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Ekene Dubaku

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Ekene Dubaku was the Chapter Master of the Celestial Lions.[1d]


Biography

He was one of the few survivors in his Chapter after they suffered horrific losses during the campaign against the Ork hordes of Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka in the Third War for Armageddon.[1a] Dubaku later took command of the remnants of the Celestial Lions and led them to battle, along with the Black Templars and Armageddon Steel Legion, against the Ork forces of Warlord Thogfang in the Mannheim Gap.[1b] In the hard pressed battle that followed, Dubaku killed the Warlord[1c] and afterwards, he was selected by Black Templars High Marshal Helbrecht to become the new Chapter Master of the surviving Celestial Lions forces. As a sign of honour, Halbrecht gave him an ancient suit of Power Armour dating back to the Great Crusade.[1d]

A century after the formation of the Great Rift, Dubaku had risen to become the de facto warlord of Elara's Veil and held a huge amount of respect from the Emperor's Spears. During a conclave with the Spears Chapter aboard the Strike Cruiser Hex, he announced his plans to abandon Elysium IX in the face of a massive Exilarchy fleet. After convincing the Emperor's Spears of his plan he was suddenly decapitated by a Callidus Assassin who had hidden as Kartash Avik, a Chapter Serf of Amadeus Kaias Incarius from the Mentor Legion. It is heavily implied that Dubaku's assassination was a result of the Lions' old feud with the Inquisition.[2a][2b]

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