Gahlan Surlak

Gahlan Surlark was an Apothecary of the World Eaters Traitor Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. It was he, who came up with a viable solution to successfully perform mass induction of the Butcher's Nails upon the Legionaries of the XII Legion without killing them. With the successful installation of these deadly neural cortical implants across the Legion, this began the World Eaters' rapid decline into savagery and mindless butchery, damning them eternally to servitude to the Blood God Khorne. Following the end of the Horus Heresy, Gahlan Surlak's ultimate fate is unknown.

History
Gahlan Surlak was an Apothecary of the World Eaters during both the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. During his time as a medical officer of the XII Legion, he became obsessed with overseeing a viable way to successful install the Butcher's Nails neural cortical implants without killing their host. However, due to changing command priorities, Gahlan became more involved with the induction of Aspirants as opposed to healing wounded Legionaries. Gahlan was an associate and student of Fabius, Chief Apothecary of the Emperor's Children, he initially failed to successfully implement the Nails within his brethren, as it resulted in a 100% fatality rating.

However, during the Ghenna Massacre, Gahlan was able to successfully reverse-engineer Ghennan technology, and with the advent of this discovery, announced that he had finally discovered a viable method of mass induction of the Butcher's Nails without killing their hosts. This caused the Terran veteran, Centurion Mago, to attempt to sabotage Gahlan's work. Sending Techmarine Korit to Gahlan's lab to destroy his work, the Apothecary had taken appropriate precautions for such a treacherous act. Gahlan subdued Korit with a poison dart given to him by Fabius. Rendered physically unable to move, Korit was subjected to Gahlan's sadistic side, when the Apothecary took his time, and with great pleasure, in putting the Techmarine through an agonizing death with his Chirurgeon drill. He justified his brutal methods as punishment for the attempted treachery committed against him.

Following the conspirators' failed attempt to sabotage his work, Gahlan went on to oversee the successful mass induction of the Butcher's Nails throughout the XII Legion. Following the aftermath of the Isstvan III Atrocity, Surlark learned the secrets of gene-seed from Fabius, and with the aid of the Word Bearers, established new bio-vats to rapidly produce new Legionaries on the World Eaters' thrall world of Bodt. Following the end of the Horus Heresy, Gahlan Surlak's ultimate fate is unknown. [[Category:G]] [[Category:S]]