Editing Ferrus Manus (section)

===Early Life===
Ferrus' story begins when he crash lands on the feral world of [[Medusa]], a craggy, stormy, generally unpleasant planet. Ferrus' formative experience was made even worse as he landed in what is implied to be a [[Necron]] tomb. Shambling around the way an infant-baby-primarch-man does, Ferrus accidentally awoke the guardian of the tomb - Asirnoth, the Wyrm. After seeing the robo-dragon ([[Void Dragon|no, not that one]]) escape, he swore to hunt it down, ascending to the surface.

As he roamed across the surface of Medusa - a very inhospitable planet, mind you - completely unscathed, the clans of Medusa took notice of the fuck-off massive man who casually strolled through earthquakes. Instead of joining and ruling over the clans, he initially chose to stay distant from them, focusing more on himself. This was until he finally tracked down Asirnoth, and drowned the dragon in a pool of magma. And thus, Iron Hand (the hand of iron) finally got his iron hands - even though they were actually necrodermis.

Deciding that there wasn't much else to do, Ferrus finally took charge of Medusa's clans, leading them into a technological golden age. He would never interfere with inter-clan rivalries, however, preferring to let them bicker amongst each other and let the strongest emerge - a practice the Iron Hands would keep going millennia later. Eventually [[The Emperor|Big E]] showed up and, after fighting Ferrus for a solid week, earned his respect and got him to join the Imperium.

What can be surmised from his youth that carried onto his later life was a complete need for self-reliance. He killed the Wyrm on his own, got the clans to survive on their own, and embraced the "might makes right" mindset that would eventually evolve into the "flesh bad" mindset which would come to bite his legion in the ass later.