Champion · Legion XIV · loyalist

Nathaniel Garro

Nathaniel Garro — battle-captain of the Death Guard and a loyalist who led the “Seventy” survivors in the flight of the Eisenstein to warn Terra of the betrayal. Malcador made him the first of the Knights-Errant, the seed of the Grey Knights. According to the main version he fell at the hand of Mortarion at the Siege of Terra.

Role: Champion
Legion: XIV Death Guard
Side: Loyalist
Key events: 3 events

Fate

According to the main version he fell at the hand of Mortarion at the Siege of Terra (014.M31), but was saved by the light of the Emperor and became the first martyr of His Church. The legends of his fate are deliberately contradictory.

Key events

Flight of the Eisenstein 005.M31 · Loyalist victory
Knights-Errant Founded 005.M31 · Loyalist victory
The Siege of Terra 014.M31 · Pyrrhic loyalist victory

Part in other events

Isstvan III Atrocity 005.M31 · Pyrrhic traitor victory
Battle of the Somnus Citadel 005.M31 · Loyalist victory
Battle of the Saturnine Gate 014.M31 · Loyalist victory

Relations

Nathaniel Garro — Mortarionbetrayal
The Battle-Captain against the Primarch. Garro is a paragon of the XIV Legion, whom Mortarion sends to die on Isstvan III. The flight of the “Eisenstein” makes Garro the herald of the Heresy and the first of Malcador’s Knights-Errant.
Event: Flight of the Eisenstein · 005.M31 · Loyalist victory
Euphrati Keeler “the Living Saint” — Nathaniel Garroalliance
The Saint and the Herald. Keeler carries the Lectitio Divinitatus, Garro the word of treachery. Their paths cross aboard the “Eisenstein” and in Malcador’s “Silent War”: faith and duty, from which both the Imperial Cult and the Inquisition will grow.
Event: Flight of the Eisenstein · 005.M31 · Loyalist victory

Sources

WH40k Fandom: Nathaniel Garro
Garro: Knight of Grey (J. Swallow)

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