VELOX ATRATUS
SHADOW CAPTAIN OF THE RAVEN GUARD
One of the few remaining XIX Terran born officers after the Akum-Sothos campaign, Velox Atratus led his companies onto the black sands of Isstvan, where his disciplined strike and fade tactics preserved much of his battalion’s fighting strength while assaulting Sons of Horus positions. When the betrayal unfolded, his surviving forces managed to overwhelm nearby Word Bearer elements and secure extraction to orbit, where they rendezvoused with the XIX Legion battlecruiser Umbral Spear and fled into the warp.
Whether driven by shame for abandoning his Primarch or by an uncompromising resolve to destroy the traitor hosts, Atratus made no attempt to return to Deliverance. Instead, his command surfaced in the Cyclops Cluster, where they spent the bulk of the Heresy waging war against Horus’ Dark Empire.
Records note engagements on Mezoa, M’Pandex, and dozens of other worlds, a persistent thorn in the Warmaster’s flanks striking wherever vigilance faltered for even a moment.
O.C. by corvus.calvariam Fan art by Orniris Terensi
