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'''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|1b}} 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}}

At some point during the [[Great Crusade]], Nassmir Amit fought [[Kharn]] of the [[World Eaters]] on a desert planet that both their Legions had conquered in a joint action. Both fighters were badly wounded in a brutal duel in a trench using axes and cleavers.{{Fn|4}}

Amit and the Fifth Company later joined the joint Blood Angels/[[Alpha Legion]] operation in the [[Kayvas Belt]] fighting the [[Ork]]s.{{Fn|1b}} Following the campaign, Amit and the Fifth accompanied the rest of the Blood Angels Legion in their campaign in the [[Signus Cluster]]. After rescuing [[Squad Cassiel]] on [[Holst]] from [[Chaos|strange hostiles]],{{fn|1d}} Amit began to have concerns that the Blood Angels had been lead into a trap. Having been aware that Raldoron's adjutant, [[Mkani Kano]], had been seeking out his former brothers in the [[Librarius (Fortress-monastery)|Librarius]], Amit approached the former Librarian and offered to help him.{{fn|1e}} After the ''[[Red Tear]]'' had crashed on [[Signus Prime]] and the ''[[Dark Page]]'' under [[Chaplain]] [[Tanus Kreed]] of the [[Word Bearers]] fled, Sanguinius called a meeting of the [[Council of Angels]], Amit finally spoke what he had feared: [[Warmaster]] [[Horus Lupercal]] had lead the Blood Angels into a trap. The words had barely left his lips when Sanguinius struck Amit in the chest with the pommel of his sword and demanded Amit recant his statement. Though clearly shocked at his Primarch's outburst, Amit stood by his accusation. He was only spared censure when [[Helik Redknife]] of the [[Space Wolves]] revealed that Primarch [[Magnus]] of the [[Thousand Sons]] had violated the Edict of Nikaea.{{fn|1f}}

During the [[Siege of Terra]], Nassir Amit took part in the defense of the [[Inner Palace]]. During a defense of a refugee convoy, Nassir met his former chain-brother [[Kargos]] and cut his throat after telling him to simply ''eat shit'', though this failed to kill the World Eater.{{Fn|9a}} Later Nassir was one of the sparse number of defenders at the [[Eternity Gate (Imperial)|Eternity Gate]], holding off a massive Chaos horde. During the battle he again came to blows with Kargos, again telling him to "eat shit" and striking down his former brother.{{Fn|9c}} Following the sealing of the Eternity Gate, Amit wept at the sight of the Angel's wounds at the hand of [[Ka'Bandha]] and [[Angron]] as well as the doom the shutting of the gate meant for Terra.{{Fn|10a}}

Upon sensing the death of Sanguinius, Amit succumbed to the [[Black Rage]] with the rest of his Legion.{{Fn|12a}} He went on a particularly gruesome rampage, massacring large numbers of loyalists until the wave of insanity lifted. He was discovered amid a sea of loyal corpses by the [[Lone Wolf]] [[Odi Sartak]], who had been about to try and stop Amit.{{Fn|12b}} Expressing horror and grief at what he had done, after the defeat of Horus Amit is seen taking part in the funeral service for Sanguinius alongside 500 surviving Blood Angels.{{Fn|12c}}

Following the Heresy, Amit became Master of a Chapter of the [[Second Founding]], which bore the name "Flesh Tearers" after his own epithet.{{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'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 [[cogitator]]s, 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}}

Nassir Amit was notorious among the Blood Angels for both his savage and brutally honest nature. The Primarch Sanguinius valued his honest nature, as Amit would always speak the truth, even when others would be stopped by decorum.{{Fn|1a}} His savage aspect in battle was also known, to the point that he was dubbed "the Flesh Tearer" by his battle-brothers. Far from denying the epithet, he embraced it,{{Fn|1b}} arming himself and his brothers in the Fifth Company with custom serrated flaying knives.{{Fn|1c}} Amit did what he believed to be right, even if went against Legion law, having little fear of the [[Warden]]s.{{fn|1e}}

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]]{{Fn|1g}} with barbed edges, the source of his epithet.{{Fn|1h}}

As both Captain and Chapter Master, Amit tended to ignore cosmetic damage to his armour, leaving bullet marks and blade scars as they were, a habit which annoyed his fellow Blood Angels and even some of his fellow Flesh Tearers.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|3c}}

*[[List of Chapter Masters]]

*[[List of Founders]]

*[[List of Space Marine Captains]]

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**{{Endn|1a}}: ''Nikaea''