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Somehow, Tycho managed to survive, although the after-effects of the terrible mental assault resulted in half of his face being paralyzed into a horrible rictus grin. The Blood Angels' fine aesthetic taste and appreciation of artistic and beautiful things is well known, so for them injuries of this type are almost worse than death. Tycho had a special mask made by the Blood Angels' most revered artificer in order to hide the disfigurement of his features, but maintained an almost obsessive hatred for the Ork race.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|6}}
Despite his disfigurement, Tycho conducted several brilliant campaigns as leader of the 3rd Company, and many regarded him as [[Dante]]'s likely successor as [[Chapter Master]]. Yet he continued to brood on his injury, and could not bear to stay at the [[fortress-monastery]] on [[Baal]], with its majestic architecture and beautiful artworks, for any length of time, and Dante reluctantly assigned him to increasingly dangerous battle-missions, with increasing frequency.{{Fn|6}} During the war to stop [[Hive Fleet Jourmungandr]], his reckless tactics led many [[Sanguinary Priest]]s to question his sanity.{{Fn|7}}
During the [[Third War for Armageddon]], the [[Chaplain]]s noticed a familiar gleam in Tycho's eye. They knew when they spoke to him that he was seeing visions of the final battles of [[Sanguinius]] and was hard-pressed to tell them apart from reality. [[Chaplain]] [[Vermento]]'s report was:
*{{Endn|5}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?catId=&categoryId=cat440165a§ion=&pIndex=3&aId=8000041a&start=4&multiPageMode=true Blood Angels: Character Focus at games-workshop.com]
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition)]], pg. 41
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels (7th Edition)]] - ''A Chronicle of Heroes''
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