Kathreel Nul

Kathreel Null in his Armour, Circa M42

**Kathreel Nul** is a Blackshield Space Marine that originally hails from the enigmatic Alpha Legion but now serves as one of the Unknown sources that is within the retinue of Inquisitor Marshall Aulirus alongside his twin 'Asset Beta'.

## History

### Great Crusade

Believed to have been born sometime during the Great Crusade more than likely not long before the discovery of the twin Primarchs of the XXth Legion, Kathreel were inducted into the chapter esc organisation within the legion known by the cognomen of 'The Nameless' along with his twin Tamiel into the ranks of the Legion Seeker Squads and the pair would often be paired together for several operations during the course of the Crusade. During their early years within the legion the pair would be mentored Askelitan Dyas until he deemed them ready.

After the reunion of the last of the Emperors sons Alpharius, The twins were on many battle zones behind enemy lines; destroying supply lines, assassinating enemy leaders and various other clandestine operations. It is believed during this time that that both Kadreel and Tamiel served within the coveted 'Effrit Stealth Squad' before returning back to the Nameless. Though the pair have neither confirmed nor denied these claims.

They were assigned to a separate compliance action during the events where the Primarchs met the Xenos Collective known as the Cabal, so would not be informed of the grand deception and the Legions alleged betrayal of the Imperium and would be unaware of the spark that split the Imperium in twain.

### Horus Heresy and a choice

After the news of the Warmasters betrayal of the Emperor, both Tamiel and Katheel were both unsure of what side the Alpha Legion had placed itself on and would find this infomantion from a small picket fleet of Alpha legion that were hunting for survivors of the Dropsite Massacre, The picket fleet informed the pair of the side the legion had taken.

Appalled at their legions abandonment of their duty to both the Imperium and the Emperor the pair would fight their way off of the ship they had arrived on. sabotaging the ships reactor the pair narrowly escaped the ships descruction by hijacking an escape pod and ejecting into the void. during this time many of the pairs tales and achievements are largely untold. They garnered a reputation amongst the Traitor Legions for being entirely unforgiving and swift with their wrath even going up against their former brothers In arms in The Nameless.

### The Knights Errant

Their actions and dedication to the Loyalist cause drew the attention of Nethanial Garro and the Knights Errant who would eventually catch up with the two hunters, Though initially distrustful of the group that claimed to serve the sigilite, the twins were eventually recruited into the Knights of the Sigilite.

Removing the paint off of their armour and it being adorned with the Knights Errants sigil the twins would become full members of the Knights being deployed on many missions with other members or by themselves, such as the elimination of serval Alpha Legion and Sons of Horus kill teams that were scouting further into loyalist space.

It is known that Katheel was on Caliban during the same mission that both Graviel Loken and Iacton Querze would embark on and would watch from the shadows on his own mission assigned by the Sigilite himself. During this time he would shadow the then Lt Kazarin Aradas before returning to link up with his twin for the up coming Siege of Terra to which both of the twins were present and played an active role in the Defense of the Imperial Palace. Though it is not known what they did through this titanic battle.

### Post Heresy

Following the conclusion of the Siege of Terra and the commencing of the scouring the twins would pursue the retreating traitor legions, in particular the Night Lords and their former brothers, The Alpha Legion. This would come to ahead during a skirmish with the Nameless led by their former mentor Askelitan. during the following battle the twins would realise they were out matched with Tamiel had lost an eye to their former mentor.

Making their escape they began a campaign against their traitorous brethren, stealing many assets from caches that the now warband had set up across real space becoming a considerable hindrance to the Nameless, This resulted in Harrowmaster Fulcrum ordering Askelitan to kill the twins. This hunt would last until M33 when Askelitan joined The Foretoken under Fulcrums orders leaving the twins to raid the war band relatively unopposed.

During somepoint in M34 both Katheel and Tamiel were captured by Trayzn The Infinite and put into one of the many tesseract vaults within the Necron Lords collection and would remain in this state for millennia and would only emerge during the Fall of Cadia. Kathreel has recounded several moments during his interment within the 'Museum' with a clarity that even Marshall and Tamiel hadnt been able to recall. Though his humour has always been described as dark, Tamiel has commented that it has gotten significantly darker.

### Return

During the Fall of Cadia when Trayzn released many in his collection, Katheel and Tamiel were related and fought briefly upon the planets surface until is destruction. While the twins fought upon the burning planet they noted the heavily corupted traitor marines from the Black Legion, while initailly confused and discusted the pair would carve a path through the traiotr forces and would regroup with the inquisitor who they would soon learn was called Marshall an a few surviving Karskins before thye would retreat from the rapidly deteriorating planet, fleeing with the also recently free'd Inquisitor Marshall Aulirus who had also been trapped by the Necron Overlord. Narrowly escaping the collapsing planet both of the Astartes pledged their support towards the Inquisitor If only temporary agreement.

They would operate as Blackshields under the pseudo names of 'Asset Omega' for Tamiel and 'Asset Beta' for Katheel, they would provide Intelligence for the Inquisitor and eliminating targets prior to an operation for many years while galaxy was embroiled in chaos caused by the Great Rift.

### Post Great Rift

After a few years of serving the Inquisitor, Katheel and Tamiel would discover an ancient craft of an unknown make investigating the ship the twins discovered that the ship is an ancient variant of a Stealth Craft, Recovering the craft which had been adrift for an unknown amount of time. The pair debated leaving the service of the Inquisitor but decided to remain using this newly acquired ship as the own base of operations.

The pair donned the black armour that is often attributed to the deathwatch leaving a silver trim the Pair hold the facade of being a pair of blackshields on loan to the Inquisitor. They have also managed to acquire the shoulder pouldron of the Deathwatch to better suit this ruse of theirs. In the service of Inquisitor Marshall alongside the kingbreakers.

## Appearance

Following the trend that seemed common within the ranks of the XXth Legion, Katheel is amongst the taller examples of Astartes though nowhere near the size of marines such as Tyberos the Red wake he is not much shorter than a Primaris Marine standing only a few inches shorter than a standard Primaris marine and taller than his twin Tamiel and most astartes he encounters while using his cuurent disguse.

## Personality

Usually a quiet individual Katheel prefers to observe from a distance before interacting or engaging any scenario social or otherwise, he has been noted for his often dark sense of humour that has been acquired from the many years he has been serving and the years spent in the Infinite's collection. Despite this he does have a sense of compassion though he has his own ways of showing it, as shown by when he rescued a group of defenceless civilians from a charging Ork Nob with a precise shot from his plasma pistol and a equally precise slash from his knife bringing the charging beast down.

## Abilities and Traits

Katheel has been noted for his exceptional marksmanship and his ingenuity, having taken pride in both he is very particular and precise with his wargear and is almost offended when someone touches his gear or insinuates he cannot do his job, spending the majority of his off time maintaining and further modifying his equipment.

Kathreel posseses Eidetic, which he had before his ascension to the ranks of the Astartes which has been enhanced even further upon his ascension to what appears to be a step above the stanadrd memory that most astartes possess, this has also likley contributed to the dark humour of Kathreel.

## Equipment

The Wargear that Katheel uses has been in use since the days of the great crusade and despite its age it is well maintained and only slightly shows its age.

### Armour

* Artificer MKIV Maximus armour: Bearing this armour since the waining days of the Great Crusade, Kadreel's ancient armour bears the scars of his service to the Imperium, Though it does lack the scales that have been noted to be on many Alpha legionaries. It has also been noted to bear various parts of other marks of Astartes Power Armour with the MKIV systems still being the basis upon which armour is added.

* MKVI Corvus Alpha: Having recovered parts of a suit of MKVI Alpha and incorporated serveral parts of the recovered armour into his own, which following its inetgragtion into his suit has allowed him to maintain his armour more effectivley as well as assist his infiltartion missions as the modicfactions made by both the Alpha Legion prior and Kathreel have incraesed the proficiency of the Armour.

### Used Weapons

Kathreel comparatively to Tamiel is a master of ranged wepaonry and warfare, complimenting his twin's prefence for close quaters engagments and melee weapons Kathreel's armoury is nearly entirely ranged weaponry. while he has his prefered loadout he has a growing collection of weapons that range from stanadrd astartes weaponry to more exotic wepaonry.

* **Umbra Ferox Pattern Bolter:** Used when he is not using his sniper rifle is not idea, Kathreel has kpet this ancinet bolter handy and has been modified as has most of his equipment.
* **Tirus pattern Bolt Pistol**
* **Plamsa Pistol**
* **Power Dagger**
* **Experimental Astartes Power Combat Knife 'Scalpel':** One of his combat knives that he has been modified retroactively throughout the years, it has been noted to bear an slight Purple glow when he uses it in combat and it bears a similar trait to the personal weapon of Alpharius where the blade seems to phase straight through the foe while inflicting grievous wounds.
* **Moddifiyed Sniper Rifle:** His primary weapon, this sniper rilfe takes clear inspiration from the rifle used by the Exodus from the Alpha Legion.

### Munitions

* Bane-Strike Bolt Rounds
* Standard Bolt Rounds
* Kraken Penetrator Bolt Rounds
* Scorpius Bolt Rounds
* Ulysses Bolt Rounds

## Relations

### Friends/Allies

* **Tamiel Syndros**: The twin of katheel, Tamiel has been with Katheel since both of their induction into the XXth Legion and have been through thick and thin together. Having your typical sibling relationship the both of them make fun each other as siblings go but have a deep care for.

* **Marshall Aulirus**: The current 'Employer' of Kathreel and his twin, though being initally aprehensive of the inquisitor he has grown to consider the man a friend and still chooses to fight for the inquisitor.

### Rivals/Enemies

* **Askelitan Dyas**: The old mentor and now enemy of both of the twins, Askelitan practically raised the pair and can easily beat the two in combat. The next time they meet only one side is leaving, Though a different outcome may surprise the twins.