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Kyr Vhalen[1b]

Kyr Vhalen was the Warsmith of the Iron Warriors' 77th Grand Battalion during the Horus Heresy. He remained loyal to the Emperor during the war.[1b]

A name of relative obscurity before the war, he was neither Olympian or Terran by birth, but rather recruited as an adolescent from the Xenos-enslaved world of Meru. Initiated into the 77th Grand Battalion, he fought his way up through the ranks by merit, gaining the epithet of Shatterblade after fighting through a nine hour battle with the broken remains of a Xenarch sword impaled through his chest.[1b]

Vhalen eventually became the Second Captain of the 77th Grand Battalion and over eleven years of grueling warfare in the Therikon Suppression rose to its command. After the war, the 77th was garrisoned in the region and largely forgotten by the Imperium. When the Horus Heresy erupted, his forces were ignorant of their Legion's betrayal. At Paramar V, he and his legionaries attempted to resupply in 006.M31, only to be drawn into the civil war. They would take bitter pride in their stubborn loyalty to the Emperor as they battled the traitors of the Alpha Legion.[1a][1b] Despite their efforts, the Invasion of Paramar V ultimately ended in a Traitor victory. Vhalen was badly wounded, but was saved from death by his company's apothecaries, still cursing his enemies as he was dragged to safety within Paramar V's Panopticon. However, when the Dark Mechanicum forces entered the complex, they found no trace of Vhalen, his surviving Iron Warriors, or the loyalist Mechanicum commander Suyria Nihhon. Oddly, the Alpha Legion declined to search for the missing loyalists, and left the planet.[1c] The Imperium later returned to Paramar V, unsuccessfully attempting to recapture it in 011.M31.[2]

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