Rhiko Trieste
Rhiko Trieste was a Master-Princep of Legio Praesagius, during the Horus Heresy and commanded the Warlord Battle Titan Auric Pegasus.[1a]
She took part in the Battle of Calth, which saw her Legio in disarray when the Traitors attacked. Worse still, their commander, Princeps Maximus Arutis, was thought dead, after the drop ship Arutan was shot down by Warmaster Horus' forces. This led Trieste to quickly take command of the Legio's scattered forces, just as the traitorous Fire Masters began to advance upon them. She realized her depleted forces would be destroyed if they fought the Fire Masters and they needed the close confines of the nearby city Ithraca to survive. She gave the order to retreat into the city, but Trieste knew they would need time to escape and ordered the 8 remaining Warlord Battle Titans, to join her as she charged at the Fire Masters. Her bold attacked, against over a hundred Titans, ended in the deaths of Trieste and her comrades, but ensured the Legio Praesagius' forces safely reached Ithraca[1a]. According to reports, Trieste's Auric Pegasus was the last to fall, while holding a Fire Master Reaver's head in the Warlord's fist. For their heroism, the Legio Praesagius Warlords later became known in the annals of the Collegia Titanica, as the Nine Paragons of Ithraca.[1b]
