Nautakah
Nautakah is a World Eaters Berzerker, who took part in the Horus Heresy[1a] and later in the Battle of Skalathrax[1d]. During the M41, he would join the Blood Pact Warband, as an Arnogaur, and he took part in the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.[1a]
History
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The following paragraphs contain spoilers for: | Urdesh: The Serpent and the Saint (Novel) |
Nautakah's Arnogaur rank, charged him with killing the Blood Pact's members who broke the Warband's rules. He would later be among the its forces that fought on Urdesh, just as the reborn Saint Sabbat began to once more directly attack the Blood Pact. Once they learned the Saint was in the besieged city of Ghereppan, Nautakah and a strike force from the Warband were sent to kill her. However, while most of the strike force directly attacked the city to reach the Saint, Nautakah and a group of Chaos Space Marines held back. They were charged with protecting a group of artillery Usurper Gun vehicles, which each contained a Gore Mage. The Arnoguar disliked being near Psykers, but as the brass collar he wore did not strike them dead, as it had for others who used their powers near him, Nautakah was content to do his duty. These Gore Mages were tasked with using their Psychic abilities to locate Saint Sabbat and relay her location to the Blood Pact[1a]. The main group of the strike force then rushed towards her location, while the Usurper Guns fired upon it. This led the Saint, her retinue and Iron Snakes bodyguards to constantly move, in order to avoid being killed. However once Saint Sabbat became aware she was being psychically tracked, she used the powers given to her by the Emperor to block the Gore Mages'[1b] psychic sight. The Usurper's High Sirdar Haliuk immediately compensated for this, by having the artillery fire where he thought the Saint was now likely to be at. For Haliuk's skill, Nautakah promised that upon the Sirdar's death, he would ensure the commander's skull was brought to the Blood Pact's master Urlock Gaur.[1c]
The Arnogaur and Chaos Space Marines then made ready to defend the Usurper Guns[1c]. They did not have long to wait, as the Iron Snakes and even Saint Sabbat herself, attacked them. While Nautakah was able to kill several of the Iron Snakes[1e], his rampage was stopped by the Saint. Using her Emperor given powers, Saint Sabbat carried Nautakah into the air on ethereal wings and the Arnogaur was enraptured by the power she emitted. They were soon high over Ghereppan, when Nautakah began screaming Khorne's name in order to break out of the trance. He succeeded, but before he could attack her, the Saint let him go and sent the Arnogaur plummeting into the city below them. It is not known if Nautakah survived the fall.[1f]
