Salandrik Nel

Salandrik Nel is a feared and foreboding entity amongst the Tempest Reavers. Little is known of his heritage beyond the fact he hailed from Terra and was part of the Ranging Hawks; there he was recorded as having served in, and gradually risen to command of, the 32nd Independent Pioneer Company. A minor digression must be made at this juncture, as the 32nd Independent Pioneers must be touched upon for further context. In the Ranging Hawks, despite being a collection of aligned independent forces co opting as a Legion, there was a modicum of structure to it. Namely the centralisation and grouping of Destroyers, Criminals and later Moritats, under central commands to properly distance themselves from such horrid weapons and their wielders. As Host-Captain of the 32nd, Salandrik Nel would be tasked by his “Superiors” (Mostly the various Chapter Masters of the Ranging Hawks who formed a council periodically and often reported to one another relevant information about their actions and forces) on numerous, barely veiled suicide missions. Reasonings behind this are unknown, but inter-legion archives note that the suspicious and superstitious nature of the Ranging Hawk’s Mid-Afrikan and Xeric Commanders came to see Destroyers and their Host-Captains as accursed ill omens, and often plotted to send them to their demise.

Yet from every suicide mission, from every rear-guard action, from every extermination campaign. Salandrik Nel would return, sometimes alone, sometimes with the shattered remnants of his forces. But he would always return and he would gain infamy for doing so. Even after the discovery of Ezharion Kulas, Nel would retain his dread reputation, with even the Primarch remarking “Even Death itself does not want him.” A description that would be most apt. Gradually, Nel would stop being referred to by rank and status, but by his nomme-de-guerre The Shunned. It is unknown the point at which Nel would become a Moritat, but after the Ranging Hawks became the Tempest Reavers, Nel would rise to claim the morbid honour of leader of the Legion’s Destroyers and Moritats.

With a grim and morbid disposition, Nel embodies every bit of his legend. Sullen and nihilistic, he only has missions and targets left for him. He regards himself as neither dead nor alive, just a cruelly puppeted entity that is regarded like a curse by his Brothers. Yet he is loyal to his oaths, and he shall continue to obey; shrouded by luck and an unnatural tenacity to survive, he hunts his foes with inbuilt Power Blade and Dysasti Archaeo Lance Pistol. For he is The Shedel’Nokt, The Shunned, and even Death shall not claim him.

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