Iron Warriors - Notable Iron Warriors: Perturabo - Perturabo is the primarch of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. He and his IVth Legion of Astartes sided with Chaos during the Horus Heresy and he has since ascended to become a Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided. He, like his Iron Warriors, has a natural affinity towards the intensive use of technology in combat and a cold, emotionless logic when dealing with others, but he lacked the strength of faith in either the Emperor of Mankind or the Chaos Gods to whom he later swore his soul which was common amongst most of the other Primarchs, Traitor and Loyalist alike. Perturabo's greatest foe was Rogal Dorn, the Primarch of the Imperial Fists Legion, and it was this simmering rivalry that helped lead Perturabo and his Legion to the service of the Dark Gods.Warsmith Forrix, "The Breaker" (KIA) - Forrix was an Iron Warriors Warsmith, First Captain of the 1st Grand Battalion and a member of Perturabo's inner circle of advisors known as the Trident. He was a formidable warrior and Imperial hero during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. It was Warsmith Forrix's primary responsibility for planning the Iron Warriors' attack on the marooned Imperial Fists' Retribution Fleet during the Battle of Phall. At the conclusion of the Horus Heresy, it would be Forrix who led the retreat of the Iron Warriors Legion following their disastrous defeat at the Battle of Terra. Ten millennia later, Forrix had become disillusioned and jaded from the constant fighting of the Long War and was deemed an unworthy successor to the Iron Warrior Chaos Lord Barban Falk, "The Warsmith". Forrix met his ultimate fate while fighting in the 13th Black Crusade during the siege of Hydra Cordatus, where he was killed by an Imperial Warhound-class Titan.Warsmith Berrosus (KIA) - Berrosus was an Iron Warriors Warsmith of the 2nd Grand Battalion. During the Battle of Phall he had the misfortune of bringing ill-favoured news to Perturabo, whose volatile moods had steadily worsened since the slaughters of Istvaan V. He had hoped his position as a Warsmith would keep him from harm, but it was to be a fool's hope, for Perturabo's rages fell on high kings and holy fools alike. On the orders of his Primarch, Berossus was eventually encased within the shell of a Chaos Dreadnought to be tormented across the centuries. In the late 41st Millennium, on the Daemon World of Medrengard, Berrosus and his fellow Warsmith Toramino were angered over Warsmith Honsou's refusal to share the Imperial Fists gene-seed that was stolen from Hydra Cordatus during the 13th Black Crusade, and so declared war against him. The aggressive Berrosus had his Grand Company lay siege to Honsou's citadel, and though losses proved high (one thousand Astartes) he succeeded in breaching the citadel's walls. Facing Honsou in close-combat, Berrosus nearly killed Honsou with a siege drill. Unfortunately, victory was torn from his grasp when Honsou's life was saved by his daemonic life-ward Onyx, who managed to breech Berrosus' Dreadnought carapace. Honsou then reached inside the Dreadnought shell and ripped out its Mind Impulse Unit and pulped Berrosus' head before all to see. Berrosus' warband then defected to the service of Honsou shortly thereafter.Warsmith Barabas Dantioch (KIA) - Warsmith Barabas Dantioch once commanded the 51st Expeditionary Fleet of the Iron Warriors Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. He was the favoured son of Perturabo due to his tactical acumen and skill at building formidable fortifications. He had been laid low during a massive Hrud infestation on the world of Gholghis. Dantioch was left prematurely aged and crippled by the attack of the xenos. After the incident, he chose to wear no helmet, for his face and skull were enclosed within an iron mask he had crafted. The faceplate was a work of brutal beauty, an interpretation of the Legion's badge, the very same iron mask symbol that adorned his shoulder. It was whispered that Dantioch had worn the mask immediately after he pulled it glowing from the forge, the better to hammer it into shape around his shaven skull. He then plunged head and iron mask alike into ice water, fixing the beaten metal in place forever around his equally grim features. Dantioch left the 51st Expedition to garrison the world of Lesser Damantyne, becoming the planner and architect of the superbly fortified Schadenhold fortress. After the triple disasters of Gholghis, Stratopolae and Krak Fiorina, the name of Dantioch and his legacy was utterly expunged; his name a byword for failure on an epic scale. During the many solar months the small Iron Warriors detachment had garrisoned the planet, they heard disturbing rumours of the galaxy being conquered by the forces of the Warmaster Horus. Dantioch suspected that the bulk of the IVth Legion had willingly joined the Warmaster's cause. When Warsmith Krendl arrived at Lesser Damantyne with the 51st Expeditionary Fleet, he came to the Schadenhold with new orders for the Iron Warriors garrison. They were ordered by their Primarch to prepare for the Traitors' offensive against Terra. Lesser Damantyne would be used as a resupply point for Horus' forces. Dantioch refused to acquiesce to his Primarch's orders for the Iron Warriors on Lesser Damantyne remained Loyalists and would not share in their traitorous brethren's damnation. Krendl vowed to destroy Dantioch's beloved fortress in the name of Horus. Dantioch commanded his meagre forces against the entire might of the 51st Expeditionary Fleet and the 14th Grand Company of the Iron Warriors for 366 standard days, until the Traitors deployed an Imperator-class Titan to destroy the Schadenhold. Just before the fortress fell, Dantioch and the surviving Loyalist Iron Warriors teleported aboard the Traitor's flagship and commandeered it. The Warsmith then set course towards Terra with the aim of helping to fortify and defend the Emperor's Imperial Palace against the forces of the Traitor Legions. Eventually, he somehow made his way to the Realm of Ultramar. For his excellence in siegecraft, and his staunch loyalty to the Emperor, Barabas Dantioch was recruited by the Lords of Ultramar to help them construct and defend the greatest contingency plan, and perhaps the second greatest heresy, the Imperium had ever known -- the Imperium Secundus. Then Roboute Guilliman revealed to him the long-sequestered mysteries of Sotha, and the strange alien device known as the Pharos. Utilising the Pharos' strange abilities, Dantioch was able to illuminate Macragge, lighting it up as a bright spot that was visible throughout realspace and the Warp, despite the effects of the Ruinstorm, providing a directional beacon for navigation in the absence of the Astronomican. Following their defeat at the hands of the Dark Angels at Tsagualsa, remnants of the Night Lords Legion followed the strange beacon they detected in the Warp, which guided them safely to the world of Sotha. Over many solar months, the Night Lords secretly gathered intelligence on the suspicious activities of the Ultramarines, and soon discovered the nature of the arcane device, named the Pharos, upon the restricted planet. The Night Lords launched a surprise assault upon the lightly-garrisoned world, intent on seizing the Pharos in order to use it to determine the location of their flagship, the Nightfall, as well as the whereabouts of their missing Primarch Konrad Curze. In the ensuing battle, Warsmith Dantioch sacrificed himself by overloading the Pharos, so that the Night Lords would be unable to utilise the device's powerful empathic abilities. What far-reaching consequences this had for the galaxy would not come to pass for another ten millennia.Warsmith Kroeger (KIA) - Kroeger was an Iron Warriors Warsmith of the 23rd Grand Battalion and a member of Perturabo's inner circle of advisors known as the Trident during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. Originally, he served as a simple line warrior; a plain-speaking, bloody-handed brawler who excelled at assault actions. During the campaign against the Cadmean Citadel upon the Imperial Fists-controlled world of Hydra Cordatus, by the direct command of his Warsmith, he spearheaded an ill-advised assault against the formidable fortress. He was the lone survivor of the disastrous assault and was grievously wounded by the superior numbers of Imperial Fists Legionaries, and was only saved by the timely intervention of Perturabo and his Iron Circle of robotic praetorians. Recognising the warrior's raw talent and lack of ambition for glory's sake, Perturabo made Kroeger the new Warsmith of the 23rd Grand Battalion and a member of his inner circle of advisors known as the Trident. Ten millennia later, Kroeger would meet his ultimate fate, once again, upon the world of Hydra Crodatus during the 13th Black Crusade. By this time, Kroeger had given into his violent tendencies and had become a borderline berserker, though he was unlike the blood-crazed fiends of the World Eaters, as he seemed able to control his fury. He was killed during this campaign; his own Power Armour (possessed by a Lesser Daemon) decided to "bond" with a new owner, a former Imperial Guard Captain named Larana Utorian, who was Kroeger's personal slave. She donned her former master's armour and became fully possessed by the Daemonic entity and subsequently killed Kroeger.Warsmith Harkor - Harkor was a former Iron Warriors Warsmith of the 23rd Grand Battalion and a member of Perturabo's inner circle of advisors known as the Trident during the Great Crusade and the opening days of the Horus Heresy. Warsmith Harkor was an Olympian of the old ways, a warrior who knew the value of occasionally strengthening the mettle of his subordinates by plunging them into the fire and beating them upon the anvil of war. During the campaign against the Iron Warriors' hated rivals upon the Imperial Fists-controlled world of Hydra Cordatus during the Horus Heresy, Harkor overstepped his authority and ordered an escalade against his Primarch's orders. Though the Iron Warriors were victorious, Perturabo was furious with Harkor. Since Istvaan V, Perturabo had become a giant of terrible rages and spontaneous violence, and Harkor had gambled that his humbling of Dorn's sons would quench that molten anger. He was wrong, as the Primarch formally rebuked him for countermanding his direct orders and devising stratagems of his own. Perturabo disapproved of having his warriors' lives wasted while Harkor watched from the relative safety of a gun battery. The Lord of Iron stripped the former Triarch of his armour and all rank. He was made a simple line warrior of the fighting ranks within the 23rd Grand Battalion. A lone surviving warrior of Harkor's ill-advised assault named Kroeger, was chosen by the Primarch to become the new Warsmith of the 23rd Grand Battalion and the third blade of his Trident.Warsmith Soltarn Vull Bronn, "The Stonewrought" - Vull Bronn was a warrior of the 45th Grand Battalion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, whose understanding of stone was such that some whispered it spoke to him, confiding its secrets and opening up its geological wonders to the touch of his entrenching tool. Perturabo, ever quick to recognise raw talent, favoured Vull Bronn as an adviser, despite the inferiority of his rank next to the three exalted Warsmiths of the Trident who normally attended upon him.Warmsith Barban Falk, "The Warsmith" - Barban Falk was a Warsmith of the Iron Warriors 235th Grand Battalion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy and later became a member of Perturabo's inner circle of advisors known as the Trident. During the Horus Heresy, Falk and his fellow Iron Warriors undertook a mutual quest with their brother Legion, the Emperor's Children, into the Eye of Terror to discover the lost Chaos artefact known as the Angel Exterminatus. Upon the Eldar Crone World of Amon ny-shak Kaelis, Falk was contacted by a mysterious daemonic entity which enabled him to utilise the Warp entity's formidable power to command the Iron Warriors under his command. After escaping from the Eldar world, he no longer referred to himself as Barban Falk, and forever after was known simply as "The Warsmith". Millennia later in 999.M41, The Warsmith, now a formidable Chaos Lord, led a large Iron Warriors warband during the 13th Black Crusade to the Imperial world of Hydra Cordatus. The lone Imperial citadel they assaulted secretly housed a large cryo-storage unit containing samples of the Imperial Fists Chapter's gene-seed. The Warsmith, having greatly pleased the Chaos Gods through his victory, was granted his final apotheosis into a daemon and departed for the Eye of Terror. Before his final ascension as a new Daemon Prince, he gave command of his warband to his chosen champion Honsou, who would take the stolen Imperial Fists gene-seed back to the Iron Warriors' Daemon World of Medrengard within the Eye. After the Forces of Chaos withdrew from Hydra Cordatus, they bombarded the remains of the citadel to dust, leaving only a single survivor to bring word of the disaster to the Imperium.Warsmith Honsou, "The Half-Breed"- Honsou was the leading Iron Warriors Warsmith at the end of the 41st Millennium. He first came to prominence during the iron Warriors' assault on the Adeptus Mechanicus fortress on the world of Hydra Cordatus that housed a large cryo-storage unit containing samples of the Imperial Fists Chapter's gene-seed. At this point, Honsou was the captain of one-third of Barban Falk's Grand Company. Honsou had managed to claw his way to that position despite heavy prejudice from other Iron Warriors for being a 'half-breed'; when he had been transformed into a Chaos Space Marine, Honsou's gene-seed had been "tainted" through the use of captured genetic material from the hated Imperial Fists, the Iron Warriors' most hated and ancient foe. Despite his fellows' prejudice, his abilities and tenaciousness helped him succeed in capturing the gene-seed held in stasis on Hydra Cordatus. With this victory, Honsou's Warsmith successfully ascended to daemonhood and appointed Honsou (the only surviving captain) as his successor. The newly appointed Warsmith Honsou returned to the Iron Warriors' Daemon World of Medrengard in triumph but snubbed two of his fellow Warsmiths when he decided to renege on their agreed upon promise of sharing the gene-seed captured at Hydra Cordatus so that all the Iron Warriors Grand Companies could create new Astartes. This decision lead to a civil war within the Iron Warriors' ranks. The two rival Warsmiths and their Grand Companies laid siege to Honsou's citadel of Khalan-Ghol and eventually breached it. Honsou was nearly killed by the Warsmith Berrosus but was saved by his life-ward and killed the Dreadnought Warsmith. Yet, the war continued and eventually most of Honsou's forces had been smashed by other Warsmiths seeking to claim the unspoiled gene-seed and their armies in their internecine warring that spread across Medrengard. Honsou eventually found himself within the Maelstrom on the world of New Badab during the Skull Harvest, an annual event hosted by the despicable Chaos Lord Huron Blackheart. Rival Chaos Lords brought their warbands to New Badab and fought one another during the Skull Harvest. When a Chaos Lord is slain, the victor acquires their opponent's warband. Honsou took the opportunity to take part in the harvest. Eventually he emerges on top as the victor, and his army swells into the tens of thousands. With his army assembled, Honsou was finally ready to unleash his audacious plan for revenge against Captain Uriel Ventris and the hated Ultramarines by completely destroying the Realm of Ultramar. He would enact this plan with the help of the Daemon Prince M'kar the Reborn, who had once been Maloq Kartho, a Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion during the Horus Heresy. But ultimately, Honsou's plans to invade Ultramar were thwarted and the Iron Warriors were routed back to Medrengard while M'kar was banished to the Warp.Warsmith Andraaz (KIA) - Warsmith Andraaz was an Iron Warriors Warsmith of the 3rd Grand Company. Following the Traitor Legions flight to the Eye of Terror at the end of the Horus Heresy, he eventually rose in favour to command the Fortress World of Castellax, a former Imperial Mining World, whose population was enslaved in order to provide manual labour to produce materials for the Daemon World of Medrengard. Generations of slaves were born and died in the hellish conditions during their enforced enslavement to produce the necessary supplies that were sent as tithes to the Iron Warriors' home world within the Eye. The centuries-long rule of the planet was maintained by only a small garrison commanded by Warsmith Andraaz who oversaw the Janissaries and Mamelukes -- slave soldiers that were utilised to enforce Medrengard's will upon the slave labourers. However, the Iron Warriors' iron grip upon the planet was lost sometime in the 41st Millennium when it was invaded by Ork Warboss Biglug and his WAAAGH!. This invasion came to be known as the Siege of Castellax. When defeat seemed imminent, Warmsith Andraaz instructed his chief Dark Mechanicus Tech-priest Oriax to prepare to use a device known as the Daemonculum to teleport him directly into the path of Biglug, in order to grant him an honourable and memorable death in combat. However, unknown to the Warsmith, the Tech-priest harboured bitter feelings towards Andraaz, and conspiring to free both himself and his dark inventions from the iron grip of the Traitor Marines, he sabotaged the teleportion process. This resulted in the Warsmith's entire retinue of personal Chaos Terminator bodyguards being lost in transit while the Warmsith's own Terminator Armour mysteriously malfunctioned, shutting itself down during his showdown with Biglug. This occurred when a binary pulse was emitted from a piece of equipment that the Warboss used against Andraaz. Ironically, a piece of equipment given to him by Oriax. Rendered helpless, Andraaz suffered an inglorious and undignified death at the hands of the Ork Warboss.Warsmith Kolvax (KIA) - Kolvax was the commander of a Grand Company based in the mighty fortress known as the Ironblood Citadel on Medrengard, a superb fortification that was the epitome of the Iron Warriors' ingenuity and engineering genius. The Ironblood Citadel was said to rival Perturabo's own citadel on Medrengard. Kolvax and his warband were based on the ancient Fortress World of Forgefane during the invasion of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan. Kolvax was slain by a Trygon that he had arrogantly boasted that he would defeat in single combat. Instead, he was swallowed whole by the beast.Warsmith Annovuldi - Like Kyr Vhalen, Annovuldi was a Loyalist Warsmith during the times of the Horus Heresy who turned his back upon his Legion to fight in the name of the Emperor, his one and true master. Little is known about Warsmith Annovuldi except for the fact that he was one of the few living line-officers that answered the call to arms of the Raven Guard in the Scarato-system. Annovuldi and his men participated in the events of the Day of Vengeance on Carandiru before presumably leaving the Raven Guard to wage their own guerilla war on the Traitors' supply lines.Warsmith Baldarun - Baldurun is a Warsmith of a Grand Battery of the Iron Warriors. An outcast from the Iron Warriors since his defeat at the Fortress of Ventemar, Baldarun has been seeking the means to rebuild his standing. When the Forces of Chaos overran Makenna VII, he used the share of the spoils to build up the strength of his Grand Battery. With so many machines under his command, he would eventually return to Medregard to crush those that mocked him. Abrial Shard, an infamous Chaos renegade across a dozen sectors, swore an oath of brotherhood with Warmsith Baldarun long ago on a Daemon World at the heart of the Eye of Terror. Baldarun called upon his old ally to bolster his forces upon Makenna VII, and Abrial sent a detachment of his own personal elite, known as Abrial's Claw, on the condition that Baldarun relinquished the secrets of his beloved technovirus to Shard's men. Whether they survived to return the secret to their master was another matter.Warsmith Ferrous Ironclaw - Ferrous Ironclaw is a Warsmith of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. He is known to be a dedicated believer in the Traitor Legions' cause known as the Long War and utterly loyal to his Daemon Primarch Perturabo. Sometime during the 41st Millennium, Ironclaw and his Grand Company besieged the Imperial world of Bellum Colonia. However, just as victory was within his grasp, a large force of Imperial Fists Space Marines descended upon the beleaguered planet to fight against the Forces of Chaos. Rather than worrying about this turn of events, and the fact that these Imperial reinforcements were both formidable and proved problematic, Ironclaw rejoiced at the prospect of once again meting out his righteous anger against his most hated enemies in glorious battle.Warsmith Koparnos - Koparnos was a Warsmith of the IV Legion who willingly followed his Primarch into treachery. Koparnos lost much of his command in the early stage of the great Battle of Tallarn, his troops either destroyed in the fierce tank battles that opposed the Iron Warriors to the Loyalist Titan Legions of the Legio Astorum and the Legio Gryphonicus, or succumbing to the lethal toxins the Iron Warriors had unleashed upon this world. As the sole survivor of his squad, Koparnos held out for six solar days in the immobilised shell of his Rhino APC before venturing outside. By then the airborne toxins were slowly killing him despite the protection offered by his Power Armour. Yet, with the typical stubbornness of the IV Legion, Warsmith Koparnos held on to life, marching across the battlefield until he reached the towering form of an immobilised Warlord-class Titan. The Titan's name was the Ostensor Contritio and it belonged to the Loyalists, but this did not stop Koparnos from entering the great warmachine and using its plasma reactor to purge the poison from his body. Trading the slow death of poisoning for the even slower death of irradiation, Warsmith Koparnos then corrupted Ostensor Contritio and bound it to his service, lobotomising the Titan's unconscious crew to use them as a living interface between him and the machine. Thus harnessing the Titan's Machine Spirit, Koparnos took control of the mighty walker and returned Ostensor Contritio to the battlefield.Warsmith Koros - Koros is a Warsmith of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion and is said to be a veteran of one thousand and one sieges. As such he is a master of attacking and defending every manner of citadel. He is also a veteran of the terrible ancient campaign known as the Iron Cage, and one of the Daemon Primarch Perturabo's lieutenants, having proved himself worthy of command of one of the Iron Bastions on Medrengard, the Daemon World which is home to his Legion. Koros was dispatched to the Jericho Reach in order to oversee the fortification of numerous worlds near the Hadex Anomaly, and to lend his assistance to the Forces of Chaos in the planning of a grand counter-strike against the forces of the Imperium. What price the various factions opposing the Imperium have agreed to pay in return for the Iron Warriors' aid is not known, but it must certainly be high. Warsmith Koros is known to be in league with the corrupted Dark Mechanicus of the heretic Forge World of Samech, who have equipped him and his forces with numerous items of tech-heresy, some of which was undoubtedly constructed according to his own specifications. It is now suspected by several within the Watch Fortress Erioch's Chamber of Vigilance that Warsmith Koros and the Dark Mechanicus of Samech have entered into an unholy alliance, the only result of which can be the creation of a new generation of previously unseen and abominably powerful weaponry. Armed with the twisted fruits of such a dark union, the servants of the Ruinous Powers might finally be able to break the deadlock that has befallen the Acheros Salient of the Achilus Crusade, and begin to push the lapdogs of the Corpse Emperor back to the Well of Night, finally expelling them from the Jericho Reach.Warsmith Shon'tu - Shon'tu was an infamous Warsmith of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion and later Chaos Lord of the Iron Warriors warband the Sons of the Forge. He continually plagued the veteran First Captain Darnath Lysander of the Imperial Fists Chapter over many centuries. Shon'tu was present during the Siege of Terra and like most within the Iron Warriors, has sworn an eternal hatred for their bitter rivals, the Imperial Fists. It was in 585.M40, that the Imperial Fists 2nd Company, under the command of the newly promoted Captain Lysander, deployed to break the Siege of Haddrake Tor, a planet in the merciless grasp of Warsmith Shon'tu. Having secured the high ground, Lysander's strike force set up teleport homers to summon the Terminators of the 1st Company into the thick of the fighting. However things went awry and many of the Terminators materialised over deep chasms, or else in solid rock, including Kleitus, Captain of the 1st Company. Before dying of his grievous wounds, he thrust his Thunder Hammer, the Fist of Dorn, into Lysander's hands, and bade him seek vengeance through victory. This Lysander did, leading the survivors of the 1st Company alongside his own to shatter the Iron Warriors stronghold. Shon'tu fled from the planet in defeat, but he had left a mystery in his wake. Survivors spoke of how the Warsmith had concerned himself little with the despoliation of their world, and had instead buried himself in a search through its millennia-old archives. Unfortunately, there was no way to know what Shon'tu had been searching for, as he had destroyed the archives before making his escape. As the 40th Millennium drew to a close, the Strike Cruiser Shield of Valour was lost the to the Warp. All hands, Lysander amongst them, were lost alongside, with slender hope for their return. Cast far off course by the whimsy of the Warp, they were flung forward through the centuries and far across the galaxy. When the Shield of Valour finally emerged into realspace, it did so in the fading years of the 41st Millennium and in the orbit of Malodrax -- an Iron Warriors fortress on the Eye of Terror's fringe. Swiftly disabled by the world's formidable defences, the Strike Cruiser was boarded, and a handful of survivors -- Lysander amongst them -- taken as prisoners. Lysandor's captor was none other than Warmsith Shon'tu, who brutally tortured the stalwart Imperial Fist over many weeks. Though burdened by grievous harms, the captain tore free of his bondage scant weeks after his capture. Bereft of arms and armour, he wrought a storm of destruction on Malodrax's capital, seized control of a shuttle, and escaped with two of his battle-brothers. Lysander swore eternal vengeance upon the hated Warsmith. Reinstated as Captain of the 1st Company, Lysander's first act of command was to lead the Imperial Fists to Maldorax in 966.M41, to scour the Iron Warriors from the planet. But once again, Shon'tu eluded Lysander's grasp and made good his escape. Next, in 969.M41, Lysander led three companies to liberate the planet of Taladorn from the Sons of the Forge and his old nemesis, Warsmith Shon'tu. The captain is too proud to accept aid from the Ultramarines and Blood Angels, and his actions lead to unnecessary casualties for the Imperial Fists. Captain Vogen is killed, and his 3rd Company badly ravaged before Captain Cato Sicarius' Ultramarines override Lysander's objections and intervene. Taladorn is freed, but Warsmith Shon'tu escapes. In 971.M41, learning that Shon'tu had been responsible for an earlier Tyranid incursion and the Ork predations on the Magor Rift, Chapter Master Hagan orders Phalanx to Malodrax to end the Warsmith's threat once and for all. While most of the Chapter assail Shon'tu's planetside strongholds, Captain Tor Garadon of the Imperial Fists 3rd Company, alongside Cato Sicarius' Ultramarines and Erasmus Tycho's Blood Angels, conducts a boarding action of the recently reclaimed leviathan war barque Tamunash. Together, the boarding parties manage to destroy enough critical systems for Phalanx to gain the upper hand. As Tamunash begins to break apart, Garadon is defeated by Shon'tu, but Lysander teleports aboard Tamunash's command deck and gravely wounds the Warsmith. The Space Marines escape by Thunderhawk Gunship, and the dying Tamunash vanishes into the Warp, taking Shon'tu with it.Warsmith Toramino - Toramino was a Warsmith of the Iron Warriors and the leader of the Stor-bezashk, the IVth Legion's masters of ordnance and siege breaking during the era of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. By the 41st Millennium, he had become one of the Iron Warriors' most powerful surviving Warsmiths. He was the ruler of an ancient and mighty fortress on the Iron Warriors' daemonic homeworld of Medrengard. When the Warsmith Honsou was successful in obtaining a large stock of gene-seed from the hated Imperial Fists on the world of Hydra Cordatus, Toramino and his Grand Company wanted their promised share of the precious genetic material required to swell their numbers. When Honsou reneged on the deal and kept all of the gene-seed for his own Grand Company, Toramino declared war against his wayward comrade. Toramino and his fellow Warsmith Berrosus brought their armies to lay siege to Honsous's fortress of Khalan-Ghol. Toramino allowed the more aggressive Berrosus and his Grand Company take the brunt of the fighting. Berrosus' army breached the walls of Khalan-Ghol and the Chaos Dreadnought Warsmith nearly succeeded in killing Honsou. But Honsou's daemonic life-ward breeched Berrosus' Dreadnought carapace and Honsou proceeded to kill Berrosus' vulnerable organic components. Toramino then decided that discretion was the better part of valour, and fled for his life. But civil war continued to engulf Medrengard.Warsmith Khr Vhalen - Warsmith of the Iron Warriors 77th Grand Battalion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, Khr Vhalen was a name of relative obscurity before the events of the Great Betrayal was to thrust upon him the mantle of greatness. He was neither Terran nor Olympian by birth, having been recruited as an adolescent from the formerly xenos-enslaved world of Meru at the edge of the Yetzirah Abyss. Initiated into the 77th Grand Battalion, he fought his way up through its rank by dint of excellence and sheer bloody will to survive, gaining the epithet of "Shatterblade" after fighting through a nine hour battle with the broken remains of a Xenarch sabre impaled through his chest. The 77th, like a number of Iron Warriors detachments dispersed across the Imperium and all but forgotten, had become almost completely self-sustaining by the end of the Great Crusade, and when the Horus Heresy came, he and his forces were utterly ignorant of their Legion's betrayal. At the Battle of Paramar, he and his Legionaries would take bitter pride in their stubborn loyalty to the Great Crusade as brother turned against brother.Warsmith Zhorisch - Zhorisch is an ancient master of scientific and technical pursuits as well as a cunning practitioner of the art and science of siege warfare. Warsmith Zhorisch was a member of the original Iron Warriors Legion raised up by Perturabo, and he was initially a pre-cursor of the modern Techmarine, a highly trained fighting engineer. Born and raised on the Iron Warriors' homeworld of Olympia, young Zhorisch was chosen for Iron Warriors Legion service and sent for training on Mars. While never outstanding as either a warrior or enginseer, during the Great Crusade he proved himself competent enough and showed a dogged perseverance and real gift for leadership. He served with distinction, rose through the ranks, and was wholly dedicated to his beloved Primarch. As the IVth Legion slowly fell into bitterness and treason, he gleefully followed his leaders into rebellion against the Emperor. Zhorisch saw action at many of the bloodiest battles during the Horus Heresy. He patched up IVth Legion heavy armour after the Drop Site Massacre, and smashed Loyalist fortifications on Yarant and Vanaheim. He fought the Imperial Fists in the killing trenches of the Iron Cage with distinction, proving to be a persistent and implacable foe. Over the millennia following the Horus Heresy, he rose in power with guile and cunning, eventually reaching the rank of Warsmith and leading his own warband. As a Warsmith, he developed his well-known lust for hidden knowledge, leading many a campaign of terror against unsuspecting Imperial worlds in pursuit of secrets both academic and technological. When he was given the chance to take the Obsidian Forge at Imbru, located in the Jericho Reach, and loot what he believed to be a treasure trove of Imperial secrets, he immediately accepted the task. In the aftermath of his invasion, he found all that he was looking for and more. Not only did he have the entirety of an Imperial forge to sift through, but it was a forge with a curious secret, one of the ancient Chaotic xenos artefacts known as the Javar Gates. Now, after centuries of study and experimentation, the Javar Gate has come to life, much to the delight of the Warsmith.Commander Sollos Hrendor - Sollos Hrendor was the master of the 701st Armoured Cohort and present on the soil of Istvaan V during the DropSite Massacre. The 701st Armoured Cohort was part of the encircling ring of Traitor units that closed the ring around the Salamanders and Raven Guard Legion. The 701st Armoured Cohort was however utterly destroyed when surviving Loyalist units broke through the encircling ring to find shelter in the Urgall Hills. Sollos Hrendor was severely burned and wounded during this break-out, but stubbornly refused to die. Interred inside the sarcophagus of a Contemptor-class Dreadnought, Hrendor became Hrend "the Ironclad", a reverred Dreadnought that would however not be counted amongst the ranks of the Ancients. Hrend became the leader of the Cyllados armoured assault group at the head of which he was deployed to the surface of Tallarn during the Battle of Tallarn. Recalled from the frontlines of this mighty battle, Hrend was brought before Pertuarbo and tasked with a special mission: to discover the ancient artifact known as the "Black Sun", the true reason for the Iron Warriors' presence on Tallarn.Commander Zhigo Trador - Zhigo Trador was the cold-hearted commander of the 23rd Armoured Company during the Drop Site Massacre of Istvaan V. One of the very first Iron Warriors armoured units to surge forth when their treachery was revealed to begin the slaughter was none other than the 23rd Armoured Company. So fiercely did Commander Trador press the assault on the Loyalists at the Drop Site Massacre, the 23rd Armoured Company suffered overwhelming losses, effectively ceasing to exist as a Chapter-level formation by the close of the operations. It is said that the Primarch's displeasure at Trador's self-imposed losses was so great, the commander was fortunate indeed to come away with his life. Instead of execution, Commander Trador, along with several hundred other officers and Legionaries who had earned Perturabo's censure, were ordered to gather what remained of their units and to take them out into the Urgall Wastes in pursuit of Loyalist survivors. It is doubtful if any arrangements to reunite these forces with the parent Legion were ever made and many historator-savants hold the belief that Perturabo had no expectation or desire to see them return. This ad hoc formation, known as "Armoured Purgation Group Trador", led the pursuit and extermination phases of the Drop Site Massacre aftermath and is thought to have accounted for several thousand Loyalist deaths. Trador's campaign of bitter slaughter came to an abrupt end when the force was ambushed by Raven Guard survivors in the depths of the Illium Rifts. The ultimate fate of Commander Trador himself is unknown, but it is certain that the last tank of the 23rd Armoured Company burned at the hands of the vengeful warriors of Corvus Corax.Captain Erasmus Golg - Captain of the Iron Warriors 11th Grand Company and commander of the starship Contrador during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, following his Primarch's Edict of Decimation, Erasmus Golg stove to epitomise the ruthless efficiency Perturabo sought in his warriors. Embracing the heartless drive for victory at any cost in a manner that even fellow Iron Warriors found extreme, Golg was a brutal commander, whose only punishment for failure was death. Despite his dedication, Golg never ascended to the inner circle of the Iron Warriors leadership. Deemed flawed, but useful by his Primarch, Golg was summoned when the Lord of Iron wished to make an example of an enemy through direct and unsubtle assault. Golg was ever at the forefront of any battle that his Grand Company was involved in, leading his massed Terminator forces in the heat of battle.Strategos-Minor Nârik Dreygur - "The Gravewalker" - Nârik Dreygur led his company into the fires of war for ninety years, fearing failure of his Primarch far more than death at the hands of his foes. As Istvaan V he fell, a blank-eyed Raven Guard Moritat incinerating his flesh. His defeat in battle cost him the fleeting favour of Perturabo, who discarded the broken commander as he would a broken blade. However, this was not the end of his usefulness to his Legion, for in the commander's fall the Apolakron, an oft-ignored warrior society within the Legion, saw an opportunity. They rebuilt Dreygur's shattered body, grafting a cortex controller directly into his nervous system and inducting the veteran warrior into the ranks of their Order. Dreygur, now a Strategos-Minor of the Apolakron and known by his brethren as "The Gravewalker", took to the field once again as a Consul-Praeviam. Where once his changes had been Legiones Astartes of flesh and blood, they were now automata of iron and ceramite; walking engines of death forged by the Legio Cybernetica and bonded in service to the Iron Warriors. Shunned by his brethren, Dreygur quickly came to favour the company of his unliving charges. During the fighting on Epsilon-Stranivar IX, this loyalty was put to the test as his Grand Company clashed with the remnants of the Shattered Legions.Legionary Dionor - Legionary Dionor was a Terran and a veteran of the IVth Legion's numerous campaigns, attaining the rank of Captain. Dionor was assigned to the command of the 5th Grand Company of the 3rd Grand Battalion, a formation that had been judged wanting and suffered greatly during the Primarch's Decimation of the Legion, and Dionor was punished by demotion to the ranks. Dionor's Grand Company was held in reserve during the Drop Site Massacre, only being committed to action in the aftermath. When the bulk of the IVth Legion was withdrawn, much of the 3rd was left behind in continued punishment for their Primarch's ill-favour. Legionary Dionor is known to have taken command of his squad at some point in the early stages of the scouring of the Urgall Depression. It is likely that Dionor forcibly took command of his squad from its previous squad sergeant, exerting his formidable will upon his fellows before focusing on the hunt for the Raven Guard. Dionor's ultimate fate remains unknown, but there has been some evidence he rejoined his Legion and was once more elevated to command rank.Legionary Khorius Rex - A veteran of the Tyranthikos -- informally known as the "Dominators" -- Legionary Khorius Rex trod a hundred worlds and more in the service of the Great Crusade. Assigned to the 3rd Grand Company, 7th Grand Battalion, Rex was no ideologue, for him the Imperial Truth was long rendered down to but a kernel of cold, hard fact; the galaxy is no place for the weak and only those prepared to endure any hardship have any right to prevail. This moment of utmost clarity came when the 7th Grand Battalion was recalled to Olympia and bore witness to the rebellion that had gripped the IVth Legion's homeworld. In the bloodshed that followed, the man Khorius Rex had once been died forever, to be reborn and recast into a warrior whose heart was as cold and as hard as the Ceramite skin of his Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour. Legionary Rex took part in the Iron Warriors Legion's extermination operations in the aftermath of the Drop Site Massacre. Like many his master considered lacking or unstable, he was abandoned on Istvaan V when the bulk of the IVth Legion was pulled out to pursue the Warmaster Horus' war against the Imperium. As far as existing records indicate, he chose to remain, and his final fate is unrecorded.Legionary Zhinnon - Legionary Zhinnon was recruited into the IVth Legion in 849.M30, the very same year that Lord Perturabo took control. Though untested in battle at that time, Zhinnon's native martial bearing saved him from being swept up in Perturabo's purge of the IVth Legion. Zhinnon saw extensive service throughout the five decades of the Great Crusade preceding the Triumph of Ullanor, and at the time of the Warmaster's great betrayal was serving under Warsmith Vhalen in in the 77th Grand Battalion, 5th Counter-Armour Wing, 30th Squad, and is known to be one of the few Loyalist survivors of the First Battle of Paramar.Ancient Vhakis - Ancient Vhakis was born heir to one of the many warlords of Olympia, his father forced to bend knee to the Primarch Perturabo. When the Imperium came to Olympia and Perturabo took his place amongst his true-father's Primarch sons, Vhakis was judged worthy of joining the IVth Legion and underwent the arduous transformation into a Space Marine of the Legiones Astartes. He served for seven standard decades before falling whilst leading the final assault on the Aetheral Bastion, his stoic devotion to duty and his unquestioning loyalty to Perturabo earning him internment within the armoured sarcophagus of a mighty Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought. Assigned to the 7th Assault Cohort, 23rd Grand Battalion, Vhakis was known to utilise his favoured weapon -- a rare and highly valued heavy Conversion Beamer -- to deadly effect upon the black sands of the Urgall Depression during the Drop Site Massacre of Istvaan V. He is believed to have slain scores of Loyalist Astartes during the three solar hours of intense fighting, primarily the Astartes scions of The Gorgon (Iron Hands). Much later, he committed himself with cruel single-mindedness to the hunt for the elusive Raven Guard survivors before he fell in battle alongside a dozen other Iron Warriors Dreadnoughts deep in the Illium Rifts.Jharek Kelmaur - Jharek Kelmaur was a Chaos Sorcerer of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion who served the Chaos Lord Barban Falk, "The Warsmith" during the siege of the Imperial Fortress World of Hydra Cordatus. Kelmaur aided the Warsmith in obtaining the hidden stores of Imperial Fists gene-seed kept there. The Imperial Fists had always been the most hated foes of the Iron Warriors since the days of the Horus Heresy but the Iron Warriors needed fresh Astartes gene-seed to grow their numbers since the power of Chaos tended to mutate their own gene-seed to the point that it was unsuitable to create new Chaos Space Marines. The Iron Warriors Sorcerer served as an advisor on all matters psychic and would often receive and interpret visions by communing with the Ruinous Powers. During the siege of the large Imperial citadel and manufactorum complex on Hydra Cordatus known as the Tor Christo, Kelmaur neglected to inform the Warsmith of a faint psychic beacon that had managed to be sent from the surface of the planet. Keeping this information to himself, the sorcerer thought it best if he handled the manner personally. Kelmaur attempted to send the Iron Warriors flagship Stonebreaker to the system's warp translation point in order to intercept any Imperial reinforcements. This action would prove dire to the scheming Kelmaur, who in his arrogance, allowed an Imperial Fists company to slip past the Stonebreaker and infiltrate to the planet's surface and reinforce the besieged garrison. For his duplicity and arrogance, the Warsmith transformed Kelmaur into a Chaos Spawn after he had served his purpose.Warsmith Etrogar - Etrogar commanded the Iron Warriors contingent that took part in the Talledus War fought in the Talledus System of the Veritus Sub-sector under the command of the Dark Cardinal Kor Phaeron of the Word Bearers. Etrogar unleashed upon the Fortress World of Ghreddask the daemonic fortress-factory known as a Soul Harvester that was named Scarax Krond.