Artemis - Origins: Watch Captain Artemis is a warrior born. Mastering the arts of battle as a mortal, then a Space Marine, and finally as an officer of the Deathwatch, he has become a supreme weapon in the Imperium's fight against the xenos. Hailing from the violent Feral World of Posul, the Chapter planet of the Mortifactors, Artemis had once been champion of a warrior culture that believed a man could inherit the strength of the dead by devouring their remains. As a youth, Artemis was one of the greatest warriors of his tribe and paved the floor of his father's lodge with the skeletons of his slain enemies. yet his reputation gained him many enemies and eventually, fifty of his fellow tribesmen attacked him en masse, seeking to eat his corpse and thereby gain his extraordinary martial power. It was the fiercest battle of Artemis' life, and he fought like a raging beast. When the recruiting operatives of the Mortifactors eventually found him, his body was rent by a dozen grievous wounds and he lay dying atop a mound of the attackers he had slain.Artemis' recovery was arduous, and the watch captain's body still bears a latticework of deep scars to this day. Nonetheless, through the ministrations of the Mortifactors Apothecaries, he was healed to full strength and ready to begin his training as a Scout Marine within the solar month of his arrival at the Mortifactors' fortress-monastery. Artemis has repaid this debt to his Chapter many times over. The harsh lessons he learned upon Posul were refined and focused by the Mortifactors, and his killer instinct made him a natural hunter and slayer of foes.Just as he was plucked from mortal life by his Chapter, Artemis was taken from his battle-brothers when the Deathwatch took notice of his knack for detecting and slaying alien life forms approximately a standard century after he became an Astartes. Though Posul is no more, destroyed by Tyranid hyperpredators, Artemis' growling hate and intrasigent zeal ensure that its legacy remains feared. Now he applies his talents to search-and-destroy missions, leading kill-teams of the finest alien hunters in the Imperium. When the prospect of violence is close, a savage gleam lights Artemis' eyes, though the fury of his youth has been tempered into a far deadlier force.During his training with the Deathwatch, Artemis has learned to harness the ferocity of his soul alongside the blade and the bolter. Now he goes into battle with a controlled intensity that lends him strength and surety that even the direst alien threat cannot daunt.As a battle-brother in the Deathwatch Artemis studied the ways of countless alien species through war. He applied his talents to the to the destruction of nests iof alien infiltrators, caches of alien technology, twisted Human colloborators and more besides. He rose to soon lead kill-teams, not only of fellow Deathwatch but also of lesser mortal agents alongside the servants of the Inquisition's Ordo Xenos, who deeply valued his intuitive capacity to sense alien corruption.After his secondment to the Deathwatch at watch fortress Talasa Prime, Artemis served first under Inquisitor Severnius against Genestealer Cults on the Missionary World of St. Capilene, helping save the planet from falling under the Tyranids' domination through the propagation of their genetically-corrupted xenophile cults.Inquisitor Severnius praised Artemis in the wake of this campaign, promoting him as second-in-command of his kill-team. For two solar decades Artemis fought alongside Severnius, rooting out alien corruption wherever it was found.On Varnix Prime, Artemis thwarted a Hrud attempt to capture an Adeptus Mechanicus base. On the Agri-world of Tarrenhorst he and Severnius discovered an infestation of the horrific Warp entities known as Enslavers that had transformed the world's entire population into their psychic puppets. It was after this that he ascended to become a watch captain of Talasa Prime.