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Aelfric Cyenwulf

Aelfric Cyenwulf [3]

Aelfric Cyenwulf, High Zar of the Iron Wolves,[2a] is a Champion of Chaos and one of the lieutenants of Archaon, the thirteenth Everchosen. Though no sorcerer, Aelfric was a servant of Tchar, known as Tzeentch, the Chaos God of change and intrigue, in the south.

Cyenwulf gathered a great Chaos horde and launched an invasion of Kislev in the days just before the Storm of Chaos campaign that ultimately resulted in his death at the hands of a joint Kislevite and Imperial army.

History[]

By the year 2522 IC, Cyenwulf had nearly forty-thousand warriors under his banner, with more arriving by the day, their ragged skull totems as high as their ululating warcries. Victory bred victory, and the tribes of the north -- the Kul, Hung, Vargs as well as Kyazak raiders -- all flocked to him, eager to share in his success. Individual warbands of fearsome Chaos Champions came, too, Men and monsters alike. Eight hand-picked Chaos Warriors accompanied him at all times, over which he towered.[2b]

Ursun's Teeth[]

With an army of forty thousand, comprised of hounds, Trolls, Warriors of Chaos, and a Dragon Ogre, Cyenwulf made for Urszebya to corrupt the heart of Kislev to the worship of the Dark Gods. His horde would be countered by a joint force of twenty-five thousand troops, comprised of Tilean mercenaries under General Albertalli, General Spitzaner's army from Talabecland and General Kaspar von Velten's army from Stirland; as well as the Tzarina Katarin's personal pulk.[2c]

Aelfric Cyenwulf was nearly victorious, his forces overwhelming and slaying the Tileans to a man after an hour of fighting. However, the Chaos Champion himself was cut down by Kurt Bremen of the Knights Panther when his sword was held in place by Pavel Korovic, after the Kurgan had mortally wounded von Velten.[2c]

In delaying the enemy, the forces of Order had given Tzarina Katarin the time she needed to summon the power of the valley in the form of unending mist warriors that took the shape of Kislevites, Imperial soldiers, even fur-pelted tribesmen, whose weapons of shadow and smoke cut down the Chaos horde in a wave of primal, elemental fury.[2c]

Appearance[]

Aelfric Cyenwulf is a broad-shouldered giant who bears a horned helm and visor carved in the shape of a wolf. Beneath his fur cloak, he wears iridescent Chaos Armour of heavy steel that ripples and throws back the light as though a sheen of oil slithered across its surface. Edged with fluted spirals of gold and silver, the breastplate was moulded to resemble powerful pectoral and abdominal muscles.[1a]

The flesh of Aelfric's arms is all but obscured by the many beaten iron trophy rings and painted tattoos that writhed with the bulging of corded muscle. He wields a huge pallasz, its blade fully six feet in length, its pommel worked in the shape of a snarling Daemon.[1a]

Removing his helm, his wild mane of silver hair, with streaks of black at either temple, spills around his shoulders, framing a face ritually scarred - six cuts on the left cheek, four on the right - that radiate a ruthless intelligence. His teeth have been filed to a point.[1a]

Sources[]

  • 1: The Ambassador (Novel) by Graham McNeill
    • 1a: Epilogue
  • 2: Ursun's Teeth (Novel) by Graham McNeill
    • 2a: Prologue
    • 2b: Ch. 5
    • 2c: Ch. 11
  • 3: White Dwarf 290
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