Fashioning the finest swords and armour, his skills were highly sought after across all of Asaheim. Egir Silverhand was a gifted smith amongst the nomadic tribes of Fenris. His path to Wolf Lord was unique as his personality. The Wolf Standard of the Ironwolves Great CompanyĮgil Iron Wolf was born Egil Siverhand to the Stoneface Tribe of Fenris. Vorek Gnarlfist has taken the title of Wolf Lord in recent times, keeping the sigil of the Iron Wolf to honour his predecessors' acts of extreme valour.
He was succeeded as the leader of his Great Company by Wolf Lord Orven Highfell, who was also slain in the skies above Cadia during the 13th Black Crusade, yet the tenacity of the Ironwolves remained unbroken. Egil himself, an ugly and cog-toothed brute made of more metal than flesh, rides at the head of each armoured assault in a personalised Land Raider that still bears the shields of his original household.Įgil Iron Wolf was slain by the Daemon Primarch Magnus the Red's sorcery during the Siege of the Fenris System in 999.M41. The armoured assaults of Egil's Company are famous across the Fenris System, typified by great roaming packs of transport vehicles that cut off the prey's escape routes whilst Egil's heavy tanks tear bloody chunks out of the enemy army. If that were so, then Egil Iron Wolf would owe his totem a great debt, for his Great Company is replete with metallic beasts of war. In Fenrisian mythology, the Iron Wolf lies dormant beneath the continent of Asaheim, a beast so vast that the mountains are the fur on his back and the seams of metal within them are his veins. Egil has taken the totem of the Iron Wolf.
Excerpt from the Saga of Egil Iron WolfĮgil Iron Wolf was a Wolf Lord of the Space Wolves Space Marine Chapter, one of twelve legendary warriors who lead the Great Companies of that Chapter into battle. To strike the sky with ice and fire and send the craven fowl their doom."
But from the heap of corpses stood a warrior whose aim was true.
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