"His gaze keen, unblinking, and burns like a collapsing star."
- —Gadivilius Brom, Navigator Primaris of the Swift Reprisal
Kokabiel Grigoris is a scion of House Grigoris, a Navigator bloodline whose service in the Imperial Navy stretches back to the Age of Apostasy. Now a Traitor and Heretic, he commands the Lost and the Damned who comprise the Cyclopean Congregation Chaos Cult within the Jericho Reach.
Though his household is renowned for producing Navigators of distinction, Kokabiel's brief commission is shamefully unremarkable. The discovery of what is now called Kokabiel's Drop within the Jericho Reach marks the end of Kokabiel's obscurity, as well as his loyalty to the Achilus Crusade.
Once considered handsome by Navigator standards, Kokabiel's few pleasing features are now lost to pallid skin, elongated bones, and a perpetual grin both sardonic and beatific. However, Kokabiel's most striking features are his eyes, or lack thereof.
At the moment of his first revelation, Kokabiel plucked out his eyes, sacrificing mundane sight for the visions imparted by the Warp rift known as the Hadex Anomaly. Now only his Third Eye remains. Kokabiel's Warp Eye is forever open, shedding a purulent red glow that casts no shadow.
This eye is a thing of cosmic terror. Some claim it is a window into the Anomaly. Others claim it contains a fragment of the Anomaly itself. Still others speculate that Kokabiel's blighted eye is a microcosm, a fleshy orb containing the Hadex Anomaly in miniature. The truth is known only to Kokabiel and his most trusted followers.
Strangely, though Kokabiel is familiar with the Jericho-Maw Warp Gate, having passed through it with the majority of his household at the onset of the Achilus Crusade, he is content to keep the Warp Gate's secret to himself.
Whether Kokabiel holds his tongue out of some remaining vestige of honour or plans to use his knowledge as a bargaining chip in the future remains to be seen.
Sources[]
- Deathwatch: The Achilus Assault (RPG), pg. 84