Uriel Salazar

Uriel Salazar
Title/Honours	None ever accepted, referred to as the Executioner or the Arbiter by some
Discovered (period)	circa 817.M30
Legion	Thirteenth
Heraldry/Sigil
Distinguishing Traits	Humility, fierce sense of both justice and duty, and unparalleled willpower
Flaws	Many.
Fate	Shape-shifting Daemon Prince of Tzeentch

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Uriel Shawmar Chanakh Salazar Bakaran, almost always known as Uriel Salazar, was the Primarch of the Justicars, the 13th legion of the Legiones Astartes. Uriel lead the 13th to a multitude of great victories, many unsung, and kept a watchful eye over the Imperium and it's citizens during his life. Ultimately though, he would fall to Tzeentch, becoming an insane shape-shifting Daemon Prince.

History

Youth

When the Primarchs were scattered across the galaxy by the Ruinous Powers, the baby primarch that would become Uriel Salazar landed on the planet Tiberia V. His pod was discovered on the outskirts of the planets capital, Caral, by Enoch Salazar. Enoch was a wise former-soldier, turned animal trainer. Though living in the slums and struggling to feed his family, Enoch took Uriel in and with his wife Maria, raised him as their own; Enoch's strong sense of duty preventing him choosing any other option, and Maria's compassionate nature accepting the proposition immediately. Uriel's short childhood was mostly spent playing with his sister Azriela and brothers Sariel and Gabriel. But as he rapidly grew, Uriel spent more time with Enoch training canids and other beasts. Uriel was a bright and inquisitive young boy, and absorbed all the wisdom his father offered. As he grew Uriel began to train canids himself, and even began to mentor his siblings in training their own pets.
Tiberia had a long bloody history of political factionalism and revolution. Over the century preceding Uriel's arrival, three factions had emerged dominant on Tiberia over all: the "Tiberian Peoples Commune", home to Enoch Salazar', "The Tolerance Covenant", and the "Revolutionary Nationalist Movement". Enoch Salazar had fought in the last great war, which had resulted in an uneasy truce between the Tiberian Peoples Commune and the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement, after they had allied to defeat the more powerful Covenant forces. There had been 20 years of unstable peace since then, but on Uriel's thirteenth year, war would return to the planet once more.
When recruiters came for the war effort, Uriel, along with brothers Sariel and Gabriel set off to sign up and follow in their fathers footsteps. This resulted in a bitter family argument as the women of the family protested, not wanting to lose their family for the sake of the Commune that did so little for them. Enoch eventually provided a compromise; Gabriel, as the youngest would stay home, while Sariel being old enough to enlist could choose for himself. Uriel's fate would be left up to the recruiters judgement. Uriels primarch genes had begun to manifest, making Uriel appear older than he really was, and the recruiters accepted such a strong recruit readily.

The war was brutal display of mud, blood, and violence. Uriel and Sariel saw much of the worst it had to offer; from tunnel fighting to relentless artillery bombardments and chemical warfare they weathered it together. The conflict would play a significant role in shaping Uriel into the man he would later become. The Commune leadership was inept, most officers having been drawn from the Commune's Political Commissary. The Commissary was famed for creating remarkably loyal and vigilant political leaders, who were efficient at dealing with criminals and dissenters. This experience rarely gave them insight into the realities of a real battlefield though, and the men under their command often paid the price for their mistakes. Uriel experienced this first hand when his brother Sariel met his end in a bitter melee after a Commune officer, eager for glory, ordered the unit to counter-charge from their strong defensive positions at an enemy assault. It was here that Uriel's distrust of authority began, but Uriel also gained a deep appreciation of teamwork, and that combined with the spirit of the common man, could change the course of a battle in even the direst of circumstances. Uriel's understanding of the importance of information also found a home here; its incredible value on the battlefield that could save lives, and its use in shaping morale of friendly and hostile forces alike was not lost on Uriel. Uriel rose through the ranks quickly, displaying a natural talent for leadership and tactics. Despite his promotions, Uriel always looked out for and listened to those below him, often commenting that they were the reason the unit was a success, not Uriel or anyone else. By the end of the war Uriel had won many medals, and been promoted to Sergeant Major, the highest rank a low-born enlisted man like himself could achieve.

The war ended after 7 bloody years with the Commune victorious. Upon returning home to the slums, Uriel found it overrun by gangers and scum who had terrorised the families the soldiers had left behind. They who had sacrificed nothing were leeching and stealing from those who had, and the government had done nothing to curb them. A hatred deeper than he had felt during the war awoke within him at the injustice, and he declared a personal crusade against the gangs.
His vigilante war spread like wildfire. Other like-minded individuals joined his cause, many of them former soldiers, and the district was quickly cleansed of its criminal elements. The people thanked Uriel, though he protested; their quality of life had improved dramatically due to his crusade. But Uriel heard stories of the districts neighbouring his own; gangers fleeing his wrath were fighting the local gangs for footholds. The violence they inflicted made life considerably worse for the residents. Seeing the consequences his actions had for others, Uriel sought to rectify this and before long he and his followers had cleansed the entire slums of criminals. This caught the attention of Ferran Machala, the planets Minister of the Interior who among other responsibilities, presided over the Commune's secret police.

Machala was impressed by Uriel's achievements. But it was Uriel's sense of duty and justice that caught Machala's attention most, and he sought to recruit Uriel as a detective in the secret police. The secret police's duty was to hunt down criminals and rebels, something Machala joked Uriel may have some natural ability with. Uriel was unsure; the secret police had a reputation for corruption and never taking prisoners. But Machala was regarded as having a scary eye for talent, and was eager to recruit Uriel. Machala spared no expense in exerting his formidable power to achieve this end. Uriel agreed after Machala guaranteed that Uriel could run his unit as he saw fit, that the slums would be protected, and that he and his siblings would be given full education at the prestigious Collegium of Ghalylé.
Uriel was grateful for this, and sought to become the model student. He spent all his free time studying or tutoring his siblings, though this often caused friction with Gabriel who resented Uriels help, it only reminding him just how much he stood in Uriel's shadow. Their relationship became strained, Uriel only wanting to help his brother, and Gabriel resenting Uriel for it. One night Azriela dragged Uriel away from his books to a student house party in an effort to make his older brother socialise and loosen up. Fate intervened again, and while out smoking on a balcony Uriel met Annastasya Keye. Annastasya was the daughter of the Planetary Governor, Leopoldo Keye. Uriel had never met anyone like her; she was incredibly intelligent, playful, and despite her station, she was a genuine and honest person. They talked well into the following day on that balcony; from lighthearted banter to passionate debates over politics, philosophy and justice, there was never a lull. When it came time to leave for morning classes, they both agreed their debate was unresolved and organised to meet up again. The pair quickly became close, spending a great deal of time in each others company, each having found what they felt was an intellectual equal. Some time after, graduation was upon them. Uriel graduated top of his classes, and started his new career as a detective for the secret police in earnest. His siblings also graduated, Azriela starting up a charity to help improve conditions in the slums, while Gabriel went to work in the Interior Ministry's Intelligence Department. The relationship between Uriel and Gabriel thawed as they set off on their new careers, much to Azriela's joy.

Uriel's deep understanding of the streets, his determination, and his experiences in the war made him a potent detective. Those skills allowed him to quickly win over entire districts despite the reputation of the secret police. It was during a regular investigation that Uriel uncovered several disparate pieces of information: The rebels were known to the Commune before the last war, but immediately following the conclusion of that war, the effectiveness of the rebels dramatically increased. In the latter stages of the war, several Nationalists, and several non-conformist Commune commanders were killed in attacks, though no bodies were ever recovered. Uriel also noted the rebels were remarkably well informed on Commune movements. On their own these events seemed like nothing, just unconnected facts. But Uriel saw something in them, though he couldn't say what, he felt it was bad. With nothing else to go on though, Uriel put the investigation on low priority while he continued his regular operations. Time passed, and Uriels investigation into the events broke ground slowly but exponentially. And the more Uriel and his men learned, the less they liked. The investigation seemed to suggest that members of the Commune government were working with the Rebels and criminal factions to overthrow the Commune, though the why was still unknown. Then during a raid on a rebel safe-house, Uriel's men uncovered an information cache that upon inspection, appeared to be only a few days old. The files included part of a plan to enact a coup at the palace, and a date; that very day. Uriel immediately tried to hail the palace guards over comms, but all channels were seemingly jammed. Uriel wasted no time, he gathered his active squads and commandeered a gyro-craft to take them to the palace. Fortune favoured Uriel that day, and he and his men arrived just in time to change the course of history. Leopoldo Keye, the planetary Governor, thanked Uriel personally, speaking of medals and honours. Uriel protested that he was merely doing his job and wanted no recognition. Leopoldo was insistent however, and compromised with Uriel to pass the honours to Uriels men instead of Uriel himself. Machala arrived and took over the investigation personally, returning Uriel to his post a hero of the Commune. Uriel resumed his regular operations with characteristic diligence, but he could not shake a nagging feeling of concern.

Several high ranking officials and staff were arrested for their part in the coup, and a government-wide purge began under Leopoldo's personal oversight. But in the following weeks Uriel observed the rebels still operated on remarkable intelligence. So Uriel revisited his investigation quietly, but he found nothing new, and he returned to his unease. A fortuitous break came when one of Uriels men caught a rebel messenger while off-duty. The messages being carried were addressed to several of the officials arrested in conjunction with the attempted coup, and included coordinates for them to meet 'friendly forces'. Uriel shared his findings on the continued investigation with Annastsya and Gabriel; Both of whom he respected and knew he could trust as both had a vested interest in protecting the Keye family. Uriel had no evidence, but it was clear someone high up was helping the rebels. Uriel explained that until they knew who they can trust, they needed to keep the investigation quiet and remain vigilant. Uriel had had his men covertly reconnoitre the coordinates in the intercepted messages, what they found was astonishing: a fortified rebel stronghold only a short distance from the Capital.

Without revealing his larger investigation, Uriel informed Machala of his findings, and requested extra manpower to assault the stronghold. Machala agreed to Uriels requests and sent 3 companies of the elite palace guard and mobilised the Commune air force to provide fire support during the assault. The attack began in earnest, and morale was high. At a critical point in the battle, Uriel and his men became targets of a sustained air strike. Uriels men were obliterated or scattered, and Uriel badly wounded, losing his arm. Weak and wounded, Uriel was whisked from the scene and taken to a wide open field with a primarch sized grave dug out ready for Uriels execution. Fate would once again intervene, and with typically uncanny fortune, Uriel was spared his execution by rebels. The rebels took the grievously wounded Uriel captive. Uriel would soon discover that his wounds were the least of his injuries; his parents had been murdered by 'gangers' despite the slums being cleansed of crime. Azriela too had been found dead in suspicious circumstance. Annastasya was in a coma, having been horrifically mauled. The state media claimed Uriel responsible, in a failed attempt at a kidnapping when his true allegiance to the rebels was uncovered by the Interior Ministry. Uriel was affected deeply by this tragedy; they may not have been his biological family, he knew that, but they had shaped him and been there for him all his life. He did not dwell on his grief, instead throwing himself into a quest for justice, and vengeance. His target was clear: those Uriel had fought for, risked his life for, had betrayed him. Why? Uriel didn't know yet. But he would find out.

This quest for vengeance saw Uriel uniting the few surviving old soldiers and the few police officers he trusted, with the rebels he had once hunted. From a former Nationalist army Colonel, a man Uriel had once tried to kill, he learned that the rebels were originally a plot devised by the Planetary Governor and various Merchant interests to gain power; creating a false narrative whereby the rebels were used to silence opposition, unite the people under the Communes regime, and gain support for the subversion of the planetary laws and customs so that the Governor and his Merchant friends could exert total control for their nefarious ends. It had succeeded, but after the last war, deserters from the Commune forces and Nationalists who refused to give up the fight flooded to the rebels. Genuine rebels flocked to the cause and soon hijacked the original leadership, and making the fake rebels a real threat. The picture started to become clear and Uriel began his war, leading his misfit group of rebels, former-police, and old soldiers against the totalitarian regime of the Governor and the Merchant Cabal that backed him. Uriels war was bloody, but Uriel was careful to never harm innocents - utilising the lessons he learned as a detective to win the people over paid dividends for the rebels. The grief of losing his family and Annastasya began to sink in for Uriel, and it took all his willpower to remain disciplined and put the rebel cause, and that of the people first. The rebels made great gains in assaults on Commune precincts. In one such precinct Uriel was reunited with his brother, Gabriel. Surprise and relief filled Uriel, and he quizzed his brother on how he was still alive. Gabriel didn't smile, his face a picture of guilt. He explained to Uriel that Gabriel had informed Machala of Uriels investigation. Believing that it would get Gabriel promotion and honours for bringing the mole to Machala's attention, and for his discretion, noting the political and social unrest that would result from the scandal that would follow. Gabriel believed that Uriel would be reprimanded for his actions at most. He never for a second believed they would do what they had done. Uriel was speechless, his emotions in turmoil. His brother had betrayed him for selfish greed, and the Salazars had paid the price for it. Justice demanded retribution, but Gabriel was Uriels last surviving family. Uriel wanted to let it go, just this once, but doing so would dishonour his dead father, mother, and sister. With a heavy heart Uriel solemnly levelled his gun at his brothers head and fired.

As the struggle progressed, it also slowed; Leopoldo began passing new draconian laws to conscript and control the people, and brought the army in. Atrocities were committed on civilians who just wanted to live their lives and held no allegiance to the rebels. The Rebel commanders rejoiced, seeing that these actions would win the people over to the rebels quicker than any propaganda could. But while Uriel saw this, he also saw the cost to innocent lives, and the casualties the rebels sustained rose steadily as the Commune began taking the rebels more seriously. It tortured Uriels conscience; those who were responsible for the ills of the world were not the ones suffering, just as in the last war. How could the rebels claim to be champions of the people if they would willingly let innocents die to further their goals? That would make them just like those they so bitterly fought. Uriel had never cared much for ethics and morality, but he knew letting others die to further your own cause while doing nothing was far from selfless or just. So Uriel decided upon a risky plan; he would lead an assault on the governors palace to kill the governor, and as many of the leadership as possible. Fortune favouring him, Uriels plan coincided with a military parade, showing off the warriors and tools of war that would soon be used on the rebels and the people alike. Uriel's plan met protest: how could the rebels risk such a hero on a suicide mission? Uriel vehemently defended his plan, stating with great conviction that the struggle was bigger than any one man, and that he was not a hero, just a boy from the slums who refused to watch as good men die. The rousing impromptu speech saw rebel fighters Uriel didn't even know pushing to volunteer for his suicide mission.

The assault was a bloodier affair than anyone expected. Uriels team were so heavily outnumbered and out-gunned it should have been impossible to pull off. But whether from fortune, divine intervention, or unyielding willpower, Uriel and his men succeeded. At the crescendo of the battle, a bloody and weary Uriel stood over the broken corpse of Machala, gun levelled at Leopoldo Keye, the architect of everything that had transpired. Leopoldo laughed, mocking the silent, weary figure of Uriel. Leopoldo recounted how he had Uriel's family raped, tortured, and killed. How he had even had Annastasya beaten to an inch of her life because she refused to renounce Uriel. How he had killed his own daughter just to hurt Uriel some more. Uriel dropped his gun and Leopoldo's laughter became raucous, believing he had broken Uriel with words, after he had come so close to victory. Leopoldo's charred corpse was found hanging over the palace gate from his ankles by a length of razor-wire, a car tire binding his arms, and his blackened tongue protruding from a slit in his throat. The Governors forces were broken, fleeing, the leadership dead in ways that would not be forgotten for generations. Only some of the Merchants escaped, but Uriel would not let them escape his justice for long.

Arrival of the Emperor

The day after Uriel's surprising triumph, the rebels doubled their efforts. The Governor had retained power through using weak yes-men to enact his will, but without the Governor, these ineffectual sycophants fell to their own weaknesses; inept leadership, greed, ambition, envy, and even indecision. Uriel ordered his forces to engage these broken factions and mop up any who rejected his generous offer of amnesty. It was here at the height of his triumph, as hollow as it felt to Uriel, that once more fate would intervene, and choose that day to reunite Uriel with his true Father, the Emperor of Mankind.
With void ships obscuring the sun, the Emperor descended down into the bullet-riddled former-Governors Palace to meet with Uriel. the Emperors entrance was dramatic and ceremonious, flanked by towering lines of shining, golden Custodes, and slightly smaller though still imposing, ceramite-clad warriors bearing golden sun emblems on their shoulders. A tense scene ensued, as these intimidating titans stood beside the radiant figure that was the Emperor, faced by dirty, dishevelled misfits, guns futilely raised at the sudden intrusion. Uriel stood resolutely with his men, his own pistol raised right at the Emperor, unwavering and ready. The Emperor greeted Uriel by name, and began explaining who he was, and who Uriel really was, and the destiny that awaited him.

Uriel's gun didn't waver. In no uncertain terms, Uriel informed the Emperor of his weariness at fates intrusion into his life, and that he had no intention of bending the knee to anyone having just sacrificed everything to defeat the last man he bent the knee to. The Emperor responded by explaining in more detail what his mission was in the galaxy; he was not like the man Uriel had defeated. Yet Uriel countered: The Emperor appears just as self-righteous and pompous as Leopoldo, gesturing to the towering golden-wreathed bodyguards flanking the Emperor; Leopoldo used force to wield his power, how was the Emperor any different. At this the Emperor dismissed his guards, and even ordered the void ships to pull out of orbit over Tiberia.

Now alone on the planet, the Emperor set aside his arms and armour, and spoke with Uriel for several days in the shattered, bullet-scored ruins of the formerly magnificent Tiberian Palace. The Emperor listened to Uriels story patiently, before replying. The Emperor could see Uriels hope and faith were but embers of a once bright fire. And in a display of wisdom and understanding, the Emperor sought to reignite in Uriel a flicker of that hope. He told Uriel of his ultimate goal to unite Mankind against the foes that preyed upon it from within and without. He told Uriel how he sought to elevate man, and recapture the glory of a bygone age, long though lost. Uriel was still sceptical, but the Emperor could see into Uriel's mind, and he saw the flicker of hope there grow, ever so slightly. In his infinite wisdom, the Emperor knew that he didn't need to change Uriel, just nudge the cynical primarch in the right direction, as the simple truth was that Uriel was always meant to be the way he was; to fill the role he was designed for in the Emperors vision for the Imperium required a cynical and dutiful individual of extraordinary conviction and willpower. Uriel for his part felt renewed. His heart was still heavy over the loss of his family, but the Emperor had shown Uriel a vision of galaxy where the common man was looked out for; that the Emperor was a leader who put Mankind before himself or his own personal gain.
It appealed to Uriels sense of duty and compassion to be given such a purpose as the Emperor was offering - to help in the struggle to save man from hostile forces and from himself. The Emperors words affirmed in Uriel the ideals that his adoptive parents, Enoch and Maria, had instilled within him; from his father: duty, justice, and self-discipline. And from his mother: compassion, patience, and humility. Following the Emperor became a way for Uriel to honour the impact his adoptive had on Uriels life as well as extending Uriels desire to help the common man find justice extend beyond the confines of Tiberia. Remembrancers have cited these talks as being the foundation on which Uriels extraordinary loyalty to the Emperor and the Imperium was built on; and consequently these discussions have been studied with great depth after the shock of discovering the Uriel Salazar had betrayed the Emperor and the Imperium, and joined the traitors on Terra.

Great Crusade

Uriels foray into the Great Crusade was extraordinary; with impressive speed and efficiency Uriel quickly overhauled how his entire campaign front was organised and functioned. Impressive victories were racked up with the speed and strategic brilliance only an individual deeply committed to his work could achieve. Uriel never accepted accolades, and rebuffed attempts to hold celebratory events in his or his legions honour, preferring to continue his work without distraction. Uriel also garnered attention for his insistence on diverting legion resources to rebuilding conquered worlds, funding new colonisation efforts, enforcing imperial law, and improving and upgrading the equipment and training of the Imperial Army and PDF forces under his remit. The morale in Uriels sector, and the support for the Imperium reached levels significantly higher than elsewhere in the Imperium, to the point that many remembrancers and Administratum logisticians declared the statistics as anomalies or errors. It wasn't until the Heresy that the effects were verified.

Though while his conquests were celebrated, Uriel was concerned. Aside from his campaign conquests which proceeded with amazingly consistent success, Uriel had continued the legions mandate of hunting out and eliminating sorcerers across the Imperium. Though now combining their mission with counter-insurgency and counter-crime activities for efficiency, the groups intelligence unit consistently reported increases in sorcerous activity within the Imperium. But Uriel noticed that these upticks in Psyker activity were following a basic pattern of beginning as criminal activity, usually political corruption and smuggling, and then each progressed uniquely, but towards a single goal of insurgencies with no clear or identifiable end goal aside from anarchy and erosion of the social fabric of a world. It is unclear looking back if Uriel understood what he had found, but his own writings and orders imply he may have had at least a rudimentary understanding of what he had found. Though many documents and records of the legions activities were lost around the time of the heresy, there remain some administratum records, spared by sheer bureaucratic incompetence, that detailed a serious, long-term effort to combat this sorcerous threat covertly. I was able to use the systems listed to identify a pattern: crime went up, the 13th arrived, and crime went sharply down again. Using this pattern, I was able to map out the 13ths operations, and the sheer scale of what I found was astonishing; The absolute skill and ability required to do what they had done is sadly long lost to us, and one can only muse at the potential effectiveness of the Inquisition if this were not the case. Why Uriel chose to keep these operation so secret is unknown, but my theory, gleaned from my extensive knowledge on the XIII legion and its thrice-damned primarch and all records the Imperium holds on them, is that at least originally, Uriel may have been trying to protect the Imperium at large from a threat it didn't, and couldn't understand. However, significant doubt to this has been put forward by many of my contemporaries, especially focusing on the extensive destruction of all documentation relating to the subject, but none have been able to provide an alternative theory.

Sometime during 942.M30, Uriel requested a meeting with the Emperor and Malcador the Sigilite about the vast network of seemingly unconnected cults the 13th had been dealing with across the Imperium. With hindsight it is clear these cults were dedicated to the Ruinous Powers, but at the time Uriel was apparently reaching out to the Emperor for guidance because of what he had found. The meeting itself was a private affair that only Malcador the Sigilite and the Custodes Captain-General were also privy to, and no minutes were kept. But what is clear is that after this meeting, Uriel would continue his hunt for the elusive connection behind these cults with increased fervour and diligence. From recovered writings of the primarch himself, and those of his inner circle, Uriel's sense of duty and dogged determination seems to have ultimately driven him to attempt making sense of the insane, and thus into the clutches of the foul god Tzeentch. With the truth of Uriels fall obscured to us forever, one is left only with a wistful sense of irony at the guardian against chaos falling to the very same foe he was to face. But more than this, a feeling of wasted potential of once such a beloved and valiant example of what the Imperium could achieve.

Post-Heresy

It is not known when Uriel ascended to become a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch, but the first confirmed sighting of the primarch as a daemon was at Terra itself, when a nightmarish daemonic beast duelling with [insert primarch here] transformed back into Uriel, causing fighting to stop at the shocking reveal of a beloved primarch believed to have been killed or lost in the early days of the Heresy. Since then it has been confirmed that Uriel is indeed a foul shape-shifting Daemon Prince of Tzeentch. Though most primarchs would become dramatically different after their fall to Chaos, Uriel would retain a few of his defining traits; his sense of duty, humility, and dedication most notably, though they were corrupted to new and darker ends. However, he would also become deeply and thoroughly insane, and obsessed with creating order or anarchy, only to orchestrate a reversal in a constantly evolving cycle of change.

Uriels scarily accurate understanding of people would take a darker twist, with Uriel becoming a patron saint of the insane; in the same way that some people become animal whisperers, Uriel can reach the insane. He understands them, help them up from where they had fallen. He calms them, makes "the monsters" that plague them go away, so they no longer felt so alone, so everything was better. This consequently has caused the Imperium serious trouble, as Uriel raises up those among the insane that show promise, especially psykers who are prone to madness, and sets them loose, forming cults all over the Imperium; apostle like figures, all insane in one way or another, constantly advancing the agendas of Uriel and his new master, Tzeentch. Uriel would find insanity to be a great method of change, as it was rarely predictable, and the methods of sapping an individuals sanity were endless.

Uriel also has occasionally surrendered himself into Imperial custody, shared a wealth of information on the traitors, xenos, and events across the galaxy, then facilitated an escape, leaving the Imperium to act on his information, often foiling the agenda's of other chaos gods. However, on numerous occasions, Uriel has been successfully imprisoned for long periods of time by the Inquisition, and banished on several instances. At one point, a extremely powerful radical Inquisitor trapped Uriel within a daemonhost, but Uriel being more than an average daemon was barely held within the bindings, and soon escaped once more.

Personality

Uriel would most readily defined by an unrelenting sense of justice and duty, a startling and genuine humility, and being possessed of such sheer willpower and single-minded focus that had seen him referred to as a "force of nature" on many occasions. He was also favoured by fortune, events often breaking to Uriels benefit. This would seem to be a good foundation for the weapon against chaos that Uriel was supposed to be. However, in light of the forever-damned events of the Heresy, one must ask: how did the primarch created to be the Imperiums weapon against chaos, fall to those same Ruinous Powers?

To answer this, one must look first to Uriel's youth; Here we see that Uriel was involved with war from a young age, as most primarchs were, but Uriel's humility and low social standing afforded by his birth kept him from seeking power or overall command as most of his other brothers had done. The war was the most obvious start of Uriel's lack of trust in authority, but it also is likely the beginning of his high regard for teamwork; in spite of inept leadership, it was teamwork that allowed Uriels men to survive and thrive. Only Gaspard Lumey held a similar humility and appreciation of where he had started as Uriel did, one a superhuman journalist, the other a paranoid detective, both with a strong belief in the common man, justice, and a distrust toward authority.

The influence Uriels adoptive family had upon his development is also of great import; Uriel has been described as possessing a startling understanding of people. Much of this can be attributed to Uriels adoptive father, Enoch, a former war veteran turned professional trainer of canids and other exotic animals. Uriel has been recorded on multiple occasions of recounting wisdom his father imparted upon him, often relating the training of canids and other dangerous fauna to the controlling of men. Combining this with a grounded appreciation of the realities of life for the average civilian, derived from his own life in the slums alongside them, Uriel had a perfect combination of understanding and tough but fair discipline that would make him an inspiring and effective leader.These traits would be a significant reason for Uriel's popularity among civilians and enlisted soldiers, who saw in Uriel a strong leader, who genuinely understood them, and looked out for their interests and well-being before his own, and sometimes even before the Imperium proper. His methods were often unorthodox, and ruffled many feathers among Imperial nobility, but none could deny the sheer level of support for the Imperium Uriel aroused in conquered worlds.
Uriel was not an intellectual like some of his brothers, but he had an incredibly keen mind, that was especially perceptive, and intuitive; always alert and aware of events around him. He was often described in private as being rather quiet, thoughtful, and startlingly insightful, with an alarming analytical ability. Somewhat interestingly, remembrancer Kala Eiek, who shadowed the primarch personally for many years, stated that he was overly serious, punctuated by frequent bouts of dry and dark humour. She goes on to record he was remarkably candid about topics that the Inquisition has since classified or outright redacted, but had a tendency to become a completely different person once trouble began, switching from this serious but entertaining and honest individual, to a grim and stoically professional pragmatism. His remembrancer portrait depicts him smiling, but in reality Uriel is recorded as smiling rarely, more often prone to a scowl or a stoic face of grim determination.

Uriel was however afflicted with many faults; he had a paranoia and distrust of authority that quite often made him hard to work with, along with a frustrating habit of playing devils-advocate that could easily veer into simply being contrarian. His dryly sarcastic sense of humour and directness was often viewed as mocking or rude, even when not intended as such. He was also deeply bitter, cynical, and would even rarely fall into morose moods that would spill into self-loathing and regret over the events of his youth. Uriels single-minded determination and infallible sense of duty could also on occasion see him pursue a goal obsessively, well beyond reason, this ultimately being the reason he would fall to chaos.

Wargear

Uriel's armour

Uriel has an armoury that strikes some as unnecessarily extensive, and others as beyond paranoid; Most commonly however, Uriel is seen carrying several slug pistols, including a bolt revolver. Sometimes he wields a shotgun of a calibre one can only guess at. He is never without the pair of adamantium power daggers forged by his brother-primarch Brennus as a gift; they are nearly always concealed on his person with an alarming multitude of other assorted weapons. His right arm is a high quality cybernetic, replacing the hand he lost in his youth. His armour is of the highest quality, as befitting a primarch, but plain and simple in design, only sporting a plain black cloak for decoration. He is often accompanied by one of his canids or a pack thereof, and if the battlefield suits it, one of his cybernetically enhanced raptors flies above him transmitting a literal birds-eye-view of the surrounding area directly to Uriels helmet feed.