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[[Image:Slaydo.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Warmaster Slaydo]][[Warmaster]] '''Slaydo''' (born circa 600.[[M41]], died 765.M41){{Cite this}} was the first commander of the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]].{{Fn|4}}{{Fn|6}}

[[Image:Slaydo.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Warmaster Slaydo]]His early career is hard to follow.{{Cite this}} It is known that Slaydo led the [[Imperium]] to victory in the [[Gorikan Suppression]]{{Fn|6}} but his real fame began during the [[Khulan Wars]]{{Fn|4}}, during which he mustered a massive army which he led to a decisive victory.{{Cite thisFn|6}}

Even while still a [[Lord General Militant|Lord Militant]] in the 9th Division Pacificus, he had supported the concept of a [[crusade]] to liberate the Sabbat Worlds, and in 732 he had drawn up ''A Reasoned Approach to the Reconquest of the Sabbat Territories'' for consideration by the High Command. He had a deep-seated passion for the cause of [[Saint Sabbat]], the original liberator of the Sabbat Worlds, and believed it to be an imperial crime that her hard-won territories had been lost to the hands of [[Chaos]].{{Cite thisFn|6}}

His death came some 11 years later, on [[Balhaut]], a key planet in his plan of reconquest. He landed with his troops and led the assault on the High Palace of the Oligarchy, where [[Nadzybar]], the Archon of the forces of Chaos in the Sabbat Worlds, was residing at the time. The bitter price of the crusade was taking its toll on Slaydo, and he seemed "weary and fatalistic" according to one officer who served with him, but he did not hesitate to lead the first attack wave, [[power sword]] in hand.{{Cite ThisFn|6}}

On the 18th hour of the tenth day of the assault, the high palace was penetrated and Nadzybar and Slaydo met face to face, joining in a combat so ferocious that "most were driven to leave the chamber by the fury of it" as one guardsman later said. Slaydo was mortally wounded twice, but through sheer courage rallied through and delivered a lethal blow to the Archon. The Archon's followers swarmed the fallen pair immediately, however, and Slaydo could not be found until the riot of maddened cultists was cleared. There was no hope for the Warmaster by this time, but he lived on long enough to see Balhaut secured. His last words were "I am done, and yet I am undone."{{Cite ThisFn|6}}

Towards his death it is clear that he began to regret the incredibly high cost of life in his campaigns, especially the final assault of his career. He had christened the operation "Hell Storm", and may later have come to regret that name, reflecting that he had consigned his men to a "storm of hell." He also had a strong premonition of his own death on Balhaut, perhaps as early as 756, but this did not stop him from prosecuting the assault to the best of his abilities.{{Cite thisFn|6}}