Korvydae

Shadow Captain Korvydae is the commander of the 10th Company of the Raven Guard Space Marine Chapter. Shadow Captain Korvydae is renowned as an efficient raider and saboteur, using Scout Marines and Assault Marines to launch devastating lightning assaults seemingly from nowhere. Despite his formidable skills and stealthy exploits, few outside of his Chapter have heard of him. Shadow Captain Korvydae led the disastrous Raid on Kastorel-Novem against the Orks of WAAAGH! Garaghak. Despite Korvydae's skills and heroism, the Raven Guard lost over 70 Battle-Brothers on Kastorel-Novem, and for his failure Korvydae is now serving a two-year penance with the Deathwatch.

History
Korvydae is a veteran Space Marine of the Raven Guard Chapter, entrusted with teh command of the Raven Guard's 10th Scout Company. His primary task was as the Chapter's Master of Recruits, overseeing the vigorous training of new recruits, but this was a task that Korvydae preferred to delegate to his hand-selected cadre of training-sergeants. Korvydae himself was more often found leading his charges on the ground, working amongst them on their far-ranging scouting and sabotage missions.

Korvydae's long service had turned him into a brilliant raider and saboteur. He lead hand picked Scout and Assault squads behind enemy lines, observing and reporting. Much of his work was unseen, but countless enemies have found themselves suddenly beset by one of the Rave Guard's lightning airborne assaults because of the reports of Korvydae and his Battle-Brothers. Whilst he does not have Shadow Captain Kayvaan Shrike's glorious reputation (for few outside the Raven Guard have heard of him), this was because Korvydae's stealthy exploits, by necessity, remained secretive. While Shrike's heroic exploits have become rightly famous with the Imperium's fighting forces all across the Segmentum Tempestus, Korvydae prefers to remain in the shadows and retain his anonymity.

On operations Korvydae wears uniform and accruements of his position, including Artificer Power Armour and the Iron Halo, as befits his rank. He also wears a Jump Pack to facilitate his battlefield mobility. His weapons, drawn from the Chapter's armoury, are a matter of personal choice. On Kastorel-Novem, Korvydae led the Raven Guard strike force and planned the raid in detail. It was by his quick thinking and brave actions that many of the Elysian Drop Troops Imperial Guard regiment were saved from the rampaging Orks. Following the raid's failure Korvydae volunteered for two years service with the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Xenos' Deathwatch as penance.