Anakatis Kul Blade-Slave

An Anakatis Kul Blade-Slave, was a specialist formation of individual warriors of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion that served the will of their dark master, Zardu Layak, the Crimson Apostle of the Chapter of the Unspeaking during the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium. Following the Word Bearers Legion's sting of their chastisement and humiliation at the hands of the Emperor and the Ultramarines Legion at Monarchia, many within the Word Bearers' ranks felt powerless and cast adrift. Within some individuals, this ignited a hunger that could not be denied. Zardu Layak preyed upon such individuals, bestowing baleful gifts upon those whose ambition and hubris outweighed their caution. These followers became the Anakatis Kul Blade-Slaves -- loyal servants of the Crimson Apostle -- whose bodies became unnaturally warped and contorted and possessed of great strength. Wielding the Anakatis blades, gifts bestowed upon them by Layak and weapons of unholy xenos influence and malevolent power, they cut a swathe through their master's foes in a barely controlled hunger for slaughter.

History
There were always those who hunger for power beyond their appointed measure, even among the Space Marine Legions long before the dark days of the Horus Heresy was this true. After their humiliation and censure by the Emperor and the Ultramarines, this became doubly so within the Word Bearers Legion as the sting of their fall left many within their ranks feeling powerless and cast adrift from the bedrock of their beliefs. For the Legion as a whole this would mark the start of a perilous path and for some within its ranks, it ignited a hunger that could not be denied. It was on such morbid cravings that Zardu Layak, the Crimson Apostle of the Chapter of the Unspeaking, preyed, with baleful gifts in mind to bestow on those whose ambition outweighed their caution, and whose hubris overwhelmed their fear. These gifts were the Anakatis blades, dark relics of the time before Mankind, weapons which must be ritually given and freely accepted to work their doom for such unearthly might do they promise to any warrior who grasps them, but only if that warrior's spirit and will are strong enough to master the beast within the blade; it never was, Zardu Layak saw to that.

Unit Composition

 * 2 Anakatis Kul

Wargear

 * Anakatis Blade - Only two of these weapons are known to exist. Believed to have been discovered by Zardu Layak rammed through the chest of a towering alien-carcass mummified by untold millennia on a dead world on the very edge of the Ghoul Stars, these occult blades reek of unholy, warp-spawned power and their foring may well have pre-dated human life. Dark and coiling entities have been trapped within the blades, entities that whisper promises of untold might and power, but such promises are only bought at a terrifying price to both body and soul.
 * Power Armour
 * Plasma Pistol

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