Alastor Rushal, "The Raven," a member of the Night Lords Kyroptera during the Horus Heresy. He still wore his original Mark III Iron Power Armour that bore the livery of his former Legion, the Raven Guard.
Alastor Rushal, called "The Raven," by his brethren, was a Space Marine of the Raven Guard Legion during the time of the Horus Heresy who later turned Traitor and joined the Night Lords Traitor Legion following the events of the Warmaster Horus' betrayal of the Emperor and the subsequent Drop Site Massacre of Isstvan V.
At some point following the near-destruction of his Legion at Isstvan V, Alastor was either captured or willingly joined the Night Lords. Brutally tortured at the hands of the sadistic First Captain Jago Sevatarion, Rushal would later earn his place amongst this Legion of killers and murderers, rising through the ranks until he became a member of the Kyroptera, the VIIIth Legion's ruling body of senior officers.
History[]
Once having joined the Night Lords in the wake of the Drop Site Massacre, Rushal was a captain without a company to command and a member of the Traitor Legion's elite Kyroptera. Terran-born, but not raised from the VIIIth Legion's gene-stock, Rushal still wore the Mark III Iron Power Armour of the XIXth Legion, cast in cold black, edged in dented white trim. The noble emblem of his former Legion, the Raven Guard, had been ritually broken by blows from a hammer, wielded by his own hand.
A former captain of the Raven Guard's 89th Company, he was known by the Night Lords as "The Raven." It is not clear whether Rushal joined the Night Lords of his own volition or was captured. But what is abundantly clear is that he became a part of the VIIIth Legion following the Drop Site Massacre of Isstvan V.
Apparently, he also suffered torture at the hands of the Night Lords' First Captain Jago Sevatarion, who brutally marked the warrior with vicious scars across most of his body as well as removing his tongue. All trappings of rank were gone from his ebon-coloured armour, scratched away during the massacre unleashed on Isstvan V's Urgall Depression. Like the Night Lords, his face was pale and his eyes were dark. Unlike the warriors he chose to stand amongst, his helm lacked the bat-winged crest sported by the VIIIth Legion's inner circle of captains.
During the Thramas Crusade Rushal became a close ally of Sevatarion in the power struggle that erupted within the Night Lords following the crippling of Primarch Konrad Curze.