Tuomas Vahanen

Tuomas Vahanen was the second Inflexible (Chapter Master) of the Sons of Iron Space Marine Chapter.

Background
Tuomas Vahanen was the first of the Suami to ever achieve the grade of Captain, 70 years after the Chapter's foundation. He is old enough to remember that the children of his homeworld used to look at the Imperial Guards with just as much awe than they do to the Astartes as of today. Those memories, combined with the respect he had for his elder brother, a Colonel in the Guard who died the very day that he won the right to wear the Power Armour and became a full fledged Space Marine, explain why Vahanen is an excellent diplomat gifted with a real talent to understand and appreciate the mortals. But he is also, and before anything else, a strategist without peers among his brothers. It is this talent which brought him to add an annex to the Codex Astartes concerning how to fight the Necrons, the Vahenenum Appendiix, adopted by his whole Chapter.

These strategist's talents come from a childhood spent with books of military history, war treaties and other reports of battle, as much from Suami than from the Imperium most famous campaigns, preciously gathered by his father in the Library of Memory in the refuge-city of Tarutaisto. Since his entry in the Chapter, this tendency to absorb every bit of information related to battles of any size only strengthened the knowledge of the 5th Captain. Vahanen is also renowned for his drastic requirements when it comes to discipline and efficiency on the battlefield, which match or even exceed even those of the First Company, which stems from the weigh of History felt by Tuomas. For the Captain Vahanen, this behaviour is only the mean to pave the way for the future heroes of his Chapter, so those could achieve ever greater peaks of success in the name of the Emperor by surpassing their predecessors.

He was the only one surprised when he was elected to the rank of Chapter Master, which he rebranded as Inflexible, in honor of his Predecessor. The last century spent to lead his Brothers had proven that he is one of the greatest general of the Imperium, able to devise campaigns which frees or protect worlds deemed utterly lost by others.