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{{Ambig|subject=the [[Dark Angels]] [[Space Marine Captain|Company Master]]|disambiguation=Balthasar}}
[[Image:Balthasar.jpg|thumb|right|135px|Company Master Balthasar{{Fn|2}}]]
'''Balthasar''' is was the [[Space Marine Captain|Company Master]] of the [[Dark Angels]] [[5th Company (Dark Angels)|Fifth Company]]. {{Fn|1}} Balthasar had only recently took taken command of his companythe Company, after being promoted from his post as a [[Deathwing]] [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] , to succeed Company Master [[Zadakiel]] after his death , who died at the hands of the [[Crimson Slaughter]] [[Chaos Warband|Warband]]. His lifetime of servitude to the Deathwing has honed him Balthasar into a crafty and cunning tactician. He holds a great personal anger against the Crimson Slaughter for murdering his mentor.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|5}}
Balthasar is known amongst the [[Inner Circle]] of the [[Chapter]] for his low tolerance of [[psyker]]s, although his negative opinions of the Dark Angels' own [[Librarian]]s were more due to his conviction that their psychic powers were the reason why they were chosen to become [[Space Marines]], rather than skill in battle.{{Fn|3a}}{{Fn|3b}}
After returning to the Chapter, Balthasar was part of a Deathwing squadron attached to the Fifth Company, at the time still under the command of Master Zadakiel, that travelled to the planet [[Stern's Rememberance]] to hunt the [[Fallen Angel]] [[Attias|Attias the Untamed]]. However, Attias was merely bait for an ambush; the Dark Angels were attacked by the [[Crimson Slaughter]]. In the ensuing conflict, Zadakiel was killed and Balthasar became Company Master of the Fifth in his place.{{Fn|5}}{{Fn|7a}}
He would eventually defeat [[Sevastus Kranon|Kranon the Relentless]] and his Chaos Space Marine Warband in the [[Battle for Bane's Landing]], with help from Librarian [[Turmiel]] and other forces of the [[Dark Angels]] Fifth Company.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|6}}{{Fn|7b}}. Balthasar would later be killed in the chaotic battles that followed the [[Great Rift]]'s creation and was succeeded by Master [[Lazarus (Dark Angels)|Lazarus]].{{Fn|8}}
==Related Articles==
**{{Endn|7a}}: pg. 25 - ''Dark Vengeance''
**{{Endn|7b}}: pg. 26 - ''Battle of Bane's Landing''
*{{Endn|8}}: [[White Dwarf September 2019]], pg. 28 - Index Astartes: Dark Angels
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