Isidorus

Hello, Isidorus

Aside from Sanakht, Isidorus was the character I most wanted to make.  Which may strike you as odd considering he's just a Rubric Marine.  But, if you've read John French's Ahriman novels, you will be aware of how thematically important his existence is, and that several scenes with him pay off tremendously.

Originally I thought a clever idea would just to nominate one standard bolter-marine in one of my Veteran squads to be Isidorus, perhaps giving him a slightly fancier tabard or hanging some stuff off his shoulder guard.  Him being a typical line marine does kind of appeal in terms of his role in the narrative. 

However, once I'd decided to convert the Severin Loth model into Ahriman, the notion of creating a command squad out of Loth's honour guard appealed.  The minimum spec for a command squad is one standard bearer and two marines.  A named Thousand Sons standard bearer exists in the fiction, so that's that guy sorted.  For the other two marines...well, there was Isidorus and Mabius Ro.

These two show up as Rubrics accompanying Tolbek in Ahriman: Exile, and are mentioned as being together repeatedly thereafter.  Looking at the loadout options for a command squad, it seemed that I could add another marine to the default if I wanted, so the notion of creating Tolbek, Mabius Ro and Isidorus as this grouping took hold.

Despite just being a Rubricae, I wanted my Heresy-era Isidorus to be cool, and while I still thought about just giving him a bolter, there were a lot of cooler weapon options available to him, and I gave in.  Hence the big axe and volkite charger.  I think that'll be the only volkite in my army, so I guess him being a rifleman will make him unique in a sort of way.  

Obviously, using so much of the Loth honour guard kit means that he doesn't really look too Thousand Sons-y, so I gave him my favourite upgrade head and added some detailing to his axe that I sliced off  Rubric weapons.  As usual, transfers and detailing will follow.