Editing Creed (section)

==In-Universe Biography==

The man who would grow up to become Ursakar '''E.''' Creed was born to a family of an ex-Cadian Shock Trooper living in Kasr Gallan. When he was eight years old, however, [[Chaos]] cultists attacked the Kasr, killing both his parents and his sister in the process.

As young Ursarkar hid from the attackers (alongside [[Grimdark|his now very-dead sister]]), a [[Space Marine]] [[Fallen|wearing gleaming black power armor and monk-like robes]] found him. With [[Cypher|a deep voice, laden with years long-lived and loneliness]], the mysterious figure gave the frightened boy an ancient laspistol, and bade him to survive.

What happened next Creed himself would not speak of, but survive he did. Eventually the '''Cadian 8th''', then led by '''Orsani Rudvald''', found the young Creed, the only survivor of that benighted place, with one hand clutching that same ancient laspistol, while the other holding a bedraggled copy of ''De Gloria Macharius''.

Impressed by the boy's grit, he was officially adopted by the regiment. When he came of age, he joined its ranks as a Whiteshield. It was during this period he would meet his lifelong BFF [[Colour_Sergeant_Jarran_Kell|Jarran Kell]].

Due to a combination of innate talent at warfare and strategy, a natural charisma, and a respect for the men and women under his command , Creed gradually got promoted up the ranks, always with his buddy Kell by his side. By the time he was forty Terran-standard years, he was a General, something that was near-unheard of even in the [[Imperial Guard|Astra Militarum]]. It was said that it was only his lowly upbringing that prevented him from reaching a higher position.

Then the betrayal at Tyrok Fields happened. As the '''Volscani Cataphracts''' revealed their allegience to [[Chaos]] and destroyed the assembled Cadian High Command there, Creed rallied the confused and battered forces there to victory. He was named '''Lord Castellan''' in the aftermath, but this really just meant that he now had the unenviable job of leading the defenders of Cadia against [[Black Legion|Abaddon's incoming mob of groupies]].

And come it did, like a battering ram the forces of the [[Black Crusade]] plowed through the defenders of the Cadian system without slowing down. Even with the return of most Cadian regiments on top of various Astartes and Imperial Navy allies, the attack was only blunted at extreme cost. Millions were dead, but the Despoiler was foiled, right?

Wrong. It turns out the initial invasion was just just the tip of Abaddon's forces. The real attack was to come, and it was to include both [[Horus]]' old flagship the '''Vengeful Spirit''' as well as a [[Blackstone Fortress]] that Abaddon had captured back during the Gothic War.

Despite the lopsided chances in the Despoiler's favor, Creed and Cadia's defenders still gave as good as it got. For months the defenders held the invaders at bay. At the ruined ramparts of Kasr Kraf and the trenches of the Elysion Pylon Fields, Guardsman, Sororitas, and Astartes alike made Abaddon's forces pay for every bloody piece of earth they took.

This culminated in Abaddon himself taking to the field, teleporting with his bodyguards almost directly unto Creed's command post. There the Lord Castellan nearly fell, if not for his friend Kell's ultimate sacrifice. The battle soon spread into the catacombs below, where Archmagos [[Belisarius Cawl]] was desperately trying to coax the Pylons to do something, anything.

It almost worked. When the Pylons roared into life, Abaddon was forced to withdraw. What followed however was not a hard-won victory, but the Despoiler's final "Screw You!" to the Imperial defenders: the remains of the ruined Blackstone Fortress were thrown at the planet.

Cadia burned, the Pylons toppled, and baleful energies of the Eye of Terror washed over the planet. Creed despaired at what happened to his world, but seeing that there were still those living that could be evacuated, personally led the remaining Cadian 8th in the defense of an evacuation zone.

That was the last anyone saw of the Lord Castellan, but Creed would leave a lasting legacy to the Cadians who escape their world's end, as the defiant battlecry of his regiment became that of the Cadian Diaspora:

'''CADIA STANDS!'''

What happened next is known only to Creed himself and one other being. Just before Cadia was destroyed, someone referred to in the story as only as "a metal giant in a scaled cloak" approached him and said "Ursukar E. Creed. This is not your end. Eternity awaits." This was later revealed to be the Necron Overlord [[Trazyn]], who has now kept Creed in his gallery, but since the stasis fields aren't fatal and halt aging, Creed could return in the future...

As of latest canon, at some point Creed had a daughter with an unknown woman. Said daughter, Ursula Creed, survived the fall of Cadia, somehow retrieving her father's battered jacket, although there was no sign of the man himself, and wears it in battle commanding the survivors of Cadia.