Black Templars - Notable Black Templars: High Marshal Helbrecht - Helbrecht is the current High Marshal of the Black Templars Chapter. Helbrecht wields the Sword of the High Marshals, which was forged from the remnants of the sword of Rogal Dorn. According to legend, Dorn broke the sword across his knee after the Horus Heresy for failing to defend the Emperor. In addition to being High Marshal of the Black Templars Chapter, Helbrecht is the greatest naval commander in the Adeptus Astartes, and assumed command of all Space Marine warships during the Third War for Armageddon. Together with Admiral Parol of the Imperial Navy, Helbrecht held and eventually repulsed the numerically superior Ork fleet. Helbrecht was last seen departing Armageddon with Commissar Yarrick, hunting down the space hulk thought to be commanded by the Beast of Armageddon, Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. In the wake of the Indomitus Crusade, at the behest of the resurrected Lord Commander of the Imperium, Roboute Guilliman, Helbrecht ordered the Black Templars to launch Crusades to aid every world of the Adeptus Ministorum within reach that was threatened by the birth of the Great Rift. At some point following the birth of the Great Rift, Helbrecht crossed the Rubicon Primaris and underwent the agonising transformation into a Primaris Space Marine.High Marshal Kordhel - Helbrecht's predecessor, Kordhel was slain by a frenzied Chaos Champion of the Ruinous Powers in late 990.M41.High Marshal Ludoldus - Kordhel's predecessor, Ludoldus was a legendary High Marshal of the Black Templars, his career second-to-none, and his accomplishments were the stuff of Chapter legends. When Helbrecht was but a lowly neophyte, he served under the venerable High Marshal during the Vinculus Crusade in 833.M41, playing witness to the dramatic events of the campaign. It has been recorded that Ludoldus fought in the Jerulas Crusade (645.M39) as well, wars separated by two thousand Terran years which would make him unusually long-lived even for an Astartes if these accounts are true.High Marshal Sigenandus - Sigenandus was the High Marshal of the Black Templars during the tumultuous era known as the Wars of Apostasy in the 36th Millennium. A fiercely vengeful warrior, High Marshal Sigenandus was amongst the most fearsome warriors ever to command the Black Templars. Upon declaration of a Crusade, whichever foe was to be fought was doomed from that moment onwards as there would be no mercy shown until every last remnant of the enemy was destroyed. Great was Sigenandus' rage after discovering the destruction of his Chapter's keeps in the Segmentum Solar by the traitorous High Lord Goge Vandire's fleets and, in retribution, in 378.M36, he gathered four Crusade fleets and set off towards Terra, and vengeance. The Black Templars, together with the Imperial Fists and two other Chapters, the Soul Drinkers and the zealous Fire Hawks, and elements of the Martian Skitarii, took the fight to Terra itself and laid siege to Vandire's Ecclesiarchal Palace. The Terran Crusade fell upon Vandire's forces like a thunderbolt, smashing into the deluded followers of the insane High Lord with terrifying fury. The siege of Vandire's palace lasted many months and, together with Chapter Master Lazerian of the Imperial Fists, Sigenandus fought his way towards Vandire's chambers. The two warriors fought side by side with their Thunder Hammers, crushing all before them. At battle's end, with Vandire dead at the hands of his own bodyguard, the Brides of the Emperor, High Marshal Sigenandus still burned with fury at the destruction of his Chapter's keeps and the scale of the High Lord's betrayal. Determined that none should escape his vengeance, High Marshal Sigenandus set off from Terra to hunt down all those who had broken faith with the Emperor. Worlds burned as his quest took him throughout the galaxy until his eventual death in 522.M36.High Marshal Constantine - Constantine was a High Marshal of the Black Templars during the Age of Redemption. After his two predecessors were both slain by the Aeldari during the Benedictine War, Constantine continued his crusade despite calls by the Ecclesiarch to end the conflict.High Marshal Bohemond - Bohemond was the High Marshal of the Black Templars Chapter in the mid-32nd Millennium, and took part in the desperate battles against a massive Ork WAAAGH! that threatened the Throneworld of Terra itself during the War of the Beast that took place in 544-546.M32. The Chapter Master of the Black Templars had a fell reputation as a headstrong and strong-willed commander. His Black Templars stood as a force apart from the rest of the Imperial Fists Successor Chapters. They claimed lineage from Rogal Dorn as did the rest, but they cleaved to their own code and practices. When the last surviving Imperial Fists from the disaster on Ardamantua, Captain Koorland, enacted the "Last Wall Protocol", Bohemond agreed to represent his Chapter. A council between the Successor Chapters was to be held in the Phall System. As the longest-serving Chapter Master of the Scions of Dorn Successor Chapters, he agreed to host the council meeting aboard the Battle Barge Abhorrence. Bohemond would later lead his Chapter in the attack by his fellow Scions of Dorn Successor Chapters against the greenskins' massive Attack Moon in orbit over Terra. In the battle's aftermath, a tense meeting was held between the Last Wall Chapter Masters and the Lord Commander of the Imperium, Udin Macht Udo. The outspoken High Marshal expressed his disdain for both the squabbling and weak-willed High Lords of Terra as well as the Lord Commander. After the world of Ullanor Prime was identified as where The Beast and his massive WAAAGH! originated from, Bohemond was one of the central leaders who advocated an Imperial counter-strike in order to kill The Beast and wipe out the greenskins. He led his Chapter during the invasion of The Beast's capital world, upon the capital city of Gorkogrod, fighting alongside the returned Salamanders Primarch Vulkan. During this epic battle, the High Marshal always led from the forefront of the Astartes' advance, but constantly proved insubordinate to both Captain Koorland and even Vulkan himself. At his wit's end with the High Marshal's constant challenges to Koorland's authority, Vulkan challenged the upstart Chapter Master that whoever could lift his massive Thunder Hammer, Doomtremor, would rightfully assume the mantle of Lord Commander of the Imperium. However, this was a ploy, as the mighty weapon was so heavy, that even an Astartes fully arrayed in Terminator Armour was unable to lift it. Both Bohemond and the Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists, Quesadra, proved unable to lift it. Koorland, however, along with the Chapter Master of the Fists Exemplar, Maximus Thane, and his squad of Astartes lifted the mighty weapon together and managed to launch the Primarch's hammer like a javelin. As Koorland had proved his willingness to work with others, not for individual glory, Vulkan declared Koorland as the best candidate for Lord Commander. During the final push on The Beast's temple-Gargant, Bohemond once again objected to following Koorland's leadership when he ordered the Astartes to evacuate and let Vulkan face The Beast alone, in accordance with the Primarch's wishes. Enraged by the High Marshal's callous disregard, he struck Bohemond to the ground. Chastised, the High Marshal remained on the ground, shamed before his fellow Scions of Dorn, until he eventually evacuated with all the rest.High Marshal Scharn - Scharn was High Marshal of the Black Templars in the early 32nd Millennium. He was succeeded by High Marshal Bohemond.High Marshal Sigismund (KIA) - Sigismund was the First Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, and was chosen by his Primarch Rogal Dorn as the first High Marshal (Chapter Master) of the newly created Black Templars Chapter during the Second Founding in the early 31st Millennium. The Chapter took upon themselves the black and white panoply of Sigismund's personal heraldry. Chosen as the Emperor's Champion for his fervent faith in the Emperor and his undying devotion to Mankind, those zealous warriors of the Imperial Fists who became Black Templars sought to emulate their former First Captain's heroic example. Seeing the strife that beset the Legiones Astartes during the days of the Second Founding, he determined that a gesture of supreme faith was needed. As High Marshal of the Black Templars, Sigismund swore a mighty oath that upon leaving Terra, he would prove his loyalty, never resting in the prosecution of his duties against the enemies of the Emperor. It is an oath that every subsequent High Marshal has renewed, and so the greatest and longest Space Marine crusade in Imperial history was begun, a crusade that has continued unbroken for ten thousand Terran years. Sigismund led the Black Templars for several centuries, obsessed with hunting down the Traitor Legions who had fled into the Eye of Terror during the Great Scouring. During the 1st Black Crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler, when Sigismund was over a thousand Terran years old, the forces of the Black Legion assaulted the Black Templars' flagship Eternal Crusader determined to kill the High Marshal. Sigismund met Ezekyle Abaddon in single combat and was slain by the new Warmaster of Chaos, but not before he had buried his Black Sword deep into the Despoiler's chest, leaving a scar that would remain with the Warmaster for the next ten thousand years.Marshal Emrik - Marshal Emrik was the founder of the Solemnus Chapter Keep and commanded the Crusade that cleansed that world of a Genestealer taint. Emrik himself slew the Genestealer Patriarch and ended the xenos threat. His chapel-tomb resided within the Hall of Heroes of the Solemnus Keep.Marshal Actoan - In 996.M41, Marshal Actoan led a crusade against the world of Golgotha to try and eradicate the Ork presence on that planet.Marshal Brant - Brant was the commander of the Solemnus Crusade that participated in the Third War for Armageddon. Marshal Brant was just returning from the Liberation of Lugnasad in the Apollo Sub-sector when the Orks of the Blood Scar Tribe attacked and sacked the Solemnus Chapter Keep out of which the crusade had been based. For 12 years, Brant led the Solemnus Crusade in a quest for vengeance until they finally discovered the Blood Scar Tribe fighting alongside WAAAGH! Ghazghkull on the Hive World of Armageddon. The Solemnus Crusade immediately joined the battle against the Greenskin invaders and deployed several fighting companies to the wastes of Armageddon.Marshal Ricard - Ricard led the Dimaris Crusade until High Marshal Helbrecht diverted it to aid the Imperial defenders in the Third War for Armageddon. He was a neophyte around 909.M41.Marshal Marius Amalrich (KIA) - Marius Amalrich played a significant role in the final days of the 13th Black Crusade before the fall of Cadia, in the Ultramar Campaign that resurrected the Primarch Roboute Guilliman, and in the Terran Crusade Guilliman led to meet with his father the Emperor of Mankind on Holy Terra. Amalrich may also have been the marshal who commanded the Tiberior Crusade until High Marshal Helbrecht diverted it to aid the Imperial defenders in the Third War for Armageddon. Amalrich next led a Black Templars Crusade Fleet, the Cruxis Crusade, to Cadia to take part in its defence from the forces of Chaos. He was one of the few survivors to flee off-world and accept aid from the Ynnari in battling back an assault by Abaddon the Despoiler before fleeing through the Webway to Ultramar. After Guilliman's resurrection and the arrival of a new Black Templars Crusade at Macragge to support the efforts of the revived Primarch, Amalrich was recognised for his contributions and was named the Emperor's Champion by his Chapter's Chaplains. During a critical moment of the Terran Crusade aboard a Blackstone Fortress in the Warp rift called the Maelstrom, Amalrich stabbed the Bloodthirster Skarbrand the Exiled One through the chest with the Black Sword of the Emperor's Champion. Though this effort cost Amalrich his life, Guilliman exploited the wound to defeat the Greater Daemon of Khorne, escape from the trap set in the Maelstrom by Kairos Fateweaver and make his way to Terra.Marshal Armante (KIA) - Armante commanded the Lastrati Crusade and came to the defence of the Imperial world of Arthas when it was invaded by Chaos forces in service to Nurgle. Due to the crusade's efforts, the forces of the Death Guard Chaos Lord Malek Vos and the Nurglite Daemon Prince The Fly Lord were kept at bay, though the Black Templars suffered heavy casualties as a result. As the battle wore on, the crusade found itself fighting alone and was stricken a fatal blow, when the Marshal himself was killed. With his death, all hope of saving Arthas was gone, though the remaining Black Templars refused to escape until they could reclaim Armante's body. Led by the Emperor's Champion Horst and the Chaplain Ferdinand, the crusade fought ferociously to reach the Marshal's body, but were destroyed by the Chaos forces that stood in their way, who were personally commanded by Malek Vos and The Fly Lord.Marshal Austein (KIA) - Austein was the initial commander of the Donian Crusade in 985.M39. However on the world of Nickel V Austein was killed by Orks and was succeeded by Marshal Werhner.Marshal Wernher - Wernher joined the Donian Crusade in 985.M39 to combat the swelling Ork population sweeping through the Donian Sector and surrounding Wilderness Space in the southern Segmentum Pacificus. The original crusade marshal, Brother Austein, was tragically killed in battle on the planet Nickel V, and was succeeded by Marshal Wernher in 988.M39. The Donian Crusade lasted for roughly 17 standard years before the high marshal declared it successful in ca. 002.M40. Wernher went on to later become the marshal of the Thangdorn Crusade.Marshal Ulliquel - Commander of the Thunder Crusade who fought against the Drukhari and Alpha Legion during his recruitment mission to the Chapter Keep on Cephia IV.Marshal Magneric (Dreadnought) (KIA) - Magneric was a Marshal of the Black Templars in the 32nd Millennium. A follower of Sigismund and hero of the Horus Heresy, Magneric was badly injured fighting against his old friend the Iron Warriors Warsmith Kalkator and subsequently interred within a Dreadnought. Magneric rarely went into the mandated hibernation cycles required for other Dreadnoughts. As a result, he became emotionally unstable and prone to a fanaticism unusual even for the Black Templars. His temperament was usually moderated by his trusted castellan, Ralstan. He led the Kalkator Crusade with a brutal zeal, determined to exact his vengeance on the Warsmith. Ultimately, Magneric cornered Kalkator on the world of Dzelenic IV but both his and the Iron Warriors' forces were under attack from the Orks of The Beast. Facing mutual annihilation, Magneric initially refused Kalkator's calls for a temporary truce but was swayed to relent by Ralstan. Magneric and Kalkator put aside their vendetta for a time in order to battle the greenskins. Magneric met his end in the Battle of Vandis, during the War of the Beast. The Orks boarded the warship Obsidian Sky in great numbers while Magneric defended its bridge, sending many to their deaths before he ordered the ship to ram a nearby Ork carrier.Marshal Haeson - Haeson was among the Imperium's forces defending Cadia during the 13th Black Crusade. While defending Kasr Kraf, Haeson saw Abaddon the Despoiler teleport onto the battlefield and charged the Black Legion's master to finally end his threat to the Imperium. He proved to be no match for the Despoiler, who easily butchered the Marshal before looking for more of Cadia's defenders to kill.Marshal Armond Montfort - Armond Montfort led the Chapter's Excorius Crusade. During the Era Indomitus after the birth of the Great Rift, he commanded the Aurilla Crusade, one of the Shrine World Crusades to protect the sacred worlds of the Ecclesiarchy.Marshal Gervhart - Gervhart led the Second Purging of Lastrati in 543.M36, as a part of the Athalor Crusade. The Hive World of Lastrati, located in the Ultima Segmentum, had become a place of pilgrimage, and for centuries, the faithful had come to bear witness to such spectacles as the Hill of Heretics and the Plain of Purity. Marshal Gervhart and the Black Templars of the Athalor Crusade had come to Lastrati to take heart from the planet's potent displays of faith from the past, but were horrified by what they found. The Quintarchs of Lastrati had turned to barbaric blood rituals and human sacrifices in search of genetic perfection. At first the Space Marines were welcomed as examples of genetic supremacy, but the more the Black Templars saw, the more they realised that the rituals of the people of Lastrati had too much in common with the heretical cult worship of the Ruinous Powers. Marshal Gervhart ordered the planet cleansed of its degenerate inhabitants before continuing the Crusade. After four standard years of fighting, the warriors of Marshal Gervhart forced the remaining forces of Lastrati back into the Plain of Purity where they made their last stand before the Black Templars at the Hill of Heretics. The army was destroyed, the Black Templars showing no mercy and accepting no surrender. Those deemed free from taint were allowed to live -- an act of mercy that was to have a terrible repercussion for Marshal Gervhart in later years. The infamous Gervahrt Repeal of the 36th Millennium was the only time a High Marshal has repealed the promotion of a Marshal to that rank.Marshal Korneliusz - Korneliusz was a marshal of the Black Templars.Captain Malachi - Brother-Captain Malachi was the leader of a Black Templars squad seconded to the Adeptus Ministorum as a gesture of good will. They discovered Sister Ephrael Stern on the planet of Parnis. Unknown to several of his brethren, Malachi had been turned to the worship of Slaanesh by Cardinal Seraiah. Malachi met his end at the hands of Inquisitor Septimus Grinn, who was placed among his squad to look for corruption and heresy.Castellan Adlar - Castellan Adlar commanded Fighting Company Adlar of the Solemnus Crusade during the Third War for Armageddon. Fighting Company Adlar deployed to the surface of Armageddon to stall the Ork invaders and search for the Red Scar Ork Tribe that had destroyed the Solemnus Chapter Keep. Castellan Adlar fell during the assault on the Blood Scar Tribe's Gargant Factory, pinned by a crashed Ork Trukk, Brother Adlar used his Thunder Hammer to detonate the munitions stockpile of the Kannon emplacement where he was trapped and dying, taking every Ork in the vicinity with him.Castellan Draco - Draco first rose to prominence as part of Marshal Ludoldus' Sword Brethren during the bitter Vinculus Crusade in which he fought the Renegade Inquisitor Lord Vinculus. He was badly wounded after the battle and his body was reconstructed with bionics. He was awarded the rank of castellan and was given a relic suit of the Chapter's finest power armour for his valour. Draco's exploits were further recognised when he was presented with the former Inquisitor's blade as a mark of gratitude from the Ordo Hereticus. Unfortunately, Draco has since been declared Excommunicate Traitoris for deeds too horrible to recount.Castellan Dramos - Dramos was a Black Templars Castellan who aided in the defence of the Talledus System, with forces from the Chapter's Rutherian Crusade. During the Chaos invasion of the system, the Castellan's forces, alongside the Knights of House Mortan commanded by Sir Dirkwald, defended the world of Ghreddask against the forces of the Warpsmith Etrogar. The Warpsmith had attacked that Hive World using the parasitic Soul Harvester Scarax Krond, whose hab-block size tentacles burrowed themselves beneath Ghreddask's surface. This allowed the Soul Harvester to feed off the world and indefinitely create Daemon Engines as well as easily disgorge Etrogar's Iron Warriors forces. As long as it was operational, the Imperium would be unable to defeat the Warpsmith. As a result, Dramos ordered the invasion of the Scarax Krond. As his Templars and Mortan's Knights fought the Iron Warriors, the Castellan's Command Squad fought its way to the Soul Harvester's heart. There, in an act of self-sacrifice that would mark their names in the honour-scrolls of their Chapter, Dramos and his warriors detonated a cyclonic charge. Though the resulting explosion did not destroy the Scarax Krond outright, it heavily damaged the Soul Harvester and gave the surviving Imperial forces time to regroup.Castellan Gothchalcus - Gothchalcus was the commander of a fighting company in the Donian Crusade.Castellan Folkert - Folkert was a Castellan of the Nimbosa Crusade.Castellan Heinman - Heinman was the commander of a fighting company that participated in the Donian Crusade.Castellan Zvarin Roist - Zvarin Roist is the Castellan of the Elysium Crusade, which consists of Black Templars sent to aid the rebuilding of the decimated Celestial Lions on their homeworld of Elysium IX. However, following the creation of the Great Rift, Elysium became one of the many worlds of Elara's Veil that were threatened when it was invaded by the Chaos warhost known as the Exilarchy. The Great Rift's creation also stranded the Imperial forces located in the Veil, but this did not lead Roist and his Black Templars to break their oaths to the Celestial Lions. They continued to aid in the rebuilding of their brother Chapter and aided the Celestial Lions in defending Elara's Veil from the Chaos invaders.Castellan Lazarus Gotchalcus - Lazarus Gotchalcus led one of the Black Templar fighting companies in the Donian Crusade.Castellan Clermont - Clermont worked eagerly at the side of High Marshal Bohemond and took part in the invasion of Ullanor in the closing stages of the War of the Beast in the mid-32nd Millennium.Reclusiarch Merek Grimaldus, the Hero of Helsreach - Chaplain Grimaldus is a noted veteran of the Third War for Armageddon. During the Battle for Hive Helsreach, Grimaldus led the defence of the Temple of the Emperor Ascendant, which had stood since Armageddon's colonisation. The battle became so heated that the building itself collapsed around them. It was believed that all had perished in the building until Grimaldus, bloody but unbroken, climbed out of the rubble bearing three of the temple's artifacts -- a column from its Major Altar, the Banner of the Emperor Victorious, and holy water from the Stoup of Elucidation. Apothecaries who examined him later were amazed that Grimaldus had survived, much less found the strength to climb from the ruins. When the war ended, the citizens of Hive Helsreach honoured him with the title of "Hero of Helsreach." At some point after the birth of the Great Rift in the Era Indomitus, Grimaldus crossed the Rubicon Primaris to become a Primaris Space Marine.Reclusiarch Kul Gilad - Kul Gilad served as the Reclusiarch of the Black Templars in the late 41st Millennium.Deathwatch Chaplain Albanactus - Albanactus was a Black Templars Chaplain who joined the Deathwatch and now serves as the High Reclusiarch for Watch Fortress Furor Shield's Reclusiam.Chaplain Augustin - Augustin was attached to the Marshal's household during the Donian Crusade.Chaplain Haldredd - Haldredd took part in the Nightfire Crusade against the T'au Farsight Enclaves. During the campaign, he was overcome by the spirit of the Emperor and led a Reclusiam Command Squad known as the "High Hand of the Emperor" against the T'au. Following Haldredd's wise battle council and fervent prayers, the High Hand of the Emperor smashed through multiple lines of T'au Battlesuits and soon set the T'au to flight. In the bloody battles that followed, Haldredd and the High Hand of the Emperor guided the Black Templars to many great victories over the Farsight Enclaves.Chaplain Leuter - Leuter was attached to the Marshal's household during the Donian Crusade.Chaplain Mavros - Mavros is currently taking part in the Traxis Sector conflict. Later in that campaign, he formed a strike force from his Chapter in response to hearing that the Shrine World of Sacaellum had been invaded. Yet, Mavros did not intend to come to that beleagured world's defence. Instead, he sought to evacuate numerous relics that Sacaellum contained, chief among them the relics of the Imperial saint Camila. Camila had been responsible for first bringing the Traxis Sector into the Imperium millennia ago and to the Black Templars her relics were worth more than both the Shrine World and its population. However, Mavros' intention to evacuate the saint's relics brought him into conflict with a force from the Aeldari Craftworld Saim-Hann, led by Autarch Talyesin Fharenal, who for reasons unknown sought to claim Camila's relics for themselves.Chaplain Ferdinand - Ferdinand was part of Marshal Armante's Lastrati Crusade when it came to the aid of the Imperial world of Arthas, which had been invaded by the Chaos forces of Nurgle. Thanks to the crusade's efforts, the forces of the Death Guard Chaos Lord Malek Vos and the Nurglite Daemon Prince known as The Fly Lord were kept at bay, though the Black Templars suffered heavy causalities as a result. As the battle wore on, the crusade soon found itself fighting alone and was stricken a fatal blow when the Marshal was killed. With his death, all hope of saving Arthas was gone, though the remaining Black Templars refused to escape until they could reclaim Armante's body. With time running out, Ferdinand and the Emperor's Champion Horst led what remained of the crusade into battle with the Chaos forces, who were personally led by Malek Vos and The Fly Lord. Despite the Black Templars' efforts, they were destroyed before they could reach the Marshal's body. Ferdinand was slain by Plague Drones.Chaplain Ecastus - Ecastus was a Chaplain of the Black Templars.Chaplain Dreadnought Bachorath - Bachorath was a Chaplain Dreadnought during the War of the Beast and was later chosen to become the Imperial Fists' new High Chaplain, after its Successor Chapters decided to rebuild their destroyed progenitor Chapter. He would later take part in the Imperium's third invasion of The Beast's homeworld of Ullanor, but was killed by The Beast after the Imperial Fists stormed the Ork warlord's palace.Hierophant and Reclusiarch Theodorich - Theodorich fought on Barbarossa IV for control of the Chapter keep against the Orks.Chaplain Mordred - Mordred was the Reclusiarch of the Black Templars and the mentor of Grimaldus. Mordred fell in battle shortly before the onset of the Armageddon Crusade, his dying wish was to see Grimaldus as his successor as the Chapter's Reclusiarch. The "Hero of Helsreach" wields the relic Crozius Arcanum of Mordred and wears his silver skull-faced battle helm to this day.Deathwatch Chaplain Broec - Broec was a member of Imperial Fists' Captain Octavius' Deathwatch Kill-team during the mission on Herodian IV against the vile Tyranid menace. Broec died heroically, fighting alongside Librarian Shaidan of the Mantis Warriors while facing a Hive Tyrant, giving his comrades time to escape.Forge Master Jurisian - Forge Master of the High Marshal's flagship, Eternal Crusader, Jurisian served for 19 standard years before being assigned to the Helsreach Crusade during the Third War for Armageddon. During the first days of the siege he was sent to a defensive position in the Ash Wastes designated D-16 West that contained a sealed Adeptus Mechanicus installation. After long hours of work Jurisian discovered the installation was the home of the great Ordinatus Armageddon Oberon, also known as the Death of Titans, a relic of the First War for Armageddon. The Ordinatus was armed with a mighty Nova Cannon normally used in ship-to-ship combat. It took Jurisian most of the remaining two months of the Siege to unlock the resting place of Oberon, reactivate the machine and travel back to Helsreach. In the end, Jurisian's contribution to the fight for Helsreach was the destruction of the Ork Mega Gargant known as Godbreaker.Techmarine Artificer Simagus - Simagus is credited with the discovery of the Standard Template Construct (STC) database used to create the Land Raider Crusader during the Jerulas Crusade in 645.M39. By 763.M39, the Crusader Pattern was officially recognised by the Tech-priests of Mars.Emperor's Champion Bayard - Bayard served in the Helsreach Crusade during the Third War for Armageddon, fighting with honour and courage before being killed by an Ork spearthrust to the throat in the graveyards outside the Temple of the Emperor Ascendant on the last day of the battle for Hive Helsreach. His blade was taken up by the Emperor's Champion Priamus.Emperor's Champion Bethuel - Bethuel was an Emperor's Champion who led the force of Black Templars that purged Orbital Hive 72 in orbit of the world of Porphyr III. The Black Templars eliminated the Heretek forces of the Techno Magos Ark Hieron. Bethuel ordered his battle-brothers to evacuate the hive city while he faced Hieron in mortal combat even as Orbital Hive 72 began a fiery plunge into the atmosphere of Porphyr III.Emperor's Champion Alehart the Slayer - Alehart was the Emperor's Champion in 997.M41 during the Black Templars' battle with Hive Fleet Leviathan in the Shimmering City of Mirlas. In the second battle with the Tyranids, he turned the tide of the conflict when he slew the Hive Tyrant leading the swarm. Not content with defeating the Tyranids on the planet, Alehart led a small band of his battle-brothers in boarding a hive ship orbiting it. After hacking his way to the ship's core, Alehart drove his Black Sword into the pulsing cortex of the giant beast, causing its death scream to echo across the system.Emperor's Champion Tomas - Tomas was the Emperor's Champion of the Donian Crusade.Captain of the Banner and Emperor's Champion Navarre - The Wars of Apostasy, also known as the Terran Crusade, were a series of battles fought against the forces of the Renegade High Lord of Terra Goge Vandire during the Age of Apostasy's Reign of Blood in the fourth century of the 36th Millennium. During this tumultuous period, the Black Templars had concerned themselves little with the affairs of the Imperium, but when Black Templar Crusade Fleets returned to the Segmentum Solar and discovered that their Chapter keeps had been destroyed by orbital bombardments, the full extent of Vandire's treachery became apparent. Enraged by what they discovered of Vandire's perversion of the Emperor's will, in 378.M36 the Black Templars Chapter's High Marshal Sigenandus declared an Imperial Crusade against Vandire on Terra. The Black Templars, together with their progenitors the Imperial Fists, the Soul Drinkers, the zealous Fire Hawks and elements of the Martian Tech-Guard, took the fight to Terra itself and laid siege to Vandire's Ecclesiarchal Palace. For months the armies of the Imperial Preacher Sebastian Thor, the Space Marines and their allies laid siege to the Ecclesiarchal Palace without managing to breach its formidable defences. Eventually, the Emperor's Champion Navarre of the Black Templars led a daring last ditch assault. At the height of the fighting, the Chapter Banner Bearer fell, and all eyes watched as the Black Templars Chapter Standard began to slowly sink to the ground, but Navarre swept the banner up and carried it through the breach in the palace's walls, inspiring his brothers to fight all the harder. After the battle, Chapter Master Lazerian of the Imperial Fists honoured Navarre with the title of Captain of the Banner in recognition of his exemplary bravery and courage.Emperor's Champion Torund the Thrice-Blessed - Torund the Thrice-Blessed was a Black Templars Emperor's Champion in 772.M39. When the cursed Sorcerer-Librarian Xenthuros claimed the Crystal Hives of Vard for his profane god Tzeentch, it was Torund that stood against him and prevailed. In the final Black Templars assault against Xenthuros' floating spire fortress, dozens of battle-brothers were driven mad by the mirrored buttresses and their hidden whisper-spells. Only Torund was untouched. Three times Xenthuros tried to ensorcell the Emperor’s Champion, and three times Torund spat back the enchantments with contempt. In the crystal throne room of the Sorcerer, Torund swept Xenthuros' bird-like head from his shoulders, the Black Sword cleaving through wards and Warp magic alike.Emperor's Champion Ansgar - Ansgar was an Emperor's Champion of the Solemnus Crusade in 999.M41. Despite wounding his opponent, he was ultimately defeated by the Ork Warboss Morkrull Grimskar, who captured Ansgar and used his wargear to turn himself into a Cybork.Emperor's Champion Rynart the Unbowed - Rynart the Unbowed was a Black Templars Emperor's Champion in 563.M38. On the storm-wracked world of Ismas, Rynart led the charge against the cursed Ork hordes of Warboss Slagrut. Astride his clanking, smoking war machine, the Ork leader assaulted the Imperial lines across the great Ismas Steam Bridge linking the vast central canal-cities together. Rynart walked across a river of xenos corpses to smite the alien warlord, his Black Sword smashing apart the pistons and gears of its war engine. In the end, only a blow against the bridge itself proved enough and, rupturing the compression spire, Rynart sent the Ork warlord and his horde screaming into the black waters below.Emperor's Champion Garrein (KIA) - Garrein was the Emperor's Champion of Marshal Marius Amalrich's Cruxis Crusade when it came to the defence of Cadia during the 13th Black Crusade. When the battle for the Fortress World was lost, the Cruxis Crusade was evacuated to Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl's Ark Mechanicus, the Iron Revenant, before Cadia was destroyed on the orders of Abaddon the Despoiler. Before they could escape the Cadian System, they were pursued by Abaddon's fleet. Guided by the Living Saint Celestine, they sought refuge on the frozen moon of Klaisus. However, they were later pursued by Abaddon once again and, in order for the majority of the Imperial survivors to escape, Marshal Amalrich asked for half of his remaining crusade to volunteer to slow the Black Legion's pursuit. Garrein took command of this force and they stopped Abaddon's pursuit for several solar hours before they were eventually killed by the Black Legion. This proved to be enough time for the surviving Imperial forces to be found and rescued by the Ynnari.Emperor's Champion Horst - Horst was the Emperor's Champion of the Lastrati Crusade when it came to the aid of the Imperial world of Arthas after it was invaded by the Chaos forces of Nurgle. Led by Marshal Armante, the crusade kept the forces of the Death Guard Chaos Lord Malek Vos and the Nurglite Daemon Prince The Fly Lord at bay, though the Black Templars suffered heavy causalities as a result. As the battle wore on, the crusade found itself fighting alone and was stricken a fatal blow, when the Marshal himself was killed. With his death, all hope of saving Arthas was gone, though the remaining Black Templars refused to escape until they could reclaim Armante's body. Led by the Emperor's Champion Horst and the Chaplain Ferdinand, the crusade fought ferociously to reach the Marshal's body, but were destroyed by the Chaos forces that stood in their way, who were personally commanded by Malek Vos and The Fly Lord.Deathwatch Battle-Brother Richter - Richter is an old, battle-scarred Veteran Space Marine of the Black Templars who joined the ranks of the Deathwatch, the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Xenos. Though he appears taciturn and unremarkable, his expertise with both Bolter and Chainsword mark him as a past master in the deadly arts. For those with a practised eye, he is clearly Sword Brethren material even though he wears no honours on his armour and seeks no recognition of his prowess. Richter is obviously vexed by some sort of spiritual turmoil, as his hard set jaw and distant gaze tell of a soul deeply troubled by some past event.Jarold (Dreadnought) - Brother Jarold was a Veteran warrior of the Solemnus Crusade, stationed at the Solemnus Chapter Keep and assigned to search out potential Neophytes for the Chapter. Jarold was nearing the end of his tour of duty at the keep when it was attacked by Ork invaders. Jarold was the sole survivor, though his body was cut in two by an Ork Power Klaw after he had slain scores of the creatures, his barely living remains located by Apothecary Colber atop a veritable mound of greenskin corpses. After his internment within a Dreadnought, Jarold participated in the Armageddon Crusade as part of Fighting Company Adlar. After the loss of Emperor's Champion Ansgar he commanded the strike force designated "Ansgar's Avengers," which was tasked with locating and recovering the Champion and his armaments.Gerlach - Gerlach participated in the Donorian Crusade and was known to believe that xenos should be destroyed by the sword, but Heretics with both the sword and faith in the God-Emperor.Paresh Rammius (Dreadnought) - Rammius was a distinguished Sword Brethren of the Black Templars and a close friend of High Marshal Helbrecht. During the Third War for Armageddon, Rammius was badly wounded by an immense Ork Mek. Mortally wounded, he begged to be allowed to continue to serve the Emperor and his body was interred within the cybernetic sarcophagus of a Dreadnought.Invictus Potens (Dreadnought) - The Dreadnought Invictus Potens was originally known as Adelard.Siggard (Dreadnought) - Siggard is a Dreadnought in the Black Templars Chapter's 5th Company. He led his battle-brothers into battle against the Orks, across the Ash Wastes of Armageddon, during the Third War for Armageddon.Tankred (Dreadnought) - Sword Brother Gerhart was born Raclaw, a member of the Drumkil tribe on the primitive Black Templars recruiting world of Kilhaven. The young barbarian was taken by the Black Templars and selected for initiation into the Chapter under the tutelage of Brother Gerhart Brunner, in whose honour he was later named Gerhart. At a later time, after being badly wounded, he was transformed into the Dreadnought known as Tankred.Banner Bearer Eckehart - Eckehart was a Banner Bearer who was attached to the Marshal's household during the Donian Crusade.Sergeant Hermann - Hermann fought on Barbarossa IV for control of the Chapter keep against the Orks.Geraud - Brother Geraud sits upon the Imperial war council overseeing the defence of the Talledus System from the forces of Chaos during the Talledus War.Emmerich Berengard - Berengard was a Black Templar Space Marine during the War of the Beast and was later chosen to become the Imperial Fists' new first captain, after its Successor Chapters decided to rebuild their destroyed progenitor Chapter. He would later take part in the Imperium's third invasion of The Beast's homeworld of Ullanor.Baldarich - Baldarich was a member of the Black Templars and later the Deathwatch during the War of the Beast in the mid-32nd Millennium. He took part in the search for an Ork psyker on Plaeos and later served during the second invasion of Ullanor.Expectanten Bremen - Bremen was a mortal Expectanten who sought to volunteer to undergo the trials to become a Black Templar. After the reconquest of Barbarossa IV's Chapter keep he rose to Initiate rank.Initiate Frederick - Frederick fought on Barbarossa IV for control of the Chapter keep against the Orks.Neophyte Utrecht - Utrecht fought on Barbarossa IV for control of the Chapter keep against the Orks.Helbrant Alderic - Helbrant Alderic was a member of the Black Templars who became the captain of the Imperial Fists 8th Company after the destroyed Chapter was rebuilt during the War of the Beast. He would shape the 8th Company in his image, as its tactics would reflect the hot-blooded nature of the Black Templars he had once belonged to and focussed on headlong assaults. The company would readily embrace these tactics, as it contained many of Alderic's battle-brothers from his former Chapter. The Imperial Fists' newly elected Chapter Master, Maximus Thane, would have rectified this, though, had the restored Chapter not been scattered to confront the Imperial rebellions that began after the Grand Master of Assassins Drakan Vangorich's death. However it was during these conflicts that the 8th Company was truly reborn to war. Under Alderic's command, the 8th Company fought across the Segmentum Obscurus and was given numerous battle honours for their efforts. Many of these were earned in campaigns under the notional command of Wolf Lord Harald Firetooth, whose Fenrisian bravado only encouraged Alderic's aggressive approach to battle. By the time the 8th Company returned to the Phalanx, they were all but unrecognisable as Imperial Fists to their other battle-brothers. This led the company to be censured by Chapter Master Thane, who then split the 8th apart, sending its Astartes to other companies while he demoted Alderic from the rank of captain. However, Thane later noticed that the 8th Company's former members did not carry Alderic's impetuous ardor with them, and instead displayed discipline that put even the most stoic Imperial Fist to shame. It seemed as if by allowing their aggression to run unfettered during their battles in the Segmentum Obscurus, the former members of the 8th had purged that part of themselves, and emerged all the stronger for it. This led Thane to restore Alderic's captaincy and keep the battle tactics he had implemented within the 8th Company. The Chapter Master also changed the Imperial Fists' logistics so that members of the 10th Company would always ascend to the 8th, in order to excise their youthful wildness. For the impact he and Harald Firetooth both had on the 8th Company, they have been immortalised on many of the 8th's Company Banners with a golden figure bearing Alderic's original cruciform-hilted sword, portrayed alongside the Wolf Lord's personal sigil.