Editing Life Bringers (section)

=Notable Members=

==High Genetor Wilmut Sachs, the Devil of Vischmauz==
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<blockquote>''"He was my brother, the most brilliant man I had ever met, save Johannes or the Emperor himself. I loved him, but he could not love. All that could be said of Vrach, he did what he did out of love. Sachs did what he did for no reason other than that he could, that was why he was so wonderful, and that was why he became the disgusting monster that could kill a sweet man like Edentis. It was my responsibility to look after my brothers, I failed them, and now I will hunt down the man who caused all this and end his life."''</blockquote>

-Gaius Vira to Sebastion Rex, ''The Meeting at Duranesh'' 

Wilmut Sachs was a round man even before his corruption, he naturally gave the appearance of being soft despite his enhanced physiology. He wears a mustache and a monocle, both of which he has come to be known for. His doughy face and watery eyes give off the impression of a pudgy infant, but this is in direct conflict with the nature of their owner. Sachs, called the Devil of Vischmauz, is uniquely selfish among his legion and extremely calculating. His skill with genetic manipulation and engineering is among the greatest in the galaxy, and his time in Brothers of Death hardened him to its application. He probed areas that others never sought and was eventually responsible for introducing corruption into the Life Bringers through Vrach.

Though Sachs' hand in the discovery of the Bringers' process for creating Plague Marines is his most famous, it is hardly his sole accomplishment. The Great Sacrifice at Vischmauz, where Sachs unleashed the Unmaker Plague on a massive encampment of combined loyalist forces and earned his name, the horrors that the few unlikely survivors described were so great as to lead to their madness and eventual purgation, though many imperial scientists theorized this was due to the disease afflicting their very souls. The system-wide infection, whose principal symptoms involved the dissolving of connective tissue and the eventual collapse of the victim into a pile of organs and bone, ate at vast swathes the Imperium for centuries and recurs even in the 41st millennium. 

Since the heresy, Sachs has earned a name for himself as a potent Genetor for-hire. Tales of his experiments, both those which have resulted in better and brighter marines and those which created unspeakable nightmare men comprised of mouths and numb swollen limbs. There are so many different forms his craft takes, as it is often subject more to function than aesthetics, and Sachs' dark eldar teaching is clearly evident in this. The Devil of Vischmauz carries a pair of potent liquifier guns with him on the field of battle, carried aloft by spindly limbs grafted to his underside, in order to test out his new creations. This is rarely anything less than a spectacular show for his followers.

==Captain Gaius Martinus Vira, the Reaper==

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<blockquote>''"There is no man in the galaxy so close to death who could avoid it for so long. He stands between two empires, rushing headlong in a galaxy of horrors, offering his services for many in pursuit of what he will not say. This is just what a man with a duty looks like, he has nothing left but to pursue it and I fear the day he accomplishes his aim."''</blockquote>

-Urak the Black, Veteran of the Bulwark

The thin and disturbingly tall Vira is bone white in complexion, lending the greatest of the Plague Doctors a stark contrast in appearance to the Primarch he has long served. Though they differ so greatly in appearance, they bear the same somber expression and oft furrowed brow, as well as the same grave seriousness. Vira is completely hairless, having long-since destroyed his follicles by enduring the backlash of the myriad of chemical weapons in his employ. His prominent brow, sunken eyes, and prominent cheekbones lend to his frighteningly skeletal appearance, but he was known to be quite kind.

Vira was the longest serving member of the Life Bringers, having earned his name long before the discovery of its Primarch. It was he who was the first of the legion's Plague Doctors and the founder of it's practices. Along with Wilmut Sachs and Edentis Pneuren, who led the Genetory and Apothecarium respectively, Vira was among the most influential in the legion. Unlike Sachs and Pneuren, who survived their tenure in the Brothers of Death by avoiding combat in favor of medical treatment, Vira survived by sheer fortitude and combat skill. He was the most pragmatic of the legion's commanders, favoring more subtle tactics, and it was he who forged the biochemical warfare strategies which guide the legion to this day. 

Unlike his two surviving brothers in the Sacred Band, Vira could never develop a close relationship with Vrach. Though they were always polite, there was an unspoken rift between the two. Vira privately commented that he believed it was due to the primarch's inability to distance Vira from the death his biochemical assaults caused so many of their brothers, as those who walked the path of the Plague Doctor tended to fall by their own devices somewhat often. Whatever it truly was, this rift worsened as Vrach began his Infernal Experiments and the creation of the Plague Marines. Vira had a close but conflicted relationship with Wilmut Sachs, and Edentis Pneuren often acted as a buffer for the two.

By the time of the Heresy, Vira and some 70 battle-brothers stood alone against hundreds of marines in a legion that embraced an unholy alliance with death itself. After witnessing Pneuren's death at the hands of Wilmut Sachs, followed by the unleashing of the Unmaker Plague, he made his move. The Reaper and his men saw no choice but to run, their biochemical weapons were useless against their monstrous brothers. Though they lost nearly half their number in flight, the Reaper and his men escaped aboard the cruiser ''Eden's Burden'' and into the void. Vira vowing to kill the man he saw as responsible for the corruption of his legion and primarch.

Since that day, he had thrown his small band of former Life Bringers into various battlefields across the galaxy. Whenever reports of Life Bringers sowing destruction and disease grow loud, brutal tales of Captain Vira's retribution are not far behind. His natural affinity for operating within a hostile environment, as well as his potent chemical recipes which are capable of mitigating the effects of his former brothers' skills, make him a potent ally for any who seek to combat the Plague Marines of the XIIth. He has on rare occasions been known to enter into conflicts alongside his Bulwark allies, proving a brutal and tenacious combatant.   



==Chief Librarian Vertumnus Alraun, The Agromancer==
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<blockquote>''"I would use Alrahon the Accursed as an example of how low the mon-keigh can fall, if it wasn't such a compliment for him to call him a mon-keigh."''</blockquote>
-Farseer Meonan, Craftworld Yemoja.

The unchallenged Agromancer of the Druidic Circle, Vertumnus Alraun lends his foul magic to Galen's deranged cause. Hailing from a Feral World suffering from a perpetual famine, he was eventually recruited by the Life Bringers and quickly rose to the position of Chief Librarian thanks to his outstanding abilities. A witness to all the horrors of hardship, he had always dreamt of using his psychic powers to help those in need. Yet the strict ruling of the Council of Nikaea robbed Alraun of this dream and turned him into an embittered man completely disillusioned with the Emperor. Seeing the Librarian's dismay, the Legion's High Genetor Wilmut Sachs used him to summon Daemons of Nurgle for him. Utterly disgusted by what he was tricked into doing, Alraun joined the faction lead by Sachs's greatest rival in the Genetory, Nikephoros Galen. Since he shared a lot of the same dreams and aspirations with Galen and Bercilak, he quickly agreed to take part in their 'Green Men' project. Like everyone else who was injected with the Green Man genetic compound, Alraun turned into a heartless sadist who valued lives of plants more than those of humans. He has been a bane to Mankind ever since, following Galen and Bercilak in their incursions and blasting their enemies with vile plant-based sorcery.  

==Senior Genetor Nikephoros Galen, The Grim Sower==
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<blockquote>''"It is a testament to my burning hatred for Sachs that I am eager to join forces with a monster like Galen to bring him to justice."''</blockquote>
-Gaius Martinus Vira, the Reaper.

Notorious heresiarch, biomancer and Chaos Lord, Nikephoros Galen is responsible for countless act of omnicide across the Galaxy. Even the most well-learned members of Ordo Hereticus would be hard pressed to name many Traitors who managed to cause so much harm to the Imperium. Originally a high-ranking Genetor in the Twelfth Legion, Galen was primarily responsible for creating new forms of plant life and modifying existing ones to make them better suited to harsh conditions. It wasn't long before he started entertaining the thought that Humanity also needed gene modifications if it wanted to survive the horrors of the Galaxy. His research in this field, while originally benign and purely theoretical, eventually lead him astray and drove him insane. Convinced that humans needed to adopt the evolutionary advantages of plants, he created the Green Men - horrible amalgamations of man and plant that should not exist by natural law. His attempt to force the whole Legion to convert into Green Men eventually lead to his exile and rise to one of the preeminent warlords of the Eye of Terror. 

==Captain Tribulus Bercilak, The Dendrarch==
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<blockquote>''"There are men who can still redeem their sins, and there are men whose sins are beyond redemption. Then there are those whose bare existence is sinful. And then there are the likes of Bercilak."''</blockquote>
-[[Fabrice Diallo]], ''Colossus Has Fallen'' speech.

The despicable Dendrarch has been leading the Green Men to new atrocities ever since Galen's transformation into the Tree of Woe. Originally an ecoterrorist and a folk hero on his horribly polluted Knight World of Hautedesert, he was eventually recruited by the Life Bringers and rose in their ranks to become one of the Legion's Captains. Extremely valued by his Primarch Johannes Vrach, Bercilak was renowned for his for his valiance and gallantry befitting of a knight far beyond the bounds of his Legion. Forever haunted by his youth on a desolate Industrial planet, he saw the main mission of his Legion in restoring life to the worlds damaged during the Age of Strife. His dream of making Industrial Worlds green again brought him together with Galen, which eventually lead to his damnation. Convinced that Galen was a peerless genius and that he knew what he was doing, Bercilak eagerly assisted him in all of his endeavours, even when they started to become morally questionable. He was amongst the first to be injected with the Green Man genetic compound, which, apart from turning him into a plantman, had an unexpected effect on his brain chemistry, making him extremely sadistic and susceptible to rage. The valiant knight of old had died, giving way to a deranged psychopath delighting in slaughtering the creatures of flesh. Although he has committed countless crimes against Humanity since then, his arguably most infamous act is the inhumanly cruel murder of Antoine Antonelle during the [[Battle of Rai]].

==Captain Ewen Jolyon==

Called Captain Jolly by his men, and the Mind-Breaker of Delgado by the Imperium, Ewen Jolyon is a disturbing creature who delights in his twisted psychological experimentation. His round cheeks and nose, along with a weak chin, give the impression of a melting man. He was a dedicated psychological researcher under Edentis Pneuren, along with others who would come to become the Apothecarion of the Life Bringers, during their time as the Brothers of Death. Ewen's soft nature left him ill-suited to combat, unlike his superior who distinguished himself as a battlefield apothecary, and outright avoided the areas of heavy fighting that the Brothers of Death tended to find themselves in. When Johannes Vrach was found, Jolyon breathed a sigh of relief as the legion grew calmer and more medically focused.

Edentis Pneuren was given approval to create the office of the Apothecarion alongside those of the Genetory and the Biochemical Arms offices, and Jolyon received his own subdivision for psychiatric research. The primarch himself commended the strides that Jolyon made on hypno-conditioning and mental fortifications. The services provided by the office to the marines of the 12th legion led to an increase in overall effectiveness and morale. It's successes were so profound that even some other legions adopted various practices from the Life Bringers, though detractors and conservatives questioned too much toying with the minds of marines. Jolyon had friends throughout his legion, his lack of battlefield accolades swept under the rug in the new order. He even earned the friendship of Wilmut Sachs, the pair often enjoying long discussions about whether nature or nurture governed the nature of man more profoundly. In time, Jolyon attracted attention from the Emperor's own eye.

The Emperor took it upon himself to follow up to the concerns of some of his sons and audit the structure of the Life Bringers' Genetory and Apothecarion, ensuring that the offices were not prying too deeply into his own work. While the master of mankind praised certain aspects of the offices, such as the impeccable gene-stock and the highly advanced cures and treatments they had developed, he harshly criticized the experiments of some Genetors and Apothecaries. Jolyon's office was one of the first in the firing line, as bizarre and somewhat dangerous experiments on altering the minds of marines came to light. Harsh sanctions were placed on the office of psychiatric research, along with the genetory as a whole. Jolyon soon found himself out of favor with Pneuren and some of the more old-styled of his legion, but Johannes Vrach himself interceded on his behalf and Jolyon was permitted to continue his research in secret.

As Wilmut Sachs influence spread, Jolyon threw in his lot with the traitors, and he was allowed an even greater degree of freedom in his experimentation than ever before. As the influence of the new movement spread throughout the legion, overly vocal dissenters would be invited to speak with Captain Jolly. Their voices were heard only rarely after, and their jingoistic affirmations for the new order were enough to silence those who still dared to speak. Jolyon has since put his art to work on many, his mass experiment on the planet Gunaya led to the suicide of an entire civilized world and the incident at Delgado is sealed under tightest imperial records. 

Captain Jolly has undergone the Plague Marine process of the Life Bringers completely, his bloated and distended stomach is larger than most and threatens to burst with each horrific laugh from its owner. The twisted captain gleefully runs throughout the battlefield, testing out new sonic controllers and mind eraser gasses, turning the most potent foe into a dribbling catatonic child or a deranged madman who is no longer capable of distinguishing friend from foe. Delgado rarely leads armies on his own, preferring to rule through controlling another warlord. One of his more ambitious endeavors has seen him revealed as controlling a large force of Imperial Guard through the mind controlled Commissar Janero.