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Nezchad Aratos

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The warriors of the Corpse God believe themselves to be strong – but we have seen a greater truth. Their empire is built upon sinking sand, and they themselves are naught but clay. By Tzeentch’s will we have been shown the power to mould their weak minds and bodies to our liking.
- Nezchad Aratos, Arch Magister of the Warp Gheists[2]

Nezchad Aratos was a Magister within the Thousand Sons Legion during the Horus Heresy, but was later exiled by his Primarch, Magnus, for aiding in the disastrous Rubric of Ahriman.[1a] The Sorcerer went on to form the Warp Gheists Warband with other members of the Thousand Sons that were also exiled by Magnus and it would become a sizeable force that he commanded.[1b] In late M41, Aratos and his Warband were recruited by Ahriman to aid Magnus in his invasion of the Space Wolves Chapter's Homeworld Fenris.[1a] The invasion was ultimately defeated by the Space Wolves and their allies, but Aratos and the Warp Gheists would escape the Imperium's wrath.[1c] Sometime later though, Aratos began a revivification ritual to return the Rubric Marines in his Warband to their true forms — but only succeeded in restoring their skeletons and killing himself in the process.[1b]

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