Ychne Ghrem

Once a loyal and staunch Imperial Fist Astartes, an elite among his brethren and bestowed with the honour of bearing his Praetors Standard, Ghrem's allegiance to the VIIth faltered after the harrowing experience of Escaping from the abandoned docking arm of Nestro station, Ychne Ghrem was a changed man. Witnessing brother execute brother irrelevant of their master, Emperor or Horus, in the depths of madness or in the desperate bid for freedom, Ghrem had floundered. What he was seeing stripped him of any and all faith he had for his brothers and cause.

The Emperor and Terra were far from here and the politics of warmongers was leading to the deaths of billions and the sundering of the glorious edifice they had raised out of the darkness.

Upon his rescue, Ghrem was one of the first proponents to consider their abandonment of the field, the fact that he was not executed on the spot showed every commander in the meeting that the feeling was shared amongst them in earnest. It was not to leave in cowardice, although they were sure it would be seen that way, but in disgust. Disgust at the level at which the Legions had fallen and their Machiavellian Primarchs with them. With the agreement to leave the theater of war, the next obvious question raised was what to do in regards to their standing and fealty to the VIIth.

Again Ychne led the way in throwing off those shackles; reminding the commanders of the teachings from the Moirai on Kildrech and the good that they have done there and for them to follow their Fates and determine their futures, no matter how contradictory it sounded, it sounded as pure as the Imperial Truth.

With the decision to form the Company of Kildare, Ghrem was likewise reformed and elevated to the rank of Herald, his sacred banner becoming his sign of office and namesake in one.