Uriel Ventris

Captain Ventris: Mary Sue?

Uriel Ventris is the Brother-Captain of the Ultramarines Fourth Company (the Defenders of Ultramar) and a descendant of Veteran-Sergeant Lucian Ventris of the First Company. He is the main character in Graham McNeill's Ultramarine novel series.

The History of Captain Ventris

• Early Life - Born on Calth on the year of 876.M41 to a family of underground farmers. He is recruited into the Ultramarines for training and vows to be the greatest warrior Macragge has ever seen.

• The Thracia Campaign - The Fourth Company, under command of Captain Idaeus, are tasked with destroying a bridge. Captain Idaeus sacrifices himself to complete the mission and Ventris is placed in command in his stead.

• The First Battle for Pavonis - Captain Ventris and the Fourth Company are tasked with quelling a local rebellion on the mining world of Pavonis. Things are complicated when it is realized that Pavonis is a Necron Tomb World. Captain Ventris confronts the Necrons, but his actions release a shard of the Nightbringer upon the galaxy.

• The Battle of Tarsis Ultra - The Fourth Company, along with Imperial Guard forces, elements of the Mortifactors Chapter, Inquisitor Kryptman, and a Deathwatch Kill-Team, defend the world of Tarsis Ultra against a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan. Captain Ventris and the Kill-Team capture a lictor for the inquisitor to experiment on and he is able to devise a toxin to use against the Norn-Queen. The leader of the Kill-Team, Captain Bannon of the Imperial Fists, was killed in action and Captain Ventris brings it upon himself to lead the Kill-Team. This decision is met by discontent from Uriel's battle-brothers, but he leads the Kill-Team anyway. The assault is successful, but Captain Ventris nearly loses his life. Victory is barely attained by Imperial forces and the death toll is heavy for everyone. When Captain Ventris returns to Macragge, he is immediately accused of heresy for breaking from the Codex Astartes.

• Trial of Uriel Ventris and Pasanius Lysanne: Upon returning to Ultramar, Uriel and Brother-Sergeant Pasanius Lysanne (his closest friend from their training) are charged with heresy for violating the Codex Astartes during his Captaincy. Cato Sicarius leads the prosecution, citing violations of Thunderhawk vehicle safety, unorthodox tactics, and abandoning his men on the eve of battle. First Captain Severus Agemman visits Uriel in his cell and talks with him, saying that the Codex Astartes ultimate purpose is not to make the ultimate Space Marine, but a loyal Space Marine, and that without having it to account for their actions, the Ultramarines would be no different than the Black Legion. Recognizing the seriousness of what he's placed the Chapter in, Ventris and Lysanne agree to forgo their right to defend their actions. Chapter Master Marneus Calgar orders them on a Death Oath to destroy the Daemonculaba, located in the Eye of Terror.

• Death Oath on Medrengard: Exiled, Ventris and Lysanne join a Macragge regiment heading for the Cadian Gate, but as the ship enters the Warp, its Gellar Field fails, allowing daemons to enter the ship. The Omphalous Daemonium, a Daemon Prince of Khorne, charges the exiled Astartes with bringing him the Heart of Blood from Medrengard. Ventris lies to the daemon, accepting and seeing it as a means to get to Medrengard. The former Ultramarines discover a group of renegade Astartes lead by Ardaric Vaanes of the Raven Guard, where they learn that the Heart of Blood is a Bloodthirster and rival of the Omphalous Daemonium, and bound to the fortress of a Warsmith of the Iron Warriors. Uriel convinces the renegades to join him and Lysanne. Their entry into the fortress is discovered, and Uriel Ventris meets Honsou, who is to become his archenemy. Placed within the Daemonculaba, Ventris defies expectations and breaks out with Lysanne, Vaanes, two Renegade Astartes, and two Imperial Guard slaves. They meet the Unfleshed, the failures of the Daemonculaba, who still love the God-Emperor of Mankind so much they built a shrine to God in the middle of Hell. With the Unfleshed and Colonel Leonid, the group breaks back into the fortress and destroy the wards holding the Heart of Blood. Which the Omphalous Daemonium had anticipated, just as planned. The two Daemons fight while Leonid stays behind to buy them time, as Ventris and Lysanne encounter Honsou and his lieutenants Cadaras Grendel and Onyx. The Heart of Blood is victorious, allowing Ventris, Lysanne, and the surviving Unfleshed to escape in the Omphalous Daemonium's train of the damned. Unknown to Ventris, Honsou survives, with a genetic clone of Ventris known as the Newborn, and recruits Vaanes to train the new Iron Warrior.