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Basics
Name: Gavmieltus, the Gāriq
Aliases: The Second, Gāriq, Wrecking Ball, That Damn Couch Hog, His Chosen
Gender: Female
Allegiance: Imperium
Home Planet: Dedin
Number: II
Discovery: 2nd, 007.823.m31
Legion: Sunbreakers
Legion Colours: Scarlet and gold
Icon: Eight pointed sun with a central eye
Appearance
Personal: Gavmieltus isn’t particularly tall amongst her siblings, standing at 314cm. She’s heavyset, with broad shoulders and a powerlifter’s build, optimised to destroy any wall in her way and pin enemies with sheer bulk. Her skin is dark and warm hued like her father, the Emperor, and heavily tattooed. A series of facial tattoos depict her life on Dedin and her status, while a vine twists around her left forearm and a snake does the same to her right leg. The galaxy visible from her home planet spans her upper back and shoulders, merging into Terra’s across her chest. Her hair is wavy black, barely beyond her shoulders, and frequently pinned into a low-effort bun to keep it out of the way. Her eyes are upturned and dark, although somewhat amber in colour if in the light.
Armour: Crimson power armour with gold accents. Gavmieltus’ armour is bulky, even beyond her broad build. While primarily simple, details such as the three willow leaves shaped into each couter and the twisting vines inlaid in gold on her right vambrace add personality.
In contrast to the general bulk of her armour, she favours less restrictively large pauldrons. On the uppermost layers of her right shoulder is the facial plate of Ansiel, the creature that raised her, with complicated symbols of scrimshaw etched and laid across the front. Her gauntlets are close-fitting, to allow maximum dexterity, but end in sharp-pointed talons to maintain destructive power. There are three white bands painted around her left vambrace, and a singular circle on her rerebrace.
Her plastron is thick and heavy, designed to withstand heavy blows and the falling of entire buildings. The symbol of the Sunbreakers is painted across it. An ever watchful golden gem was once embedded in the center, but the traitor Icandus tore it out of its setting. The empty bezel remains.
Wargear: Given the fighting style of the second legion, it should come as no surprise that Gavmieltus wields a massive shield, the Daybreak, offensively, using its broad planes and her own strength to snap bone and crumble stone. It bears the symbol of the second legion. In her right hand she carries the thunder hammer Duty of Ansiel. Gavmieltus shows the utmost respect to her weapons through her extensive care for them. Every weapon she wields is given a careful name.
The last of her weapons is a wahaika carved of the hardwood trees native to Dedin and decorated with traditional feathers and ligaments. While theoretically a weapon, the Ashen Hail has never seen combat, instead used for the ancient purpose of speeches and shows of dedication.
Personality: Pragmatic and charismatic. Gavmieltus holds an intense loyalty to each and every one of her siblings, regardless of her feelings on them as a person, and the protectiveness of a mother over her legion and the Imperium at large. She’s headstrong, throwing herself into combat and personal interactions both with a hearty joy for life and belief in the good of people. Although the nearest civilizations to the jungle she was raised in are heavily respect based, particularly in the case of one’s elders, she expects none of that to be used in regards to her.
Since the start of the heresy, she has tempered considerably, often locking herself up for long periods and going through bouts of shame and rage for what has happened to her family, but she still has a duty and she will perform it. She has grown to hold her feelings closer to her chest, haunted by the war -- a sharp contrast from the once open woman she once was.
History: As all her siblings were, Gavmieltus, the second Primarch, was snatched as naught but a babe by the Gods of Chaos and flung across the galaxy. The unnamed child landed in the deep jungles of Dedin, a feral world. There she was found by a creature that was perhaps mythical to the common people, but was known to Gavmieltus simply as Mother. Ansiel, a birdlike creature with a face seemingly covered by a natural mask of bone and the voice of a human, named and raised the young demihuman, teaching her what she had learned over centuries of life. She encouraged the young Gavmieltus to interact with the people that lived outside of the jungle, sensing her natural ability as a child of Emperor to lead and rule, although neither of them were aware of this relation.
Because she never truly related to these people or lived among them until she was much older, Gavmieltus became somewhat of a legend herself, the girl who could live in the unliveable deep jungle, who spoke with the tone of Ansiel of the Deep Wood and could fell any challenger, man or woman, with ease. It was at this time she became known as the Gāriq to the people of Dedin, a word meaning Breaker of Suns, given it seemed a perfectly reasonable feat for someone such as her. She lived like this for many years, at day a human woman, at night simply another inhabitant of the jungle.
Thirty-three years before her rediscovery, approximately two years before even the start of the Great Crusade, the tribes of the Tubad and Ceawea broke into war. It was violent and cruel, using newly developed weapons with no heed for humanity. While Gavmieltus had seen the feral, vicious fightings of the inhabitants of the deep jungle and the inherent cruelty of humans, this unbridled, animalistic disregard for life disgusted her. She set aside her reservations in interfering with the five civilizations and stepped in. She did not fight for any one side, revolted by both of their actions, but focused on the defense of the innocents.
This practically humanitarian dedication to life and protection drew the attention of a young maiden-healer by the name of Miveya.
Miveya was fascinated by the Primarch, and throughout the war, they interacted many times. After the end of the long three years, Miveya sought out Gavmieltus. They shared only a short conversation, but Gavmieltus retreated back to her place of raising, isolating herself from humanity once again. Ansiel, sensing her reservation, grew tired of her Primarch level melodramatics after a mere fourteen standard months, and sent her demi-human daughter back into the world once again, telling her in no uncertain terms that she was to learn to coexist with her kind, and would be expected to live amongst them.
Miveya found the Primarch once again, and now knowing that one had to be blunt with the admittedly socially stunted second Primarch, revealed her affections. Uncertain of how to proceed, but certainly not perturbed by this, Gavmieltus “Gāriq” and Miveya lived together under a common law marriage until the return of the Emperor to collect His lost daughter. She developed a strong loyalty to her father and his crusade.
Miveya died barely less than two decades later, at the age of seventy-two, to the grief of the long-lived Gavmieltus, who possessed a more than mortal lifespan.
Gavmieltus had only a loose grasp on Imperial Gothic and the social understanding of the complicated yet contradictorily simple culture of Dedin. It was in their closeness and her mentorship during his early years that she grew to trust Ysegith, and in the destructive nature of battle that she found camaraderie with Icandus. She considered them to be among the brothers that she trusted the most, which has made the heresy difficult and painful for her.
Throughout the Great Crusade, she for a time became a household name. Although time and age had lessened her careful tendencies, Gavmieltus and her children, the Sunbreakers, became known for their ability to topple entire systems with a regard for civilian life that was unfortunately uncommon amongst the legions. She and the legions of Ysegith and Icandus worked together frequently on large scale projects, combining their unique talents into an unstoppable force of war and growing closer.
It was then that Icandus declared his intent to go against the Emperor and the Imperium at large, alongside their siblings of Jezebel and Aobe-Myātaip. He begged his siblings to come with him, but Gavmieltus, having long since dedicated herself to His cause, denied his plea. Icandus went through with the plan, and Gavmieltus, betrayed and hurt, vowed that she would kill him with her bare hands and took on the role of the Emperor’s Executioner.
During one of their battles, the very one in which he tore the gem from her plastron in a desperate attempt to escape her grasp, she came close to achieving her vow. Ysegith, who she had thought to have chosen the side of the Imperium, fought her until he and Icandus could escape via the warp. Now alone, Gavmieltus returned to Terra to be by her Father’s side and defend Him.
