Of all the Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, the Storm Wardens have one of the largest presences within the Jericho Reach and few amongst them have earned a reputation for grim determination and uncompromising violence like that of Kynar Half-Hand. Captain of the Storm Wardens' 7th Company, Kynar arrived in the Reach with the vanguard of the Achilus Crusade aboard the Storm Wardens' Strike Cruiser Mark of Honour. During those first years, Kynar made a name for himself on the bloody battlefields of the worlds of Khazant and Vanity against the Chaotic forces of the Stigmartus and their foul daemonic allies. Kynar is a remorseless giant of a man, tall even for a Space Marine, and exceptionally skilled with his ancient hand-and-a-half Power Sword Widowmaker, from which he draws his surname Hal