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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 CorsairCorsairs]]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 Valcoran]] and his [[First Claw|fellow Night Lords]] arrived to [[The Maelstrom]] to seek repairs, Variel's conflicted loyalties between his past and presence present self began to emerge. He would later go on to betray Huron Blackheart and assist Talos in the theft of the Red Corsair Corsairs warship ''Echo of DamniationDamnation'', 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 Septimus and Octavia would later escape, leaving Variel pursued no choice but to pursue them and is determined to claim the Navigator's child.{{Fn|2}}