Categories: "Setting"
Captain-Chaplain Jovus Err
Jovus Err has served as a chaplain for the 10th Host for millennia. He's somewhat dour and unimaginative, but there is no questioning his conviction or loyalty to whomever is apostle. It is perhaps these traits that have enabled him to survive for so long - he's never risen to become an Acolyte and has thus never been a threat to any apostle. His character traits (plus his undeniable flair for command and tactics) may also be the reason that of all of Obel Gar's chaplains, he alone remains in command of his company after Castor's reorganization.
Chaplain Tulius Sar-Krel
Chaplain Sar-Krel of the 3rd Company, came to the host, years ago, before Obel Gar's rise to power. He is a BLack Legionnaire, part of one of the failed foundings Ezekiel the Just made in the Eye of Horus to build up his own legions' strength. The few that did not die outright or turned into deamon possessed spawns, joined the ranks of the Black Legion or left the accursed founding fields altogether. Sar-Krel was amongst the few that lived, and left to seek his own fortune and place in the galaxy. After years of wandering, selling his skills to the highest bidding warlord, he found a true home with the 10th host. He found brotherhood and he found the Word. He took to the Word, and found he had a talent for faith, so to speak. After that he walked the ranks as an apprentice, a supplicant, and now as Chaplain. A veteran of the 3rd himself, he knows and understands the company. His sermons are inspiring, but the elite marines of the 3rd find his skill and zeal in battle to be their chaplain's best and most inspiring sides.
Captain Diston
Diston is one of Castor's own veterans, from before he was Lord of the 10th, that has risen to captaincy. He was promoted on the spot to replace Cpt. Tholkis, who died from a sniper's shot to the head at the Icefang. This red-headed giant looks more like a Space Wolf than his brothers of the Word. Diston has one other trait of note; he's a likeable chap, prone to chatting with the subhumans and being generally nice. As a result he as quite the web of connections around the fleet - and good gear and supplies thend to flow his way.
Captain Juron Gaik
Juron Gaik was a veteran sergeant under Obel Gar. He was promoted to Captain by Castor's word, on account of his proven skill during the war games. Since that time Juron has showed himself as a skilled boarder and drop specialist, skills that have filtered down through the ranks of his company. He is, however, not very concerned with appearances and his company looks a little rag-tag as a result. When confronted by his chaplain over the matter Juron will point out that they heed the Word and the Will, but that the gods care nothing for clean and neat uniforms.
Brother Apothecary Hipoklides
Apotechary Hipoklides, has always felt some what apart from the others, he has know that the brotherhood of the legions was never enough for him. He is not from the Black Templars but sendt out from his 11 founding chapter to aid them in the crusade in the far away Calixis sector. his father chapter where happy to be rid of him and he was more than happty to go. But the knowlige of being difrent and that he was pushed away for it was palanted deep within him. During his stay with the BT he got hold of teksts of a heretical nature, both from the famed Fabuis Bille and a local nedical heritic called Doctore. He then got the knowlige that there was a lot more out there than he had known so far. When he got the chance after Sigismunds victory, as the last surviving officer he did not blink, he tok the brought the other over.
Hipoklides has found a home quikly with the 10th, Doctore told him that in the begining he would handle the gen-seed of the host him self abourd the Verbum. Hipoklides gets the facilitys on the Divine Majestic, where he in adition to keep the ships biological in good healt, he is given the task of training the coven of the Angelic touch in the medical arts. Doctore gave him this tankless jobb so that he could keep him under observation, and see his loyalty. Hipoklides could not be happyer , he now has a modern, clean medical facilitys abourd a BB, eagre students, and he gets to pick his own starping medical orderlys from the brotherhood warriors. Sitting in his quarters in the evenings drinking a cup of hot tea, and reading his copy of F.Bilies "On the organs of the posthuman"- he counts his blessings and thinks that life amoung the lost and the damed is good indeed.
Captain Milkherem
Milkherem is a former marine sergeant of the 7th (assault) company. He was the warrior who survived the most assaults under Captain Tam Caron, which should count for something. Although his company is now a line company, it has a penchant for close combat and brutal assaults. This has gained the company many victories and much glory, but attrition rates continue to be among the highest in the 10th Host.
Captain Baltus
Baltus served as a Captain under Obel Gar, but was an officer long before that, making him one of the most experienced (but not necessarily the most skilled, creative, or zealous) captains in the 10th Host. He's basically a very decent Word Bearer, Astartes, and Captain - but no more.
Captain Katarn Colchis
Katarn, called "Colchis", is a true Colchisian marine. He is completely devoid of creativity or initiative, but 10.000 years of lead men into battle have made company command a reflex for him. He is also very good at teaching new recruits and seasoning young marines (without getting them killed). Unflinchingly loyal to whomever is the current Apostle.
Katarn always fights in a very old suit of Mark II Power Armour. In fact he's never without his armour (in pulbic at least) and will avoid any setting where he can not take it to town. As far as his chaplain can tell he's physically capable of removing his armour - so his refusal to do so is grounded in his (very old) mind.
Captain Lorgos Tak
Lorgos Tak has been with the 10th Host for some 2500 years. He was promoted to captaincy by Obel Gar, shortly after the late apostle become Lord of the 10th Host (near the end of M40). He is highly competent and very zealous (even for a WB). But given his intense loyalty to Obel Gar he bears watching.
Captain Drosos
Created mid-M41 and inducted into the 3rd comapny, under Imran Dhral. Rose quickly to become a Veteran Sergeant under Obel Gar's reign. Promoted by Castor when his Captain became Warleader of the 10th. He has learned a lot of war from his former captain. After a few hundred more battles he might equal his teacher's prowess as a tactician and commander. Drosos has the misfortune of being named similarly to the Patron of the Calixis Sector, Saint Drusus. His chaplain has put a new spin on that one; Captain Drosos will help liberate Calixis from the memory of Saint Drusus, expunging all traces of this false saint from the minds of men.Such is his destiny, as ordained by the Gods.
Captain Sakar-baal
Captain Sakar-baal is as close to the archetypical captain you can get: He started out as scout, got assigned to the 2nd company, and then rose from the rank of a brother marine to captain of the 2nd company, by virtue of his martial prowess, adamant faith, and stoic leadership. Hideously scarred from plasma burns and other war-injuries, multiple cybernetic replacements. Most of his wargear is of superior quality, pillaged from a hundred dead enemies and forcibly maintained by Sakar-baal's techno-thralls. The good captain is also something of a ladies man; he prefers them young and unblemished (they rarely remain such for long, and are quickly dismissed from his presence).
Captain Himilco
Captain Himilco is one of the Anointed, an old warrior that's fought for the 10th for millennia. When the 1st Company was remade into a line company, Himilco relinquished his terminator suit to answer Castor's call for able commanders.
Himilco is a strong and able commander. He has a better grasp of tactics than most captains - and a sense of prudence that sometimes overrides his zeal. This has led to friction with the Chaplain of the 1st Company, who is not so old and tempered. Had this been any other Host it is likely that this would have been the end of Captain Himilco, but Castor the Apostle has decreed that it is his Will that Captain and Chaplain work together and that they will also be judged together.
The Faceless Brethren
At the end of the long war as faceless warriors, death comes for them as it does for all. When they die a death mask is taken of their face and it is paced in the temple of the known warrior, where the face, name, and deeds are there for all to see. The chaplain holds a ceremony where he starts by saying the brothers name. Going on to say: He came to us a faceless warrior, fought as battle brother to us a faceless and nameless hero, and he found the peace in death that life could not give him as a faceless man. In death and at peace, his weapons ever resting after a long war in service to greater powers. We see him named and know. No longer in darkness but ever in the light of the true gods. Faceless and unknown in life. In death his name and deeds ring out among the living and the dead. In this world and in the next.
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The Cult of the Faceless (aka. the Faceless Brethren) is composed of silent warriors that have lost everything but their will to fight. The majority of them came to Castor aboard the Canis Canum. A few more have come since them, swelling the ranks of the cult. The Word Bearers have also provided the cult with two more chaplains - one assigned by the Word of Castor, the other by his own Will.
Chaplain Adonibaal "the Red"
Word Bearer chaplain. Recently elevated. Sent by Castor to join the ranks of the Faceless, to make sure the Word is heard by all those who do not speak.
He's often called "the Red" on account of his obsessive use of blood baths to purify his flesh (and in a legion obsessed with the ritual use of blood it's quite the feat to be noticed) .
Chaplain Tazar
The oldest, and most respected Chaplain of the Cult of the Faceless. Originally a World Eater, Tazar has long since abandoned any allegiance to his old legion or its patron, Khorne. Now he exists only to be the shepherd of the Faceless - and to await the coming of their great emissary.