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[[Image:Khan6.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Kharn Khârn the Betrayer{{Fn|10}}]]

Kharn Khârn was born on [[Terra]] and inducted into the [[World Eaters|War Hounds]] [[Space Marine Legion|Legion]]. Trained on [[Bodt]] by the War Hounds Master of [[Neophyte]]s [[Gruner]]{{Fn|21}}, Kharn Khârn eventually rose to become [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the [[8th Company (World Eaters)|8th Assault Company]].{{Fn|2}}

Khârn succeeded where the other Captains had failed, and led his primarch to the bridge of the ship to assume command of his Legion.{{Fn|2}} Becoming Angron's [[Equerry]], Kharn Khârn was able to find and convince Angron to rejoin the Legion after he abandoned them for nearly two years.{{Fn|19}} Seeking to gain his fathers respect and emulate his strength Kharn Khârn later volunteered to have the [[Butcher's Nails]] installed into his brain, which at the time had a 100% fatality rate. However Kharn Khârn survived the process, being the very first World Eater to endure the Nails and earn Angron's acknowledgment as his son.{{Fn|19}} During the subsequent [[Ghenna Massacre]], Kharn Khârn and Butchers Nail's-equipped World Eaters put down a revolt by his old comrade [[Mago]]. After a duel, Kharn Khârn slew Mago who before his death declared that Angron's path would lead the World Eaters to damnation.{{Fn|19a}}

Shortly before the [[Battle of Isstvan III]], Khârn had gained a reputation as a brilliant, but unstable warrior. Encountering him aboard the ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]'', [[Nathaniel Garro]] reflected that some of the rumors surrounding the World Eater involved atrocities that even the most battle-hardened [[Death Guard]]s found hard to stomach.{{Fn|4}} Through his dueling matches and joint campaigning with other Astartes, Kharn Khârn established friendships with [[Argel Tal]], [[Garviel Loken]], [[Sigismund]], and [[Nassir Amit]].{{Fn|14}}

Khârn, and a squadron of World Eaters, were later dispatched to [[Prospero]] to retrieve the Moon Wolf, a sigil gifted to [[Magnus The Red]] by Horus, to prevent any other Psykers from using it to contact him, as Magnus had done in his attempt to prevent the Heresy. As an aside, Kharn Khârn also had a personal objective of locating 'mind-healing' devices of the Thousand Sons. While there he interrogated Captain [[Menes Kalliston]] of the Thousand Sons, captured after a brief battle with the World Eaters. Captain Kalliston admitted that the devices Kharn Khârn was searching for had all been destroyed but offered to use his Athanean Psyker powers to salve the guilt and pain of Kharn's mind. Decrying himself as beyond saving, Kharn Khârn rebuked Kalliston's offer and, after a brief struggle, beat the Thousand Sons Captain to death.{{Fn|9}}

Kharn Khârn later takes part in the [[Shadow Crusade]], forming a friendship with [[Word Bearer]] Captain [[Argel Tal]]. Tal even proved able to calm Kharn, which led to [[Erebus]] becoming worried that his destiny as the Betrayer would be foiled. After Erebus arranged the death of Tal, an enraged Kharn Khârn nearly slew the Word Bearer [[Chaplain]]. Following the events on [[Nuceria]] and the transformation of [[Angron]] into a [[Daemon Prince|Daemonic entity]], Kharn Khârn was the first one whom the Primarch spoke to. Angron ordered Kharn Khârn to massacre the slaves on the lower decks of the ''[[Conqueror (Ship)|Conqueror]]'' and build him a skull throne.{{Fn|12}} Kharn Khârn and [[Lotara Sarrin]] later put down a mutiny by members of the World Eaters and [[Serf]]s who wished to escape the increasingly corrupted ''Conqueror''.{{Fn|18}}

Following the transformation of Angron, the World Eaters went on to mindlessly slaughter any world they came across. Kharn Khârn accompanied Angron throughout this, and continued to insist that the Primarch was dying. Angron and his Legion refused all summons by Horus to muster at [[Ullanor]] in preparation for the drive on [[Terra]]. This eventually caused the [[Iron Warriors]] under [[Perturabo]] himself to track the World Eaters to [[Deluge]]. On the world, they found the population butchered and erected into a giant mound. At the top of it stood Kharn, who pleaded with Pertuarbo and his forces to leave before it was too late. Soon enough, Angron led an attack of World Eaters and Khornate Daemons against the Iron Warriors. Eventually the two sides came to an agreement to leave for Ullanor following the arrival of the [[Ultramarines]]. Kharn Khârn accompanied Angron to Ullanor and then to Terra.{{Fn|17}}

By the time of the [[Siege of Terra]], Khârn was barely able to hold back the urge to murder anything around him, even valued comrades such as [[Lotara Sarrin]]. After hearing that [[Mortarion]]'s [[Death Guard]] would instead be the first to assault Terra, Angron fell into a rage and massacred all he came across within the bowels of the ''[[The Conqueror]]''. [[Lotara Sarrin]] feared that he would murder the [[Tech-Priest]]'s attending to the vessels reactor, risking a catastrophic meltdown. This forced Kharn Khârn to confront Angron within the ship, where the Primarch revealed he knew of the 8th Captain's ultimate destiny and wished to supplant him as the Chosen of Khorne. The two battled, with Kharn Khârn being little match for his gene-father. However before Angron could finish him, Kharn Khârn placed a teleport homer on the Primarch which transported him to the shifting maze within the nearby [[Night Lords]] flagship ''[[Nightfall]]'' within, Angron became trapped and spent his time battling the many traps within the maze.{{Fn|20}}

Kharn Khârn next appeared leading an attack from a [[Spartan Assault Tank]] on the [[Lion's Gate Spaceport]], though the attack faltered in the face of the Emperor's psychic shield of the [[Imperial Palace]].{{Fn|22}} During the renewed assault on the Spaceport, Kharn Khârn fought alongside [[Abaddon]], [[Kroeger]], and [[Zardu Layak]]. Almost completely feral from the Butcher's Nails and influence of Khorne, Kharn Khârn penetrated deep into the Imperial lines in order to battle [[Sigismund]]. The two former allies dueled, and while Sigismund was the superior swordsman he could not match the Khornate power swelling through Kharn. Sigismund was only saved thanks to [[Rogal Dorn]], who swatted away the berserk Kharn Khârn like an insect. Kharn Khârn was only saved from death due to a rescue launched by Abaddon.{{Fn|22a}} Later Kharn Khârn and Angron both led a massive World Eaters assault on the [[Eternity Wall Spaceport]]. As the Port fell, Kharn Khârn slew [[Sisters of Silence]] Commander [[Jenetia Krole]].{{Fn|23}}

During the drive into the [[Inner Palace]], Khârn was at the forefront of every assault. However he was eventually confronted by the [[Imperial Fists]] [[First Captain]] and his old sparring partner [[Sigismund]]. In the battle that followed not even Kharn's Warp-infused might could best the Imperial Fist, who much to his frustration refused to speak or acknowledge the World Eater. Finally Kharn Khârn was struck down by Sigismund, but before the final blow was struck the World Eater Captain remarked that even he was not as damaged as the embittered Sigismund had become. Sigismund then slew Kharn Khârn upon the soil of his original homeworld.{{Fn|24}} After Horus was defeated, his fellow World Eaters carried his corpse away with them as they fought their way back to their ships. Once on board they discovered that by some dark miracle, he still lived.{{Fn|1a}} Whether Khorne himself breathed life back into the berserker's body or whether the relentless clamour of battle revived his blood-lusting spirit remains a mystery, but since the Heresy Khârn has survived the bloodiest battles to the current age and never came so close to death again.{{Fn|1a}}

Kharn's injuries continued to plague him in the immediate post-Heresy period, and the Legion tore itself apart without him or Angron to guide them. Eventually he returned, fully healed, and led the remains of the World Eaters against a much larger [[Emperor's Children]] force at [[Skalathrax]]. During the Battle Kharn Khârn would become both legendary and infamous amongst the Legion. In what was dubbed the Night of Madness, Kharn Khârn turned on his brothers and took up a [[Flamer]], running through the World Eaters lines and burning them from cover in an effort to drive them forward to victory. The flames quickly spread into an uncontrollable inferno and those who sought to stop Kharn Khârn were struck down by the warrior. The actions proved to finally break the World Eaters as a Legion and they tore themselves apart.{{Fn|25}} Because of this, the World Eaters were completely scattered into small, individual war bands, and have seldom, if ever, fought as a unified Legion since then. Khârn's actions at Skalathrax earned him the sobriquet '''"The Betrayer"''', which he has carried ever since.{{Fn|1a}}

Since Skalathrax, Khârn has become the unstoppable and bloody avatar of Khorne.{{Fn|1a}} He hunted through the [[Eye of Terror]], slaughtering any worthy enough to be killed in Khorne's name. One of the famous battles at this time was his fighting with [[Zarghan Ironfist]].{{Fn|11}} However Kharn Khârn has taken countless lives and while [[Human]] skulls are the most desirable he is known to have slain every almost every kind of [[xenos]] and [[daemon]]. [[Hive Tyrant]]s, [[Necron Overlord]]s, [[Autarch]]s, and [[Warboss]]es have all met their end at Kharn's hand. Despite his crazed nature, Kharn Khârn will still offer his services to brave Chaos warlords. However many are reluctant to call upon him, for his allies are often as at much risk as his enemies.{{Fn|13}}

Following the return of [[Angron]] in the [[Arks of Omen Campaign]], Kharn Khârn reappeared however briefly at his Primarch's side to battle the Imperium. During the [[Battle of Malak]], he led a boarding action against the Imperial [[Battleship]] ''Honour of Terra'' which slew the commander of [[Indomitus Crusade Fleet Quartus]], [[Trincus Abconcis]].{{Fn|27}}

Khârn is one of the most deadly yet unstable close combat fighters in the galaxy. He is just as likely to attack his own allies in a berserk fury as he is the enemy.{{Fn|1a}} Originally, Kharn Khârn wielded the [[Chain Axe]] known as ''[[The Cutter]]'', though he was a master of all types of weaponry.{{Fn|26}} Today, Kharn Khârn wields a [[Plasma pistol]] and the ancient [[chainaxe]] known as [[Gorechild]]{{Fn|1a}} (which, along with its twin [[Gorefather]], was wielded by Angron himself during the Heresy{{Fn|5}}), rimmed with the teeth of a [[Mica Dragon]]{{Fn|1a}}. Gorechild is able to tear through armour, flesh and bone with ease.{{cite this}}

As Khorne's greatest champion, Khârn enjoys the ''Blessing of the Blood God'', which renders him immune to the effects of psychic powers.{{Fn|1a}} In addition, since he has become [[Daemon]]ically corrupted Kharn Khârn exudes a blood mist wherever he walks. This mist allows for the manifestation of Daemonic creatures and can drive lesser foes to madness.{{Fn|16a}}

Kharn1.jpg|Kharn Khârn during the Heresy{citethis}}

Kharn7th.jpg|Kharn Khârn miniature (7th Edition)

*{{Endn|13}}: [[Warlords of the Dark Millennium: Kharn Khârn the Betrayer (Background Book)]]{{cite this}}