Changes: Zso Sahaal

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Zso Sahaal close-up — Portrait of Zso Sahaal, painted during the Great Crusade

Zho Sakhaal copy — Captain Zso Sahaal of the Night Lords Traitor Legion, in Pre-Heresy Assault Marine Power Armour

Zso Sahaal, called the Talonmaster,was the heir to the artefact known as the Corona Nox, and the First Captain of the Night Lords Traitor Legion both during and after the Horus Heresy. Captain Sahaal was designated by the Night Lords' Primarch Konrad Curze to serve as his successor as leader of the Legion just before his assassination on Tsagualsa following the Heresy. However, Sahaal lacked the artefact called the Corona Nox ("Crown of Night") that was required to fully ascend to the position of leader of the Legion, and was forced to begin a ten-thousand-year-long odyssey to recover the artefact and learn the truth about his Legion's fall to Chaos.

History

Early History

When the Horus Heresy began in the 31st Millennium, Captain Sahaal's loyalties lay with his Primarch, Konrad Curze, also known as the "Night Haunter," rather than the Emperor of Mankind and so, Sahaal willingly turned Traitor and served Curze well throughout the Night Lords' campaigns against the Imperium of Man. Sahaal believed devoutly that the Emperor of Mankind had betrayed Curze and his Legion by retreating from the Great Crusade to seek his own divinity and leaving civilian bureaucrats and administrators in control of the Imperium rather than one of the Primarchs who had won the galaxy for him. Before the Night Haunter's death, Sahaal was prepared to become the Primarch's heir as leader of the Night Lords. However, the Callidus Assassin M'Shen took Sahaal's inheritance of the Corona Nox before he could be declared the undisputed heir of his Primarch. Sahaal pursued the assassin until the Eldar ambushed his starship and attempted to take the dead Primarch's crown for themselves. It was here, that Sahaal was trapped in a Warp storm that lasted for ten millennia in realspace, transporting him from the 31st to the 41st Millennium.

Conflict with the Imperium and Night Lords

Thanks to the effects of Zso Sahaal's Sus-an Membrane , he was not slain when the Warp Storm ensnared him. Instead, ten millennia passed in realspace while Sahaal was trapped in the Immaterium and he awoke to discover that his starship had crashed on the Hive World of Equixus and that the Corona was gone. Sahaal began his quest for the Corona once more and began by killing the hive gangers who had stolen this precious item from his downed vessel while he slept. He then discovered a kindred spirit amidst one of the gangs in the lower portions of the hive city of Equixus he had crashed upon, as these gangers reminded him of the Night Haunter's homeworld of Nostramo. However, Sahaal was unlucky in that members of the Inquisition's Ordo Hereticus, led by Inquisitor Kaustus, were investigating the world for heresy. Sahaal's quest for the Corona Nox was further complicated by the presence of the psyker Mita Ashyn, within Inquisitor Kaustus's retinue, and so Sahaal led the hiver gang to war throughout the hive on Equixus. Sahaal also continued to attempt to regain the corona and eventually signaled his brother legionnaires amongst the Night Lords Chaos Space Marines to come to this benighted world. He was, however, deeply disappointed when the Night Lords arrived and Sahaal learned that in his absence the Legion had forgot Konrad Curze's teachings of "fear through focus" and instead had devolved after ten thousand years, under the influence of Chaos within the Eye of Terror, into fear-craving psychopaths. The Night Lords were now led by the embodiment of corruption in Sahaal's eyes, a Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided named Kreig Acerbus (once known as the 'Axemaster') who had once been his greatest rival within the Legion.

Sources

Lord of the Night (Novel)

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 '''Zso Sahaal''', called the Talonmaster,was the heir to the artefact known as the ''[[Corona Nox]]'', and the First Captain of the [[Night Lords]] [[Traitor Legion]] both during and after the [[Horus Heresy]]. Captain Sahaal was designated by the Night Lords' [[Primarch]] [[Konrad Curze]] to serve as his successor as leader of the Legion just before his assassination on [[Tsagualsa]] following the Heresy. However, Sahaal lacked the artefact called the ''Corona Nox'' ("Crown of Night") that was required to fully ascend to the position of leader of the Legion, and was forced to begin a ten-thousand-year-long odyssey to recover the artefact and learn the truth about his Legion's fall to [[Chaos]].
 ==History==
-[[File:The_Talonmaster.jpg|thumb|320px|Captain Zso Sahaal the Talonmaster of the [[Night Lords]] [[Traitor Legion]]]]
+[[File:The_Talonmaster.jpg|thumb|320px|Captain Zso Sahaal of the [[Night Lords]]]]
 ===Early History===
 When the Horus Heresy began in the 31st Millennium, Captain Sahaal's loyalties lay with his Primarch, Konrad Curze, also known as the "Night Haunter," rather than the [[Emperor of Mankind]] and so, Sahaal willingly turned Traitor and served Curze well throughout the Night Lords' campaigns against the [[Imperium of Man]]. Sahaal believed devoutly that the Emperor of Mankind had betrayed Curze and his Legion by retreating from the Great Crusade to seek his own divinity and leaving civilian bureaucrats and administrators in control of the Imperium rather than one of the Primarchs who had won the galaxy for him. Before the Night Haunter's death, Sahaal was prepared to become the Primarch's heir as leader of the Night Lords. However, the [[Callidus Temple|Callidus Assassin]] [[M'Shen]] took Sahaal's inheritance of the ''Corona Nox'' before he could be declared the undisputed heir of his Primarch. Sahaal pursued the assassin until the [[Eldar]] ambushed his starship and attempted to take the dead Primarch's crown for themselves. It was here, that Sahaal was trapped in a Warp storm that lasted for ten millennia in realspace, transporting him from the 31st to the 41st Millennium.