Autilon Skorr

Consul-Delegatus Autilon Skorr during the latter years of the Great Crusade.

Autilon Skorr, known as the "King-Killer," and the "Hydra's Headsman," was a Consul-Delegatus of the Alpha Legion during the 30^th and early 31^st Millennia, and was listed on the roll of honour of the Great Crusade's Council of War no less than seven times before the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, for he was frequently dispatched by his Legion's high command to demand Compliance of newly discovered worlds in the name of the Imperium.

After the outbreak of the Heresy, he furthered the Warmaster Horus' campaign of "Dark Compliance" by many bloody handed deeds. At Epsilon-Stranivar IX, the Shattered Legions would be all that stood between Skorr and greater victories.

History

Autilon Skorr, Consul-Delegatus of the Alpha Legion

Autilon Skorr served as the Consul-Delegatus to the Alpha Legion, and what reliable sources the Imperium has been able to gather indicate that Skorr was at the head of the Alpha Legion's 78^th Chapter. He was frequently dispatched by his Primarch Alpharius to demand Compliance of newly discovered worlds in the name of the Imperium.

Those worlds that refused invariably fell to disorder within solar weeks, a strike force of Alpha Legion squads led by Skorr himself delivering the coup-de-grace and bringing Compliance with only a single shot fired, invariably through the temple of the world's broken ruler. After the outbreak of the Horus Heresy he performed the same role, until the debacle at Epsilon Stranivar IX, where the disparate forces of a dozen shattered Loyalist battle groups threw back his forces in ignominious defeat.

In the wake of this defeat, Skorr's once spotless record was marred and he quickly fell from the graces of both the Warmaster Horus and his primarch, exiled to the distant battlefields of the northern rim of the galaxy and forgotten. There, desperate for a return to glory, he seized upon the Mezoa campaign as a chance for his return to the upper echelons of the Traitors' cause. Determined to sacrifice every last warrior under his command to feed his ambition, Autilon Skorr once more trod the path to war. Skorr assembled a sizeable taskforce that consisted of nearly 9,000 Legionaries, amongst them the bitter veterans of the Iron Warriors' 114^th Grand Battalion under the command of Nârik Dreygur, three fully-fledged Taghmata from the Forge World of M'Pandex and some 20,000 Imperialis Auxilia troops, representing one of the greatest forces of the Horus Heresy not directly commanded by a primarch. Nârik Dreygur later defected to the Salamanders force under the command of Cassian Dracos due to Skorr's betrayals of the Iron Warriors at the Siege of Epsilon-Stranivar IX and the Siege of Mezoa. Skorr fled from the Siege of Mezoa after one of his arms was crushed in a duel with Xiaphas Jurr.

Wargear

Autilon Skorr leads the Traitor forces on Mezoa during the Horus Heresy.

• Artificer Armour

• Bolt Pistol

• Master-Crafted Power Axe

• Refractor Field

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• Krak Grenades

Sources

• The Horus Heresy Book Six: Retribution (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pg. 207
• Warhammer Community - Legacies of the Age of Darkness (Army Lists), pg. 93
• Horus Heresy: Legions (CCG) - Alpha Legion (Card List) (Image)