Vaetrex Desiato and the Black Sun Kabal

For years Vaetrex Desiato, Archon of the Black Sun Kabal was known for his cunning and ruthlessness and was even grudgingly respected by his enemies and rivals for it. In the depths of Commorough where the fledgling lordlings inevitably begin their careers, Desiato carved out his own small empire and steadily rose, using tactics that gained him no small amount of infamy. When the assassin cult, the Sisters of Gore were sent to eliminate him he faked his own death, only to return a month later with their employer’s head. When Zimm, the archon of the Hidden Blade Kabal, tried to wage his own private war against Vaetrex, he seduced Zimm’s mistress and had her poison him in his sleep. Vaetrex became a small local legend who was said to be able to unlock any door to slay his foe and uncross the legs of any Eldar maiden that took his fancy.

Unfortunately, such was to be his downfall, for it was only too late that one day he discovered one of his casual conquests to in fact be the wife of overseer Zavax Hulle. Vaetrex disappeared from public view but was soon caught, such was Zavax’s influence over the section of Commorough that he ruled. Vaetrex claimed innocence and when that failed, used every trick of manipulation he could think of. But Zavax had no intention to listen, instead he charged that Vaetrex do him a service as penance. He was to travel out into the Imperium of man and not return with any less than a million slaves to be handed over to Zavax as payment. What was more, Zavax demanded a variety of prisoners, the more dangerous the better. Vaetrex bowed and assured the task would be done, though both he and Zavax knew it was nigh on impossible for a kabal as small as the Black Sun. As insurance that Vaetrex would not simply flee, he had him implanted with a slow acting poison to which only he possessed the antidote. It would kill Vaetrex within a year, such was the fatal deadline for his mission set.

And so it was that Vaetrex ventured out into real-space and when he chanced upon the bloody conflict on Orion-89 Zeta, with its many different invaders vying for supremacy, he knew this to be the perfect arena for him to attempt his quest. But he knew that he could not attempt it alone, he would need allies…