We were not made to rest; we go on, unflinching, unstoppable, unending in our strength. The Emperor did not make us for such mortal concerns as hearth and home, vanity or contemplation; we are his engines of war, his hammers, beating out the fabric of existence into a vessel fit for Mankind to inhabit.
Ferrus Manus , also known as "The Gorgon," was the primarch of the Iron Hands Space Marine Legion , a master smith known for creating weapons that were able to inspire awe in any who saw them, such as the sword he created for Fulgrim , primarch of the Emperor's Children Legion or the bolter he crafted for Vulkan , the primarch of the Salamanders Legion , said to have a barrel designed to look like the gaping mouth of a dragon.
Ferrus' hands were covered in the metallic substance known as necrodermis and he needed no hammer or flame to create beauty through metallurgy, using only his exceptionally powerful hands to mold and shape molten metal. Ferrus forged his closest bond with his brother Fulgrim, but this relationship ultimately ended in tragedy after Fulgrim fell to Chaos during the Horus Heresy.
During the Drop Site Massacre on the world of Istvaan V at the start of the Heresy, Fulgrim decapitated Ferrus with a daemonic sword , an action that ultimately marked the point of no return on his path to becoming a Daemon Prince of the Chaos God Slaanesh. This fact is forgotten by my brothers -- inexplicably, it has always seemed to me. The hands are strong, to be sure, and have created great things for us all, but they are not mine.
And that counts for something. They forget that the silver on my arms comes from a beast that I vanquished. It is the mark of a great evil that I ended, and yet it persists within me I would struggle to remove it now I will not remove the silver from my flesh because I have learned to depend on it.
