Let me tell you the story of Bruno and why we don't talk about him anymore.
Bruno Tuffnow, brother of Duke Tuffnow was exiled from House Orlock 15 years ago. He was exiled not because he was a bad Orlock, not because he couldn't shoot, or ride, or drink or even negotiate or bargain with opposing gangs or power brokers. No, he was kicked out of the only family he ever knew because he had a dark secret, one that he kept hidden at first unknowingly and then later kept secret for self survival. Bruno Tuffnow was not like his brother or anyone else he knew within House Orlock. Bruno was a Psyker.
House Orlock's Iron Dogs, headed by Lucius Tuffnow, entered into an alliance with some shadowy factions with intentions to continue the Tuffnow legacy with unsanctioned cloning technology. This technology is not endorsed by most segments of the Imperium and has been kept a secret for many decades.
Lucius decided he needed to have a direct line of succession. He had himself cloned and Duke Tuffnow was the result. A successful unmodified clone-son. But Lucius was not satisfied with simply a successful clone but he wanted one that was even better. He wanted a clone that would be able to be smarter and faster and bigger and more rithless when dealing with the Iron Dogs' enemies. Duke was only one of his clone-sons. The other was Bruno.
Somehow during the process not only was Bruno made bigger and stronger but he had acquired psychic powers somehow. They didn't manifest right away and he seemed like a fairly normal child. The day after his 8th birthday, however, Bruno did something unexpected. He climbed like a spider up a wall and hung from the ceiling.
At this point the family tried to cover it up and as he continued to manifest more and more strange psychic phenomena, they realized that something had to be done.
On his ninth birthday Bruno was taken late one night to a back alley deep in the underhive by his father Lucius. It was Lucius' intention to end Bruno then and there. But Bruno sensed his father's betrayal and he got incredibly angry and lashed out killing Lucius before Lucius had time to even scream.
Bruno then ran off into the night.
Bruno grew larger and stronger over the years. His psychic powers began to grow with him. He was able to evade the Inquisition with the help of not only his growing power but by a group of underground psychic mutants.
Oren Olachio is the mentor and father figure he needed. Oren is an older quite powerful Telekine. He has been able to harness his powers and use them better than most unsanctioned psykers. He was the leader of a small group of mutants and psykers but now is part of Bruno's outcast crew.
That's it for now. Next time we will check out the other Champion, Pit-Fighter Eron Mathuin and Beastman mutant Thor Gothod.
Until then...
I'm coming for you, Bruno. . . there's a place for you in the cult of the four-armed emperor.
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