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[color=darkgray][sup][i]"I am [s]Aeternus Rex, Thunder Primarch of the God-Slayers[/s] and the Emperor’s Champion. I have walked Terra for a century and brought to heel the warlords of the Dark Age. I have brought doom to the greatest witches that have ever lived and slain great creatures born from the wyrd "[/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER]

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[b][color=darkgray]D E S C R I P T I O N[/color][/b]
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Arthur, Knight-Errant of the Imperium and Emperor’s Champion, strides the most horrific battlefields known to man clad in black auramite. Reminiscent of the fabled God-Slayer, his armor is a reminder of ancient Terran knights that once fought and killed in the name of kings. A greathelm topped with an usurper’s crown and flanked by raptor’s wings covers his facial features, while an ash-stained pelt of an unknown Terran creature unfurls from his back. His warplate is a thing of dark majesty, ornate with hexagrammic wards, Sigilite symbols, and leering skulls. A shaven skull of a forgotten, draconic creature haunts his left pauldron, while his right beholds the Eye of Malcador. A superior, sophisticated adamantine augment replaces the flesh of his left gauntlet, stained in obsidian hues to compliment the rest of his armor. A legendary greatsword once used by the Thunderbearer is forever seen chained to his right gauntlet, reforged and artificed to celebrate the Hero of Unity’s life.

[b][color=gold]D E T A I L S[/color][/b]
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[b]Allegiance:[/b] Imperium

[b]Status:[/b] Operating in the fringes of space as an Agent of the Emperor

[b]Location:[/b] Terra [/color][/center]
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[b][color=gold]C O N C E P T[/color][/b]
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[b]History & Background:[/b]
Once there was a man born to the damned and dying of wartorn Terra. His early life is all but forgotten for he was reborn for the first time in the halls of the Emperor’s Himalazian Enclave. The first of the Thunder Warriors. The first of the Thunder Primarchs. The first of the First Legio Cataegis - the God-Slayers. He was a man that upheld the duties of the Master of the Line alongside His early companion. Even as the geneflaws of the Cataegis forced his hand, he never gave forswore the allegiance that turned him into the man he had become. 

In the early days of the Unification Wars, after the Himalazian tribes had been subjugated, he slew the Great King of Akkad and his Udug Hul. The God-Slayer was granted the blade - Apocrypha - from the hands of the Emperor, taken and reborn by His hands from the enemy’s warlord. It was in Akkad that the First Legio Cataegis became the God-Slayers and their fate was written. He continued to war across Terra with the Raptor above him and his sibling Thunder Primarchs alongside him.

He saw the kneeling of the Achaemenids following the fall of Gyptus. He persecuted the exalted priesthood of Northern Indoi into their compliance. He struck Urartu with an ultra-violent assault, forcing their utter annihilation. Jermani collapsed beneath the weight of his boots and his sibling Cataegis. The Ethnarchy was cleansed of their warlords and put to the God-Slayer’s sword. The great, technocratic city of Sanctii saw it’s downfall from his strategic might. He witnessed the downfall of Ursh with the final vestiges of the Legio Cataegis. 

And he died on Mount Ararat after slaying the Mountain King that dared to rebel against the Emperor of Mankind. His name was forever etched into the annals of history as the one of the greatest Thunder Warriors to ever live. Aeternus Rex. First Thunder Primarch of the First Legio Cataegis. God-Slayer. The Emperor’s Blade. The Emperor’s Champion. The Thunderbearer. His achievements were never forgotten, forever etched into the ruins of Mount Ararat’s cleansed corpse. 

That is what the histories say. None survived the massacre on Mount Ararat. All of the Cataegis perished. All of the Thunder Primarchs had been slain by the enemy. The Custodes and the Astartes present had witnessed their doom even as they themselves drowned in the enemy’s blood. It was a slaughter beyond comprehension, such that few speak of the event now except to celebrate the Cataegis.

The histories did not speak of the duel between Aeternus Rex and the Black Hawk nor did it tell of the fight between the Emperor’s Blade and Spear. History would never tell the tale of a dying Thunder Primarch that was granted mercy by the Captain-General. It would never tell of the enormous effort spent spiriting away the Hero of Unity to the darkest cells of the Himalazians. None would ever know the Sisyphean task it took to bring him back to life through the power of augmentations, genealchemy, and untold sorceries. 

The legend that was known as Aeternus Rex perished at Unity’s conclusion and the warrior known as Arthur rose. This Thesean man was neither the Thunder Primarch of the Unification Wars nor was he one of the vaunted Custodians. He had become a being that far exceeded what it was to be Cataegis and the power that resided with it. Clad in black auramite and forged in adamantium augments, he is the ghost of a forgotten warrior-king bound in service to the Emperor of Mankind.

And in his second rebirth, Arthur would have it no other way.

[b]Goals & Objectives:[/b]
Arthur is an Agent of the Imperium and a Chosen of Malcador. As a Knight-Errant, he is personally tasked by the Sigilite in delicate matters that require his direct intervention. It is through Arthur that he conducts the Sigilite’s will no matter what task is set before him. 

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