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'''Criol Fowst''' was a senior "officer" of [[The Brotherhood of the Knife]], a [[Chaos cult]] in service to the [[Word Bearers]] [[Legion]] during the [[Horus Heresy]].

Born into a wealthy mercantile family on [[Terra]], Fowst was blessed with both acute intelligence and ambition. At first he pursued wealth, like his family, and later knowledge, and finally discovered that his true hunger was for power. An avid student of occult knowledge, he was on [[Mars]] when he allowed himself to be recruited by an offshoot of the [[Cognitae]] cult. Fowst stole several volumes of their secrets, killed the cultists, and embarked for the sector of the [[galaxy]] being conquered by the Word Bearers. Fowst had already learned enough to decide that the secular [[Imperium]] offered no routes to meeting the [[Gods of Chaos|"real" powers]] in the galaxy, but decided that the Word Bearers might do so.{{Fn|1a}}

In the later stages of the battle, Fowst's unit encountered a small group of Army fugitives, led by [[Oll Persson]]. In the skirmish, Fowst was knocked unconscious and his ''athame'' was taken.{{Fn|1e}} Enraged, Fowst followed Persson's party, alone, howling for the return of his knife and calling for the [[daemon]]s running loose over Calth to attack the loyalists. Persson killed Fowst with a single shot from his antique slug rifle, and used the ''athame'' to cut a hole in reality that allowed his small party to escape the dying planet.{{Fn|1f}}

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