Today we dive into will made flesh, Chief Librarian of the Blood Angels: Mephiston, the Lord of Death.

Mephiston is the Chief Librarian of the Blood Angels and the one Blood Angel ever to beat the Black Rage. Before taking the title of Mephiston and the title of Lord of Death. Originally referred to as Calistarius, he was a Blood Angel Librarian of some means and distinctive energy of character.

While holding the rank of Lexicanium, Librarian Calistarius was current in the course of the boarding of the Space Hulk Sin of Damnation as an honourary member of the Blood Angel’s 1st Company.

Calistarius Falls, Mephiston Rises

While preventing as a part of the aid pressure for Hades Hive in the course of the Second War for Armageddon marketing campaign, Calistarius turned a sufferer of the Black Rage. After being inducted into the Death Company, he took half within the assault on an Ecclesiarchy constructing and was one among many trapped inside when the constructing collapsed throughout battle. For seven days, Calistarius lay trapped within the rubble, teetering on the sting of demise and insanity. Somehow, fairly than succumbing to the Red Thirst, he managed to beat it. By sheer strength of mind he was capable of suppress and maintain in test the emotions of rage and the will for blood, and in doing so he turned one thing extra. On the seventh evening he burst freed from his rocky tomb, reborn as Mephiston, the Lord of Death.

Mephiston’s resurrection didn’t go unwitnessed. By this time Hades lay as soon as extra within the palms of the Imperium, however Orks nonetheless roamed the ruins. As Mephiston heaved particles other than his tomb, the sound of tortured stone drew the eye of 1 band of Orks. Weaponless, and along with his armour shredded and mangled, Mephiston should have appeared simple prey, however nothing might have been farther from the reality. His gene-seed, dormant these many lengthy years, had woke up and wrought additional modifications, granting distinctive energy and vigor.

Moving with a pace the Orks couldn’t match, Mephiston unleashed a flurry of assaults, each blow pulverizing flesh and shattering bone. Five Orks died in as many seconds, and a dozen extra swiftly adopted. The greenskins by no means stood an opportunity, however they have been as cussed as Mephiston was decided. It was not till the reborn Angel punched clear by means of the most important Ork’s chest and tore out his coronary heart that the survivors fled. His ruined armour slick with the blood of his foes, Mephiston started the lengthy stroll to Imperial traces.

Shortly earlier than the Devastation of Baal, Mephiston suffered repeated goals of the Bloodthirster Ka’Bandha, hated foe of the Blood Angels, showing to destroy his chapter. Determined to stop this, Mephiston and his disciples Gaius Rhacelus and Lucius Antros journeyed to the Cruor Mountains on Baal to undertake a ritual to open up a portal to Khorne‘s realm and kill Ka’Bandha earlier than he may very well be a risk. The ritual nevertheless was in the end flawed, and a cave-in trapped the Librarians for the remainder of the battle.

Psychic Awakening

At some level following the Devastation of Baal, Mephiston was transformed right into a Primaris Space Marine. ^{He used his psychic skills to assist the Blood Angels in the course of the Angel’s Halo Campaign.}

Mephiston has turn into embroiled in an effort to foil the plans of Magnus the Red and the Daemon Prince Zadkiel. Foreseeing catastrophe ought to their plans come to cross, he managed to infiltrate the

Planet of the Sorcerers and foil the makes an attempt of Zadkiel to summon 9 Silver Towers to Terra.

Wargear

Mephiston is armed with the Force sword Vitarus and a Plasma pistol. He wears Artificer armor, which includes his ornate Psychic hood. Overcoming the Red Thirst enabled Mephiston to launch his full psychic potential and he is ready to name on the total vary of psychic powers identified to the Blood Angels Librarium.

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