Word Bearers - The Third Hand Chapter: Kurtha Sedd - Kurtha Sedd was once a veteran Chaplain of the XVIIth Legion, who fought at the forefront of the Great Crusade. He possessed a boundless drive, channelling his faith into acts of selfless heroism. There was an urgency to his every action as he took his Primarch at his word that the Emperor Himself was watching Sedd. After the chastisement of the Word Bearers at Monarchia, the humiliation of Kurtha Sedd's beloved Primarch drove him over the edge. Soon after, the Chaplain's despair and rage saw him turn a prayer hall into an abattoir. When he came to his senses, Kurtha Sedd felt panic in his bones, for he had committed the most horrendous of deeds in front of his god. Yet divine retribution never came, and the "incident" was covered up by Sedd's fellow officers and the thunder of war. Within weeks the Chaplain worked to further the doom of the False Emperor. His belief that Lorgar had lied to him made him unpredictable, and as such he was chosen by Kor Phaeron to lead the ground assault on Calth. Upon hearing he would be deployed alongside his former friend, Captain Steloc Aethon, of the Ultramarines' 19th Company, he felt a twinge of regret. Yet is was nothing next to the fires of hatred that burned in his soul. His maniacal fervour was a weapon in its own right. When Calth's sun went supernova and became poisoned radioactive hell, those who survived the initial betrayal were forced to seek shelter deep underground in the subterranean arcologies that thread the planet's underworld. The Word Bearers were determined to complete their heretical work by hunting down their Ultramarines rivals as well as any survivors. At their fore was Kurtha Sedd, the fervent demagogue who burned with the fires of hatred and disillusionment. Sedd's ultimate fate following the Calth Atrocity is unknown.Legionary Toc Derenoth - Toc Derenoth was a Legionary that served in the Ulughar Tactical Squad, of the 5th Assault Company, Chapter of the Third Hand. After Monarchia, Veteran Word Bearers such as Toc Derenoth took to wearing hermetic icons on their battle-plate, stylised after the geometric symbols devised by Lorgar to summon and bind entities from the Empyrean. These were displayed quite openly during the muster above Calth. This could be read as a signifier of the contempt Toc Derenoth and his kin had for the Ultramarines and their lack of occult knowledge. Toc Derenoth's ultimate fate during the Calth Atrocity is unknown.Sor Gharax, "The Bull" - Sor Gharax was once a wise war-priest and mentor to his Legion's recruits. Wounded gravely due to the detonation of a Titan upon the volcanic world of 17-17, Sor Gharax was interred in a special cybernetic sarcophagus to preserve his life. This in turn was installed within the shell of a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought, a personal war engine of surpassing potency. The multiple points of articulation built into the Contemptor allowed for Sor Gharax to fight at full effect even in the winding arcologies of Calth. Sor Gharax's Contemptor was amongst the finest of its kind, a towering construct that possessed the strength of a dozen Space Marines. Unfotunately the trauma Sor Gharax experienced upon 17-17 took a grievous toll. He found his objectivity eroded by crashing waves of bitterness, for he saw his incarceration within a war-shell as unbecoming of a true warrior. His chagrin grew to anger, then to madness. By the time he reached Calth, the beloved leader of men that had once been Sor Gharax was dead, though his body lived on. In its place was little more than a raging, hate-filled monster intent on murder alone. Sor Gharax's ultimate fate during the Calth Atrocity is unknown.