Personae · Bibliotheca Imperialis

LOYALIST · RADICAL

Gregor Eisenhorn

Inquisitor · Ordo Xenos · The Radical-by-Inches

Gregor Eisenhorn was born into a minor Scarus Sector noble family and recruited into the Ordo Xenos as a young man on the recommendation of his mentor, Inquisitor Hapshant.

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Gideon Ravenor

Inquisitor · Ordo Xenos · The Mind in the Chair

Gideon Ravenor was a junior Inquisitor and Eisenhorn's star interrogator when, on Thracian Primaris in 338.

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Ibram Gaunt

Colonel-Commissar · Tanith First-and-Only · The Saint's Hand

Ibram Gaunt was a Hyrkan Commissar with a senior officer's commission — an unusual hybrid rank Slaydo had created for him — when he was assigned to oversee the founding of the Tanith Light Infantry.

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Ciaphas Cain

Commissar · Hero of the Imperium · The Reluctant

The Ciaphas Cain archive exists in an unusual form: the Cain Archive itself, a multi-volume secret manuscript discovered in the Inquisitorial vaults after the man's notional death, in which Cain…

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Sebastian Yarrick

Commissar · The Old One · The Bane of Ghazghkull

Yarrick came up through the Schola Progenium and the Commissariat the conventional way.

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Commander Dante

Blood Angels Chapter Master · Lord of Baal · Lord Regent of Imperium Nihilus

Luis Dante was born in the irradiated dunes of Baal Secundus to one of the Pure One tribes.

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Marneus Calgar

Lord of Macragge · Chapter Master of the Ultramarines

Marneus Augustus Calgar was born Tacitan, a serf of Nova Thulium, a feudal subsidiary of Macragge.

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Mephiston

Lord of Death · Chief Librarian of the Blood Angels · The Walker-Back

Brother Calistarius was a Codicier-Librarian of the Blood Angels deployed to Armageddon during the Second War.

TRAITOR · WARMASTER

Abaddon the Despoiler

Warmaster of Chaos · Lord of the Black Legion · The Heir of Horus

Ezekyle Abaddon was First Captain of the Sons of Horus during the Great Crusade — Horus's right hand, his closest companion, and the commander of the legion's elite Justaerin Terminator company.

TRAITOR · EXILED

Ahzek Ahriman

Chief Librarian of the Thousand Sons · The Architect of the Rubric · The Exile

Ahzek Ahriman was Chief Librarian of the Thousand Sons during the Great Crusade and the closest of Magnus's lieutenants.

XENOS · NECRON

Trazyn the Infinite

Overlord of Nihilakh · The Curator · The Surgeon of History

Trazyn the Infinite has spent the last sixty million years preserving the history of every species he can collect a sample of.

XENOS · AELDARI

Eldrad Ulthran

Chief Farseer of Ulthwé · The Foreseer · Walker of Threads

Eldrad Ulthran has walked the Path of the Seer on Craftworld Ulthwé for more than ten thousand years.

XENOS · YNNARI

Yvraine

Emissary of Ynnead · Daughter of Shades · The Opener of the Seventh Way

Yvraine was born on a Craftworld and raised conventionally enough — Path of the Seer, modest standing, the long quiet life her Craftworld's priests had foreseen for her.

XENOS · T'AU

Commander Shadowsun

O'Shaserra · Puretide's Pupil · The Hero of the Damocles Gulf

O'Shaserra was selected as a child for the Fio'taun school of Puretide — the legendary T'au military philosopher whose pupils now lead the T'au Empire's major commands.

XENOS · ORK

Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka

Prophet of the WAAAGH! · Da Beast · The Warlord of Warlords

Ghazghkull was an ordinary Goff Nob until a stray slug took most of his skull off during a clan-on-clan brawl.

XENOS · TYRANID

The Swarmlord

The Hive Mind's Emergency General · The Reanimated Strategist · The Killer of Calgar

The Swarmlord is the Tyranid Hive Mind's answer to defeat.

TRAITOR · WORLD EATERS

Kharn the Betrayer

Champion of Khorne · The Bringer of Skulls · The Butcher of Skalathrax

Kharn was the World Eaters' Eighth Captain during the Great Crusade and remained at Angron's side through the Heresy.

TRAITOR · DEATH GUARD

Typhus

Herald of the Plague God · Host of the Destroyer Hive · The First of the Tallymen

Calas Typhon was First Captain of the Death Guard during the Great Crusade and the closest of Mortarion's lieutenants.

TRAITOR · UNALIGNED

Fabius Bile

The Primogenitor · The Manflayer · The Renegade Geneticist

Fabius Bile was the Chief Apothecary of the Emperor's Children during the Great Crusade — a senior medicus-officer responsible for the Legion's gene-seed and the close-attention biological work…

TRAITOR · RED CORSAIRS

Huron Blackheart

Tyrant of Badab · Lord of the Maelstrom · The Once-Loyal

Lufgt Huron was Chapter Master of the Astral Claws, a respected Imperial Fists successor chapter posted to the troubled Maelstrom Zone in the Badab Sector.

LOYALIST · ADEPTUS MECHANICUS

Belisarius Cawl

Archmagos Dominus · The Architect of the Primaris · The Keeper of the Long Promise

Belisarius Cawl is roughly ten thousand years old.

LOYALIST · ECCLESIARCHY

Saint Celestine

The Living Saint · Bearer of Katherine's Sword · The Returner

Celestine was an ordinary Sister of Battle of the Order of Our Martyred Lady when she fell in the Palatine campaign of 911.

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Logan Grimnar

Great Wolf of the Space Wolves · The Old Wolf · Master of Fenris

Logan Grimnar rose through the Space Wolves the same way every Wolf Lord rises: by saga-deed, by survival in the kind of engagements that kill most aspirants, and by being the brother his Great…

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Helbrecht

High Marshal of the Black Templars · The Lord of the Eternal Crusade

Helbrecht rose through the Black Templars the way every Marshal rises: by Crusade-deed across multiple campaigns, by surviving engagements that statistically should not have been survivable, and…

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Pedro Kantor

Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists · The Holder of Arx Tyrannus

Pedro Kantor has been Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists since M37 — over a thousand years, longer than any of his peers among the Imperial Fists' successor chapters.

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Lord Solar Macharius

The Great Conqueror · Master of the Macharian Crusade · Solar General

Lord Solar Macharius was an Imperial Guard general who, in 392.

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Ursarkar E. Creed

Lord Castellan of Cadia · The Tactician

Ursarkar E.

TRAITOR · EMPEROR'S CHILDREN

Lucius the Eternal

Champion of the Emperor's Children · The Swordsman · The Returner

Lucius the Eternal was the Emperor's Children's premier swordsman during the Heresy and has remained so for ten thousand years.

XENOS · DRUKHARI

Asdrubael Vect

Supreme Overlord of Commorragh · The Kabal of the Black Heart · The Survivor

Asdrubael Vect was a low-born slave in the pre-Fall Aeldari empire — a position that, in that decadent civilisation, should have been a death sentence.

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Ragnar Blackmane

Wolf Lord of the Space Wolves · Slayer of the Maned Beast · The Young Saga

Ragnar earned his cognomen — Blackmane — as an aspirant.

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Erasmus Tycho

Blood Angels Captain · Death Company Martyr · The Lost Captain

Erasmus Tycho was Captain of the Blood Angels Third Company through the late M41 — a brilliant battlefield commander whose tactical patience marked him as a likely future Master of the Chapter.

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Azrael

Supreme Grand Master of the Dark Angels · Keeper of the Secret

Azrael holds the Dark Angels' deepest secret in its entirety.

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Asmodai

Master Interrogator-Chaplain · The Unforgiving Tongue · Confessor of the Fallen

Asmodai's work is the interrogation of captured Fallen — the Dark Angels brothers who sided with Luther at Caliban's fall and have been hunted, captured, and brought to the Rock's subterranean…

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Vulkan He'stan

Forgefather of the Salamanders · Seeker of the Nine · The Patient Smith

Vulkan He'stan was a senior captain of the Salamanders when the chapter's council elected him to a unique standing position: Forgefather, the brother charged with recovering the nine artifacts…

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Tu'Shan

Regent of Prometheus · Chapter Master of the Salamanders · The Stander-Down

Tu'Shan rose through the Salamanders the conventional way — sergeant, captain, Master of the Forge.

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Cato Sicarius

Captain of the Ultramarines 2nd Company · The Grand Duke of Talassar

Cato Sicarius rose through the Ultramarines at a pace second only to Calgar's.

XENOS · DRUKHARI

Lelith Hesperax

Queen of Knives · Succubus of the Cult of Strife · The Bare-Handed

Lelith Hesperax is the senior Succubus of the Wych Cult of Strife — the most prestigious gladiator-cult in Commorragh.

XENOS · NECRON

Imotekh the Stormlord

Phaeron of the Sautekh Dynasty · The Stormcaller · The Conqueror of Eighty Worlds

Imotekh awoke from biotransference-sleep earlier than most Necron overlords, around the time of M41's general awakening cascade.

XENOS · T'AU

Aun'Va

Ethereal Supreme of the T'au · The Master Orator · The Projected Voice

Aun'Va was the senior Ethereal of the T'au Empire during the late M41 — the spiritual head of a species whose social cohesion depends, in measurable physiological terms, on Ethereal…

TRAITOR · WORD BEARERS

Erebus

First Chaplain of the Word Bearers · The Architect of the Heresy

Erebus was First Chaplain of the Word Bearers during the Great Crusade — Lorgar's most trusted lieutenant and the single Astartes who travelled with him on the three-decade warp-pilgrimage that…

TRAITOR · WORD BEARERS

Kor Phaeron

Dark Cardinal of the Word Bearers · Lorgar's Foster-Father · The Black Cardinal

Kor Phaeron was a Colchisian priest of the Covenant when the infant Lorgar fell from the sky.

LOYALIST · CUSTODES

Trajann Valoris

Captain-General of the Adeptus Custodes · The Auric Champion · The Watcher Released

Trajann Valoris is the current Captain-General of the Adeptus Custodes — the senior officer of the Emperor's personal bodyguard and, by ancient ceremonial protocol, the Imperial figure who answers…

LOYALIST · GREY KNIGHTS

Aldrik Voldus

Grand Master of the Grey Knights · Brotherhood Champion of the Anvil

Aldrik Voldus is the senior Brotherhood Champion of the Anvil of Vigilance — one of the eight Brotherhoods that make up the Grey Knights chapter.

XENOS · DRUKHARI

Drazhar

Master of Blades · Executioner of the Incubi · The Living Sword

Drazhar is the senior Incubus of Commorragh — the title-holder of Master of Blades, which makes him the executioner-instructor of every Incubi shrine in the Dark City.

XENOS · NECRON

Anrakyr the Traveller

Pyrrhian Overlord · The Wanderer · The Reluctant Conqueror

Anrakyr was Overlord of the Pyrrhian Dynasty in the pre-biotransference Necrontyr era.

XENOS · TYRANID

Old One Eye

The Carnifex Who Returns · The Cunning Bioform · The Hive Mind's Lesson

Old One Eye is the modern Imperial designation for a specific Carnifex bioform — the heavy-assault Tyranid bioform that the Hive Mind has, by every available pathological measure, grown and…

XENOS · GENESTEALER CULT

The Patriarch

First-Born of the Genestealer Cult · The Father in the Dark · The Beacon

Every Genestealer Cult begins with a Patriarch — a Purestrain Genestealer of unusual size and age, one of the original infiltration-bioform individuals seeded by a passing Tyranid Hive Fleet.

XENOS · T'AU · APOSTATE

Commander Farsight

O'Shovah · He Who Sees Further · Hero of the Damocles Gulf · Exile of the Enclaves

Commander Farsight — O'Shovah, "He Who Sees Further" — was the most promising student of Master Puretide, the T'au Empire's foundational military strategist.

TRAITOR · NIGHT LORDS

Talos Valcoran

Soul Hunter · Prophet of the Eighth · First Claw's Reclusiarch

Talos Valcoran was born of the post-Heresy Night Lords — recruited from Nostramo's successor populations in the Eye of Terror, trained by veterans of the Heresy who had themselves trained under…

XENOS · NECRON · SOVEREIGN

The Silent King

Szarekh · Last Lord of the Necrontyr · The Returned

Szarekh was the last of the Silent Kings of the Necrontyr — the line of god-emperors who had ruled the species for the entirety of its biological era.

HERETICUS · APOSTASY

Goge Vandire

The 361st High Lord of Terra · Architect of the Reign of Blood · Master of Mankind

Goge Vandire was, before his ascension, a middle-ranking functionary in the Administratum's Solar Sector office.

LOYALIST · ORDO XENOS · CONDEMNED

Inquisitor Kryptman

Bartolomé Fuentes Kryptman · Ordo Xenos · Excommunicate Working

Inquisitor Bartolomé Fuentes Kryptman was the Ordo Xenos investigator who, in the 745.

LOYALIST · WHITE SCARS

Kor'sarro Khan

Master of the Hunt · Captain of the White Scars 3rd Brotherhood · Slayer of Voldorius

Kor'sarro Khan holds, by White Scars custom dating back to the Chapter's founding, the title Master of the Hunt — the office responsible for pursuing the Chapter's named enemies across the galaxy…

LOYALIST · ASTRA MILITARUM

Warmaster Slaydo

First Warmaster of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade · Fell at Balhaut

Slaydo was a senior Lord Militant of the Astra Militarum when the Imperium's High Command resolved, in 754.

LOYALIST · ASTRA MILITARUM

Warmaster Macaroth

Second Warmaster of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade · The Carrier of Slaydo's Vow

Macaroth was, at the moment of Slaydo's death at Balhaut, a Lord General of approximately thirty-eight Terran years' age — young by the standards of the Imperial Lord-General officer corps, where…