Kabal of the Splintered Talon

The Kabal of the Splintered Talon is an exiled Kabal that controls the Nexus of Shadows, a dark and dangerous artificial world the Dark Eldar control and partially developed within the Gaelan Sphere, located within the Webway near the regions of the galaxy known as the Calixis Sector and the Koronus Expanse. The Nexus is in a particularly unstable portion of the Webway, prone to Warp intrusions and reality collapses, and those Drukhari in good standing in Commorragh largely avoid it. Their archon, Zaergarn Kul, was once a favoured son of Commorragh for many long Terran centuries, but eventually the wheel of fortune inevitably turned against him and he angered a number of more powerful factions within the Dark City. He led his Kabal into exile instead of seeing it destroyed, and immediately began seeking a new refuge from which he could consolidate his power. To this end, he sought Salaine Morn, whose Kabal of the Shadowed Thorns had recently uncovered the Gaelan Sphere, and offered her much-needed strength of arms to help claim it. Together, the two archons discovered and claimed the Nexus of Shadows as their own dominion. Unfortunately for Salaine, it was not an outside force or an alien that was to oust her from power. In the end Zaergarn Kul usurped her, and exiled her once more into the Webway before she could do the same to him. For many of the inhabitants of the Nexus this change in power meant little, especially for the slaves, to whom one Drukhari archon is much the same as another. Zaergarn Kul is the master of the Nexus of Shadows in name, but in name only. For many standard years, since his demise at the hands of a Mandrake sent by Salaine Morn during their power struggle, his soul has been trapped within the twisted heart of the voidship called The Soul Reaver. While The Soul Reaver draws power from the souls of all of those who die within the Nexus of Shadows, Zaergarn's assassin attacked him while he was observing the vessel's tormented heart, bathing in the psychic pain that exuded from it. Since that day, Zaergarn's essence has simmered and seethed, trapped within the heart of the voidship but unable to lash out at those who have wronged him because the Nexus of Shadows pulls out all of the energy that the vessel collects.

Parent Organization

Kabal

Related Ethnicities

• Kabalite