Grimaldus
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Merek Grimaldus, the Hero of Helsreach, is the Reclusiarch of the Black Templars who refuses to die. He is often accompanied by a posse of Servitors.He is really good at kicking ork but and tearing tyranids apart.Some have said that he is immortal, but thats bullshit, hes just awesome at not dying.
He appears in the novel Helsreach, by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, where Grimaldus not only survives getting an entire temple crumbled over him but kills an ork Warlord with a single strike of his power mace, saves an Imperator Battle Titan princeps from getting assimilated by her engine's spirit by merely demanding her not to fall, steals an Ordinatus from the Adeptus Mechanicus and has his Techmarine hack it so it can kill what it was probably the biggest Mega Gargant of the whole Third war for Armageddon, amongst other awesome feats.
While he is for a large portion of the novel whiny about the fact he has to fight for a doomed hivecity he eventually realizes that, more than defending a physical objective it is to keep the spirits of the Imperial defenders up that he is there, which, after all, it's the job of a Chaplain.
Recently, however, he became best buds with Pride Leader(Sergeant) Ekene Dubaku of the Celestial Lions and set about in an attempt to save their doomed chapter from the wrath of the Inquisition(spece mehrine style!) He even called them naive for messing with the Inquisition because who in their right mind would? (The Space Wolves that's who!) Which further proves the point because half the chapter are bonkers and the other half are filthy furries, (which is completely true) but I digress; they got a lot of Ork assess kicked and got shit done in true Space Marine style. Now there is some hope that the Celestial Lions might survive. Shows how choosing your allies plays a huge part in this mess.
Prior to the Black Templars being mashed into the Vanilla Marines codex, Grimy had a unique special rule similar to reanimation protocols. Upon losing his last wound Grimaldus would make a morale check (ignoring the auto pass he would get from being fearless), if he passed he would fight on with one wound remaining. In the new Space Marines codex he was instead given It Will Not Die.
The novel Helsreach can be found here
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This guys is just overflowing with badassery.
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His servitors.
