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Anatolus Gdolkin held the rank of Iron Father in the Chapter of the Iron Hands. He has been in service for two hundred years at the time of the Thirteenth Black Crusade.

History

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Early life

Born on Medusa and raised in a mining-clan, Anatolus had left his home to become an Iron Hand at the age of sixteen, having been given only his father's bolt pistol to aid him in his journey - a gun that had been passed down throughout the generations, along with the name Anatolus. He then travelled across the harsh terrain of Medusa. Of the thirteen youths who had set off at the beginning only Gdolkin survived the elements and predators of the land. At the final stage he fought and bested a combat servitor despite losing his left hand to it. After collapsing from sheer exhaustion from his quest, he was found by members of the Iron Hands and was taken back to their base on the planet. Given a augmetic to replace his left hand, he was then indoctrinated as an aspirant of the Iron Hands.

Warp storm Araken

Gdolkin was sent to lead a force of Iron Hands to aid the Adeptus Mechanicus on Fornax Orbis Majoris. He was unhappy with this as he wanted to assist in the defence of his homeworld in the Thirteenth Black Crusade, but the chapter was bound by ancient oaths with the Adeptus Mechanicus.

After fighting with Chaos forces on the planets of Fornax Orbis Majoris and Herod, Gdolkin was unable to stop the enemy from destroying mysterious artifacts on each of the planets. It transpired that the destruction of the artifacts as well another, third one which had been destroyed before led to the creation of the warp storm Araken. Gdolkin discovered there was a lost Adeptus Mechanicus outpost world hidden within the warp storm, the planet Crucible. He believed that on this planet the Iron Hands' Primarch Ferrus Manus was lying in stasis sleep awaiting to be awoken by his sons to fight in the Thirteenth Black Crusade. This belief was based on old texts on the history of the Iron Hands he had studied and the references within those texts that Crucible housed the Tomb of the Ironclad.

Gdolkin arrived on Crucible only to discover that the Tomb of the Ironclad actually housed a mighty legion of Titans and not the Primarch. He realised Chaos forces wanted to acquire these Titans to tip the balance in the Thirteenth Black Crusade in favour of Abaddon. The Adeptus Mechanicus contingent accompanying the Iron Hands later found out that the Titans had been corrupted by Chaos after so many years in the Warp. When the forces of Chaos arrived to claim the Titans, the Iron Hands fought desperately to stop them. The battle climaxed in Gdolkin slaying the Chaos champion and the Iron Hands setting off a chain reaction in the reactors of the Titans to destroy the whole legion. The Iron Hands managed to teleport themselves off the planet and escape before it was destroyed by the mass destruction of the Titans.

Personality

Like all Iron Hands, Gdolkin disdained all forms of weakness, particularly that of his own human flesh. Gdolkin gave more respect to servitor-drones than he did to failed aspirants such as the chapter thralls.

Physical appearance

His augmetic left hand had a twenty centimetre spike that could emerge from the second knuckle of the middle finger and interphase with machines, enabling him to speak to the machines' machine spirit. He also had two Service Studs above his scar cut right eyebrow showing his two centuries of service to the chapter. He also had the feathering of a tribal tattoo around the eye. His armour was finished with burnished gold and polished steel skulls. The iron gauntlet of his chapter set between golden wings, painted in red, gold and white on his chest. His helmet was modified by himself. It was built to accommodate his bionic head implants. The right eye-slit a vertically elongated red oblong, matching his augmetic eye. He lost the eye fighting the enigmatic Hrud on the moons of Gamrath. His right hand was later damaged to the point that it lost all of its fingers with the thumb left hanging off. It was then amputated and replaced with a relic augmetic hand from the Iron Hands Armoury. The augmetic hand was called the Gauntlet of Menestus and had been created by a Mars trained Iron Father called Menestus. His secondary heart was replaced with an augmetic as well after he lost it to a tyranid splinter fleet on the herd-world of Hamooth. He also had a augmetic left leg with a built-in holster to hold his bolt pistol.

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