Ezekiel
Ezekiel is the Grand Master of Librarians of the Dark Angels Chapter of Space Marines. He also holds the titles Holder of the Keys and Keeper of the Book of Salvation. He holds the keys to every door in the Rock, besides the one to Lion El'Jonson's bedroom, and the Book of Salvation, which lists the names of all the Fallen Angels HERETICS AND SCUM WHO MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT COME FROM THE DARK ANGELS, THE MOST LOYAL LEGION CHAPTER AND AFFILIATED SUCCESSOR CHAPTERS OF ALL.
History
Found on Delphyna III, the whole planet had devolved into barbarism, where people had rejected technology replaced it with human sacrifice.
Whilst the Dark Angels were righteously introducing the locals to the business end of a flamethrower, the came across a town which was actually eerily pleasant. In a rare moment of 40k cleverness, the Dark Angels brought in their Librarian to assist them investigate the town hall. Inside they found a bat-shitload of lunatic ravings and a young boy chained up in the basement. Sensing immense psychic power from the boy, the Libarian queried why the boy was still chained up, since he was powerful enough to free himself. The boy replied: "I saw salvation coming on wings of fire. Now it is here."
The boy would become Ezekiel, and while he was feeble and wasted in body, he was genetically compatible enough to be a space marine. Subject to the harshest of physical and mental testing since he was a psyker, he took the whole thing without complaint, which clearly puzzled the chapter's Librarians.
When the Librarian in charge then attempted to read the boy's mind, that Librarian had an stroke... when he recovered eighty days later, he announced that the boy would make it as a Dark Angel, since there was nothing they could do to him which he had not suffered already. and was promoted immediately to Codicier (skipping Lexicanum) and made it to Epistolary within ten years. Making his rise through space marine ranks meteoric!
Ezekiel lost his eye to stray bolter fire from Orks on Honoria, and just as his company feared the worst without him to guide them, he reappeared on the lines of battle with a crude augmetic in place and hunted down the Ork Warboss and challanged him to a duel, whereupon the Ork's axe meeting Ezekiel's blade caused the axe to shatter and take out the Warboss's eye Just as Planned.
Following this, due to feeling inferior to Ezekiel's obvious superiority the Chief Librarian of the Dark Angels stood down, taking a demotion so Ezekiel could take the job.
From here Ezekiel would oversee and approve every promotion and indoctrination within the Chapter's Inner Circle, and there have been instances where marines have actually declined promotion rather than stand under Ezekiel's judgement. This has probably something to do in the case of where one sergeant was offered promotion to captain of the 10th company, Ezekiel probed his thoughts for a day and night... afterwards the sergeant took his bolt pistol and blew his own brains out.
While Ezekiel said that he found nothing in the sergeant's mind that would have prevented his promotion, the Sergeant clearly found something in there he couldn't live with.
Tabletop
| Pts | WS | BS | S | T | W | I | A | Ld | Sv | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ezekiel: | 145 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 2+ |
He's a level 3 librarian with access to the same disciplines as regular Dark Angels librarians. Mind Worm is no longer his sole province.
He carries The Book Of Salvation which gives +1 A to all DA units within 6", which can have the hilarious effect of stacking with DA banners and righteous repugnance meaning the Dark Angels' dedicated melee units can have an insane volume of attacks.
He also has Traitor's Bane an awesomely named but completely average master-crafted force sword which has been placed in his regular gear, rather than being a relic. This has the effect of granting him an additional attack when combined with his master-crafted bolt pistol.
Beyond that; he has near-Captain stats (-1 WS), a psychic hood and artificer armour, making him half decent in a stand-up fight.
On his own, while not quite the psychic powerhouse of Varro Tigurius or Njal Stormcaller in terms of both power selection or ability to re-roll failed powers he does have his own answer in the form of a unique formation: Librarius Conclave where if he is accompanied by two or more other Librarians, they can loan each other their knowledge of powers, harness Warp Charges on 3+ rather than 4+ and boost the range of his Mind Worm. If lots of points are spent on this formation, Ezekiel or another one of the Librarians accompanying him can know up to sixteen different powers and have a whole bundle of Warp Charges to throw at casting them.
Gallery
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To be near him is a scary experience.
