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Beyond the high hedge, an ornamental water garden lay in shadowy
ruin. The height of the hedge and the neighbouring trees, just now
becoming spiky black shapes against the rose sky, screened out
what was left of the direct sunlight. The gloom upon the gardens
was almost misty.
The garden had once been composed of rectangular ouslite slabs
laid like giant flagstones, surrounding a series of square, shallow
basins where lilies and bright water flowers had flourished in
pebbly sinks fed by some spring or water source. Frail ghost ferns
and weeping trees had edged the pools.
During the assault of the High City, shells or airborne munitions
had bracketed the area, felling many of the plants and shattering a
great number of the blocks. Many of the ouslite slabs had been
dislodged, and several of the pools greatly increased in breadth and
depth by the addition of deep, gouging craters.
But the hidden spring had continued to feed the place, filling the
shell holes, and pouring overflow between dislodged stones.
The whole garden was a shimmering, flat pool in the gloom, out
of which tangled branches, broken root balls and asymmetric shards
of rock stuck up in miniature archipelagos.
Some of the intact blocks, slabs two metres long and half a metre
thick, had been rearranged, and not randomly by the blasts. They
had been levered out to form a walkway into the pool area, a stone
jetty sunk almost flush with the water’s surface.
Loken stepped out onto the causeway and began to follow it. The
air smelled damp, and he could hear the clack of amphibians and
the hiss of evening flies. Water flowers, their fragile colours almost
lost in the closing darkness, drifted on the still water either side of
his path.
Loken felt no fear. He was not built to feel it, but he registered a
trepidation, an anticipation that made his hearts beat. He was, he
knew, about to pass a threshold in his life, and he held faith that
what lay beyond that threshold would be provident. It also felt right
that he was about to take a profound step forward in his career. His
world, his life, had changed greatly of late, with the rise of the
Warmaster and the consequent alteration of the crusade, and it was
only proper that he changed with it. A new phase. A new time.
He paused and looked up at the stars that were beginning to light
in the purpling sky. A new time, and a glorious new time at that.
Like him, mankind was on a threshold, about to step forward into
greatness.
He had gone deep into the ragged sprawl of the water garden, far
beyond the lamps of the landing zone behind the hedge, far beyond
the lights of the city. The sun had vanished. Blue shadows
surrounded him.
The causeway path came to an end. Water gleamed beyond.
Ahead, across thirty metres of still pond, a little bank of weeping
trees rose up like an atoll, silhouetted against the sky.
He wondered if he should wait. Then he saw a flicker of light
amongst the trees across the water, a flutter of yellow flame that
went as quickly as it came.
Loken stepped off the causeway into the water. It was shin deep.
Ripples, hard black circles, radiated out across the reflective pool.
He began to wade out towards the islet, hoping that his feet
wouldn’t suddenly encounter some unexpected depth of submerged
crater and so lend comedy to this solemn moment.
He reached the bank of trees and stood in the shallows, gazing up
into the tangled blackness.
‘Give us your name,’ a voice called out of the darkness. It spoke
the words in Cthonic, his home-tongue, the battle-argot of the Luna
Wolves.
‘Garviel Loken is my name to give.’
‘And what is your honour?’
‘I am Captain of the Tenth Company of the Sixteenth Legio
Astartes.’
‘And who is your sworn master?’
‘The Warmaster and the Emperor both.’
Silence followed, interrupted only by the splash of frogs and the
noise of insects in the waterlogged thickets.
The voice spoke again. Two words. ‘Illuminate him.’
There was a brief metallic scrape as the slot of a lantern was
pulled open, and yellow flame-light shone out across him. Three
figures stood on the tree-lined bank above him, one holding the
lantern up.
Aximand. Torgaddon, lifting the lantern. Abaddon.
Like him, they wore their warrior armour, the dancing light
catching bright off the curves of the plate. All were bareheaded,
their crested helmets hung at their waists.
‘Do you vouch that this soul is all he claims to be?’ Abaddon
asked. It seemed a strange question, as all three of them knew him
well enough. Loken understood it was part of the ceremony.
‘I so vouch,’ Torgaddon said. ‘Increase the light.’
Abaddon and Aximand stepped away, and began to open the slots
of a dozen other lanterns hanging from the surrounding boughs.
When they had finished, a golden light suffused them all.
Torgaddon set his own lamp on the ground.
The trio stepped forward into the water to face Loken. Tarik
Torgaddon was the tallest of them, his trickster grin never leaving
his face. ‘Loosen up, Garvi,’ he chuckled. ‘We don’t bite.’
Loken flashed a smile back, but he felt unnerved. Partly, it was
the high status of these three men, but he also hadn’t expected the
induction to be so ritualistic.
Horus Aximand, Captain of Fifth Company, was the youngest
and shortest of them, shorter than Loken. He was squat and robust,
like a guard dog. His head was shaved smooth, and oiled, so that
the lamp-light gleamed off it. Aximand, like many in the younger
generations of the Legion, had been named in honour of the
commander, but only he used the name openly. His noble face, with
wide-set eyes and firm, straight nose, uncannily resembled the
visage of the Warmaster, and this had earned him the affectionate
name ‘Little Horus’. Little Horus Aximand, the devil-dog in war,
the master strategist. He nodded greeting to Loken.
Ezekyle Abaddon, First Captain of the Legion, was a towering
brute. Somewhere between Loken’s height and Torgaddon’s, he
seemed greater than both due to the cresting top-knot adorning his
otherwise shaved scalp. When his helm was off, Abaddon bound
his mane of black hair up in a silver sleeve that made it stand proud
like a palm tree or a fetish switch on his crown. He, like
Torgaddon, had been in the Mournival from its inception. He, like
Torgaddon and Aximand both, shared the same aspect of straight
nose and wide-spaced eyes so reminiscent of the Warmaster,
though only in Aximand were the features an actual likeness. They
might have been brothers, actual womb brothers, if they had been
sired in the old way. As it was, they were brothers in terms of genesource and martial fraternity.
Now Loken was to be their brother too.
There was a curious incidence in the Luna Wolves Legion of
Astartes bearing a facial resemblance to their primarch. This had
been put down to conformities in the gene-seed, but still, those who
echoed Horus in their features were considered especially lucky,
and were known by all the men as ‘the Sons of Horus’. It was a
mark of honour, and it often seemed the case that ‘Sons’ rose faster
and found better favour than the rest. Certainly, Loken knew for a
fact, all the previous members of the Mournival had been ‘Sons of
Horus’. In this respect, he was unique. Loken owed his looks to an
inheritance of the pale, craggy bloodline of Cthonia. He was the
first non-‘Son’ to be elected to this elite inner circle.
Though he knew it couldn’t be the case, he felt as if he had
achieved this eminence through simple merit, rather than the
atavistic whim of physiognomy.
‘This is a simple act,’ Abaddon said, regarding Loken. ‘You have
been vouched for here, and proposed by great men before that. Our
lord, and the Lord Dorn have both put your name forward.’
‘As have you, sir, so I understand,’ Loken said.
Abaddon smiled. ‘Few match you in soldiering, Garviel. I’ve had
my eye on you, and you proved my interest when you took the
palace ahead of me.’
‘Luck.’
‘There’s no such thing,’ said Aximand gruffly.
‘He only says that because he never has any,’ Torgaddon
grinned.
‘I only say that because there’s no such thing,’ Aximand
objected. ‘Science has shown us this. There is no luck. There is
only success or the lack of it.’
‘Luck,’ said Abaddon. ‘Isn’t that just a word for modesty?
Garviel is too modest to say “Yes, Ezekyle, I bested you, I won the
palace, and triumphed where you did not,” for he feels that would
not become him. And I admire modestyin a man, but the truth is,
Garviel, you are here because you are a warrior of superlative
talent. We welcome you.’
‘Thank you, sir,’ Loken said.
‘A first lesson, then,’ Abaddon said. ‘In the Mournival, we are
equals. There is no rank. Before the men, you may refer to me as
“sir” or “First Captain”, but between us, there is no ceremony. I am
Ezekyle.’
‘Horus,’ said Aximand.
‘Tarik,’ said Torgaddon.
‘I understand,’ Loken answered, ‘Ezekyle.’
‘The rules of our confraternity are simple,’ Aximand said, ‘and
we will get to them, but there is no structure to the duties expected
of you. You should prepare yourself to spend more time with the
command staff, and function at the Warmaster’s side. Have you a
proxy in mind to oversee the Tenth in your absence?’
‘Yes, Horus,’ Loken said.
‘Vipus?’ Torgaddon smiled.
‘I would,’ Loken said, ‘but the honour should be Jubal’s.
Seniority and rank.’
Aximand shook his head. ‘Second lesson. Go with your heart. If
you trust Vipus, make it Vipus. Never compromise. Jubal’s a big
boy. He’ll get over it.’
‘There will be other duties and obligations, special duties…’
Abaddon said. ‘Escorts, ceremonies, embassies, planning meetings.
Are you sanguine about that? Your life will change.’
‘I am sanguine,’ Loken nodded.
‘Then we should mark you in,’ Abaddon said. He stepped past
Loken and waded forward into the shallow lake, away from the
light of the lamps. Aximand followed him. Torgaddon touched
Loken on the arm and ushered him along as well.
They strode out into the black water and formed a ring. Abaddon
bade them stand stock-still until the water ceased to lap and ripple.
It became mirror-smooth. The bright reflection of the rising moon
wavered on the water between them.
‘The one fixture that has always witnessed an induction,’
Abaddon said. ‘The moon. Symbolic of our Legion name. No one
has ever entered the Mournival, except by the light of a moon.’
Loken nodded.
‘This seems a poor, false one,’ Aximand muttered, looking up at
the sky, ‘but it will do. The image of the moon must also always be
reflected. In the first days of the Mournival, close on two hundred
years ago, it was favoured to have the chosen moon’s image
captured in a scrying dish or polished mirror. We make do now.
Water suffices.’
Loken nodded again. His feeling of being unnerved had returned,
sharp and unwelcome. This was a ritual, and it smacked
dangerously of the practices of corpse-whisperers and spiritualists.
The entire process seemed shot through with superstition and
arcane worship, the sort of spiritual unreason Sindermann had
taught him to rail against.
He felt he had to say something before it was too late. ‘I am a
man of faith,’ he said softly, ‘and that faith is the truth of the
Imperium. I will not bow to any fane or acknowledge any spirit. I
own only the empirical clarity of Imperial Truth.’
The other three looked at him.
‘I told you he was straight up and down,’ Torgaddon said.
Abaddon and Aximand laughed.
‘There are no spirits here, Garviel,’ Abaddon said, resting a hand
reassuringly against Loken’s arm.
‘We’re not trying to ensorcel you,’ Aximand chuckled.
‘This is just an old habit, a practice. The way it has always been
done,’ Torgaddon said. ‘We keep it up for no other reason than it
seems to make it matter. It’s… pantomime, I suppose.’
‘Yes, pantomime,’ agreed Abaddon.
‘We want this moment to be special to you, Garviel,’ Aximand
said. ‘We want you to remember it. We believe it’s important to
mark an induction with a sense of ceremony and occasion, so we
use the old ways. Perhaps that’s just theatrical of us, but we find it
reassuring.’
‘I understand,’ Loken said.
‘Do you?’ Abaddon asked. ‘You’re going to make a pledge to us.
An oath as firm as any oath of moment you have ever undertaken.
Man to man. Cold and clear and very, very secular. An oath of
brothership, not some occult pact. We stand together in the light of
a moon, and swear a bond that only death will break.’
‘I understand,’ Loken repeated. He felt foolish. ‘I want to take
the oath.’
Abaddon nodded. ‘Let’s mark you, then. Say the names of the
others.’
Torgaddon bowed his head and recited nine names. Since the
foundation of the Mournival, only twelve men had held the unofficial rank, and three of those were present. Loken would be the
thirteenth.
‘Keyshen. Minos. Berabaddon. Litus. Syrakul. Deradaeddon.
Karaddon. Janipur. Sejanus.’
‘Lost in glory,’ Aximand and Abaddon said as one voice.
‘Mourned by the Mournival. Only in death does duty end.’
A bond that only death will break. Loken thought about
Abaddon’s words. Death was the single expectation of each and
every Astartes. Violent death. It was not an if, it was a when. In the
service of the Imperium, each of them would eventually sacrifice
his life. They were phlegmatic about it. It would happen, it was that
simple. One day, tomorrow, next year. It would happen.
There was an irony, of course. To all intents and purposes, and by
every measurement known to the gene-scientists and
gerontologists, the Astartes, like the primarchs, were immortals.
Age would not wither them, nor bring them down. They would live
forever… five thousand years, ten thousand, beyond even that into
some unimaginable millennium. Except for the scythe of war.
Immortal, but not invulnerable. Yes, they might live forever, but
they would never get the chance. Immortality was a by-product of
their Astartes strengths, but those strengths had been gene-built for
combat. They had been born immortal only to die in war. That was
the way of it. Brief, bright lives. Like Hastur Sejanus, the warrior
Loken was replacing. Only the beloved Emperor, who had left the
warring behind, would truly live forever.
Loken tried to imagine the future, but the image would not form.
Death would wipe them all from history. Not even the great First
Captain Ezekyle Abaddon would survive forever. There would be a
time when Abaddon no longer waged bloody war across the
territories of humanity.
Loken sighed. That would be a sad day indeed. Men would cry
out for Abaddon’s return, but he would never come.
He tried to picture the manner of his own death. Fabled,
imaginary combats flashed through his mind. He imagined himself
at the Emperor’s side, fighting some great, last stand against an
unknown foe. Primarch Horus would be there, of course. He had to
be. It wouldn’t be the same without him. Loken would battle, and
die, and perhaps even Horus would die, to save the Emperor at the
last.
Glory. Glory, like he’d never known. Such an hour would
become so ingrained in the minds of men that it would be the
cornerstone of all that came after. A great battle, upon which
human culture would be based.
Then, briefly, he imagined another death. Alone, far away from
his comrades and his Legion, dying from cruel wounds on some
nameless rock, his passing as memorable as smoke.
Loken swallowed hard. Either way, his service was to the
Emperor, and his service would be true to the end.
‘The names are said,’ Abaddon intoned, ‘and of them, we hail
Sejanus, latest to fall.’
‘Hail, Sejanus!’ Torgaddon and Aximand cried.
‘Garviel Loken,’ Abaddon said, looking at Loken. ‘We ask you
to take Sejanus’s place. How say you?’
‘I will do this thing gladly.’
‘Will you swear an oath to uphold the confraternity of the
Mournival?’
‘I will,’ said Loken.
‘Will you accept our brothership and give it back as a brother?’
‘I will.’
‘Will you be true to the Mournival to the end of your life?’
‘I will.’
‘Will you serve the Luna Wolves for as long as they bear that
proud name?’
‘I will,’ said Loken.
‘Do you pledge to the commander, who is primarch over us all?’
asked Aximand.
‘I so pledge.’
‘And to the Emperor above all primarchs, everlasting?’
‘I so pledge.’
‘Do you swear to uphold the truth of the Imperium of Mankind,
no matter what evil may assail it?’ Torgaddon asked.
‘I swear,’ said Loken.
‘Do you swear to stand firm against all enemies, alien and
domestic?’
‘This I swear.’
‘And in war, kill for the living and kill for the dead?’
‘Kill for the living! Kill for the dead!’ Abaddon and Aximand
echoed.
‘I swear.’
‘As the moon lights us,’ Abaddon said, ‘will you be a true
brother to your brother Astartes?’
‘I will.’
‘No matter the cost?’
‘No matter the cost.’
‘Your oath is taken, Garviel. Welcome into the Mournival.
Tarik? Illuminate us.’
Torgaddon pulled a vapour flare from his belt and fired it off into
the night sky. It burst in a bright umbrella of light, white and harsh.
As the sparks of it rained slowly down onto the waters, the four
warriors hugged and whooped, clasping hands and slapping backs.
Torgaddon, Aximand and Abaddon took turns to embrace Loken.
‘You’re one of us now,’ Torgaddon whispered as he drew Loken
close.
‘I am,’ said Loken.
Later, on the islet, by the light of the lanterns, they branded
Loken’s helm above the right eye with the crescent mark of the new
moon. This was his badge of office. Aximand’s helm bore the
brand of the half moon, Torgaddon’s the gibbous, and Abaddon’s
the full. The four stage cycle of a moon was shared between their
wargear. So the Mournival was denoted.
They sat on the islet, talking and joking, until the sun rose again.
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WEll, this is pretty simple. Garviel is from warhammer 40k, so pretty much anything goes but really detailed talk about sexual assault or suicide is one you may check with me the player first. Otherwise anything you want to throw at me is awesome.
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Mar. 31st, 2017 01:26 am
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Send Garviel message up in here.

He doesn't have any fancy away messages.
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Pokemon Levels
Honedge 1
Oddish 1
Garviel 36.
He's coming in with intensive training from weeks 131 and 132.

Gonna catch some Mons once we're done fightan
Don't question it. TRUST ON THIS ONE.
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Trainer

Name: (Character Name)
Class: (Uncertain on this one yet
Type: STeel and Fighting
Ability: Child of unyielding steel
Pokémon Bonded: (Number of pokémon your character has)

Abilities: Garviel's initial abilities are enhanced strength and toughness, and some training with a sword and rifle.

and rifle.
Not unlocked from this point onward.
His First Evolution Aka Captain enhances his speed, swordsmanship, and further improves his toughness and strength. Whereby previously he could lift a motorcycle, now he could lift a VW bug.
His second evolution increases his physical mass somewhat, perhaps another foot of height, and makes him a tower of muscle and thick bone. He is at the limits of human at this point, and his eyes sometimes burn with red fire like the Volcano within Caldera itself. He can lift a Truck at this point. He's also tougher against physical attacks, though elemental ones are still in many ways his bane.



CURRENT POKÉMON
Honedge named Vipus and an Oddish named Karkasy. Also a Riolu named Jotaro and a Anorith named Hongo.

Pokémon name
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Canonpoint:
Age: Unknown, looks to be in his 30s (Over a century, though)
Wish: The thoughts behind this wish are simple. Horus, Garviel's gene-father and son of the Emperor of mankind, has turned utterly against humanity and the Emperor, in cooperation with the Dark Gods of chaos. Garviel has already sworn to oppose him at every turn, at every wall, in every way, until the battle reaches Terra. (This is detailed in his speech during the novel Vengeful spirit). Garviel's state of mind is complex, however. He's just confronted horus after his friend Iacton Qurze was murderd by Horus on the deck of the Vengeful spirit, and sworn everlasting vengeance and opposition to him, even as Horus offered him a chance to rejoin the brotherhood of the mournival at the price of betraying the Emperor and humanity. He was frozen by his own trauma, and post-traumatic stress from the battle of Istvaan 3, where he lost his brother, but seeing Horus callously murder Iacton made his choice now and forever.
"I wish that we would defeat Horus, and protect humanity against Chaos forever."
Result: How was the wish granted?

The effect of this wish is as follows: As in canon, the Emperor wins the battle of Terra blasting Horus out of existence with psychic mind bullets (NO REALLY), but is reduced to a vegetative state, and the Grey Knights, without the now-absent Loken, become the protectors of humankind against chaos. They will become, as the Emperor himself said," "One unbreakable shield against the coming darkness, One last blade forged in defiance of fate, Let them be my legacy to the galaxy I conquered, And my final gift to the species I failed." They protect a humanity that slowly becomes a hyper superstitious and religious parody of everything that Garviel held dear during his time as a member of the great Crusade, and forget even about the Grey Knights, who become secrets held so dearly that no one knows or recognizes their sacrifice. His face will never grace a statue of their tombs on the moon of Titan, but instead, he will pass as an unknown warrior into a new world, to fight against nightmares in the name of humanity elsewhere, content in the knowledge that his sacrifice has saved the Imperium, even as it was damned by the slipperiness of his wish into being something anathema to what it was when he served and loved it.

Garviel's wish is mostly selfless in nature, for while he wishes to help defeat horus, his true goal is to protect humanity forever, which is selfless, and it is in the basic desire of the astartes as they were intended, to serve humanity first as warriors, then as governors and administrators.
Weapon: Chainsword
Outfit: http://img10.deviantart.net/93c5/i/2011/003/e/5/speed_garvi_by_nalro-d35s3sr.jpg


Powers

» POWER ONE - Aegis: Garviel's own faith in humanity, the nature of his wish, and his desire to bring a secular light to the universe make him extremely resistant to magical control or corruption. Even the blandishments of his own gene-father empowered as a godling by the forces of Chaos couldn't sway his loyalty in his previous life. his passive power makes him that much more wilfull now. This doesn't stop him from being deceived or tricked, but direct manipulation or control is nigh until impossible.
» POWER TWO - Active ability: Storm's Blade: Garviel's swordsmanship can be empowered briefly beyond human levels. He can deflect bullets (sometimes), and is capable of engaging and doing some harm to supernatural beings. This ability is extremely draining for him, as he is pushing his body well beyond what it would otherwise by capable of, and can cause him gruesome injuries to his bones and muscles if he maintains it for too long. This ability is empowered by his wish, his everlasting desire to protect humanity against the supernatural power of Old Night, of Chaos, and his father Horus.

edit with regain: reduced gruesome bone and muscle injury to physical overstress leaving him unable to move well after extended periods of combat? Like, basically a physical exhaustion debt that he more or less blows himself out, but doesn't cause him to actually require extensive healing for broken bones, anymore.

» POWER THREE - Armour of Faith: Loken's transformed outfit actually functions as plate armor, with some resistance to physical trauma and other forms of attack. It will of course draw on his magical energy, depleting it that much faster when he's forced to receive an attack that might otherwise wound or kill him. Basically, it just makes him incredibly resilient, but with a commensurate cost of corruption of his soul gem.

Weapons:

Weapon summon

I'd like garviel to get a magical version of his http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Boltgun

Basically it's a big shooty .75 caliber gun that would be powered by his magic instead of by actual bolts which would be impossible ot manufacture here anyway. Just a big blasty gun, really.

Also his chainsword.


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Feb. 24th, 2013 10:51 pm
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▼ Garviel Loken [ OU ]
Birthday: July 27th
Astrology Sign: Leo
Soul Arcana: The Emperor
Unlucky Arcana: The Fool , The Moon, The Hanged Man & The Star
String Color: [#E2DDDC]

▼ Personality Snapshot
Garviel is a quiet, grim Space Marine of honor who has seen much betrayal. He is a natural born leader, a space marine who never wavered from the imperial truth, and is desperately loyal to the Emperor. He is a knight-errant in a world of gray.

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Feb. 24th, 2013 10:50 pm
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Sep. 4th, 2012 08:46 pm
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Sep. 2nd, 2012 09:05 pm
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Out Of Character Information
Name: What do you want us to call you? Name, nickname, whatever | [[profile] dw] Bill
Age: 32
Time zone: +/- something GMT. (Google "GMT" if you're confused.) EST
Contact: (AIM, PLURK, E-MAIL. List those that you have) Grimdork plurk, Fenrirbill AIM
Anything we should know?: Nope!

In Character Information
Name: Garviel Loken, Cerberus
Series: The Horus Heresy
Canon Standing: The end of Grey Angel
Age: How old are they? Garviel is 200+, looks 30
Birthday & Astrology Sign: Leo, July 27th
Arcana: Emperor

Personality:
: usual moods Garviel tends towards thoughtful, and sometimes mournful. He has lost all of his closest friends and brothers in a galaxy-spanning civil war. He will most often be contemplating either his present actions, or his future ones. He does not dwell on the past, except how it relates to the present, though his dead brothers continue to haunt him. Due to a recent bout of insanity, he can become very wrathful or mournful at turns, to the point of open weeping, or berserk rages. He is phlegmatic by nature, not melancholic, so when work is to be done, these moods will pass away. Occasionally, he simply wishes to die, and be reunited with his dead brothers, but his own honorable nature doesn't allow him to break his oaths to defend humanity, and uphold the Imperial Truth.

interaction with others Garviel is somewhat reserved at first, a phlegmatic soul by nature. He is generally to the point, though his bluntness rarely is insulting, being possessed of an honorable heart, and will show mercy to any foe that he can manage to show mercy to. This does not apply to traitors and daemons. He will kill them out of hand. Most of the time he tends to seem to have lot of stiffness to his interactions though, and is told even by his friends that he is very prim and proper, "straight up and down" as they put it. It was his honor that impresses most other characters strongly, when they first meet him. Even people not from his culture tend to remark on how innocent he seems. He is generally considered the most human of the Astartes, clearly understanding their place in Imperial society as protectors of normal humans, and making mortal friends. He tends towards formal speech, as all astartes do, though if angry or in extremis he will drop some of the formality and be very, very direct. He doesn't talk much, preferring action and contemplation, or long quiet dialogues with a single person to a large speech. That being said, he is a fairly empathetic man, and an excellent judge of character, as well as a leader of men primarily through example and sensible battlefield tactics. He doesn't insinctually reach for the bravura gesture, prefering a more phlegmatic way of doing things, unlike his gene-father.



and interactions with friends Garviel is still very reserved, even with his friends, earning the sobriquet "The Quiet one" from his gene-father, Horus Lupercal, during his tenure as a member of the Mournival. He is extremely loyal, to point where he stood against Horus and the traitorous members of the Mournival when they rebelled against the Emperor of mankind. He will do almost anything for his brothers, and shows great affection for them from time to time. He is protective of his female friends, such as the remembrancers Mersadie Oliton and Euphrati keeler, at one point kissing Euphrati on the forehead as a sort of benediction. He values honesty and loyalty amongst his friends over anything else, once standing up for an unpopular poet because he told the truth when no one else would.

Backstory:
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Garviel_Loken

Canon Powers:

Astartes enhancements: Physical. Basically, these make him super strong, super fast, super tough against most forms of physical trauma, as well as immortal unless killed, as well as easing healing, letting him spit acid, and eat virtually anything
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Creation_of_a_Space_Marine#.UELHtrKzMdU (How the organs work)

Power armor: Physical He wears powered armor.

Immune to fear: Mind Astartes are mind-conditioned to know no fear.
Code of honor: Mind Garviel's entire being is based around honor, and innocence, he is immune to the chaos corruption that poisons virtually his entire legion.

Canon Weapons|Items:

Boltgun: Strike, Physical, fire A huge .75 caliber gun that fires mass-reactive exploding shots.
Chainsword: Strike, Physical It is a chainsaw sword built for an 8 foot tall space marine
Combat Blade: Strike, Physical A gladius-length close combat blade that can be energized to improve cutting power.
Canon Allies:
None

Canon Baggage:
Garviel's Power armor: Basically a big environmentally sealed suit of combat armor that further increases his already impressive physical strength, and interfaces neurally with his altered body.

Persona
[Tarik Torgaddon]
LVL 1: Current level 1 | Emperor
WEAK: | REFLECTS: (if any) | ABSORBS: (if any) | BLOCKS: (if any) | RESISTS: (if any)

COMBAT SKILLS
▶ Skill 1 Cleave Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage on one enemy.
▶ Skill 2 Marakukaja Increases all allies' Defense
▶ Skill 3 Twin Shot Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage twice on one enemy.
▶ Skill 4 Matarukaja Increases all allies' Attack
▷ Skill 5 Rampage Inflicts a small amount of Physical damage up to three times on all enemies.
▷ Skill 6 Mighty Swing Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage on one enemy.
▷ Skill 7 Torrent Shot Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage two to three times on one enemy.
▷ Skill 8 Blade of Fury Inflicts a medium amount of Physical damage two to four times on all enemies.
★ Mutation Skill Krak Grenade: Inflicts a medium amount of Fire Damage, knocks the enemy into the down status for one turn.

PASSIVE SKILLS
▶ Skill 1 Physical Boost: Increases Physical damage output by 25%
▷ Skill 2 Physical Amp Increases Physical damage output by 50%.
▷ Skill 3 Endure Dark Automatically survive instant KO one time from a Darkness attack with 1 HP.


1st Person | Action Example
Audio:
[ Garviel snarls over the watch ]
So, another little trick of the spheres, eh? Another dream of my dead brothers, and another war to win in the name of humanity. Very well. In the Emperor's name I'll fight until the secular truth of the world burns like a flame, and the demons are cast down and broken.


3rd Person | Prose Example
Loken is out, stalking the city streets after midnight. A huge hunter of demons and other foul things, he stoops on a low roof, his armor hissing a bit as he scents the air, seeking out their fetid stink. He has spent 6 months hunting daemons alone, the fact that there might now by others beside him. His bolter and chainsword are maglocked to his back, as they would be too loud, but he holds his combat blade in an overhand, slasher's grip, helm-enhanced eyes seeking out another target to add to his significant tally. This night, as for all nights with the Grey Angel, is one that sees only war, though it is a war in the shadows.
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Rome ranks: Garviel rank 3 general, Eleuseus Rank 2 magistrate, Rank 2 Courtier Medea

Rome 8 units +1 ultramarines from the Empra
Legio I
“The Hammers “
Elite unit (infantry)
Legio II
“The Anvil”
Elite Unit (infantry)
Legio III
“The Scarlet cloaks “
Elite Unit (infantry)
Legio IV
“The Eagle-bearers”
Elite Unit (infantry)
Cataphracti I
“The Iron lance”
Elite unit Cavalry
Ballistae I
“The storm”
Normal Siege company
Ballistae II
“the wall-breakers”
Normal Siege company
Auxilia I
Normal infantry
Normal unit (infantry)

Ultramarines Chapter
Elite Infantry/Siege Company

Faction: Crusade company
Units:
1 unit normal infantry
Amestris-born riflemen
“Greenjackets”
1 unit normal infantry
“sons of Zeon” swordsmen
1 Elite infantry
“Honor of Rome” Legion troopers
1 unit normal infantry archers
originally from Britain
“Band of brothers”
1 normal cavalry unit
“The Wanderers”
originally from Nameless states
1 Elite infantry samurai
Originally from Sawa
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Darkness falls over Imperial City, as the dictator of Rome quietly looks out over the plateau, crystal sparking in the night. He stands at the railing of his guest quarters, holding a blank scroll in his hands, pacing back and forth. Troubled and disquieted, his once phlegmatic soul has been twisted by uncertainty, darkness and conflict as it has been since his summoning by Nero, not so long ago. He half crumples the roll, then unfurls it, continuing to pace, like a trapped animal.
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