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==Captain Gaius Martinus Vira, the Reaper==

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<blockquote>''"There is no man in the galaxy so close to death who could avoid it for so long. He stands between two empires, rushing headlong in a galaxy of horrors, offering his services for many in pursuit of what he will not say. This is just what a man with a duty looks like, he has nothing left but to pursue it and I fear the day he accomplishes his aim."''</blockquote>

-Urak the Black, Veteran of the Bulwark

The thin and disturbingly tall Vira is bone white in complexion, lending the greatest of the Plague Doctors a stark contrast in appearance to the Primarch he has long served. Though they differ so greatly in appearance, they bear the same somber expression and oft furrowed brow, as well as the same grave seriousness. Vira is completely hairless, having long-since destroyed his follicles by enduring the backlash of the myriad of chemical weapons in his employ. His prominent brow, sunken eyes, and prominent cheekbones lend to his frighteningly skeletal appearance, but he was known to be quite kind.

Vira was the longest serving member of the Life Bringers, having earned his name long before the discovery of its Primarch. It was he who was the first of the legion's Plague Doctors and the founder of it's practices. Along with Wilmut Sachs and Edentis Pneuren, who led the Genetory and Apothecarium respectively, Vira was among the most influential in the legion. Unlike Sachs and Pneuren, who survived their tenure in the Brothers of Death by avoiding combat in favor of medical treatment, Vira survived by sheer fortitude and combat skill. He was the most pragmatic of the legion's commanders, favoring more subtle tactics, and it was he who forged the biochemical warfare strategies which guide the legion to this day. 

Unlike his two surviving brothers in the Sacred Band, Vira could never develop a close relationship with Vrach. Though they were always polite, there was an unspoken rift between the two. Vira privately commented that he believed it was due to the primarch's inability to distance Vira from the death his biochemical assaults caused so many of their brothers, as those who walked the path of the Plague Doctor tended to fall by their own devices somewhat often. Whatever it truly was, this rift worsened as Vrach began his Infernal Experiments and the creation of the Plague Marines. Vira had a close but conflicted relationship with Wilmut Sachs, and Edentis Pneuren often acted as a buffer for the two.

By the time of the Heresy, Vira and some 70 battle-brothers stood alone against hundreds of marines in a legion that embraced an unholy alliance with death itself. After witnessing Pneuren's death at the hands of Wilmut Sachs, followed by the unleashing of the Unmaker Plague, he made his move. The Reaper and his men saw no choice but to run, their biochemical weapons were useless against their monstrous brothers. Though they lost nearly half their number in flight, the Reaper and his men escaped aboard the cruiser ''Eden's Burden'' and into the void. Vira vowing to kill the man he saw as responsible for the corruption of his legion and primarch.

Since that day, he had thrown his small band of former Life Bringers into various battlefields across the galaxy. Whenever reports of Life Bringers sowing destruction and disease grow loud, brutal tales of Captain Vira's retribution are not far behind. His natural affinity for operating within a hostile environment, as well as his potent chemical recipes which are capable of mitigating the effects of his former brothers' skills, make him a potent ally for any who seek to combat the Plague Marines of the XIIth. He has on rare occasions been known to enter into conflicts alongside his Bulwark allies, proving a brutal and tenacious combatant.