Barthusa Narek

Barthusa Narek is a Word Bearers officer of the Horus Heresy era, associated with the Traitor Legion’s operations against the Ultramarines’ realm. He belongs to the XVII Legion, the host of the primarch Lorgar Aurelian, which turned against the Emperor in the service of the Warmaster Horus and the powers of Chaos.

Narek is recorded in connection with the period of the Unremembered Empire, the phase of the Heresy in which the Word Bearers pursued the Ultramarines and their primarch Roboute Guilliman across the Ultramar region after the Legion’s opening blow at Calth. The surviving accounts place him within the Word Bearers’ command structure rather than among its primarch-level leadership, and the precise rank, warband and origin he held before the rebellion are not firmly recorded. Where sources differ on the detail of his role, this entry follows only the points on which they agree.

His standing in the wider story is that of a representative servant of the Word Bearers’ campaign of vengeance against the Ultramarines, a conflict rooted in the Legion’s censure at Khur and its later alignment with Horus. His contemporaries include Lorgar Aurelian, the First Captain Kor Phaeron, the First Chaplain Erebus and, on the loyalist side, Roboute Guilliman. His fate is not established in the material available, and his status is therefore given as unknown.