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Ferren Areios[1f]

Ferren Areios is an Ultramarines[1a] Lieutenant in the Unnumbered Sons and served as the adjutant for the Lord Lieutenant Messinius, during the Indomitus Crusade.[1b]

He was originally named only Ferren and was born in Hive Daner Fifty, which he was forcibly taken from, by agents of Archmagos Dominus Cawl, and then turned into a Primaris Space Marine[1c]. Ferren would then undergo training and hibernation for millennia, on Cawl's Ark Mechanicus Zar-Quaesitor, until the Indomitus Crusade was preparing to begin[1d]. At that time, Lord Commander Guilliman personally chose Ferren to be the adjutant for Lord Lieutenant Messinius, after becoming impressed with his training records[1a]. While he still slept, Ferren was also bestowed the rank of Lieutenant by the Lord Commander, who asked Messinius to teach Ferren all he knew[1b].

Afterwards, Messinius was present when Ferren was brought out of hibernation and the Lord Lieutenant told the Primaris what was expected of him. After Ferren absorbed this, and swore his service to the Emperor, Messinius asked him if he wanted to change his name. As his old life was gone and he would serve under Messinius, Ferren asked the Lord Lieutenant to choose a new name for him. After thinking of it, Messinius granted him the last name Areios, which was taken from an ancient myth and was synonymous with Mars. Now named Ferren Areios[1d], the Lieutenant joined Messinius[1e] as he sought to check the state of the mishap prone, Indomitus Crusade Fleet Quintus. It had been chosen to be the first of the Crusade's Fleets to launch, but a series of accidents, sabotages and sickness, had delayed Quintus' readiness. This had led Guilliman to ask Messinius to determine if it was still possible for Quintus to launch on time[1b]. Messinius had been informed that a plague was also spreading amongst Quintus' Fleet and when he and Ferren arrived on the Cruiser Ideos, they witnessed it first hand. They quickly learned that the sickness was a Warp-born plague and those stricken with it, caused a number of minor Daemons to materialize when they died. After aiding in dispatching an outbreak of Daemons on Ideos, the two then went to give their reports to Lord Commander Guilliman, on how catastrophic the plague truly was[1e].

Later, Areios fought at the Battle of the Machorta Sound. Leading a boarding party of fresh Primaris Space Marines aboard the Chaos command ship Blood King, Areios and his men fought their way to the bridge. There, they encountered a statue that began to move and revealed itself as a Daemon Prince of Khorne. All of Areios' squad was wiped out by the creature, and Ferren himself was brought to his knees. However before the Daemon could deliver the final blow a group of Aggressor reinforcements arrived, battering the enemy with enough firepower to allow Areios to plunge his Power Sword into the creatures chest, slaying it.[1g]

Later during the Battle of Srinagar, Areios faced the Word Bearers Dark Apostle Pridor Vrakon. Despite his many centuries of simulated training, Areios proved no match for Vrakon's abilities and was badly wounded and left for dead by the disgusted Dark Apostle. Saved from death by his Belisarian Furnace, he was later recovered by Serfs and nursed back to health.[2]

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