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[[Image:Tkell.jpg|thumb|right|220px|[[Forgefather]] T'kell during the [[Horus Heresy]] ]]
'''{{PAGENAME}}T'kell''' was a legendary [[Master of the Forge|Forgemaster]] and first [[Forgefather]] of the [[Salamanders]] during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]].{{fn|1}}
==Biography==
At the time of the [[Drop Site Massacre]], T'kell was named [[Forgefather]] and left behind on [[Prometheus]] with a small garrison of [[Firedrake]]s under orders from Vulkan to destroy the [[Artefacts of Vulkan|artefacts]] in the vault. However after pleas by the Forgefather, Vulkan agreed that T'kell could choose to save seven of the artefacts.{{Fn|2}} T'kell chose the ''[[Chalice of Fire]]'', [[Engine of Woes]], [[Eye of Vulkan]], [[Obsidian Chariot]], [[Song of Entropy]], [[Spear of Vulkan]], and [[Unbound Flame]] as the seven, destroying the remainder in the forges of the ''Chalice of Fire''.{{fn|3a}}
When [[Artellus Numeon]] returned Vulkan's body to [[Nocturne]], the Forgefather gathered the garrison, known as the 'Unscarred', to accompany him to the [[Wrought]], a weapons cache in which Vulkan had told him to seal the artefacts if he did not return from [[Dropsite Massacre|Isstvan V]].{{fn|3b}} [[Regulus (Dark Mechanicum)|Regulus]], seeking to gain access to the Wrought, infected T'kell with malicious scrap-code that forced him to open the vault from within. To free himself, T'kell shot himself in the face with his [[plasma pistol]], narrowly surviving.{{fn|3c}} Awaking from a [[Sus-an Membrane|sus-an coma]] aboard the [[Iron Hands]]' [[Battle Barge]] ''Obstinate'', T'kell deactivated the [[Keys of Hel]], a forbidden machine that animated dead warriors as 'Revenants', before giving the order for the ''Chalice of Fire'' to destroy the ship with the [[Eye of Vulkan]] - — while he was still aboard.{{fn|3d}}
==Sources==
**{{Endn|3c}}: Chapter Fifteen
**{{Endn|3d}}: Chapter Twenty-Seven
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