Character Name: Nostor Menelauk
Alias/Epithets: Pagos Regent, Ocean-born
Appearance: Face
Armour
Personality: Nostor resembles the men of ancient Terran myth, an man of insurmountable will and strength, yet incredibly humility. Capable of both great wrath and great mercy, his is considered a paragon of the Krakens and counted amongst the most honourable of the chapter, his keen intellect is rivaled by few. An inspiring presence, be it on the field or off. That said, he harbours little patience when in the presence of sycophants and zealots, whilst deep down, he holds a self-destructive tendency.
Backstory: Nostor was born 500 years before the Great Rift, in the north of Pelagos, an unpleasant archipelago, its seas infested with vicious Shallow Krakens, bandvipers, crag crabs, and a thousand other creatures that would gladly turn a man into a meal. Amongst the Pelagosi, it was generally regarded as Pelagos at its worst and the same went to its people.
Nostor, however, sought to defy this even as a boy. He grew tough and hardy aboard his father’s vessel, raiding and hunting as soon as he could hold a blade in his hands. By 13, he’d garnered a reputation for daring, one of the few boys willing to enter crag crab nests to gather the valuable eggs and discarded shells, whilst also willing to defend his spoils viciously. It was in the midst of one such hunt that he was attacked by a coldsnake, coiling itself around his body attempting to squeeze the air from his body. Nestor continued to fight, jabbing his blade into the thick viper’s body repeatedly, until they were suddenly pulled from the wave. His blade severed the viper in two before he realised what had happened, sprawled upon a hard metal deck and soaked.
Looking up, he saw a giant of a man. His cerulean armour and trident sigil gave him away as one of the Kraken Lords, the greatest warriors ever spawned by their realm. He grunted, asking the boy his name. Replying hesitantly, his saviour congratulated him on being inducted to the Kraken Lords, his father having consented to it. Stripped of his name, he was inducted into the ranks of Kraken Lord aspirants.
The harshness of the Kraken’s theatres likewise necessitated an equally tough training regimen. Weeks of exposure to the elements, forced to survive when abandoned in the midst of Pelagos’ vast oceans, physical exercises that tore muscle as quickly as it rebuilt itself. Missions to the void, fighting full grown astartes for the sole purpose of tasting defeat. Frequent brawls with fellow aspirants, he fought the hierarchy whenever it attempted to assert itself. All the time, Nostor, or Geltha-five-one-Odys as he was known, could see the face of the Astartes that had plucked him from the ocean.
Something about that spurred the aspirant on, he fought harder, resisted long, pushed himself further than any of the other aspirants. Even when the implantations began, he fought to survive. Five times he came close to dying, his body trying to reject the gene-seed, but he fought to survive and resisted the call of the Great Ancestors Even as he took his place amongst the reserve companies of the chapter, he would not let himself rest. His aim had to be perfect, his reports providing greater clarity, his ability to pass greater than the one behind him. Even his first campaigns as a scout, against the great heretical factions of the Macharian Heresy,, saw him aspire for greater.
He would not bow to weakness, and so he came out the other side a fully fledged Astartes of the Kraken Lords. His ritual marking, reaching from his right temple to just beneath his right eye, is a vicious coldsnake poised to strike.
It was there that the Astartes that had followed him closely revealed himself, Fourth Captain Ajuxis. The Fourth Captain had sponsored the boy’s induction into the Chapter after noticing his resilience and refusal to bow down even when faced with his likely death. Honoured by his words, he was elated to be inducted into the Fourth Battle Company. It took only a few decades for Nostor to succeed Ajuxis as Fourth Captain, with Ajuxis torn was slaughtered by traitor astartes bolters.
In the many centuries since that time, Nostor has led the Chapter in hundreds of conflicts and thousands of battles. Having faced with as many foes as the galaxy had to throw at him, Nostor became an almost legendary figure amongst both the Kraken Lords and the wider Imperium for his many conquests. The Great Rift poses the greatest challenge Nostor has ever faced, his Chapter on the wrong side of it and besieged by the armies of Chaos necessitating a call for successor aid.
War Gear: Scylla: A power trident that resembles the legendary Charybdis or their gene-sire, though scaled down to Astartes size. It is the traditional weapon of the Kraken Lords’ Chapter Master, a symbol of its authority and the history of the chapte, its three sharpened prongs having spilt gallons of blood in its lifetime.
Lumen: An artificier plasma pistol, it's coil’s glow like the bioluminescient creatures of Pelagos.
Character Name: Callirius
Alias/Epithets: The Watch Master, The Void Walker, The Patient Blade
Appearance: Bossman
Personality: Callirius is a storm on the horizon. He is largely quiet, but there is an ever present anger, hiding just under the surface and kept at bay at his sole discretion. When unleashed, it is more akin to a force of nature than anger.
Backstory: Little is known on Callirius’ past, it is preferable this way for those in the Void Predators as it gives them less ties to the galaxy. What can be gathered is he was born upon a desolate world, as he grew it came under attack by those of the traitor legions. He survived for years until the Void Predators arrived, forcing the traitors from the rock and taking a tithe of youth and material to recoup their losses.
He raised through the ranks quickly, but not unearned. His reputation amongst the Void Predators was well regarded even when a sergeant, he became the first Lieutenant to oversee the Tithtings and was obviously expected to become Void Master.
In his occupancy of this role, he has been as proficient as can be expected. He recognises the gene-seed flaw that increases viciousness and bloodlust within them, leading them to battles where it can be most effective. The Great Rift, however, has led him to calling a Great Wake, summoning all Companies of the Chapter and what remains of the rest of the Veil Wardens.
War Gear: Consequence: Artificier power maul
Punishment: Powerfist
Astartes/CSM
Chapter Name: Void Predators
Loyalist/Traitor/Renegade: Loyalist
Affiliation if Traitor/Renegade:
Chapter Sigil/Symbol: Shark circling a Yellow Star
Other Heraldry: Shark jaws, spiral markings, bones
Appearance: Void Predators
Homeworld(s)/Home Ship(s) if fleet based: Fleet-based
Chapter Fleet Forces: Flagship Charibdys-class Grand Cruiser Repurcussion
Battle-barge Malicious Intent
Tyrant-class cruiser High Tide
Strike cruiser Hellfire
Strike cruiser Foreboding
Strike cruiser Great Wanderer
Vanguard strike cruiser Slaughter
Vanguard strike cruiser You Are Already Dead
Vanguard strike cruiser Furious Vigilance
Various escort vessels and smaller craft
Chapter Manpower: 790
Chapter Organization: Chapter organised into versatile Void Companies, each possessing dedicated terminator units and an auxilia scouting force.
Chapter History: Imperial records regarding the Void Predators are scant by nature of how the Void Predators operate, only the command echelon are aware of the chapter’s history. Once the 7th Unit of the Void Krakens, they were assigned to defend the recruiting world of Ordenath during the Heresy. However, when the Krakens departed the Archonate in defense of the wider Imperium the 7th Unit refused. to move. As a result, Ordenath was defended and recovered during the Scouring, providing invaluable stocks of gene-seed for future generations. Despite this, they demanded their disobedience to their Primarch be punished, so they were ordered by their Primarch into honourable exile.
Since the Rangdan, Akritus had been concerned of potential, unknown threats lurking in the Outer Dark and so the 7th Unit was sent to prowl the depths and destroy the nascent threat before it emerged. Recognising the assignment was too large to conduct as a single legion they were split up into ten separate chapters, forming the Veil Wardens. The Void Predators took preemenince among this secretive group by virtue of being the FirstCompany.
For millennia the Predators have prowled the edges of the Imperium and beyond, going further than many would dare in pursuance of their ordained task. Occasionally, the chapter will return to the Imperium to replenish its stocks in a number of tithes, typically farming from penal colonies and death worlds, additionally during times of trouble the chapter reappears in records. First was the War of the Beast, the forgotten chapter initially created concern amongst those it encountered due to the fact it was so uncommonly mentioned. However, when they were unleashed upon the battlefield, all complaints ceased.
The chapter itself maintains a secret assignment with the rest of the Veil Wardens, they are charged with the defense of the Fortress-Monastery Purgatos. Built on a blasted rock of a planet, far from peering eyes of the Imperium and only a weak light in a loose star system, the Purgatos holds the body of Akritus in stasis.
