Tiran Osoros

Tiran Osoros
Title/Honours	The Rider, The Scale Bearer, Warlord of Gand Wanunlen, The Beastmaster
Discovered (world)	Solnhofen
Discovered (period)	c.859.M30
Legion	Seventeenth
Heraldry/Sigil
Unique Weapon	Power Mace "Thagomizer"
Distinguishing Traits	Close to his Legion, skilled with beasts, never forgot his roots
Flaws	Takes losses personally, closer to beasts than his own brothers, misfortunate, slow to process news
Fate	Dead, killed by Rogerius Merrill of the Iron Rangers early in the Heresy

This page details people, events, and organisations from the /tg/ Heresy, a fan re-working of the Warhammer 40,000 Universe. See the /tg/ Heresy Timeline and Galaxy pages for more information on the Alternate Universe.

Appearance

8'7" tall, dark-skinned, black hair in short braids, yellow eyes. Green scales on arms below elbow, upper back, and legs below knee.

Primarch's Equipment

Armor of Ankyros

The Armor of Ankyros is a mighty suit of Power Armor. While perhaps not as ornamented as the armors of other Primarchs, the sturdy additional layer of plates on the back and the thickened ceramite make it extraordinarily difficult to pierce this shell.

Thagomizer

Preferring close combat where possible, Tiran Osoros wields the formidable Power Mace known as the Thagomizer.

Plasma Pistol

The Primarch's one concession to warfare in the 31st Millennium is a relic Plasma Pistol from the Dark Age of Technology. This incredible sidearm fires more powerful blasts than the standard Plasma gun, and is far less prone to overheating.

Sor-Carver

As Tiran Osoros unified his planet battle-by battle, he carried with him a stone knife, made by his own hand. Now this primitive blade, more accessory than weapon, sits on his belt as a reminder of who he is and where he comes from.

Youth

When the genetor-pod fell to the surface of Solnhofen, landing in the jungle near the village of Gand Wanunlen, few could have guessed that the child within would grow up to unify the planet. An old hunter named Ayl Osoros found the child two days after he landed, first witnessing the strange ability of the young Primarch - his command over the great saurians of the jungles. Already, he had befriended a three-horned, white-scaled hatchling. For thirteen years, the boy grew without a name of his own, known only as Ayl's son. That all changed when he repelled an attack on the village's food stores by the carnivorous pack hunters called Tirans. Fighting alongside his animal companion, who he had come to name Keradops, or "Hard-Headed," he killed the pack's leaders and convinced the rest to stand down. In honor of his defeat and taming of these creatures, the boy was named after them.

Eventually, Tiran, after teaching his village to ride the beasts he commanded, began a campaign of conquest against the rival villages in the area, such as Sharra Sek, Hyl Crek, and Yrash Pak. Each of these and others were brought under the dominion of the Gand Wanunlens, and their surviving soldiers brought into the army. The saurians of the jungles, now known by the collective name Sors, were the unstoppable instrument of Tiran's victories. The war lasted for some twelve years, and Tiran, as a Primarch, grew larger than all but the village's best armorers could account for. On the night that he and Keradops were to ride into the village of Larun Tya and complete the unification of the known world, however...

The Coming of The Emperor

...great plumes of smoke and flame descended from the heavens, rivaling the stars in their brightness. As the great buring Sors (so far as anyone could tell) landed near Larun Tya, a group of massive men in strange armor stepped forth, flanking a man who dwarfed even them. Tiran found himself strangely drawn to this man, whose armor shone like the lightning and seemed harder than stone. Instructing Keradops to guard his army, the leader of Gand Wanunlen's grand force stepped onto the great starship. At the break of dawn, he returned, wielding a great mace and clad in armor of green and bronze colors. He explained to his people the revelations he recieved - that he had been created and chosen by a ruler of many men to conquer beyond these villages, but that he first had a job to finish on his homeworld. With the aid of the Sors, Tiran completed his conquest of Solnhofen within a year, having found evidence of other continents on the planet in Larun Tya itself. In doing so, he brought the world under proper Imperial rule, and was in turn united at last with his Legion. The Primarch of the Scale Bearers was truly home at last.

The Great Crusade

WAAAGH! Sarkus Campaign
Date	902.M30-903.M30
Scale	Subsector
Theatre	Meteon, Henom IX
Status	Hard-won Imperial victory
Belligerents
WAAAGH! Sarkus	Scale Bearers
Commanders and Leaders
Warboss Sarkus	Tiran Osoros
Strength
Untold numbers of Orks, outnumbering the Scale Bearers ten to one by the battle's end	Possibly 8,000 members of the Scale Bearers Legion, other Imperial elements.
Losses
Unknown, but remnants numbering at least three thousand present at Ullanor, and remnants consisting of at least one thousand found during WAAAGH! The Beast	Over 3,000 Scale Bearers, unknown number of other Imperial elements
Outcome
Beginning of heightened animosity between Scale Bearers and all members of the Ork race - a Chapter ship was once observed in M38 breaking an orbital bombardment against a Chaos Warband to pursue a small Orkish fleet that appeared in the system. While the Orks were defeated, the cessation of the bombardment meant increased difficulty for the campaign's ground forces.

With the planet secure and his Legion bequeathed to his command, Tiran took to the stars with renewed fervor. After conquering several minor worlds and establishing further populations of Sors, Tiran led a full half of the Scale Bearers into the Palia Ceen system, hoping to quickly capture the small, relatively primitive human cultures there. Instead, however, Tiran was dealt one of his greatest defeats at the hands of an unidentified Eldar Craftworld. The Eldar sabotaged the food supplies of the Legion, assumedly somehow knowing about their defunct Preomnor organs, then routed them time and time again on the battlefield. Some 2,000 Scale Bearers were lost during that campaign, and the system was only captured by Imperial Army forces after the mysterious departure of the Craftworld, which appeared to have achieved its objective.

Refusing to let this setback deter him, Tiran took his Legion to world after world, bringing the myriad jungles of the stars into Imperial rule. However, on the dead world of Meteon, Tiran met his greatest rival - the Ork Warboss Sarkus. Sarkus had been leading a massive WAAAGH throughout the nearby systems, and he was especially fond of running roughshod through his opponents with Squiggoths. This parallel to the Scale Bearers' use of Sors was uncanny, and contributed to the deaths of over 3,000 Marines. One Marine, Krate Shias, came close to killing the Warboss himself, but Sarkus' Power Klaw and immense strength proved too much for the superhuman. The battle was ultimately lost, and even with the casualties on the Ork side, the WAAAGH now outnumbered the Legion ten to one. Now, however, the Legion had a target for revenge - as did Keradops, who had become an old and massive Sor by this point, and did not take being beaten and scarred by Sarkus' personal Squiggoth lightly.

Some manner of respite and recovery came for the Scale Bearers during the Cleansing of Kras Xenkoh. After marching their Sors across the planet and eliminating the local mutants (who were later discerned to be Chaos-aligned, based on the Legion's records), they were able to establish a Sors population on the world and recruit from among the human populace. The most noteworthy of these recruits would turn out to be one Lukas Ilion, whose carnivorous serpentine Sor, Aleph, led the pack that attacked and killed Warboss Sarkus when the Legion met the WAAAGH again on Henom IX. Keradops, meanwhile, finally had his revenge against Sarkus' Squiggoth, defeating it in single combat and goring it on his horns. Even with this symbolic victory, the Scale Bearers were only gathered at half strength when terrible news came - several Legions, led by the Wolves of Dawn, had turned against the Emperor himself!

The Heresy

Having heard about the massacre at Istvaan III, Tiran rushed his Legion towards Istvaan 5 in an effort to stop the traitors before they could gain ground. After the disastrous Second Battle of the Istvaan System, he retreated and began to head towards Terra. However, the Legion was intercepted by the Iron Rangers, and Tiran killed in single combat. The elderly, enraged Keradops, seeing his master and oldest friend fall, rushed at the enemy with reckless abandon, felling dozens before finally being consumed in tank fire. His sacrifice, however, allowed the Scale Bearers to escape and lick their wounds.

Lukas, the oldest remaining (living) member of the Legion, decided to head for Terra to warn their father the Emperor of the treachery, but a Warp Storm prevented the Marines from ever reaching Mankind's holy homeworld. By the time the Warp Storm over the planet receded, the Heresy was already over, and the Imperium was in shambles. The Legion itself was much worse for wear - the interception that cost them their Primarch had also reduced that portion of the Legion to a mere 650 Astartes. While gene-seed was technically in good supply, the chaos of the Heresy and the low population of Solmhofen had left them with no real recruitment options, and their brothers were scattered about and likely fighting off the latest Xenos or Traitor threats to the Imperium as they came.

Post-Heresy

Ever since the Heresy, the Scale Bearers have been highly active in defending the Imperium from a number of threats, first and foremost the unending green tide of the Orks. They have also seen limited deployment against a variety of other Xenos factions (including Eldar), and by the 41st Millenium have gained an intense dread of the all-devouring Tyranids - and not without cause, for the biology of the ever-important Sors could be disastrous in the hands of the Hive Mind.

The Second Founding saw several Successor Chapters formed from what was left of the Scale Bearers, including the Knights Saurian, Violet Serpents, and Ivory Lances.