Watch Captain Heinrich

Heinrich is a Black Templar by origin and has been serving in the Deathwatch for the last 30 years. He is very patient and tolerating towards Librarians for a member of his chapter and considers them a nasty necessity for the Deathwatch, but is still short and distant when dealing with them.

He recently has accompanied the Kill-Team last assigned to him on a mission to recover an artefact from the Tyranid infested world of Phonos. He had chosen the mission himself, although Mordigael had deemed it too dangerous and had fated the world for Exterminatus. He granted Heinrich a window of opportunity after a long council though. The mission went awry when the Kill-Team encountered the Dagon Overlord. The whole Kill-Team was killed during the fight with only Heinrich managing to hold out long enough for the Thunderhawk to extract him. He fought the Overlord with every bit of power that he could master and managed to break one of its claws when it got stuck in a rock after a failed attack on Heinrich. In the end he could not outmatch it though and only survived due to Brother Pellas risky extraction. Exterminatus was carried out shortly after.

Heinrich blames himself for the loss of his Kill-Team and considers it a holy test having been given a new Kill-Team with two Librarians in it. He feels that if he can endure their presence and shape this new Kill-Team into a formidable fighting force able to help him kill the Dagon Overlord, he'll redeem himself in the eyes of the Emperor, the Deathwatch and his Chapter. He named the Kill-Team Stag in honour of the vow he took to cleanse the world from the Tyranids and the Overlord in particular. He took it under the gaze of the blessed Primarch Rogal Dorn in the chapel of the great hunt on Watch Fortress Erioch. A chapel build long past by members and servitors of the Imperial Fists and depicting a scene of the Emperor on a great hunt where he is riding a mighty stag.

He hopes that they will, like the stag carried the Emperor to his destiny, carry the Emperors will into battle and bring justice to the Imperium's foes.