Kabal of the Shattered Will

Symbol of the Kabal

Kabalite of the Shattered Will

The **Kabal of the Shattered Will** is a large yet reclusive Kabal in the Dark City of Commorragh. Its claim to power rests mostly in its extensive use of arms manufacturing, so much so as to be the source of a sizable portion of the Dark City's supply of Splinter and Darklight weaponry.

Unlike the Kabal of the Obsidian Rose however, the Shattered Will produces cheap yet reliable mass produced weapons, rather than uniquely crafted masterpieces. This combined with a high rate of raiding expeditions and making a point to pioneer new pain experiences has made this Kabal rather large and wealthy.

## Homeworld

The Twilight realm of ***Slaugh na Marbh*** is a satellite province at the deep edges of the Dark City. It is a vast realm overgrown with alien flora and fauna from countless dimensions and planets seeping in from small webway doors to many worlds in the materium and without. Notably, it has no sky but two intersecting lands facing one another directly at massive distance, one of deep insanely ancient forests and the other of a vast snow encrusted mountain scape, creating havoc with gravity and the ever shifting ecosystem. The Kabal has learned how to navigate Slaugh na Marbh with ease as though a casual stroll in the long millennia of its hold over the realm.

Another note is the Kabal of the Shattered Will spent the better part of two centuries battling the Kabal of Nihil for control of the realm during its early days, culminating in the Revelation War and almost complete destruction of the Kabal of Nihil, who would spend the next three millennia rebuilding in secret.

The Fortress of the Kabal is an anomaly from before The Fall, a megalith of sprawling dark spires jutting in all directions, housing technology that hides much of it power and size despite the clear visible immensity. Notably, it has base roots in both the snowy mountain realm and the forest realm, intersecting in the middle to create a menacing shape reminiscent of a leering hateful god, which would cause no shortage of unease were it not for Commorraghs denizens long ago dropping religious notions.

The manufacuring centers of the Kabal are located in the snow mountain lands, sprawling armories and weapons testing facilities cutting deep into the mountain crusts, lined with millions upon millions of slaves producing arms for the Dark City. These slaves are kept in check by way of high numbers of mercenaries and Kabalites keeping a constant and harsh eye on any sign of discontent, as well as strategic promotion of skilled slave workers to foment distrust and infighting so a mounted group effort dies in infancy.

The underground caverns below the forest realm play host to the Kabal's patron Haemonculus Coven, the Coven of the Reformed Wheel. In this dark hellscape the Coven plays host to its Dark Revelations and resurrection facilities, as well as the usual experimentations and poison development. It is ruled by the ancient Master Haemonculus Xuchilbara.

Lining the spires and shards jutting in all directions, yet oddly seeming to all point towards the main palace in the center, are the torture chambers, armories and quarters for the Kabal, where the rank and file live, kill and prepare for the endless war upon real space. Since the Kabal numbers over a million, it has enough spires to blot out any light that pierces the realm.

At the center lies the Palace of the Overlord Veth'va Scaur, where trueborn and close allies live and arm in opulence and lord over countless relics and stolen champions of the lesser races. This is the source of where the Kabal plans all future raids and pioneers new pain siphoning methods to bring to the masses in Commorragh(for a high price), competition is fierce to learn the newest ways to siphon the most pain and therefore the most influence. It is also the center of the Incubi Shrine of Rekindled Hate, a shrine with close color resemblance to the Kabal and a worrying amount of loyalty(even for Incubi) towards the Overlord.

In recent days around 30% of the realm was swallowed by the shadow kingdom of Aelindrach during the disjunction caused by the failing of Khaines Gate, creating a tenuous and uncertain tension as the Mandrakes and Kabalites vie for dominance. In a twist of fate, the Kabal of Nihil was utterly wiped out when their last refuge was consumed as a part of the realm swallowed by Aelindrach, just as they were about to announce their public return and vie for revenge.

Archon Scaur has eased tensions mostly by forming a stable yet slim alliance with the Mandrake tribes on the borders of his realm, reducing internal conflict and boosting his raiding forces considerably. Though for how long this will last no one can say...

## Notable Campaigns

***The Breaching(M35-M41):*** The Kabal of the Shattered Will would participate in the event known as the Breaching, in which Asdrubael Vect opened new pathways in the webway to expand Commorraghs' domain and influence. Expanding both the Dark City's growth and their own domain, this was a time for the Kabal to earn great renown and power.

***The Revelation War(M36):*** The war between the Kabal Nihil and the Kabal of the Shattered Will, which tears through the webway and results in millions of deaths, both Eldar and Mon'keigh. The final battle would see the Kabal Nihil lead by Archon Zylo Xys make a surprise attack upon the Shattered Will head fortress aboard his flagship Tantalus. In the attack he was accompanied by gangs of hellions in the sky and wych cults on the ground. Once the initial attack was over, thousands of Shattered Will kabalites were killed. Finally, Archon Veth'va Scaur replied in kind, and swarmed out of their fortress at the head of his personal raider, assisted by Reaver gangs in the sky and the Haemonculus Coven of the Reformed Wheel on the ground. Both forces flew at breakneck speed toward one another, with the Coven and Cult massacring one another below. However, as the Kabal Nihil tried to fire their weapons they refused to work, and Archon Scaurs' plan was revealed: The Shattered Will had been mass producing splinter weapons and darklight weapons for centuries and circulating them throughout the Dark City, but had deigned not to put their mark on the weapons. Ultimately, the Nihil had been using Shattered Will weapons, and with a thought by Scaur, they simply wouldn't work. However, the Kabal Nihil were not without bite, and charged into boarding melee, weathering a hail of darklight and splinter fire. Reavers clashed and raced with Hellions while Wyches scythed through and were dragged down by hordes of Wracks, Beastmasters sent monsters from all over the materium to brawl with hulking grotesques while kabalites shredded one another in knife fights and spat a myriad of curses at each other.

The fighting was fierce and bloody for both, but the casualties were mounting for Nihil as the Shattered Will maintained a ranged advantage. During this, Veth'va and Zylos clashed their flagships into one another for a duel while their Incubi and Court fought around them. The duel was a thing of legend, with both bloody, torn armor, and near dead at the end, but ultimately Veth'va Scaur's much larger stature and ferocity won out and he cut the limbs from Zylos Xys. Appearing before the edge of his new lead craft Tantalus, Archon Veth'va Scaur hefted the limbless and writhing form of his rival and roared so fiercely all could not help but observe. With the Kabal now headless, they fled back to their own fortress in the realm, their Wych allies fleeing from slaughter at the hands of the Reformed Will, their sisters dragged by cold wracks into the dark underways. As a final touch, Archon Scaur flayed Zylos alive, strapped him to a Void Bomb with its limiters removed, and launched it at the Kabal Nihil fortress. The Archon, almost all of his kabal, and their pleasure den of a fortress, were utterly obliterated. As a final note, this battle had set the Kabal of the Shattered Will on the map so to speak of Commorragh. They had defeated a larger and stronger Kabal, proven their skill and had shown that any weapon in the Dark City might be from the Shattered Will, making an assault against them risky in the extreme. Some Kabals considered discarding their splinter rifles and darklight armaments, but realized the cheap and reliable weapons were too valuable for most Kabals to afford, and the Shattered Will weren't worth the effort of killing regardless by the eyes of most in the Dark City, considering how distant they keep themselves from power struggles.

***The Humbling(M40):*** Archon Mylos Trekh leads a raid upon the Orks of WAAAGH Gutstabba. Despite deft maneuvering and stealth encroachment, the Archon's forces are countered at every step, with Warboss Gutstabba being aided by a conclave of Weirdboys who could see his every plan. Archon Mylos Trekh seeks to grab victory from defeat and duels the Warboss personally, but is simply unable to overcome the beast, and is slain by the Ork, with his head planted on one of the Warbosses spikes. Sent reeling and broken, the raid fails and limps back to the Dark City, where Archon Mylos is resurrected from his headless body. Beaten nearly to death again by Overlord Scaur, Mylos is banished from the Kabal with the decree he must acquire the Orks skull, or be sent screaming into the arms of Slaanesh. To this day Mylos still hunts and improves to one day face the Warboss again and reacquire his position in the Kabal, and perhaps get back his old head(still hanging on the Ork's spike pole) as a bonus.

***New and Old Foes(early M40):*** Young Archon Sykil Scaur leads a raid upon a Tau colony, all goes well until first contact with the Slaaneshi warband Covenant of Her Embrace occurs, both forces clash and bloody one another before they both are forced to retreat. Though not a failed raid ultimately, the young Archon knew this won't be the last encounter, and so ensured every kabalite across the Kabal would carry Splinter ammo with poison built for worshippers of She Who Thirsts. The Covenant of Her Embrace would continue to hound and seek any Eldar they could, and would be a frequent enemy of the Kabal for millennia to come.

***The Linked Agonies(M41)***: Archons Narlek Scaur and Thraed Xesh invade the hive world of Mahazu, which had been in a civil war due to a genestealer uprising. Much to the great confusion and bewilderment of the Imperials, the Kabal leaves the mon'keigh largely alone, only deigning to steal away their nobility, while dragging nearly every Genestealer cultist and their patriarch into the Webway. The purpose of this is beyond the Imperials, but in the dark city, the two Archons unveil their newest Pain Frontier: By linking every cultist to their patriarch and instilling mass torture at the same time, the resulting linked agony brings a feeding the observers can barely believe. It becomes a new and exciting trend in the Dark City, bringing more renown to the Kabal and its Archons.

***The Metal Tide(M41):*** Archon Akkar Kaghmyr seeks slaves upon the oceanic world of Meso, thinking it easy pickings, he is surprised to learn a necron tomb world has recently awoken beneath, with legions of metal warriors rising from the depths. Thinking an opportunity to test himself and his warriors, Archon Kaghmyr makes for a decisive attack run. However, his forces are underequipped with necessary poison for such foes and are repelled. Fleeing the world, Archon Kaghmyr swears to return, but when is unknown.

***Useless Harvest(M41):*** Shattered Will forces join a host of races in an alliance to turn back a Tyranid splinter fleet, though it quickly becomes apparent that the fight will end badly. After assisting the initial assault, the Kabal forces grab what slaves and specimens they can and return to the Dark City.

***The Indus Moon Incident(M42):*** Two strike forces, one of the Angels of Grace(Dark Angels successor), and one of the Deathwatch, descend upon the moon of Indus to dispatch an ork threat. Upon defeating the orks, the strike forces learn of Dark Eldar raids afflicting the populous, and that they seem to be searching for more than just slaves. The two strike forces diverge, as the Angels of Grace wish to deal with cleansing the final ork resistance and assessing the goals of the Drukhari before rushing in, while the Deathwatch are adamant the xenos must be destroyed at all costs. Ultimately, both sides separate with the Angels clearing out the orks and seeking the goal of the raiders, while the Deathwatch rush headlong in zealous fury at the attackers. Tragically, the Deathwatch did not foresee the raid being lead by their Overlord. Outnumbered and outgunned, the strike force managed to inflict some losses at least on the Kabal and even managed to wound the Overlord, but they were ultimately annihilated. On the other side of the moon, the Angels of Grace managed to mop up the orks and through the work of their Librarian, were lucky enough to discover the goal of the raiders and the location of what they sought, but were unfortunately destroyed before a message could be relayed off world, with only jumbled static words being all that remained.

***Nobility Lost(early M42):*** Archon Morriga Scaur, Trueborn daughter of the Overlord, leads a raid upon the world of Jetha. The raiding forces easily pick apart the defending pdf and begin a harvest. However, what should be a routine raid turns south as the First Company of the Burdened Sons chapter lead by Chapter Master Lucien Hyden unexpectedly counter attacks from a hidden position in a nearby asteroid belt. The Sons hit hard, sending the raid reeling. Archon Morriga knew her forces were not equipped to take on the astartes like this, so she ordered a retreat with their current slaves and tried to hound the marines as a distraction. Unfortunately, she would be cornered by the astartes by a drop pod assault and had nowhere to run. Standing on her wrecked venom transport, she stood defiant til the end, even as the Chapter Master Lucien Hyden pulled out a vortex grenade, ensuring she would not have a chance to recover. Though the raid escaped with their slaves, the Kabal lost a valued archon. It was said Overlord Scaur's grief was so great his roar of hate was so intense all in Slaugh na Marbh could hear and feel it.

***The Unsubtle Message(M42)***: Enraged by the true death of one of his Trueborn daughters at the hands of the Burdened Sons Chapter, Overlord Veth'va Scaur develops a plan of revenge and to send a message to the wider imperium. He began this by raiding various recruiting worlds and ships surrounding the homeworld of the Burdened Sons, leaving carnage and a single message to the chapter: "We are coming". Undaunted, the chapter master, one Lucien Hyden, recalled all companies to the homeworld to prepare for a siege, and being sons of Dorn they went to work at once. It would take a few more years, with the chapter holing up and preparing for war within their fortress monastery, taking great pains to make it worthy of their Primarch, even if it meant leaving the other worlds to the mercy of the xenos. With the fleet standing ready above the planet, the first signs of the Kabal appeared. A single escort ship floated in range bearing a sign of surrender, astonishing the flagship captain, who ordered it be boarded and the crew brought aboard to be paraded before the Imperials before execution. The boarding parties would only find a single Wrack aboard the ship to be brought before the captain. As the captain laughed about such an easy and weak xenos attack, he prepared to execute the wrack before the creature revealed a Darklight mine embedded in its chest, which detonated and tore the battlebarge in half. Both halves would fall to the surface and kill millions. This left the fleet reeling just as the Kabal fleet let down its stealth systems and attacked, taken off guard and losing its flagship, the fleet was drowned in lance fire.

With the fleet gone, the Kabal descended on the world. Anti air batteries from both local pdf and gun emplacements were swarmed by surprise Mandrake attacks, silencing most anti air in time, though not enough to prevent casualties. The pdf and civilians would come under sudden attack by hordes of wracks, grotesques and pain engines from the Coven of the Reformed Wheel, swept up in a tide of malformed flesh and serrated blades. Through all this, the fortress monastery stood proud and defiant. The chapter prepared and readied themselves, confident in their defense works and discipline, though the Overlord's final piece was yet to place. Descending on enough raiders and venoms to blot out the moons, ten thousand kabalites, every one armed with a blaster, dived into attack positions. Overlord Scaur had built and prepared enough darklight over the years just for this moment, to drown his enemies in a void, much to the delight of Archon Xesh. Despite all their work, the chapters fortress monastery walls were obliterated, their anti air guns silenced by mandrakes though not before felling dozens of raiders and venoms, and the kabalites and Incubi lead by their Overlord stormed through the broken defenses. It would be an insult to call it an even match, the defending marines incinerated and felled by extreme poison, or cut to pieces by bands of mandrakes and incubi kill teams. At the center of the carnage dueled Chapter Master Hyden and Overlord Scaur, though a titanic fight between monolithic individuals, the chapter master was held back by XIIth legion honor and lacked the skill to match the ancient Overlord who was only growing stronger on the agony that surrounded him. Ultimately, the chapter master was defeated, beheaded, and his men killed and captured, the dead finding no respite for the Haemonculi would later resurrect them. The fortress monastery was destroyed, its geneseed burned and relics stolen, and its population dragged in the millions back to the Dark City.

The Kabal would catch a hefty profit from selling the astartes to various Haemonculus Covens and Wych Cults to do as they please, and well as selling the famous ten thousand darklight weapons involved in the raid, though the captains and chaplains were kept by the Reformed Wheel for their own dark purpose. The message was sent: The Imperium would know the Drukhari were not going to be weakened by the Dysjunction, and they would not let up their raids despite whatever reinforcements the Imperium receive from Guilliman. Centuries later, a primaris force would seek to restart the chapter and resettle their world, but upon arriving, and in testament to the Overlord's god-like spite and hate, had unwittingly activated a store of void mines with deactivated limiters, resulting in the world, the primaris, and their fleet getting sucked into a black hole.

***The Piercing border skirmish(M42):*** Archon Drevakh Nul prepares to expand further into the Webway and grow the Kabals' influence, though what he could seek in such a contested pathway is a mystery.

## Kabal Organisation

### List of the Shards and Splinters of the Kabal

***Shard of the Slaugh na Marbh***: The personal shard of Overlord Scaur. They prefer a blinding speartip as the Overlord rides his personal Tantalus, the Coiste Bodhar, carrying Incubi and Trueborn to the front, flanked by Ravagers and Raiders filled to the brim with the best weapons of the Kabal. They seek to disorient the enemy with a lightning fast attack and pierce the enemy lines to strike at their command structure.

***Shard of the Aes Sidhe***: Secondary assault oriented shard under the command of Overlord Scaurs' own trueborn sons, Archons Syltix and Sykil, as well as Archon Akkhar Kaghmyr, where the Slaugh na Marbh are the spear tip of the Kabal, the Aes Sidhe are the serrated edges. They specialize in breakneck assaults with savage cruelty, and decorate their armor with cloaks made from the various large reptiles that inhabit the Kabals realm and those without.

***Shard of the Endless Night***: Under the command of Archon Thraed Xesh, they are the weapons testers and pioneers of the Kabal. Bristling with enough darklight to blind a planet, they are madmen to their core, but have earned the grudging respect of the rest of the Kabal for their willingness to use such high volume of dangerous materiel.

***Shard of the Envenomed Caress***: Under the command of Trueborn Archon Narlek Scaur, they are the shadow operators and poisoned fatal cut used by the Kabal. They are known to capture species and powerful enemy assets to test poisons, and have the widest array with which to meet any threat during a raid, which they launch with stealth and terror.

***Shard of the Void Gaze***: Under the command of Archon Drevakh Nul, this Shard is notable for its high skill and cooperation due to relentless instilment from Nul. They are known for rapid asymmetric warfare, relying on the skills of their fellow kabalites as they bury an enemy in darklight and splinter shards.

### Initiation Ritual

The Initiation rituals required to join the Kabal remain a mystery, though it is noted that Initiates emerge from the process noticeably more loyal(for a Dark Eldar) to the Kabal than their peers, though this somewhat lessens as one rises in rank.

It is possible this may have to do with a publicly unshared goal that Kabal seeks to achieve that inspires the rank and file, or perhaps with the fact that the Kabal is generous with resurrection of fallen warriors after raids provided they perform their task to the peak of their skill and discipline.

## Raid Methods

The primary method by which the Kabal of the Shattered Will conducts raids is a careful structural weakening by way of infiltration and subterfuge, followed by coordinated assassinations of the most skilled and intelligent leadership by way of Mandrake mercenaries and elimination of key targets such as power grids, elite military barracks, and communications arrays by way of Kabalite and Incubi kill teams inserted via Venoms.

Next phase involves numerous stealth raids to siphon populations at the edge of civilizations to use as fuel to empower the warriors during the expedition, giving a huge boost in the long term viability of a raid. Next is coordinated forces harrying any remaining roused enemy forces into a single place at the worst terrain depending upon the race and forces involved, and making a decisive strike to wipe them out in one catastrophic battle and most importantly, sap any hope from the populous of the world.

Finally, the harvest begins. The people of the world are harvested as slaves to sell within the Dark City, or to keep as workers in the Kabals own spires, or simply to be used to feed the draining souls of the warriors themselves. All of this is done at night, and if not naturally possible, the Kabal possesses methods to artificially create night on a world if need be. In the end, the unfortunates of a planet are dragged away to a twilight shadow realm in the dead of night, never to be seen again, leaving only a silent weeping world behind.

## Notable members of the Kabal

***Overlord Veth'va Scaur:*** Born Setanta Dullahan on the Craftworld Danann, Overlord Veth'va Scaur is an extremely large statured warrior even by Dark Eldar standards, with a thin veneer of cultured nobility hiding a feral and cunning soul. He is a(rare for the Dark City) open devout worshiper of Khaine, the Bloody Handed God of War, which attracts no small amount of mockery in Dark City politics, though what the Overlord thinks of this is unknown. Always attracted to war, he travelled the various Aspect Warrior paths before venturing out to test himself as a ranger, as the Autarch path was barred due to the unfortunate political situation on Danann. Eventually he would grow sick of seeing his race wither in self pity and decided to travel to Commorragh.

Though his early days in the Dark City were fraught with pain and suffering, violence and near mind breaking endeavors, his natural cunning and ferocity at command and combat would see him travel amongst the kabalites of the Flayed Skull, the wych cults, reaver gangs and finally Incubi Shrines before he found himself at the mercy of the ancient Master Haemonculus Xuchilbara after being wounded in a turf war. What transpired in the depths of the Covens lair is unknown, but what is known is that the future Overlord emerged mentally stronger and more focused than ever and allied himself to the Coven. This was the time when he founded and named his Kabal the Shattered Will, and with his old Incubi Shrine following close by after his plans were brought to the Shrine Master. The next centuries saw him rise in power and prominence, swelling his ranks and conquering rival minor Kabals before finally taking the plunge to encroach upon Kabal Nihil territory.

His ultimate goal that is known only by his closest Archons and the Shrine of the Rekindled Hate, is to capture and collect the Shards of Khaine throughout the galaxy, to one day piece together the God of Murder and take the fight to Slaanesh once and for all, with himself and the Shrine as the willing sacrifice. To this, his main rival is his old home Danann, which are now lead by his old friend as an Autarch due to a reshuffle of power. Now both sides strike out at the galaxy to race to collect the shards before the other side can gain too much power. He possesses beyond ancient and baroque pre-fall armor of a deeply polished bone, with a leering death masque that encapsulates the cold hate in his soul and paralyzes opponents. He is draped in the skinned and stitched hides of the strongest races to walk the galaxy, under armour lies a soulstone belonging to a particularly annoying enemy farseer from his younger days. He wields a Djinn blade housing the soul of an old bitter enemy, and a modified Blast Pistol of unusual design.

***Archon Narlek Scaur:*** Overlord Scaurs' eldest son and likely successor. A star raider and highly gifted hunter, he has brought great renown to his name and Kabal, and often ventures out as a pirate with Archon Xesh. He has a great gift at dueling just as much as his skill with words, bringing many disparate and odd individuals from a myriad of races to his side through his words and deeds. His armor follows Kabal custom bone color, with a cloak from a massive blue reptile he slew in his early days in the forests of Slaugh na Marbh. He wields a sabre stolen from an unfortunate rogue trader, and a chain whip with a double sided blade at its end.

***Archon Sylthix Scaur:*** Poison aficionado and cunning manipulator, Archon Sylthix shares his fathers capacity for spite and intrigue. He utilizes and subsists on poison as much as possible, using it like a drug or casual drink at times. Sarcastic and smug to a high degree, he utilizes an Agonizer in the form of a blackened scimitar, and a specially modified Splinter Pistol, while his armor shares the Kabals colors.

***Archon Sykil Scaur:*** Youngest of Overlord Scaurs children, yet ironically sharing his fathers intimidating size, he is a rarity in that he lives a rather ascetic lifestyle, choosing to "fast" away from feeding on pain for long periods. He does not do this for any sense of morality, but for what he believes as the only path to achieving the best appreciation for ones own life, and to greater enjoy the pain once it arrives. Due to this his face and body are noticeably more pale and "feral" as it were. His armor follows the bone of the Kabal, and he wields a massive mace.

***Archon Thraed Xesh:*** Darklight obsessed madman that spends most of his time in realspace(much to the relief of most besides the Overlord, who finds him hilarious). He acts as the primary weapons tester for the Kabal, so much so as to replace his hands with metallic devices containing Darklight conductors, which when clasped together allow them to act like a Blaster. His primary color is white body armor, the bone is usually seared off due to the constant use of heavy weapons.

***Archon Akkhar Kaghmyr:*** Obsessed with sea born raids, this Archon utilizes hooks and chains to great effect with his hooked halberd, using it to drag enemies and victims screaming into his raider to whisk away to the darkness. Notably has many pet creatures hanging in and around his armor that act as useful counter attackers in a melee fight. His armor is the color of stone with deep blue cloth draped around his waist.

***Archon Drevakh Nul:*** An up and coming Archon seeking to earn his name in the Kabal and wider Commorragh. While not the greatest combatant in the Kabal, he has a calculating mind for intrigue and tactics and indomitable will that make him a terror to face in a raid. Notably uses steel hued armor instead of usual Kabal colors, utilizing a Huskblade, Soul Trap and Blast Pistol. Is currently gearing up his Shard to make expansion efforts for the Kabal in a section of the Webway, and rumor has it he seeks something of potential import...

***Klaivex Kheraes:*** Shrine Master of the Rekindled Hate, Klaivex Kheraes is a notably laconic and cold individual, allowing no temptations that do not benefit his Lord God Khaine or his Shrine to take hold in his heart. An ancient individual, he has stood by Overlord Scaur since the earliest days of the Kabal of Shattered Will. Oddly seems to have a Mandrake that hides in his shadow as a persistent(and annoying) companion, acting as ally in combat and constant voice of criticism & sarcasm, much to the dismay of Kheraes, who has been forbidden from killing it due to the political upheaval it would cause with the Mandrake tribes.

## Kabal Apparence

### Colors

The Kabal's basic color is clean white, however part of internal Kabal culture is to cover the plating in the polished and powdered bone of slain enemies and the beasts that roam the Kabal's eldritch realm. Certain plates, noticeably the shoulder guard and knee guard, will be replaced with a stronger plate of burnished bronze colour as a sign of skill or veterancy.

Blood runes are also etched into the armor, usually to signify kill tallies, names, or insults towards enemies. This is likely influence bleeding over from Overlord Scaur's earliest days under the Kabal of the Flayed Skull.

The Kabal is also known to go on raids with unadorned and unpainted splinter rifles and darklight weapons, most likely due to the abundance of weapons, they have no need to gain sentimentality with their weapon.

## Relations

### Allies

***Shrine of Rekindled Hate:*** An oddly loyal Shrine even by Incubi standards. They are known to stick with the Kabal even at its lowest points, with their color scheme matching the Overlords armor, a heavily polished bone. Rumors persist that the Shrine is only loyal due to the fortress the Kabal(and the Shrine themselves) calls home having an ancient pre fall connection to Khaine, the God of Murder, while others say the Overlord must have enticed them with dark pacts and promises. Regardless, they are a shrine that will seemingly stick by the Kabal until the end of days, with their adherents specializing in rapid decapitating strikes upon venoms.

***Mandrake Tribes:*** Due to their close proximity, the factions have developed grudging respect due to many conflicts, and eventually worked out a mutually beneficial arrangement that greatly boosts the Kabals' ability to wage raids.

***Masque of Sundered Despair:*** An odd Masque of Twilight that acts as mediator between The Kabal and Craftworld Danann, they act as a force to prevent too much bloodshed and are staunch defenders of the paths of the Webway.

### Enemies

***Craftworld Danann:*** While in more of a cold war than open conflict, the two factions nonetheless posses great animosity and constantly compete to outpace one another due to their shared desire to acquire the same objects they secrete away for some unknown plan or path. What these objects are is a mystery to most that observe from afar, but it seems to cause great bloodlust to manifest in both, resulting in the cold war turning hot at brief periods.

***Covenant of Her Embrace(Chaos Warband):*** This warband is made up of a renegade chapter who's founding and name have all but been forgotten. What is known however, is that they have grown their number with other renegades, and number around three to five thousand with millions of cultists in support. They are characterised by their single-minded worship of Slaanesh to Word Bearer levels of faith, and believe She Who Thirsts is a benevolent and loving god that brings pleasure and ecstacy to a dull and dying galaxy. To this end, they wish to bring "Her Love" to all sentient races, particularly the Eldar who they believe would genuinely benefit from Her Embrace, which has resulted in multiple Kabals, Masques, and Craftworlds, the Shattered Will, Masque of Sundered Despair, and Craftworld Danann among them, as their mortal enemies.

***Kabal of Nihil(wiped out):*** Led by Archon Zylo Xys, was a degenerative and insane Kabal that had been a force in the Dark City since not long after The Fall. They were obsessed with the idea that torturing and killing other Eldar, particularly those of Craftworlds and Exodites, would appease Slaanesh enough to spare or perhaps even reward them for the offerings. When the Shattered Will began encroaching into their realm in M35, conflict was near immediate but limited to small skirmishes and would slowly ramp up in intensity for the next few centuries until the Shattered Will became too much to ignore, resulting in full blown war. This war would continue for 100 years with near equal losses and gains for both sides, and would be called The Revelation War after its conclusion. At the start of M36 the final battle occurred in which the Kabal Nihil waged a massive assault upon the Shattered Wills' fortress, the culmination of which saw the Nihil Kabal near wiped out, with Archon Veth'va Scaur firing a Void Bomb with its limiters deactivated directly into the Nihil home fortress with Archon Zylo Xys strapped, skinned and mutilated, to its hull. The resulting detonation sent Archon Xys and most of the Kabal Nihil and their massive pleasure den fortress screaming into the hands of She Who Thirsts.

The Kabal of Nihil spent the next five millennia rebuilding from the shadows to take vengeance, but such a fate would never come, for during the most recent dysjunction the dark realm of Aelindrach spilled forth and swallowed the final remnants entirely just as they were prepared to announce their return.

## Notable quotes

### About the Kabal

"Kabal of the what? I don't care. Dracon! Feed this one to my Sslyth." - Asdrubael Vect, Supreme Overlord of Commorragh and Living Dark Muse, when asked by a courtesan his opinion on the Kabal.