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* FreudianTrio: Honsou forms one with Forrix and Kroeger during ''Storm of Iron''. He's the Ego of the three, balancing a legitimate devotion to Chaos and willingness to break conventions with a pragmatic, rational attitude to the siege.


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** During ''Storm of Iron'', Forrix is the Superego of the three warsmiths FreudianTrio; he's a jaded, cynical bureaucrat who serves Chaos for lack of any other option, while also being a genius logistical expert who handles the majority of the siege's heavy lifting.
** He forms a similar trio with Barban Falk and Kroeger during ''Angel Exterminatus'', being the most overtly logical and rational of the three compared to Falk's fairly balanced personality and Kroeger's blunt, emotive one.


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* FreudianTrio: He's the Id of the Honsou-Forrix-Kroeger trio, being an AxCrazy BloodKnight fuelled mainly by emotion and a desire to kill.
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* DarkChick: Among the Warsmith's other lieutenants, he was certainly the most tactically flexible and emotional as opposed to Forrix's jaded stoicism and Kroeger's constant rage.

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* EvilOverlord: As Daemon Prince of Medrengard.

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* EvilOverlord: As Daemon Prince of Medrengard.Medrengard, he nominally rules over the entire planet. In practice, he generally confines himself to his personal stronghold within the mountains, occasionally stepping in to upset Medrengard's status quo.



* TheGhost: His presence is ''[[NotHyperbole literally]]'' felt on Medrengard, and figuratively in his Iron Wariors making it their home. He otherwise makes no appearances. [[spoiler: Well, not unless you brought a limited edition of ''Storm of Iron'', where he makes an appearance to talk with Honsou.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: As the supreme leader of the Iron Warriors, he's pretty much this.

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* TheGhost: His presence is ''[[NotHyperbole literally]]'' felt on Medrengard, and figuratively in his Iron Wariors making it their home. He otherwise makes no appearances. [[spoiler: Well, [[spoiler:Well, not unless you brought a limited edition of ''Storm of Iron'', where he makes an appearance to talk with Honsou.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: As the supreme leader of the Iron Warriors, he's pretty much this.indirectly responsible for the majority of the series' events.



* HiddenDepths: He was in fact a cultured artist; the fact no one knew that pissed him off more. By the time he becomes a Daemon Primarch, as far as we can tell, he had all but abandoned this aspect. [[spoiler: Downplayed in the limited edition story ''Warbreed'' - he's still rather cultured, as shown in his talk with Honsou.]]
* MeaningfulName: "perdurabo" is Latin for "I will endure".

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* HiddenDepths: He was in fact a cultured artist; the fact no one knew that pissed him off more. By the time he becomes a Daemon Primarch, as far as we can tell, he had all but abandoned this aspect. [[spoiler: Downplayed [[spoiler:Downplayed in the limited edition story ''Warbreed'' - he's still rather cultured, as shown in his talk with Honsou.]]
* MeaningfulName: "perdurabo" "Perdurabo" is Latin for "I will endure".endure", reflecting his stubborn nature and mindset.



* BaldOfEvil: As a space marine, natch.

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* BaldOfEvil: As a space marine, natch.Honsou's artwork shows him to be completely bald and he's the VillainProtagonist of the series.



* BlackSheep: Amongst the Iron Warriors, Honsou is pretty indifferent about the Legion and their legacy, which is why his actions are pretty atypical and he's practically indifferent to anything but his own desires.

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* BlackSheep: Amongst the Iron Warriors, Honsou is [[HalfBreedDiscrimination generally looked down upon and derided due to his mixed geneseed]]. Honsou himself is also pretty indifferent about the Legion to his legion's legacy and their legacy, which is why his actions are pretty atypical dogma, preferring to use unconventional tactics and he's practically indifferent to anything but focus on his own desires.



* ChainsawGood: Wields a chainsword.
* CombatPragmatist: Not afraid of fighting dirty and knows how to turn a battle in his favour. In unarmed combat, he's well described as a down and dirty gutter fighter.

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* ChainsawGood: Wields a chainsword.
* CombatPragmatist: Not afraid of fighting Honsou repeatedly uses dirty tricks and knows how pragmatic tactics to turn a battle in his favour. In favour such as [[spoiler:having a ship with a skeleton crew [[ColonyDrop ram a starfort's fortifications]], or]] giving waves of prisoners dummy weapons then forcing them toward an enemy fort, letting him learn its guns ranges as they fire on the prisoners. This extends to unarmed combat, where he's well described as a down and dirty gutter fighter.



* DragonAscendant: By the time ''Dead Sky, Black Sun'' rolls in.

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* DragonAscendant: By the time ''Dead Sky, Black Sun'' rolls in.in, he's taken control of the Warsmith's Grand Company.



* EvilCannotComprehendGood: A minor example - he can't believe that Pasanius and Uriel really ''are'' loyalists sent to fight against Chaos, as opposed to opportunistic renegades fighting for an unknown master.



* [[spoiler:YouAreInCommandNow: "I do not name you Captain. I name you Warsmith."]]

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* [[spoiler:YouAreInCommandNow: "I WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Discussed when he faces Uriel and Pasanius; when Uriel challenges him to a one-on-one duel, Honsou derisively notes he'd be stupid to accept as opposed to than having his bodyguards (who outnumber them ten to one) shoot them dead.
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler:After Forrix and Kroeger are killed during the last stage of the Battle of Hydra Cordatus, the Warsmith passes his rank down to Honsou before [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence departing for the Warp]].]]
-->'''The Warsmith''': [[spoiler:"I
do not name you Captain. I name you Warsmith."]]



* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Goes onto become a Daemon Prince.]]
* BlingOfWar: Wears heavily customised artificer Terminator Armour. Also, has a throne Perturabo himself allegedly crafted.
* BrownNote: He's seething with so much Chaos, just looking at him causes nausea in his own underlings, and keeps an ''entire regiment'' of guardsman from being able to raise their weapons against him. [[spoiler: It's because he's slowly transforming into a Daemon Prince, with the Hydra Cordatus mission as his last hurdle before transformation.]]
* CrazyPrepared: At Hydra Cordatus, he probably had a hand in getting [[spoiler:the Mechanicus infiltrator]], which came about roughly ''a hundred and fifty years'' before ''Storm of Iron'', and presumably [[spoiler:built the hidden teleporter in the citadel which they used to infiltrate Cycerin in]] towards the end of the siege.

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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Goes onto become [[spoiler:After sacrificing and eating much of the gene-seed stored on Hydra Cordatus, he becomes a Daemon Prince.Prince and departs for the Warp.]]
* BlingOfWar: Wears heavily customised artificer Terminator Armour. Also, He also has a massive throne that Perturabo himself allegedly crafted.
supposedly crafted, which is surrounded by luxurious furnishings.
* BrownNote: He's seething with so much Chaos, just looking at him causes nausea in his own underlings, and keeps an ''entire regiment'' of guardsman from being able to raise their weapons against him. [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's because he's slowly transforming into a Daemon Prince, with the Hydra Cordatus mission as his last hurdle before transformation.]]
* CrazyPrepared: At Hydra Cordatus, he probably had a hand in getting [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:getting the Mechanicus infiltrator]], infiltrator inside]], which came about roughly ''a hundred and fifty years'' before ''Storm of Iron'', and presumably [[spoiler:built the hidden teleporter in the citadel which they used to infiltrate Cycerin in]] towards the end of the siege.



* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Subverted. The Horus Heresy series gives him the name [[spoiler:Barban Falk]], but he eventually sheds this as part of his ThatManIsDead moment at the end of ''Angel Exterminatus''.



* ThatManIsDead: After something happened to him [[spoiler:on an Eldar Crone World]] during the Horus Heresy, he shed his former identity as [[spoiler:Triarch member Barban Falk]] and went solely by the name of "The Warsmith."



* BlingOfWar: His combi-bolter is described as "Heavily ornamented"
* TheCynic: Gave up on Horus's dream long ago. By now he follows Chaos pretty much purely because he's got nowhere else to go.
* DemotedToDragon: It is revealed in ''[[Literature/HorusHeresy Angel Exterminatus]]'' that he and the Warsmith were equal in rank during the Heresy.
* TheDragon: He's the Warsmith's chief lieutenant.
* FrontlineGeneral: Once he puts on the Terminator armour and gets into the trenches.

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* BlingOfWar: His combi-bolter is described as "Heavily ornamented"
"heavily ornamented."
* CoDragons: He's one of three Captains serving under the Warsmith, alongside Honsou and Kroeger. Forrix is nominally superior to them due to his knowledge of logistics and position as First Captain.
* TheCynic: Gave up on Horus's dream long ago. By now he follows Chaos pretty much purely because he's got nowhere else to go.
go. He gradually regains his fervour for Chaos over the course of the siege of Hydra Cordatus [[spoiler:which eventually gets him killed, as his newfound energy leads him to recklessly take on a Warhound Titan]].
* DemotedToDragon: It is revealed in ''[[Literature/HorusHeresy Angel Exterminatus]]'' that he and the Warsmith were equal in rank during the Heresy.
* TheDragon: He's the Warsmith's chief lieutenant.
Heresy. Now he's a subordinate First Captain serving under his former colleague.
* FrontlineGeneral: Once he puts on the Terminator armour and gets into the trenches. [[spoiler:Forrix even oversees the storming of the Tor Christo bastion, letting the Iron Warriors begin advancing toward the main citadel]].



* PowerFist: Another favoured weapon of his.

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* PowerFist: Another favoured weapon of his.his, which he uses to help bring down a Warhound.



* ChainsawGood: Wields a Chainsword.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Disembowelled, dismembered, and stabbed in the eye repeatedly by the woman he tortured wearing his own armor probably qualifies.]]

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* ChainsawGood: Wields a Chainsword.
Chainsword in most of his battles. [[spoiler:Ironically this is the weapon used to kill him in the finale]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: Disembowelled, [[spoiler:Disembowelled, dismembered, and stabbed in the eye repeatedly by the woman he tortured wearing his own armor probably qualifies.]]armor]].
* DemotedToDragon: Like Forrix, he used to hold a rank equal to the Warsmith.



* '''{{Gorn}}''': Spends almost all of his time on-screen drenched head-to-toe in blood or killing people violently in hand-to-hand combat.
* NeverFoundTheBody: PlayedWith. [[spoiler: The Iron Warriors do find his body, but are unsure if it was actually him. The fact that his killer escaped into the Warp wearing his armor makes it harder for the Iron Warriors to really be sure of his fate.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He breaks from guarding the Daemon Engines to get his slaughter on. [[spoiler:This bites him in the ass when these Daemon Engines get destroyed by the Imperial Fists, angering the Warsmith.]]
* TimeAbyss: Ironically, Forrix still calls him a newblood. Even he lampshades how ironic it it.

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* '''{{Gorn}}''': {{Gorn}}: Spends almost all of his time on-screen drenched head-to-toe in blood or killing people violently in hand-to-hand combat.
* KarmicDeath: After spending most of the book tormenting [[spoiler:the captive guardswoman Lana Utorian]], he dies when they [[spoiler:wear his daemon-possessed armour and then dismember him with his own chainsword, before stabbing him repeatedly in the face with the bone dagger she used to clean his gear of blood]].
* NeverFoundTheBody: PlayedWith. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The Iron Warriors do find his body, but are unsure if it was actually him. The fact that his killer escaped into the Warp wearing his armor makes it harder for the Iron Warriors to really be sure of his fate.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: He breaks from guarding the Daemon Engines to get his slaughter on. [[spoiler:This bites him in the ass when these Daemon Engines get destroyed by the Imperial Fists, angering enraging the Warsmith.]]
Warsmith]].
* TimeAbyss: He's almost as old as Forrix, being a veteran of the Great Crusade. Ironically, Forrix still calls him a newblood. Even he lampshades how ironic it it.



* AndIMustScream:[[spoiler:The Warsmith ends up turning him into a Chaos Spawn after deciding [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness He Has Outlived His Usefulness]]. It's implied that (at least, for a time) he's still sane and aware of his new state.]]

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* AndIMustScream:[[spoiler:The Warsmith ends up turning him into a Chaos Spawn after deciding [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness He Has Outlived His Usefulness]]. he outlived his usefulness]]. It's implied that (at least, for a time) he's still sane and aware of his new state.state, at least for a time.]]



* EvilSorcerer: Runs a whole coven of these. Also acts as the Warsmith's personal seer, and helped kick off the events of the series as a whole by finding Hydra Cordatus had gene-seed on it.

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* EvilSorcerer: Runs a whole coven of these. Also acts as the Warsmith's personal seer, and helped kick off the events of the series as a whole by finding [[spoiler:finding Hydra Cordatus had gene-seed on it.it]].



* AFateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:The Warsmith turns him into a Chaos Spawn, as detailed under [[AndIMustScream And I Must Scream]]]].

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* AFateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:The Warsmith turns him into a Chaos Spawn, Spawn as detailed under [[AndIMustScream And I Must Scream]]]].punishment for failing him and then running out of usefulness to him]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Kelmaur's failure to intercept the loyalists' distress signal and subsequent decision to lie to him let the Imperial Fists slip by their orbital blockade. This in turn provides the defenders with much-needed reinforcement and lets them sabotage the Iron Warriors' guns, throwing the Warsmith's plans out of whack]].



* BadassNormal: Fights and [[AnArmAndALeg takes off Honsou's arm]] in sword-to-sword combat. [[spoiler: Also counts as BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu, as Honsou feigns a retreat and stabs Vauban in the heart.]]

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* BadassNormal: Fights and [[AnArmAndALeg takes off Honsou's arm]] in sword-to-sword combat. [[spoiler: Also counts as BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu, as Honsou feigns combat, despite being an unarmoured human going up against a retreat and stabs millenia-old Chaos Space Marine.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:While
Vauban in the heart.]]manages to maim Honsou, he's killed moments later due to falling for a feint and having a sword driven through his chest by his opponent]].



* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Killed after taking off Honsou's arm, when Honsou stabs him through the chest.]]
* UnstoppableRage: Goes into one of these during the first attack on the trenches, after an enemy tank crushes one of his men. He proceeds to destroy the tank singlehanded, by shooting it in its weakly-armoured back.

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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Killed after taking off Honsou's arm, when Honsou feigns a retreat and then stabs him through the chest.]]
* UnstoppableRage: Goes into one of these during the first attack on the trenches, after an enemy tank crushes one of his men. He proceeds to destroy charges after it in a blind rage and destroys the tank singlehanded, by shooting it in its weakly-armoured back.
back vents.



* ActionSurvivor: A lowly Guardsman who survives two encounters with Iron Warriors Marines, and [[spoiler: even makes it out of the siege alive.]]
* BadassNormal: A completely ordinary human who kills three Iron Warriors personally, survives weeks out in the wilderness by himself, and even [[spoiler: lives to tell the tale.]]
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: The only known member of the 383rd Jouran Dragoons to survive and escape the siege of Hydra Cordatus]].

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* ActionSurvivor: A lowly Guardsman who survives two encounters with Iron Warriors Marines, and [[spoiler: even [[spoiler:even makes it out of the siege alive.]]
* BadassNormal: A completely ordinary human who kills three Iron Warriors personally, survives weeks out in the wilderness by himself, and even [[spoiler: lives [[spoiler:lives to tell the tale.]]
* TheBusCameBack: After being [[PutOnABus packed off back to Joura]] by the Imperial Fists at the end of ''Storm of Iron'', He makes an appearance in the ''Priests of Mars'' trilogy, also by Graham [=McNeill=]].
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The only known member of the 383rd Jouran Dragoons to survive and escape the siege of Hydra Cordatus]].



* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Goes down severely wounding the ''Dies Irae'', with his Titan's meltdown managing to disable the corrupted Imperator for the majority of the book. The damage he causes eventually leads to the ''Dies Irae's'' fall.]]

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* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Goes down severely wounding the ''Dies Irae'', with his Titan's meltdown managing to disable the corrupted Imperator for the majority of the book. The damage he causes eventually leads to the ''Dies Irae's'' fall.fall, with its weakened reactor armour being breached by Daekian.]]



* GeneralFailure: Played With: he's quite successful in Titan-scale combat, with mention of multiple Titan kills performed by him, but his FatalFlaw causes him to forget the wider battle, resulting in the attack's failure and [[spoiler: his own death, along with that of the majority of the Legio Ignatum force.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Gets killed in the same chapter he is introduced in.]]

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* GeneralFailure: Played With: he's With. He's quite successful in Titan-scale combat, with mention of multiple Titan kills performed by him, but on his part. However, his FatalFlaw causes him to forget the wider battle, resulting in battle and causes both the attack's failure and [[spoiler: his [[spoiler:his own death, along with that of the majority of the Legio Ignatum force.force]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Gets killed in the same chapter he is introduced in.
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Gets killed in the same chapter he is introduced in.]]



* TheAtoner: Desires to atone for Fierarch's actions, to the point of offering the Guards' leadership the right to kill him if he fails.

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* TheAtoner: Desires to atone for Fierarch's actions, to the point of offering the Guards' leadership leaders the right to kill him if he fails.



* MutualKill: [[spoiler:With ''Dies Irae'', by tearing open its reactor bay and crushing the plasma core. This destroys the Imperator, at the cost of killing Daekian and destroying his own titan]].



* AMillionIsAStatistic: As with most of the Mechanicus. [[spoiler:Seems to view the Guard this way - the implication, from the number of regimental flags, is that millions of Guardsmen have been poisoned to a gradual death by the AdMech. Also thinks nothing of killing several thousand Guardsmen to prevent the Iron Warriors from reaching the Citadel.]]

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* AMillionIsAStatistic: As with most of the Mechanicus. [[spoiler:Seems to view the Guard this way - the implication, from the number of regimental flags, is that millions of Guardsmen have been poisoned to a gradual death by the AdMech. Also thinks nothing of killing [[spoiler:Amaethon has no hesitation in burying several thousand Guardsmen soldiers under rubble to prevent the Iron Warriors from reaching the Citadel.]]Citadel, and was complicit if not directly responsible for poisoning millions of guardsmen to death to keep Hydra Cordatus' secrets]].



* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: As a result of his extreme age, Amaethon's not all there in the head.

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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: As a result of his extreme age, age and augmentation, Amaethon's not all there in the head.head. Merely communicating with him is noted by Naicin to be difficult, and he needs frequent reminders of recent happenings to keep him on track.



* CoolMask: One made of bronze. [[spoiler: Actually a case of MalevolentMaskedMan, considering his true identity.]]



* ManipulativeBastard: Outright lies to Leonid and Vauban [[spoiler:that Amaethon was the one who blew the tunnels, killing thousand of guardsmen]] to try and get himself promoted.

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* MalevolentMaskedMan: He's an ambitious and fairly ruthless man wearing a bronze face-mask, responsible for [[spoiler:killing thousands of guardsmen. He's also a traitor secretly serving the Iron Warriors]].
* ManipulativeBastard: Outright lies to Leonid and Vauban [[spoiler:that Amaethon was the one who blew the tunnels, killing thousand of guardsmen]] to try and get himself promoted. [[spoiler:He's also been lying through his teeth for the majority of the siege, having poisoned the Astropaths and manipulated Amaeton all the way through]].



* ADayInTheLimelight: He's the viewpoint character of "The Iron Without" short story, and appears in ''Angel Exterminatus''.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: He's the viewpoint character of "The Iron Without" short story, and appears in ''Angel Exterminatus''.Exterminatus'' as a supporting character.



* TheEngineer: His skill at construction was so notable that he was one of the few Iron Warriors with a fancy nickname.

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* TheEngineer: His skill at construction was so notable that he was one of the few Iron Warriors with a fancy nickname. Perturabo himself often referred to his geological expertise during the Horus Heresy.



* KilledOffForReal: Betrayed and killed on Calth.

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* KilledOffForReal: Betrayed and killed on Calth."The Iron Without" ends with an Ultramarine executing him with a headshot as he lies dying under rubble, though he gets a couple good verbal jabs in before dying.



* RedBaron: "The Stonewrought".

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* RedBaron: He's known as "The Stonewrought".Stonewrought" due to his nigh-supernatural ability to understand a world's geological makeup. It's shown he needs only a touch or two to figure out exactly where to dig, where to avoid, and how long the entrenching is likely to take.
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* BigBad: Of his FiveManBand in Storm of Iron.
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* spoiler:KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Killed after taking off Honsou's arm, when Honsou stabs him through the chest.]]

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* spoiler:KilledOffForReal: KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Killed after taking off Honsou's arm, when Honsou stabs him through the chest.]]

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* DemotedToDragon: It is revealed in ''[[Literature/HorusHeresy Angel Exterminatus]]'' that he and the Warsmith were equal in rank during the Heresy.



** DemotedToDragon: It is revealed in ''[[Literature/HorusHeresy Angel Exterminatus]]'' that he and the Warsmith were equal in rank during the Heresy.

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