Daerys Arrun

Captain Daerys Arrun is the Master of the Fleet and Commander of the Silver Skulls Space Marine Chapter's 4th Battle Company. Arrun had grown to young manhood in one of the more civilised tribes on their homeworld Varsavia, but like so many others, he had fought for his survival from an early age. Hand-to-hand combat gave him an adrenaline rush and sense of exhilaration like no other form of fighting he had ever known. When he became a full-fledged battle-brother, he would have become a Chaplain had he not demonstrated such aplomb and skill in the field of strategic planning. He always preferred to take responsibility for his Company’s inner fires. The Silver Skulls had thus lost a great Chaplain, but had gained a frenetic, powerful warrior who had risen to become Master of the Fleet. Captain Arrun has been Master of the Fleet for several decades and possesses a quicksilver mind and the forward thinking ability of a true tactical genius. At any time he knows the status of every functioning ship in the fleet. His eidetic memory allows him to bring to mind every flaw, every weakness and, conversely, every strength. He knows in seconds which ship is the most appropriate to deploy to any given situation when the requests for assistance are received. He has overseen operations in the Gildar Rift from the very beginning. Arrun possesses a closely shaved head which does nothing to hide the mass of scar tissue on his skull; something that on mere ‘mortal’ would be considered disfiguring, but which on a Space Marine could only be a mark of honour. His face is covered in swirling whorls of dark ink that all but obscures his flesh; the battle tattoos of the warriors that all commanding officers of the Chapter earn the right to. If his sheer breadth and height and forcible presence isn’t fearsome enough, the tribal-like brandings can easily do the job admirably. He also has cold piercing eyes that are ice-blue and just as cold.

Wargear
Usually Arrun fights with a Bolt Pistol and Chainsword. But because of his penchant for close-assault fighting {which is sorely lacking due to his duties as a senior officer of a Company} he prefers to fight with an ancient set of Lightning Claws. His lightning claws always retract from his gauntlets with a smooth, well-oiled precision. Like all of the Silver Skulls, Arrun spent a great deal of time scrupulously maintaining his wargear. There were, of course, serfs and artificers indentured to the Chapter who performed much of the work, but as Captain, he had always taken particular pride in doing the job himself. The slightest fault in their performance could spell the difference between life and death. The gauntlets themselves were beautiful weapons, relics fashioned for the Chapter armoury in a time so long before that none were living who could recall whose they had originally been. Handed down from captain to protégé over the centuries, they had come into Arrun’s possession a hundred years previously. Opulent and intricately designed skulls decorated the back of them, the cabling of the power field generators snaking through the insignia. He had fought with them since his elevation to Captain and whilst not every engagement called for their singularly brutal style, they were always his preferred method of dispatching the enemy. Like most Varsavian-born Silver Skulls, Daerys Arrun had a core ferocity and fearlessness that made him a terrifying foe in close combat.

Source

 * The Gildar Rift (Novel) by Sarah Cawkwell