Vykus Ordaris
Vykus Ordaris is a Raven Guard Deathwatch member of the Watch Fortress Keep Extremis and is part of Kill Team Mordelai.[1a]
History
He is a veteran Sniper specialist of few words, who possess an intimate knowledge of Xenos anatomy and infinite patience. Ordaris combines all of these abilities together, when the Raven Guard uses his Stalker Bolter to strike his foes in areas that will do the most harm. He has risen to become one of Keep Extremis' heroes and was present when the Great Rift's creation placed the Watch Fortress within the Imperium Nihilus. This led it to become repeatedly attacked by Traitors and Ordaris and his Deathwatch Battle Brothers successfully drove off all of the attacks. However in doing so, they suffered substantial casualties. Despite this, when Keep Extremis later received distress calls from Vigilus, during the War of Beasts,[1b] Watch Captain Tannister was sent to aid the Imperial world.[1c] He led a Watch Company aboard the Strike Cruiser Remorseless to Vigilus and it was in the process of forming the Company, that Sergeant Titus Mordelai's Kill Team Mordelai was formed. It was composed of survivors of Keep Extremis' most badly mauled Kill-Teams and despite this, they formed a quick bond with each other. This was due to all of them losing comrades during the defense of their Watch Fortress and now having a desire to claim vengeance.[1a]
By the time they reached Vigilus, Kill Team Mordelai was ready to fight together.[1a] But as soon as the Strike Cruiser arrived there, the Remorseless received distress calls from across the Vigilus System. Captain Tannister reacted to this new development by splitting his Watch Company into its individual Kill-Teams and sending them to answer each distress call. Kill Team Mordelai would not fight on Vigilus and was instead dispatched to aid the settlement of Vain Hope on Falsehood. They deployed on the Death World via the Corvus Blackstar Alien's Bane and sought to set up ambush points to attack the Drukhari that were raiding the settlement. This would be ruined, however, after the Kill Team was set upon by a giant creature known as a Carnivosaur, which led a group of the invading Xenos to attack the Kill Team. They were able to defeat the Drukhari, though, and captured the only Xenos survivor of the group. After interrogating their prisoner, Kill Team Mordelai learned of the location for one of the Drukhari's encampments and destroyed it with the aid of Alien's Bane's firepower.[1c]
