Hey Folks!

Finally turned my dot-point background for my Kabal into an actual background! I’m not the greatest writer, but I have done my research! I have tried to include as much Dark El….Drukhariness as possible into the background, with betrayals, and double betrayals and triple betrayals, as well as including more recent, updated Drukhari lore.

Without further ado….here it is!

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Kabal of the Poisoned Dart; A history

The Kabal of the Poisoned Dart is one of the newer Kabals of Commorragh, rising to Kabal status after the events of Khaines Gate. Despite being young, the Poisoned Dart have risen rapidly within the Dark City, using their status as a young kabal to exploit those who hold them in contempt.

The Poisoned Dart is led by Triplicate Sister Archons of unique origins. Originally created in secret as a bond-team for Lady Malys, Archon of the Poisoned Tongue. The triplets were created from a single cell of Lady Malys herself by an unknown Haemonculous, with all three looking to be her mirror image, besides deep, disfiguring marks upon each one their faces; created to remind them they are simply copies. For years they acted as the perfect guards; intelligent, deadly, highly skilled and unshakably loyal. The triplicates had some free will, acting more like daughters than body guards at times. Within the Poisoned Tongue they often organised and led raids of their own personal raiding force, treated with the mercanary-clans and hired out coven forces for experiments; the whole time serving Lady Malys loyally… until Khaine’s Gate.

What was unknown to Lady Malys was that Asdrubael Vect had outplayed her. During their creation a flaw was inserted into the triplet’s genetic code, causing them to betray Lady Malys when the time was right, long years after their creation. During Khaine’s Gate, Vect sent a single message to the triplicates, activating the flaw. The Triplicates were deployed with their raiding force along one of Lady Malys weaker flanks, protecting her main forces advance towards the demons, and Vect. Suddenly they were gone. However, the betrayal didn’t go as vect had planned, for he himself had been crossed by the unknown Haemonculous. Instead of the triplets turning to serve Vect, they instead gained full free will, becoming themselves unbound to any other. Vects plan to have Malys’s loyal daughter-guards assassinate Malys had failed.

The three sisters used their sudden shift, and the chaos of Khaine’s Gate to perform a lightning raid on the satellite realm of Dzan’jla, a section of a shattered death-world pulled deep into the Webway aeons ago during The Fall. The Kabal of the Jade Knife, rulers of Dzan’jla, had become complacent on their shattered realm, and were too busy plotting and scheming to take advantage of the chaos within Commorragh, that they did not expect a sudden and ferocious attack within their stronghold. Though the triplet’s forces were small they managed to overcome the Jade Knife, with the sisters executing the Archons and Trueborn of the rival Kabal and binding their warriors into slavery. However, there are rumours that the sisters did not act alone, but that they were aided by pilots from the Voidhaunt and, even some quietly whispered rumours that they were aided by the forces of the Il-Kaithe.

The sisters, now calling themselves Archons of the Poisoned Dart quickly built a following around them, for their conquest of Dzan’jla, and betrayal of Lady Malys, and survival thereafter, showed them to be players within the game of Commorragh’s power plays. Though whispers quietly spoken speak of the sisters being pawns of the Farseers of Il-Kaithe, their tampering and betrayal rumoured to be engineered to give the Farseers a loyal force of Drukhari which they could control. Any who speak these words near the sisters however, face a fate far worse than death.

From their new realm, the Kabal of the Poisoned Dart raid relentlessly into real space, capturing uncounted slaves, selling some to retain the loyalty of covens of haemonculous, releasing others into their jungle realm to hunt for sport. It is well known that the sisters fostered a tribe of savage orcs within their realm, to be sure they always have their favourite prey to hunt. During their raids the Kabal is often accompanied by flight wings of the Voidhaunt, the various mercenary forces of Commorragh, and, adding to the rumours, forces from Il-Kaithe.