Skarbrand the Exiled One - History: Skarbrand is a paragon of violence, a whirlwind of bloodshed and destruction in whom the Blood God once rejoiced. Nations were smashed to splinters by Skarbrand's mighty axes and the armies of the other gods quaked and quailed at his coming.It was Skarbrand who destroyed the First Palace of Slaanesh and killed Nurgle's great Poxviathan. In a great battle with the mightiest of the Bloodthirsters, he received his daemonic axes, Slaughter and Carnage, which were imbued with the spirits of his defeated enemies.For these deeds and many others, limitless glory was heaped upon him. No Daemon had served the Blood God more faithfully or shed more blood than Skarbrand. This mighty Bloodthirster once led the greatest of Khorne's daemonic legions, slaughtering untold millions in the cause of murder. Worlds were left ravaged in the wake of the carnage wrought by the Greater Daemon as well as the realms of the other Chaos Gods with equal rage. But foolish pride proved his undoing.Tzeentch, the Lord of Change, had noted the aptitude of Khorne's favoured slaughterer and through his guile and manipulative whispers, fuelled Skarbrand's flames of hubris into a raging inferno against his lord. Through Tzeentch's machinations, he continued to change the skein of the Bloodthirster's fate, goading and taunting the Daemon lord into committing ever greater acts of bloodletting.He stoked the creature's rage into incandescent fury, until Skarbrand took up his axe and struck a blow against his master when Khorne's attention was elsewhere. Though a mighty blow that would have felled an army, the Bloodthirster's strike merely opened a minute chink in the armour of the Blood God, attracting his desolate gaze. Enraged at his servant's temerity, the Blood God's anger was terrible to behold.Khorne snatched up the wayward Bloodthirster by his throat and proceeded to throttle him until all that remained of Skarbrand's personality and thought had been driven out, leaving only the burning rage that had powered his fateful axe strike.  After dragging the Greater Daemon to the pinnacle of the Brass Citadel in the Blood God's Domain, he held aloft the Bloodthirster for all within his realm to see, an example to all who dared to challenge his rule. Khorne then hurled Skarbrand across the Realm of Chaos.Skarbrand blazed a trail of fiery destruction for eight solar days and nights, a rage-filled meteor flying across the realms of the Chaos Gods, leaving scorched devastation in his wake. When he finally crashed to a stop, the Daemon lord carved a great canyon with his landing, his leathery wings torn asunder by the force of the impact. Exiled for eternity, the frustrated Skarbrand bellowed his wrath towards the heavens.He then set upon an eternal path of slaughter that would dwarf all the bloodshed that had come before it. Spurred on by his mindless betrayal, Skarbrand has become the embodiment of wrath incarnate. Bloodshed and war inevitably follows wherever he treads. Oceans of blood have been shed in the name of Khorne with his legendary twin Daemon-axes. Roused only by the anger that spurred his betrayal, Skarbrand exudes anarchy and death, and where he treads, bloodshed and war follow.No loyalty or logic can defy Skarbrand's aura of destruction. No cowardice survives the overwhelming need to slay. But all this slaughter is for naught, for Khorne has no mercy in his black heart. Skarbrand's exile is eternal. Yet Skarbrand continues to serve the Blood God more loyally than ever, despite his tortured banishment from his lord's realm.In recent history, Skarbrand has appeared several times in the material universe. On those occasions he has wrought untold carnage and destruction in his wake. In the early years of the 41st Millennium, Skarbrand appeared on the doomed Imperial Agri-world of Gheistos during the lamentable Gheistos Cataclysm.When the Vorpal Swords Space Marine Chapter attempted to relieve the beleaguered forces of the Imperial Planetary Governor at the Governor's Fortress where his forces were besieged by a horde of Daemons, they were attacked by Skarbrand the Exiled One.In 975.M41, Skarbrand appeared on the Cadian-held Fortress World of Lutoris Epsilon. His berserk rage infected all he surveyed, driving the Imperial Guardsmen defending the planet to turn on each other in an insane frenzy. On the next occasion, the Bloodthirster faced Lord Commander Dante, the Chapter Master of the Blood Angels Chapter in single combat. The valiant Astartes clove the mighty Bloodthirster in twain at the Gates of Pandemonium, banishing the Greater Daemon back to the Warp.Even in his banishment, Skarbrand continues to serve his lord and further the ends of Chaos. He played a crucial role in the shattering of Craftworld Biel-Tan when he made a pact with The Masque to attack the forces of that craftworld on the corrupted Maiden World of Ursulia. The Masque tricked the Bloodthirster into following her by rousing his bloodlust to slay her. In his pursuit of the Slaaneshi Daemon, Skarbrand made it aboard Biel-Tan through a corrupted Webway portal from Ursulia, but was defeated in battle and banished back to the Warp by that craftworld's Avatar of Khaine.He later fought a titanic duel with the resurrected Primarch Roboute Guilliman aboard a Blackstone Fortress in the Maelstrom as the primarch sought to reach Terra during the Terran Crusade after he was freed from captivity by Cypher and Sylandri Veilwalker.Skarbrand and his Daemons had disagreed with Kairos Fateweaver's plan to keep the primarch alive but imprisoned, and launched an assault on the Blackstone Fortress to claim Guilliman's head for the Blood God.Fateweaver and Skarbrand chose to put aside their mutual disdain and allied to prevent Guilliman from escaping the star fortress. Guilliman managed to defeat the Greater Daemon only as a result of the sacrifice of the Black Templars Emperor's Champion Marius Amalrich.Since the opening of the Great Rift in the Era Indomitus, Skarbrand has moved erratically across the galaxy, his sheer fury manifesting terrible Warp Storms around him. He most recently was one of the daemonic commanders of the Khornate Blood Crusade.