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'''Balthasar''' was the [[Space Marine Captain|Company Master]] of the [[Dark Angels]] [[5th Company (Dark Angels)|Fifth Company]].{{Fn|1}}
Balthasar had only recently taken command of the Company, after being was promoted from his post as a [[Deathwing]] [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]], to succeed Company Master [[Zadakiel]], who died at the hands of the [[Crimson Slaughter]] [[Chaos Warband|Warband]]. His lifetime of servitude to the Deathwing has honed Balthasar into a crafty and cunning tactician. He holds held a great personal anger against the Crimson Slaughter for murdering his mentor.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|5}}
Balthasar is was 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}}
==History==
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|Great Rift's]]'s creation and was succeeded by Master [[Lazarus (Dark Angels)|Lazarus]].{{Fn|8}}
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