Archiron

The true depth of the First Legions’ namesake, the Iron Revenants is lost to many, the degree to which the Legion will endure even death itself bordering on almost heathen within nature. Araphel’s idea for the Legions’ name was based upon his own failures upon Khth’n, the idea that he had died many deaths while strung up, and yet he endured. It is also said to be a reminder of the constant shame that Araphel felt, for being a Primarch who could not take his home planet.

This is not a story told openly within the ranks of the First Legion, knowing that to speak of such affairs is to invoke the wrath of their Primarch, to go missing like many others within the Legion. Despite this, there are many that look up to the title of Revenant, who seek to embody it in all of its’ ideals.

One such person is Archiron.

History
His name wasn’t well known within the Brotherhood of Apothecaries, merely an average apothecary, who kept to his own, especially as the paranoia started to unfold its’ wings. This escalated further, until the Breaking of Keld’abe. Days before the drop, Archiron was moved to operate within the Fourth Chapter, and their Second Company at that, one of the first to drop into the warzone.

His tale is not one of heroics, comradery or courage. Archiron survived, at first during the drop allowing his paranoia to surface as rage and bloodlust. His anger at his treatment allowed him to rage against his cousins, fighting like a marine possessed. Archiron’s focus was solely on killing as many of the Shadow Warriors as possible, blaming them for the breakdown, blaming them for his Legions’ betrayal.

The Fourth Chapter suffered heavy casualties, their drop was much a distraction, keeping the Shadow Warriors busy until the First and Tenth chapters could break through the worst of the resistances. Archiron was found 9 hours after the first drop, surrounded by bodies of Shadow Warriors and Iron Revenants alike. An unknown Sergeant of the First Chapter found him, half manic and raving about the Ravens’.

Archiron was dragged through the rest of the Breaking, working with the unknown Sergeant, slowly regaining his mental faculties. As the fighting got worse once more, he didn’t rush head first back into the combat, realising that if he was to survive past the Breaking itself, he had to learn. Archiron kept the squad alive, through the thickest of the combat, through the worst of wounds.

By the end of the fighting, Archiron was a brother to the squad, a valuable member that had saved their lives just as he had theirs. The Apothecary knew this, and from here his influence grew. After the Breaking, the paranoia within the Legion started to grow worse, and Archiron stayed working with the First Legion. Deploying with this squad again, once more surviving through the worst of battles, the squad became known as the “Steel Spectres” with Archiron becoming known as “The Spectre of Keld’abe” after the Breaking.

The Apothecary leant into the name, and slowly marines’ learnt his name, other squads came into the fold, wishing to fight with the famous “Steel Spectres.” Archiron’s influence grew, and the rate with which his Spectres survived combat was astonishing, Archiron taking personal care of each and every one of them.

The “Steel Spectres” became like a cult within the First Legion. To the point that Archiron brought in an initiation rite, to join the Spectres a marine had to put themselves through biological death, a cult sacrifice so to say, for Archiron to save them, bring them back as a true Revenant of the First Legion as they swore their oaths to him.

Wargear

 * Cataphractii Terminator Armour
 * Power Fist
 * Combi-Bolter with Banestrike Ammunition
 * Steel Sceptre Narthecium - Archiron's paranoia proved to adversely affect his apothecary duties, and one such way was his refusal to aid those he was suspicious.

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