Disciples of the Flames - Notable Disciples of the Flames: Cassian Vaughn, "The Fallen Master", Avatar of the Sacred Flame - Cassian Vaughn, known also as Cassian Dracos and "the Fallen Master", was the Lord Commander of the XVIII Legion from the time it was founded on Terra during the Unification Wars until the discovery of the Primarch Vulkan on the world of Nocturne during the Great Crusade. After he was mortally wounded in battle against the Orks, Vaughn was interred in an unique Dreadnought sarcophagus known as the Dracos Revenant, or the "Iron Dragon", forged by the hands of Vulkan himself. On Istvaan V he fought with unmatched fury, until he was struck by an orbital Lance strike that glassed an entire part of the battlefield, trapping him beneath the black, blood-soaked sand of the Urghall Depression for several months at least, Cassian Vaughn was unearthed by Xiaphas Jurr and the crew of the Ebon Drake. Whilst Dracos' Dreadnought-shell was badly mauled, the man inside it was very much alive. Taken onboard the Ebon Drake, Cassian Vaighn soon began to exact its influence on both the Legionaries and machines of the Ebon Drake, soon becoming their leader as well as a figure of prophetic wisdom. It was under his influence that the Disciples of the Flames were truly born. Having earned new titles such as "The Twice-Dead" and the "Avatar of the Sacred Flames" Cassian Dracos would direct the company's steps to far distant and beleaguered Mezoa where the Tech-Magii of the Adeptus Mechanicus recognized him as an Avatar of the Machine God and restored his Dreadnought to its former glory. Returned to the battlefields of the Imperium to enact his vengeance, Cassian Vaughn would prosecute his own war of vengeance against those that had sided with the Warmaster.Xiaphas Jurr, "The Prophet of Fire" - Initial commander of both the Ebon Drake and its complement of Legionaries, Lieutenant-Chaplain Xiaphas Jurr was a member of the Igniax, the formation that preceded the Reclusiam within the Salamanders Legion. A pupil of the great Nomus Rhy'tan, Jurr had been born on Proxima Secundus and inducted into the XVIII Legion at the end of the Great Crusade. Reckoned amongst the most promising of the officer-recruits who remained on Nocturne in the wake of the muster in the Istvaan System, he was later chosen by Rhy'tan to lead the mission to investigate the Primarch's fate. It was Chaplain Jurr's fervour which drew the dispirited men under his command to him, in the wake of the rumours of the catastrophic events that played out at Istvaan V, and bound them to him in the dark odyssey that followed aboard the Ebon Drake. During their long voyages, Jurr resolved to use practices long frowned upon by his fellow Igniax, such as the Drakken-Asca, an art of divination and augury to plot the Ebon Drake 's course. The Drakken-Asca safely led the Ebon Drake first to Istvaan V and then to Cassian Vaughn's resting place, a feat many saw as guided by the hands of the Primarch. Upon the recovery of Cassian Vaughn, Xiaphas Jurr willingly relinquished command of the Ebon Drake and its troops to Vaughn, becoming both his second-in-command and the Prophet of Fire, the voice of the Disciples of the Flames and the hands that would eventually write down the Prophecies of the Flames. It was Jurr who commanded the Disciples of the Flames in their defence of the Mezoan forge-fanes for the majority of the Mezoan Campaign.Nârik Dreygur, Equerry to the Iron Dragon - Former Consul-Praevian of the Iron Warriors Legion and commander of its 114th Grand Battalion during the Mezoan Campaign, Nârik Dreygur was but one of the many converts swayed by Cassian Vaughn to renounce their oaths to the Warmaster Horus and turn upon their former allies of the Alpha Legion. Following his betrayal, Dreygur became the right-hand of Cassian Vaughn, a silent and brooding figure that preferred the presence of his own Battle-Automata to that of his former -- or new -- brothers.