Kabals of Commorragh: The Dark Heart

The Kabal of the Black Heart is the first and greatest of its kind; a vast sprawling organisation, able to support several rival Archons within its hierarchical structure. Each Archon controls a separate faction within the Black Heart, and each vies fiercly with his rivals for the patronage of supreme overlord Vect. None brave outright murder, however, for only a fool would blunt one of Vect’s favourite tools. So complete is Vect’s stranglehold upon Commorragh that no one of these highly placed subordinate Archons dare challenge the Overlord’s supremacy in anything other than their most private dreams and fantasies. Even then they do so with caution, for it is said that Vect knows well the scent of treachery, and reads the minds of lesser mortals like an open book.

Archon Valossian Sythrac


Volossian Sythrac of the Black Heart is a rare individual indeed - one of an ever diminishing clique of Archons to have consistently retained Supreme Overlord Vect’s favour. Vect long ago grew bored of Archons bearing news of the conquest of planets and star systems, for such mundane victories rarely last long in the grand scheme of things. Instead the Supreme Overlord rewards those with the wit to damage or topple entire galactic empires. Sythrac is such an individual - his ongoing quest to assassinate each of the Imperium’s most vaunted heroes is a hot topic within Vect’s courts. The practical applications of weakening the Imperium’s command structure aside, Sythrac’s tactic is to extinguish hope itself - to rob the upstart humnas of those that they hold hold dear, and deprive them of teh will to fight against the enroaching darkness. Every Dark Eldar finds a perverse delight in reminding the lesser races of their place; Volossian Sythrac makes it his life’s work.

Archon Volossian Sythrac prized possessions are his collection of soul traps - vile devices that act much like the spirit stones of the Craftworld Eldar, though in a far more hideous and predatory way. The act of parting a soul from its mortal body is child’s play to Sythrac. A single scratch from his ancient huskblade will turn his victims to dust in seconds. The disembodied soul, torn so quickly from its physical vessel, is then easy prey for teh spirit vortex of Sythrac’s rapacious soul trap. Once a soul is claimed within for all eternity, its captive energies harnessed to energise Volossian Sythrac’s ancient body.

In battle, Sythrac is protected by a sophisticated shadow field that has proven effective against point blank volleys from imperial battle tanks. This reality-bending force-field, combined with Sythrac’s mastery of the webway portal technology, allows the Archon to strike straight at the heart of the enemy army. Once the target is isolated, the Kabal emerges right into the midst of the foe. It is then that Sythrac stalks forward like a hunting cat, duels with his human prey before turning them into dust with an elegant flick of his sword, and binds their souls to his servitude forever.