Iron Warriors (Characters)

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Characters among the Iron Warriors novel series and background.

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Perturabo

One of the twenty Primarchs created by the Emperor of Mankind for the Great Crusade, Perturabo and his brothers were scattered to the stars by the forces of Chaos. Landing on Olympia, Perturabo found by the guards of Dammekos, the Tyrant of Olympia, while crawling in the mountains. Recognizing he was no ordinary child, Dammekos took Perturabo in and raised as his own son. While Dammekos gave the boy warmth and affection, Perturabo never returned it. When the Emperor came to Olympia, Perturabo submitted to him and overthrew Dammekos. The fallen Tyrant would try to mount a resistance, but it would fail. Perturabo was given command of the IV Legion of the Adeputs Astartes, the Iron Warriors.

During the Great Crusade, the Iron Warriors became masters of siege warfare, developing a rivalry with Rogal Dorn, Primarch of the Imperial Fists, with a similar mastery of sieges. The Iron Warriors were eventually relegated to single squads being expected to keep control of planets with millions of inhabitants. Perturabo resented this, and when Olympia rebelled, the Iron Warriors launched a savage reprisal. Soon called to Isstvan V to deal with the beginning of the Horus Heresy, the Iron Warriors defected to the Chaos Space Marines, and later reveled in destroying the ramparts of the Imperial Palace. After the Horus Heresy, the Iron Warriors defeated the Imperial Fists in the Iron Cage incident, and Perturabo ascended to Daemon Prince, ruling over the Daemon World of Medrengard in the Eye of Terror.

Honsou

I have no such impressive titles, human. I am called Honsou. Half-breed, mongrel, filth, scum. I will cross blades with you.

The leader of the Warsmith's third company. Has not been named Captain despite holding the post for two centuries, due to his status of having some Imperial Fists gene-seed in with his Iron Warriors gene-seed.

  • Artificial Limbs: Losses his right arm in the siege.
  • Bald Of Evil.
  • Berserk Button: Less from the Chew Toy status those around him put him into, and more on confronting those responsible for his heritage. When he actually meets the Imperial Fists, cue Unstoppable Rage and Demonic Possession.
  • Bond One Liner: Inadvertently:
    Vauban: Damn you... he whispered.
    Honsou: That happened a long time, human. hissed Honsou, but Vauban was already dead.
  • Chainsaw Good: Wields a chainsword.
  • Dark Chick: Among the Warsmith's other lieutenants.
  • Demonic Possession: Gets possessed by a minor Daemon during the battle for Hydra Cordatus. The Warsmith is impressed. He however realises it was dumb luck that got the thing out of him, and thus spared his life.
  • Dragon Ascendant.
  • Empathic Weapon: Demon-bound chainsword, probably the same with his metallic arm.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: His metallic arm can heal.
  • Hair Trigger Temper: At the start of Heraclitus effect, for several reasons.
  • Half Breed: And it's why the other captains hate him.
  • Hidden Depths.
  • Jerkass Façade: To a lot of people. Only through the narrator and maybe Forrix we realise he's more than he lets on.
  • Nostalgia Filter: Goes through this after he loses Forrix, Kroeger and the Warsmith and remembers their own Nostalgia Filter.
  • Oblivious To Brotherly Acceptance: Forrix has to point out this to him, but he's daft enough not to get the hint even when it's spelled out for him. Forrix leaves rightfully annoyed.
  • Red Right Hand: After losing an arm to Vauban, The Warsmith, impressed with a past performance of his, gives him a special metalic hand that can stop missiles in mid-friggin-air or axes, and it can heal, too.
  • Second Hand Storytelling: Explains rather clumsily both the events between The Enemy of my Enemy and The Heraclitus Effect, as well as the events from Storm of Iron.
  • Self Deprecation: Because all of the centuries, if not millenia of being put down, he doesn't have much self esteem. He compensates by being an ass to anyone close to being an enemy. Even his introductory line is sad, but ends in a Badass manner:
    I have no such impressive titles, human. I am called Honsou. Half-breed, mongrel, filth, scum. I will cross blades with you.
  • Self Exile: After some sour events on Medrengard, he realises staying there to build fortresses just to be attacked by his brother who have something to prove will end in wasted life and a work lost.
  • The Unchosen One: From all the captains, he's the only one to survive and get the title of Warsmith. Possibly an inversion of the trope, since although he's unlikely and unwilling to become this, The Warsmith groomed him for it for his idealism.
  • Unfazed Everyman: Even if he fights for the future where Cosmic Horrors will help humanity evolve, even if he'll accept some help from demons and live in a Reality Warping and Warped world, he's more of a Combat Pragmatist and will leave those things up to those who actually know how to deal with such things. He's just content with smashing fortresses, Ultramarines and anything else in his way through his training.
  • Villain Protagonist.
  • Visionary Villain: Genuinely believes in the dream of Horus of uniting humanity under the power of Chaos to protect it from Xenos threats.
  • Well Done Son Guy: Towards the end of Storm of Iron, he receives the Warsmith's approval, to his immense wonder and happiness, as well as the title of Warsmith itself.
  • You Are In Command Now: I do not name you Captain. I name you Warsmith."

The Warsmith

An ancient Warsmith of an Iron Warriors Grand Company, leading the siege on Hydra Cordatus. He is planning to capture the gene-seed within to assure his status as a Daemon Prince.

Kroeger

The Captain of the Second Company of the Warsmith's Grand Company. Slowly falling into the grips of Khorne. Later, he is replaced by The Avatar of Khorne.

  • The Berserker: And he doesn't even realize it.
  • The Brute.
  • Chainsaw Good.
  • Dead Person Impersonation: At the middle of the novel, he gets killed off by Larana and the demon in his armour. For the rest of the story, it goes on pretending to be Kroeger, and in the final battle finishes off its "duty" and leaves to other planes to fight until the end of time.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: He gets unceremoniously and offscreen killed off by Larana and the demon in his armor around the half of the story.
  • Eye Scream.
  • Foil: To The Warsmith. While the Warsmith goes on to become a demon prince and enjoy tremendous power in the Warp, Kroeger slowly descends into uncontrollable bloodlust and is unceremoniously killed and stuffed in his own tent while his bound demon armor wreaks havok in his name.
  • General Failure: Honsou claims this from the beginning about him.
  • Hair Trigger Temper: And gets worse and worse.
  • Names To Run Away From Really Fast: Kroeger is a K Name sounding a lot like Krieg[er] and has that Germanazi sound to it.
  • A Nazi By Any Other Name: Let's see: he has a German-ish name, he hates Half Breeds, he's feared from inside his group as a General Failure, he lives in a regime that pits its finest men against each other to enhance their abilities...
  • Nice Job Fixing It Villain: He breaks from guarding the Daemon Engines to get his slaughter on.
    • Almost does it before:
    The Warsmith: You would cost me my victory, Kroeger? [...] The servant of the machine with only one hand. He is important to me, Kroeger. And you almost killed him.
  • Not Himself: For the last half of the novel, he becomes taciturn and a lot more restrained. Some of his brothers believe he went insane, Honsou tries to talk to him but it almost kills him, and most of the Warsmith's champions are more interested in Xanatos Pileups than crazy Kroeger, but we know The Reveal that Kroeger is dead.
  • Paper Thin Disguise with Newspaper Thin Disguise (in the form of his helmet) to boot. The Avatar of Khorne acts Not Himself, doesn't talk to anyone, is close to biting off one of his impersonator's equals and generally acts Out Of Character long days. The only reason nobody caught on was because Kroeger was a Bad Boss with a Hair Trigger Temper, and presumably The Warsmith knew and didn't say anything because he knew the guy was still useful in the coming battle and his Captains wouldn't have seen it with good eyes.
  • Riddle For The Ages: In-universe example on what the hell happened to him. Twice. The audience knows The Reveal that he was killed and replaced by the demon in his armor, but his brothers only see "him" go through a portal into other worlds - well, hell knows where is what they see. To add insult to injury, they find a Space Marine corpse in his tent, died for some time, which seemed to be him but dead longer than the Living Armor has been running around with his identity. The narrator subverts this in claiming Honsou is wrong about this trope applying to him.
  • Sanity Slippage: Of which most of his brothers are aware of, but few dare talking to him about it.
  • Time Abyss: Ironically, Forrix still calls him a newblood. Even he lampshades how ironic it it.
  • Unwitting Pawn: To the demon in the armor. While his instincts tell him there's something wrong with keeping Larana, he's too thick to just kill her on the spot, and that comes back to bit him hard.
  • You Have Failed Me: Vents his frustrations on the Red Shirted human minions. This becomes Fridge Logic when you realise he's a Khorne follower and needs to spill blood often.
  • You No Longer Entertain Me.

Forrix

The First Captain of the Warsmith's Grand Company. Once eagerly believed in Horus's dream of uniting the galaxy under Chaos, but has become jaded over ten thousand years.

Jharek Kelmaur

The Sorcerer of the Warsmith's Grand Company.

Etassay

Guardsman Hawke

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