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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 in [[M31]], when he was so severely wounded and crippled that he was beyond the aid of the chapter's [[Apothecary|Apothecaries]], and 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 field|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 is also awakened at the dawn of each new century to hold court at the Great Feast, where he recounts elements from his own saga to his battle-brothers. 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.
Bjorn is thought to have gained the moniker "Fell Handed" partly because he used a [[Lightning Claw|lightning claw]], but mostly because of what happened during the scouring of [[Prospero]], which occurred in during the beginning of the Horus Heresy. There, his left hand It was corrupted by psychic feedback from a [[sorcerer]] of the [[Thousand Sons]] there he had just slain. As the corruption crept up along lost his arm, Chief [[Adeptus Custodes|Custodian]] [[Constantin Valdor]] cut it off, saving Bjorndue to the machinations of Chaos.<sup>2</sup>
==Notes/Canonical Conflict==
There are differing accounts as to how exactly Bjorn lost his arm. In one, Kasper Hawser, a sjkald with the Third Great Company, partook in the burning of Prospero. Encountering a daemon that had shaped itself into the form of the Warmaster Horus within a structure that was built by the Thousand Sons, he attempted to battle it into submission. Realizing that he could not win, he called for aid, and several members of the Third came to assist him. All of them fell to the daemon, owing to the fact that it knew all of their names; with that knowledge comes power over the individual. As the daemon advanced on Hawser, the Space Wolf named Bear cut off the daemon's arm. It attempted to claim power over the Space Wolf by calling out his name - Bear - but to no avail. Eventually, however, the daemon overwhelmed Bear, and with a word of power, spread eldritch bale-fire to Bear's arms. Hawser took up his axe and cut off Bear's left arm just beneath the elbow, likely saving Bear's life. As this event occurred, several dreadnoughts and rune priests along with members of the Silent Sisterhood came to confront the daemon. With the Sisterhood, they were able to banish it from the material realm by shooting it repeatedly with assault and twin-linked lascannons. Hawser later learned after the battle that he had translated Bear's name correctly into low Gothic from when they had first met, but in order to have power over a being, a daemon must have the true name. Bear's true name was Bjorn, and as such the daemon did not have any power over the Space Wolf during the battle.<sup>4</sup>
Another account says that his left hand was corrupted by psychic feedback from a [[sorcerer]] of the [[Thousand Sons]] he had just slain. As the corruption crept up along his arm, Chief [[Adeptus Custodes|Custodian]] [[Constantin Valdor]] cut it off, saving Bjorn.<sup>2</sup>
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*<sup>2</sup>:[[Horus Heresy (Artbook Series)#Visions of Darkness|Horus Heresy (Artbook Series): Collected Visions]] Pg. 240
*<sup>3</sup>:[[Codex: Space Wolves (5th Edition)]]
*<sup>4</sup>:[[Prospero Burns]] by Dan Abnett, Chapters 14 and 15
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