Erasmus Tycho was once the best and brightest his Chapter had to offer. Indeed, there were those who whispered that he was being groomed as Dante’s successor. When Tycho assumed command of the Blood Angels 3rd Company during the Second War for Armageddon, his star seemed truly on the rise. Tycho led his battle-brothers in a series of lightning fast assaults that saw Boss Grakka’s Speed Freeks routed, the defences along the River Chaeron recaptured, and Ork supply lines sundered at half a dozen key points. For a time it seemed Tycho and his warriors might turn the tide of the Armageddon conflict almost singlehanded. Then, during a raid on an Ork position, Tycho’s command was ambushed. Though they prevailed, Tycho himself was maimed by a brutal psychic assault from a greenskin Weirdboy. He survived, but with one side of his face frozen in an ugly rictus grin. The damage was concealed using a golden mask, yet the deeper hurt remained. Tycho was left with inner scars of bitterness and rage, the terrible extent of which would be revealed in the years to come. After the Second War for Armageddon it swiftly became apparent that all was not well with Erasmus Tycho. Commander Dante reluctantly assigned Tycho to permanent battle duty, yet even there he was ever more violent of temperament, and his tactics became audacious to the point of foolhardiness. Finally, when Ghazghkull returned to Armageddon and Tycho revisited the war that had seen him mutilated so many years before, his mind snapped. Lost in the depths of rage, the Captain took his place in the Death Company. At the head of a seething mass of raving, delusional battle-brothers, Tycho led the assault upon the breach at the Ork-held hive of Tempestora. Though his charge carried the day, and though the ferocity of his assault has since become legend, the Captain fell at the last. In death he found redemption, his twisted face settling into an image of serenity.