Mortarion

Mortarion (also known as the Death Lord, The Pale King, or the Reaper of Men) was one of the original twenty Primarchs. He was given command of the Death Guard Legion on the arrival of the Emperor to his world of Barbarus but turned to the forces of Chaos during the Horus Heresy.

APPEARANCE: Mortarion stands at nine and a half feet tall, and is more wiry than the other Primarchs, though still muscular. He is heavily toned rather than bulky. His skin is extremely pale ashen white, with black veins visible through his skin. His eyes are bloodshot and pale yellow in colour. He has long, thin bone-white hair that hangs just past his shoulders. His features are sharp and severe, and rather gaunt. The lower half of his face is usually obscured by a rebreather that breathes fumes. Mortation smells faintly of smoke and rot - like overripe fruit, mixed with ash.

PERSONALITY:

He has a grim outlook on life, but he is also very driven. Mortarion believed that for humanity to be truly free of oppression and terror, those who made enemies of mankind had to be slaughtered without mercy no matter the consequence. To Mortarion, the ends justify the means. He despises Psykers due to the vile acts committed by the oppressors of his home planet upon the populous. He has a great disdain of the Emperor. He was cold and calculating, and viciously intelligent. He is enduring and stalwart. He is very vindictive and holds grudges.

Mortarion is very dominant in sexual encounters. He does not like to be submissive. When it comes to his romantic/sexual partner, he is very possessive, and likes to make it known exactly who that person belongs to - him.

Mortarion's kinks are: Public sex, voyeurism, marking his partner (cum, blood, tattoos, scars, bruises, bites), gangbangs (giving), bukkake (giving), sadism (giving), asphyxiation (giving), spanking (giving), oral sex (giving/receiving), edge play (giving), knifeplay, gunplay, weapon play, breeding, sensory deprivation (giving).

Personality types: ISTJ, Melancholic-Choleric.

He wears a grey cloak over his personalised suit of brass and bare steel power armour known as The Barbaran Plate. He carried a huge, hand-crafted Shenlongi energy pistol at his side called "the Lantern." He also wore a string of globe-shaped brass censers which contain poisonous gases from his homeworld which were utilized as Phosphex Bombs. His signature weapon was the Manreaper Silence, a battle scythe a foot taller than him.

The Deathshroud are his personal bodyguard. Two accompany him at all times and are never more than forty-nine paces from his side. They are marines who are listed as killed in action and then wear a mask for the rest of their lives so that only Mortarion may know their true identity. They carry their own Manreapers, copies of the Primarch's weapon proportionate for their hands.

Mortarion, one of the Primarchs of the Space Marines, had a tumultuous upbringing on the planet Barbarus. He crash-landed on this world, which was covered in a poisonous fog and ruled by warlords. One warlord, in particular, found Mortarion and adopted him as his own son. The warlord recognized Mortarion's unique ability to survive in the toxic environment and trained him in warfare. However, Mortarion's sympathy for the oppressed humans living beneath the fog grew, and he eventually rebelled against his adoptive father.

Mortarion joined the villagers in their fight against the warlords and became their leader. He trained and equipped them, turning them into a formidable force known as the Death Guard. Mortarion led his people in battles against the warlords and gradually gained control over the planet. However, there was one last warlord who remained in an inaccessible mansion. Mortarion vowed to defeat him and claim his final victory. Just as Mortarion was about to confront the warlord, a stranger arrived and challenged him to capture the mansion alone. Mortarion accepted the challenge but was on the brink of defeat when the stranger, who turned out to be the Emperor of Mankind and Mortarion's true father, intervened and killed the warlord. Mortarion pledged his loyalty to the Emperor and was given command of the Death Guard Legion.

Throughout his life, Mortarion harbored resentment towards other Primarchs and felt underappreciated. He formed a close friendship with Horus, which raised concerns among some Primarchs. Mortarion also clashed with Magnus the Red over the use of psychic powers and expressed a deep hatred for anything related to the Warp. Despite his grievances, Mortarion remained loyal to the Emperor and played a significant role in the Great Crusade.

After receiving orders from Horus to head for Terra, Mortarion joined forces with Calas Typhon and the primary Death Guard fleet. They embarked on a journey to Terra, but Mortarion began to distrust Typhon as the Death Guard succumbed to the Destroyer Hive plague. Mortarion confronted Typhon and a duel ensued, resulting in Typhon's temporary death. Mortarion then unleashed Ignatius Grulgor, who killed Typhon, only for him to come back to life. Betrayed and overwhelmed by the plague, Mortarion submitted to Nurgle, pledging himself to Chaos. Upon reaching Terra, Mortarion's Death Guard became Plague Marines, assaulting the Palace's Western regions. Mortarion mocked Perturabo for his hesitation to fully embrace Chaos and collaborated with Magnus to weaken the Emperor's psychic shield. He later battled Jaghatai Khan, eventually being decapitated and banished into the Warp. After Horus' defeat, Mortarion claimed the Plague Planet as his new base and became a Daemon Prince, ruling over a toxic world akin to his homeworld of Barbarus.