Barabas Dantioch
"I live to tell the tale, however, of the Iron Warriors' final victory: The last loyal triumph of the IVth Legion."
- Barabas Dantioch
Warsmith Barabas Dantioch more commonly referred to as Dantioch was the highest ranking member of the Iron Warriors who stayed loyal to the Emperor during the Galactic Chaos Dumpster-Fire 30,000.
Biography
Back in the hayday of of the Great Crusade, He was Daddy's favourite, being promoted to Warsmith at some point.Things were going pretty good, until Dantioch was put in charge of a grand company to take on a migratory xenos race known as the Hrud. Apparently the Hrud had an "entropy field" that caused things to age at a fast pace, causing equipment to rust to unusable amounts, and bunkers collapsing under their own weight. This proved to be not a great circumstance for an equipment heavy Legion like the Iron Warriors (or any Legion for that matter) and the Hrud took half a grand company and a subsector with them before they met the business end of a plasma cannon. After that single failure in an otherwise stellar career, Perturabo pulled a Lion El' Johnson and Luthered his ass to garrison duty. Banished to an outpost that was far enough into the Imperium to definitely not get any action, Dantioch spent his time on his magnum opus, a citadel that would make any Iron Warrior or Imperial Fist squeal with delight. This culminated in Schadenhold: A subterranean fortress located on a Death World, suspended upside down over a lake of promethium.