Aragon Iskak 'Miles Dei'

"*To Khorne I offer the blood i have spilled in their name, to the Lord of the Plagues I offer the despair my enemies feel upon seeing me, to the Dark Prince I offer the tortured screams of my victims and to the Changer of Ways I offer the secrets of old*"
— A prayer given by Aragon Iskak to chaos undivided
**Aragon Iskak** is known by many titles: Zealot, Fanatic, The Scourge, Soldier of the Gods, Disciple of the Word, Warrior and many more. He has earned these names through millennia of war and devotion to the dark gods. A veteran of the Great Crusade, Aragon is a son of Lorgar currently serving in the Foretoken warband on the world known as the Crimson Heart.

## History

### Early Life, Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy

Born on Colchis into a zealotous community that lived in the wilderness living of of Colchis' land, Aragon was taught the values of the gods from the Covenant at a very young age. Due to his family's zealotous values he quickly learned the tools to be a brutal warrior. He heard the tales of the mighty Urizen Lorgar and his new Church of The One which was quickly spreading across his homeworld and soon found himself and his community under it's banner. He did not mind as he soon discovered The One was simply the Gods' true form as one singular being and embraced it as such.

When The One arrived on Colchis Aragon found himself in beautiful awe at the sight of his god. It was life changing to the boy made even better when he ascended from the mortals of his world and joined the Emperor's seventeenth legion the Word Bearers. He joined as a legionary and was notably seen as the most zealous of his squad. Eventually, this zealotry found in Aragon's battle doctrine earned him the attention of a chaplain by the name of Erebus. The chaplain carefully molded the zealot into a devout warrior that would make a useful tool in the coming civil war. Ascending to the rank of champion, Aragon favoured the use of the powersword and flame weaponry.

All seemed to be fine with the legion and Aragon's servitude to the Emperor. The Emperor's hand would turn towards the legion's homeworld of Colchis. Sorrow was what he felt that day. Sorrow for the deaths of the people of his homeworld, sorrow for the destruction of the grand churches in the Monarchia and sorrow for the dissapointment and rage they had caused in their god. However it here that he realised something. The One was not a god. He was a devil in disguise seeking to twist and use the Seventeenth Legion and humanity as a whole to corrupt the galaxy. He found comfort in his old faith of the Four. Delving into the tomes saved from Monarchia, Aragon found the true gods that deserved his zealotry.

Iskak is unsure what happened in the coming years. He is unsure whether it is simply his age or other reasons he does not know. However, one thing he does remember is Calth. During Calth he fought and killed many of the Ultramarines' numbers seeking out challengers and worthy foes to kill. During this time he developed a rivalry with an Ultramarine praetor by the name of Garrus Tarix. The two were equal in battle prowess with Tarix possessing a honed and tactical mind whereas Iskak possessed zealous fury and duelling might. All throughout the Shadow Crusade the two clashed until eventually Aragon had the praetor at his mercy. He held his foe's power sword in one hand and his own in the other both weapons positioned to decapitate the astartes. Blood streaked down his foe's face as he accepted death. Voices from the gods and their angels screamed at the Word Bearer to finish his foe and claim victory. But he didn't. He tossed Tarix's power sword aside and left. Saying that if the Ultramarine crosses paths with him again the same mercy will not be given.

When Horus' rebellion failed, Aragon returned to the holy realm of the Eye of Terror alongside both his Legion and father. He found his new home to be Sicarus and rejoiced that the gods had given his wounded brothers and holy father yet still lamented the loss of their holy world of Colchis.

### History Post Heresy

It was here that he met the dark apostle Jasik Desmarus and the warpsmith Ignus'arak the Oathbound. Jasik had managed to bind a daemon into the Oathbound which was in turn bound to the will of the apostle. Together, the three formed a warband took to the stars exploring, killing across both the Eye of Terror and real space.
The warband took the name Scourge of the Maw as they carved into a sector known as the Maw with Aragon being a leader figure within the warband for both the cultist servants and astartes alike. This was where they rose to infamy and Aragon reunited with an old foe. Garrus Tarix, now a captain of the Ultramarines, led an imperial force to strike down the Scourge of the Maw. This conflict became known as the War of Malum and lasted a total of 20 years wth the Scourge of the Maw being fought off. However, Aragon was not one to not fulfill his promise. He fought onto Garrus' flagship and cut his way to his old foe. A brutal duel was brought to life. Both warriors had learned a great deal since their last meeting. But it didn't change much as by the duel's end Garrus was once again kneeling in pain before Iskak and this time mercy was not shown. He siezed the power sword his foe used and tore open his power armour's chest plate and stabbed the sword into the ultramarine's chest creating a bloody canyon in his chest. Then he retrieved a frag grenade, activated in and shoved it into the wound. As Iskak walked away, the grenade exploded sending gore, armour and bone everywhere.
Here, Aragon found an item he would see as a relic. Garrus' head had remained unscathed. So he took it and wrapped it in ropes blessed by Jasik Desmarus and the relic is carried by the templar to this day as it has supernaturally gained useful traits seen as the gods blessing it.

### M42

The Scourge of the Maw continued to fight across countless worlds in their contribution to the Long War against the corpse god. They fought alongside warbands of Black Legion, Emperor's Children, World Eaters, Alpha Legion, Red Corsairs and more. However their many conquests had given the warband a list of enemies that had given the warband both a level of infamy and a great many number of warriors seeking vengeance. The enemy to truly claim their vengeance however came from within. The warpsmith Ignus'arak, once an unwilling servant to Jasik Desmarus had slowly built up a plan to claim it's freedom however it needed an opportunity to do so. So it waited for millennia until eventually the apostle was wounded in battle and sent to the medical wing of the warband's flagship. Then the daemon possessed warpsmith enlisted a psyker to venture into Jasik's memory and erase the knowledge of the daemon's true name allowing it to claim it's freedom.

Then the warband erupted into civil war in a conflict known as the '88 hours of Carnage'. Aragon chose to not partake in the war as his own faith kept him from joining a side. The dark apostle was a holy priest of the pantheon; a preacher of their divine words but the warpsmith was host to a daemon the messengers of the gods. Eventually he chose a path. He chose to side with the warpsmith and cleaved the dark apostle in two with his ancient blade seeing his leadership as heresy and not worth leading a warband of devout followers of the pantheon.
Though the 88 hours was but a tactic for another enemy to reap their vengeance as a rival warband known as the Abberants of Change attacked the Scourge of the Maw and eliminated all but Aragon who escaped only because he found a warp rift and took a risk to jump through it.

### Crimson Heart

The risk Iskak took paid off and he ended up on a world known as the Crimson Heart. He has found shelter in the warband that governs the world known as the Foretoken. He has slain one of the many beasts that populate the Crimson Heart known as Chimeras and has crafted a ritual blade from one of it's bones.
Due to his previous experience in the Scourge of the Maw, Aragon was provided the role of *Lone Blade* as his skills are best used to tactically strike at the enemy's backlines to either aid his allies or cripple his foes forces.

## Appearance

Beneath his helmet, Aragon's pale face is largely barren of hair with a tattoo of a chaos star upon his forehead as it has been for centuries. His eyes have become two pools of burning orange fire that give Aragon a fierce appearance when people see his bare head.

## Personality

A zealous fighter, Aragon is a devout follower of chaos undivided. His zealotry is as fierce as the Black Templars devotion to the Emperor and in battle it is clearly shown. The chaos gods are all that truly matters to Aragon as they provide him with meaning and a source to draw fury from.

## Beliefs

Aragon sees the Chaos Gods as providing him with both purpose and a fuel for his wrath against the foes of the Corpse Devil on his Throne of Lies. He has also taken to worshipping the traitor primarchs that nearly struck down the Devil seeing them all as minor deities of chaos with Lorgar being held in the highest regard by Aragon.

## Abilities and Traits

### Duelist Skills

Over the course of the Long War, Aragon has developed excellent duelist skills allowing him to slay countless foes in the name of the Dark Gods.

### Ritual Skills

Over the course of the Long War against the Imperium of Man, Iskak has learned a few rituals that can be used t bring the spawn of chaos into realspace

## Mutations

Chaos has warped the image of Aragon. The mutations take the form of burning orange eyes and snow pale skin.

## Gifts of Chaos

Chaos has gifted the Zealot with gifts that increase his reflexes and natural strength.

## Equipment

### Armour

Covered in holy script, Aragon wears warped MKIV 'Maximus' power armour that has been modified with more modern pieces of armour taken from slain foes. His armour is crimson in colour with silver accents. He has also attached a cloak to his armour as a way to portray his rank from when he served on the Scourge of the Maw warband.

### Used Weapons

* **A relic power sword**

Known as Harpe it has cleaved through countless loyalists, xenos and traitor forces as the templar cleaved his path into time. It's blade glows with runes that increase the blade's effectiveness allowing it to be a brutal weapon to harvest the souls of Aragon's foes so that the holy gods of chaos may feast on their souls.

* **Ignis Ira**

A hand flamer Aragon has used since his days as a slave to the false emperor. It's barrel has been morphed into the face of a roaring daemon as crimson promethium is spewed from it's innards.

* **Head of Garrus Tarix**

A decapitated head taken from the corpse of the Ultramarine veteran Garrus Tarix. It's lifeless eyes glow orange as it liflessly hangs in the rune engraved ropes that trap it. Aragon believes it captures worthy souls he kills so that they may be given to the pantheon in a display of his devotion to them.