Black Knights Furibundus Dreadnought

Pictured Above: Venerable-Seneschal Baraquiel, Tormented Seraph of the Bleak Host, relic Furibundus pattern Dreadnought of the Black Knights' 4th Company.

Venerable-Seneschal Baraquiel  is the oldest of the Black Knights' Battle-Brothers, having served in the ancient Ist Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Baraquiel had risen to the rank of Seneschal before he "died" during the disastrous Canis-Balor campaign. Despite suffering horrendous wounds, his mortal remains still clung to life, and he was attended upon by the Legion's finest Apothecaries and Techmarines. Through their ministrations Baraquiel was resurrected, honoured for his service and became one of the Ist Legion's earliest Dreadnoughts.

Barquiel's mortal remains were interred within an ancient Furibundus pattern Dreadnought before the techniques for the creation of these cybernetic veterans had been perfected. The design of this proto-dreadnought hailed from the technologically advanced Terrawatt Clans of Terra and was capable of being piloted not only by mortal human pilots but was later adapted to accommodate the bulk of a hard-wired, near-dead transhuman Astartes. With its successful use during the early years of the Great Crusade, the Furibundus dreadnought was officially sanctioned by the Martian Mechanicum becoming one of the Legiones Astartes' earliest recognised dreadnought patterns.

During the Rangdan Xenocides, Baraquiel served under the command of his Chapter's founder, Uriah Marbas, who was then a lieutenant of the 27th Company. Following his commander's elevation to the esteemed rank of Chapter Master and given command of the newly re-constituted 15th Chapter, Baraquiel would continue to serve under Marbas' command for the remainder of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy.

Following the dissolution of the Legiones Astartes and the subsequent Second Founding, Baraquiel was one of the original Dreadnoughts from the old Ist Legion that became a part of the initial cadre of the newly incepted Black Knights Chapter. For over ten millennia, Venerable-Seneschal Baraquiel has continued to faithfully serve the Emperor. He has fought every kind of enemy known to Mankind across the width and breadth of the galaxy. However, the passage of time has slowly taken a toll on this venerable warrior and Baraquiel is only awakened at the dawn of each millennium or when his Chapter has need of his skills and wisdom. He represents a link to the ancient Ist Legion and his Chapter's past and is revered by the Black Knights as a hero almost as great as Uriah Marbas.