Garreon

Garreon, "The Corpsemaster" was the Chief Apothecary of the Renegade Chapter of the Astral Claws during the Badab War. He was one of those that survived the final assault on Badab Primaris during the closing days of the conflict. He still serves the whims of his wretched Lord Huron Blackheart, who commands the renegade Chaos warband known as the Red Corsairs.

History
Garreon was the Chief Apothecary and one of the Veteran Battle-Brothers of the former Astral Claws Chapter. As the Badab War unfolded, the sins and malice of the Tyrant of Badab soon became clear for his enemies to see. One dark development on the battlefield was the arrival of the Apothecary Vivisectors, or 'corpse takers' to give them the fearful nickname they were known by the human Auxilia of the Tyrant's Legion. They were created at the suggestion of Garreon in order to recover the Gene-Seed not only of their fallen brethren, but of any fallen Space Marine they could harvest from the battlefield. In the case of the enemy, they would perform this blasphemous perversion of the duties of a normal Apothecary whether their subject was living or dead. With this gene-seed, Huron intended to secure the Astral Claws continued increase in numbers and eventual victory. To the Loyalist Space Marine forces there could be no greater insult or more hateful crime.

During the final assault upon Badab Primaris, Garreon was one of the few veteran battle-brothers that survived, breaking through the Imperial cordon, and fleeing towards the relative safety of the Maelstrom. Now Garreon continues to serve his former Chapter Master and now Chaos Lord Huron Blackheart, who commands the renegade Chaos warband known as the Red Corsairs. The Red Corsairs call Chief Apothecary Garreon "The Corpsemaster," not because he harboured any desire to see the dead walk, but because he took a pathological interest in the biology of the dying and the dead among the Astartes, both of whom provided him with a harvest of precious gene-seed. He believed, as had many Apothecaries throughout the history of the Adeptus Astartes, that the future of their brotherhood lay in a better understanding of human genetics and xenobiology. He performed regular dissections on enemy Space Marines and his fellow Red Corsairs both -- in some cases whilst his subjects were still living. He could keep his victims alive for a phenomenal length of time, reducing them to skeletal, still-living things that begged for a release that was an eternity in coming.