Nassir Amit

"We are angels born of blood. Anger simmers in our core, a fire kindled within our hearts. It is a beast bred for destruction, nurtured by the blood in our veins. It begs to be unleashed, and threatens to consume us, lest we allow it to burn."

- Nassir Amit, Chapter Master of the Flesh Tearers Chapter

Nassir Amit was the Captain of the Blood Angels Legion's 5th Company during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras during the 30th and 31st Millennia. He was a line commander, who was notorious for proudly displaying his Artificer-wrought battleplate's impact marks, blade scratches and other signifiers of battle-wear, even on formal occasions when protocol called for it to be in good order and dressed in a manner befitting such an important function. The armour mirrored the martial bluntness of the warrior who wore it. Of all the IX Legion's captains, Amit's reputation -- and that of his company -- was the most bloodthirsty. More than once, the 5th Company had been called to censure by Sanguinius for their zeal in pursuing enemy forces. It was not for nothing that the outspoken officer had earned the nickname the "Flesh Tearer," and rather than deny the epithet, he had made it his own. The bloodthirsty officer had a predatory way about him, a sense of aggression barely held in check that the First Captain had seen unleashed in full many times on the field of battle. Like their commander, the Battle-Brothers of the 5th Company were known to bear Bolters and flaying knives in battle. During the Second Founding when the Blood Angels Legion was dissolved into a number of Successor Chapters, Amit was chosen to become the first Chapter Master of the newly formed Flesh Tearers Chapter.

Great Crusade
Nassir Amit was the ferocious Captain of the Blood Angels Legion's 5th Company during the Great Crusade. One of the earliest recruits

Second Founding
Roboute Guilliman. Guilliman the tactician. Guilliman the warrior. ''History will remember the Primarch of the Ultramarines by many titles. To us of the Blood he will have only one – Guilliman the butcher. ''With law and edict, Guilliman ripped the heart from the Legions. Even his own sons were not'' ''spared his treachery. Where Horus had sought to use a hammer blow, Guilliman used a'' ''duellist's blade. In the end, the result was the same.'' ''Brother became cousin. Cousin became exile.'' Guilliman's new chapter, his new beginning, was a sundering to all that had come before. Stripped of honour and tithe, of history and deed, we were all of us undone. Bastards of war and victory, we were Angels no more." - Nassir Amit, Chapter Master of the Flesh Tearers Chapter