Editing Death Smiths (section)

===Talos Mk. IV===
Nobody amongst the Death Smiths knows where Wieland's enigmatic bodyguard came from. He never speaks, never takes off his helmet, and nobody has ever seen him asleep or eating. Naturally, legends have persisted for centuries that his suit of power armour conceals a bound Daemon, compelled by the Hammerfist to do his bidding. The reality, however, is much stranger than that. There is nothing below the ceramite plates of the silent warrior's armour but thousands of cogs and gears constantly whirling in a maddening rhythm. For Talos is nothing more than an incredibly elaborate clockwork machine, a soulless automaton whose actions are dictated purely by rigid algorithms stored in punched tapes. Of course, Talos is no ordinary wind-up toy; by employing the entire arsenal of Warp-based tricks at his command, Wieland managed to grant his creation with true Abominable Intelligence without using any details more sophisticated than a cog. Extremely primitive yet fiendishly complex, Talos defies the basic laws of mechanics and cybernetics with his bare existence. 

The strange things about this robotic warrior do not end with his inexplicable intelligence. Whereas an ordinary clockwork mechanism would be extremely easy to damage, Talos is nigh indestructible. Whenever his nodes and circuits sustain mechanical damage, their constituent gears immediately reassemble themselves, as if put back in place by an invisible watchmaker. Even when melted by thermal weapons, they retain their shape and cool down back to a solid state within fractions of a second. That being said, in spite of his unparalleled resilience, Talos has been destroyed on several occasions. His previous three incarnations have been vaporised by a Multi-melta, annihilated by a point-blanc shot of an Eradicator Beamer and torn atom from atom by a Gauss Cannon. Every time a Talos is destroyed, Wieland rebuilds him with several improvements, making sure that the clockwork warrior never succumbs to the same fate twice. 

Although he can wield any of the Daemon weapons forged by his master, his trademark weapon is the dreaded Deflesher. A relatively normal power sword at the first sight, it is contaminated with a malaise similar to the infamous Obliterator virus. Anyone infected with it will soon find himself slowly turning into a machine, with the blood vessels being replaced with cables, bones with pistons and hydraulics and flesh giving way to microchips and circuitry. The spread of the disease can only be stopped by a timely amputation of the affected body part; if left unchecked, it turns its victim into a robot within the span of several days. Several famed Imperial heroes have crossed swords with Talos and emerged victorious, only to put a bolt through their heads days later on noticing the horrible transformations of their bodies.