| abstract | - Macer Varren served as a Captain of the 12th Company of the feared and deadly XIIth Legion of Space Marines, the World Eaters. Involved in the bloodiest assaults and most vicious battles of the Great Crusade, Varren helped to contribute to the World Eaters' reputation for bloodshed and the propagation of fear on a mass scale. Varren was a warrior who bore the scars of countless conflicts upon a chiselled, granite-hard face. The stiff lines of Macer Varren's features mirrored those of other Veteran Astartes who had known a lifetime of war. Varren wore a tight cowl of dark hair and usually sported a ragged beard. Like his fellow World Eaters, Varren possessed a short temper and was always eager to prove himself in battle, though he possessed a strong code of martial honour, which was atypical for too many of the Primarch Angron's warriors by that time. Unlike his traitorous brethren, who spat on their oaths of fealty, Varren remained steadfastly loyal to the Emperor even after the majority of his Legion joined the rebellion of the Warmaster Horus. The lord of the XIIth Legion sent his personal guard known as the Devourers to kill Varren for his refusal to join the World Eaters in their sedition. Varren barely escaped this assassination attempt with his life. He also managed to do so with the remnants of those still loyal to him from his former company. Varren accomplished this feat by commandeering a World Eaters frigate, the Daggerline, and fled the Istvaan III System before the Istvaan III Atrocity began. He was also joined during his flight by the former Emperor's Children Captain Rakatio and some of his Loyalist Legionaries as well. Varren soon became embittered by the betrayal of his former Battle-Brothers.
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