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Ka'Bandha first appeared leading Daemonic forces against the [[Blood Angels]] at the [[Battle of Signus Prime]] alongside the [[Keeper of Secrets]] [[Kyriss the Perverse]], being summoned to the [[Materium]] by sacrificing the [[Word Bearer]] [[Astropath]] [[Corocoro Sahzë]].{{Fn|5}} During the battle Ka'Bandha engaged in an airborne battle with [[Sanguinius]] and broke the Primarch's legs before unleashing the [[Ragefire]] upon the Legion and activating the dormant [[Red Thirst]] within the Legion. After Sanguinius was recovered thanks to the efforts of his Blood Angels, he engaged in a second round of fighting with Ka'Bandha and banished him back to the Warp.{{Fn|5}} Ka'Bandha may also have been responsible for the [[Black Rage]] afflicting the [[Blood Angels]] and their [[Successor Chapter]]s to this day.{{Fn|1a}}
Upon his return to the Warp, the broken Ka'Bandha crawled before [[Khorne]], met only with disgust and mockery. For his failure he was banished from Khorne's court, doomed to scavange scavenge on weak souls to survive in the [[Formless Wastes]]. Other Bloodthirsters led hunting parties to seek his skull, and in time the desperate Ka'Bandha learned to be cunning. The hunters became the hunted, and Ka'Bandha took their armor and weapons for his own. Ka'Bandha eventually returned to the Fortress of Khorne with the skulls of these defeated foes, demanding a second chance from the Blood God. Khorne agreed, ordering Ka'Bandha to harvest 500 Blood Angels souls in the presence of Sanguinius.{{Fn|10}}
He was later among the [[Greater DaemonsDaemon]] s summoned into [[Realspace]] by the [[Thousand Sons]], during the [[Battle for Terra]].{{Fn|9a}} After the [[Lion's Gate Spaceport]] fell to the [[Traitor]]s, the Daemons were unleashed to destroy the [[Imperial Palace]]'s [[Colossi Gate]].{{Fn|9b}} While they succeeded in tearing down the Gate's outer defenses, the Daemons were destroyed by the [[White Scars]]' [[Stormseers]] and the [[Adeptus Custodes]], before they could complete their task.{{Fn|9c}}
Ka'Bandha would return once more to plague the [[Blood Angels]] during the last phase of the Siege of Terra. He was the first Greater Daemon who managed to pass the [[Emperor]]'s weakened psychic shield around the [[Sanctum Imperialis]], and attacked the [[Eternity Gate (Imperial)|Eternity Gate]]. There, he attempted to complete the mission Khorne had given him: Kill 500 Blood Angels in a set time in presence of Sanguinius. After breaking through the last Imperial defenses in front of the Eternity Gate, thus paving the way for the last grand Traitor assault (though he did not care for their success or failure), the Greater Daemon sought out Blood Angels among the defenders and butchered them. Sanguinius intervened, and the two duelled, though Ka'Bandha constantly attempted to break away to keep killing regular Blood Angels. Eventually, however, the Primarch managed to enrage him so much that he focused on their duel.{{Fn|10}} At one point, the Daemon cast Sanguinius to the ground. But, unlike Signus Prime, this time Sanguinius rose to his feet once again, and calling upon the last of his strength, hefted the Daemon by the neck. The Primarch was eventually able to break the Bloodthirster's back with the hilt of his sword. Afterwards the Primarch hurled the Greater Daemon back into the [[Heretic]] army and finally retreated back to the safety beyond the walls of the Eternity Gate.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|10}} Ka'Bandha's broken body was then consumed by weaker Khornate Daemons; later, Ka'bandha furiously realized that he had failed the test set by Khorne.{{Fn|10}}
The first Grey Knight to defeat Ka'Bandha was Brother-Captain [[Solor]]. To this day, Solor's bones have great sway over the Daemon. With the use of a sharpened femur the Grey Knights and Blood Angels were able to defeat Ka'Bandha in 944.M41.{{Fn|3}}
In 944823.[[M41]] the [[Grey Knight]]'s prognosticars predicted that Ka’Bandha would shortly return to the mortal world. Knowing , Ka'Bandha to be a dangerous foe, and moreover one who had earned the bitter enmity of the Blood Angels, the Grey Knights brought this news to the attention of slew Captian [[Commander DanteAbel Zorael]] and proposed a joint strike. A combined strike force of Blood Angels and Grey Knights assailed Ka'Bandha's fortress on in the [[Daemon world]] Battle of [[KalagazaarKhartas]]. Ka'Bandha was banished, the Daemon armies were destroyed and Kalagazaar itself subjected to The [[ExterminatusSanguinor]]. At intervened to banish the campaign's endDaemon, but only after 80% of the surviving Blood Angels had their memories wiped - a price Dante agreed with the Grey Knights at the mission's startperished.{{Fn|32a}}{{Fn|2c}}
In 999944.M41, the [[Grey Knight]]'s prognosticars predicted that Ka’Bandha would shortly return to the mortal world. Knowing Ka'Bandha returned from to be a dangerous foe, and moreover one who had earned the darkness bitter enmity of the Warp with a Daemon army at his command, his first blow striking against [[Ammonai]]Blood Angels, the outermost planet Grey Knights brought this news to the attention of the [[Baal SystemCommander Dante]]and proposed a joint strike.{{Fn|2a}} He later engaged the A combined strike force of Blood Angels in and Grey Knights assailed Ka'Bandha's fortress on the [[Battle Daemon world]] of Khartas[[Kalagazaar]].{{Fn|2c}} He next appeared during KhorneKa's Bandha was banished, the Daemon armies were destroyed and Kalagazaar itself subjected to [[Blood CrusadeExterminatus]]. At the campaign's end, the surviving Blood Angels had their memories wiped - a price Dante agreed with the Grey Knights at the mission's start.{{Fn|63}}
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It was later explained that both Ka'Bandha and An'ggrath are [[Exalted Bloodthirster]]s of the First Host, a band of eight of the strongest Bloodthirsters of Khorne.{{Fn|8}}
In the [[Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition)|5th edition Codex: Blood Angles]], Ka'Bandha is described as striking [[Ammonai]], the outermost planet of the [[Baal System]], as Hive Fleet Leviathan descends on the system.{{Fn|2b}} However in ''[[The Devastation of Baal (Novel)|The Devastation of Baal]]'', Ka'Bandha arrives above [[Baal Primus]] in the midst of the battle.{{Fn|11c}}
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