Changes

The first fully known deployment of First Claw after the Heresy was a rather desultory visit to a randomly traveling asteroid; drawn there by a prophetic vision, First Claw interrupted the mining operation of a [[Rogue Trader]] and captured their [[Navigator]], [[Eurydice Mervallion]], whom Talos would take on as a slave-servant under the appellation '[[Octavia]]'. What made this operation significant to Talos, if not all of First Claw, was that the asteroid was in fact a fragment of [[Nostramo]], the long-destroyed homeworld of the Night Lords Legion.{{Fn|1e}}

As The Exalted’s warband formed up with the other forces under the command of the Warmaster, they received a request for Talos, the prophet of the 10th, to attend upon Abaddon the Despoiler personally. First Claw journeyed to the meeting, although only Talos was allowed into the Despoiler's presence. The others were then hastily forced to return to the ''[[Covenant of Blood]]'' aboard a [[Black Legion]] vessel, their own vessel – the [[Thunderhawk]], ''[[Blackened]]'' — being impounded. Separated from his support, Talos was offered a place in the Black Legion by Abaddon, who wished to acquire Talos’ services in order to exploit his precognitive ability. When he refused, Abaddon took more direct action, incapacitating Talos and subjecting him to a forced [[Chaos]] Ritual carried out by the turncoat [[Ruven]], once a member of First Claw himself and now a sorcerously empowered member of the Black Legion. The ritual was designed to either open Talos up to the true glory of Chaos or corrupt and brainwash him into Abaddon’s servitude, depending upon one’s point of view. This ritual failed, Talos resisting the temptations of the [[Ruinous Powers]]. Disgusted, Abaddon departed, leaving Talos to his fate. In the meantime, ''Blackened'' had been attacked by Ruven’s human pawns. It’s crew, First Claw’s mortal servants [[Septimus]] and Octavia, had suffered as a result. Septimus was gravely injured, while the female Octavia was kidnapped by the damned madmen. Upon his recovery from the ritual, Talos stemmed Septimus’ wounds, before hunting down and murdering all of Octavia’s kidnappers, reacquiring his servant in the process.{{Fn|1g}}