Kabal of the Dying Sun

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"Pain is power, and power is everything. We therefore seek every opportunity to inflict pain, and we do not allow limits to be imposed upon our imagination. The flesh, the mind, the soul – all can be made to feel the torments eternal. And when all three scream in agony within a single being, the math to immortality lies open before us. So it has been since the beginning, and so it will continue until we extinguish the stars and the galaxy lies dark and fallow." - Kabal Mantra^[5]

Kabal of the Dying Sun Archon: Vorl-Xoelanth Colours: Blue with red trim and black

The Kabal of the Dying Sun is one of the oldest and most revered Dark Eldar Kabals of Commorragh.

Overview

Maiys of Grovenspire, Sybarite of the Splinter of Blooded Alabaster of the White Shard of Grovenspire^[5]

Operating from an impenetrable mountain-like stronghold within Commorragh known as the Pinnacle of Disdain,^[3] they prefer raids by sunset, for their leader, Archon Vorl-Xoelanth, is obsessed with the transition from light and hope to darkness and despair.^[2]

The Dying Sun are known to show great disdain to anything that is not thousands of years old.^[2] They maintain many old artifacts from the Eldar Empire and are infamous for their ability to extinguish stars.^[3] Their ranks include more Trueborn Drukhari than any other Kabal, and they openly disdain the "lesser born" (including Asdrubael Vect, who they view as a usurper).^[5]

The Kabal keeps within it's armoury ancient and forbidden arcane heirlooms of the Eldar Empire, weapons of mass destruction as lethal to their users as their victims capable of sucking the life force from worlds to exterminate whole races of sentient beings, and even to destroy stars—much to the mockery of other Kabals—but their rivals cannot explain the disappearance of the sun Echillos during the Aleuthan Persecution.^[5] Because of the hazard of their use, these weapons are used sparingly.

The arch-rival of the Kabal of the Dying Sun is the Kabal of the Falling Moon, with the lunar sect ruled by Vorl-Xoelanth's twin brother, Y'polleon.^[1]

Forces

• White Shard of Grovenspire^[5]
  • Splinter of Blooded Alabaster^[5]

See also

• List of Kabals

Sources

• 1: Colours of the Kabals at Games Workshop website (site accessed 2011.01.04)
• 2: Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition), pg. 62
• 3: Codex: Dark Eldar (7th Edition), Kabals of Commorragh
• 4: Codex: Drukhari (9th Edition), pgs. 16-17
• 5: Codex: Drukhari (8th Edition), pg. 22, 126