Darren Von Anklesworth

*"As long as you do your duty to protect me, you have fulfilled your purpose. I am your priority, and when I am on the battlefield, I expect anyone in my presence to give their life for me."*

-Darren Von Ankelsworth

**Darren Von Anklesworth** is the current chapter master of the renegade chapter of The Creed and leader of "The Big Three." He is the crowned emperor of the Creed System, and taking into account his cowardice, he has surprisingly attended many battles.

Over his many years of living, he has made many achievements and enemies, such as Commander Dante himself. Darren and Dante have a very recent history, for the announcement of the Blood Age meant that Dante and his followers would encounter the Creed and Darren multiple times, constantly ending rarely in victories or defeats.

## **Background**

### Early Years and the Unification of Creed.

Little is known about the young Darrens early life, but he was born a mortal as all Astartes do. Living on the ocean world of Creed, he witnessed the Unification of Creed, and wished to join in on the war, without being in direct harm. He was (and still is) horrified of death and ran away any chance he could, but one day, he had walk up to one of the patrolling Astartes, and wished to join the creed.

He was inducted into the training process, and after some grueling tasks, he had barely made it to achieve the ranks of a space marine. Now with Darren being nothing more than a tactical marine, he marched with his brothers to war. He had indeed fought against the civilians of Creed and even some secessionist knights, he wouldn't have lasted long in the grueling war if it wasn't for his instinct to run away.

When the war was completed, and the numbers of the Creed were greatly depleted, the chapter master had stepped down, and chose a successor. No one wished to volunteer save for Darren himself, which the chapter master begrudgingly agreed to crown him the Lord of Creed.

### Imperial Break-Away

Merely a single Terran month after Darrens crowning, he declared independence to the imperium, and crowned himself the Emperor of the Creed system. He then started to grab up neighboring planets in grueling combat that would last hundreds of years.

Darren would rarely accompany theses battles, but would assemble a group of people to guard him from harm. He would also eventually recruit 2 members to be in his elite groups, Doomfist, and The Priest.

### The Blood Age

During Darrens modern years, the Blood Angels would start a campaign to thwart the efforts of Darren, which would lead to many confrontations of Darren and Dante themselves. Many space marines from the Blood Angels and the Creed would fall in these battles, but the Creed would stand strong and fight for the prosperity of their chapter.

These wars would lead to the creations of the Creed's most storied members, but Darren would prosper most from this. From these wars his cowardice would temporarily subside and he would face multiple foes, and even fight Dante himself, although he would fail to wound the Commander and would run away as per usual.

## **Personality**

Darren Von Anklesworth is, for an Astartes, very cowardly, and chooses to keep a distance on his enemies, and preferably doesn't even join the planet where the war is being waged. He puts all of his tactical genius in the hands of Doomfist, where Darren makes very blunt decisions.

To prevent his death he created a bodyguard unit composed of any neophyte, Astartes, and pretty much any member of the chapter. These are highly disposable and serve as a meat shield to protect their beloved (slightly feared) chapter master.

## **Appearance**

Darren Von Anklesworth wears a suit of Mk. X primaries armor, his helmet being modified with optical sensors and a heavy respirator, reminiscent of past firstborn helmets, with tubes that feed into the helmet that act as an extra respirator, but also occasionally adrenaline feeders. His wrists are completed with extra armor plates similar to those of an assault intercessor, giving him an extra heir of protection. His armor is a desaturated blue with a greenish/gold trim and Aquila. He also wears the iconography of the Creed, being the white X on each of his shoulders. Most recently during his battles with the tyranids that have invaded Creed, he has purity seals holding tyranid skulls hanging off of his backpack.

## **Wargear**

Darren is equipped with his beloved pistol: Psychus. *Psychus* is a plasma pistol modified to harness the energy of the Cicatrix Maledictum, blasting out pulses of psychic energy that melt through ceramite, and incinerate psykers. It can also be overcharged but has a low chance of exploding in a miniature warp storm. He also wields a standard Astartes Chainsword, in the few situations that he is needed in melee combat.

## **Relations**

### **Friends and Allies**

Darren's allies consist of his "First Captain" Lieutenant Doomfist, The Priest, and a force of specialized Astra Militarum that are outfitted with rebreathers and gas-masks.

### **Enemies**

Darren has multiple enemies, but most predominantly, are the Blood Angels, Tyranids, Orks, and a multitude of other space marine and Xenos Species.