Raven Guard - Heresy Era Personnel: Corvus Corax - Primarch of the Raven Guard. Corax was a taciturn and subtle warrior but a true warrior nonetheless. During the Drop Site Massacre of Istvaan V, Corax assumed a terrible and vengeful aspect, his winged jump pack and razor claws reaping a heavy toll on the ranks of the vile Word Bearers. When their Primarch Lorgar dared confront his brother, Corax nearly killed him. The Primarch of the Word Bearers proved unable to face the killing frenzy of Corax even with the psychic might provided by the power of Chaos. Corax scarred Lorgar's face during a prolonged weapon lock, as the talons of his Lightning Claws drew so close to the Aurelian's face that their combined power fields burned deep gashes in Lorgar's countenance. Though Lorgar struck a single solid blow on Corax and shattered one of the Raven Guard Primarch's powered claws, the other tore into Lorgar's gut, shredding the Traitor Primarch's entrails. Lorgar was only saved from death by the timely intervention of the Night Lords Primarch Konrad Curze. Following the Traitors' betrayal, and the shattering of the Raven Guard, Salamanders and Iron Hands Legions, Corax led the surviving Raven Guard on a ninety-eight day flight, until they were miraculously rescued by the timely arrival of Commander Branne Nev, who successfully extracted the Raven Guard survivors. Corax then made for Terra, to inform the Emperor of the disaster at Istvaan V. After the near annihilation of his Legion, Corax was desperate to rebuild it, at any cost. With the Emperor's permission, he delved deep beneath the Imperial Palace to recover the advanced genetics knowledge that the Emperor had used to create the Primarchs. Corax then made use of these techniques and a recovered original Primarch genetic template to accelerate the development of new Raven Guard Astartes. The repercussions of those actions came back to haunt him, leading Corax to eventually to grant the Emperor's Peace to all the twisted, mutant spawn who emerged as the result of his experiments. Corax then vanished into the Eye of Terror in search of penance for his shame. His current whereabouts and status remain unknown to the Chapter and the Imperium.Shade Lord Arkhas Fal - Arkhas Fal was the Terran-born Master of the XIXth Legion before they were united with their long-lost Primarch on the world of Deliverance. Once given command of his Legion, Corax began to impose the style of war he had perfected upon Lycaeus over that which had defined the XIXth Legion of old, particularly by purging the more cold-blooded ways of the Terran Xeric tribes which had once defined the Legion culture. The Legion had so often served in oppression, repression and occupation forces that Corax saw in some of the Terran members of his Legion something akin to the slavers of Lycaeus. Several of the Legion's highest ranking officers were displaced or reassigned to non-command roles, including Shade Lord Arkhas Fal, who had commanded the XIXth Legion for three decades before the coming of the Raven Lord. Under the Primarch's guidance, distilled into a series of battle-mantras, the Raven Guard developed their skills to preternatural levels. A small number of mostly Terrans of the Legion of old, had been assigned to posts beyond the fringes of the Imperium, some in independent nomad fleets, other attached to various Rogue Traders Militum or other so-called "lone wolves". One of these fleets was in fact commanded by Shade Lord Arkhas Fal, on the direct order of the Primarch when Corax took over the Raven Guard. What became of the Shade Lord, his fleet and the other elements may never be known, and the fact that Corax appears to have made no effort to recall them suggests they were considered a body apart from the bulk of the Legion.Commander Gherith Arendi - Commander of Corax' bodyguard, the Shadow Wardens, during the Horus Heresy, Gherith Arendi was long believed slain during the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V, but ultimately rejoined the Legion after the liberation of Scarato. Unaware of the events that had transpired back on Kiavahr and in the Ravendelve, Arendi was met with much distrust and scrutiny but was eventually cleared of all suspicions. A dark secret however remained, a secret he kept to himself, until confronted by Corax himself -- he had callously used other Loyalist survivors of the Salamanders and Iron Hands as bait to seize a shuttle and thus escape the surface of Istvaan V. Through rumours he had heard and suspicions he harboured, Arendi led the Raven Guard to the prison-world of Carandiru, which would become known as the Day of Vengeance. Disobeying his initial orders, Arendi decided to divert his complement of warriors to rush to Corax' aid, who had been captured by the Traitors' new secret weapons, the genetically altered Legionaries, known as the "New Men", which were created by the Emperor's Children Chief Apothecary Fabius. Arendi's timely arrival probably saved the Primarch's life, a favour the Ravenlord returned immediately when he spared Arendi the pain of being crushed to death by the last survivor of the "New Men". Having fought side-by-side in battle and saving each other's lives, a new relationship of trust established itself between the Primarch and his former Commander. Arendi was later made the commander of the newly commissioned Black Guard, which was formed from the Shadow Wardens, and commanded his forces during the Battle of Yarant. He would later go on to lead the newly formed Black Guard Space Marine Chapter, following the sundering of the Space Marine Legions into separate Chapters during the Second Founding in 021.M31.Commander Branne Nev - Branne was a Raven Guard Captain during the Horus Heresy-era, and Captain Agapito's biological brother. He joined the other Raven Guard officers in drawing lots to see who amongst their number would take part in the campaign on Istvaan V against the Traitor Legions of Horus. Captain Branne lost and so was assigned as the commanding officer of the Raven Guard garrison that remained on Deliverance while the rest of the Legion deployed to Istvaan V. Eventually he led the mission that resulted in the successful combat extraction of Corax and the few Raven Guard Astartes who survived the Drop Site Massacre. Commander Branne essentially saved his Legion from extinction at the hands of the Traitor Legions. As the XIXth Legion began to rebuild itself following the massacre Branne was appointed by Corax to serve as the Legion's new Master of Recruits. Upon the induction of the first cadre of new Raven Guard Astartes, he was named the Commander of the "Raptors", the name given to the new Raven Guard companies raised using the pure Primarch DNA and the accelerated growth protocols.Commander Agapito Nev - Agapito was a Raven Guard Captain and the Commander of the "Talons" Tactical Companies of the Horus Heresy-era Raven Guard Legion. Agapito was the biological brother of Commander Branne. Both of them were part of the original rebel group of Lycaeum prisoners that was lead by Corax to freedom before the arrival of the Emperor in the Kiavahr System. Agapito was suspicious of the unusual actions of some Raven Guard Astartes who were actually Alpha Legion agents, and he confronted the infiltrators.Captain Aloni Tev - Aloni was a Raven Guard Captain and the Commander of the "Falcons" Assault Companies of the Horus Heresy-era Raven Guard Legion.Captain Solaro An - Solaro An was a Captain of the Raven Guard who took part in the Istvaan V campaign. He led Raven Guard Bike Squads in an ambush against the Traitor Legions. However, he was slain during the Drop Site Massacre. His face was grafted onto an Alpha Legion infiltrator operative, along with some of his organs which were implanted in the impostor, who was then reinserted back into the Raven Guard during the confusion of the campaign on Istvaan V. After the remnants of the Raven Guard were extracted from Istvaan V, he became the commander of the Raven Guard's "Hawks" Companies, which included the Legion's remaining Bike Squads, Land Speeders and aircraft. He took part in the scheme to steal the pure Primarch DNA and destroy the Raven Guard's remaining stocks of untainted gene-seed, mortally wounding Apothecary Vincente Sixx in the process. He and another Alpha Legion operative killed each other after they were discovered and apprehended rather than submit to interrogation.Commander Nuran Tesk - Commander Tesk was appointed command of the "Hawks", after the death of the infiltrator posing as Commander Solero An, who was slain in the Battle for Ravendelve. Commander Tesk however died himself a scant few months later during the Siege of the Perfect City, thus leaving the "Hawks" leaderless until Lord Corax appointed Commander Soukhounou.Commander Soukhounou - Merely a simple Lieutenant at the time of the Dropsite Massacre, Soukhounou was a veteran of the XIXth Legion, having been recruited on Terra in the early stages of the Great Crusade. His dark skin and ornate tattoos marked him as one of the apprentice praise-singers of the Sahelian League before being recruited into the Legiones Astartes. Soukhonou was one of the relatively select few to have known both the Legion under Shade Lord Fal and its new master Corvus Corax. Having embraced the Primarch's new teachings and survived the desperate struggle for survival on Istvaan V, Soukhounou was selected to lead the "Hawks" - the Raven Guard's rapid strike units - following the death of his predecessor, Commander Nuran Tesk. This made Soukhounou the sole non-Deliverance-born amongst the Raven Guard's command cadre. As part of the Raven Guard's new overall strategy, Commander Soukhounou was selected to infiltrate the prison-world of Carandiru all alone and convince the population to rise up against its occupants. He would thus become paramount to the events leading to the Day of Vengeance-campaign.Captain Torisian - Torisian was the Captain of the 29th Company of the Raven Guard during the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V. Torisian and his men were amongst the first warriors to reach the barricades around the drop site erected by the Loyalists' second wave and were cut down in the first volley of treacherous gunfire from the newly-revealed Traitors.Lieutenant Navar Hef - Amongst the Raven Guard, few were so loyal to the ideals and teachings of Corvus Corax as Navar Hef. One of the early recruits of the "Raptor"-contigent, Navar Hef suffered severely from the genetic curse that plagued most of the "Raptors". Being one of the earliest warriors to suffer from these deformations, Hef quickly rose to prominence amogst these mutated warriors - colloquially called "roughs" in opposition to the genetically perfect "smooths". Far bulkier than his fellow warriors, Navar Hef was required to wear a bastardised suit of Power Armour forged from the remains of Mk II "Crusade" and Mark III "Iron"-pattern armours whereas most of the Raptors wore the far more advanced Mk VI-pattern. The Techmarines of the Legion even had to adapt a helmet from a suit of Terminator Armour to enable him to deploy to zero-gravity or low-oxygen environment. Hef's mutations however proved a powerful asset in the field, as his superior hearing and claws made him a lethal opponent. Quickly after the Battle for the Ravendelve, Navar Hef was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant and given command of one of the newly-formed companies of "Raptors". Becoming rapidly known for his aggressive nature, Hef quickly learned to temper his temperament with cold reason after one of his previous actions almost ended with the death of allied troops.Lieutenant Carakon - On the black sands of Istvaan V, Lieutenant Carakon was the first Raven Guard officer to force a breach in the lines of the Traitor Legions, allowing the Raven Guard to extract some of its troops through the sector four breach. His ultimate fate remains unknown.Moritat-Prime Kaedes Nex - A dark figure of gruesome repute amongst the tightly knit survivors of Deliverance, Kaedes was seen as an ill-omen by his brothers. On Kiavahr in his youth he was known as the "Blood Crow", an infamous murderer condemned to rot on the moon prison. There he remained, until Corvus Corax offered him freedom and a pardon if he fought alongside the other rebels and limited his targets to those chosen by his new master. After enduring the painful, late transformation to a Space Marine, it was only by the continued favour shown to him by Corax that he remained within the ranks of the Raven Guard, with few of his brothers willing to tolerate his macabre obsession with the hunt. Yet, in the grim shadow wars fought by the Raven Guard in furtherance of the Emperor's grand plan, his murder-honed skills were employed with grim regularity. When the Raven Guard came to Istvaan V, Kaedes came with it, vanishing into the wastes to stalk the Traitors on his own terms. Nothing is recorded of his role in either the retreat from the massacre or the days that followed, and some maintain that not all of the Traitor craft to later leave Istvaan V carried only the followers of Horus, and that Kaedes continued his private war in the shadows of the Horus Heresy.Strike Captain Alvarex Maun - Known as "Nightfall One", Alvarex Maun served as the Master of Descent during the Great Crusade and opening days of the Horus Heresy, commanding his Legion's planetstrike operations. Alvarex, however, performed his duties from the front lines, descending from orbit with the first wave of drop ships and leading the action to secure the dropzone in person. He was present during the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V, leading from the front, until the perfidy of Horus was fully revealed. When Lord Corax ordered the Raven Guard to break out of the Urgall Depression, it was Strike Captain Alvarex who responded instantly, ordering his Thunderhawk to descend through the torrent of fire and to extract his Primarch. After extracting the Primarch, one wing of the gunship was shot away and the pilot was killed. Alvarex took the controls of the aircraft, determined to save the Primarch even at the cost of his own life. Bringing the severely damaged gunship down in a controlled crash landing, he saved the life of the Raven Lord even though five of the crew were slain and he himself was badly injured.Captain Torisian - Captain of the 29th Company of the Raven Guard Legion during the Dropsite Massacre of Istvaan V. Torisian and his men were amongst the first warriors to reach the barricades around the drop-site, erected by the second wave, and were cut down in the first volley of treacherous bolter fire.Librarian Balsar Khutturi - Khutturi was not amongst the most powerful from the Librarium department of the XIXth Legion, but his continued survival made him of paramount importance to the Legion during the days of the Horus Heresy; especially after the Raven Guard discovered Alpha Legion-infiltrators within their ranks. Khutturi's main mission quickly became to ward the Legion against such infiltration-attempts, skrying every Legionary's mind in order to confirm their identities and true intent for rallying the XIXth Legion.Techmarine Stradon Binalt - Stradon Binalt was a rare survivor of the Drop Site Massacre of Istvaan V and a member of Corax' Honour Guard. Stradon Binalt and his fellow Techmarines developed many of the jury-rigged parts, alterations and fixes to the Legion's badly damaged battle plate following the Drop Site Massacre that led to the creation of the Mark V "Heresy Pattern" Power Armour designation for all non-standard Power Armour marks. Techmarine Stradon was also able to unlock the secrets of the Traitor's prototype Vengeance Bolt rounds and developed a multi-layered Ceramite plating to better protect the Loyalists from the Traitors' deadly ammunition. In the months following the retreat from Istvaan V, Stradon worked to rebuild Corax' destroyed Jump Pack and presented the finished device to the Legion's Primarch just before the assault on Narsis.Techmarine Napenna - Captured on Istvaan V during the infamous Dropsite Massacre, Techmarine Napenna was one of many captured loyalist Astartes shipped out to and imprisoned on Carandiru to be experimented on by the mad Chief Apothecary of the IIIrd Legion, Fabius. Held in a highly secured facility known as Nadrezes, Napenna was amongst those fortunate enough not to have been experimented upon. When the Raptors-Company under Commander Branne liberated the complex, Napenna gathered what survivors he could and staged a breakout during which he inadvertently killed two of the mutated Raven Guard, having mistaken them for some of Fabius' failed experiments.Chief Apothecary Vicente Sixx - Following the crippling losses of the Dropsite Massacre the Raven Guard's Apothecarion lay in ruins. As the most experienced surviving Apothecary, Vicente Sixx was appointed as the new Chief Apothecary of the XIXth Legion. With only fifteen years of experience as a member of the Apothecarion, Sixx' promotion was dictated by necessity, a fact he is noted to have strongly resented. Sixx sadly perished a scant few months after his nomination, slain by Alpha Legion infiltrators during the infamous Khiavarian Uprising. However, his contributions in the creation of the Raptor-Company were instrumental in securing the Legion's survival.Apothecary Morvax Haukspeer - Apothecary Haukspeer was a respected member of the Raven Guard's Legion Apothecarion and deployed to the surface of Istvaan V alongside his brothers of the 18th Company. Having lost contact with his Legion, which was able to retreat with some kind of order amongst the chaos of battle, Apothecary Haukspeer joined one of the many ad-hoc groups of survivors that still hid out in the Urgall Depression and its surrounding mountains. Their hide-out, a downed Stormbird-gunship, was soon turned into a field hospital where the one-armed Apothecary would tend to the group's wounded; be they Iron Hands, Salamanders, Raven Guard or humble soldiers of the Imperial Army. His efforts saved many lives and he never bulked from the task ahead of him, but ultimately he knew that his efforts were futile. Regrettably, it was but a question of time before the Traitors' hunting parties would find them. Every survivor knew that without a way off-world, they were living on borrowed time. When discovery became a certainty, Haukspeer exchanged the Reductor of his rank for a Lightning Claw, volunteering for a desperate scout mission tasked with finding out if Vulkan, the Primarch of the XVIIIth Legion had survived. Scouting the way ahead for his small party, Haukspeer guided them safely to the Primarch's downed transport. On their path, Haukspeer confronted and slew a Khornate Champion, but was overwhelmed by the power of Chaos and, having descended into an uncontrollable killing frenzy, attacked his companion, a Salamanders Legionary named Ra'stan. In the ensuing fight, Ra'stan saw no other option than to incapacitate Haukspeer, a blow to his armour's Power Generator slowing him down enough for Ra'stan to gain the upper hand. Restrained by his companion who managed to talk sense into him, Haukspeer was able to shake of his frenzy and continue with their mission, but in order to do so had to discard much of his armour. Locating the downed Stormbird, the Apothecary and his companion began to look for clues of the Primarch's fate. Just as they had located a survivor, they were attacked by one of the baleful creations of the Dark Mechanicum: a daemon-engine commonly referred to as a blind-hunter. Ill-equipped for this fight, Haukspeer nevertheless stood his ground, wounding the daemon-engine but losing his sole valid arm to a shot of a Multi-Melta from the daemonic engine. Apothecary Morvax Haukspeer died a few moments later, cut into ribbons when the blind-hunter fired its webber, its monofilaments easily cutting through his unpowered armour. However, his sacrifice was not in vain as Ra'stan was saved and could go on with the mission.Ancient Krahzen - Ancient Krahzen was once a Legion Moritat in the 3rd Battalion of the 4th Chapter, and well known for his particularly dark demeanour and callousness in battle. He was laid low by a hideous xenos horror while scouring a Space Hulk threatening star systems along the coreward marches of the Segmentum Solar, and subsequently interred within the armoured sarcophagus of a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought. Though no longer able to pursue the mission of a Legion Moritat, Krahzen adapted to his new existence well, and instead of lone reconnaissance, Krahzen soon led savage frontal assaults, seeking out and striking down the mightiest of enemies. Ancient Krahzen survived the murderous violence of the Drop Site Massacre, leading a combined force of the remnants of several different companies northeastward, smashing aside countless enemy formations before linking up with the Primarch on Day 3. He then led countless attacks throughout the Raven Guard's ninety-eight solar days on Istvaan V, but he was not to be counted amongst the ranks of those liberated on the final day. Instead, he gave his life in battle against a Sons of Horus Legion death squad so that his brother Legionaries might fight on and, ultimately, endure.Terminator Sergeant Heklan - Sergeant Heklan served as a Legion Terminator Squad Sergeant in the Assault Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Chapter during the Great Crusade and opening days of the Horus Heresy. Sergeant Heklan's squad fought with honour throughout the Legion's operations on Istvaan V and is noted to have fought alongside the Lord Primarch Corax himself on several occasions, in particular during all three major engagements with the forces of the Iron Warriors Legion attempting to hunt the Raven Guard across the Urgall Wastes. Sergeant Heklan fell in glory the very day the Legion was delivered from Istvaan V, he and his warriors willingly selling their lives at enormous cost to the World Eaters as the Traitors closed in upon the Raven Guard's final position at the edge of the Gular Salt Plains.Shade Sergeant Chamell - Chamell was the sergeant of a reconstituted squad of the famous Mor Deythan -- the Ravens Guard's elite infiltrator units during the years of the Horus Heresy. Being all veterans and survivors of the notorious Dropsite Massacre, Chamell's squad was often called upon to prepare the Raven Guard's offensives on the ground, infiltrating enemy key positions to allow the Legion to deploy. This often required for the squad to venture deep into enemy territory, most times through Whispercutter-insertion, silently murdering their way to their objective be it in the heart of an enemy fortress or the highest spire of a hive's towers.Veteran Sergeant Alekto Kirhane - Former member of the Raven Guard's 7th Chapter, sometimes referred to as "the Stormcrows", Veteran Sergeant Alekto Kirhane was a survivor of the infamous Drop Site Massacre of Istvaan V whose determination and skills would not go unnoticed during the Age of Darkness. Escaping the blood-soaked sands of Istvaan V on board of the well-known Thunderhawk gunship designated as Ohidoran -- a vessel initially belonging to the Salamanders Legion -- Kirhane and the other survivors he had assembled around him made it into orbit to join the assault on the cruiser Warlock, a Night Lords-vessel on which the survivors made good their escape after seizing it. After many months of hardship, the Warlock reached the safety of Baal, the homeworld of the Blood Angels where it found refuge. Kirhane however did not stay on Baal but decided -- as several other Raven Guards did -- to join the warriors of the Salamanders vessel Ebon Drake in their quest for their lost Primarch. After its own adventures, most notoriously returning to the cursed world of Istvaan V, the Ebon Drake reached the beleaguered Forge World of Mezoa deep within the Cyclops Cluster, a sector of space that was almost entirely dominated by the Traitors and which formed the heartlands of their Shadow Empire. Mezoa still held, but was by now under full assault by forces of the Traitors. Under overall commad of the legendary Cassian Vaughn, Alekto Kirhane participated in the defence of Mezoa's forge-fanes against Iron Warriors and Alpha Legion elements until an autocannon salvo caused him to loose his left leg. Ultimately victorious, but stranded on Mezoa, the company of the Ebon Drake would fight valliantly time and time again in defence of one of the last bastions of Imperial might in the Coronid Deeps.Sergeant Alcorax - Assault Sergeant during the Horus Heresy.Sergeant Gallovax - Tactical Sergeant during the Horus Heresy.Sergeant Dravian Klayde - Sole survivor of a perilous infiltration mission during the Breg-shei Eradication which left him terribly wounded, Sergeant Dravian Klayde nevertheless survived where his entire squad perished. Using his sole remaining valid arm to crawl to safety after having lost both his legs and his other arm to the Breg-shei's mandibibles, Klayde was recovered by the Raven Guard's allies, the Night Lords, which gave him the appellation, "the Carrion", for the miserable state he was in -- implying that Klayde was a Raven no more, but a carrion bird. To the Raven Guard, he became known as "Carry-on" Klayde, for his determination and single-mindedness. Undergoing extensive augmentic repairs, Klayde was selected for training on Mars to become a Techmarine but would never achieve this rank, as the very day he and his fellow Space Marines were to take their Covenant, the Schism of Mars erupted. With his master slain and Dark Mechanicum forces arrayed against him, Klayde and his fellow adepts from other Legions mounted an inspired defence of their preceptory tower. That is, until it was crushed by the devastating firepower of a Warlord Battle Titan of the Legio Mortis which had sided with the Traitor Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal and the Warmaster. Escaping thanks to the sacrifice of his fellow adepts, Klayde succeeded in leaving the Red Planet and rallying to Terra's cause. He put himself at the service of Malcador the Sigilite, becoming one of his Knights Errant. With the strategic need to deny the Warmaster a foothold within the Sol System, the destruction or reconquest of Mars beacame a necessity. For Rogal Dorn, the swiftest means to this end was also the most expedient one -- an Exterminatus-order. However, the newly appointed Fabricator-General Zagreus Kane opposed this plan, as Loyalist Forge Worlds would ultimately rebell and join the Warmaster if Terra sanctioned the destruction of the Mechanicum's most holy of planets. Instead, Malcador despatched Dravian Klayde to Mars to enact a highly unorthodox plan -- to liberate a dangerous sentient machine known as the Tabula Myriad, and assail one of Mars' polar temples which generated Red Planet's artificial atmosphere and magnetic field. Without it, the planet would simply be cleaned by the deadly radioactive solar rays of the sun. Unfortunately, the polar fortress-temple had been heavily reinforced, and Klayde died in the attempt to complete his mission, slain by the very person which had saved his life in the first place.Legionary Inachus Ptero - A veteran Legionary and former Librarian, Brother Ptero was killed by the Daemon Madail on the world of Pythos after escaping the Drop Site Massacre of Isvtaan V, fighting alongside the Iron Hands Legion's surviving members of the 111th Clan-Company.Legionary Ghelt - A veteran of two decades of service to the Raven Guard Legion, Legionary Ghelt was assigned to the 4th Battalion, 5th Chapter. He was marked for ascension to the position of squad sergeant at the time of the Istvaan V operation. That ascension came far quicker than anticipated, as his immediate superior, Sergeant Lyso, fell in battle during the Drop Site Massacre, slain by the abominations known as the Gal Vorbak of the Traitor Word Bearers Legion. Ghelt took command of what remained of his squad and led his brother Legionaries in the breakout from the Urgall Depression, commanding them until he himself fell in glory around Day 28.Legionary Fasur - Mor Deythan and member of Squad Chamell. Present at the Day of Vengeance.Legionary Korin - Mor Deythan and member of Squad Chamell. Present at the Day of Vengeance.Legionary Sallahn - Legionary Sallahn served with Squad Numas, 31st Shadow Company during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Legionary Sallahn's reconnaissance squad began the Istvaan V operation serving in the 31st Shadow Company -- a formation directly under the Legion Command instead of serving in the line. The 31st suffered such heavy losses at the height of the Drop Site Massacre that when the breakout order was issued, Squad Numas was one of only a handful of units capable of responding. Legionary Sallahn was instrumental in identifying viable extraction vectors and communicating these back to what remained of the Legion Command, covering the Legion's withdrawal throughout and saving the lives of hundreds of his brother Legionaries. Much later, Squad Numas would receive the praise of Corax himself for the pivotal role it played in the Legion's survival through that darkest hour.Legionary Senderwat - Mor Deythan and Squad Chamell's designated pilot. Legionary Senderwat was a true master of his craft, piloting the squads Whispercutter mere centimeters away from walls that would have send the fragile craft crashing down below. On Carandiru, in preparation of the events that would become known as the Day of Vengeance, Senderwat guided his Whispercutter between rows of buildings through six kilometers of enemy-held territory without being detected.Legionary Strang - Mor Deythan and member of Squad Chamell. Present at the Day of Vengeance.Nykona Sharrowkyn - Former member of the Raven Guard's 66th Company, Nykona Sharrowkyn was one of the survivors of the infamous Drop Site Massacre of Istvaan V in the early 31st Millennium. Seperated from his Legion and with no mean to rejoin them, Sharrowkyn joined an Iron Hands-led group of survivors to continue the fight against the Warmaster's lackeys. As part of the crew of the almost legendary Sysipheum, whose deeds still echo down through the ages, Sharrowkyn was instrumental to most of the ship's successful missions. Nykona Sharrowkyn was counted amongst the deadliest Astartes of the Horus Heresy-era, having been taught in hand-to-hand combat by Corvus Corax himself. To this day, Sharrowkyn is known for being one of the earliest persons to have defeated the reputated swordman Lucius the Eternal of the Emperor's Children Legion. Although no member of the Mor Deythan, Sharrowkyn was also a skilled infiltrator whose skill and marksmanship with the Needle Sniper Rifle was legendary. His ultimate fate remains unknown.Nathian - Born on Kiavahr, Nathian was one of the prisoners of the prison-moon Lycaeus on which Corax grew up. Nathian had been imprisoned on several counts of murder and quickly worked his way up inside the prison's hierarchy. By the time he was thirteen, Nathian ran the largest smuggling ring on Lycaeus, having established relations of trust or influence through violence and bribery, a net of influence to which several of the prison's guards were a part of. This asset ultimately brought him to Corax' attention, the ressources and more importantly the influence he commanded being able to considerably benefit the still-forming rebellion. Nathian agreed to help Corax in exchange for a pardon of his crimes, a deal Corax struck despite the misgivings of other of his early companions such as Aloni and Agapito who mistrusted Nathian and made no secret of it. Thanks to his infuence within the prison, Nathian quickly became Corax' lieutenant within the towering structure of Wing Two, a position he held for the entire planning phase of the rebellion. A notorious drunk, Nathian however proved a capable leader if a cruel one, he was amongst the first to urge Corax to use the nuclear mining charges as improvised bombs against the Guilds and Kiavahr's civilian population. Being introduced into the XIXth Legion, Nathian remained in the primarch's vicinity, even fighting alongside him on Istvaan V during the Dropsite Massacre, when the betrayed XIXth Legion charged the Word Bearers. Fighting to reach his Primarch, Nathian killed several of the traitorous Word Bearers while Corax duelled Lorgar, but became separated from his brothers and ultimately trapped under a heap of enemy corpses. Unable to retreat alongside his brothers, Nathian witnessed Corax' retreat and took it as a personal treason, being left behind to be killed shattering his beliefs in the Emperor and His cause. Unexpectedly the Word Bearers did not kill Nathian upon his discovery; instead he was brought before Lorgar who used his advanced skills to convince Nathian to renounce his oaths and join Horus' rebellion. It remains unclear how the turncoat Raven Guard was appointed Planetary Commander of the recently-conquered world of Carandiru and how far he acted of his own will, but Nathian turned the entire world into a prison with the secret hope of luring the XIXth Legion to act. With his intimate knowledge of both the Raven Guard's tactics and Corvus Corax' persona, Nathian devised a trap for his former Primarch with the clear intent to kill him. This plan almost succeeded, Corax' overconfidence in his own abilities leading him to attack Nathian's command outpost on his own. With the help of a demi-squad of Chief Apothecary Fabius' "New Men", and highly potent if experimental weaponry, Nathian succeeded in capturing Corax and nearly killed him. However his plan was spoiled due to the timely intervention of Gherith Arendi and his men. Still seeking to kill the Primarch, Nathian retreated into his command bunker, setting the complex' Plasma Generator to detonate and thus vaporize Corax and his former brothers. In a vain attempt to stall for time and inflict a psychological blow to the Ravenlord, Nathian committed suicide before Corax' eyes, making sure Corax knew that he blamed him personally for the monster and traitor he had become.