Loyalists of the XIV: The tyrant's ruin and rival's fall

[Olis]

He looks like he's taken a bit of a clattering. Was that intentional or a miscast?

[Barabbas Sogalon]

@ infyrana: He'll be a champion. I think that's the best way to portray someone who's become an insane berserker after too much exposure to hazardous materials.

 

@ Olis: I used the knife on him, first time I tried making some battle damage.

[TDF]

This might be heresy, but perhaps there's such a thing as 'too much chainsword'.

[deathspectersgt7]

He Looks ACE!!!!

[Barabbas Sogalon]

"You dislike our methods? No weapon is too horrible when used in the service of Terra, no death too slow. You call us dishonourable for using them. You know nothing of honour, cur. And if it is our fate to be despised destroyers of worlds, then we shall not be outdone by mongrel Barbarusans and cannon fodder."

- Vitor Gorek to a Captain of the Emperor's Children, 001.M31

1st Centurion Gorek, "the Mountain" of 8th Battalion

Of all the men in the Last Judgement, Vitor Gorek was the one closest to the Lieutenant-Commander. Both had served in the Albian War, Gorek as a runner while Sogalon fought in the trenches, and later as newly named Dusk Raiders in the Panpacific. The two were inseparable. Gorek was never considered a reasonable or well liked warrior, adding to that a violent nature and complete lack of charisma, but his ability to sometimes hold his tongue earned him slightly more respect outside the Legion than his choleric brother in arms ever did. Towards the end of Unification he often shed blood with fellow Albians in the VIII. The Great Crusade soon began with Gorek as 1st Centurion of the Dusk Raiders 4th Cohort and he quickly gained a reputation for ruthless efficiency, a loyal executioner who refused to let anything stand in the way of his Battle-Captain’s will. He crushed the empire ruled by the Psyker-Lord of Petta in two days of slaughter that turned the snow red and only ended when he drowned the centuries old tyrant in the winter world’s icy waters; just like his Albian ancestors had gotten rid of mutant infants in the past. It was said that during the first eighty years of the Crusade Gorek never took a single step back, and with the way he weathered the worst of assaults it resulted in him becoming known as “the Mountain”. He held on to the position of 1st Centurion even after the XIV was reborn as Death Guard, now serving Sogalon as second-in-command of the 7th Great Company’s 8th Battalion, and like his blood brother he embraced the new way of chemical warfare. But the old Dusk Raider resented at the same time the changes to his Legion. Mortarion disgusted him and he felt betrayed by the higher ranking Terrans, like Garro, who bent their knee too easily and let the Albian ways die. Resentment grew to hatred over the years; the Battalion’s exile just one of many injustices done to the former members of 4th Cohort. “Why not stab us in the back and slit our throats while he is at it,” was how Gorek reacted to the news. In the last days of the Crusade he fought even harder than before, using the grief as another weapon to deliver red handed justice alongside his trusted spear and shield. Gorek survived the virus bombing of Istvaan III and slew many of his former brothers in the following battle, but like others in the Battalion his fate was never recorded.

Edited May 31, 2015 by Barabbas Sogalon

[Pearson73]

Nice work!

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Thanks!

 

It's June 1st up here and the Magos is far from finished, so I believe that means I failed the challenge.

[deathspectersgt7]

The Mountain looks Great . "Rubs hands together with an Evil Grin".

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Update on Archmagos Argentias.

[Argent aquila]

Diggin' the build, and the name!   

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Started assembly of the K

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Figured it was time I did some work on the Death Guard.

Dogukan of the Destroyers before washes.

[Argent aquila]

Heck yes! keep doin' your Death Guard!

[deathspectersgt7]

Looks promising.

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Purge-Sergeant Dogukan

Semmek Dogukan was once the name of a decorated Barbarusan Lieutenant in the 2nd Great Company, known for his skill at clearing trenches. Years later the same name appeared in the records of the Last Judgement, now as a Purge-Sergeant among the Destroyers; the reason for the transfer was never explained. The eagerness he showed in his new duty led to him being named “Gurthor’s Mad Dog” long before the poison began affecting his sanity. Dogukan earned his Scythes during the xenocide of 73-2 where he was the only Destroyer to reach enemy lines, charging across a wasteland ravaged by phosphex before tearing into the greenskins with a chainsword taken from a fallen World Eater. But life as a Destroyer took its toll on him. He became increasingly violent, suffered from chronic headaches that left him without the ability to focus, and towards the end of the Great Crusade he started experiencing blackouts filled with terrible bloodlust. By 002.M31 he was coughing blood while periods of lucidity were rare. At Istvaan III, Dogukan stayed with the Destroyers aboard the Wrath of Albia and followed Gurthor when he turned on Mortarion, the deranged Centurion sending him into the depths of the flagship to butcher anyone still loyal to the Primarch.

[lokkorex]

Oh damn, that is one characterful model, with an ace of a background!

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Thanks!

Made some progress on the K

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Here is yesterday's attempt at a Dusk Raiders shoulder pad. I think it turned out ok.

[Luna707]

Army shot!!

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Just came to say I really like the Mountain's fluff :) I like the theme of the hardcore Albians who seem to be Albian first, XIV second and Death Guard third (if that makes sense - seeing the XIV and Death Guard as two separate entities in terms of pre- and post-Mortarion...). It's cool that they resent Garro for - in their eyes - renouncing his integrity to embrace Mortarion's changes. You've given the XIV a great deal more character than most of the official fluff does!

[Barabbas Sogalon]

@ Luna707: I'll see what I can do.

 

@ Brother-Captain Arkhan: Thanks! That's the essence of the Terrans in 8th Battalion. The Dusk Raiders have always had a very strong identity (to me they have the strongest of all the pre-Primarch legions) and my lads aren't going to throw it all away just because Daddy shows up after eighty years and says so.

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Remember Old Tamhais? Here you have him in his pre Dreadnought form.

Spear-Lieutenant Rukon Tamhais of the Dusk Raiders 4th Cohort

The owner of the shoulder pad I made.

[Barabbas Sogalon]

Army shots as requested.

Two years of my life in pictures

The victims of procrastination

[Mechanist]

Just read through the whole thread. Brilliant work, the fluff snippets just take the log to the next level consider me signed up.

[Argent aquila]

GLORIOUS.