Marvarry
Marvarry was an Imperial Commissar who turned to the Dark Gods during an uprising spawned by an Ork invasion. He led a band of cultists in an unsuccessful attempt to defeat Da Red Gobbo and his fellow Gretchin.
Assault on the church
According to Marvarry's own recollection, he had been a very competent Commissar in the service of the Imperium, leading fearless troops into one desperate battlefield after another, a far cry from the hapless rabble he commanded under the auspices of the True Sons of Lorgar. Commissar Marvarry had been "enlightened" by the ministrations of Dark Apostle Aneath, his eyes finally opened to the grotesque nature of the Imperium, and so it was into the service of Aneath's band of Heretic Astartes that the Commissar fell.[1a]
However, deprived of his former troops, even those who had fallen with him, Marvarry failed to inspire confidence in the Apostle, and consequently suffered the disrespect of being dealt with only by in-betweens. Desecrating a church dedicated to the Blood Angels Primarch Sanguinius on the eve of the festival of Sanguinala (not to mention capturing and torturing the church's priest) was an opportunity to get back into the Apostle's good books, and he set his least useless soldiers to the task,[1a] while he laboured away on an icon of an eight-pointed star fashioned from human thighs in an attempt to attract the favour of the Dark Gods.[1b]
Having given his cultists specific instructions not to set the church on fire (and risk destroying the relics before they could be defiled), Marvarry was incensed to see smoke billowing out of the building, the result of the occupying greenskins' successful attempt to drive off the attackers. After excoriating the woeful failures, executing one of the dying charred victims of the blaze and breaking his team leader's nose, he set them back to their task before making a second attempt at a now part-living, part-dead icon to correct the Dark Gods' disfavour incurred by the previous shoddy effort.[1c]
When this gruesome endeavour had been completed, he saw that the cultists were no further forward. With anger, he executed another soldier and took his powerfist to the barricade blocking the doorway, twice narrowly escaping being buried under the rubble. Once inside, the group fared poorly and the Commissar was quick to punish brutally any sign of slowness or insubordination.[1d] By the time Marvarry reached the Gretchin atop the church spire he was the last cultist left alive.[1e]
Marvarry displayed no sign of recognising Da Red Gobbo when he came face to face with Redsnot and the legendary Grot, showing only outrage that the Xenos would butcher the Imperial tongue. The fight was quickly over, the Commissar lunging inarticulately with his powerfist, leaving him precariously positioned at the edge of the spire. While his armour offered some protection from the single sniper rifle shot, it couldn't prevent its impact from sending him toppling over the edge.[1e] His consequent death was an inglorious one: impaled upon the upturned blade of Sanguinius' reviled statue.[1f]
