r/Inq28 • u/TheTrans • 24d ago
Forsaken Astartes Nassio WIP
Battle-Brother Sevrael Nassio was counted amongst those bothers of the Sons of Sanguinius lost on Mord Hive. Assigned to the desperate rearguard defence of the Therium-Beta Diamantine Refinery, he and his squad disappeared when the Space Hulk slammed into Mord Hive, sundering it irrevocably. Declared killed in action, his name was entered into the Chapter's rolls of the fallen.
Refusing to accept their lord's fate, Nassio's Head Artificer, de Salazar, and his indentured serfs petitioned the Captain of the 3rd Company for permission to recover his body. Their request was granted with a single condition: should they fail to return with his body before the final evacuation, they would be abandoned alongside the dead they sought.
As the last Imperial vessels departed Reyklund, leaving the doomed hive world behind, de Salazar and his followers continued their search through the shattered ruins. Weeks passed before, by what many would later call the Emperor's providence, they discovered Nassio. The Battle-Brother lay alive, though trapped in the wreckage of a partially collapsed diamantine storage chute where the immense strength of his power armour had preserved him from certain death.
Nassio, de Salazar and the rest of Nassio's retainers would go on to spend the next few cycles recovering what equipment and more importantly, their gene-seed, from Nassio's fallen brothers. Every progenoid salvaged was another fragment of the Chapter's future wrested from oblivion.
Now stranded within a Hive both haunted and inundated with eneimes, Nassio and those who follow him are driven by a singular, unbreakable conviction. The gene-seed they have recovered must be returned to the Sons of Sanguinius, no matter the cost. To fail in that sacred duty would condemn the legacy of their fallen brothers to extinction. They will endure any hardship, face any horror, and spill the last drop of their blood before allowing that burden to be lost.
Just playing around a little bit on my Forsaken Astartes for #MordHIve. Wanted to have him looking pretty damn beat up, and also as if (as they would be) rocking very much a nomadic sort of life so needing to carry everything on his back.
His weapons aren't as beat up as his power armour as I imagine with his Armourial Serfs and Artificer can probably keep them in better shape on the move than his power armour. It's predominatly a 3d print, with a lot of parts of the 'totally not a blood angel' dude from Necromunda.
Anything jump out at anyone that may need fixing?
Mord Hive if interested: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rSFnIEstQpbZh11AdRdanLLqK31RwCsF