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Dunhand is a member of House Hawkshroud and is the third son of his family to pilot the Knight suit Legacy of Honour. Third sons seldom become knights as most are too old to undertake the Ritual of Becoming by the time their older siblings perish and those that do are heavily stigmatized for not doing so through the traditional manner. Dunhand has suffered the same fate and despite his ability with blade and cannon, as well as his unflagging bravery in dozens of battles, he has never truly known acceptance from his lance-brothers. Years of this treatment has made Dunhand bitter towards his peers, and left him a brooding joyless man who lives with the knowledge that his dead brothers have long ago stolen his glory. Even the name of his Knight, Legacy of Honour, has become an unpleasant remainder that he is merely honouring their memory. Because of this he throws himself furiously into war, no longer seeking to prove to his peers of his worth in battle, but instead to vent his seething anger upon the foe. By doing so he temporarily eases his own pain and quiets the incessant whispers of his siblings from his suit's Throne Mechanicum.[1]

Despite his standing in House Hawkshroud, Dunhand still fights to honour them and has unleashed his increasing fury upon many of the Imperium's enemies. In the Oceania Campaign on Kor IX, he showed his determination against the Word Bearers and their Cultist armies, by sinking Kor's floating Hive city and escaping only after hunting down the Word Bearers' leader and the Hive's walls had burst. On Skyhammer, the frozen moon of Vos III, Dunhand led an assault against an Eldar pirate base and cleaved it open to the elements, causing the Xenos within it to freeze to death. When he took part in defending the Imperium world Kel'Shan against the Tau Empire however, his temperament changed. When a tendril of Hive Fleet Gorgon fell upon the world, the two empires were forced to work together and Dunhand was introduced to the Tau's belief in the Greater Good by their emissaries. After years of struggling to find a place within his own House Hawkshroud, he found the philosophies of the Greater Good strangely appealing. Afterwards, he never disclosed what they discussed, but as he was the only Knight to meet with the Tau's emissaries, the gulf between Dunhand and his Household only increased further. However, whether House Hawkshroud's concerns about Dunhand and the Tau are justified, remains to be seen.[1]

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