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Asmodai

2023-06-04T17:09:32Z

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[[File:Asmodai.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Pretty badass though (he is simultaneously interrogating a fallen on the rock at the same time, just because he is so fucking AWESOME).]]
{{Topquote|REPENT, MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!|Asmodai, If The Emperor Had A TTS Device (Episode 20)}}
{{Topquote|INTERROGATE!? WHAT. BOOK. FALLEN. REPEEENT!|Asmodai, TTS episode 28}}
{{Topquote|I HATE you with a necessary hate.
First, I sought patience: passionate was she:
My patience turned in very scorn of me,
That I should dare forgive a sin so great,
As this, through which I sit disconsolate;
Mourning for that live soul, I used to see;
Soul of a saint, whose friend I used to be:
Till you came by! a cold, corrupting, fate.|from 'The Destroyer of a Soul', Lionel Johnson}}

'''Asmodai''' is the [[Interrogator-Chaplain|Master of Repentance]] of the [[Dark Angels]]. He is the oldest and most experienced of the Interrogator-Chaplains, and also the most obsessed with <s>hunting down the [[Fallen Angels|Fallen]] and making them repent.</s> SHOWING HIS INTENSE BURNING LOYALTY TO THE GOD EMPEROR. He's also known for failing at least twice for every success, and causing so many problems for the Dark Angels you have to wonder why he hasn't [[blam|met his end in glorious battle]] yet.

He is NOT the Grand Master of Chapter's [[Chaplain]]s however; that position belongs to '''Sapphon''', though [[Derp|he's not as famous]] as Asmodai. NOR is Asmodai the greatest of his craft; that honour belongs to '''Molochia''', who made ten [[Fallen Angels|heretics]] repent instead of Asmodai's [[FAIL|paltry two]]. So Asmodai is pretty much only known for being one of the [[Angry Marines|angriest fuckers]] within his Chapter, his rage fueled by his self-loathing at being perhaps the worst Interrogator-Chaplain the Dark Angels have ever had.

Though '''Asmodai''' is the Master of Repentance, recently he has been assigned the role of musical artist, who is available on spotify, youtube and Deezer. This raises a question in HOW DOES A PLASTIC MODEL BECOME A MUSICAL ARTIST?????

==Biography==
{{Topquote|Better that 50 million innocents perish than one single Traitor escape retribution!|The man himself, in an official GW publication.}}
[[File:Praise his name.png|200px|thumb|left|Asmodai is always encouraging those around him. [[Kharn|What a swell guy]].]]
Starting as a no-name [[What|'''tactical''']] marine in the [[Derp|'''eighth''']] company ''(that's what the book says, but the 8th company are '''Assault''' marines)'' Asmodai was a fairly unremarkable soldier. Deployed to pacify a whole hive turned traitor, his Sergeant, recognizing that a billion cultists could eventually overpower their group, opted for a decapitation strike on the rebellion high command (though he could have recognized this before losing 2/3rds of his company). They pushed through hordes of 12 year old combatants and hastily assembled <s>[[Killa_Kan]]</s> heavy lifters with strapped on armor plating. Then Asmodai fucked up when they breached the inner command sanctum, meeting his first [[Fallen Angels|<s>Fallen</s> Unrelated Traitor]] Malvine Rhemell. He'd had experience fighting traitor marines, not those his chapter built their entire identity around fighting. Rhemell made minced meat of Asmodai's sergeant and incapacitated Asmodai, letting him live so he could reflect on the total failure of a marine he was. Man even mockingly saluted him. This defeat proved to be so traumatizing that he still gets flashbacks to this secret cause of all his [[RAGE]]. Given that there was no-one else to explain the situation to, Asmodai was taught the secrets of the chapter and was offered a position in the [[Ravenwing]] or the [[Deathwing]]. He chose neither and declared he would be a [[Chaplain]] instead, vowing that no other Fallen would ever escape him.

He captured his first Fallen in '''411.M41''', but failed to make him repent when the Fallen [[FAIL|died without confessing]], which meant right off the bat he sucked at his job. This obviously caused Asmodai to enter deeper levels of [[RAGE]] and then started going to unhealthy lengths to capture more to slake his angry streak. With renewed vigour, Asmodai caught three more Fallen over the next 25 years, but still managed to kill each of them before they could repent. Normal people would have taken this as a sign that their chosen profession was not for them, but Asmodai was no normal man. So the Inner Circle decided to give him one they'd caught earlier before Asmodai exploded with [[RAGE|pent-up frustrations]]. Asmodai broke this one in one single eighteen day session of [[Anal Circumference|physical]] and [[Rebecca Black|mental]] torture. When Asmodai emerged from that cell smoking a cigarette, he had earned his first black pearl and he '''smiled for the first time.'''

Rather than allow him to calm the fuck down, his first success only made his obsession grow and it bled into the other aspects of his life as a [[Space Marine]] so bad, he's basically become the "fun police" of the 41st millennium. The Dark Angels only realized how hard shit had hit the fan when Asmodai bombarded an [[Imperial]] [[Hive|city]] to flush out a single Fallen. [[Azrael]], who saw his PR rating plummet down, politely inquired whether this wasn't a bit much. See the quote above for Asmodai's answer.

Now, this was just too crazy, even for Dark Angels, so Azrael had his command privileges revoked and transferred him to the 10th company so he could learn humility and a bit of temperance. However, not six months later the Master of Recruits came to Azrael sobbing and begging to get that absolute madman away from him: when a bunch of recruits didn't answer his questions as enthusiastically as he liked, Asmodai ordered them all killed because he thought their [[gene-seed]] might be contaminated by '''[[What|"tardiness"]].''' And it didn't stop there. When he heard someone from the Seventh Company laughing while inside [[the Rock]], he had the entire Company sworn to silence except for hymns and communicating in battle for one standard year. He doesn't actually have the authority to do any of those things, though, at least not without Azrael's approval (which he won't get). But he just tends to [[Railroading|threaten the officer]] in charge when he [[Butthurt|doesn't get his way]], and the cowardly fucks are so scared shitless of the crazed loony that they actually obey! (Besides, a vow of silence covers speech. [[FAIL|Laughing is not speaking]].)
[[File:No fun zone.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Asmodai laying down the law.]]
Unfortunately this zeal to track down Fallen has led his chapter into some big troubles, like when he countermanded a Captain's orders and diverted a Dark Angels strike force from their position fighting Orks to investigate rumours of a "remarkable warrior". It turned out that the warrior was in fact an [[Inquisitor]] of the Ordos Xenos, and the Dark Angels unauthorised repositioning cost the allied [[Silver Skulls]] most of their army. Not only that, but the Inquisitor returned to the Silver Skulls homeworld to explain exactly what happened and demanded assistance in punishing the Dark Angels for their behaviour. Wisely ''(and partly for fear of going head-to-head with the Unforgiven)'' the Silver Skulls [[Chapter Master]] instead requested that [[Azrael]] come and explain himself personally, so Azrael had to set aside his duties for a time to go and apologise for what happened. During that time Asmodai was grounded under lock and key until the Supreme Grand Master got home to decide what to do with him. When Azrael returned to [[the Rock]] and asked if Asmodai was sorry yet, Asmodai responded that he was sorry he didn't kill the Inquisitor when he had the chance.

At some point, Asmodai was passed up for promotion to High Chaplain, despite his seniority in age and the respect/fear he has earned within his Chapter. The position instead went to the much younger and more conservative '''Sapphon''' (who is secretly not conservative at all and is tasked with the curse of being the Chapter's most radical, unorthodox member). Asmodai openly states this was a bad idea, since he sees Sapphon as weak and indulgent, making Asmodai a hypocrite as that describes himself to a T. In comparison, Sapphon ''(and most of the other Inner Circle Masters, and probably just about everyone else)'' see Asmodai as psychologically unstable and a destabilizing influence on others. This is in spite of the fact that Sapphon has had multiple black pearls on his [[Rosarius|rosarius]] (and thus multiple confessed heretics) compared to Asmodai's measly two.

[[Azrael]] has had to rein him in or cover up for some of his more excessive actions, but despite everything he keeps Asmodai around because, say what you will about his sense of humour (or lack of it), the writers like him. If there's a Fallen Angel (or even someone who might know something about a Fallen Angel) out there, he will probably track it down, and then probably kill him instead of making him repent. Give him a job (preferably the killing of some heretics) and he'll get it done, usually with too much collateral damage because he's too lazy to do things properly, and then Azrael will have to cover up for whatever major fuckups ensue.

Asmodai is the chapter's rabid attack dog, but his zeal and commitment prove to be infectious to those that follow him into battle and the inner circle are very wary that he may end up pushing the lower ranks in a less-than-desirable direction which is why the level-headed Sapphon was given the top job instead; they realize that if Asmodai was ever to gain a position of higher rank then it could only mean trouble for the chapter. HOWEVER, what this really means is that Asmodai is a case of [[That Guy]] to the extreme: bad at his job, takes his rage out on the accused (not even convicted) marines, attacks others who ARE doing their jobs well out of his inferiority complex, willingly loses battles and men that take decades to replace because of his obsession with the job he's bad at and then he sucks up as hard as he can to make sure that nobody higher up sees fit to replace this walking sack of dereliction of duty. If Robot G-man is anything like his "meritocracy first" speeches proclaim, his first action will be to march right up to this company and punt Asmodai right to the nearest chaos stronghold, if only so he can do Abaddon a favor and make him look like Creed by comparison.

The Inner Circle are very much aware that Asmodai is a mad man straining at the leash but his zealous hatred is usually pointed towards the enemies of the Imperium (whenever it doesn't have to go through the Imperium itself), so they simply need to point in the general direction of the enemy and shout '''"Asmodai I can see one over there!"''' and then smile in satisfaction as the enemy promptly empty their collective bowels as Asmodai turns his violent attention their way.

Asmodai himself is very much aware that he is mad, during “The legacy of Caliban trilogy” a city-sized Daemon tried to get inside his head and attempted to corrupt him. Asmodai’s inner thoughts can be summed up as '''“Am I Mad?... WHO FUCKING CARES, TIME TO KILL ME SOME TRAITORS!”''' and using the power of [[rage]] he banishes the Daemon from his mind and then charges into an army of poor lesser Daemons and butchers everything that he can get his hands on.

It is interesting that despite his long service and obsession he has only able to make TWO Fallen repent and apparently [https://youtu.be/M56aycpd9kA?t=19m55s killed many more by "accident"], implying that he's really just a sadistic asshole. While it is true that to make a Fallen truly repent is a daunting task to start with (even Molochai, the best one at that particular job, got only 10 successful repentences total) it doesn't excuse Asmodai's paltry two successes to umptheen failures ratio seeing as how he's literally their oldest chaplain, and the fact that he's twice as likely to kill Fallen by accident than to make them repent. Why the Dark Angels keep giving Fallen to quite possibly the worst Interrogator-Chaplain to ever hold the title (their main goal is to get them to repent, killing them does not do that) is purely because of author bias.

Incidentally his preferred tool of interrogation is a torture weapon called "the Blades of Reason", maybe he chose it out of a sense of irony.

Speaking of irony, Asmodai is named after a daemon king of lust in Christian mythology, so while WH40K Asmodai is busy fun-policing the galaxy, daemon Asmodai is conversely busy living it up [[Slaanesh|Slaaneshi]]-style. Interestingly the name itself comes from Avestan "Aeshma Daeva" meaning [[Skarbrand|"wrath demon"]], which is quite an accurate description for this raging retard.

==Tabletop==
[[File: Asmodai-would_like_a_word.jpg|500px|right|thumb|YOU! YES YOU! STAND STILL LADDIE!]]

DID SOMEONE JUST SAY MURDER ANYONE VIOLENTLY?

Asmodai made a semi-welcome return to the tabletops in the 6th Edition codex with new rules and a new model. Sadly the DA's 7th Edition codex didn't make him any more useful, or viable. His page is actually right across from the generic Interrogator Chaplain, making it very easy to see how useless he is in comparison.

He is a WS6 interrogator chaplain with no upgrades, except for his trademark "Blades of Reason", which is a no-frills close combat weapon with the '''Instant Death''' rule (kind of makes you wonder why he keeps failing at torture)... he also scores +D3 victory points if he slays the enemy warlord in a challenge. Despite his WS boost and instant death capability, he will likely find this difficult (to say the least) to achieve.

Being an Interrogator Chaplain he causes ''Fear'' which doesn't help him so much, since his WS is high enough that he hits most of those things susceptible to Fear on 3+ anyway and dropping those things from 4+ odds to 5+ odds when they hit back is not something to be jumping for joy over. Neither is an instant death weapon that has no bonuses to-wound nor any AP value; if you get REALLY lucky you might insta-gib a monstrous creature by rolling a 6 to-wound and it failing its save, but you're still probably better with the more reliable Crozius against those anyway, while you were always insta-gibbing humans/tau/eldar with anyway...

Unfortunately, like the Dark Angels themselves, you are much better served taking a tooled up nameless Interrogator Chaplain in your force and ditching Asmodai, which is rather fitting considering his fluff. Taking someone good at their job is often better than taking someone who is zealously terrible at it.

===8th edition===
He got leaked early, and first impressions are... looking a little better, but not enough to fix the fundamental problem with him: you're still better off taking a normal Interrogator-Chaplain. His Blades of Reason are still S-user AP-nil, but under the new Damage characteristics they deal D6 damage compared to his Crozius's damage of 2, and with most models in the game having more wounds this isn't a risk worth taking. He's still an Interrogator Chaplain statwise (that is, under their new statblock, so he has 5 wounds and an impressive WS 2+) so he also has "all Dark Angels within 6 inches re-roll failed to-hit in melee" and "all enemies within 6 inches have -1 Ld", plus his own personal ""all Dark Angels within 6 inches have +1 attack". The problem is, he's expensive, 130 (After Price Drop) points (or Power Rating 8) to a normal Interrogator's 90 (Power Rating 7) and doesn't have the option to buy a power fist.

'''2nd Opinion:''' Take him, a Deathwing Ancient with TH+SS, and as many [[Deathwing Knights|deathwing knights]] as you can fit. There's nothing in the rules or indexes stating +1A buffs do not stack, so Asmodai and the ancient (while powerful choices in their own right) turn deathwing knights into something that would make Slaanesh blush. Hitting 4 times (sergeant 5 times) on 3's, rerolling failed hits, S8, -2 AP (-3 for Sergeant) 3 damage each (2 for Sergeant but the wounds carry to different models). Charge these avatars of death into TEQ and watch your opponent cry.

{{Marines-Characters}}

[[Category:Dark Angels]]

Ezekiel

2023-06-04T17:04:26Z

2405:6E00:A46:2100:2DB3:CC69:F16:80FF:

[[Image:Easykill.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Shhhhh.]]

{{topquote|That field may lie beneath the sun,

Fair for the treading of an host:

That field in realms of thought be won

And armed minds do their uttermost.| from 'Ways of War', Lionel Johnson}}

'''Ezekiel''' is the Grand Master of [[Librarian]]s 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 ones to [[Lion El'Jonson]]'s bedroom and Luther’s cell) and the [[Book of Salvation]], which lists the names of all the <s>[[Fallen Angels]]</s> {{Blam|+++HERETICS AND SCUM WHO MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT COME FROM THE DARK ANGELS, THE MOST LOYAL <s>LEGION</s> CHAPTER AND AFFILIATED SUCCESSOR CHAPTERS OF ALL+++}}.

Not to be confused with [[Abaddon|the other guy named <s>Ezekiel</s> Ezekyle.]]

==History==
Ezekiel (meaning: God will strengthen, and indeed He did) was found on Delphyna III, a planet which had devolved into barbarism, where people had rejected technology and [[grimdark|replaced it with human sacrifice]]. Whilst the Dark Angels were righteously introducing the locals to the business end of a flamethrower, they 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 in investigating the town hall. Inside they found a bat-shitload of lunatic ravings and a young boy [[FATAL|chained up in the basement.]] Sensing immense psychic power from the boy, the Librarian queried why the boy was still chained up, since he was powerful enough to free himself. The boy replied: [[Just as Planned|"I saw salvation coming on wings of fire. Now it is here."]]

The boy would become Ezekiel, and while he was [[Teclis|feeble and wasted in body]], he was genetically compatible enough to be a space marine. Subject to the harshest of [[Anal Circumference|physical]] and [[Rebecca Black|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 a 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 [[rape|suffered]] [[Grimdark|already]]. Ezekiel was promoted immediately to Codicier ''([[Ragnar Blackmane|skipping]] Lexicanum)'' and made it to Epistolary within ten years, making his [[Mary Sue|rise through space marine ranks meteoric]]!

During a duel with a Greater Daemon, the psychic backlash caused Ezekiel to temporary lose his divination power, which was also why Ezekiel lost his eye to stray bolter fire from Orks on '''Honoria'''. Just as his company feared the worst without him to guide them, he reappeared on the lines of battle (after he had been saved from death by the company's Apothecary just hours before) with a crude augmetic in place, and hunted down the Ork Warboss and challenged him to a duel, whereupon the Ork's axe meeting Ezekiel's blade caused the axe to shatter and take out the Warboss' eye, [[JUST AS PLANNED]]. It's worth noting that Ezekiel and that same Apothecary help deliver a woman's baby after she is slain by a stray Ork round. That same woman's husband possessed the cybernetic eye that Ezekiel currently uses.

Following this, due to feeling inferior to Ezekiel's [[Cato Sicarius|obvious superiority]] the Chief Librarian of the Dark Angels stood down, taking a demotion so Ezekiel could take the job (actually, the novel ''Eye of Ezekiel'' revealed that the Chief Librarian did plan to step down eventually, but he also had the excuse of causing terrible damage to the Chapter by attacking the [[Necrons]].)
[[File:Ezekiel.png|thumb|350px|right|Books are, as always, necessary to be a wise-ass librarian.]] 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 with one case of where a sergeant was offered promotion to captain of the 10th company, so 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 [[/d/|some]][[/b/|thing]] in there he couldn't live with.

It was Ezekiel who persuaded Azrael not to tamper with history and to destroy the Tuchulcha Engine, which was the main reason why Caliban itself was destroyed in the past and the Fallen were scattered in the first place!

==Tabletop==
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Ezekiel:''' || 145 || 5 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 3 || 5 || 3 || 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, he's not quite the psychic powerhouse of [[Varro Tigurius]] or [[Njal Stormcaller]] in terms of both power selection or ability to re-roll failed powers. However, he does have his own unique '''Librarius Conclave''', which is different from the vanilla codex one. In this case, while he is accompanied by two or more other Librarians, they can loan each other their knowledge of powers, harness Warp Charges on 3+ at a cost of the donor librarians not being able to cast powers, '''but''' you also boost the range of the Mind Worm Primaris power to 24".

Comparatively, thanks to a combination of the Draft Psychic Power FAQ and the way Gladius Strike Forces are put together, vanilla Conclaves have been nerfed badly. Get 3 Librarians together and one nominated Librarian can harness Warp Charges on 2+. but despite having access to phenomenal cosmic powah, unless the players are using Tigurius himself, that nominated generic Librarian is limited to manifesting only two powers per turn at most, while his brethren stand around like idiots. You could of course not use the benefit of the formation, but then you're stuck with a tax of a minimum of three Librarians, since there is no other way to squeeze them into a Gladius Strike Force. Dark Angels can at least take them individually as part of Inner Circle command choices.

===8th edition===
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts/PL || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Ezekiel:''' || 110/8 || 6" || 2+ || 2+ || 4 || 4 || 5 || 3 || 9 || 2+/4++
|}

That's right, Ezekiel comes standard with a 4++ now. His weapons have been given their names back and actually do stuff rather than just grant rerolls. so now the Deliverer is S:4 AP:-1 D:2, and Traitor's Bane is S:+1 AP:-3 D:D3 (Damage:D3+1 against Psykers). Plus he has the [[Book of Salvation]]: friendly Dark Angels within six inches who get killed in the Fight phase, [[Awesome|may immediately pile in and make one more attack before they die]]. As for psychic prowess, he can cast/deny two power per phase, has +1 to Deny rolls if the enemy psyker is within 12 inches, knows Smite and all three Interomancy powers, so he can wound his opponent and force them to fight last and inflict a -1 to all of their To-Hit rolls. Sadly no sign of him getting any [[Varro Tigurius|psychic rerolls]] or [[Njal Stormcaller|casting buffs]], though as an actual warrior, Ezekiel is still one of the most competent Librarians out there with good WS/BS and solid weapons and armour.

==Gallery==
<Gallery>
File:Darkangels-1024.jpg|To be near him is a scary experience.
</Gallery>

{{Marines-Characters}}

[[Category:Dark Angels]]

Ezekiel

2023-06-04T17:03:24Z

2405:6E00:A46:2100:2DB3:CC69:F16:80FF:

[[Image:Easykill.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Shhhhh.]]

{{topquote|That field may lie beneath the sun,
Fair for the treading of an host:
That field in realms of thought be won
And armed minds do their uttermost.| from 'Ways of War'|Lionel Johnson}}

'''Ezekiel''' is the Grand Master of [[Librarian]]s 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 ones to [[Lion El'Jonson]]'s bedroom and Luther’s cell) and the [[Book of Salvation]], which lists the names of all the <s>[[Fallen Angels]]</s> {{Blam|+++HERETICS AND SCUM WHO MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT COME FROM THE DARK ANGELS, THE MOST LOYAL <s>LEGION</s> CHAPTER AND AFFILIATED SUCCESSOR CHAPTERS OF ALL+++}}.

Not to be confused with [[Abaddon|the other guy named <s>Ezekiel</s> Ezekyle.]]

==History==
Ezekiel (meaning: God will strengthen, and indeed He did) was found on Delphyna III, a planet which had devolved into barbarism, where people had rejected technology and [[grimdark|replaced it with human sacrifice]]. Whilst the Dark Angels were righteously introducing the locals to the business end of a flamethrower, they 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 in investigating the town hall. Inside they found a bat-shitload of lunatic ravings and a young boy [[FATAL|chained up in the basement.]] Sensing immense psychic power from the boy, the Librarian queried why the boy was still chained up, since he was powerful enough to free himself. The boy replied: [[Just as Planned|"I saw salvation coming on wings of fire. Now it is here."]]

The boy would become Ezekiel, and while he was [[Teclis|feeble and wasted in body]], he was genetically compatible enough to be a space marine. Subject to the harshest of [[Anal Circumference|physical]] and [[Rebecca Black|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 a 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 [[rape|suffered]] [[Grimdark|already]]. Ezekiel was promoted immediately to Codicier ''([[Ragnar Blackmane|skipping]] Lexicanum)'' and made it to Epistolary within ten years, making his [[Mary Sue|rise through space marine ranks meteoric]]!

During a duel with a Greater Daemon, the psychic backlash caused Ezekiel to temporary lose his divination power, which was also why Ezekiel lost his eye to stray bolter fire from Orks on '''Honoria'''. Just as his company feared the worst without him to guide them, he reappeared on the lines of battle (after he had been saved from death by the company's Apothecary just hours before) with a crude augmetic in place, and hunted down the Ork Warboss and challenged him to a duel, whereupon the Ork's axe meeting Ezekiel's blade caused the axe to shatter and take out the Warboss' eye, [[JUST AS PLANNED]]. It's worth noting that Ezekiel and that same Apothecary help deliver a woman's baby after she is slain by a stray Ork round. That same woman's husband possessed the cybernetic eye that Ezekiel currently uses.

Following this, due to feeling inferior to Ezekiel's [[Cato Sicarius|obvious superiority]] the Chief Librarian of the Dark Angels stood down, taking a demotion so Ezekiel could take the job (actually, the novel ''Eye of Ezekiel'' revealed that the Chief Librarian did plan to step down eventually, but he also had the excuse of causing terrible damage to the Chapter by attacking the [[Necrons]].)
[[File:Ezekiel.png|thumb|350px|right|Books are, as always, necessary to be a wise-ass librarian.]] 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 with one case of where a sergeant was offered promotion to captain of the 10th company, so 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 [[/d/|some]][[/b/|thing]] in there he couldn't live with.

It was Ezekiel who persuaded Azrael not to tamper with history and to destroy the Tuchulcha Engine, which was the main reason why Caliban itself was destroyed in the past and the Fallen were scattered in the first place!

==Tabletop==
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Ezekiel:''' || 145 || 5 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 3 || 5 || 3 || 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, he's not quite the psychic powerhouse of [[Varro Tigurius]] or [[Njal Stormcaller]] in terms of both power selection or ability to re-roll failed powers. However, he does have his own unique '''Librarius Conclave''', which is different from the vanilla codex one. In this case, while he is accompanied by two or more other Librarians, they can loan each other their knowledge of powers, harness Warp Charges on 3+ at a cost of the donor librarians not being able to cast powers, '''but''' you also boost the range of the Mind Worm Primaris power to 24".

Comparatively, thanks to a combination of the Draft Psychic Power FAQ and the way Gladius Strike Forces are put together, vanilla Conclaves have been nerfed badly. Get 3 Librarians together and one nominated Librarian can harness Warp Charges on 2+. but despite having access to phenomenal cosmic powah, unless the players are using Tigurius himself, that nominated generic Librarian is limited to manifesting only two powers per turn at most, while his brethren stand around like idiots. You could of course not use the benefit of the formation, but then you're stuck with a tax of a minimum of three Librarians, since there is no other way to squeeze them into a Gladius Strike Force. Dark Angels can at least take them individually as part of Inner Circle command choices.

===8th edition===
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts/PL || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Ezekiel:''' || 110/8 || 6" || 2+ || 2+ || 4 || 4 || 5 || 3 || 9 || 2+/4++
|}

That's right, Ezekiel comes standard with a 4++ now. His weapons have been given their names back and actually do stuff rather than just grant rerolls. so now the Deliverer is S:4 AP:-1 D:2, and Traitor's Bane is S:+1 AP:-3 D:D3 (Damage:D3+1 against Psykers). Plus he has the [[Book of Salvation]]: friendly Dark Angels within six inches who get killed in the Fight phase, [[Awesome|may immediately pile in and make one more attack before they die]]. As for psychic prowess, he can cast/deny two power per phase, has +1 to Deny rolls if the enemy psyker is within 12 inches, knows Smite and all three Interomancy powers, so he can wound his opponent and force them to fight last and inflict a -1 to all of their To-Hit rolls. Sadly no sign of him getting any [[Varro Tigurius|psychic rerolls]] or [[Njal Stormcaller|casting buffs]], though as an actual warrior, Ezekiel is still one of the most competent Librarians out there with good WS/BS and solid weapons and armour.

==Gallery==
<Gallery>
File:Darkangels-1024.jpg|To be near him is a scary experience.
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[[Category:Dark Angels]]

Ezekiel

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[[Image:Easykill.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Shhhhh.]]

{{topquote|That field may lie beneath the sun,
Fair for the treading of an host:
That field in realms of thought be won
And armed minds do their uttermost.| Ways of War|Lionel Johnson}}

'''Ezekiel''' is the Grand Master of [[Librarian]]s 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 ones to [[Lion El'Jonson]]'s bedroom and Luther’s cell) and the [[Book of Salvation]], which lists the names of all the <s>[[Fallen Angels]]</s> {{Blam|+++HERETICS AND SCUM WHO MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT COME FROM THE DARK ANGELS, THE MOST LOYAL <s>LEGION</s> CHAPTER AND AFFILIATED SUCCESSOR CHAPTERS OF ALL+++}}.

Not to be confused with [[Abaddon|the other guy named <s>Ezekiel</s> Ezekyle.]]

==History==
Ezekiel (meaning: God will strengthen, and indeed He did) was found on Delphyna III, a planet which had devolved into barbarism, where people had rejected technology and [[grimdark|replaced it with human sacrifice]]. Whilst the Dark Angels were righteously introducing the locals to the business end of a flamethrower, they 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 in investigating the town hall. Inside they found a bat-shitload of lunatic ravings and a young boy [[FATAL|chained up in the basement.]] Sensing immense psychic power from the boy, the Librarian queried why the boy was still chained up, since he was powerful enough to free himself. The boy replied: [[Just as Planned|"I saw salvation coming on wings of fire. Now it is here."]]

The boy would become Ezekiel, and while he was [[Teclis|feeble and wasted in body]], he was genetically compatible enough to be a space marine. Subject to the harshest of [[Anal Circumference|physical]] and [[Rebecca Black|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 a 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 [[rape|suffered]] [[Grimdark|already]]. Ezekiel was promoted immediately to Codicier ''([[Ragnar Blackmane|skipping]] Lexicanum)'' and made it to Epistolary within ten years, making his [[Mary Sue|rise through space marine ranks meteoric]]!

During a duel with a Greater Daemon, the psychic backlash caused Ezekiel to temporary lose his divination power, which was also why Ezekiel lost his eye to stray bolter fire from Orks on '''Honoria'''. Just as his company feared the worst without him to guide them, he reappeared on the lines of battle (after he had been saved from death by the company's Apothecary just hours before) with a crude augmetic in place, and hunted down the Ork Warboss and challenged him to a duel, whereupon the Ork's axe meeting Ezekiel's blade caused the axe to shatter and take out the Warboss' eye, [[JUST AS PLANNED]]. It's worth noting that Ezekiel and that same Apothecary help deliver a woman's baby after she is slain by a stray Ork round. That same woman's husband possessed the cybernetic eye that Ezekiel currently uses.

Following this, due to feeling inferior to Ezekiel's [[Cato Sicarius|obvious superiority]] the Chief Librarian of the Dark Angels stood down, taking a demotion so Ezekiel could take the job (actually, the novel ''Eye of Ezekiel'' revealed that the Chief Librarian did plan to step down eventually, but he also had the excuse of causing terrible damage to the Chapter by attacking the [[Necrons]].)
[[File:Ezekiel.png|thumb|350px|right|Books are, as always, necessary to be a wise-ass librarian.]] 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 with one case of where a sergeant was offered promotion to captain of the 10th company, so 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 [[/d/|some]][[/b/|thing]] in there he couldn't live with.

It was Ezekiel who persuaded Azrael not to tamper with history and to destroy the Tuchulcha Engine, which was the main reason why Caliban itself was destroyed in the past and the Fallen were scattered in the first place!

==Tabletop==
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Ezekiel:''' || 145 || 5 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 3 || 5 || 3 || 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, he's not quite the psychic powerhouse of [[Varro Tigurius]] or [[Njal Stormcaller]] in terms of both power selection or ability to re-roll failed powers. However, he does have his own unique '''Librarius Conclave''', which is different from the vanilla codex one. In this case, while he is accompanied by two or more other Librarians, they can loan each other their knowledge of powers, harness Warp Charges on 3+ at a cost of the donor librarians not being able to cast powers, '''but''' you also boost the range of the Mind Worm Primaris power to 24".

Comparatively, thanks to a combination of the Draft Psychic Power FAQ and the way Gladius Strike Forces are put together, vanilla Conclaves have been nerfed badly. Get 3 Librarians together and one nominated Librarian can harness Warp Charges on 2+. but despite having access to phenomenal cosmic powah, unless the players are using Tigurius himself, that nominated generic Librarian is limited to manifesting only two powers per turn at most, while his brethren stand around like idiots. You could of course not use the benefit of the formation, but then you're stuck with a tax of a minimum of three Librarians, since there is no other way to squeeze them into a Gladius Strike Force. Dark Angels can at least take them individually as part of Inner Circle command choices.

===8th edition===
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts/PL || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Ezekiel:''' || 110/8 || 6" || 2+ || 2+ || 4 || 4 || 5 || 3 || 9 || 2+/4++
|}

That's right, Ezekiel comes standard with a 4++ now. His weapons have been given their names back and actually do stuff rather than just grant rerolls. so now the Deliverer is S:4 AP:-1 D:2, and Traitor's Bane is S:+1 AP:-3 D:D3 (Damage:D3+1 against Psykers). Plus he has the [[Book of Salvation]]: friendly Dark Angels within six inches who get killed in the Fight phase, [[Awesome|may immediately pile in and make one more attack before they die]]. As for psychic prowess, he can cast/deny two power per phase, has +1 to Deny rolls if the enemy psyker is within 12 inches, knows Smite and all three Interomancy powers, so he can wound his opponent and force them to fight last and inflict a -1 to all of their To-Hit rolls. Sadly no sign of him getting any [[Varro Tigurius|psychic rerolls]] or [[Njal Stormcaller|casting buffs]], though as an actual warrior, Ezekiel is still one of the most competent Librarians out there with good WS/BS and solid weapons and armour.

==Gallery==
<Gallery>
File:Darkangels-1024.jpg|To be near him is a scary experience.
</Gallery>

{{Marines-Characters}}

[[Category:Dark Angels]]