Ra Endymion

Ra Endymion was a Tribune of the ancient Legio Custodes, the elite bodyguard of the Emperor of Mankind, and close confidant of the Master of Mankind during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy during the 30th and early 31st Millennia. As a Tribune, Ra Endymion command the Custodians who fought in the Imperial Webway War against the Forces of Chaos, following the folly of the Thousand Sons Primarch Magnus the Red. The Crimson King's use of forbidden sorcery to communicate with his father, the Emperor, in order to worn him of Horus' fall to the Ruinous Powers, shattered the wards of the Imperial Webway deep beneath the Imperial Palace, which opened the way for the legions of Chaos to attack and attempt to force their way into reality, through the portal beneath the Emperor's Palace.

Ra is one of the only living souls shown the entirety of his master's dreams and ambitions - granted enlightenment not gleaned for the purpose of waging war - that would eventually prepare him for his pre-ordained fate. Ra Endymion's ultimate fate following this campaign is unknown.

History
Ra Endymion was born on Terra during the Unification Wars to Koja Zu, the Minister of the Anuatan Steppes, around the time of the Battle of Maulland Sen. Ra's mother was executed by the Captain-General Constantin Valdor for the high crime of stealing Terra's last remaining ocean when Ra was only four years old. He was then taken by the Legio Custodes as a potential candidate. The young boy received the name 'Ra' in honour of the ancient Gyptian sun god and eventually rose to become the leader of Squad Dynastes, who were later dubbed the Lords of Terra by the Emperor Himself. This squad was composed of twenty sons and nephews who had been taken as tributes from various defeated Terran rulers and warlords.

By the opening years of the galaxy-wide conflict known as the Horus Heresy, Ra had earned eight-hundred and seventy-one names in honour of valorous deeds and was raised to the rank of Tribune. Following the Crimson King's folly, when he tried to warn the Emperor through sorcerous means, the wards placed on the Imperial Webway deep within the Imperial Palace's dungeons were breached, which allowed the legions of Chaos to encroach upon the Emperor's Palace.

Five years into the war, things began to go badly for the Imperial forces, as the neverending legions of Chaos threatened to breach the sanctity of the Palace's dungeons. With the deaths of both Tribunes Kadai Vilaccan and Jasac, Ra Endymion was given sole command over the Custodians fighting the war within the Imperial Webway. When the derelict city within the webway known as Calastar (also known as the 'Impossible City') fell to the invading daemonic hordes, the Emperor was finally able to leave the Golden Throne, following the sacrifice of one-thousand psykers, in order to cover the retreat of the decimated Imperial forces and to confront the Daemon Drach'nyen.

In a final epic confrontation, the daemon took the form of a Stone Epoch war-chief, the Neverborn impaled the Emperor, claiming that it would be His death. But the Emperor tore the daemon, now in the form of a great daemonic sword, from His body and with armour-boosted strength and powerful telekinetic force, He hurled it from His grip at Ra. The sword impaled the Custodian causing the daemon to be bound within him. The Tribune didn't demand any explanation or apology. Ra was born to serve, raised to obey and chosen for the greatest illumination preceding the darkest duty.

The sword quickly disappeared, for it was now bound within the Custodian's body, caged within Ra's flesh. The daemon within him could not be killed, not even by the Emperor Himself, only imprisoned. As the last remaining Imperial forces retreated from the webway, the Emperor ordered Ra to run deep within the myriad tunnels of the webway as far as possible, separating the daemon from his master, which meant another day that the Imperium would stand unbroken. Ra fled deep into the Webway, never to be seen again, his ultimate fate unknown.

Wargear

 * Custodes Armour
 * Guardian Spear
 * Pair of Meridian Swords
 * Misericordia