Sevrin Loth is the current Magister, or Chief Librarian, of the Red Scorpions and is one of the most potent battle-psykers in his Chapter’s history.
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Sevrin Loth is the current Magister, or Chief Librarian, of the Red Scorpions. Sevrin Loth is one of the most potent battle-psykers in his Chapter’s history. Across all of the Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes there are few able to match let alone exceed his destructive power on the battlefield. Sevrin Loth was born to the family of a feudal warlord on a frontier world deep in the Ordon Rift and offered up to the Red Scorpions not long after his birth. It was during this time as a young neophyte taken by the Red Scorpions that his psychic potential unexpectedly manifested when, on the training grounds, his focused anger and fighting spirit alone proved able to shatter the bones of his sparring partners without laying so much as a blade-point on them.
Sevrin Loth’s progression through his Chapter’s rank was marred only by a barely controlled battle-lust that eventually tempered into restraint and wisdom with age and experience. However, uncommonly for a Librarian, he still favored spending time matching his martial skills against his fellow battle-brothers rather than being locked away meditating over arcane secrets. This, along with his raw power as a psyker, has long earned him a reputation as a relentless fighter in battle, and one who takes no greater delight than hacking down enemy sorcerers and witches in personal combat.
At the time of the Badab War’s beginning, Sevrin Loth was a veteran of centuries of battle, and already served as Magister to two Lord Commanders of his Chapter, and further added to his legend by leading the mission to recover Lord Commander Verant Ortys’s body following The Betrayal at Grief. The Betrayal at Grief was the battle that resulted from a breakdown of negotiations between the Secessionist forces led by the Tyrant of Badab Lufgt Huron and Chapter Master Sartaq of the Mantis Warriors and the Loyalist forces led by Chapter Master Verant Ortys of the Red Scorpions.
Sevrin Loth succeeded in recovering his fallen master’s remains, the Red Scorpions clashing with both the raiders and Huron’s Astral Claws within the disintegrating asteroid base before both sides broke free from the place to avoid certain death. Sevrin Loth had saved the honor of the Chapter against all odds and in doing so wrote an enduring legacy from himself despite the bitter blow the Red Scorpions had suffered. With the ascension of Carab Culln to the rank of Lord Commander, Sevrin Loth became his closest adviser and most trusted field commander, fighting on the front lines of the second battle of Sagan and the Conquest of Piraeus.
In combat, Sevrin Loth wears The Armour of Selket, a suit of Artificer Armour which incorporates a Psychic Hood and allows Loth to use his psychic energies to empower the suit’s defenses further. Artificer Armour is the name given to individualized and heavily modified suits of Power Armour. Existing suits of Artificer armor have generally been modified and decorated for a certain individual at point in the Chapters.
These suits are kept within the Chapter even after the death of their original wearers and then inherited by high ranking and honored individuals. Commonly this type of armor incorporates elements of the various “marks” of power armor as well as more unique, customized armor plates and helmets. Loth’s weapons include a Force Axe, a bolt pistol, and Frag and Krak Grenades.
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