Fabius Bile

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Fabius Bile is a character in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

He was once a Lord Commander of the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion, but has since left the legion. Fabius dabbles in genetic engineering and helps the Traitor Legions recruit new members in return for their protection. After the Horus Heresy, he worked to unlock the secrets of creating Space Marines. After narrowly escaping the Space Marines of the Salamanders Chapter on the world of Arden, he now resides on a Crone World where he continues his unethical experiments, creating mutated super-soldiers and other foul things.

Fabius experiments on himself just as easily as any other person, resulting in vast variations on his strength and other abilities. On the battlefield, he might also bestow the questionable gift of his enhancements to others, with uncertain results. Sometimes the experiment is a success, creating psychotic killers superhuman even in comparison to their corrupted Chaos brethren, but sometimes the subject's metabolism disintegrates in the face of the stress, resulting in instant death.

Inspiration-wise, Fabius is something of an amalgamation of various "mad scientist" figures of both reality and fiction, from Josef Mengele to Victor Frankenstein.

[edit] References

• Games Workshop Design Staff (2002). Warhammer 40,000 Codex: Chaos Space Marines, 1st Edition, Nottingham: Games Workshop. ISBN 1-84154-322-5. 
• Counter, Ben (2006). Galaxy In Flames. Black Library. ISBN 1844163938.