Kobah Fin

Shaman Kobah Fin

**Kobah Fin** is a Shaman of The Kin Space Marine Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. Currently he is undergoing his Apocyphron Oath by serving the Long Vigl with the Deathwatch, the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's Ordo Xenos.

## History

### Beginnings

Kobah Fin was born into a wandering tribe of zealots on Mundis Bestia. He spent approximately 13 years with the tribe before he chosen by a shaman of the Kin to become an initiate for the chapter.

After surviving the ascension to becoming an astartes, Kobah Fin served the chapter as a battleline tribe-brother in the 3rd tribe for nearly a decade before he suffered a grievous attack from a psychic xenos. This attack had the unknown effect of awakening the psychic capabilities that had lay dormant within Kobah for his entire life.

### Shaman Training

Upon the discovery of Kobah's psychic abilities, he was inducted into the Kin's shaman brotherhood. He was taken as an apprentice and was soon taught how to harness his psychic talents and the ways of belief and how to sustain it in his fellow tribe brothers. It was also during this time that Kobah gained the companionship of a Mundis Bestian frost falcon he named 'Jai'.

Kobah began to specialise in belief earning himself the honour of wearing a skull helmet as part of his uniform upon completing his training. When he did complete his training as a shaman he was given his skull helmet and robes by the ancient dreadnought Gares Praenutia. Now a fully trained shaman, Kobah was prepared to bring the Golden Lord's fury down upon the foes of mankind.

### Metallum Ossius Campaign

After 30 years of serving the Kin as a shaman, Kobah was requested to join the grand chieftain's crusade force to purge the necron of an unknown dynasty that attacked Mundis Bestia in M37. This was an honour Kobah gratefully accepted and marked it by showing off the smilodonis ingens skull upon his icon pauldron. During the campaign he became a bitter enemy of a necron cryptek. As the crusade reached the necron's tomb world, Kobah fought the cryptek and, with the loss of his bird companion Jai, he managed to succeed and parted the necron's head from it's body with a swing of his crozius.

### Back Home

Upon his return to Mundis Bestia, Kobah chose to show his respect to Jai by the addition of a bird skull upon a heraldry shield. He then left the fortress monastery disappearing entirely for one solar month. When he returned he had another Mundis Bestian Frost Falcon on his shoulder and began serving the chapter once more for several more years.

### M42

As M42 arrived he requested to be transferred to the Deathwatch, a position he was granted due to his reverence within the chapter due to his feats when committed during the Metallum Ossius Campaign.

## Appearance

Kobah Fin is clad in the black armour of the Deathwatch due to his current service with the faction. He also wears a brown heraldry shield with the icon of a bird's skull and brown robes he earned when he was officially made a shaman with the Kin. His helmet is the skull helmet worn by the Kin's shamans. He sometimes wears a pelt outfit made from the hides of beasts he killed on Mundis Bestia when he chooses not to wear his power armour.

Below his helmet he has short hair with a braid woven into his hair. His eyes are a cold blue which has unsettled many initiates and young astartes. Surrounding his mouth and chin is a stubble which refuses to grow into a beard, something Fin has often laughed at.

## Abilities and Traits

### Psychic Ability

Kobah Fin has shown that he is a psyker. He often uses this ability to keep up the morale of his allies up and is most commonly used when he serves alongside guardsmen forces. He has also shown that.

### Shaman Training

Upon Mundis Bestia, Kobah Fin has been trained to be a shaman a role which encompasses the duties of both librarians and chaplains. This training has forged him into an indomitable warrior of the Golden Lord.

## Equipment

### Armour

* **Shaman Armour** - Kobah Fin's armour is similar to that of a chaplain's. Though the armour is decorated with robes and a heraldry shield it is mostly alike to a chaplain's armour due to the skull helmet Kobah wears.

### Weapons

* **Force Crozius** - Kobah Fin wields a weapon similar to a Crozius as his main weapon. It is different froma crozius however as the material it is made from allows Kobah to channel his psychic abilities into strikes with his weapon making it similar to a force weapon it is decorated with purity seals which are both prayers to the glory Lord Solus and prayers for the safety of his tribe brothers and allies.

* **Combi-Flamer** - Kobah also wields a combi-Flamer as a mid to short ranged weapon when he is unable to reach his foes in melee. It has served him well and has slain many of his foes throughout his time as a Shaman. The flamer is a particular favourite of Kobah's as it reminds him of his time a mortal keeping himself warm at a campfire.

## Relations

### Allies

* **Jai** - Jai is the name given to the two Mundis Bestian Frost Falcons that have been companions to the Shaman. The first Jai met Kobah when he was training to be a chaplain and died when he fought a cryptek for the last time during the Metallum Ossius Campaign. As a memory to this bird Kobah wears a bird skull icon on his heraldry shield. The second was found after the shaman vanished for a month returning with the bird at his side. It has since served him well in the following years.

* **The Kin** - The Kin are Kobah's home chapter and as such are his ally. The warriors of the chapter have seen the shaman's skills in combat many times and are often thankful for his services.