Tiran Osoros

"Felling enemies is not the same as raising crops. It is not trading with the next tribe. It is neither raising families, building cities, nor dispensing supplies. Making war does not mean we are built to make peace. If we cannot learn to do this, we must make way for those who can."

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 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 burning stars 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	901.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.

Palia Ceen Campaign

861.M30 - Having been given command over the Imperial 49th Expeditionary Fleet, Primarch Tiran began bringing human worlds into the imperial fold. After liberating several worlds and seeding Sors on those of them whose biospheres were capable of supporting such fauna, the Legion received news of Eldar raids in the nearby Palia Ceen star system. Eager to prove himself against the enemies of Man, Osoros led a full-half of his Legion into the region, dotted with several primitive human worlds.

The first planet, Aife, fell quickly, with no casualties among the Scale Bearers or their Imperial Army support forces. As the fleet began to move advance elements towards the second of the Palia Ceen worlds, the Eldar attacked from the void with no warning, cutting the forward elements off from the bulk of the Legion's forces. Simultaneously, Eldar Rangers began harrying the Imperials on the planet below from hidden webway portals.

With the Imperial Fleet engaging the Eldar in orbit, and Legion and Army forces planetside, the Scale Bearers leading the advance elements towards the second world, Tethra, were forced to close with the enemy and commence boarding actions. Taking light casualties, the Astartes were able to force the raiding Xenos to withdraw. Almost as quickly as they arrived, the Eldar departed back into the warp, and the Imperial forces began to consolidate their strength. It was a pattern that was to continue over the next several months.

The Eldar, striking from an as-yet-unseen Craftworld, saw the worlds of Palia Ceen as important to their inscrutable designs. The Imperial forces which landed on Tethra even found ancient evidence of Eldar activity, which seemed to confirm this theory. Undaunted by the raids, Osoros ordered the fleet to liberate the remaining worlds of Caer, Necthan, and Belor. The xenos forces remained infuriatingly out of reach, constantly probing the defences of the Fleet and the units deployed on each world. Slowly, they began whittling down the Imperials, while pursuing their mysterious goals.

On Aife, Marines and Army regiments alike began falling ill, with the latter dying and the former being weakened severely. It was discovered that the xenos, somehow aware of the Scale Bearers' flawed Preomnor organ, had infiltrated the garrison's supply train and poisoned its foodstuffs. Examination of the rest of the forces deployed throughout the system showed similarly poisoned supplies. As the Primarch began spreading what little untainted stocks remained amongst his fleets, the Eldar returned in greater force than before, massing around the world of Necthan. Enraged, Tiran took his Legion and deployed tens of thousands on the planet below to face the treacherous aliens. A pitched battle ensued, with the weakened Scale Bearers holding the line against the Eldar forces running interference for their Farseer. Tiran led the Astartes in a massive charge atop Keratops, causing the Eldar to scatter and flee, but by then the goal had been gained. Whatever the Eldar's purposes were in the Palia Ceen system, they had achieved it, and disappeared into the void along with their Craftworld.

WAAAGH! Sarkus

901.M30 - 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. Kratei Shias, Captain of Tiran's Personal Guard, 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.

As the WAAGH! advance through the subsector, the Scale Bearers used hit-and-run tactics to whittle down the enormous sea of Ork ships. Examining local star charts, the Imperial defenders chose a likely location to make a stand-- the agriworld of Henom IX. While the Imperial Army and Navy retreated to the Henom system to prepare defenses and evacuate the population, Primarch Tiran led his Legion in a delaying action, slowing down the shambling fleet of Xenos craft through pitched battles in the void and aboard Ork Kroozas and Hulks. Finally the Orks entered system space and,though the Imperial Navy pounded them mercilessly, made planetfall by the millions.

The Scale Bearers were more than ready for the foe. Marines atop their Sors charged the greenskins, in a seeming repeat of Meteon. As the Astartes clashed with the advance, the sky burned with drop pods. Two full companies of Assault Marines landed in the midst of the Orks, sowing death in every direction. Primarch Tiran, atop Keradops, led the mounted Scale Bearers in a second charge, cutting a deep swath in the greenskin horde. The saurian mounts of the Marines fought tooth and claw with their squiggoth opponents. Lukas Ilion, one of the Primarch's Blackboot Riders, found himself face-to-face with the terrible Warboss Sarkus, now missing his Squiggoth. Battle-Brother Lukas's Sor, a serpentine beast named Aleph, threw itself at the Ork Boss with a fury matched only by its masters'. Though wounded grievously, Aleph pinned Sarkus's Power Klaw in its mighty jaws, allowing Lukas to use his chainblade to sever the Warboss's head. Keradops, meanwhile, finally had his revenge against Sarkus' Squiggoth, defeating it in single combat and goring it on his horns. Deprived of a locus of leadership, the Orks quickly lost all cohesion, scattering into warbands and retreating back to the orbiting Kroozas. The exultant Scale Bearers cut them down as they fled and pursued the remnants of the WAAAGH! as far as the border with Ultima Segmentum.

The Heresy

Under Warmaster Hektor's orders, Primarch Tiran and the Scale Bearers rendezvoused with Rogerius Merrill and his Iron Rangers in order to capture and subjugate the Dark Mechanicus Forgeworld of Diamat. The Iron Rangers had clandestinely joined the Traitor Legions, however, and fell upon the Scale Bearers' Fleet, causing heavy casualties. Tiran led his fleet out of the ambush, and they Warp-jumped to a nearby star system. The fleet approached a small moon orbiting the super-massive gas giant that served as the system's defining feature. It is on this moon, known to the Scale Bearers forever after as Sorfall, that the Primarch would make his stand.

Tiran Osoros knew his fleet was in far worse shape than the Iron Rangers' fleet. He also knew that he stood a far better chance of defeating Primarch Merrill in ground combat-- where he could bring strength, firepower, and Sors to bear-- than in void warfare. He deployed to the moon below, ordering Brother Rychad Owain to take the fleet back to Loyalist Forgeworld Tigris and there attempt to repair and regroup. With Tiran was 300 of the elite 'Spear-Bearer' Marines, led by his old friend Kratei Shias; a Company of Blackboot Riders with accompanying Sors; and a company of Battle-Bike Marines. They did not have long to wait, however, as the Iron Rangers' fleet arrived shortly and their Primarch, leading his Legion, made planetfall.

What unfolded over the next 12 hours was warfare at its most brutal. The Scale Bearers would ambush; the Iron Rangers would feint retreat and counter-ambush. Dozens of hand-to hand battles raged in the forests of Sorfall, each small group fighting to the last man against his foe. Primarch Tiran led several charges into the teeth of the enemy, taking wounds and losing Marines and Sors in the process. An assassin managed to get close enough to the Primarch to wound him grievously. Realizing the severity of the situation, Tiran led a handful of his most trusted warriors and charged the Iron Rangers' lines. The Traitor Marines fell back in an orderly fashion, opening a hole in their lines and allowing the Primarch to pass through. Primarch Merrill was waiting for him in a small clearing. The two finally faced in single combat. The fighting was so fierce that Marines of both Legions stopped to watch their gene-fathers fight to the death. Finally, Rogerius found an opening and drove the head of his broken spear into Tiran's skull. 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. The Iron Rangers fought what was left of the Scale Bearers, who, mad with grief and rage, sought to reclaim the body of their Primarch. The Traitor Legion departed Sorfall, leaving the remnants of the fallen Primarch's personal guard alone on the planet.

The sacrifice made by Primarch Tiran had allowed the Scale Bearers to escape and lick their wounds.

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.