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'''Variel''' was [[Apothecary|Apothecary Secundus]] of the [[Astral Claws]] and later the [[Red Corsairs]]. After the [[Badab War]], Variel and his mentor, [[Master of the Apothecarion|Apothecary Lord]] [[Garreon]], oversaw the rebirth of [[Lugft Huron]] into Huron Blackheart. As the Astral Claws had been cast out by the [[Imperium]], Variel joined his battle-brothers as the Red Corsairs.{{Fn|1a}} There, in addition to the duties expected of an Apothecary, he became an infamous torture specialist known as '''The Flayer'''.{{Fn|1b}} When [[Talos Valcoran]] and his [[First Claw|fellow Night Lords]] arrived to [[The Maelstrom]] to seek repairs, Variel's conflicted loyalties between his past and present self began to emerge. He would later go on to betray Huron Blackheart and assist Talos in the theft of the Red Corsairs warship ''Echo of Damnation'', which had once belonged to the Night Lords.{{Fn|1c}}
Variel continued to serve under Talos' command and was one of the handful of survivors of the warband when it came under attack on [[Tsagualsa]] from [[Ulthwé]] [[Eldar]] seeking to eliminate Talos before he became a great threat. Talos instructed Variel to take their [[Thunderhawk]] escort, his valued servant [[Septimus]], and the pregnant [[Navigator]] [[Octavia]] off the world. Septimus and Octavia would later escape to Tsagualsa, leaving Variel no choice but to pursue them and to attempt to claim the Navigator's child. He was badly wounded by [[Jain Zar]] in the battle and lost both of his legs to her blades. Afterwards he salvaged Talos' [[gene-seed]] to create a new prophet for the Night Lords. He then rejoined the Night Lords under [[Decimus]]'s command and appeared to be one of his most trusted followers alongside [[Lucoryphus]].{{Fn|2}}
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