Ferrus Manus

Ferrus Manus, also known as simply Ferrus or the Gorgon, is the Primarch of the X Legion, the Iron Hands. 80,000 Terran standard years ago, Ferrus Manus participated in the Emperor's Heresy, a war that threatened to destroy the Imperium. He also participated in the Custodian War, a war orchestrated by the misled Malcador.

He and Fulgrim are close friends, possibly the closest of all the Primarchs' own friendships. As a result, Ferrus often leads his legion to fight alongside the Emperor's Children Legion side-by-side.

As one of the Primarchs in charge of a *Legio Astartes* belonging to the First Legion Founding, Ferrus has lead his Iron Hands Legion to win many combat merits and has millennia of experience. He specializes in close-quarters melee combat but will resort to using heavy ranged weapons such as Melta Grenade Launchers.

He was one of the Primarchs to fuse their very essence into one, a being called the Delta Primarch in the waning and most intense days of the bloody Custodian War.

When the Emperor was still alive, the Emperor often remarked that Ferrus Manus sometimes showed too much combat zeal, often preferring to grind down an evenly matched force down to nothing. This type of mentality would take its toll during the 3rd Tyranid Incursion, when Ferrus led his Legion against the Tyranids.

He and his Legion now stand as one of the most brutally mauled Primarchs and Legions after the 13th Tyranid Incursion's near annihilation of humanity as a whole.

## History

### Istvaan V Drop Site Massacre - Fall of Terra

Ferrus Manus was the first Primarch to perish during the catastrophic civil war that engulfed the galaxy named the Horus Heresy. His soul however, was not immediately consumed in the Warp through pure rage, and instead it fought its way to hear the Emperor of Mankind's call during the War Within the Webway. After 10,000 years of slowly continuing a process named the Soul Rot, a process that would prolong a soul's life accordingly to how strong the soul was in the Warp in exchange for rotting it away, meaning that there will never be a chance for true reincarnation. Ferrus' soul felt his brother Primarch Roboute Guilliman once again rise and intervened during the Terran Crusade.

His soul would aid the Emperor to return, but it would be too late. While Guilliman's involvement in the Plague Wars certainly delayed Chaos from engulfing the Imperium, the Ruinous Powers sent out a massive psychic shockwave that transformed every world in the *Imperium Nihilus* into a Daemon World of one kind or another. The sudden loss of life triggered a domino effect, firstly, the Chaos Gods began to see a massive surge in the amount of Daemons fielded by them, secondly, the now massive Daemonic Legions began to swallow world after world, and thirdly, the Daemonic Legions pushed back the Imperial defenders right back to Terra.

While Ferrus' soul watched his two brothers, Guilliman and Lion El'Jonson, perish alongside every remaining defender, he chose to make the final sacrifice. To let humanity face a possible resurrection without the Emperor was unthinkable. So Ferrus' soul paid the ultimate price by sacrificing itself to allow the Emperor to return.

After the Emperor returned, he wept the most for Ferrus Manus, the Primarch that allowed the Emperor to live.