My counts as Mephiston

[HerrMajor]

For the past week I was writing the backstory for my counts as Mephiston independent character for my custom BA successor chapter Crimson Despair

 

Indalecio

 

Within the innermost hidden crypts of the black tower something ancient and horrible is buried, ready to be unearthed during the chapter's darkest hour. One must venture past the heavily fortified cells of the battle brothers enduring the black rage, the laboratory where a cure for the red thirst is researched, and below many subterranean floors and hidden passageways. Finally, a room with an eerie multi-colored glow comes into view. Here, Astartes stand vigil, ready to strike down anyone who arrives without clearance. The door, a charcoal monolith covered in countless sigils and scrolls scrawled on there out of mad desperation, opens only at the behest of the chapter master himself.

 

Time and time again, the Crimson Despair chapter has made battle with the demon and traitor, and emerged victorious. But this time was different. A greater demon of Nurgle almost in complete form was cutting a bloody swathe across the planet Solaris as his minions devastated city after city. Faced with almost a death sentence, the chapter continued to fight on and on but as time passed so did their brethren. With each brother they lost, a new undead traitor rose in his place. The situation was dire and there was no hope, as it always is. The exception being that this time the chapter faced a fate worse than failure, extinction. With shame for not staying to aid his brethren, Cyril flew back to the fortress on Cocytus. He crossed the cells, the laboratory, and the hidden rooms. Against the advice of his head librarian and chaplain, he made the decision to go alone. As he approached the door, the sentinels did their best to conceal their dread, knowing that the time has come for it to be unleashed once again.

 

“May the Emperor be with us all” they said in unison.

 

Grim faced, his bones and sinew moving with the weight of the whole chapter, he slowly opened the door. As he did so, he chanted the litany of unbinding. The room was faintly awash in green light from the ceremonial glow lantern that he held.

 

From the shadows a hand emerged and took him from the collar. He wrestled with his unknown assailant for almost an hour, they exchanged blows and grappled to no end. After some time his attacker vanished. The sound of dripping water from the ceiling filled the room.

 

Time lost meaning in that chilling moment. Knowing that he is only in the eye of the storm and that the enemy is planning to ambush him, he waited with heart stopping anticipation.

 

Blindsided, he was struck down with a cruel blow. He felt himself being lifted off the ground. As he rose he produced a glow globe so that both man and monster may see each other face to face.

 

“Brother” he sounded like a naive initiate, whether his choice of tone was planned to stir up sentiment or out of genuine respect, no one knows.

 

“Bro. . . ther” The monster mouthed the word clumsily, its meaning coming back to him all at once after forgetting it centuries ago. In the light, he bore no semblance to a monster, just a fellow astartes.

 

“There is much work to be done Indalecio, right now our chapter needs you more than ever before. We have no time for catching up on old memories. At this very moment our men are enduring the onslaught of a horrible demon army so they can buy enough time for you to arrive”

 

In his days before becoming inducted into the chapter Indalecio was a promising psycher. But, his power left him isolated from others, lacking the experience and wisdom to survive the trials. Were it not for the self less bravery and sacrifice of a fellow initiate by the name of Cyril, he would not have survived the trials and become part of the chapter.

 

“To war again. I will make them remember why they call me the Lord of Destruction. Everything I touch will turn to ash, my very presence will bring a curse to them. . .” A mad expression was forming on his face and the air around him was starting to grow intolerably hot.

 

A disapproving look from Cyril brought him back from his lapse of sanity. They both headed to the ship and he followed the chapter master just as he did long ago.

 

The Lord of Destruction has returned.

[glider0880]

Tres bon monseur!

 

Very nice indeed!

Next black library writer.

Will you be making a model or just using memphiston?

[Zahariel]

*Applause* Very nice very nice, I like it alot, can't wait to hear more.

[HerrMajor]

Tres bon monseur!

 

Very nice indeed!

Next black library writer.

Will you be making a model or just using mephiston?

 

Thanks for the good reviews everyone. I was too lazy/busy to fix up some of the minor punctuation errors cause I wanted to just concentrate on writing my story, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I got my idea for my counts as Mephiston from the anime Hellsing. In that anime a vampire hunting organization frees a vampire that they kept locked up in their dungeon so they can use him to fight alongside them. My goal for my BA successor chapter was to make it really dark with a rich backstory and all the while preserving the noble bearing of their parent chapter. I decided to name him Indalecio after this really nasty villain from a videogame who tries to destroy the entire universe and has an oddly scary angelic theme. My character isn't really evil, he just has a raging thirst for destruction that only the grim darkness of the 41st millennium can satisfy.

 

I really love Mephiston, but the idea I had in mind for Indalecio was for him to look like this only less elf like, bulkier, and some red stripes on his robe.

http://images.rutianas.com/gabriel.gif

 

At first I thought I could make him not use power armor and say that he has no need for it cause of his psyker powers but then I realized how heretical/just plain wrong that sounds.

I plan on just using the Mephiston model first. Then in the future making a conversion out of the Sanguinor model. I could give him robes and instead of holding a chalice I could have him hold a skull, a ball of energy, or something cool like that. I never used green stuff before so this would be a very intensive project.

 

 

*Applause* Very nice very nice, I like it alot, can't wait to hear more.

 

I plan on adding more of a definitive backstory to Indalecio. Now that I got this little short story written, its given me a bit more ideas. I'll keep you posted once I actually get it completed. Since I got such a positive response, it gives me more motivation to get the ball rolling on this thing.