Ankh-Heloth was described as a severe-looking warrior with a cruelly barbed, black metal Star of Chaos hammered into his forehead. Dark Apostle Ankh-Heloth’s flesh was a living canvas upon which he had performed his grisly, sacred arts. He bore numerous cuts and welts, the angry disfigurements evidence of constant ritual flagellation. Ankh-Heloth more than likely rubbed poisonous balms and liniments into his self-inflicted cuts in order to hamper the regenerative qualities of his Astartes physiology, for many of his wounds were always open and raw. Such practices were not uncommon within the fanatical Word Bearers' Legion.