Frost Lords

Frost Lords armorial with Legion iconography.

Frost Lords Legionnaire arrayed in Mark IV 'Maximus' pattern power armour.

The **Frost Lords** are the 16th Legion of the Legiones Astartes, the self-appointed protectors of the Sector of Icewind Reach, and one of the three Legions forming the backbone of the Republic of Celestius Singularis. After becoming cut off from the rest of the Imperium, Primarch Erlend Greycloak and his Legion fortified the Primarch's homeworld Stalgard, before securing the rest of Icewind Reach and holding it against countless waves of Xenos, Traitors, and Daemons.

Once the Fracturing began to subside, the Frost Lords set out to reestablish contact with the rest of the galaxy and begin to pick up the pieces. After seeing what had become of the Imperium after the fall of the Emperor, Erlend moved to join the Warmaster John Kennington in forming the Republic.

## Legion History

### The Great Crusade & Finding the Primarch

During the time of the Great Crusade the Void Rangers, then known as the Void Sentinels, were the Ist Legion of the Legiones Astartes. At the time they served as elite frontline troops, spearheading multiple assaults in the Great Crusade and establishing beachheads for fellow Legion and Imperial Army forces to land troops.

When the Void Sentinels Primarch, Kellyn Wrynn, was found on the world of Oblivia it was a time of great celebration and a source of pride for the Astartes as their Primarch was amongst the first to be brought back into the fold by the Emperor. When re-united with his Legion, Primarch Wrynn set about reinforcing his Legion's current combat doctrine and increasing the effectiveness of his forces, transforming them into one of the most elite and independent Legions at the time, seen constantly at the forefront of the Great Crusades countless warzones.

Due to their large size at the time, the Void Sentinels were amongst the most powerful of the Legions until their ranks were devastated towards the end of the Great Crusade when an immense Ork WAAAGH! targeted their homeworld of Oblivia, resulting in the loss of an estimated 30% of Legionaries to defeat the Ork invasion.

Years later the entirety of the Ist Legion had been mustered above Oblivia by their Primarch to prepare for a mass expedition into the outer reaches of the galactic west. Before this could occur, a series of warp storms burst forth into the materium and blanketed the entire galaxy, disrupting all forms of warp travel and communication, effectively shattering the Imperium. This event would come to be known as the Fracturing.

### The Fracturing

It is unknown to the I Legion what exactly caused the events of the Fracturing. For an entire millennium the galaxy was plagued by warp storms, cutting off all of humanity from each other, worlds falling prey to vile Daemonic and Xenos incursions.

During this time the Ist Legion was confined to the worlds surrounding the Almia and Fiore Sectors, which were graced with a realspace bubble protecting them from the worst of the warp storms effects. Attacks on these worlds by Xenos, Daemonic, and surprisingly, Traitor Astartes forces took place constantly over this period, with the forces of the 1st holding them back thanks to well established supply lines and extreme discipline in the face of these assaults.

### Post-Fracturing

At the beginning of the 32nd Millennium these warp storms slowly dissipated, with warp travel and communications slowly being re-established. When attempting to contact their brother Legions and the wider Imperium, the Void Rangers and their Primarch were overcome with shock and horror, the Emperor of Mankind, the leader and ruler of Humanity, had fallen, slain by an immense Daemonic invasion of the Sol System that had scoured all life from it's worlds.

Gone was the Imperium of old, instead replaced by a twisted mockery of it. No longer ruled by the Emperor, this new Imperium was run by the corrupt and incompetent High Lords, as well as Wrynn's brother Primarch, Warmaster Tybalt Ulric. Worse still was that the Imperial Truth which had been spread by the Emperor was replaced by the Imperial Creed, a new faith that proclaimed the Emperor of Mankind was a god and that all shall worship him or be accused of heresy, overseen by a new Imperial body known as the Ecclesiarchy which was rapidly growing in power.

Seeing this, Wrynn and his Legion grew disgusted with what had become of the Imperium, as well as the fact that their brothers not only allowed this to happen, but took part in it. As a result the Ist Legion seceded from the Imperium of Man, forming the Nova Terra Empire, with the worlds of the Segmentum Pacificus following close behind, leading to the formation of the second largest Imperial faction within the galaxy. This has led to open hostility with the new Imperium of Man, leading to over 10,000 years of war between both factions along their borders.

## Notable Campaigns

* **Defence of Oblivia (M31)**
* **Rangdan Xenocides (M31)**
* **The Fracturing (M31-M32)**
* **The Harrowing of Kavor II (M37)**
* **Border Wars (M32-M41)**

## Legion Homeworld

Oblivia is a Terran world in regards to climate and geography, somewhat resembling Ancient Terra before the Age of Strife.

### Legion Fortress

The Fortress of Oblivia serves as the overall headquarters of Legion operations throughout the galaxy, with smaller, secondary bases such as the Legion Headquarters on Nova Terra acting as extensions of the Legion's influence and control. The Fortress itself is an extensive military complex located along a coastal region of the primary continent, spanning an area of over 250 square miles both on the surface and underground. The surface complex contains a variety of defense installations, communications arrays, hangar bays, training grounds and barracks facilities for security forces, while the subterranean complexes house the more vital facilities such as command and control centers, armouries, forges, vehicle bays, medical centers, detention centers, generatorums, missile silos and data archives just to name a few. All of this combined essentially makes the Fortress of Oblivia a city in of itself, it's occupants the Astartes of the Ist Legion and the thousands of support staff needed to ensure daily operations are completed.

Protecting all of it is the countless defense installations both on the surface and underground made up of macro-batteries, defense lasers and automated turrets, minefields, bunkers, missile silos and thousands of armed Astartes and Nova Terran Guard personnel, over several separate void shield arrays powered by the numerous generatorums protecting from bombardment. Should an enemy breach past the countless surface installations and arrive at one of the many subterranean entrances they will be confronted by some of the most heavily guarded doors in the Nova Terra Empire, immense slabs of adamantium, ceramite and plasteel over 20 meters thick and keyed to the unique genetic code of Ist Legion Astartes, the only other way to open them being from one of the underground command and control centers, forcing an assailant to attempt to breach these doors, requiring the heaviest of ordnance a substantial amount of time to get through, allowing any defenders inside more than enough time to prepare and await reinforcements.

If these doors are breached, then an invading force will be faced with the deadliest of combat zones in the close quarters environment of the subterranean complexes, with automated turret arrays and gas vents flooding hallways, grav-plating crushing the enemy under their own weight, blast-doors sealing off sections as life-support is cut off, with an assaulting forces strength in numbers counting for nothing in the confined environment and all vehicular and aerial support being cut off, limiting them to infantry actions alone as the defenders whittle them down wave by wave from reinforced defensive positions.

## Legion Organization

The Void Rangers Legion consists of over 150 Battalions made up of 1,000 Astartes each, further divided into ten 100-man Companies, each led by a Company Commander, who are in turn led by a Battalion Commander who is in command of the Battalion, reporting directly to Legion Command and their Primarch.

### Officer Ranks

* **Master of the Legion -** This position is held currently by Master of the Legion, Lunick Solace. The Master of the Legion serves as the second-in-command of the Legion, and overall Commander when the Primarch is unavailable. It is to this Astartes that all Legion Commanders report to.

* **Legion Commanders -** The Legion Commanders are an in-between of the Battalion Commanders and the Master of the Legion, each one overseeing ten Battalions, freeing up the Master of the Legion for other, more important, tasks in regards to the operation and deployment of the Legion.

* **Vatonage Commander -** The Vatonage Commander is the head of the Primarch's own Honour Guard and is present with him at all times, serving as both bodyguard and enforcer within the Legion. Is is this individual that selects potential aspirants for the Vatonage Guard for the Primarch to review.

* **Lord Ranger -** The Lord Ranger is the leader of all Legion Rangers and their Battalions, overseeing the covert operations and deployment of the Legion's special forces and reporting directly to the Primarch and Master of the Legion.

* **Chief Apothecary -** The Chief Apothecary of the Legion oversees the training and deployment of Apothecaries throughout the I Legion.

* **Master of the Librarius -** The Master of the Librarius is the most experienced and powerful of psykers within the Legion, seeing to the training and deployment of it's many Librarians.

* **Master of the Armoury -** The Master of the Armoury is the most senior Techmarine within the Legion, a master of all things technological and the direct link between the Nova Terra Mechanicum and the Ist Legion. Oversees the training and deployment of all Techmarines within the Legion.

* **Master of the Fleet -** The Master of the Fleet is an honoured position, being the Astartes Officer in command of the entire Legion Fleet, as well as the *Gloriana*-Class Battleship, *The* *Overseer*. This position is considered to be the equivalent of the Lord Admirals of the Nova Terra Navy, though does not report to the Naval High Command.

* **Battalion Commander -** A Battalion Commander is the Astartes officer in command of an entire Legion Battalion. They report directly to their assigned Legion Commander.

* **Company Commander -** A Company Commander is the Astartes officer in command of an entire Company within their Battalion. They report directly to their Battalion Commander.

### Specialist Ranks

* **Apothecary**

* **Chaplain**

* **Librarian**

* **Techmarine**

* **Ranger**

* **Vatonage Guard**

### Veteran Ranks

* **Veteran Sergeant**

* **Sergeant**

* **First Company Veteran**

### Specialist Formations

* **Ranger Squads -** Ranger Squads are the elite, specialist units within the Void Rangers, operating independently of the wider Legion, and made up of experienced veterans, taking the place of Legion Reconnaissance and Seeker Squads seen in other Legions. Ranger Squads are organized into Ranger Battalions of which there are twenty within the Legion, each one deploying their companies separately to support wider campaigns or sending their Rangers out to conduct solo missions away from any support, effectively operating behind enemy lines to perform acts of sabotage, assassination, reconnaissance etc; When deployed behind enemy lines a Ranger Squad relies on their transport vessel, normally a Frigate or Light Cruiser, to provide them with tactical support and information on missions. Unlike the rest of the Void Rangers, Ranger Squads have cameleoline integrated into their power armour to blend in with their operating zone so as to better evade visual detection from the enemy.
* **Vatonage Guard -** The Vatonage Guard are the elite fifty man Honour Guard of Primarch Wrynn, acting as both his bodyguards and emissaries within the Legion. All members are among the most elite Astartes the Legion has to offer, and all are outfitted with Tartaros Pattern Terminator Armour. No less than ten of them are present with their Primarch at all times.

#### **Legion Headquarters**

**Primarch Kellyn Wrynn**
***The High Ranger***
**Master of the Legion, Lunick Solace**
**Legion Commanders**
**50 Vatonage Guard**
 **Victuallers**
**Commissary**
**Legion Serfs**
**Indentures**

***Master of the Armoury***
**Techmarines**
**Legion Serfs**
**Tech-Servitors**
**Battle Tanks**
**Artillery**
**Land Raiders**
**Gunships**
**Land Speeders**
**Assault Bikes**
**Attack Bikes**

***Chief Apothecary***
**Apothecaries**
***Master of the Librarius***
**Epistolaries**
**Codiciers**
**Lexicaniums**
**Acolytes (Initiates)** | ***Fleet Admiral***
***Gloriana-Class 'Overlord'***
**Capital-class Warships**
**Battle Barges**
**Strike Cruisers**
**Escort Vessels**

#### **Battalion Organization**

**Battalion Command Squad**
**Battalion Consuls (Senior Specialists and Advisors)**
**Battalion Vexillarius (Standard Bearers, Subalterns and Equerries)**
**Battalion Command Bodyguard**

**Navigators Ordinary**
**Drop Pods and Rams**
**Gunship Squadrons**
**Super-heavy Detachments**
**Skimmer Strike Detachments**
**Support Artillery Detachments**
**Techmarine Covenants**
**Apothecarion Sections**

**Company Command Squad**
**Company Standard Bearer**
**Company Command Bodyguard Squad**
**Lieutenants**
**Legion Veteran Tactical Squads**
**Legion Terminator Squads** | **Company Commander**
**Company Command Squad**
**Company Standard Bearer**
**Company Command Bodyguard Squad**
**Lieutenants**
**Legion Tactical Squads**
**Legion Tactical Support Squads** | **Company Commander**
**Company Command Squad**
**Company Standard Bearer**
**Company Command Bodyguard Squad**
**Lieutenants**
**Legion Assault Squads**
**Legion Destroyer Squads**
**Legion Heavy Support Squads**
**Legion Breacher Siege Squads** | **Gunships**
**Rhino Armoured Transports**
**Tank Detachments**
**Support Weapons Batteries**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Techmarines**
**Apothecaries**
**Legion Land Speeder Squads**
**Legion Outrider Squads**

#### **Ranger Battalion Organization**

**Battalion Command Squad**
**Battalion Consuls (Senior Specialists and Advisors)**
**Battalion Vexillarius (Standard Bearers, Subalterns and Equerries)**
**Battalion Command Bodyguard**

**Navigators Ordinary**
**Drop Pods and Rams**
**Gunship Squadrons**
**Escort Vessels**
**Skimmer Strike Detachments**
**Techmarine Covenants**

**Company Command Squad**
**Company Standard Bearer**
**Company Command Bodyguard Squad**
**Lieutenants**
**Ranger Squads** | **Gunships**
**Rhino Armoured Transports**
**Techmarines**
**Apothecaries**
**Legion Land Speeder Squads**
**Legion Outrider Squads**

## Legion Beliefs

The Ist Legion has continued to follow the Imperial Truth laid out by the Emperor himself during the Great Crusade, favouring science, reason and secular progression, actively rejecting the new Imperial Creed as an affront to the vision the Emperor had for Humanity in the Milky Way Galaxy. This loyalty to the Emperor's original vision for the Imperium is what led to the Ist Legion finally seceding from the Imperium after the end of the Fracturing, taking the 16th Legion with them and forming the Nova Terra Empire, a 'Second Imperium' following the original path laid out by the Great Crusade and Imperial Truth, zealously fighting against the 'New Imperium' and their Imperial Truth in accordance to the instructions set out by the Emperor in regards to religion.

## Legion Recruitment

Being the sole Legiones Astartes force of the Nova Terra Empire, the Ist Legion has free reign to recruit across all worlds within the empire, suitable candidates being sought out by emissaries of the legion across the segmentum and brought back to Oblivia for training and induction within the Void Rangers.

## Legion Gene-Seed

The gene-seed of the Ist Legion is considered to be one of the purest and least degraded of all. The only known aberration in the Void Rangers' gene-seed stocks is the shift of the iris color to a fiery red in some recruits. This has been verified by rigorous testing by the Nova Terra Mechanicum and the Legion's own Apothecary corps, meaning all organs are fully functional and compatible with the gene-seed.

## Legion Combat Doctrine

The Void Rangers as a whole are specialists in regards to spearhead operations, particularly favouring: Beachhead establishment, force reconnaissance, strategic decapitation strikes, mass airborne deployments and total planetary pacification actions. Despite this however, Legion operations are divided between regular Battalions and the specialist Ranger Battalions.

Regular Battalions are mainly deployed on frontline or garrison duties, seeing action in the numerous border conflicts or defending strategic assets and locations. They make use of armoured and aerial forces in conjunction with orbital fire support to become a lethal combined arms force able to adapt to face most adversaries and eliminate them as effectively as possible. They are also deployed for planetary pacification when local Nova Terra Guard forces are insufficient, rapidly suppressing any rebellions within the Empire. Deployment most often comes in the form of rapid Thunderhawk and Stormbird deployment, gunships and orbital fire raking an insertion zone before transports deploy ground forces and armoured support for rapid assault.

Ranger Battalions handle more sensitive missions, executing direct raids in hostile territory or sensitive environments across the segmentum, often killing or capturing high value targets. Besides raids on enemy HVTs, their other missions include: force reconnaissance, beachhead establishment, personnel extraction, covert insertions, and seizure or denial of enemy assets. Rangers are often deployed at squad or platoon levels, avoiding large deployments to evade detection by enemy forces, though they have been known to deploy at the battalion level when the situation calls for it. Deployment is often conducted via drop pod or modified stealth transports.

## Notable Members

* **Primarch Kellyn Wrynn -** Primarch of the Ist Legion, Wrynn was re-discovered on the world of Oblivia during the early years of the Great Crusade, being brought back into the fold by the Emperor and leading his legion on the crusades front lines, often ranging far ahead of his brothers. As of the post-Fracturing era he and his legion have seceded from the reborn Imperium, founding the Nova Terra Empire.
* **Legion Master Lunick Solace -** As of the 41st Millennium, Lunick Solace is the active legion master within the Ist Legion. First assuming the position at the turn of the millennium, he has served as an excellent tactician and battlefield commander, often found leading legion forces in the absence of his Primarch.

## Legion Fleet

In comparison to the vast naval forces of the Nova Terra Navy, the naval assets of the Void Rangers are rather limited. In the past, Kellyn Wrynn had formed close ties with the Imperialis Armada fleets within his theaters of operation, relying upon them when a particular campaign called for a powerful capital ship contingent to be employed or extensive orbital bombardments to be undertaken. This has been attributed to the Void Rangers fleet being optimized for close-in actions and planetary troop deployments rather than traditional naval combat.

As a result, the Ist possess a relatively low number of Capital-grade warships compared to other Legions, retaining at most several dozen such vessels in addition to the *Overseer*, the Gloriana-class flagship of the fleet. Despite these low numbers, each of these warships is capable of punching well above what would be expected, the vessels of the Void Rangers fleet possessing an extensive arsenal of ancient technologies and advanced weaponry, including almost exclusive use of Plasma-based Macrobatteries over the standard ballistic variety.

The majority of the Legion's fleet is instead made up of more conventional cruisers and Battle Barges of various classes, along with a substantial number of purpose-built Strike Cruisers, frigates and fast patrol cutters, all which can be produced by shipyards across the Nova Terra Empire. While this fleet structure grants the Ist the ability to rapidly deploy their vessels across the Empire and quickly reposition their forces, it means that the Void Rangers fleet is more of a supplemental force in comparison to those fleets controlled by the other Legions, relying heavily on the Nova Terra Navy to ensure void supremacy.

The following is a list of all known vessels belonging to the Ist Legion:

* ***The Overseer* (Gloriana-Class Battleship) -** Flagship of the Ist Legion. The Overseer serves as the flagship of the Void Ranger fleet, as well as the flagship of the Nova Terra Navy, and is considered to be one of the most powerful of the Gloriana-classes constructed. At an impressive 25km in length, it is one of the largest vessels of her class in the galaxy, and one of the most powerful in the entirety of the Legion and Nova Terra fleets. Lances and bombardment cannons line both the dorsal and ventral sections of the hull, torpedo launchers and a nova cannon jutting out from the vessels prow, while plasma macrobatteries, missile launchers and hangars filled with transports and attack craft run along the length of the vessels port and starboard sides, defense laser blisters dotting the vessels entire surface. Combined with overlapping layers of void shielding and an incredibly thick adamantium hull this vessel is capable of contending with entire fleets if necessary, only being threatened by sheer numbers or another vessel of the class. Propelling this behemoth of a vessel is a series of advanced plasma drives situated in the vessels aft, powered by a number of plasma reactors tended to by Tech-Priests, Techmarines and mortal crew, allowing this vessel to match speed with most standard cruisers. For FTL-Travel, the vessel possesses a Warp-Drive and Gellar Field to facilitate travel through the Immaterium. Manning this vessel is a crew of over a million, not counting it’s passenger complement which can number up to two full Void Ranger battalions. This vessel is a symbol of the might that can be fielded by the Ist Legion and the Nova Terra Navy.

## Legion Specific Vehicles & Wargear

**Mark II-VI 'Ranger' Power Armour** - The Ranger-pattern is a designation used for any suit of Power Armour in the Mark II to VI range modified for use by the veteran Ranger squads of the Void Rangers Legion. Each set is modified with integrated cameleoline technology automatically adapting the power armours surface to blend in with it's surrounding environment, enhanced auspex and vox-suites and updated targeting sensors. The most commonly modified variant is the Mark VI set due to it's inherent stealth and reconnaissance capabilities.

## Legion Appearance

### Legion Colours

#### Pre-Primarch

The original Void Sentinels Legion painted their Power Armour and vehicles a deep black, with their shoulder pads being given a maroon finish. The symbol of the Legion was of a shield behind Terra, the symbol having a black finish.

Numerous symbols can be seen throughout the Legion, used on everything from Power Armour to vehicles, banners to weaponry. The two most commonly seen in the early Great Crusade are the Legion symbol and the Raptor Imperialis. The most commonly seen during this period being the Raptor Imperialis, worn by the many Terran-born veterans of the Wars of Unification. These symbols usually incorporated a silver trim, as does the shoulder pads.

Squad specialty symbols -- tactical, assault, fire support, Ranger, Veteran or command -- are displayed on the right pauldron.

Squad number is displayed as a High Gothic numeral centred on the squad specialty symbol.

Sergeants wear red helms.

Veteran status is designated by a white helm.

Veteran Sergeant rank is indicated by a red helm with a white stripe centered upon it.

Officer status is commonly denoted by a black helm with a white stripe running down the center.

Apothecaries are commonly identified by white armour, Techmarines by red, Chaplains by black, and Librarians by blue.

#### Post-Primarch

The later Void Rangers Legion maintained the original colours of the Void Sentinels, though had adopted a number of new symbols, particuarly the new Legion symbol which had been changed from a shield behind Terra to a pair of crossed boltguns behind Terra, the symbol maintaining it's white colouration.

Two of the new symbols adopted by the Ist Legion during the later years of the Great Crusade and the post-Fracturing era would be the Imperial Aquila and the Imperialis. The Aquila, known as the Palatine Aquila during the Great Crusade, is an ancient symbol of the Imperium of Man chosen by the Emperor to replace the original lightning bolt of the Imperium, meant to serve as a banner under which his newly created Legiones Astartes would march. The right to bear this symbol was granted to the Void Rangers by the Emperor himself in recognition of the heroic sacrifice made by the 75th Battalion during the Proximan Betrayal and has been maintained ever since as a sign of their devotion to the Emperor and his original vision for Mankind.

The Imperialis was introduced in the post-Fracturing era as a variant of the Aquila, serving as a badge of honour awarded following victorious battles. It symbolizes the bravery and loss of the Ist Legion and the Imperial Army with them during the Fracturing and their stalwart defense against the vile xenos and daemons that assailed them on all sides.

### Legion Badge

The Void Rangers Legion badge is a pair of black, crossed boltguns placed under Terra, an Aquila above them both. The icon symbolizes their role as stalwart warriors and defenders of Humanity and the Imperium.

## Relations

### Allies

* Lone Star Legion
* Scarlet Harriers

### Enemies

* Void Rangers
* Paragon Wardens
* Swan Angels
* First Allies
* Ashen Cavaliers
* The Reapers of Doom
* Wild Doom Hunters
* Rift Tigers
* The Hollowed
* Storm Riders
* Emperor's Wings
* Mortis Legion
* Paladins of Halonia
* The Reclaimers

## Gallery

Void Rangers Deimos pattern RhinoVoid Rangers Astartes Drop Pod, often used during mass battalion deployments and covert insertions of Ranger Squads.Void Rangers Deimos pattern Predator AnnihilatorA Fellblade of the Void Rangers Legion. This particular vehicle is known as the "Dragon of Oblivia", seeing action against the hordes of Orks that had descended on the Legion Homeworld of Oblivia during the Great Cusade.A Sokar-pattern Stormbird of the Void Rangers Legion. The Sokar-pattern is considered crucial in the overall combat doctrine of the Legion, serving as mobile command centers during planetary campaigns.