Editing Darius Cyaxares (section)

==Appearance==
Like all of the Emperor's sons, Darius towered over mortal men and Space Marines alike.  The Primarch had tanned skin and a athletic, well-muscled body. Due to exposure to the warp as a babe, his eyes are pure silver like pools of liquid metal.  His face has a timeless youth, giving him an otherworldly appearance.  The Primarch's hair is thick and dark, shorn along the sides of his head with the rest gathered into a pony tail that fell just below his neck.  He usually wore the long loosely fitted robes of his adoptive people, the ''Gosheni '' and favoured muted colours.  Darius spurned jewelry, his only ornament being golden rings looped in his hair.  Yet in times of war his panoply was awe-inspiring.  Darius favoured close-fitted, streamlined artificer armour in burnished gold colour, rather than the radiant gold of the Emperor and his custodes.  His chosen arms were ''Shimti'', a potent Force weapon in the shape of the Simurghian Axe, and ''Manāt'', an ancient heavy bolter that mighty Darius wielded one-handed.  He was well-accustomed to the jetpack and jetbike, but never became reliant on their maneuverability, claiming, ''"I have learnt to fight with my hands and feet alike."''

Darius is a philosophical yet judicious man. Due to his vision and upbringing he has the bearing of a prophet, though he has cast off religion in favour of the '''Imperial Truth'''.  His patience and mental discipline were astonishing, even among the Primarchs, and it is said that he never raised his voice in anger.  If his character was flawed, it was by inaction.  Darius' visions gave him a far greater perspective on the course of the future than any of the Primarchs - indeed, his foresight was among the most powerful of any being in the Imperium - but he was often loathe to intervene, fearing that he would cause greater troubles than those that his visions had revealed.

He enjoys visiting and counselling his brothers, as their father once counselled him. He often quotes various proverbs and challenges his brothers to think outside the box when they are presented with difficult decisions which annoyed more than a few of them.  Nonetheless, he embraces his brothers' individuality.  On occasion he will provide them with cryptic prophecies, though he knows that whatever he can see is already set in stone. While he tries to maintain a humble disposition, many are unsettled when they look into his warp tainted eyes, or feel he is looking down on them with his riddles.  Darius' calm and even temper disarmed the normally acrid [[Gaspard Lumey]], and the two would become close friends during the [[Great Crusade (Hektor Heresy)|Great Crusade]].  Due to their close association during the Reformation, Darius and [[Arelex Orannis]] would forge a somewhat difficult friendship.  Both greatly admired the other's abilities, but their manners were often at odds.