Eremille

"Ask not the sun why he sets, why we shroud his light away. Or why he hides his glowing gaze. For night turns crimson gold to grey. For silent falls the guilty sun, as day to dark does fall. One simple truth, they dare not speak, their light can only blind and burn. No mercy for the guilty, bring down their lying sun. Spill blood so silvery black by night, upon their faces pale white. The moon, brings their end. The dawn will never rise again.""High Sentinel Eremille in the wake of the Black Star Rift [ALL FURTHER RECORDS EXPUNGED BY ORDER OF THE EMPEROR]. Sung as a battle hymn, the cadence was soon commonplace throughout the Angelis Noctem, its meaning lost on those outside the legion. "

High Sentinel Eremille, formerly known as Lunar Guardsman Talaos, is the closest the Angelis Noctem have to a legion mistress, held as the first amongst equals upon the Sentinel Council of the legion. Respected througout the legion, Eremille was held as the pinacle of what the Angelis Noctem should be; deadly, quick and strong in their connection to the warp. In all of these aspects, Eremille was unmatched within the Angelis Noctem, her skills and pre-Imperial history bringing her closer to Nocterra, only Dark Moon Anael regarded as more favoured by the Dark lady.

Throughout the Great Crusade, Eremille fought in the worst combat arenas the XIXth found themselves in, either beside her mistress or as her chosen representative. From the Fall of the Rangdan Queen to the Destruction of the Kalaxian Scourge, it seemed nothing could stand before Eremille in combat, this further proved during the Great Secession as her blade found the neck of loyalist Astartes across the galaxy, though she did never clashed with the greatest duelists of her foes.

However, no warrior can stand untouched forever, and though Eremille survived both the Great Crusade and the Great Secession, she did not survive to see her beloved legions reformation, dropping on Haphorix in the wake of the warp storm opened there during the Librarius Crisis. Against such foes, none were safe, Eremille finally meeting the being that would kill her, the psychic powers unleashed upon the world charring the skin from her bones, her last act to kill the psyker who had slain her, before following him into the abyss.

History
High Sentinel Eremille was the first warrior of Noxim raised to the Angelis Noxim, though in such a time she was not known to the galaxy as Eremille, instead a man known as Talaos. The most powerful warrior of the Angelis Noctem, a psychic match for the Arch Warlock of the Supernal Seraph’s, founder of the Lunar Guard and eventually the Legion Master of the Angelis Noctem after the death of the previous legion master, Eremille quickly became a legend not just amongst the XIXth Legion, but across the entire Imperium, her name spoken across mankind's empire.

A native of Noxim, Talaos was the youngest warrior to ever willingly step back into the darkness after the Lightbringer emerged, a vision drawing him from the safety of the known into the abject terror of the unknown. As he walked, a short sword held in both hands, eyes began to watch him, vicious beasts preparing to pounce, but staying their hand as an Alpha Predator approached, a name of terror across the world to those few who knew it, and an object of terror even to those who did not; a Night Wraith, a creature made by the maddened geniuses of Old Night, an anathema to all life on Noxim.

Without warning, the Night Wraith attacked, knocking the young boy to the floor and standing over him, a spiked proboscis extending towards his forehead, poised to drain him of his dreams and trap him within a permanent slumber. Mortal weapons were useless against such a foe, unable to pierce the hides of the creatures, and for most, this would have been the end, but Talaos was no mere boy, unknowingly a master at the rare psychic discipline known only as “Terrorsight”.

Acting on instinct, Talaos’s perception on time slowed to a crawl, his arm and blade phasing into the warp itself, becoming intangible and slipping inside the Night Wraith before re-solidifying, the blade gutting the creature from the inside out. As the Night Wraith died, another Alpha Predator descended; Nocterra, Mistress of the Night. She had watched the boy kill what no other had, save her, and immediately took him beneath her wing. Over the next few years, the bond between the pair grew to be unbreakable, far greater than that between Nocterra and Solaris, and when the Emperor finally arrived, Talaos was raised to the legion immediately, the Lunar Guard forming around the charismatic and deadly warrior.

The Lunar Guard, and indeed the elite of the Angelis Noctem, were forever changed by Talaos, the warrior implementing the tradition of changing his appearance to mirror that of his Primarch, finally throwing off the veneer of the man he had been, standing anew as the woman he now became, something that had gnawed within him ever since his first vision of Nocterra. Talaos was no more, Eremille standing in his place. When High Sentinel Sostratos finally sucumbed to the Ossification that had been clawing at him decades before Nocterra's reunification, it was Eremille who ended his life, granting him mercy, before ascending to follow in his footsteps as the new High Sentinel.

As befitted the High Sentinel, Eremille now led the Sentinel Council, ruling body of the Angelis Noctem, often selected as the Field Marshal of a Drop Force that carried with it a mission of critical import that Nocterra herself could not lead. Entrusted with such missions, Eremille made a point ot not disappoint, striking down any adversary in her path, bringing victory to the Angelis Noctem no matter the odds against her. It soon became clear that Eremille was just as compitent in command as she was in the heat of combat, and in the days after the Black Star Rift, this was noted by Ashur of the Umbral Blades legion that the Angelis Noctem fought alongside while their numbers recovered. Though few within the Angelis Noctem were known for forming friendships, Dark Moon Anael one of the few who made a habit of forming such bonds, Eremille and Ashur soon formed their own warriors bond, the ancient veteran taken aback by the skill of this young warrior, a babe-in-arms in terms of Astartes, having stoof with her legion for a short enough time that a mortal would have still lived. As the Rangdan War errupted, this bond only solidifed further, and when it finally came time for the two forces to part ways, Ashur honoured his new found comrade with a helmet, forged by his own hand in the visage of an ancient mythological predator, for while he was the Sable Lion of his Legion, she was a far more airborne creature, naming her the Lion of Noxim. the name soon stuck.

Standard Wargear

 * Noxim-pattern Artificer Armour
 * Iron Halo
 * Wraith Mantle
 * Heavy Jump Pack
 * Mantle High Altitude Deployment Exoskeleton
 * Toxiferran Flamer - Eremille was known to use a wrist-mounted flamer as with all the Lunar Guard. However, the fuel of this weapon was soon swapped out, replaced instead with a highly volatitle mixture of chemicals laced with horrific psi-reactive materials, known to the Imperium as Toxiferran. Known to rival Phosphex in its destructive capacity, this flamer was put to use against all manner of foes, living creatures wilting at the merest touch.
 * Grav Gauntlet - Occasionally, when called upon to engage non-organic or other foes against which her regular flamer would be ineffective, Eremille was known to utilise a potent relic known as a Grav-Gauntlet. A heavy wrist-mounted iteration of the graviton gun, the first known examples of the grav gauntlet were recovered by Mechanicum Explorator forces probing the eastern marches of the galactic core. Witnessing the weapons' potent effect upon xenos bastions, they were held by the Mechanicum as potent weapons in their perpetual war for enlightenment. How Eremille came into possession of such a relic is, at this point, unknown.
 * Silver Edge - Silver Edge is Eremille's personal force sword, one forged by order of Nocterra by the greatest adepts of Mars, under the guise of the weapon being for her own use, Mechanicum adepts leaping at the chance to arm a Primarch. However, Nocterra had in truth never planned to use the weapon herself, instead presenting it to Eremille upon her ascension to the rank of High Sentinel. Cast in the falx style of sword favoured by the legion, the weapon would be deadly in anyones hands, but, inscribed with runes of power and channeled with Eremilles psychic might, the weapon becomes death incarnate, even the greatest of xenos warlordsof ancient threats falling beneath its touch.
 * The Shard of Darkness - The Shard of Darkness is in truth not a weapon in its own right, rather a sliver of coalesced darkness given shape and form by Eremille. As befits a weapon of pure warp energy, the Shard of Darkness is a potent weapon, and while its size means it is rarely used as an weapon on its own, in Eremille's hand it is perfect for turning aside incoming blows with ease, or suplementing the blows delivered by Silver Edge.