Brutus Alexander

Brutus Alexander is the Arch-Heraldor of the Consuls Exemplar and often takes his place by the Primarch's side during peaceful negotiations and leads the Decurio that trains and recruits Consuls Bucilator Teams. Brutus, alongside Kaezar and several other praetors led the XIIIth legion before the arrival of Gaius Caligula, each one having their own ideas on how the legion should advance during the Great Crusade. Brutus always wanted to leave the planets they conquered better places in their wake, though the actions of Kaezar and his supporters were often counter productive to such ideals.

Upon the discovery of Gaius Caligula, the Arch-Heraldor finally found the legion leadership he had been seeking. Gaius shared nearly all of the same ideals as Brutus and the once Praetor found new meaning in his primogenitor's plans for the Great Crusade. Though Kaezar would be bitter about the changes their primarch would implement, Alexander was never in doubt.  After suffering horrendous losses during the Rangdan Xenocides, Gaius would restructure the legion into a more open and mixed organizations with astartes moving from one Decurio to another learning all they can about the wide and varied forms of warfare. Gaius also gave each of the original ruling praetors the freedom to start their own Decurios dedicated to their own ideals and forms of warfare. Brutus was ecstatic to finally be able to gather the astartes that shared his views for humanity and the Crusade and quickly established the Star Heralds.

Brutus and the Star Heralds would form the basis of all Consuls Exemplar interactions with humanity and prospective compliant worlds. Creating teams and units designed to save civilians and astartes alike in rapid response manoeuvres as well as the later, iconic, Bucilator Teams that the XIIIth would leave behind on every newly complaint world. Brutus finally had the crusade he had imagined and his followers would find great success and prosperity with their primarch finally returned to them. Brutus Alexander could be found often with his brothers teaching remembrancers and civilians the various methods and ideals of the Consuls and painted the Great Crusade as a time of advancement and unification that had never been seen before in history. Truly Brutus Alexander was the son of his primarch and ever since their reunification Brutus has never been seen far from Caligula during negotiations or battle planning.

During the Second Rangdan Xenocide, Brutus and his Decurio would take place among the human elements of the imperial army, providing them with much needed resilience and defensive formations that would drastically reduce projected casualties for the Solar Auxilia forces assigned to the XIIIth during the campaign. Leading from the front Brutus and his bodyguard would join the command units of the Solar Auxilia and create a bastion of flesh that slowly and inexorably advanced, rarely taking a step back despite the overwhelming horde of monstrosities. Using legion breacher squads supported by the more numerous Auxilia forces and their mechanised units, Alexander would advance with phalanxes of breacher astartes in cooperation with counter assault Augusti Kill Teams to intercept Xeno assaults on solar Auxilia support units, thus ensuring the artillery and support emplacements of their human allies would last their entire campaign. The success of these tactics would later lead to Alexander developing the entirety of his tactics and use of his Decurio around the Auxilia force known as “Caligula’s Legion.”

It was also the Star Heralds that formed the public face of the Consuls Exemplar. Though Brutus would be actively involved and fully aware of the true nature of the XIIIth, it was his job to make the Consuls seen as the bright and shining defenders of humanity at all costs. Worlds within the Consuls' path would cry out with praise for the guardians that would save them; and it was all because Alexander and his Heralds are the ones that walked among them. The largest Decurio in the Consuls with just over 25,000 astartes and their support elements, the Star Heralds are spread across three different expeditionary fleets each being the primary method of Consuls compliance wars. The last two expeditionary fleets used near exclusively for the pacification and destruction of xenos societies and systems.

Brutus is a master swordsman and maintains the position of legion champion in addition to his role as Arch-Heraldor. Though any astartes my challenge the legion champion for the position, Brutus has proven himself time and time again as unmatched by any of the astartes in a legion of elites. Brutus even wields the Legion Standard during all such challenges, insisting that he fight as he would in the field of battle, still beating all who challenge his claim as Champion of the Auric Legion.

Gains would comment on more than one occasion that Brutus’s charisma might rival his own, and Alexander has proven a diplomat that was easily a match for Gaius or greater. Upon Caligula’s changes to the legion during the Xenocides, Alexander would drop his combat shield for a legion standard and become the Arch-Heraldor, spreading the glory of the Auric Legion and their might to all prospective human societies. Inspiring to humans and his Astartes brother alike, where Alexander walked in battle the forces of the XIIIth and it’s Allies would fight vigorously and with lethal precision, relentless in the pursuit of the Great Crusades goals. Alexander was the closest thing Gaius would have to a prodigy. Where Kaezar shared his calculating and analytical nature, he lacked any of the tact and grasp of the “greater victory” his primarch would call it. Arch-Heraldor Brutus Alexander strived to be every bit the champion of humanity as his primarch and followed Gaius with a loyalty that would later prove invaluable to the primarch and his goals for humanity.