Chaos Lord Devram Korda, leader of the Chosen of Abaddon and current Lord Ravager
Devram Korda, also known as "The Tyrant of Sarora," is a servant of the Chaos God Slaanesh, the Prince of Pleasure. A former Veteran Sergeant of the Sons of Horus Legion, after the events of the Horus Heresy, he rose to prominence and became a Chaos Lord. He became infamous for his blasphemous actions on the doomed world of Sarora, where he distilled the life essence of the citizens of the planet's largest hive city for a single vial of a sorcerous elixir which made him virtually invincible. He eventually became the current Lord Ravager, the individual who leads Abaddon the Despoiler's invasion fleets of the Black Crusade. It is he who first makes landfall on the surface of a world. Korda also leads the personal retinue of the Despoiler, known as the Chosen of Abaddon. In the closing days of the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41, Devram Korda returned to his master's side, bringing with him two individuals who had journeyed to the centre of the Eye of Terror. Together with the Chaos Sorcerer Ygethmor the Deceiver, they presented Abaddon with the Heart of Chaos, a powerful artefact that Zaraphiston, a Chaos Sorcerer and rival Chaos Lord of the Despoiler, had long claimed could not exist.
Background
Devram Korda served within the vaunted XVI Sons of Horus Legion under the command of Warmaster Horus, the greatest Primarch and most beloved son of the Emperor of Mankind. When the Warmaster fell to the corrupting influence of the Chaos Gods and began the terrible galactic civil war known as the Horus Heresy, Devram Korda willingly followed his Primarch into damnation. By the opening days of the conflict, Korda served as a Veteran Sergeant of the 13th Company, as one of the seconds of Captain Luc Sedirae.
Sources
- Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3rd Edition, 2nd Codex), pg. 10
- White Dwarf 287 (UK), "Eye of Terror Worldwide Event: Death by a Thousand Cuts," pg. 36
- Nemesis (Novel) by James Swallow, pp. 12, 18-21, 398-399