Kasper Ansbach Hawser - Destiny: Near the end of his natural life in his eighth solar decade and after his disillusionment by his work seemingly becoming absorbed by the hegemonic Administratrum and their apparent willingness to destroy recovered knowledge, Hawser felt a sudden and inexplicable compulsion to go to the Death World of Fenris, the homeworld of the Space Wolves Legion.He travelled there under the assumed name of Ahmad Ibn Rustah. The Space Wolves were suspicious of his unannounced arrival from the beginning, but Hawser managed to gain permission to land. Yet no sooner had the permission been given than his landing craft was mistakenly shot down by a Space Wolf named "Bear." After being attacked as a "bad star" following his crash-landing by the superstitious feral Human tribesmen of Fenris, Hawser was then put into a long stasis and thoroughly healed using an advanced rejuvenat treatment while the Space Wolves figured out what to do with him, believing his arrival had not been a coincidence.When Hawser awoke solar decades later, having been rebuilt through advanced Genetor enhancement and gifted with the physique of a much younger and stronger man, he was made a skjald -- a bard and oral historian -- of the Space Wolves. He was attached to the Legion's "Tra" (3rd) Great Company and allowed to accompany them on their campaigns. He found that he could speak the native Fenrisian languages, Juvyk and Wurgen, although he did not know why, as he had never studied them.Allowed to accompany the Vlka Fenryka -- the Space Wolves -- as they carried out their duties to the Emperor, Hawser first witnessed the destruction of the Olamic Quietude, a powerful ancient cybernetic Human civilisation that the Space Wolves swept aside in only solar days, and came to understand that the ferocity of the Space Wolves was tempered with a canny intelligence. The hulking Astartes were not simply feral barbarians.During the ground battle against the Quietude on their unnamed homeworld, Hawser's guardian, a Rune Priest called Urvural "Longfang" Heoroth, was fatally wounded by an Olamic super-robust cybernetic warrior's Kinetic Hammer.As he kept the dying priest company, Hawser recounted the story of Murza's power and the cult in the Lutetian bibliotech, and told Longfang it was the closest he had come to seeing the indescribable thing the Space Wolves called "malificarum."Longfang did not seem surprised, and told Hawser that he was aware that Hawser was being used as an oblivious pawn in some great scheme, and that he had been compelled to go to Fenris by a will that was not his own. That presence now lurked within Hawser's mind, seeing everything he saw and subtly altering the skjald  's perceptions.Longfang had seen into Hawser's memories and singled out an important memory where Hawser, in his old age prior to coming to Fenris, was in orbit of Terra in a suite on the Lemuryan Orbital Plate (a Terran space elevator).In the dream, Hawser had seen a reflection in the window of a presence behind him, but always woke up before he knew who it was.Longfang then showed Hawser his own dream: they were hunting together on the stable continent of Asaheim on Fenris, and Hawser was afraid of the wolves.Hawser awoke from the dream and realised that Longfang had been dead for some time, even as he believed the Rune Priest had been speaking to him in his dreams.As part of his duty as a skjald, Hawser had to memorise all the stories of Longfang's battles and exploits told to him by the other Vlka Fenryka, and tell them as stories to the assembled warriors of Tra Company.During the ceremony Jarl Ogvai brandished a ceremonial athame which Hawser recognised: it was the same one that he had almost been compelled to sacrifice Navid Murza with many decades ago.Hawser almost got himself killed trying to interrupt the ceremony to point this out, but it was in any case interrupted by a greater concern: the Emperor had called a great council on the world of Nikaea, and the Space Wolves had been summoned to attend.As the ceremony dispersed, Hawser went to search the Jarl's quarters for the athame he had seen brandished. He was interrupted by Longfang's successor, the Rune Priest Aun Helwintr. Helwintr had shared Longfang's memory, and knew what Hawser had related to Longfang on the Olamic homeworld.He showed Hawser that the knife was not the same. The presence in the back of his mind was trying to make him think it was, to make Hawser distrust the Space Wolves.