Company Master Akia (KIA) - Former Company Master of the Carcharodon's 3 rd Company and Sharr's predecessor. The exact origins of this infamous Chapter are hard to pinpoint in Imperial archives as the Carcharodons have left no records of their activities in recent history. They feature nowhere within the open Imperial records, and likewise the Chapter has no officially-recorded battle honours. If there were ever a more unprofitable servant to appear in literature, it would be difficult to find one less so than Culla Holme. Brother to Rinthy, he has perpetrated the social taboo of incest. He fears his sin will be found out. When Rinthy's water breaks, he allows her to suffer through labor, refusing to even summon a midwife. She bears a son, whom Culla never allows her to hold or nurse. Rather, he abandons his child in the woods and tells his sister the child has died. Allegedly, Set and Ibis fought in the Outer Darkness for a "thousand centuries", [6] at least since and throughout the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, and into the Hyborian Age.

The Carcharodons Astra are a faithful brotherhood, even by the standards of the Adeptus Astartes. Their creed is an old one, older than the superstitions and misbeliefs of the current Imperial Cult. Theirs is not some blind faith based on hollow praise and lavish donations. Their memories of the Emperor are of a living, breathing titan, and Terra is far more to them than some distant hub of galaxy-spanning bureaucracy.

As Rinthy begins to recover, she asks about the baby. She wants to visit its grave and bring it flowers. Culla had created a false grave in the nearby woods and brings Rinthy there. She places flowers on the grave and digs in the grave because she wants to see her baby. Rinthy digs in several places and finds that there is no baby. She confronts her brother. He finally tells Rinthy that the baby did not die but that he gave it to the tinker, which of course was also a lie. Blood Meridian is based upon the story of the Glanton Gang, a group of American mercenaries who hunted Native and Mexican scalps in the 1849-50 before they were massacred by Quechans in Yuma, Arizona.

The Legion had so often served as oppression, repression and occupation forces that Corax saw in some of the Terran members of his Legion something akin to the slavers of Lycaeus. Several of the Legion's highest-ranking officers were displaced or reassigned to non-command roles, including the "Shade Lord," Arkhas Fal, who had commanded the XIX th Legion for three solar decades before the coming of the Raven Lord. The scene with the herd of pigs is like the herd of such in the Bible that get possesed by demons and die like here, though one of the herders seems to get dragged to his death during the chaos here. The ferry scene during another moment was also powerful, how everything goes wrong but all you hear are sounds and movements, it feels like night to the reader, too.

The Journal

They had turned against both the Imperium and the forces of Chaos, unleashing devastation on the Night Lords and their home sector of Nostramo. Afterwards they had slipped away, disappearing from both Imperial space and those records that survived the Heresy's carnage. Few now living know they still exist, let alone where they made their home. The Carcharodons Astra are among those few.