Ragnar Blackmane

Ragnar Blackmane is a Space Marine of the Space Wolves chapter, and main protagonist of the "Space Wolf" book series. The series details his past prior to becoming the youngest Wolf Lord ever. He is credited with stopping a chaos invasion by throwing the spear of Russ through a chaos portal, stopping the traitor Primarch Magnus the Red from stepping through and returning from the warp.

Origins
Ragnar was born on Fenris, the homeworld of the Space Wolves chapter, and was a part of a nomadic tribe called the Thunderfists, who were attacked by another nomadic tribe, the Grimskulls. During the attack, Ragnar and Strybjorn (a member of the Grimskulls) were silently observed by Space Wolves. Both Ragnar and Strybjorn were mortally wounded in a duel that earned them a place training to become Space Wolves. Ragnar's clan was destroyed that night, with Ragnar losing the first love of his life. Later her image would be used to attempt to turn Ragnar to Chaos.

After the battle the two were taken to Russvik and later the Fang for training and eventual transformation into Astartes. After transformation, Ragnar was sent out on a hunt to test his abilities now that he was an Astartes. During this hunt he was a attacked by a giant wolf which he slew and took the wolf's pelt for a cloak. Killing such a large beast was almost unheard of and he was thereafter he nicknamed "Blackmane," after the color of the pelt. Ragnar would continue to wear this cloak well into his days as a Wolfblade, and later during his time as a Wolf Lord.

Traits


Ragnar is an incredibly powerful warrior; surpassed only by Logan Grimnar and Njal Stormcaller, both in the "Space Wolf" book series and the Warhammer 40k board game. [[Category:R]]