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Valgard Twice-Slain

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Valgard Twice-Slain is a Space Wolves Grey Hunter, who was given command of a strike force to complete a mission for his Chapter[1a]. However disaster struck, when the Strike Cruiser they were traveling in emerged from the Warp near Kanak and was suddenly attacked by a Word Bearers Murder Class Cruiser. Caught off guard by the attack, the Strike Cruiser was destroyed and its wreckage fell upon Kanak, though some of the Space Wolves' strike force managed to survive the crash[1b]. What they found when they emerged was an Imperium world, that had been successfully invaded by a Word Bearers Warband led by the Dark Apostle Oriax the Persuader, whose forces began mercilessly hunting the Space Wolves down. Valgard himself was among those who survived the Strike Cruiser's crash and he quickly organized other survivors from the strike force he found and began bringing the fight to the Word Bearers themselves[1a]. Despite being heavily outnumbered, Valgard's force defeated every traitor they faced and soon found Oriax within a Xenos temple, where the Dark Apostle was conducting a Chaos ritual in front of an obelisk. The ritual would free a Slaanesh Keeper of Secrets, imprisoned within a Tesseract Labyrinth, who would then grant the Dark Apostle's wish for immortality - something he graciously offered to share with the Space Wolves, if they joined him in the worship of Chaos. The Space Wolves refused though and fought through the Dark Apostle's forces within the temple and defeated Oriax before he could complete the ritual. The energy unleashed by Dark Apostle's ritual though, had awoken the temple's Necron creators, who soon emerged from their slumber and began attacking both the Space Wolves and Word Bearers.[1c]

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