Wojciech Perkenas

Remembrancer sketch of Knight Champion Wojciech Perkenas.

**Wojciech Perkenas** is the highest ranking officer of the Warbringers Legion and is also the Grand Maister of his Legion's Knights Champion cadre.

## History

   Perkenas was a young Ensign in the Darzalan army when Kozja took control of that state. The Primarch and the young officer grew close through the War of Unity, through a shared wish to shake the planet's status quo and improve the lives of their subjects.

Though he was not the first soldier to be awarded the Order of the Bogatyr, Perkenas was given the honourific after a vicious campaign in the catacombs of Chelo during which he saved his Lord's life several times as he guarded his back.

At the end of the conquest of the Jagellonic System, he had risen through the ranks, and had become the commander in chief of the Darzalan army, despite his young age. With the advent of the Imperium of Mankind, he was tested and accepted into the ranks of the aspirants of the IX Legion, and was granted a position as Castellan as soon as he completed the transformation process.
Time and again, he showed his worth as a Captain of the first Darzalan Huszars, and then as a Hetman {insert battle examples} - when the Grand Hetman Dimitrescu was killed upon {X}, Perkenas gladly accepted the Pernach's offer to take his place, and has been one of the Legion's greatest commanders ever since.

Today, Perkenas is still an exceptional fighter and commander, and his foes quake when they see and hear his entire companies of Darzalan Huszars descending upon them.

### The Bogatyrs

The Bogatyrs were a peculiar formation within the Ist Legion, in equal measures a class of specialized warriors and a closed order with its own inner hierarchy and command, though still answering to the standard order of battle. As the Warbringers usually formed a wide gun-line, advancing with bolter and armour, individual Bogatyrs would stand behind, until they found a foe worthy of their might. Only then would they rush with heavy melee, and duel the enemy with skillful bladework, to assert both the legion's superiority and their own self-worth. In this regard they were the sword to the Tryzub's shield. Its inner workings promoted self-doubt and striving towards greatness, which would follow them on their path to damnation as theses beliefs were twisted into superiority over mankind, rather than as part of it.

The first soldier to have ever been named to the Bogatyrs by Kozja Darzalas during the destruction of the Yurasil Principality on Strela, Perkenas went on to become Darzalas' most trusted lieutenant, being so high in the Alabaster Prince's esteem that he was given sole command of the overthrowing of the Horse Lords of Arkanav. Feared both as a rider and a politician, he was often chosen to represent the golden-armed horde in the Darzalan Szyem.
Upon ascension alongside his brothers of the original Huszars, Perkenas was made Knyaz of the first Darzalan Principate, the new formations of the IX Legion that were created from exclusively Jagellonic stock. Though the nominal leaders of the Legion were still \_\_ and Dasz, Perkenas remained a prominent advisor to Kozja as the Grand Master of the Fellowship of the Bogatyrs, and there was no surprise when Perkenas was granted the Ceremonial Mace of a Hetman upon \_\_'s death.

## Equipment & Vehicles

* ***Koncerz*** - A long thin blade granted to Perkenas by Galdan when the later became too ill to fight.
* **Bolt Pistol**
* **Frag & Krak Grenades**
* ***Starstrider*** - Hand-crafted by an Archmagos of Lucius, *Starstrider* is a Jetbike that integrates technology from both the Dawneagle and Bullock patterns.