Crysos Morturg

"I will not pretend to understand the reasons that drove my brothers down the path to ruin; that is for others to tell. Instead here I will seek to remind my lords of what these warriors once were, and so show the height from which they fell."

- From the testimony of Crysos Morturg, Black Shield, survivor of the Istvaan III Atrocity

Crysos Morturg was a Section Leader of the Death Guard Legion and staunch Loyalist of the Emperor and the ideals of the Great Crusade. He would be betrayed upon the world of Istvaan III alongside one-third of the forces of Legiones Astartes when Warmaster Horus attempted to cull the Legions under his command of Loyalist elements during the Istvaan III Atrocity. Morturg would survive the initial viral bombardment of the planet and live to fight a protracted guerrilla campaign against the Traitor forces. Despite the odds stacked against him, Morturg somehow managed to survive and was a part of only a handful of survivors that would later inform the Terran War Council their first-hand accounts of the events that had transpired on Istvaan III.

History
Crysos Morturg was a bitter warrior, morbid and given to introspection. He was disliked by his Battle-Brothers despite his evident talents as a warrior and field commander. He was neither Terran nor [[Barbarus|Barbaran by birth, having been inducted into the Death Guard during an emergency influx of recruits from the induction pool of the 18th Expeditionary Fleet after the Death Guard suffered near-catastrophic losses during the Rangda Xenocide campaign. Years after his induction, after he rose to the rank of Lieutenant, his latent Psyker talents manifested. This only served to further isolate him from his fellow Astartes, and he had barely begun his training within the Legion Libarius when Primarch Mortarion had it disbanded and ordered such "witchcraft" be suppressed.

Morturg was reassigned to the Legion's Destroyer Corps and was frequently given Legionaries judged to be fractious or unstable, and his units tasked to the brunt of the worst fighting the Death Guard endured. Progression through the ranks as he might otherwise have earned was however barred to him and he was clearly marked for death on Istvaan III. But Morturg did not die and instead endured, rising to become one of the most deadly commanders of the Loyalist resistance. Despite all the odds, Morturg survived the atrocity on Istvaan III and he and the few remnants of the slaughtered Loyalists he had gathered to him would live to avenge themselves upon their former brethren.

Wargear

 * '''Hardened Power Armour
 * Bolt Pistol
 * Power Sword
 * Combi-Flamer
 * '''Frag Grenades, Krak Grenadess & Rad Grenades