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| - Marius Vairosean was the stern commander of the 3rd Company of the Emperor's Children Legion. One of the older warriors of the IIIrd Legion, Vairosean possessed salt and pepper hair and unlike many of the Astartes, had a narrow face, its features sharp and inquisitive, his skin dark and lined like old wood. The Emperor's Children Legion was defined by its struggle to achieve perfection in all things. Immersed in his Legion's martial philosophy of the attainment of this perfection, Marius Vairosean prized this striving above all things. The idea of not being the best made him feel physically sick. To be less than the best was unacceptable, and Marius had long ago decided that nothing was going to stop him from achieving his goal. The idea of setting off without a detailed plan rankled Mariu
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| - Marius Vairosean was the stern commander of the 3rd Company of the Emperor's Children Legion. One of the older warriors of the IIIrd Legion, Vairosean possessed salt and pepper hair and unlike many of the Astartes, had a narrow face, its features sharp and inquisitive, his skin dark and lined like old wood. The Emperor's Children Legion was defined by its struggle to achieve perfection in all things. Immersed in his Legion's martial philosophy of the attainment of this perfection, Marius Vairosean prized this striving above all things. The idea of not being the best made him feel physically sick. To be less than the best was unacceptable, and Marius had long ago decided that nothing was going to stop him from achieving his goal. The idea of setting off without a detailed plan rankled Marius, a warrior for whom each advance and manoeuvre was planned with meticulous perfection and enacted without deviation. First Capatain Julius Kaesoron had once joked that he should have been selected to join their perfectionist cousins, the Ultramarines, meaning it as a friendly jibe, but Marius had taken it as a compliment. Marius was particularly stern and serious for a warrior of the Emperor's Children Legion, slow to take part in any sort of humour, and very serious about how to conduct war, for he believed war was a grim business; good men died and as leaders, he believed the line officers of the Legion were responsible for bringing them back alive, for each death lessened them. Making jokes about it, such as flippant references to gods of battle, did not go over well with him. Second Captain Solomon Demeter, commander of the IIIrd Legion's 2nd Company, was a good friend of Captain Vairosean. But at times, Solomon felt Marius was so "by-the-book," that he had a tendency of needling him from time to time, even when he knew that he should not. Vairosean's 3rd Company often supported Solomon Demeter's 2nd Company in the heat of battle, and both commanders shared a long-time friendship as a result. At times, this friendship generated some friction between the two commanders, as Marius often found Demeter's cavalier tactics and brash behaviour unbecoming of a senior officer. As a firm lover of discipline, formality and hierarchy, Marius was a proud member of the IIIrd Legion's Brotherhood of the Phoenix, the secret Warrior Lodge of the Emperor's Children. This confraternity of warriors was instituted after the IIIrd Legion had spent some time fighting alongside their brother Legion, the Luna Wolves, who were the first to adopt the custom of creating a Warrior Lodge following their conquest of the world of Davin, sixty standard years before the start of the Horus Heresy. Given the Emperor's Children's love of formal hierarchy, the Brotherhood of the Phoenix was much more rigid in structure and behaviour than their brethren Legions' more egalitarian Warrior Lodges and was open for membership only to their Primarch Fulgrim, the Legion's eleven Lord Commanders, and its company Captains so as to maintain the Legion's strict hierarchical structure.
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