Baal durant l'hérésie d'horus /Retribution

Legionary Dre Haan was one of three members of his cadre to escape the
massacre at Isstvan V managing to fight through the press ofTraitors and secure one
of the few orbital transports to survive the firestorm in the skies of that dead world. The battered squadron of Imperial Army cruisers that carried Dre Haan and the scattered remnants of his brethren arrived at Baal months after that fateful battle. The Blood Angels,much reduced in number with the departure of Sanguinius and the bulk of the Legion, were quick to press these ragged stragglers into service against any Traitor assault on Baal.In total the Seneschal of Baal commissioned eight provisional battalions, a force of almost 8,ooo Legiones Astartes warriors, for the defence
of Baal.The 7 th Battalion, of which Legionary Dre Haan was a member, was typical
of these formations, consisting of a mixed company of Salamanders and Iron
Hands cataphractii, a line company of Salamanders infantry, a demi-company of
Raven Guard reconnaissance units and a single company of Blood Angels assigned as custodians. Pictured here prior to one of several Traitor probing assaults on
Baal s defensive fortifications, Legionary Dre Haan bears the ornate heraldry typical
of his Legion, painstakingly repaired and restored after the damage inflicted
on his battle plate on the killing fields of Isstvan V The Nocturnean symbols on
his greaves mark his expertise in both the forge and on the battlefield, while the chest ornamentation marks his prowess as a hunter of the fiery drakes that make their home in Nocturne s many volcanic mountains.