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=Notable Members=

'''Juvan Verkovic, first General of the Iron Guard, Decemvir Primus'''

Initially a member of the twelfth Division's support cadres, Verkovic's ascension through the ranks would show him as a bloody-handed ruler. On several occasions, he would order a hive razed in example to an unyielding population. Yet unlike several commanders in the Legion, he gave little ceremony to these displays of power, seeing it as punishment that would have no place in a perfect Imperium. This sorrowful character gave him the favour of the Primarch, who preferred to be surrounded by such men than bloodthirsty warlords.


'''Taskmaster Nausis, master of recruits of the Iron Guard'''

One of the earliest Zhelezites inducted in the Legion, and a fanatic follower of Dyestes in his homeworld's conquests, Nausis was devoted to enforcing his Primarch's restructuration of the Legion. This devotion and an inspiring presence earned him a place in the Opsequarion, tempering his Terran elders' individualist streaks and helping forge his new legion's culture.

When wounds suffered in the Salucian Xenocide removed him from the frontline, he was assigned on Novi Zhelezem on training duties. Neophytes trained under Nausis show the same drive for order as the taskmaster, resulting in efficient legionnaires and strong-willed commanders.


'''Rheus Astavic, 2nd Brigadier, 1st Division'''

Initially assigned to recon duties, Legionary Astavic displayed a surprisingly accurate ability to estimate enemy locations when out of sight. Common sense would have decreed that he become a Vigilator, yet it would not be. During the compliance of Hanesva, his squad would fall prey to an ambush, leaving him stranded alone in the mazelike corridors of the underhive, his bolter destroyed. For days on end, he roamed the hive with but his combat blade, always one step ahead of the hive-millitia. When extraction came and victory was decreed, he demanded re-assignment to purgation cadres, and took the moniker of "Bloodied Hand in Darkness"


'''Janos Terzi, First of the Iron Guard.'''

An officer in the Youth Guard during the parade displayed to the Emperor's Dragoons when Novi-Zhelezem was found by the Imperium, Terzi would be elected by his Primarch to recieve Astartes augmentation. Of all his fellow sargeants, he would be the only one to survive the process. A fervent believer in his gene-sire's revolution on his homeworld, he would be called a fanatic by many, and bear the banner of the Legion in its early days, serving as the voice of Zelbezis Dyestes, and the closest the Primarch would have to an equerry. To him is attributed the single-handed compliance of Locrius, such was his silver-plated tongue. He would meet his end on Ullanor, and it is said that losing this Herald caused Dyestes notable grief.