Rending Guard
The Rending Guard were the bodyguard unit of Iron Warriors Warsmith Andraaz on Castellax.[1a] Consisting of five Iron Warriors in Tactical Dreadnought armour[1b], they were among the Legion's oldest elite warriors, having fought on both Olympia during the Great Crusade and Istvaan during the outbreak of the Horus Heresy.[1a][1b]. They did not enter combat except at the personal command of Andraaz, recognizing no authority as higher than his, short of Perturabo himself.[1a]
During the final states of the Siege of Castellax, the Rending Guard were detailed to accompany Andraaz into battle to confront Warboss Biglug in person. Unknown to them, Fabricator Oriax was secretly a traitor, and deliberately tampered with the controls of the Daemonculum teleporter device. When Andraaz and his retinue arrived on the battlefield, the Rending Guard were all dead, turned inside out by the teleportation process. Andraaz was left alive to face Biglug alone.[1c]
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