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'''Variel''' was originally an [[Apothecary]] of the [[Night Lords]]. However after the [[Legion]]'s fracturing after the death of [[Konrad Curze]], he went his own way and eventually came into the service of [[Huron Blackheart]] and the [[Red Corsair]]s.{{Fn|1a}} There, in addition to the duties expected of an Apothecary he became an infamous torture specialist known as '''The Flayer'''.{{Fn|1b}} When [[Talos ValcaronValcoran]] and his [[First Claw|fellow Night Lords]] arrived to [[The Maelstrom]] to seek repairs, Variel's conflicted loyalties between his past and presence self began to emerge. He would later go on to betray Huron Blackheart and assist Talos in the theft of the Red Corsair warship ''Echo of Damniation'', which had once belonged to the Night Lords.{{Fn|1c}}
Variel continued to serve under Talos' command, and was one of the handful of survivors of the warband when it came under attack on [[Tsagualsa]] from [[Ulthwe]] [[Eldar]] seeking to eliminate Talos before he became a great threat. Talos instructed Variel to take their [[Thunderhawk]] escort his valued servant [[Septimus]] and the pregnant [[Navigator]] [[Octavia]] off the world. After the duo's escape, Variel pursued and is determined to claim the Navigator's child.{{Fn|2}}
