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AsurmenThe Hand of AsuryanAeldariAsurmen is the first and greatest of the Phoenix Lords, the warrior who forged the Path of the Warrior from the ashes of the Fall and founded the first of the Aspect shrines. Born in an age of ruin, he taught his people to master their fury and turn it against their enemies, and from his teaching sprang every Warrior Aspect that followed. Deathless within his ancient armour, he wanders the galaxy still, appearing wherever the Aeldari face annihilation.
Aun'ShiThe Aged WonderT'au EmpireAun'Shi is among the most storied Ethereals in the T'au Empire, an Aun of the martial sept of Vior'la whose skill with the honour blade is matched by no other of his caste. Bearing the honour stave Fidelity, he has fought at the forefront of countless battles, inspiring the Fire Caste to victories beyond reckoning. His lone defence of the settlement of Fio'vash against a horde of Orks is recounted across the Empire as proof that even a spiritual leader may be a peerless warrior.
Aun'VaFather of the Greater GoodT'au EmpireThe eldest and most revered Ethereal in the empire, whose word carries near-absolute authority over T'au civilization and war.
Aurelia SableMistress of the Void WarSolar Auxilia · The Horus HeresyThe formidable Lord Marshal of the Boreal Cohort, unmatched in the airless siege and boarding action, who cleansed rebel-held stars for the Emperor.
AzraelKeeper of the TruthSpace MarinesAzrael is the Supreme Grand Master of the Dark Angels and the head of the Inner Circle, guardian of the Chapter's darkest secret and one of the most tight-lipped warriors in an already secretive brotherhood.
BaharrothThe Cry of the WindAeldariBaharroth, the Cry of the Wind, is the Phoenix Lord of the Swooping Hawks and the first Aeldari ever to master the art of aerial war. Swiftest of all his kind, he descends upon the enemy like a sudden storm, heralding the dawn assault with blade and lasfire. Though he has died countless times, he rises ever renewed, a symbol of hope and retribution to his people.
Barban FalkThe WarsmithIron Warriors · The Horus HeresyA master of the whole art of the siege, orchestrating the reduction of a fortress from first barrage to final breach with cold competence.
BayardThe Fallen Champion of HelsreachSpace MarinesBayard was an Emperor's Champion of the Black Templars whose death at the hands of the orks during the defence of Helsreach became a rallying cry of vengeance for his brothers.
Be'lakorThe Dark MasterChaos Space MarinesBe'lakor was the first mortal ever raised to daemonhood by the united will of the Chaos Gods, granted a measure of each of their power. But his masters came to fear their creation, and cast him down into eternal, bitter servitude. Now he schemes without end, a being of near-limitless might forever denied the freedom and dominion he craves.
BelialMaster of the DeathwingSpace MarinesBelial is Grand Master of the Deathwing, commander of the Dark Angels' veteran First Company, a relentless perfectionist who leads the Chapter's finest Terminators into its most desperate wars.
Belisarius CawlThe Great WorkAdeptus MechanicusBelisarius Cawl is the most brilliant and controversial mind of the modern Adeptus Mechanicus, an archmagos of near-unfathomable age who has spent ten thousand years pursuing a single vast endeavour he calls the Great Work. Reviled as a heretek by traditionalists yet indispensable to the Imperium, Cawl unveiled the Primaris Space Marines and a host of new war machines, breaking millennia of technological stagnation. Part genius, part monster, and part living relic, he embodies the tension between orthodoxy and progress at the heart of his order.
BjornThe Young WolfSpace Wolves · The Horus HeresyIn the age of the Heresy a mere Blood Claw, the young Bjorn fought at Russ's side long before he became the Imperium's oldest and most venerable Dreadnought.
Bjorn the Fell-HandedThe EldestSpace MarinesThe oldest living Space Marine in the Imperium, Bjorn the Fell-Handed fought beside Leman Russ himself in the age of legends and endures still, interred within a Dreadnought as a revered living relic of the Chapter's founding.
Boss SnikrotDa StalkerOrksA legendary Blood Axe Kommando whose supernatural stealth makes him the one Ork the famed Armageddon Ork Hunters truly fear, stalking the jungles like a ghost.
Branne NevThe SteadfastRaven Guard · The Horus HeresyA steadfast commander of the XIX and the anchor of its daring raids, who gathered the shattered Legion after Isstvan V and forged its grief into resolve.
Brother CorbuloKeeper of the Red GrailSpace MarinesSanguinary High Priest and bearer of the sacred Red Grail, Brother Corbulo guards the preserved blood of Sanguinius and, wearing the primarch's very features, devotes his long life to the search for a cure to the curse that dooms his Chapter.
Buri Aegnirssenthe Thrice-DevouredLeagues of VotannBuri Aegnirssen is the last living son of the Emberg-Aegnir Bloc, a League consumed entire by Hive Fleet Leviathan. Swallowed whole by a Tyranid leader-beast and cutting his way free not once but three times, he now roams the war-torn galaxy as a peerless monster-slayer, pursuing an endless vendetta against the swarm that devoured his people and drove his Ancestor Core into howling madness.
Calas TyphonThe HeraldDeath Guard · The Horus HeresyFirst Captain of the Death Guard and one of the earliest legionaries to embrace Nurgle's corruption, Typhon became a driving force behind his Legion's plague-ridden transformation.
Castellan CroweBearer of the Cursed BladeGrey KnightsCastellan Crowe holds one of the most perilous burdens in the entire Chapter, for he is the appointed bearer of a blade of terrible and malevolent power. Sworn never to draw it, he carries the weapon at all times, resisting its ceaseless whispers through a discipline of superhuman will. As Castellan of the Purifiers, he leads the purest warriors of the Grey Knights while enduring a private war against the corruption he is doomed to keep at his side for as long as he lives.
Cato SicariusSpace MarinesBrilliant, vainglorious and undeniably gifted, Cato Sicarius is among the most decorated captains of the Ultramarines, a warrior whose battlefield genius is matched only by his towering ambition.
CegorachThe Laughing GodHarlequinsThe trickster deity of the Aeldari and the last of their gods to walk free, who fled the birth of Slaanesh laughing and has plotted the downfall of the Great Enemy ever since.
Colonel “Iron Hand” StrakenIron HandAstra MilitarumA brawling, bionic-limbed titan of a man, Colonel “Iron Hand” Straken is the most storied officer the Catachan Jungle Fighters have ever produced. Having clawed his way up from common trooper to command of an entire regiment, he leads from the very front with reckless ferocity, his body a patchwork of gleaming augmetics earned across a lifetime of impossible battles.
Colonel-Commissar Ibram GauntCommander of Gaunt's GhostsAstra MilitarumColonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt is the commanding officer of the Tanith First-and-Only, the light infantry regiment famed across the Sabbat Worlds as “Gaunt's Ghosts.” A rare fusion of battlefield commander and political officer, he wins improbable victories through guile, marksmanship, and a stubborn loyalty to his soldiers that most of his fellow commissars would count a weakness.
Colour Sergeant Jarran KellCreed's Right HandAstra MilitarumColour Sergeant Jarran Kell is the loyal shadow of Lord Castellan Ursarkar E. Creed, a booming, indomitable warrior who has spent a lifetime keeping Cadia's greatest commander alive. Where Creed is silent and calculating, Kell is thunder and iron, his amplified war-cries carrying his general's orders over the shriek and din of battle.