Egil Iron Wolf

Egil Iron Wolf is a Wolf Lord of the Space Wolves Space Marine Chapter, one of twelve legendary warriors who lead the Great Companies into battle. Egil has taken the totem of the Iron Wolf. In Fenrisian mythology, the Iron Wolf lies dormant beneath the continent of Asaheim, a beast so vast that the mountains are the fur on his back and the seams of metal within them are his veins. If that were so, then Egil Iron Wolf would ow his totem a great debt, for his Great Company is replete with metallic beasts of war. The armoured assaults of Egil's Company are famous across the Fenris system, typified by great roaming packs of transport vehicles that cut off the prey's escape routes whilst Egil's heavy tanks tear bloody chunks out of the enemy army. Egil himself, an ugly and cog-toothed brute made of more metal than flesh, rides at the head of each armoured assault in a personalised Land Raider that still bears the shields of his original household.

Notable Campaigns

 * An Alliance Broken (895.M41) - When the Ork WAAAGH! of Grimtusk Bloodboila looks set to consume the entire Athelaq Sector, it is not only the Great Company of Egil Iron Wolf that stands in its path. A warhost of Eldar Aspect Warriors fights hard to contain the greenskin invasion in the north-west quadrant of the warzone, ultimately preventing the Space Wolves from becoming surrounded. Egil's tanks take a heavy toll on the Ork vanguard and, after weeks of bitter warfare, Warlord Grimtusk is killed and the WAAAGH! blunted. Later, Autarch Elenduil visits the throne room of Egil Iron Wolf in great ceremony, his bodyguard of Striking Scorpions respectfully bearing the recovered bodies of fallen Space Wolves. Unfortunately, what was supposed to be a parley over a parting gift turns sour at a single stray mistranslation. Insults are exchanged and blades drawn. The sudden violence of the ensuing fight is but a shadow of the destruction that follows as the sector descends into total war between the three factions.