Ehrlen

Ehrlen was a Captain of the Astartes Legion of the World Eaters during the Great Crusade and the beginning of the Horus Heresy. He commanded the assault force of the World Eaters in the Atrocity of Istvaan III and found his final at the hands of his brothers Traitors. He had suffered several wounds and his face was disfigured by burns, but in spite of his sullen and brutal character, typical of his Legion, he was a competent and loyal officer to the Empire.

history Captain Ehrlen, along with other Battle Brethren of his Legion who were still loyal to the Emperor, along with the Emperor's Sons, the Sons of Horus and the Death Guard, were sent to Istvaan III to suppress a rebellion led by the Governor Vardus Praal Planetarium. He and the rest of the loyal forces assaulted in Landing Capsules the square outside the Temple of Song in the Coral City from the command ship of Angron, his Primarca, and their units massacred thousands of armed citizens of Istvaan. Ehrlen was warned by Saul Tarvitz of an "Istvaanian" biological weapon to be deployed after the barricades formed by the remains of the capsules and the corpses heaped together, and ordered that the surviving World Eaters withdraw to the bunker complexes West of the Coral City. After the bombing of the Devouring Life virus bombs, and the ensuing firestorm, Tarvitz revealed to him that his forces had been betrayed by Horus and Angron, as well as by Fulgrim and Mortarion. Soon after, dozens of gunships from the Traitorous World Eaters, led by Angron, descended upon the Coral City, setting fire to their former comrades. Then they disembarked and set out to fight hand to hand against their loyal brothers. It would be in this fight when Captain Ehrlen died, his face crushed, while he was quartered by several traitors.