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Astral Claws by Andrew

March 2026·p. 126

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Andrew recreates Badab-era Marines using Mark VI Horus Heresy bodies with Mark VII helmets, backpacks and shoulder pads. Huron’s personal icon replaces the Chapter’s normal badge, turning historically appropriate equipment into a question about whether the warriors serve the Imperium, their Chapter or their increasingly dominant master.

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LoreWD 522 · pp. 2–9

Masters of the Maelstrom

Huron Blackheart’s empire grows from the shattered Astral Claws into a coalition of renegade Marines, mortal followers and alien mercenaries. Personal strength and overwhelming naval power keep his subordinate reavers in line, but he also depends on specialised advisers and enforcers. The feature introduces the inner circle whose surgical, psychic, military and hunting talents sustain that violent rule.

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LoreWD 522 · p. 4

Huron Blackheart — The Blood Reaver

Huron survives the Badab War through immense reconstructive surgery and builds a new power base amid the Maelstrom’s shifting dangers. He grants followers room to pursue their own ambitions while demanding tribute and obedience, destroying those who challenge him. His Tyrant’s Claw and the uncanny Hamadrya embody the mixture of machinery, sorcery and personal menace surrounding him.

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LoreWD 522 · p. 5

Garreon the Corpsemaster

The former Astral Claws Apothecary keeps Huron’s increasingly limited gene-seed supply viable and searches recruits for useful mutations rather than simple purity. His obsession with the transition from life to death leads to grotesque experiments, tolerated only while enough warriors survive fit to serve the Tyrant.

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