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Erasmus Tycho

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Erasmus Tycho of the Blood Angels

Brother Captain Erasmus Tycho took charge of the 3rd Company of the Blood Angels when his predecessor was slain during the Second War for Armageddon. Tycho nearly suffered the same fate himself during a clash between his troops and a small Ork warband in the jungles that separated Armageddon Prime and Armageddon Secundus. Early in the combat, which the Blood Angels eventually won, Tycho was the victim of a deadly psychic attack by an Ork Wyrdboy and was left for dead.

Somehow, no-one is quite sure how, Tycho managed to survive, although the after-effects of the terrible mental assault resulted in one half of his face being paralysed into a horrible rictus grin. The Blood Angels fine aesthetic taste and appreciation of artistic and beautiful things is well known, so for them injuries of this type are almost worse than death itself. Tycho had a special mask made by the Blood Angels' most respected and revered artificer in order to hide the disfigurement of his features, but he never forgave the Orks for what they have done to him.

During the Third War for Armageddon, Chaplains noticed a familiar gleem in Tycho's eye. they knew when they spoke to him he was seeing visions of the final battles of Sanguinius and was hard pressed to tell them apart from reality. Tycho was inducted into the Death Company and he asked to lead the assault on the Ork held defences of Hive Tempestora. Records show how he fought with the fury and skill of the Blood Angels Primarch Sanguinus, unstoppable amidst the sea of Orks, enduring wounds that would kill a normal man outright.

Alas the wounds took their toll upon Tycho but his spirit remained strong and loyal unto his death. In his final moment Tycho was heard across battlfield shouting "For the Deus Sanguinius!". His sacrifice enabled the Blood Angels to take the position the Orks had defended so fiercely.

Tycho's body was escorted to Baal by an honour guard of Blood Angels and Salamanders, and where he was supposedly entombed in a place of honor. However recently there have been rumors that Tycho walks the battlefield once more, entombed within his own Dreadnought, still under the effects of the Black Rage, and doing what he lived for: killing the Emperor's enemies without Mercy.