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'''Garviel Loken''' was the [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the 10th company of the [[Luna Wolves]] [[Space Marine Legion]].
Long an upwardly mobile officer, and friend to senior Captain [[Tarik Torgaddon]], Garviel Loken was inducted into the [[Mournival]] after the pacification of [[Sixty-Three-Nineteen]], the first Mournival member not to be a 'son of Horus', the term for those Luna Wolves who bore a facial similarity to their [[Primarch]]. The bloodline of [[Cthonia]] was strong in Loken, and as a result he had pale, craggy features, short fair hair, grey eyes and a slightly freckled face. His tally of glories reckoned to be in line after those of [[Ezekyle Abaddon]] and [[Luc Sedirae]]<sup>1</sup>, Loken's martial record was unquestionable. His strength of character was vouched for by Torgaddon and no less a personage than the Primarch of the [[Imperial Fists]], [[Rogal Dorn]], who was said to appreciate Loken's calm attitude. Dorn went on to counsel Loken to be a 'naysmith' within the Mournival, and to always speak his mind as he saw it.<sup>1</sup> For a time Loken enjoyed a privileged position at the [[Warmaster|Warmaster's]] side. His relationship with his fellow Mournival brothers was cordial, and he was encouraged from his oath of service to speak as an equal.<sup>1</sup> Loken and the other members of the Mournival continued to get along well until the battles on [[Davin]] and [[Aureus]], often in these happier times even play fighting with his brothers.<sup>2</sup>
However, as it became apparent that more and more activities amidst the [[Astartes]] of the legion were becoming increasingly clandestine and out of character, Loken became suspicious and began to investigate. After the Warmaster's botched attempt at peaceful negotiations with the [[Interex]]<sup>1</sup>, the Luna Wolves were renamed the [[Sons of Horus]]<sup>2</sup>, confirming Loken's fears that the old ways of the legion were being forgotten.
His research into the turbulent ancient history of [[Terra]] (in ancient tomes such as [[The Chronicles of Ursh]])<sup>1</sup> at the behest of his troubled mentor [[Kyril Sindermann]], and his sponsorship of the rebellious [[remembrancer]] poet [[Ignace Karkasy]] put him at odds with some of the most powerful and influential Astartes in the [[63rd Expeditionary Fleet]], including [[Chaplain Erebus]] of the [[Word Bearers]], and even the Warmaster himself.
Horus eventually saw fit to have Loken eliminated during the betrayal at [[Isstvan III]], placing him at the front of the doomed invasion force alongside his friend and fellow marginalized Mournival member [[Tarik Torgaddon]]. When the [[virus bomb]] strike failed to kill all of the loyalist forces on the surface, the entirety of the [[traitor legions]] were eventually deployed to wipe out the survivors, who had fortified their position under Loken's, Torgaddon's, and Saul Tarvitz's command.
Loken fought to the last as a loyal servant of the [[Emperor]] and refused to give any quarter to those who had betrayed the Emperor in favour of Horus. He was wounded on Isstvan III by his old comrade [[Abaddon|Ezekyle Abaddon]], and he 'perished' in the final orbital bombardment of the planet, along with the last surviving loyalists<sup>3</sup>. Loken* and Torgaddon's deaths marked the removal of one of the final obstacle to Horus' great ambitions.
*Although we are lead to believe that Loken perished in the final bombardment of Isstvan III, there has never been any factual statement either way supporting his unfortuate unfortunate demise or his survival of a second bombardment as the last we know of him he was trapped under a layer of rubble as a Titan broke one of the walls of the building they were in.
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