Editing Ferrus Manus (section)

==History==
[[File:YoungFerrus.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Young Iron Hand inspecting a sword he [[Awesome|punched into existence.]] Should have also punched a [[FATAL|helmet too]] in hindsight. Or at least a gorget (ha).]]
[[File:Ferrus Manus by John Blanche.JPG|150px|thumb|left|For a very long time this was one of only two officially produced images of Ferrus Manus, drawn by [[John Blanche]]. The other image showed only his backside. Ever get the feeling you're the unfavorite? Ferrus understands you.]]

===Early Life===
Ferrus' story begins when he crash lands on the feral world of [[Medusa]], a craggy, stormy, generally unpleasant planet. Ferrus' formative experience was made even worse as he landed in what is implied to be a [[Necron]] tomb. Shambling around the way an infant-baby-primarch-man does, Ferrus accidentally awoke the guardian of the tomb - Asirnoth, the Wyrm. After seeing the robo-dragon ([[Void Dragon|no, not that one]]) escape, he swore to hunt it down, ascending to the surface.

As he roamed across the surface of Medusa - a very inhospitable planet, mind you - completely unscathed, the clans of Medusa took notice of the fuck-off massive man who casually strolled through earthquakes. Instead of joining and ruling over the clans, he initially chose to stay distant from them, focusing more on himself. This was until he finally tracked down Asirnoth, and drowned the dragon in a pool of magma. And thus, Iron Hand (the hand of iron) finally got his iron hands - even though they were actually necrodermis.

Deciding that there wasn't much else to do, Ferrus finally took charge of Medusa's clans, leading them into a technological golden age. He would never interfere with inter-clan rivalries, however, preferring to let them bicker amongst each other and let the strongest emerge - a practice the Iron Hands would keep going millennia later. Eventually [[The Emperor|Big E]] showed up and, after fighting Ferrus for a solid week, earned his respect and got him to join the Imperium.

What can be surmised from his youth that carried onto his later life was a complete need for self-reliance. He killed the Wyrm on his own, got the clans to survive on their own, and embraced the "might makes right" mindset that would eventually evolve into the "flesh bad" mindset which would come to bite his legion in the ass later.

===Great Crusade===
When the Crusade began and Ferrus met [[Fulgrim]] of the [[Emperor's Children]], the two didn't get on well initially. Ferrus thought Fulgrim was a massive ponce, and Fulgrim likened Ferrus's face to a Gorgon (hence the title). This all culminated in a competition between the two beneath Mount Narodnya, where each had to forge the best weapon that he could. After three months, Fulgrim forged an ornate warhammer, while Ferrus made a big blingy sword. After praising each other for their craftsmanship, the two exchanged weapons and became best bros for life (in Ferrus's case, quite literally).

Cuddly and friendly, however, Ferrus was not. To the people of Medusa he was a grim figure who took warriors into the crypts of the forbidden polar zone to fight archeotech nasties, and otherwise offered them weaponry and told them to fight to ensure they remained strong. Once he met his Legion, he performed a dramatic ''volte-face'' on interfering in Medusan politics. Which is to say he went from non-intervention to "Legionaries, take over their Clans. Btw they'll only understand if you do it really violently." Nonetheless there was [[Autek Mor|that one guy]] who took that a little far, wiping out a Clan that had gone rogue and claiming their crawler for himself.

As far as military doctrine went, Ferrus wasn't crazy like Angron or cruel like Curze, but he was pitiless, perhaps even more so than Russ or Horus. On the battlefield itself he was the kind of guy who could smash straight through the legs of a Reaver-sized Titan-analogue (a barely disguised AT-AT homage). And Angron thought he was tough holding up a Warhound. Bless.

Like Vulkan, he made a point of forging gear for most of his brothers, although Vulkan was a bit uncomfortable with Ferrus' way of punching metal into shape and didn't use his dragon-headed flamer until the Heresy broke out. Examples of his work include Horus' sword (which Horus favoured until the Emperor gave him ''Worldbreaker''), ''Fireblade'' (the aforementioned sword made for Fulgrim), and Lorgar's mace ''Illuminarum''.

Despite his rigidness and temper Ferrus could be reasonable. When he heard that the Emperor was going to retire from the Great Crusade and leave one of the Primarchs in command; Ferrus Manus decided that it had to be him. He tried to prove the point by leading a joint force of [[Iron Hands]], [[Emperor's Children]], [[Thousand Sons]] and [[Ultramarines]] into battle against a technologically equivalent human empire that had been causing the Ultramarines some problems; Ferrus figured that he could take command of the campaign and be done with it before Guilliman showed up with the rest of the XIIIth legion to finish the job. Unfortunately he lost his cool after his enemies tried to sue for peace then attempted to assassinate him. Deciding that he didn't have the patience trying to fight in the same manner as his brothers, he laid the world to waste, demolishing its population and its infrastructure. Guilliman was pissed when he finally did show up since the world could have become a tremendous asset to the Imperium, but by that point Ferrus Manus had decided he was better at being a conqueror rather than a leader and chose to stand back and wholeheartedly support whoever did get promoted to Warmaster.

Despite his abrasive nature, some of his brothers appreciated him. Guilliman considered him to be one of the "dauntless few", along with Russ, Dorn, and Sanguinius. Humourously, when Fulgrim told Ferrus that Guilliman actually did consider him to be one of the greatest Primarchs among them, Ferrus responded that the thought was not reciprocated (it was, but Ferrus was too stubborn to say so).

Ferrus constantly wanted to compare himself to his brothers, turning everything into some kind of competition. He built an arena on his flagship that outsiders figured was for dueling dreadnoughts, but was actually for him to spar against other Primarchs, though was disappointed that his brothers were reluctant to test themselves against him. Even offering Vulkan a better weapon than the '''Fireblade''' he forged for Fulgrim didn't get him the scrap he wanted. No doubt this was part of his zealous drive to test his own limits, as when an enemy psyker sifted through his mind to find moments of weakness to use against him, he only found that Ferrus actually cherished his defeats since they allowed him the room to grow, and so he actively sought greater challenges to throw himself against. He even figured that if he was to get a second duel against the Emperor, the outcome would be different.

===Horus Heresy and Death===
It all went well until Fulgrim found a new [[Slaanesh|boyfriend/girlfriend/hermaphroditic freak]], and decided to make Ferrus [[heresy|join the dark Side]]. [[Fulgrim]] totally outmatched Ferrus with his [[heresy|HAWTNEZZ]] but Ferrus wasn't interested and they had a fight. Ferrus twisted apart the sword he made for his now ex-boyfriend with his own hands; in response Fulgrim reclaimed his brother's warhammer and knocked him out with it.

When the Horus Heresy officially started, Ferrus impatiently charged off with his fastest ships and his most badass of veterans ''(leaving the bulk of his Legion behind)'' in order to give his traitorous brothers the boot and arrived at [[Drop Site Massacre|the face-off at Isstvan V]]. Ferrus was so pissed off and eager to get stuck in that the Loyalists did so [[Derp|in spite of poor tactical prospects]] - possibly because Ferrus wasn't going to take no for an answer anyway. It started well: Ferrus brought his army down right at the edge of the enemy's shields, and forced Horus' troops into retreat despite all the shenanigans the Traitors pulled. But then they got totally fucked up by a bunch of reinforcements turning on them while Ferrus (now with a rebuilt Fireblade instead of Forgebreaker) challenged Fulgrim. The prancing ninny was on the verge of getting his ass handed to him... until he became Slaanesh's boyfriend for real and proceeded to cut Ferrus' head off (well, it depends on who's writing it, in most Ferrus was losing even before his glorious haircut). [[Awesome|Ferrus' death was said to include great flashes of light,]] but the Inquisition isn't helping with research. Horus was pretty fucking pissed at this.

Ironically, Ferrus' death was caused by the same self-flagellating urge that drives his sons to turn themselves into cyborgs. When Fulgrim came to convert him to Horus' side, Ferrus thought this meant there was some flaw inside him that needed to be expunged by killing Fulgrim. This was why the Iron Hands stayed in the field when everyone else disengaged, and got screwed over harder than everyone else (well, the [[Salamanders]] taking a nuke aside).

Ferrus' death (or fridging, as some would say) is arguably more impactful than anything else he did in the setting. It catalysed his legion's descent into toaster-fucking, fully-damned Fulgrim, and showed that the Heresy was serious business. Guilliman was saddest over him moreso than Vulkan and Corax's supposed deaths, going as far as to call him "Ultramar's most stalwart ally". Despite his anger at Fulgrim, or perhaps because of it, Horus kept Ferrus's head, removing the remaining flesh and leaving it a bleached skull for his throne. Sometimes he would talk to it, lamenting that he had nothing but [[Magnus|dishonored]] and [[Konrad Curze|broken]] [[Angron|psychopaths]] on his side instead of [[Sanguinius|angels]] and [[Roboute Guilliman|strategists]] as his generals. Waging a galaxy wide heresy is a tough job, it seems.
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