Adeptus Mechanicus · 30k · Missing
Arkhan Land
Technoarchaeologist, Magos
Also known as Land
Homeworld: Mars
Arkhan Land was the Mechanicum technoarchaeologist who walked into the Librarius Omnis and came out with the STC fragments the Imperium still drives: the Raider, the Speeder, the Crawler, the grav-plates everyone else had forgotten how to admit existed. The vehicles carry his name because Mars does not share credit.
In the Heresy he went into the Webway with the Archimandrite, saw daemons, and disliked the experience in the way only a magos who thought knowledge was clean can dislike it. Kane needed his forbidden vault-lore anyway. Land's grav-Raider and the psyber-monkey Sapien went with him.
He later vanished back into the Librarius Omnis. Mars lists him as missing, which is a polite way of saying the archive ate its most famous reader. The tanks remain. The man is a footnote that moves.
Track Arkhan Land's known locations across the galaxy during the Horus Heresy.