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[[File:Amit.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Amit the Flesh Tearer (Artwork by Clint Langley){{Fn|3b}}]]
'''Nassir Amit'''{{Fn|3a}}, also known as "the Flesh Tearer", was the [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] and [[Dominion (Blood Angels)|Dominion]] of the [[5th Company (Blood Angels Legion)|Fifth Company ]] of the [[Blood Angels]] [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]] during the [[Great Crusade]] and the [[Horus Heresy]].{{Fn|1}} Following the Heresy, Amit became the first [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Flesh Tearers]].{{Fn|2}}
Nassir Amit was one of the first members of the IXth Legion, which in time would become known as the '''Revenant Legion''' for their barbaric practices such as consuming their own dead. A scion of a toxic bloodline in [[Boeotia]], he was a quasi-[[Mutant]] that would have been executed by any other Legion. Instead he was reformed into a [[Space Marine]] and took the name Nassir Amit from an ancient Himalayan play. After his ascension he fully took part in the brutal practices of his Legion, executing captured enemy soldiers and consuming them alongside his fallen brothers.{{Fn|9b}}
All of this changed with the arrival of [[Sanguinius]], who pledged himself to his sons regardless of what path they may take. Under Sanguinius' guidance, the Revenant Legion was reborn into the noble Blood Angels and abandoned its barbaric practices. However Nassir continued to display much of his Legion's former behavior, becoming a famed champion in the gladiator-pits of the [[World Eaters]]. When his chain-brother [[Kargos Bloodspitter]] was challenged to a fight to the death by two World Eaters champions, Nassir defended his brother and struck down his foes in the presence of Sanguinius and [[Angron]]. Sanguinius allowed the bout to take place, but expressed disappointed disappointment with Nassir in the aftermath and instructed him to eat the brains of the two World Eaters he had slain. The act secretly shamed Nassir.{{Fn|9b}}
Amit and the Fifth Company partook in the joint Blood Angels/[[Luna Wolves]] assault on the [[Nephilim]] on [[Melchior]].{{Fn|1c}} Later, Amit accompanied his [[Primarch]] [[Sanguinius]], [[First Captain]] [[Raldoron]], and Captain [[Thoros]] to the [[Council of Nikaea]], where Amit was commanded to stand sentinel in the Great Angel's quarters. When the [[Emperor of Mankind]] issued the Edict of Nikaea, Amit, who was staunchly pro-[[Librarian]], suspected that it was because Sanguinius feared that Amit would try to argue with the Emperor. When Raldoron returned to the Blood Angels quarters, Amit argued with Raldoron that commanding the Librarians to never again use their powers was a mistake, and expressed concerned about how they were to be reintegrated. Sanguinius entered and assured Amit that the Librarians still be welcomed in the Blood Angels ranks, but that the Emperor's word was law, and the Edict of Nikaea was to be followed.{{Fn|1a}}
===Post-Heresy===
Following the Heresy, Amit became Master of a Chapter of the [[Second Founding]], which bore the name "Flesh Tearers" after his own epithet Flesh Tearers.{{fn|2}} With the death of Sanguinius , Amit and his followers gave into their resentment and hatred, unleashing bloody rampages against the traitors as they retreated from [[Terra]]. He later lead the Flesh Tearers to conquer [[Cretacia]] and take the planet as the Chapter's new homeworld.{{Fn|3b}} Amit became obsessed with Cretacia, believing it to be the manifestation of the Flesh Tearers' own nature, hoping that if he could tame its peaks he could temper the edges of his own fury.{{Fn|8}}
Amit's final fate is unknown, as he left Cretacia aboard a ship which vanished at the edge of the [[system]].{{Fn|7b}} Following that, he was never seen alive and his body was never found.{{Fn|7c}} Eventually, his successor, [[Gabriel Seth]], found Amit's helmet in a reliquary aboard an ancient Flesh Tearers vessel, dated to the time before the Second Founding, which had become part of a [[Space Hulk]] that had materialised at the edge of the [[Corythos System]].{{Fn|3c}}{{Fn|7c}} After viewing the images contained in the helmet's cogitators, Seth fell unconscious and the relic was destroyed by [[Harahel]]. Amit's helmet showed Seth a universe of blood which he referred to simply as "the end...".{{Fn|7d}}
==Wargear==
As Captain of the Legion's Fifth Company, Amit wore a suit of [[Artificer Armour]]{{Fn|1b}}, while in combat he used a custom made [[power sword]]{{Fn|1h}} and [[Astartes Combat Knife|flaying knife]]{{fnFn|1g}} with barbed edges, the source of his epithet.{{Fn|1h}}
As Chapter Master of the Flesh Tearers, Amit wore a suit of [[Terminator Armour]], utilizing a pair of [[Chainfist]]s with integrated [[Storm Bolter]]s.{{Fn|3c}} Amit was notably the only Chapter Master of the Flesh Tearers to wear Terminator armour; it was believed by [[Chaplain]] [[Appollus]] that Amit's successors saw it as a prison, not allowing them to slake their thirst for bloodshed.{{Fn|7b}}
**{{Endn|1h}}: Chapter 20
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Red Fury (Novel)]] — [[Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus]], Chapter 9, pg. 178
*3: [[Flesh of Cretacia (Novella)]]:
**{{Endn|3a}}: ''Back Cover''
**{{Endn|3b}}: ''Cover Art''
**{{Endn|7d}}: Track 10
*{{Endn|8}}: [[White Dwarf December 2019]], pg. 72
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Echoes of Eternity (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|9a}}: Chapter 12
**{{Endn|9b}}: Chapters 17-18
**{{Endn|9c}}: Chapter 32
*{{Endn|10}}: [[The End and the Death: Volume I (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|10a}}: 1:iv
**{{Endn|10b}}: 3:vi
