Iskandar Khayon

Iskandar Khayon, also known as the Kingbreaker and Khayon the Black, is the Chaos Sorcerer of the Black Legion. He is one of Warmaster Abaddon's most trusted and valued lieutenants and a member of 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.

Early Life
Khayon was born on Prospero and recruited by the Thousand Sons Legion in early age. It was already apparent in his childhood that Khayon was a gifted psyker.

During his youth, his sister Itzara Khayon fell victim to the Psychneuein attack, suffering irrecoverable damage to her brain. Unable to save her himself, Iskandar gave her to Mechanicum for their Anamnesis project, which endeavored to create a gestalt intelligence by merging human mind and a vessel's machine spirit. All previous attempts ended in failure, but Itzara's case was a success, and she would later serve as the machine spirit of Khayon's warship Tlaloc and eventually become known as Ultio, the machine spirit of the Vengeful Spirit.

During the Great Crusade
During the Great Crusade Khayon served with the 548th expedition fleet. He was nearly killed in battle when bringing a world named Varayah to compliance, when his drop-pod was shot down.

Khayon was present at the Battle of Prospero, where he defeated a Space Wolves warrior Eyarik Born-of-Fire, and acquired his power-axe, Saern, that would serve him well in the centuries to come. Being gravely injured in his fight with Eyarik, Khayon was once again survived near-death experience when a Fenrisian Wolf came close to tearing him apart. He was saved, however, by his familiar Gyre, which possessed the wolf, obliterating it and assuming its shape permanently. Khayon was not taken by Magnus to Sortiarius, and wandered the surface of Prospero until he was found by Lheorvine Ukris of the World Eaters.

Khayon later made his way to Soritarius and stood against Ahriman as he was trying to cast his eponymous Rubric. Khayon failed to interrupt the spell, and the rubric was cast nonetheless. He departed from Soritarius on the warship Tlaloc with his brother Ashur-Kai Qezremah and the newly-turned Rubricae Mekhari and Djedhor. Together they formed the core of the Ka'Sherhan warband.

Khayon was present at the Siege of Terra, and bears grave resentment towards the Emperor's Children for their flight from battle and leaving the Thousand Sons without reinforcements.

Inception of the Black Legion
During the years after the defeat at Terra, Khayon spent most of his time as a warrior for hire. His favored compensation for his services was either battle robots for defense of his ship, or valuable lore. For instance, Khayon spent six years fighting for the Night Lord warband led by the warrior Dhar’leth Rul, in exchange for the star-map of the part of the Webway.

During these years, Khayon encountered and befriended a Dark Eldar Scourge by the name of Nefertari, binding her soul to her flesh after she suffered mortal injuries by the hands of Greater Daemon Zarakynel. Nefertari herself remained oblivious to this fact, however, never realizing her own death.

Khayon answered the call of his old friend Falkus Kibre of the Justaerin, who was requesting aid in a search for the lost Sons of Horus flagship ''The Vengeful Spirit. After the fall of Legion's stronghold, Lupercalios, ''and the theft of Primarch Horus's remains by the Emperor's Children, finding the lost flagship seemed the last hope of redeeming the Legion's honor for the remaining Sons of Horus warriors. Understanding the possible threat that cloning a Primarch would pose, Khayon agreed to help Falkus in retrieving the flagship and striking against the Emperor's Children base of Canticle city, where the remains were likely taken after the theft. Another captain present at this meeting was Lheorvin Ukris of the World Eaters.

The meeting was interrupted by the arrival of the Emperor's Children vessels that demanded Falkus's surrender. A small-scale skirmish ensued, which saw both the World Eaters and Sons of Horus ships seemingly destroyed. As a result Lheorvine and some of his survivng World Eaters escaped with Khayon aboard the Tlaloc, as well as a captured Emperor's Children swordmaster, Telemachon Lyras.

Khayon and his warband later reunited with Falkus and his men, who had been daemonically possessed, and later managed to find the Vengeful Spirit, along with its captain, Ezekyle Abaddon. The warband that would soon become the very first fraction of the Black Legion struck at the Canticle City, successfully destroying most of it. After that the warriors boarded the Emperor's Children's vessel the Pulchritudinous, where they discovered that Apothecary Fabius Bile had succeeded in cloning Horus. The fight with the resurrected Primarch saw both Khayon's familiar Gyre and Nefertari slain, until Abaddon finally managed to kill the clone, ironically with the Talon of Horus.