Solun Decius
From Lexicanum
Solun Decius was a member of the Death Guard Space Marine Legion.
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Biography
Loyal Astartes
Decius was the youngest member of Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro's command squad, and had a hard and determined edge to him that seemed out of place on such a young countenance. Nevertheless, his eyes were bright and he was often awash with excitement at the possibility of earning glory for his Primarch. Decius favoured quickly closing to engage hand-to-hand with the enemy, instead of the customary Death Guard habit of a methodical gunline assault. His weapon of choice was a power fist; he was particularly adept with the brutal weapon. Decius was loyal to Garro, and did not join the warrior-lodge that existed inside the Death Guard as a result of Garro's expressing his disapproval of the lodge.
Decius's life was saved by Battle-Captain Garro on Isstvan Extremis, when Garro pushed him out of the path of the attack of a Warsinger. Decius and the badly-wounded Garro then fought back to back amidst a swarm of enemies until the conclusion of the battle.
As a member of Garro's command squad, Decius was fated to be aboard the frigate Eisenstein when Garro took control of the vessel and fled the Isstvan system in an attempt to bring the Emperor a message of Horus' treachery.
During the flight of the Eisenstein Solun took part in what was possibly the first battle against Plague Marines. Despite killing a great number of his reanimated, traitorous former comrades, Solun was finally laid low by an attack from a plague knife. In a final act of defiance Solun cut off his own arm in a vain attempt to halt the rampant infection attacking his body, a disease now known as Nurgle's Rot. After his injury Solun was confided to an isolation bay while Apothecary Voyen tried to find a cure for his ailments. Even on transfer to Rogal Dorn's flagship, the Phalanx, no cure could be found.
Lord of the Flies
Later, after completing their journey to Terra, Solun and his fellow Death Guard loyalists were held in a fortress of the Silent Sisterhood. Here Solun finally gave in to the power of Nurgle allowing his corrupted body to be mutated in to a daemonic entity, known as the Lord of the Flies. His body was twisted having an arachnid styled face with many eyes and mandibles for mouth, his cut off hand had been remoulded into a bony sharp appendage and his daemonic form had a swarm of insects surrounding him which healed injuries inflicted on him.
In this state Solun killed two of his brother marines who were standing vigil over his prone form, until his now inevitable death. Later after killing many of the other people in the sisterhoods care, Solun was finally slain on the surface of Luna by Captain Nathaniel Garro, his former captain and mentor.
