Kor'sarro Khan

"Surround yourself with the greatest warriors at your command, or cower in the deepest and darkest hole you can find. It matters not. I shall take your head for the Great Khan and for the Emperor."

- Kor'sarro Khan, White Scars 3rd Brotherhood

Kor'sarro Khan of the 3rd Brotherhood of the White Scars Space Marine Chapter is the current Master of the Hunt'. Kor'sarro's first hunt was completed on the 3rd moon of the gas giant Mai IX. The Khan of the 3rd Brotherhood has faced many daunting foes and great challenges including facing an Alpha Level Psyker on Delta Arbuthnot where the the entire planet's population of Ratling agri-serfs was mind-controlled and forced to raise arms against the Imperial landowners, using shovels against guards with autoguns. Another such battle was for the 3rd Moon of Woebetide where, as a Scout Marine many decades previously, Kor'sarro fought the Warp entities called Enslavers. Ten thousand mind-controlled Cadians were psychically forced to march across a minefield 100 kilometres wide under fire from the White Scars, Red Hunters and Celestial Lions Chapters. Kor'sarro Khan was responsible for successfully bringing the Hunt for Voldorius to its conclusion.

History
Kor'sarro Khan is the current Captain of the 3rd Brotherhood (Company) and the White Scars Chapter's 51st Master of the Hunt -- an individual honorific since the days of the Great Jaghatai Khan and a title that is solely unique to the White Scars Chapter. Above all other Astartes Chapters, it is the White Scars who seek out the blood of an adversary who, through a quirk of fate or artifice, has faced them in battle and lived to tell the tale. The White Scars will not allow such enemies to revel in their small victories of survival. Every 25 years, at the height of the Rites of Howling, the Master of the Hunt is despatched to seek out one such foe and bring their severed head back to the White Scars Fortress-Monastery as a trophy and proof of their deed.

Khan can draw upon many resources as a Captain of the 3rd Brotherhood in pursuit of his prey, and often embarks upon a hunt with companions chosen from the Battle-Brothers under his command. These pursuits have been known to take months or sometimes years as the Master of the Hunt tracks his quarry from warzone to warzone and world to world across the width and breadth of the galaxy. Though at times the hunt may be postponed as wars and other more pressing duties interfere, it is never abandoned. Sooner or later the quarry is tracked, cornered and beheaded.

Kor'sarro Khan has brought nearly a score of quests to a successful conclusion over his years as Master of the Hunt. Some of the White Scars' greatest foes, such as the Daemon Prince Kernax Voldorius and the Eldar pirate lord Varaliel, had evaded previous Masters of the Hunt only to have their heads severed by Kor'sarro's blade. When Kor'sarro returns to Chogoris it is a great time of celebration and moonlit feasting, for it marks the passing of another hated nemesis. When the carousal is done, Kor'sarro surrenders his grisly trophy to the High Chaplain, who takes up a brand from the flames and burns the eyes from the dead skull. As the flesh burns and peels the hymn of vengeance is sun, and the quarry's name is struck from the roster of the hunt. The head itself is masked in silver and set upon a lance, and set upon the highest walls of the White Scars' fortress destined forever to star out with its hollow gaze over the approach to the Fortress-Monastery. The White Scars' citadel is high in the Khum Karta mountains; the road is long, yet the silvered heads of the slain line every pace of its passage.

Notable Actions

 * Escape from Cano'var (813.M41) - Kor'sarro Khan led a demi-company of White Scars to the world of Cano'var, pursuing a now-obsolete punitive mission against the previous inhabitants. Unbeknownst to Khan, the Necron Lord Nemesor Zahndrekh had instructed the Necron armies of Gidrim to invade the Tau world, routing the planetary defenders after two weeks of campaigning. When the White Scars arrived, they were immediately besieged by an overwhelming volley of deadly Gauss Weapons which destroyed the White Scars Thunderhawk gunships moments after they landed, leaving Khan and his Battle-Brothers stranded to fight a bold, but ultimately doomed, series of hit-and-run battles. Almost all of the White Scars were slain on the Uzem Plateau, but Zahndrekh commanded that Kor'sarro Khan be spared and imprisoned. Kept imprisoned beneath the surface of Cano'var, Zahndrekh treated the warrior with honour, though few other Necron Lords even acknowledged the human's presence. Khan soon learned that he is one of a dozen prisoner and with a desire for freedom he and the other captive conspire to escape. Slow to react the breakout goes well at first, until Vargard Obyron takes command of the Necron forces do things go badly for the escapees. Several of the fugitives are slain by Obyron, leaving only Kor'sarro and an Eldar Ranger by the name of Illic Nightspear to fight on. The Eldar receives a blow during the ensuing battle that leaves him reeling, and soon the battle devolves into a bloody melee atop bleeding bodies and broken machines. Guided by desperate fury, Khan's sword is quick, but Obyron's body is able to self-repair any damage he receives within moments. Khan tires, little by little, until finally one of the Vargard's blows is too swift for Khan to evade. Obyron's warscythes slices through the Space Marine's armour and deep into his flesh, but before the Vargard can finish his foe, Zahndrekh intervenes and orders his minion to spare the human. Zahndrekh had been secretly observing the fight between the two adversaries from afar and, impressed by Khan's skill and bravery, orders Obyron to stand aside and allow the White Scar to leave. Khan drags the crippled Nightspear behind him and finally escapes to the surface where he finds a still functioning Tau craft and leaves Cano'var far behind. Khan and Nightspear soon part ways shortly after and Khan returns to Chogoris. Shortly after his return, Nemesor Zahndrekh and Vargard Obyron are added to the Scrolls of Vengeance, their names to be put forward as possible quarry for the next Great Hunt.
 * Hunt for Voldorius (Ca. 855.M41-865.M41) - The Hunt for Voldorius was the search by Kor'sarro Khan for the Daemon Prince Kernax Voldorius, the warleader of a particularly insidious Alpha Legion Chaos Space Marines warband. After more than a decade on the hunt, in 865.M41 Kor'sarro Khan drove Voldorius from his foremost stronghold on the Hive World of Modanna to the world of Quintus, where Kor'sarro and the 3rd Brotherhood of the White Scars formed an alliance with Captain Kayvaan Shrike of the Raven Guard Chapter's 3rd Company, who also sought to dislodge the Alpha Legion's grip on that benighted planet. Together, the two Astartes officers and their companies ultimately ran the Daemon Prince to ground and slew him once and for all. Kor'sarro Khan took Voldorius' head back to the White Scars homeworld of Chogoris where it was set on a pike on the road to the White Scars' fortress-monastery, so that all who saw it might know that no foe of the Chapter ever truly escapes the Emperor's justice.

Wargear & Equipment

 * Artificer Power Armour
 * '''Bolt Pistol
 * Frag & Krak Grenades
 * Moondrakkan - The bike Moondrakkan was originally commissioned for the 4th Master of the Hunt. This ancient bike is a relic of the White Scars Chapter and has served as a versatile mechanical steed for numerous Masters of the Hunt over many millennia. Fitted with powerful engines, bulletproof tires and a formidable armament, Moondrakkan has been lovingly maintained by the Chapter's Techmarines and have served the Masters of the Hunt well in their neverending quests to chase down their quarry in the midst of a hunt.
 * Moonfang - This is an ancient Power Sword and revered relic of the White Scars Chapter. This formidable blade has spilled much blood and ichor of numerous apostates, heretics and xenos since its forging.