Ultramarines (novel)/Characters

People belonging to the Ultramarines, both on the Tabletop game, the animated film, and in the novel series by Graham McNeill.

Ultramarines

Roboute Guilliman

One of the twenty Primarch created by the Emperor of Mankind, he and his brothers were scattered to the stars by the Chaos Gods to preventing the coming of the Imperium. Landing on Macragge, the boy was found by Konor Guilliman, one of the two Consuls of Macragge, who named him Roboute and raised him as a son. Quickly growing to manhood, Roboute helped to pacify Macragge's wild men. After returning from a campaign, Roboute found that his father's co-consul had launched a coup and killed Konor over his anti-aristocratic policies. Roboute avenged his adoptive-father and became sole Consul of Macragge, rewarding those who showed merit and skill and ignoring aristocratic privileges. By the time the Emperor found Macragge, Roboute had ruled for five years and established an alliance of mutual aide with eight other star systems, forming the future realm of Ultramar. Roboute was made commander of the XIII Legion of the Adeptus Astartes, redubbed the Ultramarines.

During the Great Crusade, the Ultramarines and the Luna Wolves were the largest and most efficient of the Space Marine legions. However, Guilliman earned the eternal hatred of Lorgar of the Word Bearers when the Ultramarines were ordered to destroy the city of Monarchia as part of the Emperor's rebuke of Primarch Lorgar spreading the Cult of the Emperor. The Word Bearers would launch a surprise attack on Calth, but were eventually repulsed, delaying Guilliman from reinforcing the Emperor at the Siege of Terra. As his Legion suffered few losses during the Horus Heresy, Guilliman emerged as the most powerful Primarch in the aftermath of the Emperor's ascension to the Golden Throne. Assuming the post of Lord Commander of the Imperium, Guilliman formed the High Lords of Terra to rule in the Emperor's name and published the Codex Astartes, breaking down the nine loyalist legions into one thousand strong chapters. During a battle with the fallen Primarch Fulgrim of the Emperor's Children, Guilliman was slashed across the throat. He was placed in a stasis field and placed in a shrine on Macragge, where pilgrims visiting hold that he is healing.

• Aristocrats Are Evil: Guilliman's back story has this.
• Badass: Fans tend to ignore it following Matt Ward's take on things, but there is no denying Guilliman was badass.
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Badass Bureaucrat: Organisation was his strong point.
  • Badass in Charge
  • Cultured Badass
  • Four-Star Badass
  • Sealed Badass in a Can
• Big Book of War: The Codex Astartes.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Guilliman may have been autocratic and personally unlikable but he actually cared about the common people, believing anyone could rise to greatness regardless of social status.
• King in the Mountain: His body is perfectly preserved in a stasis field in the Ultramarines fortress-monastery, where pilgrims insist that he is healing. Many point out that this is impossible, but those who insist he is healing ascribe it to the power of the Emperor. It says something about the Imperium that the doubters concede that this is a good point.
• Power Fist: The Gauntlets of Ultramar.
• Slashed Throat: Courtesy of Fulgrim. And people insist it's healing. It must have been a hell of slash to endanger the extremely tough and massively redundant biology of the god-like Primarchs, not to mention the massive healing factor he must have. On top of that, consider that the enormously potent medical science of the Imperium was unable to save him. And despite the Imperium's technological atavism, their medicine must still be enormously advanced, especially considering they'd almost certainly break out all the good stuff they don't have the resources to provide to all one quadrillion humans for a literal son of their god.
• The Strategist

Marneus Augustus Calgar

Marneus Augustus Calgar is the Chapter Master of the Ultramarines and Lord of Macragge, leading both the Ultramarines and the realm of Ultramar. He has served in this position for over three hundred years.

• Ancestral Weapon: The Gauntlets of Ultramar, a pair of Power Fists with bolters attached to them.
• Badass: Again, fans tend to ignore it following Ward's take on things, but it's there:
  • Badass Cape
  • Badass in Charge
  • Badass Grandpa
  • Four-Star Badass
• Big Good
• Cyborg: Lost all four limbs and most of his body during the First Tyrannic War.
  • Artificial Limbs
  • Electronic Eyes
• My Greatest Failure: Failing to kill M'kar, and simply binding it in the Indomitable.
• Reasonable Authority Figure

Varro Tigurius

The Chief Librarian of the Ultramarines. So far he is the only psyker in the Imperium who has been able to make contact with the Tyrannid Hive Mind.

• Badass
• Heroic Willpower
• Incendiary Exponent: The Hood of Hellfire, which amplifies his psychic powers and gives an appearance that his head is on fire.
• Psychic Powers
• Simple Staff
• Sole Survivor: The only psyker who has been able to make contact with the Tyranid Hive Mind and survive the experience.

Severus Agemman

Captain of the First Company, and by virtue of his post Regent of Ultramar. Former Captain of the Second Company, he was promoted to First Captain after the Battle of Macragge saw the death of the entire First Company.

• BFS
• The Captain
• Number Two: Officially, as First Captain, but Calgar's more likely successor is Sicarius. Which doesn't please Agemman at all.
• The Rival: With Sicarius
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Actually sympathized with Uriel's decisions over violating the Codex Astartes, but realized that the Codex is needed to keep them on the straight and narrow, or risk becoming like Chaos Space Marines.
• The Stoic: Unless you do something to dishonor the Ultramarines or the First Company, in which case he gets really emotional.
• You Are in Command Now: Of the First Company.

Cato Sicarius

Captain of the Second Company, he was promoted to his position after Agemman was promoted to First Captain.

• BFS: His Tempest Blade.
• Badass
  • Badass Cape
  • Cultured Badass
• The Captain
• Glory Seeker: Some suspect him of this in trying to succeed Marneus Calgar as Chapter Master. He's pretty defensive about such implications, though.
• Lightning Bruiser
• The Rival: With Agemman.
• Sword and Gun: A simple plasma pistol in one hand, the Tallassarian Tempest Blade in the other.
• Try to Fit That on A Business Card: Cato Sicarius, Captain of the Second Company, Master of The Watch, Knight Champion of Macragge, Grand Duke of Talassar, and High Suzerain of Ultramar.

Ortan Cassius

The Master of Sanctity (head of the Chaplaincy) of the Ultramarines. Having served in the position for over four hundred years, he is one of the few people who can still refer to Lord Calgar as "young Marneus".

• Absolute Xenophobe: Part of his job, but he has a special hatred of the Tyranids. Not surprising, given what the Tyranids did to Ultramar.
• Badass
  • Badass Grandpa
  • Badass Preacher
• Cyborg
• Drop the Hammer: His Crozius Arcanum.
• Electronic Eyes
• Reasonable Authority Figure

Torias Telion

The Veteran Sergeant of the 10th Company, having trained three Chapter Masters and many of the Chapter's greatest heroes.

• Badass
  • Badass Beard
  • Badass Cape
  • Badass Grandpa
  • Badass Teacher
• Cold Sniper
• Military Maverick
• Sergeant Rock
• Veteran Instructor

Uriel Ventris

The Protagonist of the Ultramarines novels by Graham McNeill. He became Captain of the 4th company after the death of his predecessor, Idaeus.

• The Atoner: For violating the Codex Astartes on Tarsis Ultra.
• Badass
• The Captain
• Country Mouse: Being from Calth Uriel him seem unsophisticated in the eyes of Macragge natives like Learchus, which contributed to the friction between them when they were aspirants.
• Electronic Eyes: After surviving a shot to the head by the Newborn, all he gets for it is a shiny new bionic eye.
• Field Promotion: Received one from Idaeus, which was confirmed by Calgar.
• The Hero
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Uses a power sword.
• Honor Before Reason: Refuses to employ Exterminatus on planets which can still be saved. This ends up backfiring on the Imperium spectacularly. Also why he went on the Deathwatch mission to the Hive Ship instead of staying with his company.
• It Was a Gift: His power sword was previously wielded by his predecessor, Idaeus.
• Made of Iron: Even by Space Marine standards Uriel has the habit of surviving things which should outright kill him. These include being shot in the face at point blank range, being tortured by the Iron Warriors and having all the blood in his body simultaneously clot.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Partially responsible for unleashing the Nightbringer back on the galaxy. And for your information, the Nightbringer is the entity who instilled the fear of death in sentient beings at the dawn of creation.
• Suicide Mission: Is sent on a death oath to destroy daemon wombs on Medrengard. And succeeds.
• Was It Really Worth It?: Asks himself this after meeting a normal Guardsman on Tarsis Ultra, in giving up the chance of a normal life, and decides that yes, it was.
• Would Not Shoot a Civilian: They're the Emperor's subjects, and the Ultramarines are meant to be their defenders.

Pasanius Lysane

A Veteran Sergeant in the Ultramarines 4th company, and Uriel's best friend.

• Artificial Limbs: Lost a limb on Pavonis. And the Nightbringer's actions caused it to become self-repairing.
• The Atoner: For having said arm, and violating the Codex Astartes.
• The Big Guy: So huge that they needed to incorporate Terminator armor into his wargear.
• Chainsaw Good: Uses a Chainsword as a main melee weapon.
• Kill It with Fire: Uses a flamer.
• Sergeant Rock
• Suicide Mission: Is sent on a death oath to destroy daemon wombs on Medrengard. And succeeds.

Learchus Abantes

A sergeant in the 4th Company, and once Uriel's main rival at Agisalus.

• BFS: Uses a power sword.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Puts the Imperial Guardsmen through hell in prepping them for the Tyranid invasion. And he loves them for surviving.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Uriel, after working behind enemy lines in Courage & Honor gives him a new perspective of what being in command is like.
• The Lancer
• The Rival: With Uriel when they Aspirants.
• Sergeant Rock
• You Are in Command Now: Given command of the 4th Company when Uriel and Pasanius are exiled.

Lazlo Tiberius

Lord Admiral and Master of the Fleet of Ultramar, a title which traditionally goes to the Captain of the Fourth Company, but which Uriel gave to Tiberius.

• Bald Black Leader Guy
• Four-Star Badass
• Reasonable Authority Figure
• You Are in Command Now: Was made Master of the Fleet, a title which would have gone to Uriel.

Judd Clausel

Chaplain of the 4th Company.

• Badass Grandpa
• Badass Preacher
• Bald of Awesome
• Drop the Hammer: His Crozius Arcanum.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Served this role at Agiselus.
• Fiery Redhead

Selenus

The Apothecary of the 4th Company.

• Deadly Doctor: Uriel notes that his knowledge of the body's weak points makes him very dangerous.
• Due to the Dead: Part of his job is to recover gene-seed.
• The Medic
• This Is a Drill: His reductor.

Scipio Vorolanus

A Tactical Sergeant in the 2nd Company.

• Ambition Is Evil: Is disgusted when he realizes that he's concerned failing to find the Corsair Queen might hurt his standing in the 2nd Company.
• Bald of Awesome
• Chainsaw Good
• Sergeant Rock

Idaeus

The former Captain of the 4th company, and mentor of Uriel Ventris.

• BFS: Wielded a power sword which he gave to Uriel before his death.
• The Captain
• Combat Pragmatist: Unique among the Ultramarines, Idaeus considered the Codex Astartes to be a guide for Space Marines, and not something they were to follow by route.
• Heroic Sacrifice
• The Mentor
• Take Up My Sword

Imperium of Man

Ario Barzano

An Adept of the Administratum, sent to assess Pavonis's inability to pay its tithes to the Imperium. Secretly a member of the Inquisition.

• The Empath
• Heroic Sacrifice
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Subverted, as he's not obstructive. And he's not a bureaucrat.

Mykola Shonai

The Governor of Pavonis in Nightbringer.

• Cruel and Unusual Death: Is beaten to death by Prelate Culla.
• Face Heel Turn: In Courage and Honour.
• Reasonable Authority Figure

Lourten Perjed

An Adept of the Administratum sent with Ario Barzano.

• Badass Bureaucrat
• Half the Man He Used To Be
• Simple Staff: His cane. And it's housing a transmitter.

Kasmir de Valtos

The head of the de Valtos cartel on Pavonis. Was tortured by the Dark Eldar but survived.

• Aristocrats Are Evil
• Big Bad Wannabe
• Fate Worse Than Death: Tortured by the Dark Eldar. And he still makes an alliance with them.
• Off with His Head
• Wound That Will Not Heal

Vergil Ortega

The head of the Adeptus Arbites on Pavonis.

• Fair Cop
• Heroic Sacrifice
• The Mentor: To Sharben.

Jenna Sharben

A member of the Adeptus Arbites on Pavonis.

• Fair Cop
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• Shotguns Are Just Better

Kryptmann

An Inquisitor Lord of the Ordo Xenos, who has persecuted the war against the Tyrannids for two hundred and fifty years.

• Absolute Xenophobe
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old
• State Sec
• Well-Intentioned Extremist

Bannon

A Captain of the Imperial Fists and leader of the Deathwatch kill team on Tarsis Ultra.

• Absolute Xenophobe: It's his job.
• Heroic Sacrifice

Sebastien Fontaine

The Fabricator-Marshal of Tarsis Ultra.

• Honor Before Reason: Decides to pick up a gun and join the front line after the fighting starts.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• Reasonable Authority Figure

Vianco Locard

A Magos of the Adeptus Mechanicus serving Kryptman on Tarsis Ultra. Later returns to help the Ultramarines fight the Bloodborn.

• Artificial Limbs
• Cyborg
• Electronic Eyes
• Machine Worship
• The Stoic: Until he sees The Black Basisilica explode, thinking it's a new Warp threat. He gets a lot happier when he see it for what it is.

Ardaric Vaanes

Former Captain of the Raven Guard's 4th Company. Exiled for an unspecified crime and sentenced to death.

• Dangerous Deserter
• Death Seeker
• Fallen Hero
• Heel Face Revolving Door
• I Work Alone: He never felt the brotherhood of the Space Marines.
• Peaceful in Death
• Wolverine Claws: Most Raven Guard Captains have them.

The Lord of the Unfleshed

The leader of the Unfleshed, once a human boy who was a failed birth of the Daemonculaba on Medrengard.

• A Father to His Men
• Boom! Headshot!
• Demonic Possession
• I'm a Humanitarian
• Large and In Charge
• Mercy Kill
• Mutant

Leto Barbaden

The Governor of Salinas and former CO of the Achamand Falctas.

• Beard of Evil
• Big Bad: One of two in The Killing Ground.
• Egopolis
• Evil Overlord
• Governor Evil
• Karmic Death: Is ripped to shreds by the dead of Khartuian.
• Lack of Empathy
• We Have Reserves: And you thought the Generals of the Imperial Guard took this troop and ran with it.

Sylvanus Thayer

The founder of the Sons of Salinas, who was brutally injured during the final battle.

• Big Bad: One of them in The Killing Grounds.
• Fallen Hero
• Not Quite Dead: Survived the final battle with the Flactas, but was horribly injured.
• Psychic Powers: Developed some after his injuries.
• Rebel Leader
• Red Baron: The Mourner.
• Revenge

Verena Kain

The former commander of the Screaming Eagles company of the Achamand Falcatas, promoted to Colonel of the Salinas PDF after Barbaden became Governor.

• Colonel Failure
• The Dragon: To Barbaden.
• No Body Left Behind: Is burned alive by promethium. And after seeing the absolute relish of her role the Khartuian Massacre, Uriel believes she deserved worse.
• You Are in Command Now

Daron Nisato

The former Commissar of the Falctas and Chief of Police of Barbadus.

• Fair Cop
• The Political Officer
• Only Sane Man: In the leadership of Salinas.
• Scary Black Man: A Commissar and a cop.
• You Are in Command Now: Becomes Governor after Barbaden's death.

Pascal Blaise

The leader of the Sons of Salinas following Thayer's death.

• Badass Beard
• Badass Bureaucrat: Used to be part of the planetary Administratum.
• Bald of Awesome
• Rebel Leader
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: He's getting sick of the war.

Leodegarius

A Brother-Captain of the Grey Knights, who leads the investigation of Salinas.

• An Arm and a Leg: Losses an arm during the battle of the House of Providence.
• Bishonen: Uriel notes that he could pass as one of the Blood Angels.
• Blade on a Stick
• The Captain
• It Has Been an Honor: To Uriel and Pasanius.
• Psychic Powers
• Large and In Charge
• Lightning Bruiser
• White-Haired Pretty Boy

Kodelkur Shonai

The nephew of Mykola Shonai, and her successor as Governor.

• Slashed Throat
• You Are in Command Now

Namira Suzaku

An Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus, sent to assist the Ultramarines in the war with the Bloodborn.

• I Did What I Had to Do: With regards to killing her own brother when he was tainted by Chaos.
• Made of Iron: Survives every bone in her body being broken by a cave in that tested Space Marines.
• Psychic Powers
• Scary Black Woman: A psyker and an Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus. It doesn't get much scarier than that.
• State Sec
• White-Haired Pretty Girl

Aethon Shaan

Captain of the Raven Guard's 4th Company, sent to arrest Vaanes.

• The Captain
• Made of Iron
• Lightning Bruiser
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
• Wolverine Claws

Xenos

Kesharq

A Dark Eldar Archon and Space Pirate

• An Axe to Grind
• Big Bad Wannabe: Tried to overthrow Asdrubael Vect, supreme overlord of the Dark Eldar.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• Space Pirate
• Wound That Will Not Heal

The Nightbringer

One of the C'Tan, the star gods of the Nercons.

• Big Bad: Of Nightbringer.
• Sealed Evil in a Can
• Sinister Scythe
• Time Abyss

Aun'rai

The lead Ethereal of the Tau invasion of Pavonis.

• Because I Said So: When he orders the Tau to sand down, they stand down.
• Big Bad: From an Imperial perspective.
• The Needs of the Many: He is a Tau.

Forces of Chaos

Honsou

A Warsmith of the Iron Warriors, and villain protagonist of McNeill's Iron Warriors series.

• An Axe to Grind
• Arch Enemy: To Uriel.
• Artificial Limbs: Lost his right hand at Hydra Cordatus. And later replaced his right arm with Pasanius's Nercon arm.
• Asskicking Equals Authority: Kills Warsmith Berossus, allowing him command of the latter's Grand Company.
• Bald of Evil
• Berserk Button: Don't mention his ancestry, or imply that Ventris beat him.
• Big Bad: Shares it with M'kar, and neither is happy about it.
• But for Me It Was Tuesday: Needs a moment to recall Tarsis Ultra.
• Combat Pragmatist: He mocks Uriel for believing that they're always going to have a Duel to the Death.
• Evil Overlord
• Halfbreed: Created with Iron Warrior and Imperial Fist gene-seed.
• Never Found the Body
• Smug Smiler: And it drives Uriel nuts every time he gives one. Which is probably why he's doing it.
• The Strategist
• Villain Protagonist

Caradas Grendel

A Captain of the Iron Warriors, and Honsou's lieutenant.

• Blood Knight: He doesn't care who he's following, as long as he gets a good fight and lots of kills out of it.
• Chainsaw Good
• Commander Contrarian
• Death Ray: Uses a meltagun.
• Delinquent Hair: Has a mohawk.
• The Dragon: Ironically, in any other situation, he would be The Brute.
• Facial Horror: Suffers this during the battle for the Indomitable and taking a meltagun to the face.
• Good Scars, Evil Scars
• Neck Snap

Onyx

A possessed Chaos Space Marine among the Iron Warriors.

• Cruel and Unusual Death
• The Dragon: To Honsou
• I Know Your True Name: Freely gives it to Honsou as a sign of fealty. Probably because Honsou couldn't pronounce it.
• Lightning Bruiser

Omphalos Daemonium

A Daemon Prince of Khorne, who sends Uriel and Pasanius to Medrengard.

• Afterlife Express
• Big Bad: Of Dead Sky, Black Sun.
• Be Careful What You Wish For
• The Rival: With the Heart of Blood.

Heart of Blood

A Bloodthirster of Khorne, imprisoned in Khalan-Ghul to make the fortress unconquerable.

• An Axe to Grind
• Big Red Devil
• Bloody Murder: The Bloodstorm.
• The Juggernaut
• The Rival: With The Omphalos Daemonium.
• Sealed Evil in a Can

M'kar

A daemon prince imprisoned by Marneus Calgar sixty years ago.

• Arch Enemy: Of the Ultramarines in general and Marneus Calgar in particular.
• Big Bad: Shares the role with Honsou, and neither is happy about it.
• Butt Monkey: For the longest time, it was something of a running gag within the fluff that M'kar was easily defeatable. The Chapter's Due and Codex: Grey Knights helped fix that perception.
• Daemon Lords And Arch Devils
• The Fundamentalist: Not that surprising. He was a Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers.
• I Know Your True Name: "I name thee Maloq Kartho."
• It's Personal
• Red Baron: The Thrice Born, the Reborn.
• Slashed Throat
• Time Abyss

The Newborn

An Iron Warrior who was made from the genetic material of Uriel Ventris.

• Cloning Blues
• Death Seeker
• Genuine Human Hide
• Healing Factor: Which is amplified by Warp energy.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• I Know Your True Name: "Samuquan!" But instead of freeing him, it drives him over the edge.
• Was Once A Boy

Etolph Cycerin

A former Magos of the Adeptus Mechanicus who turned to Chaos.

• The Cracker
• The Evil Genius
• Face Heel Turn
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
• Was Once a Man: Now a blob like man...thing.

Vortheer Tark

A member of the Dark Mechanicum who has been bonded to a fragmentary artificial intelligence and connected to his war machines.

• General Failure: He's a piss poor general, but what he lacks in strategy, he can make up for in sheer numbers.
• Man in the Machine
• Mad Scientist
• Spider Limbs
• Tank Goodness: He can turn anything into a tank.

Notha Etassay

The Master of the Blade Dancers, a group of swordsmen devoted to Slaanesh.

• The Hedonist
• Go Out with a Smile
• Sense Freak: He's addicted to sensation, but what do you expect with a follower of Slaanesh.
• Master Swordsman

Xiomagra

Etassy's successor as The Mistress of the Blade Dancers.

• The Brute: If it weren't for Kaarja Salombar, she'd be the Dark Chick.
• Dark Action Girl
• Lightning Bruiser
• Master Swordsman
• Scary Black Woman
• Slashed Throat
• Yellow Eyes

Kaarja Salombar

Leader of a group of Corsairs. Joined Honsu's army after he won the Skull Harvest.

• Dark Action Girl
• Dark Chick
• Dual-Wielding: Swords.
• Fragile Speedster
• Halfbreed: Never outright confirmed, but everyone who sees her suspects she's half-Eldar.
• Off With Her Head
• The Red Baron: The Corsair Queen.
• Space Pirate
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair