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Seydon is the eighteenth Master of the Iron Snakes Space Marine Chapter. A gigantic figure standing a metre than the average battle-brother, Seydon is noted for his wisdom and leadership, knowing the names and qualities of many, if not all of the thousand strong Astartes who serve under him. Despite being the eighteenth Chapter Master, Seydon is old enough to remember the original Sergeant Damocles of Damocles Squad and was the one who told him to form the squad.[1a][1e][2]

He personally led twenty five squads in the defence of Ganahedarak against an Orkish incursion and made excellent initial headway. With the patience of one who had reduced worlds to cinders in they're time, he ignored the beasts taunts and had them attack his fortified position instead of taking the fight to them, throwing back each assault and inflicting massive casualties. However, the arrival of a second horde swung the balance of the battle in the Greenskins favour and forced Seydon to pull back his forces to a series of round houses constructed for the Iron Snakes by local rulers. Cut off and massively outnumbered, Seydon's force would have been annihilated if not for the internecine conflict that plagued the Greenskins and a relief force of a further five squads lead by Librarian Petrok who cut their way through to Seydon and successfully broke them out of the Greenskin encirclement. Exhausted from battle and greatly shaken by chapter's failure to fulfill their oaths of protection to the people of Ganahedarak and by the loss of sixty one battle brothers, including the entirety of Notable Squad Parthus, he still retained the wits to agree to a plan proposed by Petrok and Brother-Sergeant Priad that lead the Ork hordes away from the Reef Stars and back to the Dark Eldar who had first guided them there.[1b][1c][1d][1e]

Appearance

Gigantic, robed and mysterious, Seydon wears a cloak made of broken, polished wyrm-horn pieces linked together like a jigsaw puzzle by gold wire which covers the exchanger tanks he uses to breathe. In battle he bears the great lance, Tiborus.[1b][1e]

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