Initiate of the Templar Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Hello Brother Space Wolves, I recently played in a doubles game with one of you number who fielded a dreadnought he dubbed "Bjorn the Fell handed". He told me a little about him after the game and I must say from the 1.5 sentences he shared with me (there might have been more, he doesn't hold his liquor like a real SW ^_^ ) Bjorn sounds like a bad ass, where can I read more about this Particular chunk of awesome? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/178205-bjorn-the-fell-handed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlk Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Try lexicanum.com, there's enough fluff about pretty much everything ^_^ Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/178205-bjorn-the-fell-handed/#findComment-2106793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forseti Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 In the distant past, before his internment within a dreadnought, Bjorn fought alongside the Primarch Leman Russ during the Horus Heresy and saw the Emperor before he was interred in the Golden Throne. He was the only member of his Primarch's personal Wolf Guard that was left behind when Russ departed for the Eye of Terror. After Russ's disappearance, he assumed the Primarch's leadership of the Space Wolves, becoming the Chapter's first Great Wolf. His heroic career at the head of the Space Wolves ended during a raid against a fortress, when he was so severely wounded and crippled that he was beyond the aid of the chapter's Apothecaries. Eventually his paralyzed body was transplanted within a Dreadnought. Over the following five hundred years he remained at the forefront of battle. Eventually however, the long years took their toll on the warrior, and he began spending longer and longer periods dormant in stasis sleep. Now he is only awakened once every thousand years, or when the chapter has the greatest need of his potent skills and wisdom. He represents the Chapter's link to the past, and is revered by the Space Wolves as a hero almost as much as Leman Russ. From 2nd Ed Codex (From Lexicanum Bjorn the Fell Handed, the oldest known dreadnought in the Imperium of man; having seen the glory of the Emperor before he was placed upon the golden thorne and having had the honour of serving in the personal retinue of Leman Russ himself. One hundred and ninety-seven years after the Emperor was incarcerated in the life-preserving Golden Throne, Leman Russ vanished from the Imperium. He was last seen by his legion during the Feast of the Emperor’s Ascension, where it is said that Russ climbed onto the oak table on which he duelled the Emperor at their first meeting to give a speech, but froze. After a long silence, where it appeared that he was overcome with a vision, Leman Russ fell to his knees, then turned and issued hushed instructions to his most faithful retainers. He simply announced to his loyal brothers that he would be leaving, but would return “for the final battle, for the Wolftime”. He then vanished, taking all but one of his retinue with him; the youngest member, Bjorn. For seven years after Leman Russ departed for parts unknown, many believing him to ahve traveled to the Eye of Terror, his place was set at the banquet table as his Legion eagerly awaited his return; but it never came. After those long seven years, the wolf lords of the space wolves elected Bjorn, the one remaining member of Russ’ retinue, as the new great wolf of the chapter. Bjorn decided if Russ was not going to return to his chapter, then his chapter would seek him out; thuis beginning the first of many great hunts. These hunts recovered many relics, including the Primarch’s suit of armour, but none have come close to locating their leader or those that had gone with him. Bjorn further gained renown on the planet Algol Nine, when he saved the planetary governor from sacrifice to the demon Thran’saba. This event is depicted upon the banner which proudly hangs atop his dreadnought armour that he was later interred inside after recieving grievious wounds from the traitor primarch Magnus the Red during one of the great hunts. After being fatally wounded Bjorn spends the next five hundred years at the forefront of Space Wolves battles as a dreadnought before drifting a deep slumber that eventually claimed all of the dreadnoughts of the space wolves. Bjorn the Venerable Of all of Bjorn’s deeds and service to the Imperium, none are more well known to any of the serveants of the imperium that have met or seen Bjorn than his defense of the Fang, the mights monestary on the space wolves homeworld of Fenris, against the traitor legion of the thousand sons. The attack itself was the revenge Magnus, for it was the space wolves who had destroyed his world of Prospero just before the Horus Heresy. The attack on the Fang was personally led by Magnus the Red, after he and his legion had carefully manouvered the bulk of the space wolves away from their home in pursuit of a distraction force that had been meant to leave Fenris almost completely defenseless. The Defense of the Fang Great Wolf Harek Ironhelm sought for many years to bring Magnus to battle. Several times Magnus appeared to him as a vision among the ruins of devastated cities and taunted the great wolf for his inability to stop him. After many fruitless efforts to catch up with the raiders Harek became obsessed, and took to searching worlds along the edge of the Eye of Terror itself. Eventually he found what he believed to be the thousand sons’ secret base on Gangava and launched a full scale attack against it. In this he was deceived; Gangava was held by a strong garrison of chaos force allied to Magnus but these were a distraction. Even as Harek attacked Gangava, the fleet of the thousand sons and their chaotic levies appeared in orbit over Fenris. The Fang was held by a skeleton force of space wolves and their thralls. For forty days and forty nights the thousand sons assaulted the citadel. Bjorn the Fell-handed, most ancient of the space wolves dreadnoughts, was woken from his long sleep and took charge of the defense. Under Bjorn’s direction the space wolves fell back to the innermost chambers of the Fang, collapsing the tunnels as they went. Simultaneously, a force of scouts, under the command of Haakon Blackwing, managed to escape from the citadel and take ship to Gangava, bringing word of the siege to Harek. Harek was overcome with fury and shame at his folly and immediately ordered the chapters fleet to Fenris, bringing the entire fury of the Space Wolves with him. As Harek’s fleet arrived in the system, Harek coordinated an attack with Bjorn and the surviving defenders of the Fang before launching and assault to carve out the heart of the thousand sons siege, an assault that the great wolf led personally. On the slopes of the Fang itself, Harek led the space wolves he had taken into the rear of the thousand sons forces while Bjorn led the defenders against the front of the thousand sons attack in a pincer that caught the traitor legion off gaurd. As Harek’s forces and Bjorns forces slowly linked up and began to route the thousand sons, Harek faced off against the evil primarch himself. For all Harek’s ability and prowess in combat, he was merely a marine fighting a primarch that had been forced to embrace the powers of chaos. Magnus was too strong for him and slew Harek, but not before taking a terrible wound himself from Bjorn as the ancient dreadnought surged from his own fighting to help Harek; coming to late to save the great wolf but personally dealing the blow that saw the leader of the thousand sons forced to leave the planet. Caught between two forces and left without a leader, the thousand sons were forced to retreat from Fenris; though some of them do linger on the world and several have been discovered over time. Bjorn the Legend Were it not for the actions taken by Bjorn during the initial siege, the world of Fenris would have been lost to the space wolves and the revenge of the thousand sons would have been complete. Bjorn’s stalwart denial of the space wolves worst enemy earned him eternal respect amongst all of the space marine chapters, even the respect of the dark angels, long time rivals of the space wolves. Bjorn continues to sleep bellow the Fang with the other venerable dreadnoughts, the space wolves will not wake him up for any trivial reason. However he has been known to awaken himself upon rare occasions, between battles he is a renowned storyteller, well versed in the sagas of Leman Russ and he enjoys testing the Wolf Priests. It is rumoured that he is left in his slumber upon his own request, his reason’s being known only by him though if anything it is because he does not wish to walk in an imperium that has fallen so far from the one he knew ten millenia ago. (From Librarium-Online) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/178205-bjorn-the-fell-handed/#findComment-2106795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlk Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 ...or that, I suppose. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/178205-bjorn-the-fell-handed/#findComment-2106796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forseti Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 ...or that, I suppose. Hehe I would've just linked the sites, but I figured with a lot of new recruits we'll receive in the coming months, it'd be easier for them to just read it here. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/178205-bjorn-the-fell-handed/#findComment-2106800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlk Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 they need to be able to take care of themselves ^_^ Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/178205-bjorn-the-fell-handed/#findComment-2106802 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Initiate of the Templar Posted September 10, 2009 Author Share Posted September 10, 2009 I had to think about that new recruits comment, then the BIG news about your codex got me all green with envy (Black Templar need a new one too). Sorry to say that you're probably right, people usually jump on the new codex bandwagon pretty quick. Congratulations though, you sure as hell needed the overhaul. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/178205-bjorn-the-fell-handed/#findComment-2106818 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forseti Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Not as badly as some XD Kind of sad really, our codex was so old, yet some of the stuff released in 4th ed became near worthless within a year..Anyway back on topic heh Asside from some of the primarchs, Bjorn is IMO the most awe-inspiring character in 40k. And for that reason I'll probably never use him in a game that's not apocalypse, don't want to go against his wishes and wake him for a little skirmish with some eldar. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/178205-bjorn-the-fell-handed/#findComment-2106829 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decoy Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 There's significant Bjorn knowledge in the 2nd edition codex, as well as a story that details his memory of the centuries and the millenia that he lived that absolutely brought me to tears. That's saying something. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/178205-bjorn-the-fell-handed/#findComment-2106846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenmichi Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Not as badly as some XD Kind of sad really, our codex was so old, yet some of the stuff released in 4th ed became near worthless within a year..Anyway back on topic heh Asside from some of the primarchs, Bjorn is IMO the most awe-inspiring character in 40k. And for that reason I'll probably never use him in a game that's not apocalypse, don't want to go against his wishes and wake him for a little skirmish with some eldar. That's pretty much how I feel about fielding Bjorn. I definitely want to, and I'm going to scratch build him. That way I can do his model, history, and Dreadnought some justice. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/178205-bjorn-the-fell-handed/#findComment-2106987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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