Changes

{{SpaceWolvesPortal}}

{{Ambig|subject=Wolf Lord|disambiguation=Blackmane}}

==History==

{{spoiler|source=Space Wolf (Novel Series)}}

Ragnar was born Ragnar Thunderfist on [[Fenris]], a barbarian of the Thunderfists tribe. When he was still a teenager, his village was attacked by a rival tribe, the Grimskulls, who slaughtered his family and most of his tribe. Despite his youth, Ragnar showed extraordinary fighting talent, using berserker-like rage to slay many of the invaders. He finally fell in combat with the Grimskull youth who had killed his father, [[Strybjorn Grimskull|Strybjorn]], though Ragnar dealt him a mortal wound in kind. Because of their equal ferocity and fighting skill, both youths were selected by the [[Wolf Priest]] [[Ranek]] to join the ranks of the [[Space Marines]], and their lives were saved by the medicine of the Astartes{{Cite This}}.

While still in training at the [[Fang]], Ragnar's [[Blood Claw]] pack stumbled onto a secret base beneath one of [[Fenris]]'s mountains being used by the [[Thousand Sons]] [[Chaos Space Marines]]. Ragnar and Strybjorn confronted the [[Chaos Sorcerer|Sorcerer]] [[Madox]], and together managed to banish him back to the [[Warp]]{{Cite This}}.

Ragnar's [[Blood Claw]] pack's first mission off-planet was to assist and escort [[Inquisitor]] [[Sternberg]], an old ally of the [[Great Wolf]] [[Logan Grimnar]], in tracking down an [[Eldar]] talisman which Sternberg believed was crucial to stopping a plague on his home planet. The talisman's pieces were scattered throughout the galaxy, taking Ragnar and his Claws to a world overrun by [[Ork]]s, where they slew a massive [[Warboss]] gifted with [[psyker]] powers, and a [[Space Hulk]] infested with [[genestealer]]s. The final journey of their quest took them to Sternberg's home planet, where they confronted the [[Daemon]] [[Botchulaz]], who had almost escaped the prison the Eldar had fashioned for him{{Cite This}}.

Ragnar's actions won him great renown, and he was inducted into the [[Great Company]] of [[Wolf Lord]] [[Berek Thunderfist]]. Soon a great portion of the [[Chapter]] was deployed to [[Garm]], where a [[Chaos]]-fueled uprising had stolen the [[Spear of Russ]], a sacred relic of the Wolves. During the climactic battle, Ragnar was again confronted by [[Madox]], who was conducting a ritual to raise fallen [[Thousand Sons]] again and to summon his master, [[Magnus the Red]], into the [[Materium]]. In a desperate action, Ragnar threw the Spear into the opening warp rift, preventing Magnus's return{{Cite This}}.

While many, including [[Logan Grimnar]], believed it to be the only way to save the chapter from annihilation, Ragnar was despised by many for the seeming loss of the relic to the enemy. As a symbolic punishment, Ragnar was assigned to the [[Wolfblade]] on [[Terra]], a bodyguard unit for Lady [[Gabriela Belisarius]], an important scion of an allied [[Navis Nobilite]] house. There, he foiled an assassination plot by a rival House, and defeated the [[Imperial Assassin]] [[Xenothan]] in the process. As a reward, the Navigators gifted him with the ancient [[Frost Blade]] that he continued to use for the rest of his life. While accompanying Gabriela on an inspection tour of their holdings on [[Hyades]], Ragnar was caught in the middle of a plot by [[The Fallen]], allied with a resurrected [[Madox]], to foment war between the [[Dark Angels]] and the [[Space Wolves]]. Ragnar formed a temporary alliance with a rival Dark Angel, [[Jeremiah Gieyus]], that helped defeat the Fallen's commander and encouraged a truce between the two chapters{{Cite This}}.

[[File:Blackmanes-Badge.png|thumb|right|The Badge of the Blackmane]]

When Berek was killed in single combat with the [[Chaos]] champion [[Ghorox Bloodfist]], it was Ragnar who hunted down and slew his former Lord's killer. As a result, Ragnar was elevated to Wolf Lord and took command of Berek's Great Company. He is the youngest battle-brother to ever reach such a rank{{Cite This}}.

Ragnar also fought in [[Magdelon Incursion]] in 712.[[M41]]{{Fn|5}}

==Trivia==

*''See'' [[Quotes Space Marines#B|Quotes Space Marines]]

<gallery mode="packed" heights="200">

Ragnar Blackmane.jpg|Ragnar Blackmane miniature{{Fn|3}}

RagnarArt.jpg|Ragnar Blackmane and his Wargear

</gallery>

==Sources==

*{{Endn|2}}: [[Dawn of War II]], single-player campaign, wargear selection screen

*{{Endn|3}}: http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Space-Wolves-Ragnar-Blackmane ''(last accessed 10 April 2015)''

*{{Endn|5}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Thirteen - War Machines of the Lost and the Damned]], pg. 24 ''Magdelon Incursion''

==Uncited==

{{uncited}}

{{SpaceWolves5E}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blackmane, Ragnar}}

[[Category:Characters (Space Wolves)]]

[[Category:Space Wolf (Novel Series)]]

[[de:Ragnar Schwarzmähne]]

[[fr:Ragnar Crinière Noire]]