Jakob Tannen

**Jakob Tannen** is the Legion Champion of the Obsidian Guard, and thus the Commanding Officer of the Obsidian Hand. He is one of the greatest warriors in the Imperium and the left hand of the Primarch Lukas Keath. He joined the Obsidian Guard in 903.M30 and fought during the remainder of the Great Crusade, the Halcyon Age Chronology, and the Five Ruins.

## History

Jakob was born on Feuerstadt sometime during 889.M30 to unknown parents and grew up on the streets of Sturmhafen. It was those very streets that first taught him how to fight and with his above average mass, height, and strength he often won. Once old enough he was put through the Aspirant Trials and shortly thereafter inducted into the Obsidian Guard as a Neophyte. He stayed on Feuerstadt until age twenty when his training concluded and his geneseed implantations began. Unsurprising he took to the genetic enhancements like a fish to water, emerging from the process a towering figure even by Astartes standards.

Shortly thereafter he was assigned to the 8th Corps as a Breacher and fought in numerous campaigns, rising steadily in the ranks first to Fahnrich, then to Hauptmann. His career as a field commander was temporarily placed on hold when his psychic abilities began to manifest following the campaign against the Osiran Psybrids. Transferred to the Librarians Jakob was taught to control and then channel his new abilities to devastating affect. His first battle as a Librarian he slew an Ork psyker in a duel, pummeling the creature to pulp both with his hammer and several conveniently located boulders.

It was not until the Auretian Technocracy War that he gained the attention of the Primarch, turning back a Brotherhood counterattack singlehandedly. For this exploit he was given the opportunity to join the Obsidian Hand, an honor he eagerly accepted. The trial was a mere formality as events turned out as he trounced his opponent within a minute. A decade after that he was elevated to command of his squad after the previous Fahnrich was killed in action and two decades after that he became Legion Champion.

## Personality

Jakob was Lukas in miniature for a variety of reasons, not least of which was the same passion for life evident in both. However where the burden of command succeeded at tempering Lukas's worst urges Jakob was headstrong at all times, even to the point of recklessness. Despite this somewhat glaring flaw it served him well as he often said what others acknowledged but refused to say aloud for the sake of propriety. Jakob had no such inhibitions and never attempted to give the impression to the contrary.

## Fighting Style

Like his Primarch Jakob combined physical and psychic attacks to catch his opponents off guard and put them on the backfoot. An unrelenting assault of hammer blows and gouts of warpfire were more often than not enough to lay any foe low. Jakob did not fight with grace, he would never win any competition that rated his creativity, but that did not stop him from being a brutally effective fighter. No flash, no wasted effort, all economic movement to kill or disable his opponent as efficiently as possible.

## Equipment

* Cataphractii-Pattern Tactical Dreadnought Armor
* Master-Crafted Force Hammer
* Combi-Bolter
* Multi-Melta(Optional)
* Cyclone Missile Launcher(Optional)
* Frag Grenades
* Krak Grenades