The Kabal of the Blade Beloved.
Leahcim Legnahcra started with nothing.
He was born in a vat, along with thousands of brothers and sisters. He was raised in barracks, along with his artificially-grown kin. He fought as a lowly mercenary in the Kabal of the Fatal Strike.
The Strike had a certain way of retaining the loyalty of its menials. They installed "heartplugs" in their warriors, devices that, in any instance of disobeying an order, disconnected the arteries from their hearts.
He was utterly sickened that his body was violated in such a way.
As time passed, he grew tired, sick of they way his "superiors" treated him. From the Syrabite to the Trueborn, to the Archon who loathed the sight of him, he was viewed as nothing.
On the battlefield, he fought a desperate war for survival. One by one, his brothers and sisters fell to the Ork, the Space Marine, the Tyranid. His brood quickly came to be known as inferior. Of their number, only he survived the first 50 years of warfare.
During a battle in the hives of Yarvin V, Leahcim's squad was ambushed by a single space marine hero. The Emperor's servant killed five of their number, including a Syrabite, before Leahcim penetrated both his hearts with a single strike. A Haemonculus of the Strike's allied Coven appeared out of nowhere, and demanded that she be allowed to extract the creature's gene-seed. Mindful of the devices in their bodies, Leahcim and his fellows formed a perimeter around her. They desperately fought against Imperial guard and Space Marines that attacked from the corridors as the Heamonculus worked.
Only the Haemonculus, gene-seed in hand, and Leahcim survived.
Legnahcra recieved no recognition for his bravery or strength.
Somehow, in the back of his mind, he knew he was better than this. He knew he deserved more, he knew he deserved... everything.
It was not long before the Heamonculus approached him. With a twisted smile on her face, she made an offer... the removal of his heartplug. She revealed that she viewed the Archon as a coward and a drunkard, and was interested in finding a replacement...
A series of assassinations mysteriously took place over the next month. Soon, the Kabal was in turmoil as the Archon desperately tried to maintain order.
One night, the Archon was on the verge of breaking. His Kabal was in full-fledged civil war, and its enemies waited at the doorway. What could be done? There had to be something! Everything he had built and strived for, it couldn't be taken away so quickly!
He heard something behind him.
He turned around to see one of his lowly Kabalite Warriors. Pure hatred burned in its eyes. When the Archon demanded why it dared stand in his quarters, the wretch pulled a knife from its sheath. Shocked, the Archon drew his huskblade. The duel lasted minutes. Somehow, the lowly thing could parry every blow, dodge every strike. It ended when the warrior penetrated the Archon's heart with its Blade Beloved.
Soon, order was restored. A cease-fire was signed with the enemies nearby, sacrificing some valuable territory, but some things must be lost if the world is to be gained. The new Archon ordered that all the former trueborn and syrabites be outfitted with heartplugs, and he raised his former fellows to the elite among his warriors. They commanded the former syrabites with cruelty and malice, and it was not long before they were all sent to their deaths in battle.
The new Archon soon started a Wych cult for his entertainment. The Killing Grace soon began to take the local gladiatorial arenas by storm. The two Hekatrixes, Daria and Mileena, became crowd favourites as they danced across the battlefield, sewing death and destruction in the trances of combat drugs.
Archon Leahcim Legnahcra still reigns over the Kabal of the Blade Beloved, with the Haemonculus that liberated him at his side. He has taken many prisoners, and has brought many fresh subjects (and gene-seed) to her operating slab.
Name: The Kabal of the Blade Beloved
Archon: Leahcim Legnahcra.
Sponsored Wych Cult: Cult of the Killing Grace
Allied Coven: The Asphodel.
Other characters:
Haemonculus Vivyrus: The leader of the Asphodel. She is known for her obsession with Space Marine physiology, and is known to collect their gene-seed as a hobby. She is most interested in the mutating effects Chaos has upon them.
Hekatrix Daria: Daria is a skilled Hekatrix, known for her sarcasm, displeasure with her job, and snide sense of humour, which the Archon enjoys.
Hekatrix Mileena: Mileena is equally skilled, but different in that she takes utmost pleasure in her profession. She wears a veil, for she had the Haemonculus Vivyrus alter her. She now has a mouth that spreads the width of her face, filled with knife-length teeth, and a long, wicked tongue, that she might eat the hearts of her victims while, in their last moments, they watch in utter horror.
Syrabite Thel: Thel is the last of the Trueborn that so persecuted the New Archon in his youth. He is deeply resentful and hateful of his new master, but his heartplug keeps him obedient.
Subject: The Kabal of the Blade Beloved 
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