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Kireeah was a renegade PDF commander from the planet Guryan who became part of the army of the Manskinner.[1]

While temporarily stranded on the planet Empyrion IX, the Manskinner's army faced a detachment of Black Templars. The Templars' commanding officer, Athellenas, refused to meet the cultists in a single, all-out battle, however; instead the Templars baited the cultists through Empyrion IX's only city in a series of fighting retreats. Initially, the Manskinner refused to allow his army to fall prey to Athellenas's tactics but the cultists grew enraged at the Templars' apparent cowardice. This led to a loss of cohesion, with Kireeah amongst those in the army who wanted to simply throw their entire force at the Space Marines' position. The Manskinner killed Kireeah himself to try to maintain the army's cohesion, but this failed and the cultists descended into a blood frenzy.[1]

Trivia

On a number of occasions in the short story Words of Blood, Kireeah's name is instead spelled Khireeah.[1]

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