Ezekiel

The Man himself.

Ezekiel is the Grand Master of Librarians of the Dark Angels Chapter of Space Marines. He also holds the titles Holder of the Keys and Keeper of the Book of Salvation. He holds the keys to every door in the Rock, besides the one to Lion El'Jonson's bedroom, and the Book of Salvation, which lists the names of all the Fallen Angels HERETICS AND SCUM WHO MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT COME FROM THE DARK ANGELS, THE MOST LOYAL LEGION CHAPTER AND AFFILIATED SUCCESSOR CHAPTERS OF ALL.

History

Found on Delphyna III, the whole planet had devolved into barbarism, where people had rejected technology replaced it with human sacrifice.

Whilst the Dark Angels were righteously introducing the locals to the business end of a flamethrower, the came across a town which was actually eerily pleasant. In a rare moment of 40k cleverness, the Dark Angels brought in their Librarian to assist them investigate the town hall. Inside they found a bat-shitload of lunatic ravings and a young boy chained up in the basement. Sensing immense psychic power from the boy, the Libarian queried why the boy was still chained up, since he was powerful enough to free himself. The boy replied: "I saw salvation coming on wings of fire. Now it is here."

The boy would become Ezekiel, and while he was feeble and wasted in body, he was genetically compatible enough to be a space marine. Subject to the harshest of physical and mental testing since he was a psyker, he took the whole thing without complaint, which clearly puzzled the chapter's Librarians.

When the Librarian in charge then attempted to read the boy's mind, that Librarian had an stroke... when he recovered eighty days later, he announced that the boy would make it as a Dark Angel, since there was nothing they could do to him which he had not suffered already. and was promoted immediately to Codicier (skipping Lexicanum) and made it to Epistolary within ten years. Making his rise through space marine ranks meteoric!

Ezekiel lost his eye to stray bolter fire from Orks on Honoria, and just as his company feared the worst without him to guide them, he reappeared on the lines of battle with a crude augmetic in place and hunted down the Ork Warboss and challanged him to a duel, whereupon the Ork's axe meeting Ezekiel's blade caused the axe to shatter and take out the Warboss's eye Just as Planned.

Following this, due to feeling inferior to Ezekiel's obvious superiority the Chief Librarian of the Dark Angels stood down, taking a demotion so Ezekiel could take the job.

Books are, as always, needed to be a wise-ass librarian.

From here Ezekiel would oversee and approve every promotion and indoctrination within the Chapter's Inner Circle, and there have been instances where marines have actually declined promotion rather than stand under Ezekiel's judgement. This has probably something to do in the case of where one sergeant was offered promotion to captain of the 10th company, Ezekiel probed his thoughts for a day and night... afterwards the sergeant took his bolt pistol and blew his own brains out.

While Ezekiel said that he found nothing in the sergeant's mind that would have prevented his promotion, the Sergeant clearly found something in there he couldn't live with.

Tabletop

He's a level 3 librarian with access to the Pyromancy, Divination, Telepathy and Telekinesis disciplines. He has his own power called Mind Worm that fucks up your stats if you take an unsaved wound(its AP2 btw). Ha The Book on the other hand adds +1WS to all DA units within 6. Beyond that he has average Librarian stats, a psychic hood, and artificer armor. His psychic abilities are hamstrung by him always knowing Mind Worm, leaving only two free powers to generate. Other than that he's pretty reasonable points wise for what your getting.

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  To be near him is a scary experience.

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