Dark Angels - Heresy Era Personnel: Lion El'Jonson - Lion El'Jonson was the primarch of the Ist Legion of Space Marines. Following the events of the Horus Heresy, Jonson and his Crusading fleet returned to his homeworld of Caliban. Inexplicably, they were fired upon by the Dark Angel forces garrisoned there under the command of his once-trusted mentor and surrogate father, Luther, who had been entrusted with the custodianship of Caliban in the Lion's absence. Luther would eventually betray the Lion after allowing himself to be seduced by the offers of Chaos, rallying a good portion of the Dark Angels who had been left behind by their fellows to garrison the Legion's homeworld to his cause and attacking the Lion's fleet as he returned to Caliban. The titanic struggle between the two former friends resulted in the destruction of Caliban and the loss of the Dark Angels' primarch, as well as the escape of Luther's allies who had sided with the Ruinous Powers. Known as the Fallen Angels amongst their former battle-brothers of the Ist Legion, it became the overriding goal of the Dark Angels and all of their Successor Chapters (collectively known as the Unforgiven) after the Second Founding to hunt down every one of the Fallen and get them to repent their betrayal of the Emperor and of the Lion.Chapter Commander Merir Astelan - Merir Astelan was a Terran-born Legionary of the Dark Angels Legion, who was a part of the first 5,000 intakes of potential recruits which formed the corps group of the newly created Ist Legion. He took part in the closing campaigns of the Wars of Unification, and was present when the Emperor launched his Great Crusade to reunite the disparate worlds of mankind into a unified Imperium. Astelan would later appear in history as one of the senior officers within the Dark Angels Legion, holding the esteemed rank of Chapter Commander, and led his own Expeditionary Fleet which carried out numerous Imperial Compliances. But eventually, Astelan fell out of favour with the Lion, and following has actions during the compliance of Byzanthis, was sent back to Aldurukh on Calibian, some fifteen years after Luther and the rest of his training cadre had returned to the Dark Angels' homeworld. Astelan would then go on to earn the eternal enmity of his former brethren, when he later gave the order for the planetary defences on Caliban to fire upon Lion El'Jonson's fleet after it returned to the Chapter homeworld from the Horus Heresy. He was cast into the Warp and reemerged into the galaxy during the 41st Millennium after which he was captured by the Dark Angels, taken to The Rock and interrogated about what had happened on Caliban, offering one perspective of those tragic events. Astelan would eventually escape from his captivity on The Rock, and rendezvous with his former comrades, Methelas and Anovel. Together, these three Fallen Angels conspired with the infamous Typhus, the fallen former-Fist Captain of the Death Guard Legion, to enact a diabolical plan to unite the three separate devices that made up the so-called Tuchulcha Engine, an ancient sentient device and possible Warp entity of unknown origin, with its brother devices in order to open a portal through time and space, to ten millennia earlier. This would allow the original legions of Fallen Angels to enter the 41st Millennium. Utilising captured gene-seed, Astelan planned to have the Fallen, the Death Guard and newly-created Astartes, merged together into one unstoppable legion that would be known as the Death Angels, in order to conquer the galaxy. The notorious Fallen Angel known as Cypher, allowed himself to be captured and warned the Dark Angels that the Tuchulcha was embedded within the bowels of The Rock, and that the history of the Dark Angels would be irrevocably changed if they allowed the device to be reunited with the other two engines. Fortunately, this grand scheme of Astelan and Typhus would ultimately be foiled thanks to the efforts of Supreme Grand Master Azrael and Cypher, who managed to turn Anonvel to their cause, and betray his former allies. The fate of Astelan following these events remains unknown.Chapter Commander Belath - Chapter Commander Belath, a Calibanite-born Dark Angel, appointed to his esteemed position by the primarch himself, was sent to shadow the Terran-born Merir Astelan during the Compliance of the newly rediscovered world of Byzanthis. The two Chapter Commanders held vastly different philosophies in regards to the proper use of force when attempting an Imperial Compliance of a new world. Though Astelan espoused that unnecessary bloodshed should be avoided at all costs, as a world brought to heel with violence would often remain resentful and willful, and would be slow to accept their conquerors as brothers. He advocated the use of diplomacy rather than wanton destruction. But Chapter Commander Belath reminded Astelan that the Lion have given him specific orders emphasising the use of overwhelming violence for those who remained willful and recalcitrant. When diplomatic relations broke down after a disastrous ground reconnaissance led by Astelan himself, Belath ordered an immediate retaliatory orbital bombardment, but Astelan denied the younger Chapter Commander's request. In the aftermath, Belath continued to argue for an overwhelming show of strength, and urged an invasion of Byzanthis, preferring to attack all six world powers at once. But upon discovered that the world was ruled by a Committee of Nations, Astelan sought a last ditch effort to parley with the planet's ruling body. Appearing with Chapter Commander Belath at his side, the parley went well at first, under Astelan's direction, but things quickly took a turn for the worst when the Byzanthis military forces detected the Dark Angels' vessels pre-positioning themselves for an inevitable attack. Under Belath's orders, the fleet had positioned themselves above all six of the worlds capital cities. This precipitated an immediate threat response from the Byzanthians, who attempted to seize the two Dark Angels representatives. Belath abruptly ended the negotiations with the Committee by summoning his Terminator armoured elite, who proceeded to execute the upstart politicians. Enraged by his counterpart's actions, Astelan had no choice but to go along with the impetuous Belath, and finally ordered a full-scale planetary invasion. In the aftermath, Astelan was dismayed by the use of violence, and warned Belath that his disreputable actions would not go unpunished. Belath remained unperturbed by such empty threats, and responded that it would be Astelan who would be punished, for he had already sent an astropathic relay back to Caliban, informing them of the Chapter Commander's "cowardly" actions on Byzanthis. Belath's ultimate following this Imperial Compliance remains uncertain.Lord Commander Althalos - Lord Commander Althalos was the Castellan of the Chimaera and commanding officer of the Alaxxes Outpost. A Calibanite by birth, Althalos was introduced into the Ist Legion after the Lion had already turned his back on Luther and placed him in command of the Legion's homeworld. As Lord Commander of one of the first Chapters raised solely under Luther's guidance, Althalos had faithfully carried out his orders for fifty-nine years, until the rising Warp-storms, the beginning of the Horus Heresy and the break-down of communications with Luther caused him to reveal his outpost's existence -- and the true strength of the Ist Legion -- by saving the Space Wolves' Legion, including their Primarch Leman Russ from certain death. With proof of the Space Wolves' loyalty to the Golden Throne, Lord Commander Althalos offered to repair the VIth Legion's badly mauled fleet in exchange for solid information on the unfurling Heresy. Lord Commander Althalos's ultimate fate, as his true allegiance, remains unknown.Lord Commander Grimm - Lord Commander Suleiman Grimm is a well known figure within the Ist Legion, whose actions during the Great Crusade brought him much honour. As head of the 7th Expeditionary Fleet, he was instrumental in the reconquest of much of the region of Segmentum Obscurus known as the Coronid Deeps. Most notoriously, on the world of Dark Haven, Grimm rediscovered the Imperial Knights household of House Orhlacc and brokered a deal of mutual assistance between the Legion and the Knighthouse. It was also under Lord Grimm's command that the xenos empire known as the Mitu Conglomerate was destroyed, freeing the Coronid Deeps from their inhuman rule.Paladin-Captain Corswain - Paladin Corswain was the commander of the 9th Order and a champion of the Dark Angels. He exemplified the qualities of stalwart determination and mastery of the blade. Caliban-born, but not an ingrained scion of The Order, Corswain was instrumental in bridging the divisions within the Ist Legion in its formative years under Primarch Lion El'Jonson. Under the Lion, Corsawin was groomed to serve no any one Host or Order within the Legion, but to command the respect and knowledge of all. During the Horus Heresy, he had the honour of serving as a member of the Lion's personal honour guard who found notability during the Thramas Crusade, during which he saved his primarch from death by combating Konrad Curze, primarch of the Night Lords. When the Age of Darkness finally passed and the dust of history began to settle, Corswain's name would long echoe down through the ages.Master Holguin - One of the few Terran-born members of the Ist Legion to hold a place in the Council of Masters of the Hexagrammaton, Holguin was a key member of Lion El'Jonson's council. During the long years of the Great Crusade, he was renowned for his unwavering loyalty and determination in battle. This grim resolve saw him survive confrontations that few others could, and he was one of a handful of Space Marines that could claim to have fought in all three Rangdan Xenocides and lived. In the later years of the Horus Heresy, the actions of his own primarch and the sins of the Traitors would bring a dark aspect to his demeanour, leaving him prone to a bitter fury. Once Holguin stood at the forefront of the Legion's battles, however, with the coming of the Lion and the great changes wrought within the Ist Legion he had become more withdrawn. It was only with the outbreak of the Horus Heresy and the perfidy of those that would spurn their oaths of loyalty to the Emperor that he had once again thrown himself into the front lines. Some among his brethren called his newly-rekindled zeal self-destructive, but few could deny that the fury he directed at the Traitors was a blessing for the Loyalist cause.Master Gahael - Gahael served as the Master of the Dark Angels' Second Order during the Great Crusade.Master Moriaen - Moriaen served as a Master of the Dark Angels Legion's Sixth Order during the Great Crusade.Master Alajos (KIA) - Alajos served as a Master of the Dark Angels Legion's 9th Order during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. A skilled duellist within the ranks of the Ist Legion, only Merir Astelan and Corswain had ever beaten him in the sparring circles. By the latter years of the Great Crusade, during the Dulan Campaign in 870.M30, Alajos had served the Dark Angels for half a standard century and achieved the rank of chapter master. During this campaign, he and the Paladins of the 9th Order served as their primarch's honour guard. Alajos cautioned Lion El'Jonson against making a teleport assault against the Crimson Fortress, advising that they should at least contact their Space Wolves allies first to find out why they were delayed. Unable to reach the VIth Legion's Primarch Leman Russ, the Lion and his Paladins launched the assault and achieved an overwhelming victory, which the Space Wolves felt detracted from their own glory. When Russ became enraged at his brother's temerity, Alajos bore witness to the infamous duel between the two primarchs. As Russ went to pick up his fallen chainsword Krakenmaw, Alajos barred the Wolf King's way, however, Russ took his axe, Urthand instead, and back-handed the Dark Angels chapter master to the ground and began the clash with the Lion that lasted for over a standard day until the Lion rendered him unconscious. Later, during the opening years of the Horus Heresy, Alajos was present when the Lion met with the Night Lords Primarch Konrad Curze on the world of Kruun. Alajos duelled the Night Lords' First Captain Jago Sevatarion, but because he was not wearing a helm for the duel, Alajos lost most of his face to a swipe by Sevatar's Chainglaive. Two standard years into the Thramas Crusade, Alajos and Paladin-Captain Corswain served as bodyguards for Lion El'Jonson during the meeting between their primarch and the Night Haunter on the world of Tsagualsa. When the two primarchs once more came to blows, Alajos and Corswain fought their counterparts among the Night Haunter's honour guard, Sevatarion and Sheng. Tragically, Alajos was decapitated by Sevatarion while he was protecting the Lion.Paladin Commander Inardin - Inardin served as a Paladin Commander of the Dark Angels Legion's 9th Order during the Great Crusade under the command of Master Alajos.Knight-Praetor Logaine - Knight-praetor of the 17th Order and Marshal of the Firewing, during the Thramas Crusade Logaine was assigned by his primarch to command the Dark Angels battlegroup sent against the Night Lords Traitor Legion upon the world of Kenrac. His orders were clear: eliminate all occupying forces and secure the planet for the Ist Legion. Rather than waste manpower and munitions in the direct annihilation of the mortal slave regiments that the Night Lords placed in the frontline, Knight-Praetor Logaine made use of the Firewing's doctrine of precise strikes and the careful accumulation of intelligence. With the information gained from traditional scouting and the interrogation of the captured Night Lords, the location of the main Night Lords host itself was quickly ascertained. In a final assault, the Dark Angel battlegroup's heavy assets landed with pinpoint precision amongst the Night Lords' own units. Hopelessly outnumbered, the Night Lords garrsion quickly fell to the onslaught of a combined force of heavy transport vehicles and Terminator Assault Squads.Knight-Praetor Kordray Mordred - Kordray Mordred served as commander of the 51st Chapter of the Dark Angels, the Sable Griffons, during the Great Crusade and the early years of the Horus Heresy. This Chapter was comprised of approximately 1,500 Legionaries. Following the end of the Rangdan Xenocides, little remained within the Rangda System, save Advex-Mors, mistakenly believed to be the homeworld of the xenos species known as the Rangda, upon which a chantry station of the Order of Broken Claws was erected. One of the smallest of the Orders Militant of the Hekatonystika, this cadre of warriors held the only full and complete accounting of that war and the Rangda and, in the wake of that xenos strain's destruction, these knights were charged with guarding the spoils of those victories. The Order of the Broken Claws were charged to act as watchmen over the supposed remains of the Rangdan home and to stand sentinel over the far reaches of the Emperor's domain. In 006.M31, a Sons of Horus Heavy Cruiser Conqueror's Pride translated in-system and hailed the Dark Angels garrison on Advex-Mors, indicating that they needed to resupply. Unaware of the treachery that had occurred on Isstvan III, there was no immediate cause for alarm. Queries from the Dark Angels requesting their destination and intent were ignored, and when Knight-Praetor Kordray Mordred demanded to speak with the Sons of Horus commander, his only answer was a sudden and indiscriminate barrage launched by the cruiser in orbit. Though the barrage left little of the fortifications on the surface, the Order of the Broken Claws' chantry below the surface only sustained minor damage. The Sons of Horus launched an entire chapter's worth of Legionaries to assault the surface, including a formation of elite Justaerin Terminators. Within the stygian darkness of the corridors of the Broken Claws chantry, the warriors of the Ist Legion broke the pride of the Sons of Horus, inflicting heavy casualites upon their foes. When the Traitors finally managed to breach the inner chambers they were greeted with the sight of a slew of corpses of their own warriors, with very few Dark Angels bodies amongst them. With their honour besmirched, the Sons of Horus launched a series of successive assaults. But these only resulted in more of their warriors being slain by the stubborn Dark Angels defenders. Finally, with only one surviving defender, the Sons of Horus sent their Destroyer squads to finish off the stubborn Dark Angels once and for all. With the death of the final defender, the Sons of Horus broke into the stasis vault that contained the forbidden Rangdan weaponary and proceeded to plunder a number of pre-determined weapons and fled for the surface. However, one of the grounded Traitor Stormbird gunships was captured and the relics it bore lost to a daring assault by Knight-Praetor Mordred and his Deathwing lifeguard, while another was shot down and destroyed by Ravenwing Xiphon Interceptors. However, despite their efforts, the surviving Sable Griffons were unable to halt the Traitors' exodus from the surface. Though the remainder of the Dark Angels defenders were trapped beneath the surface, the Sons of Horus were unable to take their revenge and were forced to flee due to the arrival of Dark Angels reinforcements in the form of the Promethean-class Cruiser Invidious. Though the Sons of Horus had achieved their primary objective and managed to acquire some of the Rangdan weapons, they were unable to break the will of the fiercely Loyalist Dark Angels, achieving only a phyrric victory at best. Yet the potency of these forbidden weapons would help turn the tide of the Horus Heresy in the Traitors' favour.Voted-Lieutenant Aloceri - Aloceri was a member of the Dark Angels Legion who fought during both the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. After the birth of the Ruinstorm during the opening years of the galaxy-wide civil war, Aloceri became the voted-lieutenant of the Ravenwing. It was rumoured he was backed for the position by the Deathwing commander Holguin, due to the fact that both of them had served as aspirants together and that Aloceri was the favourite of the esteemed Master Ramiel. Regardless of the truth of why he was chosen, Aloceri was known to be an indisputable master of the Land Speeder, Jetbike, Strike Fighter, Interceptor and even the traditional horsemanship that was demanded by service in the Ravenwing.Voted-Lieutenant Griffayn - Griffayn, known as "the Spear-Cast," was a member of the Dark Angels Legion during both the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Holding the rank of sergeant-at-arms, he became a voted-lieutenant of the Firewing, holding the position as early as the Muspel campaign. During the Horus Heresy, he accompanied Chapter Master Belath to Caliban to request reinforcement for the Thramas Crusade. Howevever, both were unaware that Luther had turned against the Lion. Ultimately, Griffayn was turned by Luther and was spared during that purges that befell many of Belath's men, joining the forces of Chapter Master Merir Astelan after killing the Loyalist Librarian Asmodeus. In his absence, he was succeeded by Vastael, who became the new voted-lieutenant of the Firewing.Voted-Lieutenant Calloson - Calloson became the voted-lieutenant and master of the Dark Angels Legion's Stormwing after the galaxy-spanning Ruinstorm dissipated in the final days of the Horus Heresy. His long record of service to the Legion saw Calloson take part in the battles for Kalippa Major, Creusias, Strichnus and the boarding attack on the Night Lords cruiser Vulturine. Each of these attacks left him heavily wounded and resulted in his body becoming heavily scarred and rebuilt with augmetics. Though Calloson was noted by his brethren for having obvious deficiencies in character, his extraordinary will to always  be the first to face any enemy and his utter disregard for death greatly endeared him to his Legion. Calloson ultimately bequeathed a relic to the Legion and its successors for the millennia to come -- the Shield of Calloson.Voted-Lieutenant Constantine - Voted-Lieutenant Constantine was the Dreadbringer of the Dreadwing during the Great Crusade and a Paladin of the Dark Angels Legion. He was succeeded as the Dreadbringer by Farith Redloss.Voted-Lieutenant Duriel - Voted-Lieutenant Duriel was a captain within the Dark Angels' 12th Order during the Great Crusade and a member of the Ironwing. He was also a senior Forge-Wright and Master of the Ironwing, who was taught secret arcane lore in the Terran forges of Narodnya and Manraga. After he suffered grievous wounds in battle, Duriel was installed as a commander of the Ist Legion's flagship Invincible Reason and granted the title of castellan. As a holder of this esteemed rank, Duriel had overall command of the Gloriana-class Battleship when Lion El'Jonson was not present. Duriel was amongst the primarch's forces that investigated the unrest and strange disappearances that occurred around the world of Muspel. During the campaign on Muspel, Durel would later sacrifice himself by detonating a nucleonic weapon to defeat a Khrave-infected Titan.Voted-Lieutenant Farith Redloss - Farith Redloss was the Dreadbringer of the Dreadwing during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. Redloss was originally a native of Caliban, but most of his family was killed by the Great Beasts that roamed its global forests. When he was 8 standard years old, his settlement was rescued by the knights of The Order and the Primarch Lion El'Jonson. The young but determined warrior was selected to become a member of the Dark Angels Legion after the arrival of the Emperor on Caliban. Eventually commanding the Dreadwing after succeeding Voted-Lieutenant Constantine, he became the voted-lieutenant of the formation after recommendation by his predecessor. As commander of the Dreadwing, Redloss was frequently at his primarch's side. When the Lion arrived at Macragge during the Horus Heresy, Redloss led his honour guard and later helped battle Konrad Curze when the Night Lords primarch was loosed upon the planet. Farith later helped lead the hunt for Curze, and personally led the Dreadwing in the attack on the Zepath System in the search for the Night Haunter. He also took part in the hunt for Curze in the Illyrium region of Macragge when the Lion finally cornered his maddened brother. Redloss continued as the Dreadbringer during and after the Imperium Secundus period, commanding the Dark Angels at the Battle of Pyrrhan and the Second Battle of Davin. Along with Holguin, the commander of the Deathwing in this period, he was the only commander of a Hexagrammaton wing to survive the escape from the Ruinstorm.Voted-Lieutenant Vastael - Vastael became the voted-lieutenant of the Firewing following the end of the Ruinstorm during the Horus Heresy. Before that, he had served in the Fire Support Squads of the 3rd Order, where he had benefitted from the mentorship of Voted-Lieutenant Farith Redloss, the commander of the Dreadwing. Due to this, Vastael originally swayed between joining the Dreadwing or Firewing, before ultimately deciding on joining the latter wing. Vastael's ultimate fate is unknown.Eskaton Marduk Sedras - Marduk Sedras held the rank of eskaton, a title used by the Dark Angels Legion's Dreadwing. This title was used to denote a warrior who had overseen the final death of an entire species or world. At the start of the Horus Heresy, Sedras was one of the oldest living Space Marines, having faithfully served the Emperor for more than 250 Terran years. There was very little that Sedras hadn't seen. Before any battle began, he often imparted his wisdom to nearby Imperial units, inspiring them to even greater deeds.Lieutenant Iksal Mordwen - Iksal Mordwen was a lieutenant of the Ironwing during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. During the final years of the Great Crusade he took part in the Dark Angels' campaign alongside the still Loyalist Emperor's Children Legion during the Siege of Mykana. Unable to breach the impenetrable shield outside the Mykana's capital city, it was to be the ingenuity and hard-won knowledge of the Ironwing that provided an answer. An Ironwing lieutenant, Iksal Mordwen, demonstrated that a dense-enough energy beam could disrupt a small section of the force field long enough to allow a small raiding party to penetrate the outer defences of the city. They assembled a force of volunteers, primarily warriors mounted on swift jetbikes and Land Speeders spearheaded by the initiates of the Ravenwing and led by Lieutenant Mordwen. The junior officer's bold plan proved effective, and the Dark Angel strike force was able to penetrate the outer shield and destroy the shield spire that powered it, allowing the rest of the Dark Angels forces to launch a final assault. Those survivors of the assault on the city, Lieutenant Mordwen and a few dozen of his brethren, were trapped behind enemy lines and faced with such a horde of enemies that it became simply a matter of how high a price in lives they would demand for their death. The surviving Legionaries from both the Ist and IIIrd Legions fought on for another three solar hours of frantic battle as the Mykanan hordes threw themselves against the thin line of defenders. By the time the main force of the Dark Angels assault arrived to relieve them, they had exhausted all their munitions and the survivors had resorted to combat blades and bayonets to hold the line. Satisfied that Mykana was purged and no threat remained to the Imperium's claim upon Laconis, the Lion ordered the Dark Angels to return to their ships, leaving the Emperor's Children amongst the ashes of the world's primitive people to await the return of their own fleet and establish Imperial authority upon it.Chief Librarian Elikas - Elikas served as the Ist Legion's Chief Librarian during the Great Crusade. He was present at the Council of Nikaea and voted in favour of maintaining the Space Marine Librarius.Chief Librarian Zahariel El'Zurias - Zahariel El'Zurias was a formidable Librarian during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras, his name being closely tied to that of the Lion himself, for he was the sole other person known to have slain the most dreaded of the Great Beasts of Caliban, a Calibanite Lion. This kinship was acknowledged by the primarch himself, who soon began to rely heavily on Zahariel, his cousin later Interrogator-Chaplain Nemiel, and Sar Luther to council his actions outside of the Order's usual hierarchy. His psychic gifts marking him out as a prime candidate for Space Marine elevation, Zahariel was inducted into the Ist Legion and sailed from Caliban as part of the first Calibanite generation of the Dark Angels. Falling in disgrace alongside Sar Luther following the events of the Sarosh Campaign, the Lion exiled Zahariel to Caliban where he would stay for the most part of the remaining Great Crusade. Confined to Caliban, Zahariel would become an even closer ally to Luther with whom he adverted several crisises, for which he was rewarded with the rank of Chief of the Mystai, the Calibanite equivalent to the rank of Librarian-in-Chief. Given privy to many of the Order's secrets, it is generally believed that Zahariel was somehow corrupted by the powers of Chaos and would ultimately side with Luther during his betrayal. His ultimate fate remains unknown.Interrogator-Chaplain Nemiel - Related by blood to the great Librarian Master Zahariel, Nemiel was inducted into what was still the Emperor's Ist Legion of the Legiones Astartes at the height of the Great Crusade. Born and raised on Caliban like his cousin and close friend Zahariel El'Zurias, Nemiel was introduced into the Order and raised as a Knight even before Caliban was reunited with the Imperium. Having gained the Lion's favour even before his ascension to the rank of Space Marine, Nemiel was a most prominent recruit amongst the first Calibanite generations of Dark Angels and would fully embrace and fashion the role of Chaplain within the Legion of the Dark Angels. Following the dire events of the Sarosh campaign, Nemiel was deemed loyal enough to stay with the 4th Expeditionary Fleet and thus remained with the Legion and endured its hardships where other Caliban-born Astartes were exiled to Caliban. Rising steadily within the ranks of the Chaplaincy, Nemiel became a close confident to his primarch until the events of the Thramas Crusade which saw the Dark Angels fight against the Night Lords. When the Invincible Reason, the Gloriana-class Battleship and flagship of the Legion found itself attacked in the Warp and boarded by daemons, Interrogator-Chaplain Nemiel, his loyalties residing with the Emperor above his primarch, tried to enforce the Edict of Nikaea upon Brother Asmodeus who had broken his vows in order to defeat the daemons. Duty-bound to uphold the Edict, Nemiel's actions contradicted the Lion's orders to allow the use of psychic abilities. The Lion beheaded the valiant Interrogator-Chaplain with a single strike to spare Brother Asmodeus' life.Knight-Sergeant Alais Decur - Alais Decur was one of the few remaining Graymaryan recruits with the main force of the Ist Legion by the time of the late Great Crusade, with most having been reassigned to chantry houses within the Imperium proper or the oft-overlooked fortifications of the Imperial Industrial World of Gramarye. Graymarye had once served the Ist Legion as one of its strongholds and also the seat of power for the Council of Masters, which ruled after the death of Urien Vendraig, the former grandmaster of the Ist Legion before the return of Lion El'Jonson. As a knight-sergeant, Alais was a member of the Seeker cadre of the 14th Order during the Shield World Campaign and accompanied the Lion's forces during the Battle of Diamat.Knight-Sergeant Idravain Mors - Knight-Sergeant Mors, seneschal of the Deathwing, was assigned to the 23rd Order, "The Shattered Mantle," during the Horus Heresy. Knight-Sergeant Mors was inducted into the inner circle of the Deathwing after the battle on Mykana, where he took a Mykanan phase-lock musket shot meant for his commander, leaving him on the brink of death once victory was secured. He bore the Deathwing initiation icons on his right armorial inset, marking him as a warrior who was master in the arts of the Deathwing, as a champion and linebreaker, should he be needed. Mors fell again on the fields of Sheol IX during the Thramas Crusade, once again shielding the knight-praetor of the Shattered Mantle, though this time from the vengeful talons of the Night Haunter himself. His shattered body was recovered from the field of battle and interred in a Dreadnought sarcophagus in honour of his sacrifice.Brother-Sergeant Kaye - Kaye was a sergeant of the Stormwing in the Dark Angels Legion during the Great Crusade. He was among the troops commanded by their Primarch Lion El'Jonson who investigated the unrest and strange disappearances occurring around the world of Muspel. By that time, Kaye was a knight of the Stormwing and served within the 15th Company of the Dark Angels Legion's 3rd Order. His power armour bore heraldic icons of obscure secret orders and Kaye wielded a Calibanite Warblade in battle. Kaye was the commander of Tactical Squad Martlet and they, accompanied by the Librarian Aravain, boarded the vessels of Muspel's system fleet that lay silent near the world.Brother-Sergeant Kohl - Brother-Sergeant Kohl was a Terran-born Dark Angel and by the two hundredth standard year of the Great Crusade one of the oldest serving battle-brothers that had fought in the very first battles of the crusade.Brother-Sergeant Abdaziel Magron - Abdaziel Magron was a former sergeant of the Dark Angels Legion who disappeared sometime during the Horus Heresy whilst engaged with the Traitor Astartes of the World Eaters Legion near a small planetoid. The Imperial task force had managed to sustain the laser barrage on the doomed planet, but they were too successful, for the beams scythed through the world's crust and deep into the liquid core. The unstable planet exploded during the height of the battle which resulted in a large mass of debris impacting with the Dark Angels' capital ship Imperial Vengeance. The shock wave of the exploding starship hurled Sergeant Magron along with a large amount of wreckage into the void of space. As far as he could tell, he was the only survivor of the engagement, and he was cast adrift into space. With no chance of rescue, Magron used his Sus-an Membrane to shut down his vital functions and induce a state of suspended animation. The unlucky Space Marine floated through the void of space for over ten millennia, and eventually was pulled into the strong gravitational pull of the Eye of Terror. His comatose body drifted far into the Eye itself and he ultimately came to rest on one of the many Daemon Worlds of that benighted realm. Sergeant Magron was found by another Astartes, a Fallen Angel by the name of Zhebdek Abaddas. Abaddas was a former Captain of the Dark Angels Legion, until he threw in his lot with Luther and became one of the Fallen and a servant of the Dark Gods. He helped revive his erstwhile kin, and apprised him of the situation -- he was no longer in the 31st Millennium, but had in fact awoken far in the future, in the 41st Millennium. Abaddas than proceeded to feed Magron a stream of lies in regards to the outcome of the Horus Heresy; that Horus had won, killed the Emperor and that the Imperium of Man was no more. Instead, Horus now ruled a new Imperium of Chaos. He tried to corrupt his fellow Dark Angel, who slowly succumbed to the Abbadas' lies and the corrupting influence of Chaos and the Blood God Khorne. But in the end, Abaddas' deception did not avail him as Magron refused to acquiesce to his fate and fought Abaddas and killed him. Magron somehow found his way out of the Eye of Terror and was turned over to his former battle-brothers in the Dark Angels Chapter. Stripped of his power armour and placed in a holding cell, Magron contemplated his fate, and prepared himself to face any trials put before him. Taken to the great Fortress-Monastery of The Rock, the only remaining fragment of the Dark Angels' original homeworld of Caliban, Abdaziel Magron spent many months in a cold dungeon, interrogated by the Chapter's Interrogator-Chaplains and Librarians. The interrogation was exhaustive. Magron made a complete confession and repented his loss of faith in the Emperor. The harsher methods used on him dragged no complaint from his lips. He said nothing in mitigation of his sin. But finally he was allowed extreme unction, and offered the last blessings of a quick death and the respite of the Emperor's Peace.Brother-Sergeant Maegos Losteurne (KIA) - Assigned to the strike cruiser Caliban's Will, Losteurne was part of the Dark Angels reserve that returned to Caliban with Luther during the Great Crusade. He met his end on the great voidship but little information regarding his fate could be gleamed from his corpse by Dark Angels investigators from the Deathwing when the ship was rediscovered in the 41st Millennium, other than he still wore the Dark Angels' black Heresy era colour scheme with a white tabard. However there was one anomaly. His right kneeplate sported a Daemon's skull superimposed over a Chaos Star and his tabard was hung with the remains of faces and skulls, leaving little doubt about his true allegiance.Legionary Zediel Ardaral - Ardaral was a simple Legionary of the line, an ordinary warrior within the host of the 42nd Order of the Ist Legion. However, Ardaral also bore the rank of proctor within the Stormwing, and that of cenobite within the Order of the Crimson Field. Within his unit he held a higher rank within the Stormwing than any other and was often called upon to advise the sergeant of his squad on appropriate tactics and organisation, as well as serving outside his squad in a cenobium of the Crimson Field during two separate engagements. Overall, he served as an excellent example of the unusual distributed command structure and organisation utilised by the Dark Angels, one designed to put skills and experience before simple hierarchical rank and too complex to be made easy use of by those not well-versed in its intricacies. Legionary Ardaral would survive the Thramas Crusade to great honour, fighting in the vanguard of the assault on Sheol IX. There he and his unit formed a vital part of the force that cut the Night Lords off from their voidships, allowing Lion El'Jonson and the secondary waves of the attack to catch their elusive foe off-guard and vulnerable. By the end of the battle, Ardaral's company had been rendered almost combat ineffective, with casualties near halving their numbers, though the tally of their own kills more than proved their valour and skill in the face of such a fierce foe.Legionary Ormand - In the days of the Ist Legion, the Dark Angels began surrounding themselves with secrecy. This isolationist tendency was also mirrored by those chapters of the Legion detached from Caliban or the expeditionary fleets to watch over given sectors of space. Legionary Ormand was one of two specialists of the Alaxxes Outpost that clandestinely infiltrated both the Alpha Legion and Space Wolves fleets that were fighting in the Alaxxes Nebula. On board a shadow-craft, Ormand successfully infiltrated Leman Russ' flagship, Hrafnkel, and retrieved valuable information on the VIth Legion's Compliance records, strength and fighting techniques. His true mission was to ascertain the Legion's loyalty, masquerading as a Space Wolves Legionary in order to achieve his objectives. Discovered and captured by one of the Space Wolves Rune Priests, Ormand was taken before Leman Russ himself, but refused to reveal his secrets. Yet, upon seeing the defiance with which the Space Wolves fought the numerically superior Alpha Legion, Ormand convinced Lord Commander Althalos to reveal the Ist Legion's presence and saved the Space Wolves from certain annihilation.Venerable-Praefectus Oramas - Venerable-Praefectus Oramas, the Archon of Flame, was a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. In his former life he was an initiate of the Ist Legion's Firewing and no towering hero of the Great Crusade. Following his mortal wounding and internment within a Dreadnought sarcophagus, he had the rare honour of wielding both a Conversion Beam Cannon and a Kheres Pattern Assault Cannon. These were both rare weapons, even among the Legiones Astartes, for the technology required to keep such potent weapons operating was both all but lost to Imperial scholars and dangerous to employ. Only within the ranks of the Ist Legion was such ancient technology found in great numbers, often employed en-masse in order to overwhelm the terrible foes against which the Dark Angels were often pitted. The Kheres Assault Cannon, whose temperamental nature limited its use amongst many of the younger Legions, combined with the volatile Conversion Beam Cannon, represented a significant deployment of firepower, but one that was commonplace among the ranks of the Dark Angels Legion.Titus - Titus was a Venerable Castraferrum Dreadnought who served within the Dreadwing during both the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Originally, Titus was a Terran member of the old Ist Legion, before it was reunited with their primarch Lion El'Jonson. He would later be interred within a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought after being mortally wounded in battle with the Gordian League during the Great Crusade. However, his Contemptor chassis was destroyed during the Battle of Diamat and Titus was later placed within the sarcophagus of a newer Castraferrum Pattern Dreadnought. Titus became the voted-lieutenant of the Dreadwing following the dissipation of the galaxy-wide Ruinstorm during the Horus Heresy.The Nemean (a.k.a. The Nemean Reaver) - During the Age of Darkness which followed the Horus Heresy, the Nemean Reaver, or simply "the Nemean", was a Reaver Lord of the Blackshields, those Legionaries that had repudiated their former sire and allegiance in the wake of the Warmaster's betrayal and who now fought as a distinct command that was neither aligned with the Traitor's nor with the Imperium. Although his true identity as a former member of the Ist Legion has never been confirmed, it is generally assumed from the weapons he bore and the Calibanite influence in his personal heraldry that the Nemean was, in fact, a scion of the Lion. Rumoured to be one of the survivors of the terrible Rangdan Xenocides, the Nemean was the first lord of a large group of independent Legiones Astartes that had carved out their own autonomous realm in the Pale Stars region of the Ultima Segmentum. This splinter-force was commonly known as the Dark Brotherhood and was led by the Nemean. At the Conclave of Optera, the Nemean met the Agenta Primus of the Regent of Terra in person, the famous Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro, who convinced the Nemean to be inducted into the highly selective ranks of the Knights-Errant, bound into personal service to Malcador the Sigilite. Some reports later placed the Nemean on Terra during the dire events of the Battle of Terra, defending the walls of the Imperial Palace but these reports have yet to be confirmed. The Nemean's final destiny remains unknown.