Aurelius Antoninus

"Do not forget your place, Autocrator. The needs you and your men have are of no concern to me, only the needs of the Reavers. All the rest you will sort out yourself. If I ask you to sacrifice six million men in a campaign, you will do so. What you tell those six million is your business."

- Antoninus Antoninus is one of the oldest of the Shadow Reavers still living and considered first among the Shadow Lords. In absence of the Master of Shadows Crassus's direct leadership, Antoninus’s centuries of experience and unsurpassed skill as a swordsman make him the most likely commander to be chosen to lead the Reavers in a campaign.

Taken as a child along with his twin brother Verus from a planet long forgotten, he became part of the Shadow Griffons chapter, in time becoming Shadow Captain of the First Company, stepping into the position during the Invasion of Rhiadan, replacing then First Shadow Captain Crassus. Antoninus was instrumental in quelling what resistance was given during the Fall of the Reavers, striking down dissenters who would not abandon the Corpse Imperium and embrace Slaanesh in shadow combat. Famously taciturn and reserved, he holds the greatest pull of the Shadow Council, and effectively is responsible for the Shadow Reavers’ day-to-day operations - those that the Master of Shadows, often lost in deep planning, has no desire in engaging with. Although a competent combatant and swordmaster, it is Antoninus’s tactical skill that often carries those under his command to victory, in part due to others’ confidence in his dictum.

Clad in the baroque Armour of Shadow, he carries a stalker bolter, Doom Siren and the antique Gryphon Blade, one of the twinned power swords of the Shadow Griffons’ old Champion, killed in battle by Antoninus when he refused to embrace Slaanesh. He bears also the Lightning Claw Princerender that avenged Chapter Master Constantinus by striking down the Corsair Prince that felled him.