Original character commission.



Knight Errant Keltos, Former Shield Sergeant of the XVIII Legion

Keltos, fought as a noble son of the XVIII legion, enduring the hardships of Humanity’s war for primacy with ease. Until the day of the Dropsite Massacre. Keltos fought his way free of the death awaiting him there, through the ashes and blood of his brothers. Escaping the fire and fury of Isstvan and the Ruin Storm, he came before Malcador the Sigillite on Terra. It was there than Keltos abandoned the past, shedding his identity as a Legionnaire of the XVIII and become a Ghost, one of Malcador’s Knight Errant, bereft of Legion, repurposed to serve as the keystone to the survival of Humanity. With that, Keltos was thrust back into the Galaxy at the Regent’s command, seeing his bidding done alongside the Knight Errant sworn to Malcador. Though he had given up a part of himself from his Legion, Keltos always remained a son of Nocturne. As much a warrior as an artisan, he was a consummate Nocturne born; alive nowhere more than in the Forge. Though his Legion was gone to him, he continued to create masterpieces of beauty and war, each an instrument against the traitors under Horus’ banner. Despite the blow that Horus struck in his first moments of Rebellion, the death of trust and the shattering of the dream of humanity, Keltos never gave up that sacred belief - in Humanity’s virtue and bright dream. He continued to personify that unshakable ideology as a Knight of the Regent of Terra, both a Shield of Humanity and as a Hammer, striking down those who sought to reave humanity to its marrow.



Extract Unsealed by order of Inquisitor Aurelian. Data Retrieval Verified; Ref ‘Of Shadow and Light’ [Data Corruption Loss - Minorous] IDE.KE014AXVIIIKS045M32, ORDO MALLEUS ARCHIVE, TITAN, Attb. [Data Corruption Loss - Majoris]

