Bjorn

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Bjorn the Fell-Handed model, also the Space Wolves Venerable Dreadnought model

Bjorn the Fell-Handed is the oldest Dreadnought in the Imperium. In the distant past, before his internment within a dreadnought, he fought alongside the Primarch Leman Russ during the Horus Heresy and saw the Emperor before he was interred in the golden throne. He was the only member of his Primarch's personal Wolf Guard that was left behind when Russ departed for the Eye of Terror.

After Russ's disappearance, he assumed the Primarch's leadership of the Space Wolves, becoming the Chapter's first Great Wolf. His heroic career at the head of the Space Wolves ended during a raid against a fortress, when he was so severely wounded and crippled that he was beyond the aid of the chapter's apothecaries. Eventually his paralyzed body was transplanted within a Dreadnought. Over the following five hundred years he remained at the forefront of battle. Eventually however, the long years took their toll on the warrior, and he began spending longer and longer periods dormant in stasis sleep. Now he is only awakened once every thousand years, or when the chapter has the greatest need of his potent skills and wisdom. He represents the Chapter's link to the past, and is revered by the Space Wolves as a hero almost as much as Leman Russ.

Sources

• ¹:Codex: Space Wolves (2nd Edition)