lysithea were assigned to duties
with a so-called 'Nomad Predation' fleet dispatched with
sealed orders into the outer darkness around the time
that the XfX1h Legion was united with its Primarch. If this
Legionary survived the Jovian Campaign, he may have
been assigned to such an expedition.
Panoply of War
1. Mars-Proteus Pattern Power Axe: Records suggest
that this class of weapon was commonly gifted to squad
leaders to mark acts of valour, a tradition harking back
to the culture of the Xeric tribes which fell out of favour
after the Primarch took control of the XIXch Legion.
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Legionary Ghelt was a veteran of two decades service to
the Raven Guard and marked for ascension to the position
of squad sergeant at the time of the Isstvan V operation.
That ascension came far quicker than anticipated, as his
immediate superior, Sergeant Lyso, fell in battle during the
Dropsite Massacre, slain by the abominations known as
the Gal Vorbak of the Traitor Word Bearers Legion. Ghelt
took command of what remained of his squad and Jed
his brother Legionaries in the breakout from the Urgall
Depression, commanding them until he himself fell in
glory around Day 28.
Legionary Ghelt wears late production MkIV 'Maximus'

power armour with the XIXth Legion numeral
prominently displayed on the chest and the assault
identifier on the right knee. Also note artificer-applied
surface etching. The white applied to his shoulder, forearm
and gauntlet plates was an informal practice amongst
veteran assault squads which became much more common
after the Legion's return to Deliverance.
Panoply of War
x. 'Thunder Edge' Pattern Chainsword: Decorated with
Raven Guard Legion icon.
2. Tigris Pattern Bolt Pistol: Note 'Corvus Calvariam'

Veteran's Honour.
3. Melta Bomb, Krak Grenade and Fragmentation

Grenade: Standard Legion assault squad issue.
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ArrER.MATH, lSSTVAN V DROPSITE MASSACRE - DAY 7
Legionary Khalen is depicted here as he
deployed to the surface oflsstvan V and records
indicate that he survived the ninety-eight days
aftermath of the Dropsite Massacre. He wears
pre-production, trial power armour issued to him
during the Scalland Campaign, which was still
undergoing trials with veteran Raven Guard units
at that time. The armour is known to have served
Sergeant Khalen well, its shielded power-routing
systems especially suited to recon operations
and its multiple redundancies allowing several
key components to be replaced as they sustained
heavy damage. Khalen's accounts of the armour's
performance contributed co several later
improvements being included in the final MkVI
'Corvus' armour battle plate.
Sergeant Khalen's power armour bears the Raven

Guard Legion's icon, as well as the lightning flash
symbol identifying him as serving in a Legion
reconnaissance squad - the white faceplate is
thought to be an informal identifier for a squad
sergeant. The numeral on his chest plate is that of
the 2nd Chapter, and in addition to this he bears
the Corvus Calvariam Veteran's Honour.
Panoply of War
I. Umbra Pattern Boltgun.
2. Ryza 'Sunspite' Pattern Plasma Pistol:

Individual issue to veteran status line officers.
RAVEN GUARD RECONNAISSANCE LEGIONARY
LEGJONARY SALLAIL\J
SQUAD Nrn,fAS, 31sr SHADOW COMPANY
AmRMArn, IssrvAN V DROPSITE MAssACRE- DAY 51
legionary Sallahn's reconnaissance squad began
the Isstvan Voperation serving in the 31s1 'Sh adow
Company'-a formation directly under Legion
Command instead of serving in the line. The 31s1
suffered such heavy losses at the height of the
Dropsite Massacre that when the breakout order
was issued, Squad Numas was one of only a handful
of units capable of responding. Legionary Sallahn
was instrumental in identifying viable extraction
vectors and communicating these back to wh at
remained of Legion Command, covering the
Legion's withdrawal throughout and saving the
lives of hundreds of his brother Legionaries. Much
later, Squad Numas would receive the praise of
Corax himself for the pivotal role it played in the
Legion's survival through that darkest hour.
Legionary Sallahn's MkIV recon-modified power

armour is depicted here with its cameoh ne field
disengaged, the surface taking on a flat, ash-
grey finish in its passive state. When activated,
the armour's surface mirrors ambient lighting
condition s, allowing its wearer to ble nd into th eir
surroundings.
Note helm-mounted sensor and communications

array. Also note subdued legion and tactical
markings, and winged raven skull icon indicating
the 3 rs' Shadow Company's direct attachment to
high er echelon Legion Command.
Panoply of War
I . Tigris-Exitus Pattern Modified Boltgun:
Master Armourer-modified, issued to majority of
reconnaissance squads in 31sr Sh adow Company.
2. Deliverance Pattern Shotgun: Alternative

issue to approximately one in five recon units
designated to operational security role.
2.
VETERAN LEGIONARY Ar..EcKTo KIRHANE
FIRST REcoN DETACHMENT, i " CHAmR
COMPANY OF THE EBON DRAKE
Hundreds of thousands of Loyalist Legiones
Astartes fell upon the killing fields of Isstvan
and three Primarchs were presumed dead at
the hands of their brothers. In the midst of
such unimaginable death and destruction,
barely a handful ofloyal warriors escaped, and
none who endured the terrible events of those
black days was unmarked by the tragedy. Of his
entire chapter, the 71h, known informally as the
'Stormcrows', only Kirhane and a dozen others
survived. Kirhane is pictured here in the early
stages of the battle, before a Traitor autocannon
tore off his left leg below the knee and consigned
him to watch the treacherous end of that battle
from a medicae encampment.
Kirhane left Isstvan Vat the controls of the

Salamanders Thunderhawk Ohidoran, the original
crew having disembarked to die with their
brothers on the battlefield and allow the walking
wounded to escape. The Ohidoran then found
refuge aboard the cruiser Warlock as it fought free
of the orbital battle.
Caught in the swirling realm of the Warp, the

Warlock and its passengers were consigned to a
long and treacherous odyssey as they sought a
bastion of those still loyal. After seven months of
voyaging on the malicious tides of the Warp, the
Warlock finally came to rest at Baal, finding at last
a world where loyal servants of the Emperor still
held true to their vows. Yet, though it provided
refuge from Horus' onslaught, it granted the
survivors of Isstvan no succour.
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RAVEN GUARD APOTHECARY
. APOTHECARY KAYLAR NORN
SHATIERED LEGION ATIACK CELL 'PLITTONIAN SHORE'
J BATILE OF ARRISAK
Apothecary Norn was once a member of the
4•h Battahon of the Raven Guard 5'h Chapter, a
formation almost entirely wiped out by the Gal
Vorbak of the Word Bearers Legion at the Isstvan
'' V Dropsite Massacre. Norn was one of only a
few dozen Legionaries of his battahon to escape
the Urgall Depression that day, being evacuated
on board a massively over-loaded Thunderhawk
of the Iron Hands Legion to the xrn Legion
warship, the Ion-side. Norn would later represent
the Apothecarion of his Legion when scattered
elements of the Raven Guard, Iron Hands
and Salamanders gathered at Aeteria, and he
witnessed the death of the Iron Hands flagship,
the Crown of Flame, at Oqueth Minor at the hands
ofTybalt Marr's hunter-killer force of Sons of
Homs and Emperor's Children, swearing that day
to follow Shadrak Meduson into the very pits of
hell in order to bring the Traitors to justice.
H eraldry of the Apothecarion

Norn is depicted here bearing the full range of
speciahst Apothecary's equipment, as he appeared
at the outset of the Battle of Arrisak, where he
served as the most senior Apothecary on board
the Raven Guard rapid strike cruiser, the Plutonian
Shore, the red stripe on his Mark VI battle helm
distinguishing him as a senior speciahst. His
skills were to be put to the most arduous of tests
during that battle, when twenty entire decks of
the Plutonian Shore were caught in a ravening
plasma fire which consumed 300 Legionaries of
four different Legions, and hideously wounded
·• ' 500 more.
Raven Guard Legion Armourial Legion Apothecarion, Common Icon

RAVEN GUARD LEGION TERMINATOR SERGEANT
TERMINATOR SERGEANT HEKIAN
SQUAD HEKIA."'J, ASSAULT COMPANY
IIT BATTALION, 5rn CHAmR
ArrERMATH, IssrvAN V DRoPsrn MASSACRE - DAY 78
Sergeant Heklan's squad fought with honour
throughout the Legion's operations on Isstvan
Vandis noted to have fought alongside the
Lord Primarch himself on several occasions, in
particular during all three major engagements
with the forces of the Iron Warriors Legion
attempting to hunt the Raven Guard across the
Urgall Wastes. Sergeant Heklan fell in glory the
very day the Legion was delivered from Issrvan V,
he and his warriors willingly selling their lives at
enormous cost to the World Eaters as the Traitors
closed in upon the Raven Guard's final position at
the edge of the Cular Salt Plains.
Sergeant Heklan's Cataphractii armour is adorned

with a mass of subtle motifs derived from the
decorative arts of the Lycaean slave-miners, a
constant reminder to the bearer and his peers of
the Legion's roots. On his right shoulder he bears
the symbol of an elite Legion formation, on the
left the numeral of the s'h Chapter, surrounded by
a sergeant's laurel of command.
Panoply of War
1. Artificer-wrought Power Sword.
2 . Tigris Pattern Combi-melta.
2.
ANCIENT KRAHZEN
17TH CHAYIER
AmRMATH, 1SS1VAN VDROPSITE MASSACRE - DAY 3
Ancient Krahzen was once a Legion Moritat in the 3 rd Battalion of the 4th Chapter, and well known for his particularly
dark demeanour and callousness in battle. He was laid low by a hideous xenos horror while scouring a space hulk
threatening systems along the coreward marches of the Segmentum Solar, and subsequently interred within the armoured
sarcophagus of a Contemptor Dreadnought. Though no longer able to pursue the mission of a Legion Moritat, Krahzen
adapted to his new existence well, and instead of lone assassinations, Krahzen soon led savage frontal assaults, seeking out
and striking down the mightiest of enemies.
Ancient Krahzen survived the murderous violence of the Dropsite Massacre, leading a combined force of the remnants of
several dozen different companies north-eastward , smashing aside countless enemy formations before linking up with the
Prim.arch on Day 3. He then led countless attacks throughout the Raven Guard's ninety-eight days on Isstvan V, but he was
not to be counted amongst the ranks of chose liberated on the final day. Instead, he gave his life in battle against a Sons of
Horus Legion death squad so that his brother legionaries might fight on and, ultimately, endure.
RAVEN GUARD ARMOURED FORCES
Though best known for the skills of its Speeders and Skyhunter Jetbike squads re-assigned to fight on as infantry, the
warriors in rapid assault, reconnaissance roamed ahead of the slower moving tank survival of every last Legionary deemed of far
and infiltration protocols, the Raven Guard companies, isolating enemy positions and more importance to the future of the Legion
Legion possessed and utilised the full range harrying them mercilessly until the heavier than maintaining its vehicles.
of engines ofwar produced for the Legiones units arrived to grind them into dust. When
Astartes by the genius of the Mechanicum. the Night Lords, Iron Warriors, Alpha Legion long after the l sstvan V Dropsite Massacre,
The Raven Guard maintained entire and Word Bearers revealed their treachery it would be discovered that the Traitors
battalions of heavy armour of all types, the upon the Urgall Depression, most of these recovered a large number of the vehicles
Legion Armoury and Fleet Reserve held formations were cut off from the bulk of the left upon th e black sands of the Urgall
hundreds more, and individual companies Legion and ambushed by N ight Lords units Depression and turned them against their
were assigned individual war engines as and as they attempted to fight their way back to erstwhile masters. Many also appear to have
when required. their Primarch's side. been crippled by Mechanicum war machines
using ultra-high yield neutron weaponry so
The Raven Guard Legion deployed every Very few of the Raven Guard's heavier that, while th e crews were slain by radiation
heavy armour formation it could muster to armoured formations were able to withdraw deadly even to a superhuman Space Marine,
Isstvan V, committing the majority to a wide from the Dropsite Massacre, although the war engines themselves remained
flanking manoeuvre launched along the base those that did played a vital role in holding intact. Were it needed, this provides further
of the Lerghan Ridge against Sons of Horus back the enemies' pursuit in its immediate evidence of the dark genius and far-reaching
units guarding the extreme left flank of the aftermath. Later on, all but the lightest stratagems of the Warmaster.
Traitors' lines. Entire wings of Javelin Attack formations were disbanded and their crews
The laurel wreath icon is commonly employed by the Raven Guard and other
Legiones Astartes to denote an upper echelon command unit. In this instance, the
marking indicates the vehicle is the personal transport of a battalion commander.
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intelligence very highly, and so even the heaviest armoured formation was often accompanied by swift-
moving outrider units such as this Javelin Attack Speeder. Such units also served in the roles of close
defence and target identification.
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armoured vanguard assault unit whose infantry were extensively equipped with Tactical Dreadnought Armour. The Valravn was lost assaulting
Sons of Horus positions on the Warmaster's extreme left flank, but would later reappear having been salvaged by the Traitor Night Lords.
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WINGS OF THE RAVEN
The Legiones Astartes Raven Guard make thousands of Legionaries to the surface. When at last the Raven Guard serving directly
extensive use of a wide range of atmospheric, It is testament to the thoroughness of under the command of Lord Corax were
orbital and void-capable craft, from the heavily the Warmaster's treachery that when the extracted from Isstvan V, it was the Legion's
armed Fire Raptor gunship to the mighty second wave of the Loyalist retribution force handful of surviving Thunderhawks and
Stormbird dropship. Many are equipped turned upon the Raven Guard, Salamanders Storm birds that bore them away from certain
with unique stealth systems produced by the and Iron Warriors of the first wave, the death at the edge of the Gular Salt Plains. It
guilds of Kiavahr, allowing them to penetrate majority of the Legion's Thunderhawks was thanks to the skill and courage of the
deep into enemy controlled territory in order and Stormbirds were on the ground in crews of Commander Branne Nev's rescue
to deploy Raven Guard strike forces and to the process of disembarking warriors and force that the Primarch and the last few
provide fire support once their passengers are thus at their most vulnerable. When the thousand of his sons lived to fight on against
on the ground. Iron Warriors opened fire on the landing the treachery of the Warmaster and the fallen
zones with their super-heavy artillery, the Legions Astartes.
The bulk of the legion's orbital strike craft devastation was total - barely a handful
were committed to rhe assault against the of Thunderhawks and Storm Eagles, and
Warmaster's rebels, many making repeated not a single Stormbird, escaped the all-
runs from ground to orbit as they ferried encompassing conflagration.
Thunderhawk Gunship 'Umbra Secondus: This Thunderhawk Gunship is depicted ready for planetfall on Isstvan V.
Umbra Secondus was assigned to transport three veteran tactical squads of the Raven Guard's 3 rd Company, as indicated by the
cross marking on its tail and flank hatch. The craft was later commandeered by the Raven Guard's Master of Descent Alvarex
Maun and used to extract the Primarch himself before succumbing to massive damage from Traitor ground fire.
Scimitar Pattern Jetbike: This Scimitar served in the Raven Guard's r31h Company and survived the
Dropsite Massacre. It was assigned to the ad-hoc formation known as the Hawks, alongside several dozen
other rapid attack units, and was only abandoned when the Raven Guard finally rook their leave ofisstvan V.
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ALPHA LEGION TACTICAL MARKINGS

AND HERALDRY
Common Legion Heraldry - Variant Legion Heraldry - Sub-type Legion Heraldry- Echelon Variant Cataphractii
Power Armour Pauldron Power Armour Pauldron Tartaros Terminator Terminator Armour Pauldron
Armour Pauldron
CLOTH AND BA.\'NER MARKIKcs BATILE PLATE h'¥lOURlA1. lcoNs

Alpha Legion warriors of all ranks have been observed Secondary adornments of apparent c ultural or mythological
wearing tabar<ls and similar cloth garb bearing complex, significance. Number of major chain links thought to indicate rank.
impenetrable symbols and characters, and the same symbols
are also seen on company, chapter and l egion banners.
DREADNOUGHT ARMOUR1AL lcONS

Variant Legion icons observed in three war zones between
985.M31 and 998.M31. Trefoil-form ed Hyd ra thought to
indicate elite unit designation.
CHAPTER lcONOGRAPHY
Many icon s used by the Alpha Legion appear to be drawn
from ancient Terran Helac script. J t is thought that the Hclac
gamma, omega and delta symbols shown here are commonly
used as chapter iden tifiers, though rarely consistently.
The three-head ed Lernaean Hydra is shown to the right
surmou nting t he chained alpha-omega icon. Both are
common symbols within the Alpha Legion, with numerous
combinations and variants adorning armour, ban ners and the
flanks of armoured vehicles.
ALPHA LEGIONNAIRE
SPECIALIST 1103342, H EADHUNTER Krr.1 TEAM DELTA, PHEMUS IV DEFENCE CADRE
This Alpha Legionnaire, bearing no personal heraldry other than a coded identification sigil, was pursued across the lava-scree
slopes of Phemus IV by the Brotherhood of the Sable Wolf Headhunters of the XX'h Legion were repeatedly identified in the
early stages of the Chondax Engagement on Phemus IV in advantageous sniping positions, while making opportunistic strikes
against the engine blocks of White Scars' jetbikes. These strikes were not intended to kill, but to hamper and re-direct the yih
Legion's advance towards the hidden beacons of the Alpha Legion. It is thought Speciahst ~03342 was part of the cell which
orchestrated these attacks.
After the death of the Brotherhood of the Sable Wolf's khan, the Moritat known as the Black Hound took command, making
it his personal mission to track down and destroy the Alpha Legion Headhunters. Specialist ~03342 is known to have fallen as
part of this shadow war of unexpected snares and brutal surprise assaults. Originally suspected to be the Interfector, this Alpha
Legionnaire fell at the hands of the Black Hound himself, who had scouted ahead of his Brotherhood to a likely sniping position,
using their presence as bait, and there half-buried himself in volcanic ash, all but invisible until the Headhunter crossed his path.
xxrH LEGION VETERAN LEGIONARY
UNNA.\i.ED VETERAN LEGIONARY
UNKNOWN LEGION SuB-uNrr
CRYPTOSI Pl'RCATION
This depiction of a warrior of the X:Xth legion
is compiled from a number of pict-captures
committed to central archives in 927.M30.
According to the records, the legionary was
part of a sub-company sized unit deployed
to investigate atrocities committed in the
Imperium's northern reaches by an exotic,
meta-dimensional strain of xenos thoughc to be
the species later referred to in some accounts as
the 'Cryptos{ The campaign appears nol to have
been committed to record, although contact with
colony worlds in that region was lost soon afcer,
seemingly as a result of legiones Astartes activity.
The legionary is clad in early production MkII

Astartes battle plate, itself unusual as this mark
was largely obsolete by 927.M30. The annow:
bears Lhe older fonns of iconography observed
in use by the xxwthroughout the early Great
Crusade, later almost entirely replaced by the
Hydra symbol. The meaning of the icon on the
right shoulder is unknown, but may represent
an amalgam of company and chapter identifiers.
Other markings, rendered in what is assumed to
be ancient Terran 'Helac' script can be seen, their
meaning entirely unreadable.
Panoply of War
1. Thunder Edge Chainsword: Note the
application of azure Legion colouration on hilt
and furniture.
2. Phobos Pattern Boltgun:

Note Delta symbol, possibly
a squad identifier.
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ALPHA LEGION VETERAN TACTICAL LEGIONARY
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LEGIONARY'A1PHARJUS
SQUAD ALPHARIUS
U NIDENTIFIED CHAPTER
(PossCBLY 'THEUNBROKEN CHAI~')
l SS1VAN V DROPSITE MASSACRE
This Legionary is depicted as he appears in
sensorium core data ex-loaded from the armour of
one of the few Salamanders Legionaries to escape
the Isstvan V Dropsite Massacre, rhe Traitor's
name and squad designation transmitted by his
armour's amicus/ inimicus transponder. This
particular Legionary was witnessed operating
a missile launcher in a Legion veteran tactical
squad, a weapon he used to fearsome effect in
the opening minutes of the betrayal when the
second wave, of which the Alpha Legion were a
part, opened fire on the unsuspecting units of the
first wave as they regrouped. Notably, Legionary
'Alpharius' felled the Salamanders Dreadnought,
Ancient Khulkran, with a krak missile fired in the
opening seconds of the betrayal, which appeared
to serve as a signal for his entire chapter to reveal
the depths of its treachery.
The Legionary is clad in prototype Astartes

battle plate, later post-designated 'Mk VI', itself a
mystery as at this time the only Legion listed as
having any suits of this trial mark was the Raven
Guard. The armour is decorated with a number
of icons and markings commonly observed in
use by the Alpha Legion, including the Laernean
Hydra Legion icon and the older Alpha-Omega
symbol of the XJCLh. This possibly indicated that
the Legionary is a veteran of the old Legion prior
to its w1i.fication with the Primarch.
Panoply of War
1. Proteus Pattern Missile Launcher.
2. Umbra Pattern Boltgun: Note 'Unbroken

Chain' iconography.
ALPHA LEGION SEEKER
UNIC\OW~ 1EG'ONARY
UNKl\OWN SQlAD/U'\KNOWK U}.TI AnILIATIO!'
WARGEAR brn1CA1E~ OPERATION
As 'SEEKER' TAcncA.L Sua-nPE
THE INVASION OF pARA MAR
AssAuu ON THE PARAMAR TERMrxus COMPLEX
Pier-RENDER: Co~mcr ZoNE 34/71
Presented as an exemplar of the Alpha Legion
line forces e ncoW1tered during the Invasion of
Paramar, this Legionary can be observed to be
equipped with modified MkIV 'Maxi.mus' power
armour, and displaying particular livery and insignia
believed in part to be indicative of the forces of the
llarrowmaster Armillius Dynat (in particular the
use of bronzed elements), although rhis cannot be
accurately confirmed.
The iconography displayed can be seen as a mixture

of more recent hydra' design utilised by the legion
and the older 'aleph-null' or 'IEternem' emblem of
earlier record. The helm stripe may indicate veterancy
or special deploymcnr, while the significance of the
trophy skulls remains unknown.
Panoply of War
I. Customised Power Sword Variant: Constructed
with an unknown type of ceramite composite and
non-standard disruption generators. They actively
suppress rarher than shed light and electrostatic
discharge, leading to a cognomen of'shadow' or
'spectre' blades in observed use by other forces.
2. Umbra-Ferrox Pattern Boltgun:

Standard 'Seeker' issue featuring
multi-selector expanded magazine
and enhanced cyber-optical
sighting slaved to the auto-sensory
system of the user's armour.
2.
ALPHA LEGIONNAIRE
UNKNOWN WARRIOR, ALPHA LEGION INFILTRATION UNIT, ESHMUN STALKER FORCE
This Alpha Legionnaire of the so called ‘Fifth Column’ is shown masquerading as a veteran of the White Scars during the
Hetenborg Hill Massacre on Eshmun, third planet of Chondax’s mid-system belt. His armour has been hastily re-painted in the
appearance of a White Scars Legionary; battle damage partially revealing the familiar turquoise of the XXth Legion. Indeed, the
tribal scar-like heraldry of the White Scars is too crudely rendered to pass any but the most cursory inspection, and the markings
in the position of Chogorian glyphs on his shoulder guard are but a simple simulacrum of those used by the Vth Legion, though
they would be difficult to distinguish from a distance.
In one of the final actions of the Chondax Cleansing, the 42nd Seraphine Guard regiment of the Imperial Army had crossed the
open desert to reach the Hetenborg Hill. Cresting the hill, the Guard’s commanding officer, Colonel Naeth, found it to be a
wide and low caldera thickly inhabited by Orkoids and so signalled to nearby Vth Legion battlegroups for reinforcement. Two
Brotherhoods of the Legiones Astartes responded, the first of which arrived on Jetbikes to stand beside the Imperial Army
formation and the second on the distant opposite ridge of the great crater, their leader indicating readiness with an upraised
gauntlet, glinting white in the oppressive sunlight. Alongside the White Scars Jetbikes, the Seraphine Guard charged into the
greenskin menace. As soon as these forces were embroiled in desperate melee, however, they found the support of the second
White Scars Brotherhood missing and Hetenborg Hill’s ridge instead surrounded by warriors clad in the livery of the Alpha
Legion, guns levelled not at the Orks, but at the Imperial forces.
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ALPHA LEGION TERMINATOR LINE OFFICER
UNIDENTIFIED LEGIONARY,
UNKNOWN FORMATION,
l SSTVAN V DROPSITE MAsSACRE, UNCONFIRMED PHASE
This depiction of an unidentified Alpha Legion
warrior is based on sensorium data ex-loaded
from the armour systems of several Raven Guard
Legionaries after their extraction from
Isstvan V. By his wargear, the warrior is assumed
to be an officer, most likely a squad sergeant or
part of a line company's command cadre. He bears
common Legion iconography on both shoulders
of his Tartaros pattern Terminator armour, and
the skull and lightning bolt symbol mounted
on his chest armour predates the uniting of the
Alpha Legion with its Primarch, suggesting the
warrior is a veteran of the XX'h Legiol'l of old.
The meaning of the symbol mounted on the
Legionary's left leg is less clear. lt incorporates a
six-headed version of the common hydra motif,
though this may simply be the standard three-
headed version mirrored for some unknown
reason. The obvious reading of the 'XX' numeral
is as the Legion number of the Alpha Legion,
but given the deliberate obscuration for which
the Alpha Legion is well known, this cannot be
taken for granted.
Panoply of War
i. Charatran Pattern Chainaxe: Note the
addition of hydra motif to chainblade cowling.
2. Unknown Variant Pattern Power Maul:

Line officer issue.
3. Ryza 'Hellshot' Pattern Plasma Blaster:

Personal requisition. Note application of hydra
head motif
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UNKNO\\"N STRIKE LEADER
UNKNOWN SQLAD/U!\K~OW"l UNIT AFFILIATION
11~E AssAULT TER.\UNATOR SQUAD LEADER
Tm lNVASlON OF PARA.\LA.R
lt-;mAL ORBITAL RArn ON THE PAN0PT1co~ COMPLEX
PICT-RENDER: CONFLICT ZONE 34/13
This depiction of an Alpha Legion Terminator squad
strike leader is taken from multiple fragmentary
records surviving from the initial assauh on Lhe
Panopticon Complex of the Paramar Terminus faciliry.
This initial attack wave, carried out by Kharybdis
Assault Claw vehicles, served to demonstrate both
the speed and precision with which the Alpha Legion
could operate, as well as the breadth of wargear and
tactics available to them.
The attack force is believed to have comprised over a

hundred TerminaLors, utilising at least five patterns
ofTerminalor armour and at least three distinctive
unil role types. This observed strike leader bears the
older Cataphractii pattern and commanded a demi-
squad in standard line assault configuration - Lhe
Cataphractii pattern, although more cumbersome
than its successors, afforded better protecLion
against the heaviest firepower. This durability no
doubt enabled Lhis unknown strike leader to endure
into the third hour of the attack against this deadly
Zone Morralis, by which time the wave suffered an
estimated 70% casualties before his disintegration by
Myrmidon Destructors.
Panoply of War
I.Reaver Pattern Power Chainaxe.
2. Phobos Pattern Combi-melta: Note unknown

syncretic iconography.
ALPHA LEGION CONTEMPTOR DREADNOUGHT
ARCHOKfAS 0RIGO
U~KNO~ LEGION SUB-UNIT
IssrvAN Rl:TRTBUTION FLEET MUSTER
Very httle is known of the warrior referred to in the archives of the Logistica Corpus as the 'Archontas' of an unknovvn chapter of
the Alpha Legion, and it is considered unlikely that 'Origo' is even a personal name. According to some extant early Great Crusade
archives, at least a dozen different warriors of the old XX'h Legion bore that name, every one of them falling in combat during the
early or mid Crusade eras to be interred within the armoured sarcophagus of a number of different marks of Dreadnought armour,
from ear1y furibundus to later mark Castra Fcrrum. This particular Dreadnought is of the Contemptor class, the ma ins ray class
used by the majority of the Legiones Astartes throughout the later Great Crusade era. Of particular note in this instance is the
application of a subtle 'scale' motif across areas of the Dreadnought's armour, drawing on one of many mythological themes the
Alpha Legion is known to favour.
Archontas Ori go's Dreadnought armour is equipped with a pair of power claws with inset flamers, making him a fearsome
prospect for any but the most accomplished of melee fighters. lle also mounts a cyclone missile launcher, a weapon often utilised
to break down the coherency of enemy formations prior to an attack, a broad category of tactic the Alpha Legion are noted as being
especially adept at implementing. ~
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PERSONAL BODYGUARD CADRE OF A uruoN SKoRR
BATilE FOR M EZOA
Renowned among the Alpha Legion for his exploits as a member of the Legion's Destroyer cadre in days long since passed, Nehalen earned
for himself the title 'Interitus' for his brutal methods-the fear of his deployment to a war zone a more potent deterrent than a full company of
lesser warriors. Following a cataclysmic encounter with the Fra'al, Nehalen was confined to the metal shell of a Contemptor class Dreadnought,
a transition that barred him from the infiltration missions that had once been his speciality and kindled in him a cold fury and appetite for open
slaughter that exceeded his fellows. On Mezoa he served as Autilon Skorr's bodyguard and enforcer, delivering many of the suicidal edicts of the
Alpha Legion commander to the Iron Warriors under his command. He was to meet his final end in combat with Cassian Dracos, the Dragon
Revenant finally ending his cruel existence in a brawl that levelled an entire sub-section of the Mezoan forge-fane.
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The identity of this Alpha Legion warrior
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i• transponder unit had been set to cycle through
' myriad different and entirely contradictory
imicus/inimicus signal bursts. He is however
known by his heraldry, panoply of war and
observed tactical proclivities to have served across
the Pale Stars war zone in the force of the Alpha
Legion commander Strike Master Ijax. He is
known to have engaged the Blackshields of the
Dark Brotherhood at Optera V and VII, as well as
White Scars units at Sidaiva and elements of the
Blood Angels 121' 1 Company at Mirdath II/ c. The
last recorded contact was at Phargos Rex, a mere
two days before the warp storms consumed that
entire system and nothing of it, its overlords or its
population was ever heard of again.
Alpha Legion Armour and Livery

The warrior wears Mark IV Legiones Astartes
battle plate, with helm and pauldron wrought
by the Legion's master artificers into a form
unique to the XX1h Legion. In common with
the operational doctrines of the Alpha Legion,
the warrior's armour bears few if any tactical
markings, the intent being to keep the enemy
r guessing as to which Legion sub-unit they might
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adornment in the form of variants of the Legion's
three-headed hydra icon, and the green stripe on
the helm is likely to indicate the warrior's rank as
a sergeant.
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PALE STARS W AR Z ONE [FALL OF PHARGOS REX]
This unnamed Alpha Legion warrior served
under the Legion commander Strike Master Ijax
throughout much of the conflict in the Pale Stars
region. The warrior's exact position and rank
is impossible to discern, for the Alpha Legion
typically utilise markings and insignia specifically
designed to mislead those attempting to decipher
them. The bronze face plate on the Mark V helm
suggests that the warrior may have served in
a Legion command squad, as this convention
was known to be in use across several Legions
throughout the later Great Crusade, but this
should not be taken for granted given the
Alpha Legion's tendency to deliberately obscure
tactical markings.
Alpha Legion Armour and Livery

The unnamed warrior is known to have taken
part in the ambush on the Conclave of Optera,
and was subsequently engaged in battle against
mixed Loyalist forces at the Kyro System. The
last engagement in which the warrior was
observed fighting was fought against the White
Scars of the war leader Niron at Phargos Rex,
and it is unknown if he survived the battle and
the subsequent descent of the warp storm that
consumed the entire system soon after. The
warrior is clad in the power armour configuration
later codified as production Mark V, the source of
which is unknown.
Alpha Legion Iconography, incorporating Ceramite bonding stud reinforcement

Hydra and 'Unbroken Chain' Iconography,
Specific Meaning Unknown
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The vast host assembled by Autilon Skorr composed of Sicaran Vena tor tank destroyers, gun platforms and three squadrons of Alpha
for the assault on Mezoa consisted in the Vindicators and massed Rapier batteries. Legion outriders acting as spotters and
,] main of expendable militia forces and the These squadrons were held as reserves, to defensive skirmishers. Three full companies
massed heavy infantry of the Iron Warriors be deployed where diversionary strikes by of the Iron Warriors n4 h Grand Battalion 1
n4'h Grand Battalion. The unique nature of other, more expendable, formations had and the Ekficax Taghmata ofM'Pandex were
the planet ofMezoa limited the deployment drawn out one of the defenders' key assets thrown against the defenders to draw out
of heavy assets, and made the use ofTitans and eliminate them before withdrawing once the target, nearly 600 lives expended in
impossible; leaving Skorr with few methods again. By means of this strategy, a number a futile attack to spare the Alpha Legion
of eliminating the heavy fortifications of precious Loyalist super-heavy tanks and excessive losses.
and super-heavy tanks and automata the Knights of the Hermetika met their ends for
defenders had assembled. The use of orbital the use of a scant handful of Alpha Legion The Dragon Eternal made a quick appearance,
bombardment had to be limited, lest it fully assets, although the losses among supporting anchoring the Loyalist defensive line, but
collapse the crust of the volatile world and elements of the Traitor auxiliary and Iron Alpha Legion commanders held their
deny him a viable landing zone, or worse, Warriors were far more grievous. ground until the attacking units were forced
destroy the factory and storage vaults of to withdraw, drawing the super-heavy tank
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the forge-fanes themselves, and air support BATILEGROUP 'D RAGONSLAYER out of its optimal defensive position. There
was limited by the heavy ash storms that Of particular note is the Decapitation they struck in full force, a barrage of heavy
commonly swept through the upper squadron assembled for the destruction of weapons fire from an ambush sufficient to
atmosphere of Mezoa. the Salamanders super-heavy tank Dragon mortally wound even a mighty Glaive pattern
Eternal, designated as a primary objective for tank, yet its defiant crew were still able to
To counteract this potential deficiency in the Alpha Legion commanders due to both withdraw. The Alpha Legion commanders
his forces, Skorr stripped the various heavy its potent firepower as well as its importance then issued orders for a second wave assault
anti-armour vehicles and weapons from the to the morale of the defenders. Battlegroup to cover their advance, delivering a second
separate Alpha Legion companies under 'Dragonslayer' was composed of four Sicaran volley at the wounded behemoth that left it
his command and assembled them into Venators, three Vindicators bearing laser as a burning hulk.
specialised 'decapitation' squadrons, mostly destroyer arrays, twelve Rapier self-propelled
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of the Vindicators employed by the Alpha Legion carry laser destroyer arrays, a weapon capable of the
pinpoint destruction of enemy armour. The crews of these vehicles are often masters of ambush tactics,
specialising in camouflage and concealment, allowing their victims little opportunity to evade their strikes
until it is too late. The example shown here is in parade colours, a scheme rarely retained in the field, and
was one of the vehicles attached to Battlegroup Dragonslayer.
Sicaran Venator Tank Destroyer, 'Hydra's Fangs': These temperamental vehicles were in short supply
in many Legions, where the extensive and demanding maintenance routine required to keep them fully
operational left them out of favour with more practically minded Legions. Among the Alpha Legion they were
prized for their devastating first-strike capability and many of their crews were specially trained to keep their
vehicles in peak condition. The Hydra's Fangs accounted for three Hermetika Knights over the campaign, all
struck from ambush at near point-blank range, the shock pulse of the Venator's main weapon serving to 'stun'
the electrical systems of the Knight long enough for the Sicaran Venator to deliver the coup-de-grace.
0PHION ARMOURED ASSAULT HARROW
The Alpha Legion has been observed to system mere hours before the deep-rether The battle raged for several hours, but came
deploy a wide range offormation types, some tracking station located on the planetary to a sudden halt when it transpired that the
mandated by the architects of the Great fragment ZK-Upsilon-12 fell silent. Later armoured thrust was but a means of drawing
Crusade, but many others entirely unique investigations determined that the Ophion the Battle-automata away from Lhe facility
or novel, and being unsurpassed masters Harrow had been deployed by Thunderhawk itseJf, which was silenced, so it is presumed,
o[ disinformation and guile, the records of transporter to the fragment's surface, the by the hand of Alpha Legion infiltrators
the Great Crusade cannot possibly make approach of the carrier vessel masked by the deployed by a wide-flanking sub-unit within
a full account of the scope or nature of twin plumes trailing behind. The tracking the formation. When the infiltrators struck,
more than a handful of these formations. station was defended by a Cybernetica the tracking station's mighty array of deep-
Indeed, it is believed that individual units cohort, which deployed its Castellax and rether scanners fell quiescent, as did every
within the Legion routinely change tactical Vorax Battle-automata into the surrounding one of the several hundred Bartle-automata
markings between and perhaps even during wastes the instant the attack was detected. fighting out on the wastes.
deployments, making it all but impossible to
track them from one war zone to the next. The resulting battle is known to posterity With the destruction of the tracking station
only by the fractured and disjointed pict- at Muror, the Legiones Astartes loyal to Terra
The Ophion Armoured Assault Harrow is captures that survived the destruction of the lost the ability to track the movement of
one such unit, thought to take the form of Muror facility to be recovered much later. warp vessels voyaging along the vital Warp
a company moun tecl in heavy transports An armoured duel erupted across the airless, conduits linking the Tsstvan system with the
such as the Land Raider, supported by its cratered wastes, between the armoured war Segmentum Solar. With the loss of such vital
own squadrons of battle tanks and support engines of the Alpha Legion and the mighty intelligence, the Warmaster's long march to
vehicles. Its presence was noted in the Muror Battle-automata of the Cybernetica. Terra could begin in earnest.
Whirlwind Scorpius: The Ophion Armoured Assault Harrow is known to have deployed the
Whirlwind Scorpius in large numbers. Its potent armour-defeating warheads were fearsomely
effective against the ceramite shells of the Cybernetica Battle-automata defending the Muror facility.
Armourial Detail: The few surviving pict-capntres from which accounts of the destrncrion
of the Muror deep-rether facility are constructed depict several dozen Whirlwind Scorpius
tanks, all of which displayed similar iconography to that shown here. It is notable that these
markings all appear to relate to the Legion itself, and if any identify the individual vehicle or
its position within the Ophion, they are evident only to those who claim themselves to be
conversant in the complex and ever-shifting visual language of the Alpha Legion.
ALPHA LEGION ARMOURED ECHELONS
PARA.\fAR bVASJO}: FORCE
Th~ a:>:>aulc Lac Lies used
by the Alpha Legion use of armoured warfare during the Great units, with particular strength ranging in
against the Paramar Terminus Complex Crusade is often overlooked, bur it would various Predator and Vindicator chassis
involved the mass use of rapid-moving be this key expertise that would carry their light and medium tanks and large numbers
armoured spearhead co]umns, supported victory in the r" Battle of Paramar. of the newer Sicaran type fast baule tanks
by mobile artillery and siege units. Often and Sica ran Venator tank destroyers. The
depicted in the popular conception of their The invasion force deployed an armoured heavy elem en Ls of this force comprised
Legion as a force which favoured infiltration contingent that was both e>..'lremely several squadrons of Malcador tanks,
and asymmetrical tactics over brute strength, numerous and varied, but which focused supported by advanced Fellblade and Glaive
the Alpha Legion's excellent record in the chiefly on mobile rather than deploy-to-fire super-heavy tanks.
Deimos Pattern Vindicator Tank
Rather than their conventional role as a supported, slow]y advancing siege weapon, at Paramar the Alpha Legion
deployed their Vindicators as direct strike weapons, moving at fuU speed to close to point blank range with their targets
before firing. Many appear to have been expressly fitted for this purpose, lacking the cumbersome siege shields often
mounted on the tanks, and carrying a 'half-load' of munitions to reduce their weight.
Legion Glaive Super-heavy Special Weapons Tank - Designation Unknown: One of the most advanced war machines in the Legiones
Astarces arsenal, the Glaive is built round the p owerful Volkite carronade field-effect ray weapon. During the battle these weapons would
prove both a boon and a detriment to the Alpha Legion attack, providing highly effective firepower against troops protected by conventional
fortifications, but also igniting under-ground storage vessels .filled with promethium and munitions. This in turn triggered waves of uncontrolled
explosions during the mid-battle phase, cutting off th e Alpha Legion's own line of attack for a time.
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BLACKSHIELD GROUP CODIFIED 'GERASENE Hosr'
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Depicted here is an unnamed warrior of a
little known Blackshield group codified as the
Gerasene Host. The Host appear to be the result
of rapid, unsanctioned gene-seed hybridisation
processes first encountered in the middle period
of the Heresy. The source of the Host's gene-
seed is unknown and the warriors themselves
appeared unaware of their true lineage. Some
strategio-savants have posited that the Host were
created as a living terror weapon, wrought by
an unknown hand and released into the galaxy
to sow death and destruction in the ultimate
furtherance of the Traitors' cause.
Treab's World
The warrior depicted here fought in the Treab's
World campaign, a conflict that burned for four
long years and which ultimately drew in and
defeated a large contingent of the Salamanders
Legion. While the Host operated independently,
its strategies were in retrospect clearly co-aligned
with those of the Death Guard and Emperor's
Children forces also deployed to Treab's World.
The warrior wears production Mark V Legiones

Astartes power armour, its source unknown.
It has never borne the heraldry of any Legion
and beneath the accrued weathering of a long
campaign displays the bare metallic grey of
unadorned ceramite. The markings are typical
of the Host, each applied by the bearer and
representing what appear to be arcane and
idiosyncratic glyphs of unknown provenance.
The 'L' sigil on the right shoulder pauldron
was worn by most warriors of the Host, its
significance unclear to Imperial savants.
'Gerasene Host' Armourial Icon Blackshield Individual Markings (Unknown Significance)

BLACKSHIELD MARAUDER LEGIONARY
UNKNOWN DESIGNATION
IRREGULAR LEGIONES ASTARTES FACTION -
CODIFIED THE 'DARK BROTHERHOOD'
PALE STARS WAR ZONE [0mRA/DISSOLUTION/ lARSA]
This unidentified Blackshield was active across
the Pale Stars war zone between 008-010.M3L
In the aftermath of the Alpha Legion's ambush
of the Conclave of Optera, he fought across the
Pale Stars as the Dark Brotherhood sought to
consolidate control over the Eridayn Cataract.
He was grievously wounded at Dissolution,
where he fought as part of the infiltration force
that counter-attacked an Alpha Legion strategic
holdfast. After Dissolution he does not appear
in any account for around a year, suggesting
a prolonged period of recovery. When next
witnessed in action, at Larsa, he led a squad of
Blackshields against the Silver Guard of the
Traitor-aligned governor of that world.
Battle Plate
The Blackshield is depicted here as he appeared
at the Conclave of Optera, as part of the N emean's
retinue. He wears battle plate constituted from
different Legiones Astartes armour marks,
including some elements of Mark VI, which at
that time was only just entering service across
the Legions. Other elements of the armour are
specific to what would later be retroactively
classed as non-production Mark V, including the
improvised externally-mounted power cabling
on the chest and upper leg armour. This mixture
of intermediate sub-patterns, field modifications
and combining of divergent marks means that
few examples of Mark V were exactly the same,
especially when employed by the often highly
idiosyncratic Blackshields. Note the skeletal
spread-eagle icon, a common motif by which the
Dark Brotherhood was known.
Presumed Icon of the Ceramite bonding srud reinforcement

'Dark Brotherhood' Blackshield Faction
BLACKSHIELD TECHMARINE
FoRGE TYRANT ERun VAHN
XANA II INFILTRATION FoRCE,
CAPTURE OF THE 0RDINATUS MrNORis: AsttuRAX
Erud Vahn had once been counted amongst
the foremost Forge-Tyrants of the Death Guard.
Acknowledged grudgingly by the grim master of
his Legion, Mortarion, as a master of the esoteric
disciplines of alkemic warfare, Vahn had spent
long years in study with the tech-adepts of Mars.
With the outbreak of the Horns Heresy, Vahn
found his loyalty to the Mechanicum outweighed
that to his distant Primarch and declared for the
Loyalist cause.
Seconded to the command ofEndryd Haar for

his knowledge of the more esoteric mysteries of
!I the machine cult, Erud Vahn led the force that

boarded and later seized control of the Ordinatus
Minoris Ashurax. Of the twelve Techmarines of
i the Loyalist Legions who entered the sanctum at

the heart of the Ashurax, only five would survive
the attempt.
Pictured here as he appeared during the Xana II

incursion, Erud Vahn's heavily modified Mark III
battle plate has been stripped back to bare metal
before having a crude approximation of the Sons
of Horns heraldry applied to it. The markings
used to mask Vahn's true allegiance are in fact
those of a Sons of Horns mechanised assault
detachment, rather than the emblems actually
employed by the Techmarines of that Legion.
Fortunately for the infiltrating force, the magi of
Xana had little experience with the heraldry of
the Warmaster's Legion, having had little contact
with much of the Imperium other than the tithe
fleets ofTerra.
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THE THIRD COVENANT
SABLE IV RETRIBUTION I DEFENCE OF KURNOW I BATTLE
OF THE FESTERING ABYSS I KRAGHA-SOTH OFFENSIVE
The Third Covenant was a Blackshield group
that operated across several sectors to the
galactic north of the Great Core, into which
they ultimately vanished towards the end of the
Homs Heresy. Several studies have been made
of the Third Covenant in an effort to identify its
members, but most have proven unsuccessful as
each Blackshield went to great lengths to conceal
their origins. They even renounced their own
given names and used instead terms derived from
other, more esoteric sources.
The group is of particular interest to later

generations ofrmperial agents because, having
rejected the teachings of their own gene-sires
(Traitor and Loyalist alike), they turned to other,
more shrouded doctrines. Ostensibly, the Third
Covenant fought for the Warmaster's cause,
but in truth it pursued its own goals often only
tangentially co-aligned with those of Homs and
his allies.
Blackshield Heraldry
The Blackshield depicted here is a member
of an Assault squad. His armour is a typically
heterogeneous mix of elements taken from
defeated foes. In places the ubiquitous black
heraldry has worn away to reveal the colours
of the original owner, in particular the red of a
Thousand Sons Legionary on the left shoulder
guard and right shin, and the sea green of
the Sons of Homs on the Mark IV helm. Of
particular note is the mythological hippocampus
worn upon the right shoulder as the icon of the
Third Covenant. The many esoteric sigils betray
the Covenant's true allegiances - to powers other
than Terra or even the Warmaster.
Third Covenant Armourial Obscured Heraldry, possibly Thousand Sons Source
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Blackshield forces are a heterogeneous mix made extensive use of Storm Eagle gunships, departing just as suddenly using craft they
of Legiones Astartes elements, and in theory while most had access to at least a handful of are thought to have secreted in hidden
have access to the full arsenal of weaponry Thunderhawk gunships. The most fortunate caverns near the planet's northern pole.
and equipment the Space Marines were could call upon the lighter patterns of
granted at the outset of the Great Crusade. Stormbird lander, the most prized being the In common with the Blackshield warriors
In practice however, most Blackshield Sokar pattern. themselves, most vehicles had their original
groups abandoned the use of heavier war Legion heraldry deliberately obscured.
machines such as super-heavy tanks, as well In general, most Blackshield forces deployed As the H orus Heresy ground on, many
as static defences and heavy equipment only those ground units that could be rapidly individual Blackshield groups developed
that required support or recovery units to set down onto a planet's surface from orbit, their own unique heraldic identifiers or came
retrieve after battle, in particular the range limiting ground vehicles to Rhino and Land to use their own often highly idiosyncratic
of drop pods used throughout the Legiones Raider variants that could be carried by a sigils and identifiers. The Dark Brotherhood
Astartes. Instead, most Blackshield forces Thunderhawk Transporter or within the hold for example, came to be known for the use
favoured lighter, multi-purpose vehicles of a Sokar pattern Stormbird. Nevertheless, of a ragged, skeletal version of the Imperial
that complemented their particular mode there were several known exceptions and Aquila, rendered in ghostly white or pale
of warfare-rapid orbital insertion followed not every Blackshield force operated in this gold. It was by such symbols of death and
by highly mission-focused assaults, quickly manner; the group known as the Gerasene doom that many Blackshield groups would
backed up by the exfilrration of all attack Host, for example, deployed without warning become known , making fo r a spectacle as
elements. To this end, although no two into the northern sulphur deserts of Treab's terrifying as any Legion force deployed in
Blackshield forces were exactly alike, most World and fought for many months before the armies of Loyalist or Traitor alike.
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several war zones across the Pale Stars region. The identiry of the Legionary rider remains unconfirmed,
but several noted historator-adepts believe him to be a former White Scars Legionary of the so-called
'Brotherhood of the Foresworn', who subsequently renoun.ced his Legion entirely and joined the ranks of
the Dark Brotherhood. This theory is supported by the Legionary's sporting of a pattern of Legiones
Astartes power armour helm unique to the V'h Legion, although it is entirely possible that the warrior
obtained this from the body of a slain White Scars Legionary.
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Legion Storm Eagle of the Dark Brotherhood: This vessel was used by the Blackshield
leader called the Nemean at the Conclave of Optera, and bears heraldry and adornment unique
to him and which hint at his origins. The text on the vessel's flanks appears to reference several
battles of the Third Rangdan Xenocide, a campaign of apocalyptic proportions prosecuted by
the I" Legion and its allies across vast swathes of the galactic north-west.
ASHEN CLAWS KHARYBDIS ASSAULT CLAW
U NIT DESIGNATION U NKNOWN
BATHE OF KAI.urn
Scattered pict records recovered from the wreck of the Night Lords cruiser Shroud of Eventide, depict this assault pod among the
squadrons of boarding craft launched against the Night Lords vanguard that held the line over Kalleth. Such was the stubborn
defiance of the VIII'h Legion crew, that when the broken hulk of the Shroud of Eventide descended into the clouds ofKalleth there
were over two dozen boarding torpedoes and assault craft latched onto its skin.
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Though lacking in certain patterns of more recently issued equipment, the raiding fleet known as the Ashen Claw seemed well
supplied with these oft-maligned craft, deploying squadrons with abandon during the closing phases of the void battle above
Kalleth. Operating in the deep void and within the atmosphere ofKalleth as both transport and heavy gunship, these craft appear
to be one of the favoured transports for veteran infantry units among the Ashen Claw.
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In all of the scant reports of encounters support of their fast moving infantry forces, As evidenced by the few recorded instances
between forces engaged in the grand wars of shunning the slower moving armoured of the Ashen Claw in combat, their gro und
the Horus Heresy and the piratical warband columns that typified some Legions. assaults are preceded by a wave of interface
known as the Ashen Claw, the forces of that fighters and gunships, Storm Eagles
enigmatic group have displayed a marked Perhaps this extreme military specialisation and Primaris-lightnings tasked with the
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interface craft, almost to the exclusion of manpower and material available to such key strongpoints. Following these craft are
other types of support unit. While, as with a splinter faction of the larger conflict, massed Kh arybdis and Dreadclaw drop pod
all the Legiones Astartes, the armoured reinforced by need and circumstance. If squadro ns, packed with the fleet-moving
post-human infantry of the Space Marines this is so then it must be assumed that the infa ntry squads favo ured by the Ashen Claw.
remains the core of their operation s, all of the Ashen Claw had already prosecuted war in These infa ntry fo rmations ra rely sought to
great Legions supplement these forces with this limited fas hion for some time in order hold ground, instead seeking to suppress
a variety of support units, each intended to to explain their experience and skill in the and circumvent the enemy's main strength
fulfil a specific goal upon the field of battle. deployment of such ad-hoe formations and and defeat him piecemeal. The aim of
tactics. H oned perhaps to a keen edge on such attacks was almost always th e seizu re
Not so the Ashen Claw, whether by necessity long since fo rgotten alien worlds in the deep of munitions and wea ponry ra ther than
or tactical preferen ce these raiders and black beyond the Imperium's borders, these conquest or simple slaughter, a foc us that
i tactics proved a deadly surprise to those left more conventionally minded tac ticians
• pillagers deployed a variety of interface
fighters, bombers and assault craft in forces they encountered on their re turn to among the Legiones Astartes wro ng foo ted
Imperial space. when faci ng them in battle.
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UNIT DESIGNATION UNKNOWN
Xmrn LEGIO DESIGNATION 'B100DHAWK'
During the fighting on Desperation, this Primaris-lightning, its pilot unknown, accounted fo r fo ur Ultramarines Xiphon fighter craft and
decimated several ground detachments. Flying eight sorties over the course of the battle, its destruction was deemed a primary objective fo r
the Xlll'h Legion forces , who identified it by the distinctive red wing art and its vindictive strafin g runs over field hospitals. Post battle re ports
indicate the craft was intercepted by a wing of Fire Rap tor gunships, but cannot confirm the destruction of the craft.
Auxiliary of the 121h Infantry Tercio, Mainward Sub-Cohort, 255 1h Calth Solar Auxilia Cohort (the 'Calth High Guard'):
The 255 th Calth Solar Auxilia were raised in late oor.M31 primarily from the Erud Provincial Militia of the Imperialis Auxilia, the
best of the province's yeomanry being converted to the 'Solar' template, and trained and equipped for void and exploratory warfare.
The 255'hwas deployed across sever:il key orbital defence platforms protecting Calth Near-Space, the Mainward Sub-Cohort being
assigned to the defence of Platform Elipsia-Veridia 09/ Q
Veletaris of the 905th Solar Auxilia Cohort (the ‘Ash Scorpions’): The elite Veletaris squads of the Ash
Scorpions formed the speartip of the 905th’s assault on the Traitors that had taken control of Port Maw. They
fought with savage bravery against Battle-automata of Archmagos-Astral Mercuric in the plasma coil chamber,
laying down their lives in the battle to disable Port Maw’s reactor control.
CUSTODIAN GUARD
VELDEN THONITOR
CUSTODIAN GUARD
SHIELD SQUAD VANTAR
The Custodian Guard are entrusted
with perhaps the most important duty
in all Mankind's domain - guarding
the Emperor himself. Formally known
as the Legio Custodes at the time of the
Horus Heresy, the Custodian Guard is
comprised only of fearsome warriors,
each markedly stronger and faster than
even the super-warriors of the Legiones
Astartes. Some scholars have speculated
that the Custodians are descended
from the Emperor's gene-seed in much
the same way the Space Marines were
forged from the genetic legacy of
the Primarchs.
The Master of Mankind trusts the

Custodian Guard implicitly, and is
even accompanied by them in his
private chambers. On matters of
war, they speak with his voice -
this made their accompaniment
of Russ' invasion all the more
shocking for the Thousand Sons
that stood in their path. The
Custodians are the right hand of
the Emperor, and their presence
upon Prospero was a sure a sign of
Magnus' damnation.
The Custodian Guard train every day -

mentally, physically and spiritually - to
attain a superhuman peak of ability.
Their minds are like fortified sanctums,
resistant to all but the most baleful
psychic influence. Each has the raw
strength of a dozen mortal men, and
can strike with blurring speed.
If these golden heroes can be said to

have a flaw, it is in their propensity
to fight as individuals, each of them
a champion as they are, rather than
as part of a wider military structure.
Ultimately, this matters little. Such is
their skill with their guardian spears
and sentinel blades that few foes have
ever seen the Custodian Guard fight
and lived to tell of it.
CUSTODIAN-WARDER ARASCID NASSAU
THE VED!AS·AlPEH SoDALITY or THE
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Depicted here in the distinctive black-armoured l
livery associated with the Custodian sub-force
known as the 'Warders of the Vaults of Rython',
Arascid Nassau is a Custodian Guard about
which nothing appears in the available historical
records unril his inclusion in the Prospero
Censure Force. It therefore remains unknown
as to whether Nassau was in fact newly inducted
into the Legio or whether his service, perhaps
centuries long, had simply been carried our
far from the gaze of history. That units drawn
from the Warders of the Vaults ofRython, a
particularly sequestered and forbidden sub-
division of the deep levels below the Imperial
Palace complex on Terra, were deployed to the
Censure Force is itself something of a mystery,
and one some have suggested speaks to a need
to call upon reserves more desperate than was
outwardly understood at the time.
Several Sodaliries of the Warders of the Vaults

of Rython were deployed as part of the Censure
Force's reserve second wave behind the lead
elements commanded byValdor. Virally, the
Warder Sodalities resisted the circling counter·
attacks made by the thousand Sons forces
during the Battle for Tizca's cataclysmic final
hours, holding back their psychically-augmented
onslaughts when the merely human troops I
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defending the Imperium's supply lines and
landing zones broke and were slaughtered
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around them. Arascid Nassau entered the
records here in particular for single-handedly
despatching an attacking wave of Prosperine
civilians driven insane and twisted beyond
recognition by unleashed warp forces, at one
stage creating a break-wall of writhing bodies
from their dead, which he then defended against
alone for another hour of continuous attack.
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Pictured here is Diolos Remulak Akrodius of the Legio Custodes, once a member of the Ephoroi. Akrodius was part of a sodality
which was sundered during the Signus Campaign, his brothers-in-arms meeting their deaths at the hands of the vilest Daemons
of the Warp during the heroic defence of the Red Tear. After the fateful events that took place at Signus, the wounded Custodian
was kept ignorant oflmperium Secundus, remaining aboard the Red Tear with the other wounded among his kin while the Blood
Angels lingered in the realm of Ultramar. When their force would eventually return to Terra, the recovered Akrodius would learn
of the depth of disloyalty involved in the Horus Heresy and vow, alongside many of his peers, not to rest until every last hint of
treachery was expunged from the Imperium.
Akrodius would go on to become one of the first representatives of a newly founded chamber of the Legio Custodes, active during
the final years of the Horus Heresy, that of the Dankanatoi. Unleashed upon the last dregs of Horus' failed rebellion as they fled
Terra, these warriors proved a potent weapon for the battered Loyalist host. Indeed, even in the long years of strife that followed
the dark age of the Horus Heresy they remained active, hunting Traitors and xenos invaders alike long after the official end of
the Scouring.
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Kalanemi Velt can in many ways be viewed as
a highly representative example of the Legio
Custodes force despatched under Constantin
Valdor as part of the Terran contingent of
the Censure Force. A veteran of more than a
century of warfare according to available records,
the Custodian had previously served at the
Emperor's side during the Urak Incursion and
the Sencari Crisis, as well as seeing detached
duty with the 381h Expeditionary Fleet as
Imperial Emissary Militant, and serving in
a Custodian strike force during the Ullanor
Crusade. The famed and deadly war at Ullanor
had in fact been the last time Kalanemi Velt
appears to have travelled beyond Terra before
the Censure Host's mission to Prospero, and in
this he was also the representative of his Order,
who when the Emperor withdrew to His palace-
laboratories, became an increasingly rare sight
abroad in the Imperium.
Depicted here as he fought at Prospero, he wears

the archerypical crimson and gold panoply of
the Legio Custodes. He also bears the common
armorial livery of the Kykanatoi, and carries the
Guardian power spear with its inbuilt bolter.
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the distinction of being perhaps the third or fourth of the Custodian Guard (records differ) ever to be interned within the sarcophagus of a
Dreadnought. The glory of his fall was that it occurred in the act of protecting the Emperor Himself from direct bodily harm during a perfidious
attack in which the Imperial flagship, the Bucephalus, was successfully boarded by the forces of the xenos Rykogene with the aim of slaying the
Master of Mankind. It was an attack for which the species would ultimately pay for by its extinction. The honour of the Ferrum Aquila, seen on
the shield his Dreadnought-form carries, attests to Vettranio Shapura's sacrifice still.
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As one of the finest warriors of the Great Crusade, Kahmakon's legend would resound beyond the Age of Darkness. On Sign us Prime his mortal
frame was tragically brought to an untimely demise by the ravages of molecular-dissolution venom, injected by a Daemonic harpy in the early
stages of the Battle for the Red Tear. Though even as his flesh slowly sloughed from his frame within his armour, he battled on for 18 more hours,
going on to courageously pilot an Equinox Interceptor to fly alongside Sanguinius in the final assault. Thereafter, he would fight for his life in a
medicae stasis chamber for several years. Upon his return to Terra, Kahmakon was granted the solemn duty of life eternal and interred within a
venerated Telemon Dreadnought, and he had a role yet to play in both the Solar War and the Siege of Terra.
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SooALITY OF THE HYKANATOI cannon; an advanced las weapon which uses between chem and their next objective.
PROSPERINE CENSURE FORCE different cyclic fire modes to engage infantry This strategy of mobile counter-attack and
Coronus pattern grav-carriers served targets with volleys of comparably low-powered rapid reinforcement to shore up the lines
as the primary tactical transport of the pulses, or using concentrated energy single of che increasingly anarchic conflict was
Legio Custodes by the closing years of the discharges, deal with more heavily armoured instrumental in the prevention of heavy
Great Crusade. These repulsor/suspensor targets. losses within the Legio Custodes' ranks,
lift skimmers offer both great speed and despite the nightmarishly powerful forces
manoeuvrability to the Legio Custodes in This particular grav-transporr, the Ire of arrayed against chem.
battle, allowing them to redeploy swiftly to Mithradates, was assigned co the Rasia-Incal
meet threats and, if needed, to even evade Sodality of the Legio Custodes, a Sentinel Though it received severe damage to its port
such threats completely as required. The Guard formation which specialised in fighting nacelle repulsor system from enemy plasma
Coronus is also, despite being a skimmer as an unbreakable bulwark against enemy fire during the battle, the Ire of Mithradates
craft, extremely durable, with battlefield attack. As the fighting intensified during the survived the Prosperine engagement intact
survivability almost comparable to that of Battle ofTizca's closing stages, the Rasia-Incal enough co return to its orbital conveyor
the Land Raider class of battle tank thanks Sodality fought and redeployed many times under its own power and eventually back
to its advanced material construction and across the increasingly ravaged cityscape, to Terra, where it served as part of che Legio
integrated field defences. The Coronus' using the repulsor-drive capabilities of Custodes garrison for the rest of the wars of
the Horus Heresy.
The Ire of Mithradates features relatively little in the way of vehicle
insignia or numeric markings, a factor common to many vehicles in
service with the Legio Custodes, who saw little need to mark their
war engines out for the easy identification of others, or indeed to
facilitate their ready integration into wider amalgamated Imperial
forces. Featured on its hull are however more general emblems
indicating its ownership by the Legio Custodes, as well as the
cruciform insignia which has been used to designate elite close-
quarters units of the Imperium's military since the time of the
Unification Wars on Ancient Terra.
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Designed, it is reported, to incorporate panern grav-sleds, which while highly agile against the xenos, but those who had served
advanced manoeuvring and autonomous and swift, offered little in the way of combat the Imperium. Several squadrons were
response systems recovered by the great survivabiliry. In addition to their relative deployed to protect the flanks of the Talons
technoarchaeologist Arkhan land, the durabiliry and extreme turn of speed, the of the Emperor's advance across the already
Pallas panern grav-anack was one of the Pallas' rounded abilities allowed the grav- blasted city; here they proved instrumental
most recent designs entering service with attack to also be used as reconnaissance units against the sudden and shattering counrer-
the legio Custodes prior to the Burning of or as skirmishing forces in larger assault attacks and ambushes conducted by the
Prospero. Clearly based upon the lineage of groups to pin or delay the enemy in place as Thousand Sons, attacks covered both by
the Coron us and Caladius grav-vehicles, it the main bulk of the legio rallied to meet the arcane arts and the use of the little-
was smaller than either, a single-seat high- a threat either in direct confrontation or understood portal network which wove
speed anack skimmer analogous in role to ambush. The Pallas was also very powerfully across the city. Only the sheer speed
the Land Speeder more commonly employed armed for a vehicle of its size, with its and concentrated fuepower of the Pallas
by the legiones Astartes. standard configuration carrying cycle linked squadrons were able to match these attacks
Archanus pattern blaze cannon, a highly and prevent disaster for many advancing
Designed as a high manoeuvrabiliry flexible las weapon able to unleash rapid war parties that were quickly isolated and
hunter-killer, the Pallas panern grav-attack individual pulses of fire or concent rate into a encircled. As the battle dragged on and the
squadrons provided the legio Custodes with single blast-beam, allowing it to serve ably as forces of Prospero were at last broken into
a greater rapid strike capaciry than could both an anti-infantry and anti-armour device. rout, the by then battered and fire-scorched
be afforded by the use of ground troops Pallas squadrons of the legio Custodes again
alone. In this it replaced standard panern It is of some irony perhaps that the Battle of came into their own, this time as merciless
skimmers as well as larger war machines Tizca served as the largest single banlefield hunrers, harrowing the saviours to their
such as the ancient Jocasta panern grav- deployment of the Pallas grav-attack thus ultimate ends.
attacks, themselves relics of the Unification far in its service history, and its power and
Wars, and considerably smaller Hermes effectiveness was ultimately tested not
Pallas Pattern Grav-Attack 'Resh ep-Alpha':
Lead Element, the Xllth Lotan Squadron
of the Legio Custodes,
Prosp erine Cen sure Force
Battle ofTizca
Depicted here is the Reshep-Alpha, which, piloted by the Custodian-
Adept Sulla Khryukin, fought throughout the Battle ofTizca,
shadowing the forces of Constantin Valdor. In addition to the
crimson and gold livery of the Legio and the customary raptor
and thunderbolt emblems which, have long been associated with
the praetorians of the Emperor, its position as lead element of the
squadron is denoted by the symbol of the Misericordia. This ancient
device of the blade and wreath denotes both authority and the right
to carry out judgement over any of the Imperium's subjects.
SISTERS OF SILENCE
MAGDALEA VEN ALLATOS
SISfERS OF SILENCE
SNOW LYNX VIGILATOR SQUAD
The Sisters of Silence are an all-female
order of warriors utterly devoted to the
Emperor's cause. Of all the servants
of the Imperium, only they and the
Custodian Guard are permitted to
walk freely in the Emperor's vaults.
Those aware of their existence treat
them with a mixture of fear, respect The pauldrons of the Custodian Guard and the
and awe the stories that surround Sisters of Silence bear variations of the aquila.
this sisterhood are sinister indeed, and
not without cause. Also known as Null
Maidens, the Sisters of Silence are witch
hunters supreme. Each is psychically
untouchable, with no presence at all in
the mirror dimension of the Empyrean.
To normal humans, these warrior
women are unsettling, even disturbing.
To psykers, they are anathema -
yawning voids that drain psychic power
as a black hole devours light.
The Null Maidens have each sworn a

great vow of silence in the presence of
the Emperor, and hence communicate
through a complex system of hand
signals known as Thoughtmark. It is
their duty to hunt down and apprehend
untrained or rogue psykers, for those
individuals pose a greater threat to the
lmperium than any megalomaniacal
warlord. Tasked to the Black Ships
of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica,
they locate, retrieve and process such
psykers, returning them to Terra where
many undergo the Soul Binding ritual.
The Sisters' immunity to the horrors of
psychic assault - a consequence of the
pariah gene they carry within them -
makes them the nemesis of even the
mightiest warlock.
When Russ led the invasion of

Prospero, a detachment of Sisters
of Silence accompanied him to the
battlefield. Equipped with weapons
devised to entrap and destroy the
psyker, the Sisters of Silence were a dire
threat for the cabalistic warriors of the
Thousand Sons.
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Archetypal of the Sisters of Silence present
in the Censure Force despatched to Prospero
from Terra, Almatra Cravare was a veteran of
the Great Tithe, and such extant records that
survive from the Somnus Citadel on Luna
indicate that she bad more than rwo decades
of service in the League of Black Ships. As
a Vigilator -one of the Execution blade-
equipped close combat elite of the Silent
Sisterhood- it was her task and the task of
cadres like hers to close rapidly in combat
with enemy psykers and dispose of them
with the bloody certainry of a power blade
strike, preferably one inflicting a decapitating
blow. While they relied nor only upon their
power as Psychic Nulls, but also their skill
and speed as well as the protection of their
advanced armour to defend them from harm
in such close assaults, to serve as a Vigilaror
was still to invite peril and death, but this
was an honour that the Silent Sisterhood's
ranks aspired to above all. The risk of such
service was never more evident than upon
the deadly, realiry-warped barrlefields of
Prospero. Amid the fury of the darkest hours
of the Battle ofTizca, the selfless sacrifice of
the Vigilaror cadres was perhaps the deciding
factor in many sectors of the battle, allowing
their comrades both of the Custodian Guard
and the Space Wolves to close with the foe
without being swept aside on a ride of warp-
conjured horror. Almarra Cravare stands
as a testament to this, fighting on despite
bolter and shrapnel wounds which should
have felled an unaugmented human being
several rimes over, she gave up her life only
afrer plunging her blade through the torso
of Magister Cul Hadrastep of the Thousand
Sons Order of Ruin, disrupting the skein of
psychic energy with which he drove on the
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The Thallax are specialised cybernetically augmented
Mechanicum shock troops manufactured and
principally used by the Ordo Reductor factions.
Designed to operate in the most lethal and hazardous
theatres of war, the design of the Thallax is arguably a
bridging point between the more commonplace heavy
combat servitors and the augmented human Skitarii of
the Forge Legions.
The particular augmentations undergone by one of

the Thallax are both severe and extreme, retaining
only the brain (and in many cases the skull and spinal
column), the life-sustaining viscera and nervous system
as the basis of the articulated and armoured robotic
frame which encompasses it. Other principal features
of the design include a high-energy compact reactor
system (whose emanations could not be endured by a
less augmented organic system), allowing for extremely
potent portable weaponry to be utilised and arcane
implanted sensory apparatus operating outside the usual
realm of organic perception. The unfortunate side-effects
of these systems on the living components, however,
are continuous agony and psychotic breakdown; effects
ameliorated by the surgical excision of some of the
brain's emotional centres. The resulting machine-
creature is capable of far greater tactical flexibility and
independent action than a mere servitor, although
terminal deterioration of the subject's psyche is certain
over extended periods of time.
The armoured chassis and life support systems

of the Lorica Thallax share many technological
underpinnings and common components with early
patterns of Legiones Astartes power armour, and are
both extremely adaptable and highly durable. This
provides great strength and durability for the Thallax
on the battlefield and allowed for a beneficial degree
of cross-supply between the Legions and the Ordo
Reductor during the Great Crusade.
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one of myriad Thallax loosed on the region by the apprentices of Magos-prime Usolkan. Where unaugmented troops suffered from numerous
psychological deficiencies when facing the manifest denizens of aetheric space and full battle-automata were unable to process the anomalous
existence of such creatures, the cyborg Thallax proved most efficient in this brutal theatre of war.
As is traditional amongst the nomadic Usolkan Taghma, this Thallax bears a heraldry which incorporates a simple numerical identity stamp and
the icon of Magos-prime Usolkan upon its chest plate. Though present at Calth due to a temporary alliance with the magos ofVeridia Forge, this
Thallax does not bear any of the markings of that Forge, likely due to the terms of the compact negotiated between the magos.
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Magos of the Dark Mechanicum, the application of Legion and post-Isstvanian Traitor heraldry indicating the
attachment was a permanent one and likely assigned to the Legion to bolster its strength once war had broken out.
This pict capture is taken from the wreck of the Loyalist destroyer Cymbaline, indicating the use of the Thallax by
the Death Guard as boarding assault shock troops.
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Omega Pi Seven was one of around a hundred Battle-automata ceded by the Legio Cybernetica to fight in the ranks of the
Legio Gryphonicus in return for reciprocal aid, furthering their own interests. It was assigned to the secondary demi-m:miple
of nine automatas tasked with the defence of Sector 23, in particular the valuable promethium conduits leading from the
extraction sinks in that region. Omega Pi Seven's ultimate fate follo~ring the Traitor assault on Paramar V remains unlisted in
the archives of the Legio Cybemetica, as do those of the two Tech-Priests assigned as the maniple's overseers.
Being fully bonded to the Legio Gryphonicus, Omega Pi Seven bears the colours and heraldry of the militant forces of the
Forge World of Gryphonne IV, including the heraldry of the Titan units it is supporting. Omega Pi Seven carries a standard
armament for its class, which its overseers could reconfigure given notice should tactical conditions make it necessary.
Note the votive seals applied by Cybemetica attendants in pursuance of the particulars of the Machine Cult.
TAGHMATA SATARAEL CASTELLAX CLASS BATTLE-AUTOMATA
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TERMINUS AssAULT FORCE
PARAMAR V
Taken from pier-capture evidence from tbe r •r Battle of Paramar, the Battle-automata carries the distinctive heraldry and colours of the Taghmata
Satarael's IVh Cybernetica Cohort. Incorporated as part of the Battle-automata's markings are unique tech-glyph forms associated with Incaladion,
the machine's Forge World of origin, and che saurian skull and comet icon of the Archmagos lnar Satarael blazoned as its over-master. Also of note
is the u pper-marked crescent moon above its cohort designation, evidencing the previous campaign honour of the Iyth Cohort with the
Sons of Horus Legion in their prior incarnation as the Luna Wolves.
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SYLATOR PROVINCE, CALTH
One of several maniples of battle-automata deployed to Sylator Province, Maniple Epsilon-957 was key to repulsing the Traitor assault on
Sylator Province's extensive system of bunker-catacombs. When the loss of the planetary vox grid violently sundered communications, the
various battle-automata of Cohort Magenim defaulted to the instructions sealed in the logic-engrams of their cybernetica cortex, eliminating
all targets of hostile intent regardless of affiliation. Unrestrained by shock or doubt, Maniple Epsilon-95 7 butchered three companies of
Word Bearers auxiliaries attempting to force entry to the complex, as well as several tercio of Loyalist troops that had opened fire upon them
in the confusion of the battle's opening moments.
Castellax Delta-9 is shown in an inventory pict, taken prior to offloading for the grand muster on Calth, in full Magenim regalia. The sigil of
the Magenim sect of the Legio Cybernetica can be clearly seen on the battle-automata's right pauldron plate, while on the opposite plate is
an example of the unique unit identification system in use amongst the secretive adepts of the Magenim. Long isolation has seen a notable
divergence ofMagenim iconography from the Martian baseline, of particular note is the alternative Opus Machina displayed on this unit.
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UNIT IO, SECOND TAGHMA, 43'" MA.NIPLE
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One of several hundred Castellax class automata included within the ranks of the Third Quin ternary Division of the Taghmata Xerxes, a force
sent from distant Accatran to join the muster at Calth as a mark of respect for the Primarch Guilliman. These formidable battle-automata
formed the principal fighting strength of the Third Quinternary Division and were at the forefront of the fighting at Ithraca.
This particular unit is shown in the drab mustard-yellow favoured by the Taghmata for field operations. Note that although the Third
Quinternary Division has fought alongside countless storied units, including Accatran's own Legio Destructor, it has adopted none of the
honour markings of those formations - retaining a stark utilitarian heraldry.
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AssAULT ON FoRGE-FANE EscoRIAL
This pict is taken from the catalogue data presented by the Sons ofHorus to the Magi ofXana, data which lists this
automata as damaged beyond repair during the conflict on Isstvan V The catalogue of damage listed within the
accompanying data-burst and visually depicted on the automata would indeed seem to indicate that the unit should have
been incapable of any independent action, with damage to large segments of its neural cortex. Yet according to reports
of the Xana II Incursion, this unit was one of several involved in the assault on the Escorial Forge-fane. The last Loyalist
reports before the evacuation ofXana-Tisiphone list this automata, encoded as SVAROG-171 , as still active in the sub-strata
ofEscorial, engaged in the mindless slaughter of any and all other motile entities it encountered.
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The contingent of House Malinax Knights assigned to the Censure Host included four maniples of these rarely seen automata, inducted
directly into the service of the House for the duration of the campaign. Too lightly armed to directly participate in the fighting against the
Titans of the Legio Xestobiax, they were instead seconded to the wasteland sweep operations. Seeking to eliminate fleeing civilians and
military personnel from the ruins ofTizca, the Vultarax pounced on the battered convoys of vehicles that streamed from the gates ofTizca,
leaving only corpses in their wake.
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Depicted here in the distinctive bronze and emerald panoply of the forge-fane of Kiarii on Zhao-Arkhad, this Domitar represents one of the
largest contingents from that Forge World left relatively untouched in the aftermath of the Burning of Prospero. Estranged from their peers on
Zhao-Arkhad owning to a bloody and fractious history prior to reunification with the Imperium, the magos of the Kiarii had been keener than
their brethren to supply independent military forces for the Great Crusade, perhaps ultimately hoping to win new domains for themselves by
gaining the favour of Mars and Terra. While this did not occur, the Taghmata Kiarii were however rewarded with ships and independent supply,
not least of all templates for newer battle-automata, including the advanced Domitar class shown here.
They served with some distinction on the Great Crusade's front lines, and were engaged alongside elements of the Raven Guard Legion at Priam
to the far galactic north when Prospero burned, and remained ignorant of the mark of censure placed upon their world until a full two years had
passed and the Horns Heresy was about to be born.
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T AGHMATA ScoRIA, TACTICAL A RTILLERY COVENANT
T HE RANGDAN EXPEDffiONARY FoRCE
After its initial, fraught, entry into the Emperor's growing domain, the first campaign of the Great Crusade in which
elements ofXana's amassed military might were to take part in was that apocalyptic clash of arms that would later pass
into legend as the Rangdan Xenocides. The Battle-automata encoded Nurn-ci, the third automata of the ninth maniple in
the archaic script of the Xanite enclave, is one of the few machines to survive that conflict and return to the forge-fanes
of its origin. Much of the record of those battles is sealed away, but automata Nurn-ci is known to have participated in the
carefully planned genocide of those xenos forces encountered by the Xanite forces at Rangda.
Mechanicum Knight Styrix- 'Xaulhqui': Pict-capture identified - the Defence of the Barbican Gate (Forge-fane of
!' Setna - Incursion ofXana), additional ident-markers in register; the Siege of Arrian Mysteries,
the Brycantia Purge, the Tyrian Suppression.
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The Knight House of Malinax was founded shortly after
the incorporation of the Forge World ofXana into the
Imperium as part of the re-alignment of native Xanite
armed forces to better serve the Great Crusade. This
would include the incorporation of the Malin-Qatlu
Scion Bloodline, a regressed House which was at that
stage without extant world of its own and with few
remaining operable Knights. This cadre of scions was
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provided with fresh machines and bound by blood and
oath to the Lords ofXana, and would form thenceforth
part ofXana's new order of battle. Brought back from the
edge of extinction, the newly patented house ofMalinax
would serve with distinction in the savage wars of the
Rangdan Xenocides, and detachments would continue
to serve alongside the Titans of the Legio Vultorum and
the Taghmata Setna and Taghmata Scoria throughout the
later Great Crusade.
Panoply of House Malinax: Much of the heraldic

panoply of the re-formed House of Malinax was taken
from the predatory megafauna that was surprisingly
common on the Forge World on which they were homed.
The distinctive colouration of their primary armour was
in fact ritually created from the dense, silicate-rich bone
plates harvested from Xana's gigantic armoured Regathok
Ursids, the augmented skull of which also forms the
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scorpion, however, pre-dates the pact with Xana and owes
its origin, the ancient sigil of the Malin-Qatlu, rendered
now 'Transfigured by the Omnissiah' as the House's Xanite
Sacristans have it, to a purer, more blessed form.
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the wastes outside ofTizca. Though mighty war machines, they were quickly overmatched by the tainted Titans of the Xestobiax.
H ousE M ALINAX A cAsrus KNIGHT PoRPHYRION
The Knight armour Xotlatlic is one of the newest armours to be fielded by House Malinax,
having been presented to the lords of the House as part of the arrangement that brought them
under the aegis of the Forge World ofXana. The icon of the Malinax clan, the three-tailed
scorpion clutching the symbol ofXana, is a traditional symbol of the relationship between
the bonded house and patron forge, and its prominent placement on such a grand engine of
destruction, one of the largest in use by modern Knight Houses, is a clear message to the other
Scions of the House. Similarly, the banner displayed by Xotlatlic includes a short passage from
the formal Sidonian Protocols, the ancient code by which Knight Houses are bound to Forge
Worlds. Written in a Cthonic script from the isolated world ofXana, it can be transliterated
roughly as 'In Service to the Forge We Prosper'.
The Knight armour Xotlatlic is noted as being under the control of the Scion Machtectlan,
a member of one of that exotic House's pre-eminent bloodlines and one of the leaders of
the operations undertaken by House Malinax against the Legio Xesrobiax on Prospero.
Machtectlan is credited with one of the few telling wounds inflicted on a Xestobiax Titan,
capitalising on the heavy firepower ofXotlatlic to breach the Titan's exposed armour.
Mechanicum Knight-Atrapos - 'Matonari': Pict-capture identified - the assault on Guilders Grave, leading element of
attacking Knight detachment, sub-engagement; the raid on the Yellow Atoll sub-orbital transit depot m 008.M3r.
HOUSE MALINAX CERASTUS KNIGHT-ATRAPOS
The raid on the world of Guilders Grave is the first known
example of the Xanite Mechanicum forces conducting
an aggressive military operation to their own ends,
engaging both Traitor and Loyalist auxiliary forces in
open battle in order to achieve their aims oflooting the
mining world of its resources and heavy machinery. The
vanguard of the Xanite forces during this attack were
several maniples ofMechanicum Knights, at least two of
which have been identified as belonging to the sinister
House Malinax. This was a force which the defenders of
Guilders Grave could not hope to match in firepower or
resilience, resulting in a complete massacre oflocal forces.
The Knight illustrated here as part of that raid is of the
rare Cerastus Atrapos subrype, a platform for a particular
set of technologically arcane weaponry intended for
deployment against hardened targets and heavy armour.
It is notable that the heraldry of this particular Knight

lacks the degree of insignia detail and campaign honours
that might be expected from such a singular war machine,
indicating that it is relatively new in construction, a fact
that speaks for the potency of the forges ofXana that they
are able to create such sophisticated and rare engines of
war, a feat few Forge Worlds could easily match.
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Horus' orders at Beta-Garmon, later committed to battle against the Titans of the Legio Xestobiax.
HOUSE MALINAX CERASTUS KNIGHT-LANCER
The House Malinax detachment deployed to the surface of Prospero during the later stages
of the battle consisted of some of the oldest Knight armours available to the warriors of the
Imperium, mosdy Cerastus, Achaeus and even the towering Acastus patterns. Pictured here
is a particularly ancient example of a Cerastus Knight-lancer armour, which predates the
House's incorporation with the Forge World ofXana. Of particular note is the relative lack
ofMechanicum insignia and the prominent placement of the rriple-tailed scorpion, the
traditional insignia of House Malinax. Indeed, the only emblem of the Forge to which the
House is pledged is the Taghma icon on the heraldic shield attached to the armour's right
pauldron. Such idiosyncrasies are likely due to the fact that rhe Scions of House Malinax had
spenr the majority of the previous century as part of the ever-moving Great Crusade forces and
many had never even seen the distant world ofXana, a far from uncommon predicament of that
age. Many of the troops attached to Great Crusade forces were first and foremost loyal to their
individual fleets, then to the distant authorities of the Imperiurn and then to whichever dull
star they once called home.
The armour Itzilnan and its Scion showed little aversion to engaging other ~oldiers of the
Imperium in combat, and is one of a number of Malinax Knights known to have participated in
the massacre of the Spireguard remnants at the Airguard Headquarters. ltzilnan is credited with
nearly 100 infanrry kills in this single engagement, though the accounts of that action painr it as
more akin to an execution than a battle. Indeed, it is tales of this and other actions undertaken
by the Malinax Scions during the fighting on Prospero that established the bloodthirsty and
sinister reputation of these warriors within the ranks of the Imperial Army.
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Nepenthes is the armour of Knight-Scion Ulas Karn, a kinsman of Duke Sorvak Bhaevenwulf and a senior member of the ;
lord’s elite Lifewatch phalanx. As such, Nepenthes was rarely more than a dozen strides from Surcease ofSorrow, and the iE
remains of both were recovered in the aftermath of the Battle of Ithraca. |
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his service with the 7 Expeditionary Fleet, and who stood as deputy commander of the forces of his House during i
he Invasion of Numinal. He and his armour would meet their final end locked in deathly struggle with a maniple i
fThanatar class Siege-automata, a catastrophic reactor explosion making a funeral pyre for the lauded Knight. FI
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0RDINArus MrNoRis ULATOR: AsHuRAX
In the days before the outbreak of the Horns exist proved a deeply vexing mystery. Yet been fabricated by those reclusive magi.
Heresy, Xana II rivalled the greatest of Forge as the Horns Heresy moved from a conflict The Ulator class Ordinatus is built around a
Worlds of the Imperium for their command limited to a few isolated worlds to total colossal sonic destructor; a directional sonic
of the arcane secrets of the Machine Cult and galactic warfare, the magi ofXana revealed transduction generator that was capable
the sheer scale of their production capacity. not a single example of such devastating of sweeping a battlefield clean of enemy
Their capability to produce Ordinatus artifice, but three, all destined to augment the combatants and armour. Generating a hyper-
Minoris, even in a supremely limited Warmaster's already potent hordes. destructive wave-pulse that resonated with
capacity, is a feat that a mere handful of other force equal to the mass of the object struck,
Forge Worlds could duplicate, and one that The few records ofXana that survived the the impact of the weapon was as deadly to the
caused a great stir among the magi of Mars- Horns Heresy show that the Ulator class mighty super-heavy tanks of the Legiones
for the secrets of the manufacture of such Ordinatus Minoris was the only artefact of Astartes as it was to the humble infantryman
titanic engines of war were closely guarded this scale that the magi retained the required of the Imperial Auxilia. This awe inspiring
and whose appearance on the very edges of knowledge to construct, or at least the only weapon, rivalling as it did the destructive
Imperial space where no such power should class that has ever been known to have power of the mighty God- engines of the
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vehicle itself was a reinforced tractor unit magi ofXana had bound to the workings
to allow the weapon to be moved into firing of the Ordinatus. Its subsequent live-fire
position and in which to mount the immense testing saw the decimation of those taghma
fusion reactor required to power the sonic the Xanite magi ordered forth to reclaim the
destructor. priceless artefact.
The example displayed here is the Ordinatus Safely evacuated from the surface ofXana-
Minoris Ashurax, one of two Ordinatus Tisiphone, the Ashurax was removed to Beta-
captured by the Imperial-aligned force that Garmon, there to rest in the hands of Loyalist
raided Xana II in 007.M3r. Control of the tech-magi charged with its maintenance until
Ashurax was seized by a cabal of Loyalist the campaign known only as the Titandeath
Techmarines, of whom seven suffered fatal unfolded on that same world.
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The evidence ofLegio Mortis being present as part of the Censure Host sent to Prospero has largely been lost to history. This is not only as their
involvement was tangential to the Battle ofTizca, but also because the vaunted Legio Mortis suffered a bitter defeat at the pands of a brother Titan
Legion considered by Mars to be a degraded imitation of the Omnissiah's ideal. That the defeat of the Legio Mortis force was only prevented from
becoming out-right obliteration by the intervention of the shadowed Ordo Sinister was enough to pull a final shroud ofsecrecy over the debacle.
LEGIO M ORTIS wARLORD BATILE TITAN -
CADAVARIS PERDITA
Command Titan of the Legio Mortis detachment sent by the Warmaster
alongside the Censure Host and god-machine of Princeps Senioris Maldis I
Drane, the Warlord Cadavaris Perdita was a storied veteran of the Great l
Crusade, having fought for years alongside the Sons of Horns Legion and
the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet. The Titan's proud martial history is evidenced
across its intricate heraldry, as is its rank as the lead element of its Titan
Maniple and the incorporation of the symbol of the Eye of Horns beneath
the Skull and Portcullis motif of its Legio.
It is clear that Drane was one of Horns' favoured, quite beyond his loyalty
to Mars, and this no doubt was one of the reasons the Warmaster had
contrived to have the forces at the Princeps' command attached to the
Censure Host under the Warmaster's own authority. The attack on the
Zhao-Arkhad sub-forge was to be Maldis Drane's last battle however,
as he was slain when his Titan was decapitated by the Legio Xestobiax
Reaver Sleepless Watcher. The carcass of the venerable Warlord was however
recovered and re-commissioned by the Legio Morris, but ever afterwards
retained the shame of its defeat and was considered something of a pariah
among the Death's Heads.
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The Varcarnerix was a truly ancienc war engine, whose armoured core, although rebuilt and repaired many times, dated back to the ancient wars of
Mars during the Age of Strife. Though badly damaged and forced into retreat early in the battle against the unleashed Taghmata of the Arkhadine
sub-forge, having borne the brunt of the enemy battle-automatas' and Krios tanks' barrage, it was this very withdrawal that enabled its survival. As
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One of the few Scout class Titans attached to the Legio Mortis detachment, the Scar of Honour was a relatively recent creation of the Martian
forges, its livery as yet unadorned by heraldic victory markings. Rather than deploy his Warhounds as a skirmish line to probe the defences of
his foe when approaching the surface ruins of the Zhao-Arkhad sub-fane, Princeps Senioris Drane, in command of the Legio Mortis planetfall,
instead deployed them as outriders out on the extreme flanks of their approach, expecting them to hunt down the fleeing remnants of a broken
foe. As a result, the Warhounds were the last to engage the Xestobiax and the last to be destroyed.

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HERALDRY OF THE FIRST LEGION

These banners show both

Armour and Livery: The insignia and

Dark Angels Legion Tactical Markings Dark Angels Legion Icon,

DARK ANGELS FIREWING OPERATOR

Armour and Livery: The individual pictured

Artificer Constructed Legion Icon/Ablative Armour

DARK ANGELS TERMINATOR CENOBITE

DARK ANGELS LEVIATHAN DREADNOUGHT

DARK ANGELS SrcARAN-0MEGA

DARK ANGELS SPARTAN ASSAULT TANK

DARK ANGELS SoKAR SroRMBIRD

Quin fell in battle to the massed charge of the

2. Tigrus pattern combi-bolter.

Given the favoured rites of war of the

Legion Stormblade Super-heavy Tank

IRON wARRIORS LEGION TACTICAL MARKINGS

Heavy Support Heavy Support Destroyer - Approved Destroyer Variant -

Khorius Rex is depicted here as he appeared

2. Cthon Pattern Reaper Autocannon.

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2. Phobos Pattern Bolt Pistol.

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left behind in continued punishment for their i>

before focusing on the hunt for the Raven ..

Legionary Zhinnon wears early production

2. Tigris Pattern Bolt Pistol: Heavy supporl

The Legionary wears sped aI issue 'void hardened'

2. Mars Pattern Lascutter: Bulkhead breaching

3. Umbra Pattern Bolt Pistol: CJose defence/ ~

bonding studs embedded in the right shoulder

In the grim, fire-scoured landing zones and the

With the events of the final climactic battle of

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WHITE SCARS THUNDERHAWK GUNSHIP

The Molorian Revolt stands as a prime example of

U Early VJ•h Legion Markings: Terran Raptor indicating initial

THE PANOPLY OF W OLVES

I. The backpack power unit common

2. Iron armour's auto-reactive pauldrons

3. The rivets studding MkIII armour

4. SpaceWolves usually wear their

5. Personal runic devices are common

The Eighth was equipped primarily with

SPACE wOLVES VETERAN LEGIONARY

Many of the Second were still equipped with

Shoulder Pauldrons with typical Space Wolves Markings:

The high level of ornamentation on Thorwal's

Tartaros Pattern Pauldrons with Legion Iconography