Reine Lanicca

Born on Paradis Trovato, in the Capitol Dome Hive Hauptperson, Medicae Adept Reine Lanicca first met the Primarch Gustave Dunant during his crusade to end the danger of the Ravager Plague. Joining his team alongside her sister, the now High Lord, Lady Elisa Lanicca; as a lowly Medicae Einleiten, she would quickly show her promising abilities in the field of medicine, and was soon working alongside Gustave himself.

Overtime, she would prove invaluable to the Primarch of the Twentieth Legion, and the two would grow immensely close. On numerous occasions, she was offered a position on his command staff. It is an honour she refused each, and everytime. She was steadfast in her belief that her place was in Gustave’s lab, not on the battlefield, or the war room.

Ultimately, as is the tragic fate of many, Reine Lanicca would die before her time, murdered by the First Chirurg Primus of the Alabaster Order, Régis Gildemeister himself. Having long ago begun to suspect the shadowy motives of the First Chirurg Primus, Reine would unfortunately get too close to the truth, resulting in her death. It is perhaps thanks to her unique closeness to the Primarch of the Alabaster Order, that her death was quick, and rather painless, as Gildemeister lacked the time to perform on her any of the experiments it was later learned he was committing in his lab. Knowing that her absence would be noted, he chose instead to break her neck, before releasing one of her more violent test subjects from its containment cell in an effort to cover his tracks.

Reine Lanicca’s death would reverberate throughout the Legion. She was well liked among the sons of the Good Doctor, and many even treated her as a motherly figure. However, on none did her death have as great an effect on than Gustave himself, who would grow increasingly distant, and erratic in his behavior, adopting an almost manic focus on his research. She would receive full honours at her funeral, and her remains would be returned to Paradis Trovato, where they would be interred in a special chamber within the Halls of the Remembered. It is said that even to this day, on that dead world overrun with Gustave’s Cure, Reine’s memorial vault remains untainted. [[Category:R]]