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Abaddon the DespoilerThe DespoilerChaos Space MarinesAbaddon the Despoiler is the greatest champion of Chaos in the galaxy, Warmaster of the traitor hosts and lord of the Black Legion. Once the foremost captain of Horus himself, he rose from the ruin of the Heresy to unite the fractured legions and lead the Long War against the Imperium. Wielding the daemon sword Drach'nyen and the lightning-wreathed Talon of Horus, he has launched crusade after crusade against Terra, and it was his hand that finally broke the Cadian Gate and split the galaxy in two.
Adrax AgatoneNocturne's HammerSpace MarinesCaptain of the Pyroclasts and Master of the Arsenal, Adrax Agatone forges his own weapons and wields them with grim resolve, a smith and warrior in the truest Salamanders tradition.
Agapito NevThe TalonRaven Guard · The Horus HeresyFiery commander of the Talons, the Legion's assault echelons, whose ardour drove the Raven Guard's swiftest strikes and, after Isstvan V, its vengeance.
AhrimanThe Chief LibrarianThousand Sons · The Horus HeresyMagnus's foremost sorcerer and Chief Librarian, a warrior whose brilliance and pride made him the natural heir to the Legion's deepest arts.
Ahzek AhrimanThe ExileThousand SonsAhzek Ahriman is the greatest sorcerer of the Thousand Sons after Magnus himself, and the most tragic and reviled figure of his Legion. Once its Chief Librarian, he worked the great spell called the Rubric in a desperate bid to save his brothers from mutation, only to reduce the many thousands of them to soulless dust. Cast out in disgrace and haunted by his failure, Ahriman has wandered the galaxy for ten thousand years, forever seeking the arcane knowledge that might undo the catastrophe his own hand unleashed.
Aldric VyroniiThe OathkeeperQuestoris Knights · The Horus HeresyThe storm-born baron of House Vyronii, a lord whose unbending fidelity to his oaths held his house loyal to Terra at a ruinous price.
Aldrik VoldusThe Chapter's Mightiest PsykerGrey KnightsGrand Master of the Wardmakers and the most powerful psyker the Grey Knights have known in centuries, wielder of the Malleus Argyrum.
AlphariusThe Last FoundAlpha Legion · The Horus HeresyThe last and most enigmatic of the primarchs, master of espionage and misdirection, who hid even his own twin behind the coils of the hydra.
Amberley VailThe ChroniclerImperial AgentsA sharp and unusually urbane Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos, best known as the companion and secret chronicler of Commissar Ciaphas Cain, whose exploits she compiled and slyly annotated.
Amendera KendelThe Iron VigilSisters of Silence · The Horus HeresyAn Oblivion Knight renowned for an unbreakable resolve, Amendera Kendel led cadres against the worst sorceries of the traitor Legions and never yielded the ground she was set to hold.
AmitThe Flesh TearerBlood Angels · The Horus HeresyThe most ferocious of Sanguinius's captains, Amit embraced the Red Thirst his brothers hid, a savage and honest killer whose nature would one day father the Flesh Tearers.
AmonThe EquerryThousand Sons · The Horus HeresyThe loyal equerry and conscience of the Crimson King, a captain torn between devotion to his primarch and dread of the powers Magnus courted.
AmonFirst of the CorvidaeThousand SonsAmon was Captain of the Ninth Fellowship and equerry to Magnus the Red, the primarch's tutor and trusted confidant and the first master of the precognitive cult that would become the Corvidae. He survived the fall of Prospero and the Heresy only to be undone at last by Ahzek Ahriman, the very pupil of his lord he had sworn to guard.
AngronThe Red AngelWorld EatersAngron is the daemon primarch of the World Eaters, a being of pure rage forged first by cruel captors and later by the Blood God himself. Enslaved as a gladiator, mutilated by the Butcher's Nails, and betrayed by fate at every turn, he was ultimately elevated to daemonhood by Khorne. He is now an immortal engine of destruction, the living embodiment of wrath, whose reawakening spells doom for entire worlds.
AngronThe Red AngelWorld Eaters · The Horus HeresyThe slave-gladiator primarch of the Twelfth, maddened by the Butcher's Nails and betrayed by the Emperor who would not free him, Angron shared his torment with his sons and marched them toward Khorne.
AnrakyrThe TravellerNecronsA wandering overlord who abandoned his own throne to roam the galaxy, waking dormant tombs and forging the scattered dynasties toward a reborn necron empire.
Antaro ChronusSpear of MacraggeSpace MarinesNo Ultramarine understands the machine-spirit of a battle tank as Antaro Chronus does. Bearing the ancient honorific Spear of Macragge, he is the Chapter's peerless master of armoured war.
Arkhan LandThe RediscovererAdeptus MechanicusArkhan Land was a legendary technoarchaeologist of the Adeptus Mechanicus, a brilliant and eccentric explorator whose discoveries in the deep vaults of Mars gave the Imperium some of its most iconic technologies. Credited with unearthing the patterns for the mighty Land Raider and the Land Speeder that bear his name, he embodied the daring, treasure-hunting spirit of the Mechanicus's search for lost knowledge. Restless, arrogant, and endlessly curious, he was a hero of rediscovery in an age that prized the old above all else.
Armillus DynatThe Hydra's FangAlpha Legion · The Horus HeresyA Praetor whose flawless stratagems left enemies convinced they had beaten themselves, translating the twins' grand designs into battlefield ruin.
Artellus NumeonThe UnquenchedSalamanders · The Horus HeresyCaptain of the Pyre Guard and Vulkan's equerry, whose unbroken faith kept the shattered Legion's hope alive after Isstvan V.
Arvann SternThe CursedGrey KnightsOne of the longest-serving and most decorated captains of the Grey Knights, bound by a daemon's curse that shadows his every triumph.
Asdrubael VectThe Supreme Overlord of CommorraghDrukhariAsdrubael Vect is the most powerful Drukhari in existence, the founder and lord of the Kabal of the Black Heart and undisputed master of Commorragh. Risen from the very lowest rung of the Dark City's hierarchy, he has ruled through unmatched cunning and boundless cruelty for longer than any rival can remember. Every attempt to unseat him has ended in the elaborate ruin of the plotter, for Vect sees every conspiracy before it forms and repays treachery with exquisitely patient vengeance.
AsmodaiBane of the FallenSpace MarinesAsmodai is the oldest and most feared of the Dark Angels' Interrogator-Chaplains, a zealot without mercy whose sole purpose is to wring confession from the Fallen, whatever the cost.
Astorath the GrimThe Redeemer of the LostSpace MarinesHigh Chaplain of the Blood Angels and executioner of his own kind, Astorath the Grim travels the galaxy to deliver a merciful death to those lost to the Black Rage, granting the doomed sons of Sanguinius one final, glorious end.