Your grace is more than I can repay in this lifetime

Four Inquisition enforcers led the way, with enforcement troops carrying plasma rifles behind them in two columns, escorting two men between them out of the newly arrived ship.

Nieldra, Chapter Master of the Mantis Warriors.

Phoros, Chapter Master of the Lamenters.

The Inquisition had brought the two Chapter Masters back.

Nieldra had inherited the genetic traits of the White Scars: darker skin, short black hair, and a battlefield scar across his face. He was a burly man with Asian features.

It was difficult to judge an Astartes' age, but his face certainly looked older than that of Phoros, the Lamenters' Chapter Master beside him.

As for Phoros, Chapter Master of the Lamenters, his name sounded like it belonged to a middle-aged man, but he was actually very young, looking only around thirty.

Long golden hair, a handsome face, quiet and melancholy.

...That description was not exaggerated in the slightest. There was no embellishment whatsoever. It was simply fact.

He had inherited Sanguinius' appearance. The Chapter Master of the Lamenters was, remarkably, the one among all the Sons of Sanguinius who most resembled him.

Scrape the gold dust off a mural of Sanguinius and use it to sculpt him anew, and the result would probably be Phoros.

What sort of dark joke was this? The man who had inherited the most perfect genes had actually come from the most despised Chapter.

The Inquisitors had brought the two Chapter Masters back.

Previously, both Chapter Masters had been taken away separately by the Inquisition and held in isolation for interrogation under torture.

The Chapter Master of every Chapter listed as rebellious would be taken away separately for intensive interrogation by the Inquisition. The subjects included, but were not limited to, their motives for rebellion, their history of contact with Chaos, the extent of