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'''Lord Berossus''' was an [[Iron Warrior]] [[Chaos Dreadnought]] who , as of late [[M41]] was also the [[Warsmith]] of an Iron Warriors [[Grand Company]] based on the planet [[Medrengard]].{{Fn|1a}}
== History ==
=== The Horus Heresy ===
{{Spoiler|Source=The Crimson Fist (Novella)}}
An officer of the original Iron Warriors [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]], by the time of the [[Horus Heresy]] Berossus had risen to the rank of [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the 2nd [[Grand Company]]{{Fn|2a}}. When the Iron Warriors were tasked to eliminate the [[Imperial Fists]] battle fleet marooned in the [[Phall system]], Berossus eagerly volunteered to command the fleet, but [[Perturabo]] overruled him, insisting on taking command himself.{{Fn|2b}}
The planning of the Iron Warriors' attack fell to [[First Captain]] [[Forrix]], while Berossus had the dubious honour of acting as Perturabo's adjutant - dubious because the Iron Warriors' [[primarch]] was not above taking out his anger on the messenger who brought him bad news.{{Fn|2c}} Sure that [[First Captain]] [[Sigismund]] was the commander of the Imperial Fists fleet, Perturabo insisted that he be captured alive, and brought to the primarch.{{Fn|2c}} However, Berossus had to confess that, based on the [[vox]] intercepts from the fleet, Sigismund was absent and the enemy commander was [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Alexis Polux]], whom the Iron Warriors dismissed as of no account. Perturabo took the news badly, smashing Berossus's armour with his fists and leaving the Captain to slowly bleed to death on the deck of his flagship.{{Fn|2d}}
Berossus was later entombed into a [[Chaos Dreadnought]], though whether because of these injuries or ones received later is unknown.
=== War on Medrengard ===
Berossus and Warsmith [[Toramino]] were embroiled in a dispute with Lord [[Honsou]], who had stole [[gene-seed]] from an [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] facility on the planet [[Hydra Cordatus]]. Lord Honsou reneged on a promise to share the geneseed with his fellow Warsmiths, leading to civil war amongst the Iron Warriors.{{Fn|1a}} Lord Toramino and Lord Berossus went on to besiege Honsou's fortress, Khalan Ghol, for many months; Berossus bore the brunt of the fighting and lost thousands of soldiers.{{Cite This}}
**{{Endn|1b}}: Prologue, pgs. 524-528
**{{Endn|1c}}: Chapter Eighteen, pgs. 715-718
*2: **{{Endn|2a}}: Dramatis Personae**{{Endn|2b}}: "Twenty-eight days before the Battle of Phall", pgs. 59-60**{{Endn|2c}}: "The day of the Battle of Phall," pgs. 85-86**{{Endn|2d}}: "The day of the Battle of Phall," pgs. 93-94
[[Category:Characters (Iron Warriors)]]
[[Category:Characters (Dreadnoughts)]]
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