Ferik Jurgen
From Lexicanum
Ferik Jurgen was a Imperial Guard trooper from Valhalla and was the personal assistant to Commissar Ciaphas Cain. Three distinctive notables about this trooper, apart from his fierce bravery and unwavering loyalty: his odiferous smell, and grooming habits or lack there of, and that fact that he is a Blank. Jurgen, often referred to by Commissar Cain, had an uncanny ability to fetch anything that he desired, making Cain's and Jurgen's lives more comfortable while serving with the Valhallan 597th Ice Warriors Regiment. He also almost always carried with him Melta Weapons. This aided them both, as written in Cain's memoirs, with tasks such as creating passageways to clearing large handfuls of enemies (to make it easier for Cain to get to safety). Jurgen was also an erratic driver of armoured vehicles (though has yet to crash one) and had a fear of flying (this being his weak point, as Cain confesses after having him vomit several times while airborne).
Jurgen remained loyally at Cain's side even after the commissar retired from active duty. Though he was well advanced in years (despite the only sign of that - due in part to his collection of skin diseases and lack of physical hygiene - being the fact that what was left of his hair had turned white decades before), his vitality and lifespan were extended by a regime of juvenat drugs courtesy of Cain's long-time friend and occasional employer, Inquisitor Amberley Vail, whose psyker had discovered Jurgen's unique gift during the battle for Gravalax decades earlier. He accompanied Cain as aide, bodyguard and driver throughout the Second Siege of Perlia, much as he had done during the first.
Remarkably - but somewhat unsurprisingly - in all of the propagandist literature pertaining to Cain's heroism, Jurgen is not mentioned at all.
SOURCES
- For The Emperor by Sandy Mitchell
- Caves of Ice by Sandy Mitchell
- The Traitor's Hand by Sandy Mitchell
- Death or Glory by Sandy Mitchell
- Duty Calls by Sandy Mitchell
- Cain's Last Stand by Sandy Mitchell
