Black Legion - Notable Legion Members: Horus - Horus, also known as Horus Lupercal, was the Primarch of the XVIth Legion and served as the first Imperial Warmaster during the Great Crusade. Once the most favoured son of the Emperor of Mankind, he ultimately became the greatest Arch-Traitor in the history of Mankind when he turned from the Emperor's light and led half the Legiones Astartes in a galaxy-wide rebellion known as the Horus Heresy. Ultimately, this rebellion failed when the Emperor confronted Horus at the climactic Siege of Terra aboard his flagship Vengeful Spirit in mortal combat and killed him, which left the Emperor gravely wounded. This would result in His ten millennia internment within the life-sustaining prosthetic device known as the Golden Throne.Ezekyle Abaddon - Abaddon was the First Captain of the XVIth Legion's elite 1st Company, known as the Justaerin, and was recognised as the greatest warrior of that Legion after its Primarch Horus himself. He was also the leader of the Legion's unofficial advisory council composed of four senior Captains, called the Mournival. Rumours indicate that Abaddon may have been the result of early experiments to clone Horus. Abaddon eventually became the heir of Horus as the leader of the Black Legion after Horus' death at the end of the Horus Heresy and rose to become the new Warmaster of Chaos Undivided. Abaddon, often called Abaddon the Despoiler in the Imperium, is now one of the most powerful Chaos Lords, if not the most powerful, in the galaxy. He alone possesses the power to unite all the warbands of the Black Legion as well as the other Traitor Legions into a powerful army of Chaos in preparation for one last Black Crusade against the Imperium, to finally end the Long War that began ten millennia ago.Maloghurst, "The Twisted" - Maloghurst served as Horus' Equerry, public voice and political enforcer, and during the Horus Heresy he became the Warmaster's unofficial secret police chief. Maloghurst was known as 'The Twisted' for being a shrewd manipulator and the way in which his brilliant mind schemed up complex machinations. Known as a formidable warrior within the Legion there was some speculation that Maloghurst was a serious contender for the First Captaincy of the Luna Wolves which was held by Ezekyle Abaddon before the Warmaster made him his Equerry. During the campaign to bring the world designated as 63-19 into Imperial Compliance in the last days of the Great Crusade, Maloghurst was despatched by the Warmaster to the planet's surface to parlay with the false leader of this world who ironically called himself the "Emperor of Mankind". Unfortunately, Maloghurst met his fate when his Stormbird was shot down and he was horribly wounded after crash-landing on the planet's surface. His body was mangled and his spine horribly twisted. His body was now as physically twisted as his mind, which had long been given to deception and manipulation in a way that was unusual for the usually straight-forward Astartes. Though physically unable to remain on active combat duty as an Astartes, when selected by his Primarch to serve as his closest aide, Maloghurst proved more than willing. After Horus' corruption by Chaos on Davin, he conspired to overthrow the Emperor and install himself as the new ruler of the Imperium. It became Maloghurst's duty to ensure that the Warmaster's orders were carried out, in his new capacity as the chief enforcer of Horus' will. During the initial phases of Horus' plan to conquer the Imperium, he first needed to rid the various Traitor Legions of their remaining Loyalist Astartes on Istvaan III. Once he learned of the plan to exterminate the Loyalists while they were fighting in the Choral City on the planet below, the Loyalist Death Guard Captain Nathaniel Garro seized the Frigate Eisenstein in orbit of Istvaan III in order to flee to Terra and warn the Emperor of the Warmaster's treachery. It was Maloghurst who directed the Death Guard's First Captain Calas Typhon aboard his warship, the Terminus Est, to intercept and prevent the Eisenstein from escaping. Typhon failed at this task, and the Eisenstein escaped, badly damaged, into the Warp. Over the seven years of the Horus Heresy that followed, Maloghurst would become a dark, feared figure amongst his fellow Astartes and mortals alike, and would be responsible for ordering some of the most heinous crimes carried out by the Traitor Legions against civilian populations during the course of the great galactic civil war.Argonis, "The Unscarred" - Argonis was a member of the Sons of Horus Legion during the Horus Heresy who received his byname because his body was covered in scars and tatoos, but his face remained smooth and unmarked. Agonis was an emissary of the Warmaster Horus who served under Maloghurst during the Horus Heresy. He also served as a Chieftain of the Isidis Flight which was oathbonded to his Legion's elite 1st Company. He was sent by the Warmaster to investigate the progress of the Iron Warriors during the Battle of Tallarn.Falkus Kibre, "Widowmaker" - Falkus Kibre was a Captain of the elite 1st Company who led the black-armoured Terminator Squad known as the "Widowmakers" of the elite Justaerin, Horus' personal honour guard. Following the Warmaster's fall to Chaos and turn from the light of the Emperor, Kibre willingly followed his Primarch into damnation during the Horus Heresy. He led the Justaerin during some of the most infamous campaigns during this period of upheaval and rebellion, including the Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V and the Siege of Terra. Following the dissolution of the Mournival with the losses of Captains Loken and Torgaddon on Istvaan III during the conflict between the Traitors and Loyalists within the Sons of Horus, Horus Aximand suggested the reformation of the Mournival, proposing to First Captain Abaddon that Kibre be one of its members. Kibre was eventually recommended to become a member of the Mournival by First Captain Ezekyle Abaddon following the Battle of the Mausolytic Precinct on the planet Dwell to replace the Mournival members who had been lost. Ten millennia later, Kibre still serves Abaddon, the new Warmaster of Chaos, as part of the Black Legion's Terminator elite.Kalus Ekaddon - Captain of the Catulan Reaver Assault Squads of the elite 1st Company.Raxhal Koraddon - Raxhal Koraddon was a Chieftain of the Catulan Reavers raised to captaincy for his bloody endeavours during scouring of the Sons of Horus Legion of its Loyalists on the ash-strewn ruins of Istvaan III. Koraddon had gained a fierce reputation in the years of war that followed Istvaan III, first during the Dropsite Massacre and later in leading a score of Dark Compliance actions for his Primarch across the northern reaches of the Segmentum Obscurus. In 009.M31, he was entrusted as Horus' proxy, to treat with the Mechanicum of the Forge World of Xana II in order to secure a trio of deadly Ordinatii, a class of the most powerful and acrane mobile weapons platforms in the Mechanicum's arsenal. However, his plans were foiled when a large Blackshield irregular force and a small force of Dark Angels attacked during the Xana Incursion, and seized two Ordinatii and evacuated from the surface of Xana-Tisiphone. Enraged, Koraddon executed his host, Archmagos Gilim Raijan, before taking his leave. His ultimate fate following this incident, is unknown.Tarik Torgaddon (Deceased) - Tarik Torgaddon was the Captain of the 2nd Company and a member of the Mournival who remained loyal to the Emperor when the Sons of Horus turned to Chaos. Torgaddon was killed during the Battle of Istvaan III when he was beheaded by his fellow Mournival member Horus Aximand. His headless body was often used as an imaginary interlocutor in the mad ravings of Garviel Loken, the only survivor of the battle on Istvaan III who would later be recovered by the former Death Guard Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro to serve in the secret organisation that would become the Imperial Inquisition.Iacton Qruze, "The Half-Heard" - Qruze was the Captain of the 3rd Company, a very old Space Marine who was a native of Cthonia. By the time of the Horus Heresy he was one of the only Cthonian Astartes still serving in the XVIth Legion who remembered what it was like when the Luna Wolves had served only the Emperor before Horus had been rediscovered by his father. Qruze had been a captain of the Luna Wolves since the Legion's inception and was even a veteran of the Unification Wars on Terra. Considered ancient by dint of his length of service to the Legion as well as his continued die-hard loyalty to habits of the Legion from the time of its Terran past that he could not seem to break. Qruze, like most Terran Astartes in the Traitor Legions, remained loyal to the Emperor when Horus turned to the service of Chaos in pursuit of his own ambitions. Recognising that the Sons of Horus no longer represented the Astartes he had once known, Qruze rescued the civilian Remembrancers Mersadie Oliton and Euphrati Keeler as well as the Senior Iterator Kyril Sindermann from Horus' massacre of civilians on his flagship the Vengeful Spirit and fled with them to the Frigate Eisenstein during the virus-bombing of Istvaan III. During the flight of the Eisenstein to Terra, Qruze formed a firm bond with the former Death Guard Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro, the pair were told by Malcador the Sigillite, the Regent of Terra, that they, along with the Sister of Silence Amendera Kendel, were to form the beginnings of an organisation that would utilise "men and women of an inquisitive nature, hunters who might seek the witch, the traitor, the mutant, the xenos" -- later known as the Imperial Inquisition.Hastur Sejanus (Deceased) - Sejanus had been the Captain of the 4th Company and a member of the Mournival during the Great Crusade. Sejanus was sent as an ambassador of the Luna Wolves to greet the leader of the world of 63-19 who styled himself the "Emperor of Mankind" and whose planet had not yet been brought into Imperial Compliance, and was brutally murdered. Horus had loved Sejanus like a son and felt towards him the way he believed that his own father, the Emperor, loved him. Garviel Loken replaced Sejanus on the Mournival following the Imperial Compliance of the world designated 63-19.Horus "Little Horus" Aximand - Horus Aximand, known as "Little Horus" because of his uncanny resemblance to his Primarch, was the Captain of the 5th Company and also a member of the Mournival. Aximand was originally very loyal to the Emperor and the Imperium's ideals, but reluctantly turned to the service of the Ruinous Powers when the Warmaster took ill on the Feral World of Davin and his Astartes desperately agreed to let him be cured by the Chaos Cult known as the Temple of the Serpent Lodge in direct violation of the Imperial Truth. Aximand's loyalty to Horus ran so deep that, in the end, it overrode his own better judgment and fealty to the Emperor. Aximand beheaded Tarik Torgaddon during the fighting against the Traitor Legions' Loyalists on Istvaan III, but was later overcome with regret for his actions. Both Horus and First Captain Abaddon took notice of this unexpected weakness in their comrade, but took no actions against Aximand as long as he presented no hindrance to their plans.Yade Durso - Yade Durso served as the second Captain to command the 5th Company during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy.Zeb Zenonius - Sergeant of the Bale Tactical Squad of the 5th Company during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy.Serghar Targost - Captain of the 7th Company and the Lodge Master of the Sons of Horus' Warrior Lodge, the heart of the Legion's growing allegiance to the Chaos Gods.Kergath the Flame - Kergath was originally the Captain of the 9th Company during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. He would survive the galaxy-wide civil war and go on to serve Abaddon the Despoiler and his Black Legion as a powerful war leader of the remnants of his original company, which was now a Renegade warband. During the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41, while attacking the vital Astropath listening post on the Mining World of Ormantep, located on the outskirts of the Cadian Gate, the Black Legionaries were soon set upon by an unexpected foe -- the returned Wulfen warriors of the Space Wolves' lost 13th Great Company. Within minutes, all of the Black Legionaries were savagely killed by the lupine creatures, who mysteriously vanished, as quickly as they had arrived.Garviel Loken - Loken was the Captain of the 10th Company and was made a member of the Mournival after the death of Hastur Sejanus. Loken possessed one of the most analytical and perceptive minds amongst the Astartes of the XVIth Legion. Loken remained firmly loyal to the Emperor and His vision of a new Golden Age for Mankind and was one of the first amongst the Sons of Horus to realize that the Warmaster had changed after his miraculous healing in the Temple of the Serpent Lodge on Davin and that he was subsequently leading the XVIth Legion down a dark and dangerous path. Loken, along with his friends Captain Tarik Torgaddon and Sergeant Nero Vipus, were selected by Horus to lead the Sons of Horus' participation in the campaign on the world of Istvaan III, which had recently rebelled against the Emperor and declared itself an independent principality. However, shortly after the liberation of the planet's capital, Choral City, from the Slaaneshi rebels, Horus betrayed the Loyalist Astartes he had deliberately sent to the planet below, and bombarded its surface from orbit with Life-Eater virus bombs. However, because of the heroic actions of Captain Saul Tarvitz of the Emperor's Children, many of the Loyalists manage to survive the initial bombardment. Captains Loken, Torgaddon, and Tarvitz took command of the Loyalist elements that remained and fought a three-month-long holding campaign against the Traitors that delayed their plans to move on Terra. Finally, when Horus had had enough, he sent Loken and Torgaddon's traitorous former Mournival brothers, Ezekyle Abaddon and Horus Aximand, to the planet's surface to kill Loken and Torgaddon while he prepared to wipe out the remaining Loyalists with an orbital bombardment. In the ensuing fight, Torgaddon was beheaded by Aximand, but before Loken could be similarly slain by Abaddon, the ruins they had been fighting in were crushed by the Imperator-class Titan Dies Irae. Loken somehow managed to survive the collapse of the ruins upon him but was left badly wounded in both body and spirit, having been driven partially insane by his Legion's betrayal. He was presumed killed by the XVIth Legion following the final bombardment of the Choral City, but survived and took to wandering the ruins of the Choral City, slaying the groups of wandering Plague Zombies who were raised from the corpses scattered across the dead world by the taint of Nurgle whose influence had grown on the world as a result of the use of the Life-Eater virus to kill its population. Several years later, Loken was found alive and partially insane in the ruins of the Choral City on Istvaan III by the former Death Guard Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro, who had been sent to find Loken so that he could become one of the first Astartes to join what would become the Imperial Inquisition. Garro engaged Loken in a duel and managed to restore his sanity by reminding him of who he was and that he possessed a duty to fight the Emperor's enemies for so long as he still drew breath.Luc Sedirae - Sedirae was the Captain of the 13th Company following the events of the Istvaan III Atrocity. An exceptional warrior, Sedirae's martial exploits were considered not far behind those of First Captain Ezekyle Abaddon. Sedirae was even considered at one point worthy of elevation into the esteemed ranks of the XVIth Legion's elite Mournival, but was passed over in favour of Garviel Loken. The rumoured reason for this was that he was considered too ruthless in battle and too eager an advocate of unleashing warfare to bring worlds into Imperial Compliance when diplomacy would prove to be just as effective. Sedirae was later present on the planet Dagonet in the Segmentum Ultima during the early days of the Horus Heresy after the Sons of Horus had turned to the service of Chaos. Dagonet had been the site of one of Horus' first conquests of the Great Crusade, in which he claimed the planet for the Imperium with only a single Bolter shot. A lengthy civil war ensued between the Loyalist and Traitor factions on the world, with the pro-Horus aristocracy emerging as the dominant rulers of the planet. At the beginning of the Horus Heresy, Dagonet declared their allegiance to the Warmaster and invited him to attend a ceremony in his honour. But by this time, there had been a number of assassination attempts on the Warmaster's life by Loyalist Assassins. Therefore, Sedirae, acting as a body-double, wore Horus' Power Armour and descended to the planet's surface in the Warmaster's place. Upon removing his helm, a team of Imperial Assassins killed the false "Horus". The Sons of Horus were roused to a murderous rage and killed Dagonet's entire aristocracy, and then proceeded to vent their anger by exterminating the rest of the world's remaining population.Jerrod - Replacement Captain of the 13th Company after Luc Sedirae was killed on the world of Dagonet while he was fulfilling his role as a body double for the real Horus and was assassinated by a special Officio Assassinorum strike team.Tybalt Marr, "The Either" & Verulam Moy, "The Or" - Captains of the 18th and 19th Companies, respectively. Marr and Moy had an unusually close friendship with one another. They were amongst those Luna Wolves Battle-Brothers who looked very similar in physical appearance to their Primarch Horus, and were colloquially known as "Sons of Horus". Though notable for their striking resemblance to their Primarch, the similarities between the two were such (both physical and in the way in which they interacted with one another, and the similar styles in which they led their respective companies) that most within the Legion considered them almost as identical twins. Therefore, they were respectively referred to as the "The Either" and "The Or". Their companies often fought together in concert when circumstances permitted. It is interesting to note that Captain Moy was often placed in the speartip, the term used by the original Luna Wolves Legion as the initial assault element in any attack, while Captain Marr was not. It would be on Davin's moon that Captain Moy would meet his fate. Already a member of the Warrior Lodge and a capable line officer, Moy still hungered for the opportunity to distinguish himself as one of the elite Astartes of his Legion. When he was selected by the Warmaster to lead a speartip into the crashed flagship of the renegade Planetary Governor Eugen Temba, it appeared his opportunity for glory had finally arrived. Unfortunately, he was killed when he encountered the now Chaos-corrupted Temba after refusing his offer to submit to the corrupting influence of the Plague Lord Nurgle. The death of Moy affected Marr greatly, as he became sullen and withdrawn after visiting the scene of his friend's death. With Moy's death, Marr changed his mind about joining the XVIth Legion's Warrior Lodge and so, on the eve of the Horus Heresy, he was inducted by Horus himself and followed his Legion to its eventual damnation.Grael Noctua "The Warlocked" - Successor of the fallen Lev Goshen, Grael Noctua was originally a Sergeant in the 25th Company. Not long after the events of the Dropsite Massacre at Istvaan V, Sergeant Noctua was recommended by Horus Aximand to fill one of the missing positions within the elite Mournival following the Battle of Dwell, where he had performed admirably. He would later take part in the Battle of Molech, both on the planet's surface fighting Imperial forces, as well as above in orbit, against a Knights-Errant strike team that had infiltrated the Sons of Horus' flagship, Vengeful Spirit, in a failed attempt to assassinate the Warmaster and pave the way for a Space Wolves strike force. While fighting against the Knights-Errant, Noctua was stabbed by the former Luna Wolve named Severian. Following the Knights-Errants' escape, the Daemon known as Tormageddon possessed the body of Noctua, as it's former host, had been destroyed during the fighting. Noctua's ultimate fate is unknown.Lev Goshen - Lev Goshen was the Captain of the 25th Company.Ekron Fal - Veteran-Justaerin Ekron Fal was a warrior of enormous renown within the ranks of the 1st Company, 12th Chapter of the Sons of Horus. He gained prominence in the later battles of the Ullanor Crusade and was admitted to the ranks of the Justaerin at its conclusion. According to later cult-material captured in the Sack of Hybarix, he also covertly held high rank in several tiers of the Warrior Lodges operating within the XVIth Legion. Veteran-Justaerin Fal led his Justaerin Terminator Squad, known as the Seventh Occluded, as a part of the Umbra Sons Terminator Cohort throughout the opening defensive phase of the Drop Site Massacre, repelling attacks on the fortress-line by the Loyalist Astartes of the Salamanders, Iron Hands and Raven Guard, before leading a decisive counter-charge in the battle's final act. Shortly thereafter, Ekron Fal was promoted to the rank of Centurion by Horus himself.Chieftain K'lathall - According to a stele, recovered on Goth after the war, dedicated to the war leader Chieftain K'lathall, he served in a Despoiler squad at Istvaan III, proving by the exceptional savagery of his deeds that he was deserving of a more honoured appointment. Being placed in command of a Reaver Attack Squad of the 7th Assault Company, he participated in the final assault on the gates of the Palace of Light at Hive Ilium on Manachea. To Chieftain K'lathall fell the honour of being the first to breach the palace's inner bounds. This was merely the beginning of this Sons of Horus Legionary's rise within his Legion, as the Stele of Goth attest. K'lathall's ultimate fate following the Heresy is unknown.Guljuk Ygethddon - Sergeant Ygethddon commanded a Despoiler Squad of the 9th Battle Company, 2nd Battalion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras.Nero Vipus - Locasta Tactical Squad Sergeant assigned to the 10th Company who fought on Istvaan III and remained loyal to the Emperor.Xavyer Jubal - Xayver Jubal was the sergeant of the Hellbore Tactical Squad of the 10th Company. He was angered when Captain Garviel Loken chose to promote Nero Vipus to the position of senior sergeant of the 10th Company, after Garviel had been accepted into the Mournival. Jubal felt that the promotion should have gone to him, since he was of a higher rank and had served longer as a sergeant than Vipus. It was his resentment for Loken and his jealousy of Vipus that allowed a daemonic Warp-entity known as "Samus" to corrupt and possess him deep beneath the Whisperhead Mountains on the world of 63-19. Jubal killed his entire squad before attacking Loken and the accompanying members of Brakespur Squad. Loken restrained Jubal, but only after several members of Brakespur Squad were killed by their former Battle-Brother. The insipid powers of the Warp then mutated Jubal into the visage of a slobbering, raging Daemonhost. Jubal killed two Remembrancers who had arrived beneath the Whisperhead Mountains to document the Luna Wolves' latest victory before being torn apart by the Bolters of Loken and Vipus. Jubal was a member of the XVIth Legion's Warrior Lodge, but had not attended any meetings in years at the time of his death, though Loken learned of the lodge's existence within his Legion when he went through Jubal's effects and found a Lodge Medal.Talonus - Talonus was the Sergeant of the Pithraes Tactical Squad of the 10th Company.Rassek - Rassek was a Terminator Squad Sergeant attached to the 10th Company. He was possibly a member of the elite Justaerin Terminator Squad of the 1st Company.Kairus - Sergeant of the Walkure Tactical Squad of the 10th Company.Ghrastak (Deceased) - Ghrastak was a Cthonian by origin and a former Captain of the 13th Battle Company until he fell in battle during the purgation campaign against the Khrave of Morduna. Though interred within the admantium sarcophagus of a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought, he remained a staunch devotee of the Emperor and of the ideals of Unification. As a result of his Loyalist sympathies, he became a victim of Horus' conspiracy. Deployed via Drop Pod with the Loyalist Sons of Horus' first wave on Istvaan III, he was ultimately betrayed unto death fighting against the follow-on Traitor forces that ultimately culled the few remaining Loyalists after a two-month-long siege during the Istvaan III Atrocity.Amurael - Amurael, known also as "Amurael the Corrupted", was a Chaos Dreadnought of the Black Legion. He was once a warleader of a Black Legion warband until he was cleft in two by a Khornate Daemon. His shattered remains were entombed witin a Dreadnought chassis, allowing him to continue to fight the Long War. He would later take part in multiple battles against the Crimson Fists Chapter.Master-Driver Ummaos Ludarch - Ummaos Ludarch served for over a decade as a squad leader in 13th Company under Luc Sedirae, and he took part in the conquest of several dozen worlds, culminating in the Dark Compliance of the world of Dagonet. It was during that operation that Ludarch's commander was slain, it is believed by a clade of assassins dispatched from Terra, and in the aftermath the Sons of Horus launched a vengeance campaign during which many thousands were punished, regardless of their complicity in the assassination. It was during this period of brutality and punishment that Ummaos Ludarch excelled himself in the eyes of his superiors, leading to him being detached from the 13th Company and assigned command over a Traitor muster of several thousand slave-troops in future campaigns. Ludarch's ultimate fate is unknown.Grael Noctua - Noctua was a Tactical Squad Sergeant assigned to the 25th Company during the Horus Heresy. Noctua was recommended to become a member of the Mournival by Captain Horus Aximand following the Battle of the Mausolytic Precinct on the planet Dwell to replace the Mournival members who had been lost on Istvaan III during the conflict between the Traitors and Loyalists within the Sons of Horus.Kloros Endall - Lieutenant Endall was a Terran-born veteran of the XVIth Legion. He was a part of the first wave of Loyalists during the assault on Istvaan III's Choral City, and was presumably slain during the subsequent betrayal.Dastruak Judd - Section-Leader Judd was a part of the Traitor attack forces unleashed against the Siren-Hold defences in the latter stages of the Istvaan III Atrocity, where he was slain by the Loyalist Sons of Horus Contemptor Dreadnought Ghrastak.Avakhol Hurr - Hurr was a part of the XVIth Legion's Rukal Breacher Battalion, which was primarily employed as a support assault contingent during boarding actions and siege operations. The Rukal customarily practised the macabre preservation of any blood spray from their previous engagements on their armour as a visible sign of their destructive intent.Severian - Severian was an Astartes of the 28th Company who was incarcerated in the prison of Khangba Marwu on Terra after the outbreak of the Horus Heresy. Severian escaped from the prison along with several other Astartes of the Crusader Host. Severian was last sighted in the Petitioner's City on Terra and his ultimate fate remains unknown.Devram Korda - Also known as "The Tyrant of Sarora", Devram Korda is a servant of the Chaos God Slaanesh, the Prince of Pleasure. During the Great Crusade and the opening days of the Horus Heresy, Korda served within the vaunted Sons of Horus Legion under the command of the Warmaster Horus. When the Warmaster fell to the corrupting influence of the Chaos Gods and began the terrible galactic civil war known as the Horus Heresy, Devram Korda willingly followed his Primarch into damnation. By the opening days of the conflict, Korda served as a Veteran Sergeant of the 13th Company, of the XVIth Legion and as one of the seconds of Captain Luc Sedirae. Korda was present on the Legion's flagship Vengeful Spirit when Captain Sedirae and First Chaplain Erebus of the Word Bearers Legion were able to unmask the Clade Venenum Assassin known as Tobeld. Korda slew the assassin himself. Following the events of the Horus Heresy, he rose to prominence and became a Chaos Lord. He became infamous for his blasphemous actions on the doomed world of Sarora, where he distilled the life essence of the citizens of the planet's largest hive city for a single vial of a sorcerous elixir which made him virtually invincible. He eventually became the current Lord Ravager, the individual who leads the invasion fleets of the Black Crusade in the name of Abaddon the Despoiler. It is Korda who first makes landfall on the surface of a world about to be assaulted by the Forces of Chaos. Korda also commands the personal retinue of the Despoiler, known as the Chosen of Abaddon. In the closing days of the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41, Devram Korda returned to his master's side, bringing with him two individuals (later identified as Skyrak Slaughterborn and Urkrathos) who had journeyed to the centre of the Eye of Terror. Together with the Chaos Sorcerer Ygethmor the Deceiver, they presented Abaddon with the Heart of Chaos, a powerful artefact that Zaraphiston, a Tzeentchian Chaos Sorcerer and rival Chaos Lord of the Despoiler, had long claimed could not exist.Zaraphiston - Zaraphiston is a Chaos Sorcerer of the Black Legion and the most senior advisor to Abaddon. Originally, he was a Legionary of the Thousand Sons, and following the Scouring of Prospero and their extrication to the Planet of the Sorcerers, at the behest of his patron god Tzeentch, he traveled deep into the Eye of Terror. On a Daemon World made of brass cogs and ticking chronometres, Zaraphiston was gifted with a terrible understanding of precognition. Thereafter, he joined the Black Legion and pledged his service to the Warmaster. He would later play a pivotal role in the construction of the massive Planet Killer, and often utilises divination to predict the plans of Abaddon's enemies.Ygethmor the Deceiver - Ygethmor the Deceiver, known also as the "Twice Damned" and the "Purgator of Corrialis", is a formidable Sorcerer Lord of the Black Legion. He currently serves as one of Abaddon the Despoiler's lieutenants and a member of his personal retinue, the Chosen of Abaddon. Ygethmor is the current Lord Deceiver, whose visions of the Warp lead the Black Crusade from star system to star system. During the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41, the Officio Assassinorum sanctioned the deployment of an assassin team to eliminate Ygethmor, amongst other notable targets in service to the Archenemy. Whilst scrutiny of their field records is impossible, at least seven Assassinorum agents are known to have failed in the attempt to take the life of the Deceiver.Iskandar Khayon - Iskandar Khayon, also known as the "Kingbreaker" and "Khayon the Black", is a Chaos Sorcerer and Lord Vigilator of the Black Legion. He is one of Warmaster Abaddon's most trusted and valued lieutenants and a member of the Ezekarion, the elite brotherhood within the legion. As of now, Khayon remains a prisoner of the Imperial Inquisition, to which he had surrendered willingly, as a part of Abbadon's plans.Telemachon Lyras - Telemachon Lyras, known originally as Telemachon Lyral, was a Terran-born Legionary of the Emperor's Children. In the aftermath of the Horus Heresy and his Legion's fall to the corrupting influence of the Pleasure God, Slaanesh, Lyras became the second-in-command of a warband led by Kadalus Orlantir, which consisted of the Emperor's Children's 16th, 40th and 51st Companies. Commanding his own warship, the Threat of Rapture, Lyras took part in an assault by Kadalus on the forces of Falkus Kibre, Lheorvine Ukris, and Iskandar Khayon. During the battle, Lyras was badly wounded by Khayon and captured as the trio attempted to escape. Afterwards, aboard the Thousand Sons' vessel Tlaloc, Lyras was healed by Khayon's Dark Eldar bloodward, Nefertari, whom he quickly fell in love with, despite the fact that Khayon intended to use the Dark Eldar maiden to viciously torture him. Instead, the torture only furthered the love of the smitten Lyras for his torturer. Ultimately, Lyras defected to Abaddon's side and aided his forces during the Battle of Harmony. Though Nefertari was killed during the battle by a clone of the dead Horus, Lyras would continue to serve as one of Abaddon's lieutenants. Much later, during the 7th Black Crusade, Lyras served as a key commander alongside both Khayon and Abaddon himself, and took part in the near destruction of the Blood Angels Chapter on the planet Mackan.Ashur-Kai Qezremah, "White Seer" - Ashur-Kai was a potent Psyker of the Thousand Sons Legion who commanded the warship Tlaloc. This potent warship possessed a partly-daemonic Machine Spirit known as Anamnesis. He had eventually found himself in service to the Thousand Sons' Sorcerer Iskandar Khayon, and became a part of his Kha'Sherhan warband. Along with his Chaos Lord and his fellow Chaos Space Marines, Ashur-Kai also swore his service to Abaddon the Despoiler and his Black Legion, and later took part in their first engagement, known as the Battle of Harmony. Though his vessel was destroyed during the vicious battle, Ashur-Kai had been aboard the Vengeful Spirit and would continue to serve the Warmaster.Skyrak Slaughterborn - Skyrak Slaughterborn is a Chaos Lord of the Black Legion of Chaos Space Marines and the current Lord Corruptor of the Chosen of Abaddon. Skyrak Slaughterborn leads the warbands of Nurgle within the Black Legion into battle. Collectively known as the Bringers of Decay, they spread their disease and corruption throughout the Realms of Man. Skyrak is known to have led the large warband of Chaos Space Marines known as the Slaughterkin in the assault on Cadia during the 13th Black Crusade. The Lord Corruptor is tasked with instilling fear and hatred amongst the Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion. His trophy rack is adorned with the skulls of failed servants.Urkrathos - Urkrathos is a Chaos Lord of the Black Legion of Chaos Space Marines and the current Lord Purgator of the Chosen of Abaddon. Within the ranks of the Black Legion are those who are bloody-handed servants of Khorne. Though not a single unified warband within the Black Legion, they are collectively known as the Hounds of Abaddon. Urkrathos, the current Lord Purgator and commander of the Legion's Black Fleet, claims all followers of Khorne within the Legion as his own and directs them according to the will of Abaddon the Despoiler, the Warmaster of Chaos and master of the Black Legion. It falls to the Lord Purgator to ensure that every man, woman and child left alive on a world conquered by the Black Legion is dragged in chains into the hold of the Legion's starships, and that no edifice remains undedicated to the Dark Gods.Araghast the Pillager - Araghast the Pillager was a powerful Chaos Lord who commanded the Chaos Space Marine warband of the Black Legion that assaulted the Sub-sector Aurelia during the Second Aurelian Crusade. Araghast was betrayed by his second-in-command, the former Dark Apostle Eliphas the Inheritor, and subsequently killed by a Blood Ravens Chapter strike force led by Force Commander Aramus.Zagthean the Broken - Zagthean is a Chaos Lord of the Black Legion who led his Black Legion warband in a fury of violence and excess on the Agri-world of Valesia. For his own satisfaction, the Chaos warlord constructed a vast maze of thorns from the world's rose orchards, blinding his prisoners and loosing them within its tunnels, before hunting them down at his leisure. Countless inhabitants spent their final terrifying hours listening desperately for the sounds of pursuit, their flesh bleeding from dozens of thorn cuts. Sometime after the 4th Black Crusade, Zagthean pillaged the world of Helosian in the Agripinaa Sector. Taking the Convent of Alabaster Maidens prisoner, he exposed them to the energies of the Warp, triggering their latent psychic gifts. Zagthean then uses Warp-tech to fuse the maidens into a single entity, before using the resultant abomination as a living Warp portal to unleash a daemonic invasion. Zagthean also served as one of the Black Legion's commanders during the 13th Black Crusade to destroy Cadia.Corpulax - Corpulax was originally a member of the Consecrators Chapter, who was infected with the Zombie Plague while battling the plague-ridden forces of Typhus. Left for dead, Corpulax awoke as a reanimated corpse. However, unlike other plague victims, Corpulax retained his intelligence and cognitive abilities. He eventually became a willing servant of the Plague God Nurgle and for the last three centuries, has orchestrated an inexorable rise to power, until finally, he became one of Abaddon's most trusted warlords. Fighting in dozens of battles besides his lord's side, or carrying out the Warmaster's bidding, Corpulax continues to spread the terrible plague that he was infected with. He is single-handedly responsible for disseminating the virulent plague that wiped out every inhabitant of the city of Atika during the Pandorax Campaign.Drecarth the Sightless - The Sons of the Eye were a splinter warband of the Black Legion that was founded and commanded by the infamous Chaos Lord Drecarth the Sightless, the Blind Butcher of Irridous VII, a former Battle-Brother of the Sons of Horus who had fought alongside Abaddon during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy that followed. Always jealous of the Primarch Horus' favour for the Despoiler, the Sons of the Eye considered Abaddon a usurper. During the 6th Black Crusade, launched in 901.M36, Abaddon visited his wrath upon Drecarth the Sightless and his treacherous warband. Abaddon aided the Sons of the Eye in an assault on the Forge World of Arkreach, fighting side-by-side until the defenders were finally crushed. The triumphant Abaddon then slowly killed Drecarth, even as he made him watch every member of the Sons of the Eye bow before their new master.Eliphas the Inheritor - Eliphas was a former Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion and leader of the XVIIth Legion's forces deployed for the Dark Crusade on the world of Kronus in the late 41st Millennium. On Kronus, Eliphas and his forces were defeated and slain by three companies of the Blood Ravens Space Marine Chapter under the command of Captain Davian Thule. After his soul suffered much torment in the Empyrean for his failure, he was resurrected by the will of the Chaos Gods to gain his revenge upon the Blood Ravens and left the Word Bearers behind to ally himself with the Black Legion and Abaddon the Despoiler following his return to life. He pledged to Abaddon that the destruction or corruption to Chaos of the Blood Ravens would be his only goal in life following his resurrection.Eralak - Eralak was a Chaos Space Marine Raptor commander within the Black Legion, whose forces brought about bloody terror to the floating hives of Melphia. During their rampage, his Raptor warband killed millions, and sent dozens of cities falling out of the sky after he tore out their complex suspensor arrays and vented their plasma reactors onto the farms and fields below. He then had giant floating makeshift gallows fashioned from the remaining ruined cities and had millions of Imperial citizens hanged. Their corpses would forever more sway in the breeze as the gallows drifted across the skies of Melphia.Faenroc the Forgotten - A powerful Black Legion Chaos Lord, in 027.M32, he discovered a Daemon World formed from Warp-infused iron ore. To harvest this valuable ore, he drilled to the planet's core, and built a vast mine to harvest its wealth for his forces using slave labour. When the ore proved poisonous to his slave labour force, causing them to mutate or killing them, Faenroc remedied the problem by having Daemons bound to his mining machines, to continue the harvesting of the ore.Malagar Irongrasp - A former notable Master of the Fleet of the White Consuls Chapter known as Malgar Eringrasp, he saw many engagements over four centuries of service to the Chapter. Eventually, he was overcome in battle around Cadia by the Black Legion and swore fealty to Abaddon the Despoiler, and after slaying the leader of the Traitor fleet, became it's ruling admiral. Now known as Malagar Irongrasp, he served the Despoiler without fail for centuries, that is, until the Fourth Battle of the Sunward Gap in 959.M41. His ship, the Merciless Death was crippled by allied Red Corsairs and abandoned by his fleet to the opposing Dark Angels Chapter and Grey Knights forces. Irongrasp went down with his ship as the loyalist forces destroyed it in a hail of gunfire.Ragged King - The Ragged King was the name given to a Legionary of the Black Legion who was the sole surviving member of a space battle against the Imperium in 117.M35. In the battle's aftermath, he sought shelter on the nearby Feral World of Skyrro, and soon became worshipped as a god by the local population. It took the Imperial Guard more than a decade to destroy the Ragged King's savage armies to reclaim Skyrro.Voidheart - Voidheart was a powerful Chaos Lord of the Black Legion and one of Abaddon's favorite lieutenants. During the so-called War of the Wolf, which took place in 612.M41 upon the frozen world of Lumerius against the feral Space Wolves Chapter, he was wounded by Ranulf Ironfang, one of Great Wolf Logan Grimnar's Kingsguard, but managed to escape.Dhar'leth - Dhar'leth was a former Black Legion member who was elevated to a Daemon Prince, as a sign of the Chaos Gods' favour. He later pledged his loyalty to Abaddon the Despoiler. In 165.M37, he formed the vanguard of Abaddon's attack, leading his Black Legionaries against Monarchive, which was the seat of the Imperial Commander on Antecanis IV. Within Imperial annals this infamous slaughter came to be known as the Antecanis Massacre.Xyn'Goran - Xyn'Goran is a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch, whom Abaddon sought out upon his Daemon World within the Warp. This mind-altering world was a place where time flowed backwards and in the world's center, the Daemon Prince sat around its core, counting back from the end of days. Wanting this power for his own, Abaddon clawed his way towards the Daemon Prince, and finally arrived at the creature's feet, demanding servitude. Amused, Xyn'Goran asked why he shouldn't just slay him outright for his temerity? In reply, Abaddon challenged the Daemon Prince -- to guess his true name. Should he guess correctly, the Daemon Prince would pledge his allegiance to him; but should he fail, then Abaddon would surrender the artefacts he carried with him, but the daemon had to tell him his true name to prove that he wasn't cheating. Unable to resist, the Great Daemon acquiesced and agreed to the game's conditions. Unknown to the Great Daemon, this was actually the second time that Abaddon stood before him. For he had already lost this game the first time, but had learned the Greater Daemon's true name as proof. Surrendering his artefacts, Abaddon had then stepped back into the tides of time and returned to the Warp years earlier, before he had come to this world, and left his future self a message with the daemon's true name. Thus, it came to pass, that Abaddon enslaved Xyn'Goran, the fractured Daemon of Time, and acquired the daemon's future memories, which allowed the Warmaster the abilities to perceive the fates and shape his own destiny.