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Chaplain Carnak on Mithron (top) and aboard the Ultramarines Strike Cruiser (bottom)

Carnak was a Chaplain of the Imperial Fists. He served with the Fifth Company, whom was responsible for protecting the Chapter Shrine on Mithron and the Liber Mithros, an ancient Codex tome which was purportedly given into the Chapter's care by the Emperor himself at its founding. The Shrine stood for a millennium, until it came under assault from a Black Legion Chaos Space Marines. For three weeks, the Fifth Company held the Black Legion at bay, all the while transmitting requests for aid, until a Warp Gate inexplicably appeared above the shrine and unleashed legions of daemons against them. By the time a squad of the Ultramarines Second Company under the command of Captain Severus arrived to investigate, only Carnak and his assistant Brother Nidon remained alive, still guarding the Liber Mithros. Carnak and Nidon fought alongside the surviving members of the Ultramarines contingent as they fought off waves of Chaos Space Marines while awaiting their extraction Thunderhawk. During the battle, Carnak unleashed the power-field of his Crozius Arcanum against the Black Legion to stay off their advance, felling many. But as marines continued to fall and their position looked likely to be overrun, Captain Severus, who had previously fallen off the mountaintop while grappling with a daemon, arrived and seemingly saved them.

Unfortunately, the real Captain Severus had been killed and possessed by the daemon. As Chaplain Carnak and Brother Nidon tended to their wargear in the Armory of the Ultramarines Strike Cruiser, they were confronted by the possessed Severus and Brother Proteus. Severus demanded to see the Liber Mithros, and Carnak, unwilling to sour relations, relented. The Liber Mithros was then revealed to be empty, its pages entirely blank. Severus called Carnak and Nidon heretics and leveled a bolt pistol against them. At this moment, the 2nd Company standard became alight with corposant fire, and Severus declared it proof that a daemon was in the room. Carnak suddenly realized the truth and began to reach for his Crozius, but was stopped by Proteus and shot in the head by Severus. As the dead Chaplain toppled to the ground, the daemon possessing Severus revealed itself and attacked Nidon and the present Ultramarines, massacring many.

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