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Eye of Terror Campaign - Azrael: Azrael, the Supreme Grand Master of the Dark Angels was a notable absentee at the council of Chapter Masters met elected Grimnar their head. Azrael led the Dark Angels, and the so-called Unforgiven Chapters, according to his own inscrutable strategy. The only time he is known to have stood beside other Imperial forces was when he led a company of Dark Angels upon Xersia, where he joined with Lord Castellan Creed and his Cadian 8th to repel a force of Black Legionnaires from the world's High Basilica. Though the Despoiler succeeded in his sacrilegious mission to desecrate the high altar as part of some dedication to the Ruinous Powers that would guarantee the success of the Thirteenth Black Crusade. Azrael was instrumental in repelling the invaders, for a time at least.
Eye of Terror Campaign - Eldrad Ulthran: The Farseer Eldrad Ulthran, most gifted Eldar prophet found that the twisting forests of possibilities through which he walked at will were denied to him, blinding his exceptional scrying abilities. His one certainty was that darkness stood ready to engulf him and possibly even his homeworld. At the formation of the Ulthwé Strike Forces, Eldrad divided many parts of his consciousness into shimmering Waystones and, after many weeks of guiding his troops through the Webway, he was exhausted and spent when he was last seen by the Eldar of Ulthwé. He appointed a controversial member of the Seer Council as his successor before departing with his Warlock bodyguard on a desperate last quest, to rescue the soul of one of the legendary Talismans of Vaul before it turned the surface of Cadia into a boiling, incandescent sea.
Eye of Wrath - Eye of Wrath: The Eye of Wrath is a unique Aeldari monocular device worn over one eye, that can unleash a tempest of lightning upon those under its gaze.This ingenious directed energy weapon is utilised by Prince Yriel, the brilliant, if somewhat headstrong, scion of House Ulthanash and Autarch and High Admiral of Craftworld Iyanden.
Eyes of Wrath (Imperium) - Eyes of Wrath (Imperium): The Eyes of Wrath is the name of an Imperial surveillance network centred on the Fortress World of Wrath that serves the Achilus Crusade in its mission to retake control of the Jericho Reach.The network is linked together by the minds of dedicated Astropaths whose every thought is triple-encrypted by the most complex ciphers the Adeptus Astra Telepathica are willing to divulge.
Eyes of Wrath (Imperium) - History: To date, the Eyes of Wrath extends across a multitude of worlds within the Canis Salient of the Achilus Crusade, stretching back to Spite, and as far into the front lines as Bekrin and Veren in the Greyhell Front.At the direction of Lord Commander Sebiascor Ebongrave and Wrath's ruling Planetary Governor, Regent Castellan Hallin Tarnassus III, any Imperial force on almost any world in the Canis Salient can be subjected to intensive purity testing and be monitored for heresy or treasonous activities from afar.Such deeds are recorded in secret and transmitted by the encrypted thoughts of Astropaths to Wrath, and from there to any other world within the network.The Eyes of Wrath are the single greatest tool Lord Commander Ebongrave possesses for rooting out and eradicating the insidious taint of the T'au.As all-seeing as the Eyes of Wrath are, the paranoid lord commander would be horrified to learn that they have in fact been compromised by an outside agency.Fortunately for the Imperium, that agency is not the T'au, but the servants of the Ordo Xenos, and through them, the Deathwatch. Indeed, unknown to Ebongrave, the Inquisition has long utilised the Eyes of Wrath as a means of gathering information on both the populace of the Reach and those enemies of the Imperium who would seek to infiltrate it.To date, dozens of T'au agents have been intercepted by the Ordo Xenos or neutralised by Deathwatch Kill-teams long before the authorities have become aware of them.They deem it better that Ebongrave remains ignorant of the infiltration of the Eyes of Wrath, for were he to discover it, he would no doubt descend to yet greater depths of paranoia and bitterness.
Ezekiel - Ezekiel: Ezekiel is the Grand Master of Librarians of the Dark Angels Chapter of Space Marines. Along with the Supreme Grand Master of the Chapter and the Master of Sanctity, the Grand Master of the Librarium is one of the most important individuals in the Dark Angels and the other Unforgiven Chapters.It is the Grand Master who oversees the psykers of the Chapter and judges the strength and loyalty of those that lead the hunt for the Fallen. Ezekiel is the current incumbent of this role, a quiet and sinister figure who inspires as much fear as respect from those who serve with him.He bears the Book of Salvation, a tome that contains the names of all the Fallen Angels who have been captured by the Chapter or the other Unforgiven Chapters written out in their own blood. This book is so revered that it will never leave the Grand Master's side so long as he draws breath.Although the majority of those within the Chapter do not understand the true significance of the bound volume, all Dark Angels will fight with unmatched zeal to protect the treasured relic. Ezekiel also oversees the elevation of any Dark Angel into the Chapter's governing Inner Circle, and it is he who judges the worthiness of those candidates.Considered stern and uncompromising even by other Dark Angels, Ezekiel has the uncanny ability to read the intentions of any individual, and the bravest of souls feel unsettled beneath his penetrating gaze. For some, this unease stems from Ezekiel's crude bionic eye, yet Space Marines are accustomed to horrific injuries; for others, it is the heavy silence around him, for Ezekiel rarely speaks outside of the solemn rituals of the Inner Circle or the cruel interrogations of the Fallen.For most, however, it is Ezekiel's mien -- a single glance of his good eye reveals the look of one who has stared deeply into a person's soul and found something lacking. It is this trait that puts him in good stead as the final arbiter of whether a Dark Angel is worthy enough to enter into the Inner Circle; he seeks signs of steadfast loyalty, and the least trace of taint or weakness spells an applicant's doom.As the Grand Master of the Librarius, Ezekiel also holds the title of Holder of the Keys. It is his burden to carry the keys that unlock all the doors within the depths of The Rock, the Dark Angels' mobile fortress-monastery, save one.Ezekiel can still always be found at the forefront of battle. As a master of Interromancy, his sibilant Warp-whispers claw away at the sanity of every enemy on the field. In the flesh, Ezekiel is no less terrifying a prospect, for he bears the blade known as Traitor's Bane. Forged to slay those who dared to turn their backs upon the Emperor, it is a formidable Force Weapon that carries within it the rage of the betrayed.
Ezekiel - The Oracle-Child: The Dark Angels arrived at the world of Delphyna III in 516.M41, responding to bleak visions of destruction witnessed by their Librarians. Contact had been lost with the world for many centuries, and upon their arrival, the four companies of Dark Angels found a society that had devolved into the worst kinds of superstition and barbarism.Human sacrifice was rife, though carried out in the name of the Emperor. All technology was shunned and the cities had fallen to ruin. Of the Imperial Commander, Adeptus Arbites and other authorities, only charred bones remained to decorate bloody altar-towers that stood high above the stretches of wilderness. The Dark Angels brought retribution with bolter and blade, the regressed inhabitants no match for the superhuman warriors of the Adeptus Astartes.There was no hope for the populace of the planet, but once cleansed of their taint, Delphyna III was ripe for recolonisation. Every day, the crude keeps and castles of the Delphynians fell to the onslaught as hundreds of thousands were slain.In the largest keep-town, Serenghast, the warriors of the Dark Angels were confronted not by raving blood-spattered savages but placid, mute folk who opened the gates of their settlement and silently welcomed the Space Marines. Taken aback and fearing sorcery, Master Astophael of the 4th Company ordered his warriors to stand down and sent for assistance from the Librarium. Codicier Meroth detected the psychic presence within Serenghast from several miles away.Alone, he entered the citadel at the heart of the town, his mind protected by his psychic hood and all manner of soul-enchantments. Yet no attack came. He found the inner keep deserted, room after room filled with shelves and tables packed with scrolls and scraps of parchment. Examining these, he discovered nonsensical proclamations and half-hysterical rantings. The psychic presence was strong and he continued his investigations.In the deepest dungeon, within a lightless oubliette, Meroth found a child no more than ten Terran years old, chained on a floor strewn with filthy straw. His flesh was marked by brand and scar. The psychic potential of the boy was as plain to the Librarian as his wasted state; a throbbing in his psychic sight."You could have slain them all," Meroth told the child, guessing rightly that it was he that had pacified the people above. The mad scribblings now took on a more sinister edge; transcriptions of the tortured boy's ravings, accounts of visions ripped from him by hot iron and blade. "Why did you endure this?" The boy looked at Meroth with dark brown eyes, his stare aged beyond his meagre years. "I saw salvation coming on wings of fire. Now it is here."
Ezekiel - The Testing: The boy that would become Ezekiel submitted meekly to every test and torment the Chaplains and Librarians visited upon him, never once protesting as they sought to find some physical, mental or psychic weakness that would render him unsuitable for transformation into a Space Marine. Though physically debilitated, he was genetically ideal and was passed into the 10th Company for training and implantation.After long years learning the craft of the warrior and the mental discipline to hone his psychic potential, Ezekiel was presented with one final challenge. To be admitted from the 10th Company to the Librarium, he had to face the Testing.A senior Librarian would delve into his innermost thoughts to visit upon him the worst terrors he had ever feared. Only by surviving this mental assault would Ezekiel prove himself strong enough to become a Librarian.It was Meroth that volunteered to conduct his student's testing, taking him to the Well of Sanctuary deep in the heart of The Rock. In a chamber lined with protective runes and crystal psychic matrices, Meroth began. Ezekiel did not resist at all, but opened up his memories for the Librarian to see. Meroth's mind touched for the briefest moment, experiencing a tiny fragment of what had happened to the young boy.Meroth howled like a wounded beast of Old Caliban and collapsed. It took eighty solar days for him to recover, during which Ezekiel waited patiently for his mentor's assessment. Meroth never spoke of what he had encountered in those memories, but simply pronounced Ezekiel fit for the Librarium. There was, he said, no nightmare the Librarians could visit upon Ezekiel that he had not already endured.
Ezekiel - An Outsider: It was plain that Ezekiel was one of the most naturally powerful psykers the Dark Angels had ever recruited. He was passed to the rank of Codicier immediately, bypassing Lexicanium, and within ten Terran years had attained the position of Epistolary, surpassing Meroth, who had endeavoured to teach him. Despite his obvious power, or perhaps because of it, Ezekiel was always treated with some suspicion by the Dark Angels that fought alongside him.No rumour was spoken outright, but the Chapter's battle-brothers learned of his origins and the incident with Meroth. Though none dared even think it in Ezekiel's presence, they wondered what manner of mind hid behind those calm brown eyes? What kind of child could have suffered as Ezekiel had suffered without going insane?Ezekiel proved himself more than capable in battle, and though his battle-brothers had misgivings, he did not return them, showing a loyalty and regard for his fellow Dark Angels that only unnerved them even more. While they were keen to benefit from the psychic storms he could unleash on the battlefield, ever were they wary of keeping his company outside of war. Ezekiel did not mind this at all and spent what few occasions he had for peace studying and meditating in the Librarium.
Ezekiel - WAAAGH! Groblonik: Ezekiel earned the trust of his fellow Dark Angels, if not their companionship, at Sularian Gate, which lives long in the memories of the Chapter's battle-brothers and is hailed as one of their greatest victories of the last five hundred years. In 949.M41 the WAAAGH! of Ork Warlord Groblonik had captured the sprawling manufactories of Argentoratum, swept through the hive cities of Kholorn, slashed across the plains and forests of Zamarobriva and despoiled the temples on the Cardinal World of Reminius, killing and enslaving billions.At the world of Honoria, the forces of the Imperium drew together to face the coming Greenskin tide. While the Imperial Navy sent a flotilla to intercept the hulks and ships of Groblonik, Astra Militarum regiments from Vostroya and Mordia were mustered alongside Skitarii from the Forge World of Atanix Triumvirae. In response to requests for aid, the Dark Angels despatched their 5th Company, supported by elements from the Deathwing and Librarium.
Ezekiel - Sularian Gate: The bulk of the Greenskins crashed onto Honoria south and east of the capital and advanced quickly, seeming to aim straight for Aurelianum. Groblonik did not throw his warriors carelessly at the Gates, but spent several solar weeks testing the defences of each; rare planning unseen in other Ork attacks. When the main assault came, it was directed at Sularian Gate, and to this battle rushed the Dark Angels in Thunderhawks and Rhinos.Ezekiel was amongst the first Dark Angels to arrive and found the defenders already nearly overwhelmed, the void shields of the Gate overloaded by strange energy weapons and the towers battered by immense cannons. The Librarian plunged into the fighting on the walls at the head of the Dark Angels squads, his Force Sword slaying Greenskins with every swing.Almost single-handedly, Ezekiel threw back the Orks from the southern wall, driving them from the Gate with bursts of lightning and gouts of cleansing psychic flame. Groblonik sent his warriors and war machines back against Sularian Gate again and again, subjecting the defenders to four solar days of continuous bombardment and assault. Ezekiel seemed to be everywhere, always appearing with his command squad where most needed, guided by prophetic visions of the Ork attacks. For four days, the Astra Militarum and 5th Company held, guided by Ezekiel's foresight.As the sun fell on the fourth day, the Librarian's prophetic skills failed him. A stray bullet from an Ork Shoota ricocheted from the parapet and struck him in the left eye, almost penetrating to his brain. With Ezekiel felled, the defenders were stretched thin during the night, as Groblonik sent waves of Stormboyz jump-packing up to the walls and had Blitza-Bombers strafing the streets behind.Without Ezekiel to predict where the next attacks would come, the 5th Company, and their Mordian and Vostroyan allies, were unable to hold, and as the sun rose on the fifth solar day of the battle, the Orks finally gained a foothold on the walls and surrounded the main gate tower. If they managed to seize control of the mechanism, the Sularian Gate would fall and the horde would pour down the valleys into Aurelianum.The Dark Angels gathered about the great portal towers, the 5th Company forming a dark line against the tide of vicious aliens pouring up the pass and over the walls. Sensing victory, Groblonik himself led the attack, butchering Imperial Guardsmen and Space Marines with a fire-wreathed two-handed axe. Just as it seemed the defenders would break, Ezekiel arrived at the walls, his face still bloodied and a crude augmetic eye freshly attached to his wound. The Orks fled from his approach, their small minds filled with terrifying visions that overwhelmed even the power of the WAAAGH! energy coursing through them. Those that did not run in panic were cut down by sheets of golden flame coursing from Ezekiel's blade.
Ezekiel - The Eye of Vengeance: In the wake of the psyker's attack, the defenders rallied, following Ezekiel as he fought his way through the press to confront Groblonik. The Warlord, incensed by the cowardice of his minions, swung his axe at Ezekiel's head. The flaming blade met the edge of the Librarian's sword and shattered. Shards of razor-sharp metal slashed into the warlord's face. Many of the Dark Angels who witnessed the fight later said that it was remarkable how these jagged slivers seemed to tear out Groblonik's left eye.Blinded, the Ork reeled back and Ezekiel took up his sword double-handed to cut the beast's head from his neck and fling it out into the horde of Greenskins. Already filled with dread by Ezekiel's psychic assault, the Orks routed at the death of their leader.Ezekiel has since refused to have a more sophisticated augmetic fitted. To this day, Ezekiel wears the same crude bionic eye, refusing to have it replaced with a more sophisticated device. Although some say this is due to his sheer austerity in refusing to make further use of the Chapter's limited resources, others claim it is a mark of respect to the many comrades who fell at his side that day at the Sularian Gate.Following this feat, the Grand Master of the Librarium, Danatheum, took the unprecedented move of standing down from his position, returning to the rank of Epistolary so that Ezekiel could take his place. The welcome from the Inner Circle was unanimous but guarded.
Ezekiel - Personality and Abilities: A dour individual, Ezekiel is the foremost psyker and senior Librarian of the Dark Angels Chapter and Grand Master of its Librarius. He rarely speaks except during the solemn rituals of the Inner Circle or when aiding an Interrogator-Chaplain in the execution of his duties, and even then, his voice hardly rises above a sinister, dry whisper.Earning a reputation as an uncompromising and ruthless individual, Ezekiel is said to have the uncanny ability to read the intentions of both friend and foe alike, and acts upon these readings without hesitation. Ezekiel also bears the title "Holder of the Keys" in recognition of his vital role in guarding the dungeons that lie within the bowels of the Dark Angels' mobile fortress-monastery known as The Rock. He is also privy to a great many of the mysteries of their order, and most of the Chapter's secrets have been laid bare before his sight.Ezekiel is also the Keeper of the Book of Salvation, which lists the names of all of the Fallen Angels that have been recaptured by the Chapter. This book is of deep cultural significance to the Dark Angels, and it will ever be at Ezekiel's side whilst he still draws breath. Only in the event of his death will it be passed on to a worthy successor who will become the new Grand Master of Librarians. Ezekiel alone bears these most terrible of burdens, for on his shoulders sit the sins of the original Dark Angels Legion. He cannot rest while the Fallen still remain to stain the Chapter's honour.A formidable psyker, this Grand Master is always found at the forefront of combat, felling his enemies with his dreaded Force Sword Traitor's Bane, or decimating his foes utterly with his command of Empyrean energies. Since his elevation to the rank of Grand Master of Librarians, Ezekiel has fought against some of the Chapter's direst foes, battling the Heretic, the daemon and the xenos across the length and breadth of the Imperium.
Ezekiel - Final Judgement: It is one of Ezekiel's many tasks to test the loyalty and dedication of any who rise to the rank of Master or Grand Master, to seek out weakness and ensure that they are pure of purpose. So intimidating is this prospect that fully a third of the Dark Angels selected for such promotion have politely refused the honour and chosen to remain as warriors of the Deathwing, Ravenwing or as Veteran Sergeants. Ezekiel's formidable psychic abilities allow him to peer within the deepest recesses of a candidate's body and soul, revealing to him any signs of taint or weakness that might endanger the Inner Circle or compromise its sacred mission to hunt and capture the Fallen. Chapter legend maintains that the Grand Master of Librarians can judge a man by merely a glance.Perhaps the cause for this is the case of Sergeant Cadraellon, who was selected to become Master of the 10th Company not long after Ezekiel's accession. Ezekiel probed Cadraellon's thoughts and memories for a day and a night. As soon as the Chief Librarian finished, the prospective Master drew his pistol and killed himself with a bolt through his temple. Ezekiel claimed he had seen nothing that would have prevented Cadraellon's promotion to Master, but there are those that think it unlikely the Chief Librarian's prophetic abilities would have failed to foretell such a devastating consequence. Whatever the cause, the incident has ensured that only those truly pure of heart and intent consider themselves worthy of leadership. To Ezekiel's credit, every member of the Inner Circle inducted during his stewardship has remained steadfastly dedicated and loyal to the Dark Angels' secret mission.
Ezekiel - Wargear: Book of Salvation - This revered tome records the names of those Fallen Angels that have been captured by the Dark Angels. Their names are entered within its ancient, desiccated pages with their own blood. Only the Inner Circle know the contents of the book, but the whole Chapter understands that its protection is paramount.Deliverer - Deliverer is a master-crafted Bolt Pistol that has ended the lives of many an unrepentant Fallen Angel.Psychic Hood - Like all Librarians, Ezekiel's Psychic Hood is an arcane construct of psychically-attuned crystals that allow him to amplify his abilities whilst at the same time disrupting the manipulations of the Warp by another psyker, making it easier to nullify their psychic powers. This device also allows a Librarian to extend their psychic protection to nearby allies.Secret's Shield - Ezekiel dons the blessed suit of Artificer Armour called Secret's Shield whenever he goes into combat. Embellished by the finest Artificers in the Dark Angels Armoury, this lavish suit affords its wearer protection to rival even that of Terminators.Traitor's Bane - Traitor's Bane is a potent master-crafted Force Sword wielded by Ezekiel in battle and radiates fell power. This sword was made to slay those who dared turn their back on the Emperor. Phased crystalline patterns along the Force Sword's blade coil iridescent psychic energy around it like a snake. This fell blade is rumoured to possess the trapped spirits of those Fallen it has slain in battle. The rage of those betrayed is bound within this blade and, from the shrieks emitted by the traitors slain by it, their end is painful indeed. It is said that the blade grows darker in aspect, the shadows drawing in around it, whenever one of the Fallen Angels are near.Frag GrenadesKrak Grenades
Ezekiel - Trivia: Ezekiel is named after the Jewish prophet from the Hebrew Bible who prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple by the Babylonians in the 6th century B.C. This may be a reference to the Librarian Ezekiel's ability to foresee the future much like the Biblical prophet.
Ezekiel - Sources: Codex Adeptus Astartes - Dark Angels (8th Edition), pp. 29, 82Codex: Dark Angels (6th Edition), pg. 54Codex: Dark Angels (4th Edition), pp. 40-41Codex: Dark Angels (3rd Edition), pp. 16, 20-21Codex: Angels of Death (2nd Edition), pp. 80-81Warlords of the Dark Millennium - Ezekiel, pp. 3-4, 6-10, 21-30The Eye of Ezekiel (Novel) by C.Z. Dunn
Ezekiel Sedayne - Ezekiel Sedayne: Ezekiel Sedayne was a famed and highly skilled human scientist, particularly in the realm of genetic engineering, who served as the second director of the Imperial Biotechnical Division during the time of the Horus Heresy.Sedayne's personality, skills and memories were later merged into the mind of Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl of the Adeptus Mechanicus.Sedayne's knowledge helped to provide Cawl with his later extraordinary skill at biogenetic engineering. Sedayne's personality remains deeply buried within the gestalt that is now Cawl's mind in the late 41st Millennium.
Ezekiel Sedayne - History: Ezekiel Sedayne had been born on Terra during the Age of Strife. At some point during that period, he had actually met the man who would one day become the Emperor of Mankind even before humanity's most powerful psyker had taken that title.At their first meeting, the Emperor greeted Sedayne as "Belisarius Cawl" and stated that one day he must continue the Master of Mankind's work to save humanity. The Emperor warned the confused young man that there would come a time when he would believe that his actions were actually a betrayal of all the Emperor had sought to achieve, but that he must persevere at all costs.In truth, this message was meant for the future Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl, who the Emperor had foreseen in His psychic prescience would one day inherit all of Sedayne's knowledge and memories.Sedayne's later recollection of the conversation with the Master of Mankind would grow vague, and he would have trouble remembering exactly what had transpired.Sedayne later joined the early Imperium's Biotechnical Division and became one of the Emperor's most skilled scientists. He would work to help create the Space Marine Legions under the direction of the Biotechnical Division's first director, Amar Astarte.Astarte created the first prototype of the Space Marine gene-seed organ that would become the Black Carapace, but the original design proved non-functional. Sedayne believed that one of his greatest achievements was taking over that project from Astarte and producing the final, workable design of the implant still used by the Space Marines of the 41st Millennium.By the time of the Horus Heresy, Sedayne had been named Lord Geneticist and Astarte's replacement as the director of the Biotechnical Division. He would evidence some disdain or even outright hostility for his predecessor.Sedayne was also at this point an extremely old man, whose body was beginning to collapse despite extensive Rejuvenat treatments. Determined to continue the Emperor's work, Sedayne hoped to achieve immortality by claiming the cloning and digital mind-copying technology that had been developed by the Mechanicum Tech-priest Belisarius Cawl.Sedayne had Cawl recalled to Terra on a pretext and then ordered his servant Altrix Herminia to shoot Friedisch Adum Ship Qvo, a fellow Tech-priest and close friend and colleague who had accompanied Cawl to the Throneworld after they had escaped from the clutches of the Traitor forces. Mortally wounded, Sedayne stated that his rejuvenation treatments could save Friedisch if Cawl merged with his mind using the technology he had developed.Arrogant to the last, Sedayne believed that in any merger of the two personalities, his would emerge as the dominant one. Cawl agreed to save his friend, but after Sedayne's mind was combined cybernetically with Cawl's, it was the Tech-priest's that emerged as dominant. Though his knowledge and skills were now at Cawl's command, Sedayne's own personality was buried deep within the gestalt of many different personalities that over the centuries would come to form the mind of Belisarius Cawl.
Ezrachi - Ezrachi: Ezrachi is an Apothecary who served in the 5th Company of the Excoriators Chapter and was the only survivor of the Cholercaust Blood Crusade's assault on the Cemetery World of Certus-Minor.
Ezrachi - Origins: Ezrachi is a Veteran battle-brother and an Apothecary of the Excoriators Chapter. His right leg was a full bionic replacement and almost as old as Ezrachi himself. While robust and powerful, his bionic leg sighed with hydraulic insistence and lagged a millisecond behind its flesh-and-bone equivalent, giving him the impression of walking with a slight limp. He was responsible for the experimental procedure that shocked Zachariah Kersh out of the fugue state known as Dorn's Darkness.
Ezrachi - Certus-Minor Campaign: Ezrachi was later assigned to the 5th Company as the new Apothecary of that decimated company which was tasked with defending the Cemetery World of Certus-Minor. With the approach of the ominous Keeler Comet heralding the inevitable assault of that Imperial world by the Khornate warhost known as the Cholercaust, Kersh took desperate measures to ensure that he and his battle-brothers' deaths were not for naught, for the woefully outnumbered Excoriators faced an enemy infamous for its intolerance of survivors.The 5th Company's corpus-captain had the Apothecary begin gene-seed extraction rites and harvest mature Progenoid Glands from all the Excoriators in the 5th Company with at least ten standard years' service to the Chapter. As a Chapter of attrition fighters, the Excoriators always expected the best outcomes but prepared for the worst.If they were faced with failure in the face of the Cholercaust Blood Crusade then they should meet their doom knowing that their legacy lived on through the genetic heritage that they bequeathed to the future Astartes of their Chapter. They would do this in the best interests of the Chapter and not themselves. Kersh explained that it was not who he who asked this of Ezarchi, but their Primarch Rogal Dorn -- so that the Imperium's future, as well as its present, might be secure.Kersh then ordered Ezarchi to transport the collected gene-seed to the strike cruiser Angelica Mortis and oversee its safe storage and containment. The sacred cargo would then travel on to the nearby Forge World of Aetna Phall, reachable through a series of short Warp jumps.Though it would take solar months for the vessel to arrive, the Adeptus Mechanicus would appreciate the importance of the valuable cargo and have the resources necessary to make sure that it reached their Chapter homeworld, Eschara. Ezrachi survived the disastrous defence of Certus-Minor because Corpus-Captain Kersh sent him with the Angelica Mortis to Aetna Phall, effectively stranding his company on the doomed planet to face their fate.
Ezu Ghraile - Ezu Ghraile: Ezu Ghraile is an Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos. Only one thing brought her to the Jericho Reach -- Tyranids.Ghraile sees Tyranids as the biggest single threat facing the Imperium today and it is a matter she will expound upon at great length to anyone else given the opportunity.
Ezu Ghraile - History: Ghraile has based herself at the Deathwatch's Watch Fortress Erioch for the express purpose of lobbying the Ordo Xenos' Chamber Militant in the region for more action in defence of the Achilus Crusade's Orpheus Salient.Her clashes with the resident Inquisitor of the Chamber, Hezika Carmillus, who represents the Inquisition's interests at the watch fortress, have been loud and public.As a result she's chosen to take suites far removed from the watch tower's central Tower of Brass and directly over the Bestiarium, distilling her bile and vitriol into lengthy reports to the fortress' governing Chamber of Vigilance.Ghraile has a sympathetic ear from members of the Deathwatch as they fully appreciate the exponential threat a hive fleet can become with access to enough biomass.However, it's been a harder job convincing officers of the Achilus Crusade and her fellow Inquisitors of the need to divert all reinforcements coming through the Jericho-Maw Warp Gate to the Orpheus Salient.Ghraile clings to hopes that the Omega Vault will open to reveal some weapon to stop the Tyranids -- not just within the Jericho Reach, but across the entire galaxy.
Fabius Bile - Origins: Fabius Bile was born to a minor noble house from the mountains of northern Europa on Terra during the Unification Wars of the 30th Millennium. His birthplace was the city of Ingolstadt, but Fabius remembered little of his childhood following his later transformation into an Astartes save for the sound of music and a library with real, leather-bound books.He earned the honour as an adolescent of being inducted into the IIIrd Legion of Space Marines and was one of the 200 surviving Terran battle-brothers of that Legion who travelled to the world of Chemos with the Emperor when the Master of Mankind rediscovered His lost primarch son Fulgrim. Fabius later served as an Apothecary of the Emperor's Children Legion during the Great Crusade, and was ultimately corrupted by Chaos in his desire to enhance the physical perfection of the Emperor's Children Astartes.In the latter years of the Great Crusade, Bile's uncanny skills saw him move from the rank of simple Apothecary all the way to earning the grade of a lieutenant commander of the Emperor's Children. But even as a leader of Astartes, Fabius was rarely away from his surgeries for long. Bile saw his fellow warriors not as comrades or brothers, but as fresh test specimens ready to be experimented upon. Each was but a stepping stone in his great work; a tapestry of genetic information to be unpicked and woven anew in Bile's quest to understand the forbidden genetic sciences of the Emperor Himself.Using the knowledge of genetic engineering he had gained from the corpses of the Slaanesh-worshiping reptilian Laer xenos of the world of Laeran that had been conquered by the Emperor's Children during the Great Crusade, Bile developed a series of modified gene-seed organs. These organs were eventually implanted into all of those members of the IIIrd Legion who joined their Primarch Fulgrim in turning against the Emperor.This experimentation led to the creation of the first Noise Marines, as well as other types of variant mutant Chaos Space Marines. At the start of the Horus Heresy before the Drop Site Massacre of Isstvan V, Bile modified the nervous systems of his fellow Emperor's Children so that all sensations of pain were rewired to stimulate the brain's pleasure centres instead. This meant that even the infliction of truly horrific or even mortal wounds produced unrivaled pleasure in the modified Astartes.
Fabius Bile - After the Heresy: As his fellow Space Marines lost themselves in sensuality, Bile moved further and further along his own dark path. He left Holy Terra shortly before Horus' defeat at the hands of the Emperor, accompanied by a handful of his most gifted acolytes. This act incensed Fulgrim, who put a bounty on his former Apothecary's head. Bile's warband moved through the war-torn Imperium like a shard of glass in an intestinal tract, carving a new legend with every twist and turn of their journey. Wherever he made planetfall, the Primogenetor offered his assistance in exchange for prisoners, genetic samples and ancient technical libra. Despite his infamy, Bile still adhered to a twisted version of the old Imperial Truth, believing that only the foolish and weak sought the comfort of gods like the Ruinous Powers and the pursuit of scientific truth was to be held above all other values.Many ambitious planetary overlords came to rue the day they joined their fates with Fabius Bile. His atrocities and acts of mass genocide often repelled even those that had ordered the deaths in the first place. Nonetheless, few could deny that the assistance Bile offered was potent. His serums could transform mediocre defence troopers into ravening super-soldiers, and his mastery of the cloning process saw him able to mobilise thousands of "perfect warriors" within months. As a consequence, genocide and genetic debasement marked his path and the Inquisition still strives to eliminate the threat of his genetically enhanced, psychotic, "New Men" from star systems across the Imperium.Yet for all his twisted genius, Bile could not hold back the furious crusade of Loyalists that launched outward from ravaged Terra during the what became known as The Scouring. Retribution finally caught him in the Arden System, where he was supporting the excesses of the Renegade Lord Tyrell in exchange for foetal material. The Salamanders Chapter launched themselves down upon the corrupted world of Arden IX like fiery angels of vengeance. Bile's flesh refineries and cloning vats all burned in a single night as the righteous fury of the Salamanders incinerated all evidence of the Primogenitor's precious experiments.Bile brought low a dozen Space Marines in the battle, his rictus grin illuminated by flickering fire as his once-brothers died agonising and inventive deaths. Yet he barely escaped the battle. He was forced to flee for his life, and his ship was crippled by an Imperial Gothic-class Cruiser as he fled for the dubious refuge of the Warp.Whether by accident or design, Bile's vessel was slowly drawn into the Eye of Terror. He drifted there for an age, constantly experimenting on those few acolytes he had left until the hand of some dark god guided his ship into the gravity well of a Daemon World. Once, the planet had been one of the scintillating jewel-worlds of the Aeldari Empire before their own debaucheries saw their civilisation torn apart. Now it was a shrivelled ruin, a Crone World of seething madness called Urum that echoed to the screams of souls long dead. To Fabius Bile, it became home.
Fabius Bile - The Shattering: Bile eventually ended up leading a group of affiliated Apothecaries from various Traitor Legions known as "the Consortium" based on his new homeworld of Urum. Looking for a way to stop the continuous decay of his body and achieve immortality, Bile was a participant in the Shattering of Lugganath, the attack by the Emperor's Children on the Aeldari craftworld of Lugganath in 764.M34.During the attack it became apparent that his former acolyte Oleander Koh and a group of Harlequins had engineered the events to try and convince Bile to lead the Emperor's Children once more. However Fabius refused to become a military leader and instead insisted that only his scientific work would continue.
Fabius Bile - The Thirteen Scars: It is rumoured amongst the acolytes of Bile that the Primogenitor studied the arts of pain under the Haemonculi of Commorragh. These maestros of torture were so skilled in their works that even Bile, with several thousand Terran years of experience in wielding the scalpel, was a mere novice by comparison.Nonetheless, after his eventual capture in 796.M37 in a raid on an Emperor's Children citadel, Bile so impressed the Coven of the Thirteen Scars with his improvisational tortures that he was allowed to visit the inverted spires of their city-dungeons as a guest instead of a victim. There, he aided the Thirteen Scars in the creation of the Tower of Flesh; a living, breathing fortress made from the remains of those that had wronged the Coven in their lives.Without Bile's elixirs and the runes he carved into the fleshy walls of the mobile fortress known as the "Tower of Flesh," the sentient tower may not have lived more than a few solar days, but it lives on still, dangling from the underside of Commorragh like a fleshy stalactite. Within its blood-dripping walls, Bile was taught many of the Haemonculi's lesser secrets. In the dark circles of the truly evil, the magnitude of such a feat is whispered in hushed tones. No greater honour have the Drukhari bestowed upon a member of the lesser races in all of human history. Bile realises this fact well, and has put the lessons he learned there to good use ever since.This knowledge eventually led to him tutoring his fellow Emperor's Children in these dark arts, which led to Bile coming into conflict with the Thirteen Scars at the Battle of Belial IV in 993.M37. The Coven slaughtered those who Bile tutored, and surgically altered his brain to ensure that Fabius himself could never speak of what he had learned.
Fabius Bile - The New Men: The Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes are well aware of Fabius Bile's nightmarish actions. In every segmentum, the populations of once-productive Imperial worlds have had to be wiped out wholesale as a result of Bile's actions. Once the infections of Bile's black arts have taken hold, the mewling victims must be purged by fire and sword to prevent them fleeing.Only by personal investigation can it be ascertained just how many Imperial citizens have fallen to Bile's genetic afflictions. Mostly, the Chapters charged with investigating such worlds find once-civilised planets populated by ragged hordes of debased, shambolic, mutant monsters. Not all of these purgation missions are mercy killings.Upon dozens, perhaps hundreds of worlds, the Space Marines have encountered fierce resistance from hardened cadres of enhanced Humans who fight with the strength and cunning of devils. These altered half-spawn exhibit strength, speed and intelligence many times higher than the Human norm and are depraved, psychotic killers to a man. They are Bile's proudest creations, the "New Men" he would spread throughout the galaxy.Fickle, selfish, obsessive, aggressive, murderous; they echo their creator in more than just their physique. Each of Humanity's worst traits has been brought to the fore and magnified tenfold, married with the psychology of a tyrant and the strength of a madman. Even the Inquisition do not know how many of these abominations have escaped into the galaxy. Many of them are altered subtly, their corded muscles and crazed minds hidden in plain view until their incipient psychosis sends them on a manic killing spree.
Fabius Bile - Black Tide: Having finally secured their homeworld against Bile's mutant-creations, Lord Commander Dante assigned Sergeant Rafen the vital mission of recovering the missing phial that contained the blood of their Primarch that had been secreted away by Bile during the Blood Angels' conclave. Rafen was to recover this most precious of resources and execute the one who stole it for his foul transgressions. Rafen futilely followed the trail of Fabius Bile aboard the Strike Cruiser Tycho for some time, but the trail had gone cold. With the help of Sergeant Noxx of the Flesh Tearers Chapter, the two noncommissioned officers were able to combine their squads and redouble their efforts in tracking and hunting down the elusive Bile. Eventually, the Clone Lord's whereabouts were traced to a powerful Adeptus Mechanicus Magos by the name of Matthun Zellik who had prior dealings with Bile in his usurped identity as the Magos Haran Serpens, the same alias used by Bile to infiltrate the Blood Angels' fortress-monastery on Baal. The joint Space Marine strike force attacked the vessel Archeohort, an ancient and unusual excavation ship solely manned by Servitors and members of the Skitarii.Rafen and Noxx were able to take advantage of a turncoat within Zellik's retinue, and were able to make their way to Zellik's trophy room. They were able to force the Magos' surrender when they began to smash and destroy the relics he had recovered during his long career. With the vessels Archeohort, Tycho and the Flesh Tearers' vessel Gabriel, Sergeat Rafen and his Battle-Brothers traveled to the world of Dynikas V, a world in the Ghoul Stars region, where Magos Zellik had last had dealings with "Magos Serpens." This unusual world had fallen victim to the predations of a tendril of a Tyranid Hive Fleet, but due to unusual events, somehow the oceans remained intact. Within the oceans of the ravaged planet lurked several aquatically evolved Tyranid bioforms, who were now leaderless without a Hive Mind to control them. Thanks to a captured Zoanthrope Bile "modified", the pheromones produced by the creature were used to confuse the Tyranids and hide the existence of Bile's facility from their senses.Sacrificing Magos Zellik's ship, Sergeants Rafen, Nox and their men descended upon the planet using a submersible to approach Bile's suspected base of operations. But the mission soon went awry when the Space Marines were forced to battle enormous Tyranid creatures that rivalled the mighty Ice Krakens of the Death World of Fenris. During their nautical battle, Rafen was somehow separated from his allies and managed to float to the surface where he was captured by Bile's enhanced, mutated slaves and brought to the Clone Lord's laboratorium within his bleak fortress complex. Disarmed and strapped to an examination table, Rafen had a strange maggot implanted into his body that bound itself to him and was taken before Fabius Bile himself.
Fabius Bile - Primogenitor Primaris: Fabius Bile first learned of the existence of the Primaris Space Marines in the days after the birth of the Great Rift while upon the world of Agrathane Excellia. There he witnessed a strike force of Primaris Space Marines in action during a campaign of the Indomitus Crusade. Attacking from above, a strike force from the newly founded Nemesors Chapter captured a fortified Black Legion bastion complex in the space of a single solar hour.Impressed despite himself at the genetic artistry of Belisarius Cawl, Bile develops an obsession with the capture and dissection of these statuesque warriors. His intent is to blend them body and soul with the dark energies of Chaos in order to breed his own twisted versions of Primaris Space Marines.
Fabius Bile - Fulgrim's Clone: At some point before the start of the 41st Millennium, Bile finally succeeded at cloning one of the primarchs, in this case his own genetic parent, Fulgrim. This version of Fulgrim, unlike all of Bile's previous attempts at recreating his sire, was an exact copy, as pure as the original before his corruption by Slaanesh. Why this clone of Fulgrim was untainted by Chaos remained a mystery even to Bile.As the primarchs had originally been created to do, the new incarnation of Fulgrim aged to maturity rapidly, and because the Emperor had gifted His sons with the capacity for genetic memory, this version of Fulgrim also remembered all the events of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy.This version of Fulgrim expressed great regret for his actions during those conflicts and his eventual turn to Chaos, and he swore that he would do all that he could to atone for his sins, his murder of Ferrus Manus, and his betrayal of the Emperor's cause. Instead, before he could undertake any actions, Bile betrayed his creation into the hands of the Necron Overlord Trazyn the Infinite.The resurrected primarch became a part of the Necron's collection of important historical figures on his Tomb World of Solemnace. Bile had betrayed his clone because he feared that for all the cloned Fulgrim's passionate condemnations of his Daemonic counterpart's actions, this Fulgrim truly WAS the same man, and would end up making all the same mistakes and poor choices as before.
Fabius Bile - War of the Spider: During the Psychic Awakening after the birth of the Great Rift, Bile stole a precious Death Guard artefact known as the Ark Cornucontagious. This relic of Nurgle granted to the Death Guard by the Great Unclean One Rotigus gives off powerful waves of corruption that brings about such catastrophic mutations and such rapid, uncontrollable growth that the Ark could easily corrupt entire worlds within a matter of solar days. This spurred the Nurglite Chaos Lord Typhus and his Plague Fleet to pursue the Spider, who was forced to form an alliance with Argento Corian and his warband of The Shriven to hold off his fellow Heretic Astartes.During the subsequent conflict known as the "War of the Spider," Bile was able to manipulate all sides to his own advantage. The Shriven were modified into hordes of Terata while Corian himself was eventually doomed to become a monstrous golem.In a battle that erupted on Bairsten Prime, Bile was able to capture a number of Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence, taking them as the newest and most interesting of his test subjects.In the final stage of the war on Dessah, Bile was again able to escape as the Shriven, Death Guard, and Custodes destroyed one another. With his research subjects acquired and the Ark Cornucontagious in hand, Bile returned to Urum in the Eye of Terror to begin his work anew.