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'''Gabriel Seth''' is the [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Flesh Tearers]].

Seth has presided over the [[Chapter]] for more than 100 years. In his time he has experienced many great victories, but has also seen too many of his battle brothers fall victim to the [[Black Rage]]. He has earned a great degree of enmity from most other [[Imperial]] armies he has fought alongside. Commanders of the [[Imperial Guard]] and of the [[Adepta Sororitas]] are often simply ignored, while other Marines grow frustrated with Seth's impetuous desire to instantly destroy all enemies.{{Fn|1}}

[[Image:SethShieldOfBaal.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Gabriel Seth{{Fn|14}}]]

Seth's hopes of bringing the chapter back into the good graces of the Imperium, and more importantly, saving it from its doom are desperate hopes. Yet his strategy has yet to bear fruit, and only time will tell of what becomes of the Flesh Tearers.{{Fn|2}}

[[Image:Gabrielseth.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Gabriel Seth{{Fn|2}}]]

{{Spoiler|source=Red Fury (Novel)}}

However, Seth and Dante would fight side by side, in defense of the crypt of [[Sanguinius]], when it was attacked by [[mutant]]s unleashed by [[Fabius Bile]].{{Fn|4c}} After the battle, Seth addressed Dante as a true battle-brother, and pledged that the Flesh Tearers would donate the men the Blood Angels needed. Dante was more than a millennium old, but this reversal showed that he was still capable of being surprised. Seth's support also convinced the other chapters' Masters to make the same pledge.{{Fn|4d}} Several months later, Seth discovered a random piece of information that aided the Blood Angels in tracking down Bile (or rather, one of his many clones), who had stolen the blood of Sanguinius.{{Fn|5}}

Gabriel Seth personally led a sizable Flesh Tearers force during the [[Cryptus Campaign]], aiding [[Dante]] and the [[Blood Angels]] against [[Tyranid]] [[Hive Fleet Leviathan]].{{Fn|14}}

Seth's policies and the slow death of the Flesh Tearers have made him many enemies, including those within his own Chapter. The Flesh Tearers Captain [[Guriel]] even worked with the [[Inquisition]] to eliminate Seth, declaring he was a threat to the Chapter's future and expended the lives of Battle-Brothers too easily. To that end, Guriel was able to trap Seth in a shrine with an [[Eversor Assassin]]. However Seth was able to best the maddened killer and used its embedded explosive to escape the shrine. After his escape, Seth promptly dealt with Guriel.{{Fn|11}}

Following the Devastation of Baal Seth led the Flesh Tearers in the [[Angel's Halo]] campaign to take the [[Red Scar]] region from the Tyranids. During the fighting on [[Ashallon]] he slew a large Tyranid psychic beast.{{Fn|10}} He also oversaw a [[Corinth Belt Campaign|bloody purge of the Corinth Belt]] alongside the [[Inquisition]] on Dante's orders.{{Fn|12}}

Along with the traditional loadout used by most Chapter Masters, Seth has a massive, potent two-handed [[chainsword]] aptly named [[Blood Reaver]]. As befitting a master of a Blood Angels successor chapter, Seth is a talented hand-to-hand combatant.{{Fn|2}}

Gabriel Seth is an immense man, by a head taller then most Space Marines.{{Fn|7a}} In battle, Seth can always be found in the vanguard of his forces, leading his Marines through incredible acts of savagery and bloodshed. When the Flesh Tearers presence is not required on the battlefield, he becomes stern and dour, forever preoccupied with the doom that still hangs over his Chapter.{{Fn|1}}

The Black Rage burns as hotly in Seth as it does in any Flesh Tearer, but he has thus far kept it under reign; his fury is a cold and precise one, rather than bright and impetuous.{{Fn|4c}} In the midst of the combat on Baal, Dante became exasperated that Seth always needed to provoke and test him, and Seth rejoined that it was the nature of the Flesh Tearers: to always seek out conflict, to never be entirely at ease, and to never allow oneself to become predictable.{{Fn|4c}}

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*[[List of Chapter Masters]]

*[[Gabriel Seth: The Flesh Tearer (Short Story)]]

*{{Endn|1}}: [[Index Astartes I]]: ''Blood Frenzy: The Flesh Tearers Space Marine Chapter'', pg. 49

*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition)]], pg. 55

*{{Endn|3}}: [[Deathwatch: Rites of Battle]], pg. 62

*4: [[Red Fury (Novel)]] by [[James Swallow]]

**{{Endn|4c}}: Chapter Thirteen

**{{Endn|4d}}: Epilogue

*{{Endn|6}}: [[Codex: Tyranids (8th Edition)]] — ''The Battle of Baal''

*7: [[The Devastation of Baal (Novel)]] by [[Guy Haley]]