Editing Darnath Lysander (section)

==A Bad Boss==
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[[File:Lysander.jpg|450px|thumb|right|The poster-boy of the Imperial fists.]]
Darnath Lysander is not the sort of person you'd want as your employer. Even amongst genetically enhanced religious fanatics indoctrinated from childhood to genocide all deviants to death, he has a reputation for being a bit of a cockhead. For example, once upon a time, the Imperial Fists 3rd Company was surrounded by Iron Warriors, their Captain was killed, and the company was almost annihilated. The few survivors of the ordeal would later learn that reinforcements from the Blood Angels and Ultramarines were in the system and available for rapid deployment at any time, but Lysander, the commander of the Imperial Fists on the planet, was too proud to accept their aid, instead preferring to allow his marines to die in great, heaping mounds. In fact, during the subsequent trial, Lysander continued to deny that their assistance was ever needed and even suggested that if the Ultramarines hadn't intervened, he would have slain the Warsmith commanding their forces. (Incidentally, the Warsmith in question was none other than Shon'tu, which suggests that Lysander was motivated by revenge and not just stubbornness.) While Chapter Master Vladimir Pugh considered stripping him of his rank for allowing the unnecessary deaths of so many of his men, doing so ran the risk of causing a split in the Chapter, as many believed Lysander's actions to be heroic instead of the byproduct of a single-minded obsession with revenge against the Iron Warriors. As a compromise, he merely demoted Lysander to the rank of 3rd Company Captain (and promptly reassigned them to a crusade against the Orks, much to Lysander's disappointment).

In the book Architect of Fate, Lysander was attached to an Imperial Fist garrison on board a star fortress, so he clearly goes where he wants when he wants to. Continuing the theme of being a bad boss, he murdered the astropath so that a clandestine call for reinforcements wouldn't get out (the astro knew it was coming, and was okay with it in the end, so not so bad we guess?), had his injured [[Techmarine]] possessed so that he could kill a daemon dead, and manipulated the enemy [[Warsmith]] into unleashing his pet greater daemon so that his reinforcements could kill it. He won in the end, but lost at least one star fortress and got a lot of his own killed in the process. The theme there was that Lysander thought that no price for victory against Chaos was too steep, which just reinforces him as being pretty obsessive about revenge against Chaos, no matter how much it hurts his own side in the end. Although, if it really is that he's so obsessed with fighting Chaos, he should put his pride as secondary rather than refusing reinforcements and the like. On the other hand, putting fewer forces into harm's way when it is not '''''strictly absolutely definitively''''' necessary does have its own merits.

[http://mediacdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/638/6021/original.jpg This is not bullshit, this is actually canon.] Unsurprisingly, this garbage was written by everyone's favorite serial [[Matthew Ward|canon]]-[[Robin Cruddace|rapists]]; see [http://thegoodthebadtheinsulting.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/sentinels-of-terra-part-2-lore.html THIS] and [http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/281122-sentinels-of-terra-a-sm-supplement/?p=3479977 THIS]. Cuz, you know, Ward will fling his own poo at every Chapter Master other than his beloved Papa Smurf in order to make [[Marneus Calgar|him]] look good. Then again, considering Lysander's tendencies towards [[Malal|being a self-destructive teamkiller just so he can destroy the forces of Chaos]], [[Just As Planned|something sinister may be afoot here]]. If you gaze in the abyss, the abyss gazes into you; and Lysander's behavior is strangly reminiscent of his hated enemies disdain for every other thing in order to secure victory. Or he just has trouble remembering that not everyone has 2+ and 3++ saves, Eternal Warrior and 4 wounds like he does.

Recently GW seems to be trying to rehabilitate his image. For his flaws, Lysander has now turned down taking up the mantle of [[Chapter Master]] not once, but twice when offered by his fellows. The reason ''why'' is never stated outright, but whether out of humility, stubbornness or a [[rage|burning need]] to [[Rip and tear|cave traitors' skulls in]] by deploying some [[anal circumference|Thunderhammer time upon them]]; he is at least on some level aware his way of doing things might not be the best and that getting overall command would be bad for his Chapter.