In the early years of Karl Franz’s reign, a boy appeared at the gate of a Sigmarite monastery near Wissenburg and pleaded to be allowed to join the ranks of the warrior monks.

When asked about his past, the boy did not answer. All he would say was his name, Luthor Huss, though his burning desire to fight Chaos was soon clear to all.

Many years of hard training, intense study and inflexible discipline followed. The lean boy grew up to become a tall, muscular young man, whose fighting skills were soon a match for his instructors. He also proved an eager student of the Way of Sigmar and, at the completion of his studies, he could engage his old teachers in subtle dialectic duels. One thing remained for Luthor to earn a place amongst his brothers, he needed to face Darkness in battle and defeat it.

Luthor left the monastery and walked across the Empire, preaching faith in Sigmar and looking for a sign, a chance to prove his worth against Chaos. He finally had his chance in Weismund, a small town at the edge of the Drakwald Forest. When Luthor reached Weismund, he found a great commotion among the population. Squads of the town’s militia were in full alarm, peasants and woodsmen were flooding to the relative safety of the town’s palisade with their livestock. It looked as though they were preparing for a siege. Luthor soon found out that a large band of Beastmen had attacked the area and many isolated communities had already been destroyed.

Painful memories of his childhood flickered through the novice’s mind. He was soon busy striding around the town, inspiring the defenders with fiery speeches and helping them get ready for the imminent attack. Help had been sent for, but the nearest garrison of regular troops was in Helmgart, and reinforcements would take days to reach Weismund. Suddenly the foul Children of Chaos were upon the town. Great were the feats of valour that Luthor accomplished, the power of Sigmar was strong with him that day. His mighty warhammer struck down many abominations and a supernatural aura protected him during the fight. The blows of the enemies were unable to pierce his armour and the evil sorcery of the shaman who was leading the Beastmen was totally powerless against Luthor. Even a huge bull-headed horror succumbed to the implacable priest.

After two days of uninterrupted fighting, an Imperial relief force reached the town and the Beastmen fled back into the forest. Luthor joined the troops in their pursuit, but when the soldiers reached the edge of the wood, they stopped, judging it folly to continue under the dark canopy of trees. Luthor was undeterred and followed the fleeing creatures of Chaos, determined to wipe them all out. The soldiers set up camp close by, in case the Beastmen decided to return. Soon everybody was convinced that the ferocious novice had surely been killed, but after three days Luthor emerged once more from the forest. His armour in tatters, his exhausted body covered in the blood of his enemies, Luthor reached the camp dragging behind him the massive horned head of the shaman.

After this victory against Chaos, Luthor returned to the monastery, where he was ordained. From that day on he joined his brothers on the battlefield, where he distinguished himself fighting the minions of Darkness.

Luthor quickly rose through the ranks and eventually was chosen to join the delegation representing his order at the Sigmarite Council in Altdorf. The reason for this Council was the election of a new Arch-lector to replace Mannfred of Nuln who had disappeared in the north during his crusade against the Chaos Warlord Archaon.

Luthor was deeply troubled by what he witnessed in the council. He saw fat clergy more concerned with politics and business than in pursuing the holy mission bestowed upon them by Sigmar: the fight against Chaos. The Grand Theogonist Volkmar was absent from the council; the old man was spending more and more time in the high pinnacle at the top of the Temple of Sigmar. For days at a time he would lock himself in the secret repository of the tomes of forbidden lore, in search of an answer to the dark menace gathering in the far north. Malign rumours circulated in the council, and some even doubted Volkmar’s sanity because of the many hours he spent reading those unholy grimoires.

Without the Theogonist’s guidance, the influence of the Arch-lectors was growing. They were steering the position of the clergy of Sigmar towards the achievement of their selfish political aims.

With all the fervour of his burning faith, Luthor openly denounced this spiritual relaxation, attacking the Lectors in the Council with hard words of reproach.

“To fight Chaos on the battlefields, not to grow rich and fat in the golden halls of the capital, that is the purpose of our Cult!” boomed Luthor’s voice at the Council. Needless to say, that did not win him much popularity with the Arch-lectors and he was ordered to apologise by his superiors in the Order. The young and pious Luthor could not obey that order, which was in open contradiction with everything he had always believed in. He finally decided to resign his position and leave the assembly.

From that day on, Luthor has travelled throughout the Empire, preaching against the corruption of the heads of the Cult of Sigmar and inciting the faithful to seek the will of Sigmar without the mediation of the clergy. Luthor has become the nightmare of every corrupt priest, and rumours are that the worst of them have met a grisly end at his hands. The Arch-lectors have asked the Theogonist to excommunicate Luthor, but the holy man has never agreed with them. Indeed, Luthor has never attacked Volkmar in his speeches. The enigmatic smile that appears on the Theogonist’s face when Luthor is mentioned to him has led many to think that the old man knows something important about Luthor. Something he cannot or does not want to reveal.

Luthor Huss appears most often whenever the forces of the Empire are facing evil and unholy enemies. Beastmen, Skaven, the Living Dead – all are blasphemies against Sigmar and all must be smitten by the faithful! Luthor fights beside the soldiers of the Empire, his example and inspiring words are a great aid against those unholy foes, his powers stronger than those of any other priest of Sigmar.