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The Brimstone Heart was a relic of the Iron Hands Chapter, which was stored within the Gorgon's Forge on Medusa and was protected, along with other such relics, by Clan Haarmek.[1a]

However sometime after the Great Rift's creation, the Dark Eldar's Kabal of the Bladed Lotus raided the Gorgon's Forge and stole the Brimestone Heart, before escaping. Haarmek's Iron Captain, Tyrrod, led them in pursuit of the Kabal and wrecked vengeance upon the Dark Eldar, but before the Clan could claim the Heart, it was taken by the Necron Overlord Trazyn the Infinite. For losing the relic a second time, Iron Captain Tyrrod was stripped of his rank and was sent to embark on the dangerous Silver Pilgrimage, in order to seek redemption for his failures.[1a]

The Heart's whereabouts were then unknown, until word later reached the Chapter's Iron Council, that the relic had been located in the Xalladin System. Clan Raukaan are then detached from the ongoing Iron Crusade and ordered to retrieve the Heart from the System, at any cost. However complications arose when the Clan discovered that the Brimstone Heart had been employed as the power source for a planetary shield generator on the embattled Xalladin II. The world had been invaded by Waaagh! Boneskar and the stranded Imperial Fists' 3rd Company was fighting to save the last of Xalladin II's surviving population from the Orks. Determined, against all logic, to waste their lives and resources defending the doomed Xalladini, the sons of Dorn refused to allow the Heart's removal from the generator. Clan Raukaan insisted on the relic's removal and the Iron Hands and Imperial Fists nearly came to blows, just as the Orks massed for a final assault against them. However the argument between the Clan and 3rd Company came to an abrupt end, when the overtaxed Brimestone Heart detonated and destroyed the shield generator. With the source of their conflict removed, the Clan and Company strike an uneasy truce, and unite with a Raven Guard relief force, to defeat Waaagh! Boneskar.[1b]

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