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The heir to the powerful [[House Haarlock|Haarlock family]] on the world of [[Quaddis]] in the [[Calixis Sector]], which helped found Imperial rule in the region, over the millennia the Haarlocks have acquired much forbidden technology and lore from [[Xenos]] they have battled. Erasmus lost his wife and daughter in the inter-familial wars that grip the Haarlocks, causing him to massacre the rest of the family and all of their associates.{{Fn|1}} His family was killed over the vicious wars over the inheritance of the Haarlock [[Warrant of Trade]]. This single event drove Haarlock to slaughter all others of his line, as well as become obsessed with bringing back his dead family.{{Fn|3}}
Earning the name Haarlock Kinslayer, he then attempted to utilize his family's forbidden lore to return his wife and daughter.{{Fn|1}} In his endless search for a means of achieving this insane desire he left no ancient technology, xenos-lore, or art of warp-craft unplumbed to little avail. He was left with failed experiments, bloody disasters, and empty [[daemon]]-whispered lies. At least until he found what appeared to be the answer: the [[Blind Tesseract]]. Found on an icy world in the ruins of a pre-[[human]] civilization, the chambers of the Blind Tesseract could open portals to the past through elaborate and bloody rituals.{{Fn|3}}
The shifting portals within the Blind Tesseract allowed Haarlock to visit the past but not change it. So he continued to watch his family's murder over and over with no ability to intervene. Eventually he would use the Blind Tesseract to find a place where he could learn the final means to achieve his desire: an audience with the fabled [[Dusk Hag]] who had eluded him in the past. Upon [[Dusk]], He paid an unknown price to this being of appalling power and forbidden knowledge for the answers he sought. The Dusk Hag revealed that the answer to his desires lay in [[Komus]], the Tyrant Star.{{Fn|3}}
