Skyrios Kadaron

> *...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.*
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> -George Orwell
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> *You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool.*
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> -Don DeLillo
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> *To be alive is to be vulnerable. To be ageless is to be doomed.*
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> -Primarch Skyrios Kadaron, private writings.
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   Primarch **Skyrios Kadaron**, seventh son of the Emperor of Mankind, is the gene sire of the Harbingers Legion. Skyrios is a troubled Primarch, who started developing mental problems during the late Crusade, which developed into full blown madness during the Rangdan Xenocides and got even worse during the Great War. The Primarch is unpredictably drifting between sanity and lunacy, which has often made him even more deadly if less reliable fighter.

## History

### Youth/Pre-Great Crusade

When the pod of the Primarch landed on Cadorra, its landing site was in the middle of a war zone. Two nations of the world, Nazon and Timerria were at war with each other, and one of the largest battles of the war was going in the thick of the great jungles. When the pod crashed into the middle of vicious fighting, both sides assumed the other side had some sort of new weapon and immediately retreated. The war came to a temporary pause as both sides tried to figure out the other and what the situation was. Eventually Nazon forces claimed the territory where the fight had taken place, and as such came upon the pod. They captured the pod and took it back to their capital, where it was given to scientists for analysis. Soon the Nazons were able to open the pod, and inside they found the baby Primarch.

At first the Nazons thought the boy was some sort of a genetic experiment weapon by the Timerria, but such theories were put to rest after some time once no proof emerged and the Primarch started to grow, proving himself much more than what was possible to achieve with the science of Cadorra. The Primarch was heavily examined in his childhood, and once it became clear how tremendous his capabilities were, the ruler of Nazon decided that the child would be adopted by the royal family. The patriarch saw the value of the miracle child, and claimed it as his own. After a little over a month after his discovery, the Primarch was adopted into the vast ruling family of Monarch Kadaron, and given the name Skyrios.

Skyrios grew fast and mastered anything and everything the greatest teachers and scholars of the capital could show him. Monarch Kadaron was more than pleased with the abilities of the young Primarch, who had exceeded his wildest expectations. The Monarch had the boy trained in the art of war and leadership, which were the only worthy pursuits for people of power. After some years, the Primarch had grown into the best military mind and warrior in the nation, and maybe the world, but that remained untested, for a while at least.

At some point the tensions between Nazon and Timerria flared again, and it was clear that another war was imminent. This time however the Timerria had acquired an ally in kingdom of Sharson, who also was a long time rival of Nazon. These two nations had set their sights of Nazon, their combined might more than eclipsing that of the Primarch’s homeland. It was in this war that the Primarch was finally revealed to the rest of the world, as Skyrion Kadaron lead the armies of Nazon into battle.

> *Their minds I’ll shatter, their dreams of conquest I’ll destroy.*
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> -Primarch Skyrios Kadaron
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The wars of Caderra are mostly fought in brutal jungle environments. They had advanced weaponry and equipment, and their elite warriors were equipped with highly efficient exosuits (Akin to something from Predator). They also had vehicles that were mostly nimble and fast walkers suited for jungle environment.

The Primarch, equipped with a state of the art custom made exosuit and the best weapons Nazon could provide, met with the advance of the enemy armies in the jungles of Cadorra, and defeated them time after time. After initially being on the defensive, Skyrios soon lead his forces into a counter attack. His advance remained unstoppable, and after a year of brutal jungle fighting, his forces took the capital of Timerria. Sharson surrendered not soon after.

In the coming years, Skyrios lead Nazon to wars of conquest that defeated every nation on their path. While the following years were not without their setbacks, it seemed that Skyrios would sooner or later raise the flag of Nazon above all of Caderra.

The years of conquest were not without woes. Numerous natural disasters common to Caderra tasted the Primarch and his growing empire. At one point, most of the royal family were killed in such a calamity, which resulted the Primarch rising to the throne as his adoptive father’s successor. The loss of his adoptive family was a hard blow to the Primarch, and at that time he started showing the first signs of psychological trouble.

Some years after the unification of Caderra under Monarch kyrios Kadaron, the Imperium of man arrived, and Skyrios pledged his allegiance to the Emperor of mankind. He was gifted the VIIth Legiones Astartes, which he renamed the Harbingers in the spirit of the fatalistic and grim culture of Caderra.

### The Great Crusade

> *Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.*
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During the wars of the Great Crusade, the mental state of the Primarch started to slowly deteriorate. Skyrios became increasingly delusional and paranoid, which did not always hurt his efficiency in combat, for somehow he was able to reap benefit from his delusion and paranoia, as if he had supernatural abilities to read situations. With the guidance of the Primarch, this not totally understood ability to harness something from the madness, which was not uncommon in the Legion, became as if a new tool for the Legion. While their creative ways of war were not always reliable or successful, they managed to bring the Legion some rather wondrous results as well.

### The Rangdan War

In the years of the Rangdan wars, the Primarchs mental state started to deteriorate much more drastically. Skyrios’ sense of looming doom grew worse, and his paranoia reached new levels. In his delusions he started seeing signs of danger among the Imperium and even his own siblings and father. This lead to Skyrios growing more secluded and wary of his siblings, which caused serious problems for the cooperation of Imperial forces in the war effort.

Skyrios was one of the several Primarchs to join the strike force against the Rangdan Queen, and was instrumental to the slaying of the monstrous alien ruler.

### The Great Secession

> *The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.*
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> -Fay Weldon
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When the First War between the loyalists and the secessionists ignited, Skyrios felt like it was the culmination of his paranoia and omens of doom. The Primarch felt like the Emperor had in some convoluted way betrayed him and was after him and his siblings, which was what lead to the Primarch meeting with his closest brothers, Nemiza of the Hunter's Eternal and Irawaru of the Void Watchers on a remote world to discuss the sudden new state of the Imperium. The three Primarch negotiated, contemplated and debated weather their Legions should join the side in opposition to the Emperor. During this meeting between Skyrion and his siblings, the Primarch of the Harbingers however suffered an episode of severe delusion, and in his paranoia and madness suddenly attacked his siblings, causing them severe wounds. The situation was high tension and had a danger of getting out of hand, however the two Primarchs were able to detain their brother in the claws of madness. Cooler heads prevailing and right choices being made on the sides of all Legions, and the Primarch of the Harbingers was firmly detained and no further escalation ensued. The Legion’s First Captain, Osiron Saius, negotiated in his Primarch’s stead and with the authority of the Legion, and an agreement was reached that the VIIth Legion would join the Vth and the XIth in siding with the secessionists. After Skyrios' head cleared up, he was of the same mind as his brothers, and did not challenge the course negotiated by his First Captain in any way.

> *I am sorry… Forgive me…. I am so sorry... so sorry…*
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> -Primarch Skyrios Kadaron, weeping to Nemiza and Irawaru after regaining his sanity.
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The Primarch took some part in the war against the Emperor and the loyalists, but his deranged state kept his ability to lead his sons limited. The strategical planning was left more and more to the highest officers of the Legion. The times when Primarch Skyrios Kadaron took the field during the civil war were few, but when he did his presence was a great boon to the secessionists' cause.

### Imperial Reformation

After the war had been won and the Loyalists had been banished to the Webway, Skyrios had reached a point where his mental state prevented him from being much use to the new Imperium now ruled by Primarchs. In those early years he was mostly confined to the two great fortress towers erected for him on Terra and Caderra, where he occasionally emerged from to lead his sons in wars to re-establish Imperial dominance after the civil war. As those wars ended and the Imperium started to enter a new age of peace and prosperity, Skyrion’s ventures outside of his towers grew more and more rare. In the last few millennia before the Second War, it was uncommon for the Primarch to emerge more than a couple of times in a century to join the small campaigns orchestrated by the Harbingers in the borderlands and frontiers of the Imperium.

## Personality

> *Doom. You recognize Doom easily. It's a feeling and a taste, and it's black, and it's very heavy. It comes down over your head, and wraps tentacles around you, and sinks long dirty fingernails into your heart. It has a stink of burning garbage.*
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> -Gil Brewer
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## Physique

Average size among his siblings, Skyrios is a somewhat more lanky in the form of his muscular superhuman body. While the Primarch is known for only rarely removing his war helmet, the facial features beneath are sharp and smooth, he has stripe of black hair cutting his scalp from brow to back, and he has pale stormy gray eyes.

## Battle Style

Fast rushing at the foe, dealing damage and disengaging to maintain momentum if necessary. Wild, and unpredictable fighting style relying of flurry of strikes. The Primarch is also known to use unorthodox tactics and tricks to his advantage.

## Wargear

* Lightning Claws named *Intimation* and *Insinuation.*
* *Sanity Devourer.* A particularly powerful ranged weapon from the Dark Age of technology that disrupts the minds of its victims.
* Armor mounted Razor Launcher.
* Presage Plate. Light and relatively smooth armor with average level of ornamentation, and incorporated jump pack.