Ragnar Blackmane - The Deeds of Ragnar Blackmane: Magdelon Incursion (712.M41) - The Magdelon Incursion began in 712.M41, when a warband of the Bleak Brotherhood made a compact with a daemon to secure its aid for their coming wars. The daemon's price however, was the destruction of the Crystal City on the Imperium world of Magdelon, a price the Bleak Brotherhood readily agreed to pay. When the Heretic Astartes attacked the Crystal City though, the warband attracted the attention of the Space Wolves Chapter and the two sides soon clashed admidst the city's shattered crystalline ruins. Disaster struck when their battle was so pleasing to the denizens of the Warp that a major daemonic incursion on Magdelon was triggered. Despite the daemons' sudden appearance, Ragnar Blackmane led the Space Wolves to victory against the forces of Chaos, and the survivors of the Bleak Brotherhood fled to the world of Lycanthos Secundus. There the Chaos Space Marines seized the mighty bastion known as the Widowmaker and held out against repeated assaults by Imperial forces for three solar decades. This warband's end finally came when they fell to an attack from the Astral Claws Chapter in 780.M41.The Choosing (941.M41) - During an especially bloody Fenrisian summer, the Thunderfist tribe are ambushed by the Grimskull tribe in the wake of a victory feast. Flying into a berserk rage, the young Ragnar Thunderfist -- something of a prodigal child amongst his tribe -- butchers a great swathe of the attacking warriors. Though he eventually succumbs to his wounds, Ragnar's efforts draw the attention of the Wolf Priests. Ragnar's barely living body is unceremoniously dragged from beneath a mound of the dead, and he is taken to join the Sky Warriors.Morkai's Due (942.M41) - During his Trial of Morkai, the young Ragnar finds himself the prey of a great Fenrisian Blackmaned Wolf. Rather than succumb, Ragnar successfully battles and slays the beast, hauling its carcass back to The Fang in victory. With this heroic deed, Ragnar Blackmane is born.Blackmane's Fury (949.M41) - While en route to the Angelsfall warzone, the Space Wolf Strike Cruiser Stormdrake is boarded by Dark Eldar pirates. Ragnar's pack of Blood Claws are amongst the warriors who charge through the warship's corridors to repel the boarders. After Ragnar's Wolf Guard pack leader is felled with a virulent neurotoxin, Blackmane sees red and leads a maddened charge into the enemy guns. Though several of his packmates are slain amid a storm of crystalline splinters, the xenos are overrun before they can sabotage the Stormdrake's primary generatorum.The Price of Victory (952.M41) - Ragnar Blackmane's pack are among those chosen to launch a punitive assault on the world of Henloth. Here, rebel factions have staged an uprising in the name of the Ruinous Powers. The situation swiftly escalates as the influence of Tzeentchian Daemons is revealed. As the Space Wolves struggle to prevent a full-scale daemonic incursion, Ragnar Blackmane is forced to strike off the head of Rune Priest Bulvai Runemakke, whose erratic decisions have led to one disaster after another. Ragnar's instincts are born out as a glamour fades to reveal a Thousand Sons Chaos Sorcerer lying slain by Blackmane's hand. Yet many claim that Ragnar's behaviour was dangerously impulsive, for he had no proof beyond his own convictions that the venerable Space Wolf psyker had been somehow compromised by the foe. Some amongst the Chapter take to calling the impetuous Blood Claw "Ragnar Packslayer", and his reputation is left badly tarnished.Destiny Reclaimed (970.M41) - The Bladestar Cluster is overrun by the Ork hordes of a Blood Axes Warboss calling himself Borzag Khan. Fresh from a bloody, system-wide war against elements of the White Scars Chapter, this cunning Greenskin has learned much about hit-and-run warfare. His fast-moving, hard-hitting warbands wreak havoc through the Cluster until the arrival of Berek Thunderfist's Great Company. In a series of bloody skirmishes, the Fenrisians curtail the Ork advance and eventually corner Borzag Khan himself on the Antillian Plateaux. Here, amid the blood and thunder of battle, the frenzied Blackmane single-handedly hacks apart Borzag's bodyguards before slaying the Blood Axe Warboss in a crunchingly violent duel. Their leader slain, the remaining Orks are easy prey for the Space Wolves, the war drawing to a close just solar days later. Ragnar is lauded for his heroic part in the victory, the stain on his honour erased with an unprecedented promotion straight from Blood Claw to the ranks of Lord Berek's Wolf Guard.Thunderfist's Bane (983.M41) - During fierce fighting against Khornate Traitor Space Marines on the Forge World of Bhakhar, Ragnar is consumed by battle rage and plunges into the fray. He is thus far from Lord Berek's side when the Wolf Lord is slain by the Khornate Chaos Champion, Ghorox Bloodfist. Blaming himself for Berek's death, Blackmane vows to find vengeance or death.An Oath Fulfilled (983.M41) - Ragnar Blackmane finally runs Ghorox Bloodfist to ground on the Shrine World of Perfidium. Their ensuing duel is long and violent. It ends with Ragnar hurling Bloodfist's broken body from the Templum Incarnadus to smash a crater in the pearlescent cobbles three thousand feet below. Having avenged his slain lord, Blackmane is elected by his Battle-Brothers as the new master of Thunderfist’s Great Company. This announcement amazes all, the new Wolf Lord included.Years of Blood (984-998.M41) - With the Imperium beset on all sides by terrible foes, Ragnar Blackmane proves himself a capable Wolf Lord in numerous bloody wars. Blackmane's Great Company specialise in crushing orbital assaults, and though Ragnar's elders express concern at the young World Lord's ferocious temper, they cannot fault the results. Yet matters are to come to a head on the bloody fields of Alaric Prime, where his wrath may yet prove to be his downfall.