Imperial Fists - Heresy Era Personnel: Rogal Dorn - Rogal Dorn was the Primarch of the Imperial Fists Legion and one of the greatest heroes in the history of the Imperium of Man. Dorn constructed the defences of the Imperial Palace in the Himalayan Mountains on Terra that would be sorely tested by the Forces of Chaos during the climax of the Horus Heresy, the terrible Battle of Terra. He is presumed to be deceased after leading an assault against a Chaotic flagship during the 1st Black Crusade. His supposed remains are now sacred relics of the Chapter kept aboard their mighty Chaptership Phalanx.Legion Master Mathias - Mathias was the Terran-born Legion Master of the VII Legion before their reunification with their Primarch Rogal Dorn. Thanking him for his service, Dorn named the former Legion Master as High Castellan of the Inwit Cluster. Such an honour was a great duty, for Mathias' next command was to raise thirty regiments of new Imperial Fists from the Inwit System.First Captain Sigismund - Sigismund was the First Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. Sigismund was a name that echoed through the Great Crusade even before the darkness of the Horus Heresy made him the stuff of legends. Born on Terra and raised to the Legiones Astartes as the Great Crusade was at its height, he ascended in rank and renown thanks to a simple fact: he was a warrior of unparalleled lethality and ability. Beneath the Primarchs there has perhaps never been a more skilled warrior in combat. Across the battlefields of hundreds of worlds and the duelling floors of every Legion, he was never defeated. The fire of the Crusader always burned brightly in him and if one warrior could embody the Great Crusade's spirit of noble conquest it was Sigismund. Those who faced him in the circle of blades, or stood beside him in battle, speak of a fury shackled by an iron will and an inherent genius for dealing death that bordered on the supernatural. It was his skill and fire that brought Sigismund to command the Templars of the legion's 1st Company, and the most exalted position in the Imperial Fists beneath Rogal Dorn himself. Following the tragic events of the Heresy, the Space Marine Legions were broken down into smaller Chapters. Sigismund would go on to lead the more zealous elements of the Imperial Fists and was elevated to the esteemed rank of High Marshal (Chapter Master) of the newly formed Black Templars Chapter.Captain Archamus, "Last of the First" - Never so volatile as First Captain Sigismund, Archamus was the master of Rogal Dorn's Honour Guard retinue known as the Huscarls during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. It was said that Captain Archamus was more in-tune with his gene-sire's emotions than that of First Captain Sigismund. Archamus was also regarded as a highly suspicious and careful individual, and often acted disdainful towards members of the Word Bearers Legion even before they had revealed the full extent of their treachery and allegiance to the Ruinous Powers. Born Kye, on the ice world of Inwit in the early 800's.M30, Kye was one of the original members of the influx of Inwit-borne recruits inducted into the ranks of the VII Legion, that would become a part of the honoured fraternity known as "The First". The members of The First were the first to make their oaths to Rogal Dorn, and their names were the first to be etched on the walls of the Temple of Oaths aboard the Phalanx. By the time of the latter years of the Horus Heresy, Archamus would be the last of this honoured brotherhood. While training as an Aspirant, he formed strong bonds of friendship with two fellow recruits, Archamus and Yonnad, and as part of their brutal training, were forced to fight against combat servitors. During one such training session, Archamus was killed while saving Kye's life. When Kye was later inducted as a fully-fledged battle-brother and took his oaths before his Primarch, he subsequently took the oath-name "Archamus" to honour his former squad mate. Archamus would eventually rise to become the trusted praetorian of Dorn and the captain of his Huscarls Honour Guard. As the Great Crusade proceeded for the next two centuries, and with the outbreak of hostilities during the subsequent Horus Heresy, all the original members of The First had been killed, save Archamus, which led to him earning the moniker "Last of the First". During the latter years of the Heresy, during the Solar War, Archamus was charged with investigating Alpha Legion activity across the Sol System. He was able to track the Traitor Legion's whereabouts to the planet Pluto, where the Imperial Fists engaged the traitors in battle inside a locked chamber within the Hydra Fortress Moon in Pluto's orbit, a major Astropathic monitoring station. During the fighting, Archamus led a Huscarl contingent in a daring assault upon the Alpha Legion force led by Primarch Alpharius, himself. In the subsequent fighting, the Huscarls were killed and Archamus was left mortally wounded. With the timely arrival of a massive Imperial Fists fleet, led by Rogal Dorn himself, the Imperial Fists Primarch and his remaining Huscarls teleported directly into the locked chamber, and soon joined battle against Alpharius and his elite Lernaean Terminators. Archamus looked on helplessly, as the two Primarchs fought one another in an epic life-or-death duel. When Alpharius was about to impale Dorn with his Pale Spear, the now-dying Archamus grabbed the hilt of the weapon and deflected it harmlessly into a non-vital area of Dorn's chest. This gave Dorn the opening he needed, to grab the weapon's hilt, and using his deadly Chainsword Storm's Teeth, to slice Alpharius' hands from his wrists, before slashing his former brother across his chest, and then stabbing him with his own spear. Finally, Dorn finished off Alpharius with a deadly chop of his mighty chainsword into the top of his skull. With the death of their Primarch, the Alpha Legion fleet withdrew and retreated from Pluto. As Archamus lay mortally wounded, uncharacteristically, Dorn shared a rare emotional moment with the dying Archamus, stating that he had failed his son. With his last breath, Archamus replied that he was not Dorn's son, but his praetorian.Captain Camba-Diaz - During the Horus Heresy era, Camba-Diaz was the Second Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion. Due to his fighting prowess and ability to stay cool under fire, Primarch Dorn often deployed Captain Camba-Diaz beside First Captain Sigismund. The resolute and taciturn Captain was a soothing balm to Sigismund's fiery temper. They complemented one another in battle. During the Horus Heresy Camba-Diaz played an instrumental role in the vital mission to obtain armour and munitions from the forges on Mars during the great civil war known as the Schism of Mars which had erupted between the Loyalist Mechanicum and Dark Mechanicus forces.Captain Efried - Efried was the Third Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion during the Horus Heresy. Captain Efried served as adjutant to Rogal Dorn during the fortification of the Emperor's Imperial Palace. Captain Efried had previously served alongside the Luna Wolves' 3rd Company in the Great Crusade during a year-long Imperial Compliance campaign. With the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, Captains Efried and Halbrecht served alongside Primarch Dorn during the early days of the fortification of the Imperial Palace and the preparation of Terra and the entire Sol System for the invasion of the Traitor Legions of Horus.Captain Amandus Tyr - Captain Tyr was the Sixth Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. The 2nd Assault Echelon of the 6th Company was amongst the first of the Imperial Fists Legion to be issued with Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour, as its members were masters in a range of heavy assault doctrines. At the Battle of Phall, all of the Legion's Tactical Dreadnought Armour-equipped warriors were gathered into a single body and gathered under the command of Captain Tyr. When Tyr led the attack against the Iron Warriors warship Iron Blood in a desperate mission to slay the Primarch Perturabo, the 2nd Assault Echelon went into battle at his side. Practically nothing is known of the attack, for contact was all but impossible once it was underway, meaning those brave souls counted amongst its ranks could not be recalled when the remainder of the Imperial Fists fleet disengaged from the Iron Warriors in the final stages of the Battle of Phall.Captain Alexis Polux - Alexis Polux was the Captain of the 405th Company of the Imperial Fists Legion during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy in the 30th and early 31st Millennia. Polux was a warrior of unique promise both elevated to greatness and condemned to bear great sorrow by the events of the Horus Heresy. A tactical genius with a talent for void warfare, he was the protégée of the Legion's greatest fleet masters, although before the dark betrayal of the Warmaster Horus, he was yet to reach his full potential. Inwit-born, he was a physical giant even among his brothers of the Legion, and of a character as if cast in stone, emotionless and unyielding, whose reputation before the Battle of Phall rested as much on his strength in the bloody melee of close quarters combat as in command. When Primarch Rogal Dorn sent his Retribution Fleet to aid the beleaguered Loyalists on Istvaan III, Polux would likely still have had many years of proving ahead of him before he attained high command, but cruel chance and the death of his mentors saw such command thrust upon him, and with it the fate of much of his Legion lay in his hands. Polux went on to win Dorn's respect countless times during the dark days of the Great Betrayal. Following the events of the Heresy, the Space Marine Legions were broken down into smaller Chapters, and Polux was selected to lead the newly formed Crimson Fists Chapter. He went on to lead the Crimson Fists for the first 800 standard years of their existence. During this time, he did much to shape their interpretation of the Codex Astartes and their combat doctrines.Captain Fafnir Rann - Fafnir Rann was a ruthless and bellicose Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. By the opening days of the Heresy, Rann had risen to the esteemed rank of Seneschal. When Rogal Dorn mustered the Retribution Fleet to be sent to assist the beleaguered Loyalists on Istvaan III, Rann's Chapter was selected along with a third of the Legion. During the Battle of Phall, Rann's Chapter participated in the Blade of Perdition's hit and run action against the Iron Warriors Heavy Cruiser Sire of Sabaktes, teleporting into the warship's central armoury and planting a Melta charge that, when it detonated, set off a chain reaction and destroyed the entire vessel and its crew. By the time the survivors returned to the Blade of Perdition, Fleet Master Alexis Polux had issued the order to withdraw and it was characteristic of Seneschal Rann and his warriors that the Blade was one of the very last to obey. Following the tragic events of the Great Betrayal, the Space Marine Legions were broken down into smaller Chapters, each with their own unique name, heraldry and traditions, with the originating Primogentor retaining the original name and heraldry. Rann would continue to serve in the Imperial Fists Chapter until the Third Founding which occurred in 001.M32. Rann was selected to become the patriarch and first High Executioner (Chapter Master) of the newly founded Executioners Chapter.Captain Aleph - Aleph was a Captain of the Imperial Fists who was present during the defence of the Emperor's Imperial Palace on Terra at the climax of the Horus Heresy. He was the ancestral source of the gene-seed used in the transformation of Captain Demetros in the 41st Millennium, and was eventually slain by the Black Legion's Captain Scaevolla, a former comrade-in-arms of Aleph. Scaevolla allowed Aleph's Progenoid Glands to be recovered by the Imperial Fists, however, so that another would inherit Aleph's genetic legacy. The Black Legion Captain would then one day face this new recipient of Aleph's genetic legacy, thus starting the cycle of confrontation and death all over again.Captain Halbrecht - Halbrecht was a Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion who served during the Horus Heresy. Along with Captain Efried, Halbrecht was the only other captain of his Legion to accompany Rogal Dorn to Terra with former Death Guard Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro and his heroic 70 Astartes survivors of the virus-bombing of Istvaan III. The rest of the Legion went to investigate Istvaan before returning to Terra. In the meantime, Halbrecht and Efried served Dorn during the early days of the fortification of the Imperial Palace and the preparation of Terra and the entire Sol System for the invasion of the Traitor Legions of Horus.Captain Demetrius Katafalque - A former Captain of the Imperial Fists Legion, Demetrius Katafalque had once fought at Rogal Dorn's side during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy that followed. During the Battle of Terra, it was Katafalque who bled with his men before the walls of the Imperial Palace, under the horrific onslaught of the Warmaster's siege, putting his body between the enemy and his Emperor. He made them pay in blood for every treasonous step. During the Second Founding, Rogal Dorn designated Demetrius to become the first Excoriator; the first Chapter Master of the Successor Chapter of the Imperial Fists, known as the Excoriators. He also took part in the post-Heresy Crusades of penitence against the Traitor Legions during the Great Scouring. Katafalque scribed the sacred tome, The Architecture of Agony, a treatise dedicated to devotional suffering. Demetrius favoured their Primarch's practice for his brother Excoriators. On their Primarch's foster world of Inwit, the winters were cold and the lash was hot. Such instruction was adopted across Dorn's early empire and was favoured by the Primarch personally as a form of martial communion and as purification for the soul.Captain Learchus - Learchus was an Imperial Fists Captain who served with the Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. He was present at the defence of the Emperor's Imperial Palace during the Battle of Terra, and was killed fighting against Death Guard Plague Marines.Captain Noriz - During the Horus Heresy, Captain Noriz was a commander of a company of Imperial Fists detached to the Raven Guard's homeworld of Deliverance to present the XIX Legion with a precious gift: the newest model of Power Armour, the Mark VI "Corvus"-pattern, named in honour of their Legion's valliance. Although under orders to return to Terra once his mission accomplished, Noriz was convinced by Corvus Corax to renounce his original orders and to fight alongside the Raven Guard in their war of vengeance. Under Noriz, this lone company of Imperial Fists would distinguish itself greatly in battle. Most notoriously the Imperial Fists talent for counter-siege warfare was put to good use to reinforce Deliverance's and Kiavahr's defences.Commander Hashin Yonnad - Commander of the 39th Household of Inwit during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras, Yonnad was a warrior of vast experience, a son of one of the Inwit Cluster's greatest vassal worlds before it had become part of the Imperium, and reckoned by many to be one of the Imperium's greatest strategists. Called upon many times as a fleet commander and siege master, he planned meticulously then executed his plans with brutal swiftness. It was Yonnad who executed the campaign to capture Aranaeus Prime during the Great Crusade, the future Imperial world of Necromunda.Chaplain Akrida - Akrida is a Chaplain of the Imperial Fists who served during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. He was present at the defence of the Imperial Palace during the Battle of Terra.Veteran Sergeant Ahmand - Veteran Sergeant Ahmand served as a member of the 55th Company, 62nd Squad within his company's Breacher Squads. He served aboard the Tribune when the Retribution Fleet was formed to assault Istvaan V in the early days of the Horus Heresy. When, at the height of the Battle of Phall, Captain Alexis Polux ordered the seizing of the Iron Warriors vessel Contrador, only the 55th's Breacher Squads were included in the counter-boarding action, the remainder remaining on the doomed Tribune to exact a heavy a toll on their attackers. The 62nd Squad teleported onto the Contrador alongside Polux himself and Ahmand was at his side throughout. Ahmand survived the Battle of Phall, though it was many long years before accounts of it were recounted to and recorded by the Order of Remembrancers.Veteran Sergeant Valtus Moran - Veteran Sergeant Moran served with the 21st Occupation Echelon, 42nd Company, during the Great Crusade and early years of the Horus Heresy. His company was part of a small contingent posted at Lethe sent to forewarn the Manachean Commonwealth of an imminent Traitor attack, when it was invaded by a massive force of the Sons of Horus who had come to claim the world for their gene-father. The Traitor forces utterly outnumbered the Loyalist forces. Striking the Imperial Fists' fortress from orbit with a sustained bombardment, only its deep, triple-shielded bunkers built into the bedrock helped the Imperial Fists to endure. The few survivors were quickly assailed by a full cohort of Traitor Solar Auxilia Cthonian Headhunters. Veteran Sergeant Moran and his Terminator brethren led a breakout attempt, successfully seizing several short-range voidcraft and escaping the death of Lethe at a high cost in lives. It would prove a cruel irony of war that their blood-bought warning was without purpose, as Manachea itself had already fallen. Of the fifty-two Imperial Fists who survived the orbital bombardment, only twenty-three were able to fight their way to freedom, all of them wounded. Like many of their kind, these scattered survivors sought refuge from the Traitor onslaught in a Loyalist system, in this case the defiant Forge World of Mezoa, which welcomed them with open arms. Making their stand amongst other Legiones Astartes drawn to the beleaguered Forge World, Veteran Sergeant Valtus Moran was unfortunately slain during the Third Siege of Mezoa, when his formidable Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour was crushed by the servo-enhanced might of the Battle-Automata commanded by Consul-Praevian Nârik Dreygur of the Iron Warriors.Sergeant Reinor - Sergeant Reinor served with the 28th Squad, 135th Demi-Company, a detached Imperial Fists unit based at Bastion Kvet on Manachea Lux during the opening years of the Horus Heresy. This was a fortress designed to hold out against attack until relief arrived. The 135th was configured around a core of Tactical and Heavy Support squads, supplemented by Tactical Support squads such as the 28th. The bastion came under heavy attack when the Warmaster's hosts smashed into the Manachea Commonwealth. The Traitors pinned the small garrison units down with wave after wave of human troops, driven by demagogues later identified as Warrior Lodge serpent priests, prior to attack by Sons of Horus assault units. On the ninth day, Reinor assumed command of the dwindling bastion. Of his fate, little is known, other than he continued to lead the 135th Company, fighting atop the sundered fortifications until the end, by which time the Imperial Fists were the last Loyalists to give their lives in the Manachea system.Assault Legionary Gunther - Legionary Gunther served within the 64th Squad, 344th Company, a veteran counter-assault formation, specialising in the active defence of fortresses. Configured as a Legion Assault Squad, such units were adept at sallying forth from fortifications in order to deny any attacker the initiative. Gunther's unit was hurriedly recalled from its assignment to serve on the Oath of Stone as a part of the Imperial Fists' Retribution Fleet early in the Horus Heresy. When the Iron Warriors attacked at the Battle of Phall, Gunther and his brothers were mustered to void assault against the Grand Cruiser Atropos, using their Jump Packs to propel themselves across the void as the enemy vessel closed. Within minutes of the assault however, the Oath of Stone was herself destroyed, casting any member of the 64th Squad who had survived the explosion to the void. Nothing more is known of the Atropos, and so the fate of Legionary Gunther, like so many thousands of his brothers, must remain known only to providence.Legionary Arnfried - Legionary Arnfried served in the 34th Squad, 140th Company. Serving aboard the Lacedaemon, he took part in the Battle of Phall. Legionary Arnfried and his Battle-Brothers are known to have defended the Lacedaemon against several Iron Warriors boarding actions during the Battle of Phall, but further accounts of their stoic deeds went unrecorded. The Lacedaemon was destroyed during the Imperial Fists' disengagement from the Iron Warriors fleet and it is held as extremely unlikely that Arnfried, or any warriors of the 140th Company, could possibly have survived the carnage.Legionary Baldur Kord - Legionary Kord served within the 6th Company, 2nd Assault Echelon, a senior vanguard assault formation, adorned in Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour. The 2nd Assault Echelon was amongst the first units of the Imperial Fists Legion to be issued with these formidable suits of Tactical Dreadnought Armour. He most famously took part in the Battle of Phall against the traitorous Iron Warriors Legion. Gathered under the command of Captain Amandus Tyr, he took part in the suicidal assault of the Iron Warriors' flagship Iron Blood in a desperate mission to slay the Primarch Perturabo. Practically nothing is known of the attack, for contact was all but impossible once it was underway.Legionary Fasolt - Serving within the 4th Company, 12th Squad, Legionary Fasolt, armoured in his Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour, fought under his Primarch's stern gaze throughout the dozens of wars of Imperial Compliance during the Great Crusade, travelling the length and breadth of the rapidly expanding Imperium aboard the Phalanx. He most famously took part in the Battle of Phall, serving aboard the Imperial Fists' vessel Blade of Perdition during its hit and run action against the Iron Warriors heavy cruiser Sire of Sabaktes. Teleporting into the enemy vessel's armoury and planting a Melta charge, it detonated, successfully setting off a chain reaction that destroyed the entire vessel.Legionary Justici Ghunfried - Ghunfried was an early recruit of the VII Legion and a veteran of the earliest campaigns of the Great Crusade. He rose to the rank of Veteran Sergeant of one of the Terran Household Guard and it was in this role that he fell in glory during battle. Recovered from the aftermath of the apocalyptic battle, life was found to linger yet and Ghunfried was interred within the armoured sarcophagus of a mighty Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought.