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The Atramentar usually fought using deception and trickery to make spiteful and underhanded attacks, never facing their opponent in an honest engagement, even stooping to push their own brethren before a killing blow in order to make a counter themselves. An Atramentar squad was led by an officer known as '''Trucidor'''{{Fn|4}}
During the [[Thramas Crusade]] the [[Night Lords]] [[Primarch]] [[Konrad Curze]] teleported across to the [[Dark Angels]] flagship ''[[Invincible Reason]]'' to exact revenge on the Dark Angels Primarch [[Lion El'Jonson]] and ordered [[Sevatar]] to take the Atramentar and join him.{{Fn|1a}} Sevatar complied and 100 of the Atramentar attacked the ''Invincible Reason'', initially making strong progress until the Dark Angels fought backbrought in reinforcements and surrounded the Night Lords.{{Fn|1e}} Eventually, Curze retreated but into the depths of the ship after realizing the battle was hopeless, abandoning his sons. By the battle’s end, only 12 members of the First Company still survived. All of whom would be captured by that time the Atramentar had suffered heavy lossesDark Angels.{{Fn|1f}}
Following the death of [[Sevatar]], the Atramentar largely dissolved rather than follow [[Zso Sahaal]], who succeeded Sevatar as the First Captain. Some, like [[Apothecary]] [[Talos Valcoran]], put this down to Sahaal not being a [[Nostramo|Nostraman]], but according to the Atramentar asked by [[Mercutian]], a member of [[First Claw|First Claw, 10th Company]], it was mostly because the Atramentar felt no one could live up to Sevatar's reputation and he had formed the Atramentar into the brotherhood they were.{{Fn|2a}} When former Atramentar members did see each other, meetings tended to degenerate into duels over their warlords’ respective strengths.{{Fn|2b}}
