Death Korps Commissar - Notable Death Korp of Krieg Commissars: Commissar-General Maugh - Commissar-General Maugh was the senior Commissariat officer during nearly the entire Siege of Vraks-campaign, having closely worked with Marechal Kagori on Vraks itself. As the Siege of Vraks was nearing its bloody conclusion, the Commissar-General decided to bolster the morale of the 143rd Siege Regiment that was charged with the first attack on the Curtain Wall, last obstacle before Vrak’s Citadel itself. Designated the Battle for Gate 579-459, the courageous Commissar stepped into his personal Leman Russ Battle Tank, Landwaster, to command the advance from the front. Supported by two Titans from Legio Astorum, the advance made good progress under cover from a heavy barrage unleashed by the Death Korps, until the attack ran into a counter-attack. Passing through the gate, spider-legged daemon-engines, armoured units and infantry charged at the 143rd Siege Regiment. A shot penetrated the Landwaster’s armour, killing the loader and gunner and missing the Commissar-General by a small margin. Quickly clambering out of his stricken tank, the Commissar-General exited the turret moments before Landwaster’s ammunitions caught fire and detonated, the explosion sending Maugh flying and wounding him in the shoulder by lodging a piece of shrapnel in it. Having lost his communicator, the Commissar-General ignored that Chaos Space Marines were been closing on his position, and Khornate Terminators of the Skulltakers were emerging from the dust of the battlefield. Weakened by blood-loss, caked in mud and scorched by the explosion of his Leman Russ, the Commissar-General tried to defend himself but was easily vanquished and killed by the towering Astartes. Yet he didn’t scream or beg for mercy, but was resolute upon his death as he stared defiantly at the face of his killer until his skull was pulverised by the enemy’s Power Fist.Commissar Costellin - Commissar Costellin’s post with the 186th Death Korps Infantry Regiment lasted for more than 30 years, and would see him fight alongside his regiment during the Dask Campaign and the Loss of Hieronymous Theta. Costellin is one of the very few non-natives that has been granted permission by the Administratum to tread the surface of Krieg itself, witnessing with his own eyes the world that gave birth to the Death Korps. Despite his years of experience, his relations with officers and guardsmen alike were cold. Costellin was still unsettled about the textbook conformity of the Death Korp and its lack of human interaction. Nevertheless, with his insight on the Krieg mentality, he served as a distinguished liaison officer for his regiment, particularly on Hieronymous Theta. Arduous reader of the wisdom of the almost legendary Commissar Ciaphas Cain, Costellin was perhaps the first officer to recognise the threat emerging on Hieronymous Theta as of Necron-nature, which implies that his accreditation level was high enough to have gained knowledge on the matter. Increasingly ill at ease with the sacrificial tendencies of the Krieg and clearly harbouring some misgivings towards Segmentum authorities for withholding information regarding the true nature of the menace they now faced, Costellin nevertheless acted in the interest of his regiment by liaising with Hieronymous Theta’s Planetary Governor and PDF-Command. His working relation with the acting Colonel of the 186th Regiment was tense at best, matters only degrading after Colonel 186’s execution of the Governor and the general conviction of the Krieg commanders that the Necrons could be vanquished by attritional warfare. Yet Costellin never took his concerns to his military hierarchy. After leading a daring raid into Hieronymous City to destroy a power generatorium, he was one of the few to return wounded but alive. Having witnessed the Necrons on the backfoot and with the very real chance of Imperial victory, it is somehow a mystery why Costellin asked for transfer to another regiment on the eve of the final battle. Granted the honor of bearing one of the Death Korps most sacred relics - a bone-fragment of Colonel Jurten - into battle, he was waylaid by human renegades that had turned to venerating the Necrons as "Iron Gods". Having already lost one of his Gorgons, Commissar Costellin tried to negotiate the surrender of these human renegades. Believing him taken hostage, Colonel 186 ordered a covert assault on the heretics during which Commissar Costellin was shot -- presumably by the heretics. His wound proved too grievous to be treated by the onrushing Quartermaster, who instead reverently retrieved the sacred relic and left the Commissar to his fate.Commissar Mannheim - Commissar Mannheim was attached to the 42nd Krieg Infantry Regiment during the Campaign on Dask, and present during Necron awakening on Hieronymous Theta.