Vanus Temple - Notable Vanus Assassins: Sire Vanus - The founder and first Director Primus of the Vanus Clade, Sire Vanus was the namesake of the Vanus Temple. He was the foremost info-cyte and cryptocrat of his age. He, along with the other founders of the various Assassin clades that would evolve into the Assassin Temples of the 41st Millennium, was present on Mount Vengeance. They swore a pact in the shadow of the Great Crusade, an oath that breathed life into the creation of the Officio Assassinorum. The newly created clades hunted down the enemies of the Emperor through stealth and subterfuge, establishing the fact that there was no safe place in the galaxy to hide from the Emperor's justice.Fon Tariel - Fon Tariel was a Vanus Assassin during the Great Crusade and the opening days of the Horus Heresy. He was an info-cyte of the Clade Vanus ranked at Epsilon-dan, the senior-most rank of his order. He was dispatched with the first ever Imperial Execution Force that was composed of Imperial Assassins from every clade, who were tasked with assassinating the Traitor Primarch Horus upon the world of Dagonet. Ultimately, this assassination attempt failed and all the Assassins were slain by the Traitors.Iaeo - Iaeo was a Vanus Assassin operating during the Great Crusade and the dark years of the Horus Heresy. A former pupil of Master Senus, Iaeo had been selected to operate as an Unbound Infocyte, which meant that she was authorised to select and hunt down targets of her choosing on her own. Iaeo was operating on Tallarn at the time of the planet's invasion by the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion and the start of the Battle of Tallarn, which considerably complicated her chosen task -- the hunt of Alpha Legion infiltrators amongst the survivors of the Iron Warriors' virus-bombing of the world. Of these infiltrators the main target had been identified as an entity named Jalen, a triplet of operatives suspected of having been on Tallarn for solar months before the Iron Warriors' invasion and who were responsible for the corruption of several civilian notables and military officers. Successfully infiltrating the Iron Warriors' stronghold on Tallarn -- the Sightless Warren -- Iaeo had to escape several assassination attempts on herself to reach her designated objective. Realising she was outmatched, Iaeo used the presence of the Warmaster Horus' emissary -- Argonis "the Unscarred" -- to seed distrust amongst the Traitors and enable her to close on her prey. In the tradition of the Vanus Clade Iaeo did not have to kill her targets herself, as one of the triplets was killed by the escaping Argonis and another trapped in a stranded vehicle on the poisoned surface of Tallarn. However, to fully eradicate the Alpha Legion cell, Iaeo had to let herself become captured by the third Jalen-operative before revealing her own location and that of the Alpha Legion to the Iron Warriors. Through her sacrifice did Iaeo ensure that the Chaos artefact known as the "Cursus of Alganar" was kept hidden, and the Alpha Legion's attempt at recovering it spoiled.Clementina Yendl - Clementina Yendl was an operative of the Vanus Temple in the mid-32nd Millennia during the War of the Beast against a massive Ork WAAAGH! that threatened the Throne World of Terra. During this conflict, she was despatched by the Grand Master of Assassins, Drakan Vangorich, to lead a force of Assassins to infiltrate the Adeptus Mechanicus homeworld of Mars, and to discover the secrets of the clandestine project the Tech-priests of Mars were working on that involved the Greenskins. Unfortunately for Yendl's team, their presence did not go undetected, as they were soon discovered by Fabricator-General Kubik, who despatched a force of fifty deadly Sicarian Ruststalkers who managed to kill one of her Assassins. Their mission compromised, Yendl took refuge in a subterranean shelter in an Adeptus Mechanicus facility where she revealed that she was working with Magos Eldon Urquidex in foiling the fabricator-general's plans. Yendl eventually came across a facility housing tens of thousands of Ork corpses, and she became determined to discover what Kubik planned to do with these corpses. Unfortunately, Yendl and her Assassin retinue would be discovered once again, and would be massacred by an elite force of Mars' finest Skitarii led by Argus Van Auken.Kurei Adamta - Kurei Adamta was a member of the Vanus Temple, who was, unusual for a Vanus Assassin, covered in hardened muscle and adept at combat, though he typically avoided it at all costs. Kurei was a key member of the Execution Force that was sent to the world of Achyllan Prime, located close to the Cadian Sector, during the 13th Black Crusade in ca. 999.M41, in order to halt the invasion of a large Chaos force of the infamous Crimson Slaughter Chaos Space Marine warband led by the sorcerer Severin Drask. The sorcerer was intent on sacrificing the Achyllan System's star by using the Temple of Shades summoned from the Eye of Terror in order to create a Warp rift that would endanger Terra itself. During this mission, the Assassins were successful in assassinating Drask, though when the Temple of Shades collapsed with the death of Drask, the planet was left devastated. Kurei would ultimately be the sole survivor of this mission, and most unusual for an operative of his temple, he believed that the death of his fellow Assassins would haunt him for the rest of his days.