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'''Horus Aximand''' was a [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[Luna Wolves]] [[Space Marine Legion]], and one of four members of the elite [[Mournival]] council. His likeness to [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]] was so striking that his peers affectionately referred to him as "Little Horus." Despite Aximand's allegiances to the Warmaster, he was always described as a wise and rational Astartes. He had subordinated his personality to allow him to follow Horus's banner into betrayal and civil war.{{Fn|7}}
==HistoryBiography=====The Great Crusade===
By the end of the [[Great Crusade]] Horus Aximand was one of the most prestigious Captains of the Sons of Horus Legion, commanding the [[5th Company (Sons of Horus)|5th Company]]. He served in the [[Mournival]] alongside his close comrades [[Ezekyle Abaddon]], [[Tarik Torgaddon]], and [[Garviel Loken]].{{Fn|1a}} During the [[Great Crusade]] Horus Aximand took part in the [[Battle of Sixty-Three Nineteen]]{{Fn|1b}} and the [[War on Murder]].{{Fn|1c}}
===The Horus Heresy===
On the advice of [[Erebus]]{{Fn|2}}, Aximand became heavily involved in [[warrior lodges]] that led to the corruption of the Sons of Horus. When Horus was mortally wounded on [[Davin]]'s moon, Aximand was one of the lodge members that agreed to allow the [[Serpent Lodge]] to treat Horus's wound.{{Fn|2}} Aximand reluctantly followed his [[Warmaster]] into treachery but unlike Abaddon wanted to "save" as many as his Battle-Brothers as possible. He expressed extreme emotional difficulty in fighting Loken and Torgaddon during the [[Battle of Isstvan III]]. Torgaddon died during the fighting on Isstvan III, and Loken was haunted by apparitions of his comrade.{{Fn|3}}
[[Image:Aximand.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Horus Aximand after his injures on [[Dwell]] ]]
Later, Aximand led Sons of Horus forces in the [[Battle of Dwell]], where he was again wounded in an assassination attempt on his Primarch by [[Shadrak Meduson]]. Aximand was next reunited with his former friend Loken aboard the [[Vengeful Spirit]] in the aftermath of the [[Battle of Molech]]. Aximand fought against Loken to try and stop the [[Knights-Errant]] from assassinating Horus. Aximand and his troops were successful in stopping the attempt, and afterwards the doubts he had harbored since Isstvan were erased.{{Fn|6}}
Following the wounding of Horus at the [[Battle of Trisolian]] and the Warmaster's coma-like state following [[Beta-Garmon]], Horus Aximand wrestled for power within the Legion from [[Maloghurst]] as First Captain [[Abaddon]] was elsewhere [[Battle of Yarant|fighting the Wolves]]. Aximand showed himself to be stubborn, distrustful, and aggressive, refusing to allow Maloghurst and the [[Word Bearers]] to attempt to heal Horus. When Maloghurst tried anyway, Aximand had him imprisoned and instead waged a futile battle at [[Heta-Gladius]]. Thanks to Maloghursts efforts, Horus was restored and an overjoyed Aximand, crying tears of blood, kneeled before him.{{Fn|8}} ===The Siege of Terra==={{Spoiler|source=The Siege of Terra (Novel Series)}}''{{main|Siege of Terra}}Aximand subsequently oversaw the capture of [[Pluto]] as Horus' armada stormed the [[Sol System]] in the [[Solar War]]. During the fighting, he boarded [[Sigismund]]'s command ship ''[[Three Sisters of Spite|Lachrymae]]'' and engaged in a duel with the [[Imperial Fists]] [[First Captain]]. During the fighting, Aximand slew [[Boreas (Imperial Fists)|Boreas]] and wounded Sigismund, but lost his hand to the First Captain as he teleported away.{{Fn|9}} During the [[Siege of Terra]] Aximand reappeared during a Mournival conference, criticizing Abaddon for his percieved dissatisfaction with Horus. When [[Mortarion]] arrived aboard the ''Vengeful Spirit'', Horus Aximand fell into convulsions from the Daemon Primarch's stench.{{Fn|10}}
Following the fall of the [[Lion's Gate Spaceport]] in the Siege, Aximand deployed to the surface of Terra along with the rest of the Mournival. He had begun to once again experience the hallucinations and nightmares of Loken.{{Fn|11a}} He took part in Abaddon's subterranean assault underneath the [[Saturnine Gate]] in hopes of quickly winning the war. However the weakness under the gate was a trap set by [[Dorn]], and upon burrowing under Saturnine in assault drills the Sons of Horus were ambushed by Kill-Teams led by [[Garviel Loken]] and [[Nathaniel Garro]]. During the fight, Aximand's squad was massacred and he fled into the interior of the Saturnine Quarter, coming across [[Arkhan Land]] as he was at work filling the breach in the walls. He demanded Land show him a way into the interior of the Palace so he could do as much damage as possible before he was inevitably slain. However Land was saved by [[Diamantis]] who chased off Aximand. Aximand was then confronted by his former brother Loken. Aximand thought Loken was a hallucination until he was physically attacked. Panicking, Aximand was first eviscerated, then decapitated upon Loken's [[Chainsword]]. As he died, the incessant slow breathing that he had heard in his mind since Isstvan finally ceased.{{Fn|11b}}
