Jayriel Barilius

Recruitment
Jayriel was born to wealthy aristocrats of one of Bororus Prime's towns, who had fortunes through its adamantium mines. As a result Jayriel lived in a life of relative luxury for a resident of a death world and received combat training from an early age and proved to be a skilled warrior.

At the age of 10, the Herald's under Zarkreus Safrion came to his home town and began selecting recruits, Jayriel was amongst those lucky enough to be chosen.

Chapter Training
Jayriel like all neophytes, studied the history of the Chapter and the Imperium and after 5 months began his combat training which he excelled out and was frequently praised by the weapon masters. 3 months later was implanted with the Chapter's gene seed and became a scout. He served amongst the scouts with distinction and after 8 years service was promoted to the rank of full battle-brother and due to the speed and rage of the attacks he demonstrated during his training was drafted into the Vengeance cult and became a Doom Styker of the 8th Doom Host.

Later career to Present Day
Jayriel after 25 years of service as a Doom Styker, promoted to sergeant, as the squad's previous sergeant had just been slain by a Tau XV88 Broadside battlesuit's rail gun. After serving for a further 75 years, during several campaigns to cleanse Orks from fringes of the Oathkeeper's territory whilst they were holding off the Xenos at another location, he was finally elevated to the famed Doom Fury Squad 81 and continued to serve the Chapter. Shortly afterwards, he became close friends with Cassius Syrex, a Devastator squad sergeant of the Oathkeeper's 4th Company and later found themselves fighting back-to-back amidst an Ork horde when they attacked a forge world, which both Chapters had contracts with.

10 years later, shortly before he was assigned to a joint Herald-Oathkeeper strike force, Jayriel and his squad boarded a space hulk, that the 8th Doom Host were investigating and were attacked by Tyranid Genestealers presumably from one of the hive fleets which had already invaded the Imperium. His squad's veteran sergeant was mortally wounded during the fighting and was entombed in one of the Chapter's dreadnoughts, due to his valour and courage and the skill he had previously shown as a squad leader, was promoted to the Squad's Veteran Sergeant and therefore the 8th's 1st Sergeant as tradition dictates that the Leader of Squad 81 and the 1st Sergeant of the 8th Doom Host are one and the same. He currently serves in the joint Herald-Oathkeeper Strike force mentioned above.