Iron Warriors (Characters)

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Characters among the Iron Warriors novel series and background.

Perturabo

One of the twenty Primarchs created by the Emperor of Mankind for the Great Crusade, Perturabo and his brothers were scattered to the stars by the forces of Chaos. Landing on Olympia, Perturabo found by the guards of Dammekos, the Tyrant of Olympia, while crawling in the mountains. Recognizing he was no ordinary child, Dammekos took Perturabo in and raised as his own son. While Dammekos gave the boy warmth and affection, Perturabo never returned it. When the Emperor came to Olympia, Perturabo submitted to him and overthrew Dammekos. The fallen Tyrant would try to mount a resistance, but it would fail. Perturabo was given command of the IV Legion of the Adeputs Astartes, the Iron Warriors.

During the Great Crusade, the Iron Warriors became masters of siege warfare, developing a rivalry with Rogal Dorn, Primarch of the Imperial Fists, with a similar mastery of sieges. The Iron Warriors were eventually relegated to single squads being expected to keep control of planets with millions of inhabitants. Perturabo resented this, and when Olympia rebelled, the Iron Warriors launched a savage reprisal. Soon called to Isstvan V to deal with the beginning of the HorusHeresy, the Iron Warriors defected to the Chaos Space Marines, and later reveled in destroying the ramparts of the Imperial Palace. After the Horus Heresy, the Iron Warriors defeated the Imperial Fists in the Iron Cage incident, and Perturabo ascended to Daemon Prince, ruling over the Daemon World of Medrengard in the Eye of Terror.

• Ascended To A Higher Plane Of Existence.
• Bald Of Evil.
• Bigger Bad.
• Drop The Hammer: Forgebreaker, a hammer forged by Fulgrim for Ferrus Manus, later given to Perturabo by Horus.
• Evil Overlord: As Daemon Prince of Medrengard.
• Hates Everyone Equally: In the end.
• Orcus On His Throne: Hasn't led an attack on the Imperium since ascending to Daemonhood.
• The Resenter: Originally toward Rogal Dorn, but later damn near everyone.
• Serious Business: Damn near everything.
• The Spock: Noted as having a much higher emphasis on logic in all things, a trait shared by the rest of the Iron Warriors.
• The Strategist.
• Well Done Son Guy: Got it from Dammekos but didn't want it, later wanted it from the Emperor and never got it.

Honsou

The leader of the Warsmith's third company. Has not been named Captain despite holding the post for two centuries, due to his status of having some Imperial Fists gene-seed in with his Iron Warriors gene-seed.

• Artificial Limbs: Losses his right arm in the siege.
• Bald Of Evil.
• Berserk Button: Less from the Chew Toy status those around him put him into, and more on confronting those responsible for his heritage. When he actually meets the Imperial Fists, cue Unstoppable Rage and Demonic Possession.
• Chainsaw Good: Wields a chainsword.
• Dark Chick: Among the Warsmith's other lieutenants.
• Demonic Possession: Gets possessed by a minor Daemon during the battle for Hydra Cordatus. The Warsmith is impressed. He however realises it was dumb luck that got the thing out of him, and thus spared his life.
• [[Dragon Ascendant|Dragon Ascendant.
• Half Breed: And it's why the other captains hate him.
• Oblivious To Brotherly Acceptance: Forrix has to point out this to him, but he's daft enough not to get the hint even when it's spelled out for him. Forrix leaves rightfully annoyed.
• Villain Protagonist.
• Visionary Villain: Genuinely believes in the dream of Horus of uniting humanity under the power of Chaos to protect it from Xenos threats.
• You Are In Command Now: I do not name you Captain. I name you Warsmith."

The Warsmith

An ancient Warsmith of an Iron Warriors Grand Company, leading the siege on Hydra Cordatus. He is planning to capture the gene-seed within to assure his status as a Daemon Prince.

• An Axe To Grind].
• Ascended To A Higher Plane Of Existence: Goes onto become a Daemon Prince.
• Big Bad.
• Bling Of War: Wears Terminator Armour.
• Brown Note: Just looking at him causes nausea in his own underlings. Template:Spoiler: It's because of his transformations.
• I'm A Humanitarian: Begins feeding on Progenoids after breaking into the Citadel.
• Karma Houdini.
• Large And In Charge
• Time Abyss: Originally came from Olympia, and took part in the Great Crusade. He even helped design the Citadel on Hydra Cordatus.

Forrix

The First Captain of the Warsmith's Grand Company. Once eagerly believed in Horus's dream of uniting the galaxy under Chaos, but has become jaded over ten thousand years.

• Bifurcated Weapon: A combi-weapon.
• The Cynic.
• The Dragon: He's the Warsmith's chief lieutenant.
• Karmic Death.
• Power Fist.
• Time Abyss.
• You Can't Go Home Again.

Kroeger

The Captain of the Second Company of the Warsmith's Grand Company. Slowly falling into the grips of Khorne.

• The Berserker: And he doesn't even realize it.
• The Brute.
• Chainsaw Good.
• Eye Scream.
• General Failure: Honsou claims this from the beginning about him.
• Names To Run Away From Really Fast: Kroeger is a K Name sounding a lot like Krieg[er] and has that Germanazi sound to it.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: Let's see: he has a German-ish name, he hates Half Breeds, he's feared from inside his group as a General Failure, he lives in a regime that pits its finest men against each other to enhance their abilities...
• Nice Job Fixing It Villain: He breaks from guarding the Daemon Engines to get his slaughter on.
  • Almost does it before:

  The Warsmith: You would cost me my victory, Kroeger? [...] The servant of the machine with only one hand. He is important to me, Kroeger. And you almost killed him.

• Sanity Slippage: Of which most of his brothers are aware of, but few dare talking to him about it.
• Time Abyss: Ironically, Forrix still calls him a newblood. Even he lampshades how ironic it it.
• You Have Failed Me: Vents his frustrations on the Red Shirted human minions. This becomes Fridge Logic when you realise he's a Kohrne follower and needs to spill blood often.

Jharek Kelmaur

The Sorcerer of the Warsmith's Grand Company.

• And I Must Scream.
• Bald Of Evil.
• Evil Genius.
• Evil Sorcerer.
• Eye Scream: His eyes have been permanently shown shut.
• Fate Worse Than Death.

Etassay

• Dark Chick.
• Dumbass Has A Point: Ends up seeing at one point a tactical opening better than siege masters around him. The irony? He only thinks of it and suggests it for the pleasure the thought of such death gives him and caring generally little for the strategical advantage of such a maneuver.
• Go Out With A Smile: And that's one of the best ways a Chaos Marine (especially a hedonist like himself) can get in death.

  Etassay: Incredible!

• The Hedonist.
• Honor Before Reason: Is implied it's the reason he lost the fight and his life. Still, probably Worth It.
• Punny Name: Would be appropriate to believe it comes from "ecstasy".
• Worthy Opponent: Invokes this trope, waiting for the right warriors to fight.

Guardsman Hawke

• Air Vent Escape.
• Allergic To Routine: Bordering on Tempting Fate.
• Dedication: "To all the Guardsmen Hawkes out there and the idea of getting a second chance. Don't waste it.
• Doomed Protagonist: Well, at least twice subverted.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Possibly the point of his character.
• Failed A Spot Check: Mauve Shirt as he is, he does it repeatedly, though in his defense he acts pretty level-headed for a "mortal" and even manages to take out two Space Marines and inadvertently trick the survivor that he was dead.

  "You just messed with the wrong guy!" he yelled.

  Dust blew in his face, filling his mouth and he angrily spat it clear. Then he-

  Dust? He glanced quickly at the door.

  Oh no...

  • He later [[:Template:Gets himself stuck in the tail of a missile and is only saved by dumb luck.]]
• Grenade Hot Potato: Hawke throws two grenades that were "left at his door" away from him and has time to take rudimentary cover. He survives, but it's revealed that this is barely, as he didn't manage to throw the second.
• Hot Blooded.
• Indy Ploy: Really, half the time he doesn't know what he's doing, but he gets through a lot mostly on luck and good reflexes and observation of the environment.
• Life Or Limb Decision: Takes A Third Option: the other guy's limb, which is conveniently mechanical.
• Madness Mantra: Oh damn, oh damn, oh damn...
• Mauve Shirt.
• Rebellious Rebel.
• Sir Swears A Lot.
• Spanner In The Works: Proves trouble for the Iron Warriors, and later, his superior calls him this in an entire wrong context.
• Taking You With Me: A Chaos Marine tries to do this to him in the missile hangar. It doesn't work.