Saul Tarvitz
“Our names may be forgotten, and our bones crumble to dust, but our deaths will echo through the millennia to come.”
— Captain Saul Tarvitz, words spoken in the hours before the fall of the Loyalist Choral City enclaves during the Istvaan III Atrocity
Saul Tarvitz, known in Imperial historical texts as The Honour of His Legion, was an Astartes line officer of the Emperor’s Children Legion and the Captain of its 10th Company. Tarvitz was the rare line officer of the IIIrd Legion who did not aspire to anything higher, despite being extremely competitive. Most troops that he lead greatly respected him, except his best friend Lucius, the Captain of the 13th Company, who was jealous of the attention Tarvitz received for his competent leadership. Captain Tarvitz was supposed to be in the initial drop-assault onto the surface of Istvaan III but had traded places in the Imperial fleet orbiting that world at the last minute with the Dreadnought Ancient Rylanor. Discovering the treachery of the Warmaster Horus and his own Primarch Fulgrim, Tarvitz willingly placed himself in the line of fire by going to the surface of the planet to warn his fellow Loyalists of the betrayal that was about to befall them.
