Nârik Dreygur

Nârik Dreygur was a former Strategios-Minor and respected field commander of the Iron Warriors Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras during the 30th and early 31st Millennia. Then he was struck down during the Dropsite Massacre at Istvaan V, and lost whatever fleeting favour he had with his iron-willed Primarch Perturabo. Rebuilt with extensive cybernetics, he became a member of the Legion's warrior-society of the Apolakron. Now, as Consul-Praevian, he commands a maniple of Battle-Automata on the fields of battle.

History
Once a respected field commander of the Iron Warriors, Nârik Dreygur led his company into the fires of war for ninety years; fearing failure of his Primarch far more than death at the hands of his foes. At Istvaan V he fell, a blank-eyed Raven Guard Moritat incinerating his flesh. His defeat in battle cost him the fleeting favour of Perturabo, who discarded the broken commander as he would a broken blade. However, this was not the end of his usefulness to his Legion, for in the commander's fall the Apolakron, an oft-ignored warrior society within the Legion, saw an opportunity. They rebuilt Dreygur's shattered body, grafting a cortex controller directly into his nervous system and inducting the veteran warrior into the ranks of their Order. Dreygur, now known by his brethren as "the Gravewalker," took to the field once again as a Consul-Praevian. Where once his charges had been Legiones Astartes of flesh and blood, they were now automata of iron and ceramite; walking engines of death forged by the Legio Cybernetica and bonded in service to the Iron Warriors. Shunned by his brethren, Dreygur quickly came to favour the company of his unliving charges. During the fighting on Epsilon-Stranivar IX, this loyalty was put to the test as his Grand Company clashed with the remnants of the Shattered Legions.