Bring forth your champion

[helterskelter]

Every legion has it's champions, fighters of renown known to near all. So bring them forth new or existing, to the duelling arena, to the fighting pits, 18 legions, that should be at least 18 champions!

Show me what you got!!

 

[bluntblade]

Arguably we have 19, with Khârn in the Shepherds' corner.

 

But moving on. For the First Legion, First Sentinel Susanoo Empyon, bearer of Orochi, slayer of a dozen champions of the Qarith alone, will take the field.

[MikhalLeNoir]

Arngrim Valten is dead. He was killed by Alexos Travier

[Demus Ragnok]

Arngrim Valten is dead. He was killed by Alexos Travier

That depends entirely on where this happens in the time line.

[Chief Captain Redd]

Well the Iron Bears already have their's pretty well noted but, just for completion.

 

Lord Chief R.Damon Redd, The Iron King, Dread Axe of the VIth.

[MikhalLeNoir]

Okay. Then I bring forth the dead

 

 

Arngrim Valten the Legend, Death Wanderer – Blademaster of the Wardens of Light

 

 

Arngrim Valten the Legend. Arngrim the Death Wanderer. The Blademaster of the Wardens of Light has many names. He is deified. The Astartes tell tales of him. Few know the truth. Considered a god on the battlefield, he stands for the dark side of the Wardens. Cause if there is light, there are shadows as well. Born on terra, he was amoung the first of the apostles to join Great Crusade. Even before he was indoctrinated into their ranks, he already fought as child soldier against the emperors armies and survived. He loves to battle and his battleskill is unmatched in the ranks of the Wardens and well known im the other legions. He uses every cheap trick to ensure, that he emerges victorious. On the battlefield, Arngrim stands alone, because he won't fit the image of a Warden of Light. The Terran born fear him and the Caerbannog born despise him, seeing only a tool of war.

Accepting his role he fights valiantly at the center of every battle as he knows that war is not won by words. Gwalchavad needs him to do the bloody, dirty work. When he swings his axe Agony, people fall and those who don’t fall by the axe are crushed by his powerfist or simply by stomping on the enemies groin.

 

I saw what he did on Udernus, at a distance. After a sight that terrible, I have no desire to get within reach of him.”

Odyssalas, Champion of the XIX. Legion

 

I don’t like him, but I am glad he is on our side

 

Mikhal, the Scorpion - First Warden of Light

 

 

 

And people say Hennasohn was overpowered…

 

Hesh Kadesh [servant of Sorrosworn Morro]

[bluntblade]

I might modify that old quote and give it to Odyssalas.

[MikhalLeNoir]

Of course. Just changing the name or altering the whole quote?

[bluntblade]

I'm going to play with it a little

[Demus Ragnok]

Naihab Paragon of the Tenth Legion, Champion of the Triakonta

 

Naihab was possessed of an incredible force of will and martial skill from his induction into the legion. The first Obsailan legionary to be elevated to the ranks of the Triakonta he rapidly ascended the ranks of that vaunted group being named Champion within a decade. Armed with a two handed greatsword and Corinthian Pattern terminator armor he was the bane of many a xeno champion during the Great Crusade. His skill would see its greatest test on the Day of Revelation when he and his fellow Triakonta faced down the elite of the Warriors of Peace.

[bluntblade]

*martial skill

[Skalpynock]

I have a bunch of ideas for champions of the Void Eagles:

-Vochi, a Wing of Woe who fights with two blades as a whirlwind

-Afonso d'Ocrana, a flamboyant Liberator whose duels are as much spectacle as combat

-Xheoros, bodyguard to the admiral of the Ash Walkers, who favors a slow but high powered style

-Ramak Blackhand, bloodsman of Amaros Alvator, who serves as his personal executioner

 

Fluff will be created on demand, as I don't want to develop all of these entirely if we need only one major duellist by Legion.

[bluntblade]

Eh, develop them as you see fit I'd say. But I'd pick one to stand above the rest.

 

Re the Steel Legion, I wonder if it's really fitting for them to have a champion (see the Death Guard and Iron Warriors).

[Nomus Sardauk]

The Steel Legion do have a champion of sorts, though that's probably not the terminology they'd use, in the form of the Paragon Special Character. However, if Special Characters are out we could have a Champion from the Assault Companies, a marine who's survived so many bloody, meatgrinder melees and one-on-one duels through both luck and talent that he's absorbed the memories of countless fellow assault marines, meaning his blades move & strike with the distilled skill of hundreds of slain brothers.

[Raktra]

Zaikotsu

 

Zaikotsu raised himself up as a mortal amongst the more spiritualist and esoteric cultures fostered on Uran, before the nightmare “salvation” of the Devil’s Due. A worthy bladesman, he initially rebelled against the forced unity offered by the White Devil’s new Imperium, as did most of the families allied to his. This led to both his greatest achievement and most humiliating loss - the murder of three of Raktra’s human enforcers by his own hand, and the realisation that, despite his achievement, he was the sole survivor of a once proud clan-house. Despondent, and too afraid to enact ritual suicide, he pledged his soul to the Devil, and entered the ranks of the Berserkers of Uran.

 

As an older aspirant, Zaikotsu’s trials of augmentation were harder than most, and his body did not survive the transformation quite whole - the loss of his vocal cords and withering of his right hand almost leaving him to rot in the eyes of the Legion. He was saved, albeit barely, by his terrifying bladework in the training cages. His lack of a second hand hindered him not, and he wielded an unusual chain-link whip blade with a calligrapher’s deftness, weaving it as an iron cyclone about him. Raktra judged him as worth keeping, to the mild surprise of the other Legions, but those arrogant lesser minds could not see the true value of Zaikotsu, for if a man so stricken by his own biology could survive the training grounds of Uran, then he was truly worthy of ascension to a Berserker of Uran.

[Skalpynock]

Born on the world of Galis and inducted in the IV Legion during the closing days of the Great Crusade, Xheoros chose assignment to the Assault cadres upon his promotion to full Legionary. His exemplary service, and promotion to Sergeant during the compliance of 254-22 saw him moved to the 8th Fleet during an encounter between the 4th and 8th fleets. There he would prove his skill with the blade countless times, but alway refuse induction to the Corsairs, citing his personal preference for open warfare to raiding.

It would be on the world of Ulyapol that his legend took flight. When Mili Ayelat, then Marshal of Artilleries, had his Spartan struck down by improvised fusion charges, he was the one to extract him from the wreckage, forming a bond that would last for centuries. After the battle, Xheoros was promoted to Life-Ward of the Marshall, a status he would keep as Ayelat rised to the rank of Admiral. Everywhere the Ash Walker treads, Xheoros follows, eviscerator ready to protect his commander.