Ultramarine Locutarus Assault Marines. A Locutarus Storm Squad was an elite specialised assault formation utilised exclusively by the Ultramarine Legion during the 30th and 31st Millennium. These elite units were maintained in small numbers by the majority of Chapters within the Ultramarines Legion, and deployed particularly in vanguard and strike formations. Each warrior of the Locutarus had been…
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Aster Crohne, The Ghost of Saiph. Aster Crohne was a Centurion in the Blood Angels Legion’s 94th Company during the Great Crusade and earned a reputation for surviving the most hazardous of warzones. A veteran of the Blood Angels, Crohne served in the unnamed Legion in the days before the coming of Sanguinius. Recruited from the killing fields of Saiph as a child, Aster…
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Blood Angel Praetor Belarius. The Encarmine Blade. “Throughout history Angels are agents of wrath, or revelation.”Unknown. Khalu Varrchio, Belarius 1:14, Seraph Sanguinary of the Fifth Host. “The Encarmine Blade”. “Charting the histories of the legions after the Fall of the Arch Traitor is a problematic endeavour. In an era rife with misinformation, falsifications, mass purging of…
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“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” Euripedes The Merisi clan is well known to any inhabitant of Cthonia. One of the major mining companies that cored out the heart of the World, Gedephron was the fifth son of a distant relative to that Dynasty. Miraculously,…
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“I know that hurt but… try to smile.“ Flaymaster Mawdrym Llansahai. ‘ol bloody bones served as a Primus Medicare within the Night Lords Legion during the Great Crusade. He was able to indulge his sadism within the confines of the Night Lords Legion, even overseeing interrogations inventing new torture techniques, and honing the Legion’s use…
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Tarik Torgeddon “…ever the Jokster, he was a man of mighty laughter and idiot tricks…” Horus Rising, Dan Abnett. What is it about Sons of Horus collectors and the Mournival? My aim was to paint a tightly focussed force of veterans to flank Abaddon. But no, the Sons of Horus had to be packed full…
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Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross. The Blind Poet. M.2. The shadowed histories of the Age of Darkness hold many stories, many lives striving for humanity, or hold in contempt the principles of…
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We were blind, brothers! We were blind to the mania of our genefather, blind to the falsehoods around us, blind to mischief and deception. But we shall be blind no longer! We are araukhnetar, the blind now seeing – and what I see is a war of vengeance and the traitor’s blood on our blades!…
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…the law to him / is like a…cobweb to a spider, / …to entangle those shall feed him The Duchess of Melfi The Twisted – one of the most compelling characters from the Horus Heresy series. Broken on campaign, Horus’ equerry needed to find gainful employment elsewhere. Devoting himself to the darker arts post-Isstvan, the…
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If you’ve followed me for any sort of time you know that I’m a sucker for two things. 90’s era Blood Angels NOSTALGIA. It’s part of the reason why I still paint miniatures. It triggers the same happy receptors in the brain that fired when I was a kid. Most kids have Luke Skywalker. Others…
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