Brother Techmarine Emeric is a veteran of the Declates Crusade. There the Imperial Fists and Black Templars faced a seemingly innumerable Ork foe but fought in mixed units and finally won a climactic battle on Declates VII. Brother Emeric saw action in a combined chapter unit under the command of an Imperial Fists Librarian, successfully completing the mission and later helping establish a Black Templar keep. Emeric bears a small Declates banner on his left thigh commemorating these events.
Showing that he could check his hatred for psykers while in a combined force, Brother Emeric drew the notice of his superiors and thus became a pawn of Imperial politics. The techmarine, along with dozens of other Templars, was seconded into Deathwatch partially as a "show of gratitude" to Ordo Xenos inquisitors that had intervened and stopped an Ordo Hereticus investigation. Brother Emeric heard rumors that Ordo Hereticus believes his Chapter to be untrustworthy and that Black Templar numbers far exceed the proscribed 1,000 Marine limit.
Despite zealous devotion, Emeric enters his Deathwatch tour of duty with profound ambivalence. He is completely loyal to the ideals and doctrines of his chapter, yet he has been asked to work closely, even more closely than during the Declates Crusade, with Librarians and other sanctioned psykers. Additionally during his 30 years of indoctrination and training on Mars, Emeric learned secrets of the Machine Spirit. Embedded in his brain is a lust for undiscovered xeno-tech to be brought back to the keep tech-savants for the glory of the Omnissiah and the glory of mankind. Love of Emperor, hatred of the witch, chapter call of duty, and loyalty to the Mechanicus all weigh heavily upon Emeric's soul. Constant prayer and meditation has been his balm.