Zephon - History: Noble, though bleak in character, Zephon suffered from an extreme blood thirst that he desperately held in check. Zephon was a former Exarch of the High Host and warrior of the Blood Angels Legion. He served as a Dominion, an officer in command of a company of the Blood Angels, during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. As a Destroyer Marine during the IX Legion's Compliance actions during the Great Crusade, Zephon earned the moniker "The Bringer of Sorrow" for his ruthless methods of war. Like his fellow Blood Angels, Zephon was both a warrior and an artist, as he was an accomplished musician with skill playing both the harp and the piano.During a battle against an unknown xenos assailant, Zephon was grievously injured, losing both his arms, his left thigh, knee, and right foot to its blade. Surviving the battle, Zephon's limbs were replaced with augmetic appendages, though he often suffered the symptoms of rejection of the bionics which dramatically worsened his health. No longer able to fight as well as his kin and lacking the finesse to play the instruments he had once mastered, Zephon would fall into a deep depression.With his martial prowess significantly diminished, Zephon was despatched to Holy Terra to become a member of the Crusader Host comprised of one Legionary from every Space Marine Legion. Yet with the betrayal of Horus Lupercal and the eruption of the Horus Heresy, the Crusader Host was disbanded and its members imprisoned for interrogation to ensure no Traitors lurked in Terra's midst. Freed to aid the Imperium's war effort, Zephon tallied the dead of the war, yet grew restless while separated from his far-flung Legion. Denied sanction to venture into the galaxy to locate his Legion, Zephon was recruited by the Custodian Diocletian Coros to aid in the secret War Within the Webway being fought beneath the Imperial Palace.Spending many of his days off-duty within the Imperial Palace, Zephon formed an unlikely friendship with the genius Mechanicum Techno-Archaeologist Arkhan Land. Re-fitting Zephon's cybernetic limbs with improved augmetics, Land enabled the crestfallen Blood Angel to fight with renewed vigour. However, Zephon's body still rejected the bionic implants after a period of time, much to the frustration of both the Blood Angel and Land.The Blood Angels finally made their triumphant return to the Throneworld in the days before the start of the Siege of Terra. With the arrival of his Legion, Zephon openly wept at the sight of his Primarch Sanguinius and his fellow Blood Angels. Following Zephon's reunion with his Legion, Land agreed to help Zephon overcome his immune rejection of his augmetic limbs. Land chose to integrate ancient artificial intelligence technology dating back to the Age of Technology into Zephon's body to trick his physiology into accepting the new implants. In return, Zephon agreed to take Land before Sanguinius.During the Siege of Terra, Zephon returned to the side of his kin at the forefront of battle. Zephon fought in defence of the Gorgon Bar and was wounded defending the Imperial historitor Ceris Gonn. Placed within a stasis pod and delivered to Arkhan Land, Zephon's body was swiftly healed through the ministrations of Land and his three Bloodthralls Shafia, Shenkai and Eristes. Following his recovery, Zephon aided in Land's escape from his now-besieged underground laboratory.Returning to the front line in defence of the Eternity Gate, Zephon and Arkhan Land faced the hordes of Traitors. Zephon briefly reverted to his more menacing persona by ordering Land to protect his thralls in the coming battle or be beaten to death should he retreat. Though stern in this assertion, Zephon defended Land from the assaults of the Traitors while the two fought side-by-side.Escorting his ally back to the Sanctum Imperialis as the Traitors pushed their advance forward and took the Bhab Bastion, Zephon rallied several remaining Loyalist Astartes officers such as Fafnir Rann, Maximus Thane, Azkaellon, Satel Aimery and the White Scars' Keshig commander Namahi to serve under the command of Terra's most senior Astartes, Archemus, who was charged with defending the Inner Palace. During the subsequent battle, Zephon succumbed to his incandescent rage during the Traitors' assault, tearing apart the oncoming Heretic Astartes in a hail of gore. Despite this state, Zephon ultimately survived the Siege of Terra.Following the end of the Horus Heresy and the subsequent campaigns of the Great Scouring, the Space Marine Legions were reorganised and broken down into separate, smaller Chapters starting with the Second Founding initiated by Lord Commander of the Imperium Roboute Guilliman. One of these later Successor Chapters was the Charnel Guard, raised from the ranks of the surviving Blood Angels. Zephon was installed as the first Chapter Master of this Blood Angels successor.As the memories of the Heresy transitioned from fact to myth, Zephon rarely told his battle-brothers of his gene-father's glorious deeds, though he would interject if other tellers of the tale claimed that Sanguinius waited during the Battle for the Sanctum Imperialis. He would correct them by saying that Sanguinius did not stand with his back to the Eternity Gate and watch as the "Bane of the Ninth Bloodline" -- the Bloodthirster Ka'Bandha -- attacked the Royal Ascension. Though his listeners were always interested in hearing this first-hand account, Zephon often deferred to others to set the historical record straight as legend replaced history.Zephon continued to fight for the Imperium with the Charnel Guard as a dour yet respected legend of the Siege of Terra. The remainder of his deeds after becoming master of the Charnel Guard are lost to history.