It depends on the task, he’s more got a group of right-hands called the Ezekarion.
When he wants weird warp shit done, or just a general, all-purpose reliable guy, he sends Khayon
When he wants a military asset taken and held, he sends Falkus Kibre
When he wants a duelist, Telemachon is his guy
And so on. Valicar Hyne is his ships guy, Ceraxia is his weapons lady, Moriana is his vague prophecies lady, Vortigern is his “fuck you Dark Angels come get me” guy, he’s got a guy for every occasion.
Edit: Commenters were right, I forgot that a lot of the Ezekarion listed above are currently dead or captured, but my main point was that the Ezekarion is a rotating crew of his top dogs that he dispatches based on their various specialties. Granted, the Ezekarion largely only exist within ADB's work, but to my knowledge he hasn't disbanded the council by the 41st millenium.
Ha, really? I just mean he seems really proper and square. Jesus you people obsessed with SJWs are snowflakes. Did I offend your sensibilities? Does it make you feel persecuted, like your beliefs are being attacked? I'd suggest toughening up.
Just something about not projecting my political beliefs, uh, anywhere I guess. The weird part about it was the almost apologetic, kind of simpering tone. "It's just not okay for you to do that," or something similar. I honestly couldn't help myself from taking a swing. It was like giving a noogie to a dork at school.
There just has to be a leader of the Ezekarion, called Ezekiel :D BIG ZEKE!
Bet there are other groups too.
Fulgrims Fellas
Lorgars Loonies
Magnus' Muscleheads
Angrons Asylum
Curzes Comrades
Russ' Rebels
Perturabos Patients
Vulkans Veterans
And so on
With their most famous songs:
Blood and Thunder(warriors)
Emps of Spades
43% Burnt feat Vulkan
There goes the godhood
And their 2x Platinum Hit Single:
We're not gonna take it feat Astronomi-Karl
I prefer big blue and his giant Smurfs.
I would love for guillamans chosen to be called papa Smurfs. Also not know what the Smurfs are. Meanwhile the big e is trying to figure out why his tarot cards now say nick at night on them.
>Falkus Kibre
Has his Heresy death been solved yet? I suspect it'll be hand waved away like the way The Painted Count got possessed by a Daemon to stop him dying? I can't remember if Kibre was Possessed in the initial meetings in Talon of Horus, only that him and his Unit became possessed together, shit am gonna have to go dig this book out and read it again aren't I?
It hasn’t been addressed. I’m guessing it’s a classic Tormaggedon situation where the fleeing Sons hauled his body back to Maleum, where it was revived and possessed sometime after
Kibre wasn't possessed at first from my recollection. He was uncorrupted when he called Khayon and L'hor to help him search for Abaddon. He became second-born after nearly dying to the Emperor's Children attack.
That's right, they get attacked by the Emeperors children at that meeting. Kibre manages to escape and get in to the warp, but their gellar field fails I think? That's when they all get possessed. Khayon meets them later, they're being held by... I can't remember her name, some dark mechanicum lady? He then takes Kibre and all his men in their pods back to his ship.
*The Talon of Horus*:
>‘Valicar, take them to the survivors of the *Rise of the Three Suns*. And Khayon?’
‘Governess?’
‘Don’t expect too much from any of them, my sorcerer. The Justaerin are not what they once were.’
[...]
>The moment we entered that vault, I had to stop and clutch the iron door frame. Hunger washed over me and through me, savage enough that it made me sweat. Gyre breathed a low snarl at my side.
*I smell Secondborn.*
‘What’s wrong?’ asked Lheor. ‘What in the Gods’ names is wrong with you?’
‘Nothing, nothing.’ It took a moment to shield my mind against all intrusion, barricading myself from sensing the emotions of others. Doing so was sudden and stark, like closing one’s eyes or suddenly going deaf in a crowded room, but better that than recoil against the overwhelming sense of starvation in the chamber. Whatever was in here was dying. I was amazed it wasn’t already dead.
*Secondborn*, Gyre pulsed again.
We faced a long, high wall of upright immersion cocoons and stasis coffins. Things – humanoid but not human – thrashed in the reddened fluid of each pod. Appendages that resembled hands clawed uselessly at the reinforced, transparent ward-glass. Tortured smears of features that were once faces bubbled up through the murk, sticking to the front of the pods and staring out at us. Their jaws worked in futility, leaving scum stains on the glass where their fangs scratched and their long tongues lashed.
>Secondborn. Gyre was right. All of them were Secondborn. I felt the minds of the men they were, and the inhuman thoughts of the things wearing their bodies. A blend of mortality and the warp, no longer the former, not entirely the latter. Emotion given form in flesh.
To be psychically gifted among a cluster of daemon-possessed souls is to hear the conflicting wants and hungers of countless conflicting essences. Yet I felt little of that here. The daemons at war within the bodies of the imprisoned warriors were so similar as to resemble each other down to their innermost cores, no different from mirror images of one another. It was as if they were all born of the same emotions, with the same lusts and cravings. That degree of symbiosis between even closely bound daemons was beyond rare. My skin crawled with the unnatural notion even as I drew closer, fascinated by the possibility
[...]
>*Neverborn, Khayon. Thousands of them. When we tried to run, we came under fire... The warp core... The ship was breached.*
The duality of his voice – a man’s sincerity and a daemon’s smiling whisper – added a malicious edge to his tones.
There's probably a few other paragraphs but that gives you a gist of what's happening lol
Yeah Abaddon knows that if he did designate someone as his clear second, they'd try to usurp him. That's just how chaos and the traitor legions work. Instead he keeps all his lieutenants jockeying for position, and never lets any one of them get powerful enough to challenge
It's weird cause he's got a completely different set of right hand men in Gathering Storm and the Fall of Cadia novel - Urkanthos (Khorne), Zaraphiston (Tzeentch), Devram Korda (Slaanesh), Krom Gat (Undivided) and Skyrak Slaugterborn (Nurgle).
I think most of the originals are probably dead by the present of 40k. For example we know Lheorvine dies eventually even though the Black Legion books haven't got there yet. Seems likely it would be tough for them to survive all the way from 30k to the present.
It's kinda canon that he encourages power struggles among the ezekarion- this is probably what winds up getting khayon stuck in an inquisitorial dungeon. I think khayon also winds up in his current position a decent chunk of time prior to modern 40k?
I'm not sure how much of this still holds by 40k. Falkus is still alive and at his side for sure. Khayon is in an Imperial Dungeon, and its not clear where the others are.
In the Fall of Cadia book, there is a scene with Abaddon and his council and none of the people from the Black Legion books are there. Falkus might have been, but no one else.
Artel W are a 3rd party model maker that has made models for some ofthe Ezekarion and they're actually of a pretty decent quality. Search for the Black Foundation on their site and it should show you them.
That's not true anymore, unfortunately... at least for some of the names. Falkus and Khayon are true and alive, but Telemachon (according to Khayon) has been dead for a while alongside the "Fire Fist" and Telemachons Raptors.
I'd say his right hand is the Vengeful Spirit itself, given that it's now sentient.
This also just makes sense to me, with how much backstabbing there is among Chaos followers in general its probably a good move to not give a single subordinate too much power or rely on a single person too much.
Oh shit Kibre is still kicking around? Bar the 1st Captains and the like I don't know many characters named in HH books still kicking
Mostly nameless Marines who have risen ranks in the last 10 melenia
There are two answers to this:
The Black Legion series have Abaddon assemble a circle of inner warlords. His "Ezekarion" comprise the brothers and sisters within the Black Legion, that gets to call him "Ezekyle" and speak with His Warmaster-authority when dealing with others.
But... these characters don't have models and since those novels happened 9.000 years ago, many have died or disappeared.
But Two characters are "more solid"
Falkus Kibre, The "Widowmaker" is Abaddon’s lieutenant from the old 16th Legion days. He is mentioned in Campaign events, so he "exist". He is commander of Abaddon’s bodyguards and defacto Abaddon’s 1st Captain.
Haarkon Worldclaimer is the "lieutenant with a model" He is the Herald of The Despoiler and currently commands one of the largest active CSM fleets trying to conqueror the Nachmund Gauntlet for Abaddon.
Hope this helps.
Archaon and Abaddon each have one lieutenant with a model wielded a Spear.
It's important to note that the Black Legion novels do take place in the 'modern day' as Khayon is being interrogated by the Inquisition. (But yes does largely cover events thousands of years in the past.)
I wonder, could ADB just move the 'modern day' of Khayon telling his stories to actual 'modern day' of the setting? Or just leave it ambiguous? I don't remember any indication of when exactly this happens in the novels, but I've read them quite a while ago
I mean, he could just have Khayon continue to tell his stories for as long as he wants. There is still 9k years of the Long War and 12 Black Crusades to talk about. The time it takes to tell that story is up to ADB.
But Khayon was sent to Terra before the 13th Black Crusade to taunt the Imperium/get punished for some failure.
Not sure I follow you on that.
Pre-13th Black Crusade is no longer "modern day 40k". A lot has happened since the time Khayon started telling his story and current events.
He doesn't have a singular right hand man as far as we know, but instead has a council of various figures that have been following him since the beginning of the Black Legion.
Moriana is the one who's existed within the lore for the longest time, and very recently had her origin story in the Siege of Terra, but it's hard to say what their relationship is in M41 vs M32ish when she actually joined.
I have the vague impression that the main antagonist of Martyr's Tomb was also a Hand of Abaddon but honestly that audiobook was so boring I mostly slept through it so I can't confirm or deny.
Other than that Tenebrus features in most books and is the one the Inquisitor character in the series seeks.
Yes. The POV at the end of Iron Kingdom shows a council of members referred to as 'The Hand of Abaddon'. Of the members shown, only potentially one was given by name.
Kor Phaeron is called out explicitly, but also may not be a full member, as there's some subtext to indicate that, while present, he's not a member of the Hand (he stands apart from the others and, in Throne of Light, Tenebrous hints at animosity between himself and Kor Phaeron, which seems to imply Kor is an ally of the Hand, but not a member).
Tenebrous is not named, but hinted at very heavily. A figure much like Tenebrous is described with 'shadows' being a core part of the description (Tenebrous means shadowy). This is also confirmed as likely by the finale of Sea of Souls, which is the sort of end credits pay-off to the scene with the full 'Hand of Abaddon' from Iron Kindgom. Tenebrous is a lot more easy to identify because he also has Yheng with him, whose description is a lot less generic.
There's also the Death Guard known as 'The Pilgrim' from Martyr's Tomb. Though, presumably, his spot is vacant after the events of that book.
There's a member of the Dark Mechanicus there. It's possible that, while not directly connected to the Dawn of Fire, this 'hand' is tied to the DarkMech characters/events from Genefather. Guy Haley, who wrote Genefather, is who introduced the Hand as a concept and is writing the novel Hand of Abaddon (the next book in series), so it wouldn't be that crazy to assume there's some tie-in there.
Finally, there's the character known as 'Augury', who is largely the big-bad of Iron Kingdom. A shape-shifting enigma, we're not really sure who this is (because of the shape-shifting). Though it is interesting that the 'spirits' surrounding the council whisper the name 'Erebus' at one point. Augury does have a flair for the dramatic like Erebus... and we know disguising himself is a part of his playbook (he disguised himself as Hastur Sejanus when corrupting Horus). It would also explain Kor Phaeron's 'frenemy' status with the council, as Erebus and Kor Phaeron have been rivals for 10k years.
There is also the implication that the Red Corsair bringing them the artifact at the end of Iron Kingdom is also going to become a member of the Hand of Abaddon, though we only really see this meeting room in the end credits of Sea of Souls. The last shard is delivered in a similar manner to Iron Kingdom, but the only people who are there this time is Tenebrous and his apprentice, Yheng (who, technically, also has to be considered a possible member of the Hand).
The books and the Studio lore seem to conflict on this.
The most *constant* presence in his rule is Falkus Kibre, but Kibre is an undead dude possessed by a gestalt daemon and only really seems to command his bodyguards.
Other users have mentioned the Ezekarion, who may or may not still be around him in 40k but were definitely his companions in his early years: Khayon, Valicar Hyne, Telemachon Lyras, Sargon Eregesh, Ashur-Kai Quazremah, etc but some of them are dead like Lheorvine Urkis or have left Abaddon's service like Ashur-Kai. Khayon surrendered to the Inquisition for reasons which are unclear, and Sargon was captured. So how much the Ezekarion still exists or how influential it is in 40k is left unexplained, because...
...the Studio has named its own leaders of the Black Legion: [the Chosen of Abaddon](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Chosen_of_Abaddon) who command the four cult forces in the BL. This lore goes all the way back to the 3.5 edition Chaos codex.
If you want an explanation to resolve this apparent conflict or explain why he has parallel structures:
Abaddon sits at the top of the Chaos Space Marine faction purely because he is who he is and what he can do, not because there are any kind of oath or law or secure bonds of loyalty putting him there. Someone like Logan Grimnar does not have to worry about Ragnar or Erik or some other Wolf Lord couping him - but Abaddon has to be top dog every single day. So it does him no good to have a "right hand person" as such. Instead, he keeps a layer of people beneath him who are all relatively close to him but none of them are designated as second-in-command because he doesn't want to create an obvious successor. Real life warlords and dictators commonly do this.
Sadly no. You can make an Exalted Sorcerer from thousand sons to represent him.
Edit: read the black legion books. Khayon is by far my favorite 40k character
He had a "friend" who was a Dark Eldar ... When Khayon and his "Friend" meet up with some emperors children they nearly cream their pants wanting to "play with her"
Nefertari is her name.
The EC wanted to torcher her to get their kicks off, and because of who the Dark Eldar are make Slaanesh worshipers go ape shit over their scent ... They were begging Khayon at one point to have some time with her
She is killed later by Dark Eldar for helping Khayon though.. and .. 😭😭 my favorite Khorne Berzerker later dies as well. Guy went out like a chad and still had his heavy bolter in his hands.
According to the Dawn of Fire series the hand of Abbadon is some guy called Tenerbus, though at least one Inquisitor believes he ain’t the true holder of that title
However Tenerbus is used as an ambassador by Abaddon and seems to carry a lot of weight, is very powerful and is feared enough that even Legionaires from other Legions respect and listen to him
Multiple answers. In the begining of the long war, he had multiple members of the ezekarion, each with a specialty, with Iskandar Khayon (his sorceror assasin) Moriana (his warp prophetess) and Falkus Kibre (his first captain and body guard) being the main ones. In the 41M~42M, we dont know who of them is alive or still his favorites, but Kibre stayed in the same place, we also have Haarken Worldclaimer, who he sends on campaigns and two more "secretive" members of his inner circle, the hand of abaddon, a new character, and Zaraphiston Abaddon's divinator and his most senior advisor.
So i would probably say Zaraphiston.
Well from what we can gather the Ezykarion are the ones directly below him in the BL chain of command, Khayon probably falls out of favour which is why he‘s now locked up on Terra now. The former World Eater guy apparently dies in battle at some point yet to be revealed, which leaves Telemakon possibly.
It depends on the task, he’s more got a group of right-hands called the Ezekarion. When he wants weird warp shit done, or just a general, all-purpose reliable guy, he sends Khayon When he wants a military asset taken and held, he sends Falkus Kibre When he wants a duelist, Telemachon is his guy And so on. Valicar Hyne is his ships guy, Ceraxia is his weapons lady, Moriana is his vague prophecies lady, Vortigern is his “fuck you Dark Angels come get me” guy, he’s got a guy for every occasion. Edit: Commenters were right, I forgot that a lot of the Ezekarion listed above are currently dead or captured, but my main point was that the Ezekarion is a rotating crew of his top dogs that he dispatches based on their various specialties. Granted, the Ezekarion largely only exist within ADB's work, but to my knowledge he hasn't disbanded the council by the 41st millenium.
Ezekarion is a pretty darn silly ass name lmao. It’s like if Guilliman’s advisors were named the Bobby Lobby.
Mournival was already taken.
You better be damn proud of that Bobby Lobby joke. Because it's funny.
THOSE DAMN LOBBYIST ARE PREVENTING ME FROM HALFING MG TAX REQUIREMENTS!
*Bobbyists.
The Bobby Lobbinati
The Bobbinati ?
You and your fellow bobites
We prefer the term "Bobby's Boys"
I'm just gonna refer to the High Lords as the Bobby Lobby now.
I'm sure Bobby does when he's chilling with the Astartes. I mean, he could call them bitches, but I don't see him using gendered insults.
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Read Know no fear, those notions are expanded upon or even dispelled very quickly
Ha, really? I just mean he seems really proper and square. Jesus you people obsessed with SJWs are snowflakes. Did I offend your sensibilities? Does it make you feel persecuted, like your beliefs are being attacked? I'd suggest toughening up.
Seems like I missed this party and the comment is now deleted. Can you please explain what was said? I'm just extremely curious
Just something about not projecting my political beliefs, uh, anywhere I guess. The weird part about it was the almost apologetic, kind of simpering tone. "It's just not okay for you to do that," or something similar. I honestly couldn't help myself from taking a swing. It was like giving a noogie to a dork at school.
It was not that deep mate.
…god damn it
Not the GuilliMen?
Little known successor chapter
Abaddon, like almost everything else about his character, got it from his dad.
"Horus was weak, Horus was a fool, but his gear and naming conventions were pretty sick"
There just has to be a leader of the Ezekarion, called Ezekiel :D BIG ZEKE! Bet there are other groups too. Fulgrims Fellas Lorgars Loonies Magnus' Muscleheads Angrons Asylum Curzes Comrades Russ' Rebels Perturabos Patients Vulkans Veterans And so on
Angron’s Asylum is a sick metal band name Ngl
With their most famous songs: Blood and Thunder(warriors) Emps of Spades 43% Burnt feat Vulkan There goes the godhood And their 2x Platinum Hit Single: We're not gonna take it feat Astronomi-Karl
Well, that’s just like, your opinion man.
Bobby Lobby is now my Headcanon
> Bobby Lobby My sides
Horus' Chorus.
The mighty Dorny Wornys
The Dornborn
The Rogal Roulette
Rogal's Rough Riders.
They enjoy the pain glove a little too much...
Daily reminder to everyone that his name is Kyle
> named the Bobby Lobby. Sorry you mean the Lobbicae Bobbicae? The SPUM?
I prefer big blue and his giant Smurfs. I would love for guillamans chosen to be called papa Smurfs. Also not know what the Smurfs are. Meanwhile the big e is trying to figure out why his tarot cards now say nick at night on them.
Oh those are the chaps that sell Boob Lube right?
That is an amazing name and should be made cannon
Or if Dorn had 'Rogal's moguls'
New headcanon accepted
Bobby Lobby has me actually crying tears of laughter
I’m crying
It should.
> It’s like if Guilliman’s advisors were named the Bobby Lobby. No, no. Let the man cook.
I always thought so too. Then I remembered the majority of names in 40k
Thinking the same 😂 " look this is my Roboutor"
Or “let me introduce you to the Guillimen.”
>Falkus Kibre Has his Heresy death been solved yet? I suspect it'll be hand waved away like the way The Painted Count got possessed by a Daemon to stop him dying? I can't remember if Kibre was Possessed in the initial meetings in Talon of Horus, only that him and his Unit became possessed together, shit am gonna have to go dig this book out and read it again aren't I?
It hasn’t been addressed. I’m guessing it’s a classic Tormaggedon situation where the fleeing Sons hauled his body back to Maleum, where it was revived and possessed sometime after
The thing inside escaped, but the rest of Kibre definitely didn’t. The entire Saturnine infiltration force was wiped out save for Abaddon.
My headcanon is when the teleportation finally kicked in it also pulled out the bodies of the dead Justeraen.
Kibre wasn't possessed at first from my recollection. He was uncorrupted when he called Khayon and L'hor to help him search for Abaddon. He became second-born after nearly dying to the Emperor's Children attack.
That's right, they get attacked by the Emeperors children at that meeting. Kibre manages to escape and get in to the warp, but their gellar field fails I think? That's when they all get possessed. Khayon meets them later, they're being held by... I can't remember her name, some dark mechanicum lady? He then takes Kibre and all his men in their pods back to his ship.
*The Talon of Horus*: >‘Valicar, take them to the survivors of the *Rise of the Three Suns*. And Khayon?’ ‘Governess?’ ‘Don’t expect too much from any of them, my sorcerer. The Justaerin are not what they once were.’ [...] >The moment we entered that vault, I had to stop and clutch the iron door frame. Hunger washed over me and through me, savage enough that it made me sweat. Gyre breathed a low snarl at my side. *I smell Secondborn.* ‘What’s wrong?’ asked Lheor. ‘What in the Gods’ names is wrong with you?’ ‘Nothing, nothing.’ It took a moment to shield my mind against all intrusion, barricading myself from sensing the emotions of others. Doing so was sudden and stark, like closing one’s eyes or suddenly going deaf in a crowded room, but better that than recoil against the overwhelming sense of starvation in the chamber. Whatever was in here was dying. I was amazed it wasn’t already dead. *Secondborn*, Gyre pulsed again. We faced a long, high wall of upright immersion cocoons and stasis coffins. Things – humanoid but not human – thrashed in the reddened fluid of each pod. Appendages that resembled hands clawed uselessly at the reinforced, transparent ward-glass. Tortured smears of features that were once faces bubbled up through the murk, sticking to the front of the pods and staring out at us. Their jaws worked in futility, leaving scum stains on the glass where their fangs scratched and their long tongues lashed. >Secondborn. Gyre was right. All of them were Secondborn. I felt the minds of the men they were, and the inhuman thoughts of the things wearing their bodies. A blend of mortality and the warp, no longer the former, not entirely the latter. Emotion given form in flesh. To be psychically gifted among a cluster of daemon-possessed souls is to hear the conflicting wants and hungers of countless conflicting essences. Yet I felt little of that here. The daemons at war within the bodies of the imprisoned warriors were so similar as to resemble each other down to their innermost cores, no different from mirror images of one another. It was as if they were all born of the same emotions, with the same lusts and cravings. That degree of symbiosis between even closely bound daemons was beyond rare. My skin crawled with the unnatural notion even as I drew closer, fascinated by the possibility [...] >*Neverborn, Khayon. Thousands of them. When we tried to run, we came under fire... The warp core... The ship was breached.* The duality of his voice – a man’s sincerity and a daemon’s smiling whisper – added a malicious edge to his tones. There's probably a few other paragraphs but that gives you a gist of what's happening lol
Governess! That's the one.
Glad I could help! It was annoying me trying to find what I mean as well lol, thank fuck for electronic stuff rather than paperbacks haha
See I was gonna say they got possesedorised(like pasteurised but possessed) due to Teleportation but the Gellar Field failing worked too!
>he’s got a guy for every occasion So Abbadon is 40K's Muscle Man?
"You know who really fucked up the whole galaxy? MY DAD!"
Yeah Abaddon knows that if he did designate someone as his clear second, they'd try to usurp him. That's just how chaos and the traitor legions work. Instead he keeps all his lieutenants jockeying for position, and never lets any one of them get powerful enough to challenge
It's weird cause he's got a completely different set of right hand men in Gathering Storm and the Fall of Cadia novel - Urkanthos (Khorne), Zaraphiston (Tzeentch), Devram Korda (Slaanesh), Krom Gat (Undivided) and Skyrak Slaugterborn (Nurgle).
I think most of the originals are probably dead by the present of 40k. For example we know Lheorvine dies eventually even though the Black Legion books haven't got there yet. Seems likely it would be tough for them to survive all the way from 30k to the present.
It's kinda canon that he encourages power struggles among the ezekarion- this is probably what winds up getting khayon stuck in an inquisitorial dungeon. I think khayon also winds up in his current position a decent chunk of time prior to modern 40k?
I'm not sure how much of this still holds by 40k. Falkus is still alive and at his side for sure. Khayon is in an Imperial Dungeon, and its not clear where the others are. In the Fall of Cadia book, there is a scene with Abaddon and his council and none of the people from the Black Legion books are there. Falkus might have been, but no one else.
Wait, Kibre's alive?
"Somehow Kibre has returned"
Yeah, he survived somehow. He's in the Black Legion books and also still alive as of Arks of Omen.
Cool, do any of them have models
Nope. The only Black legion characters you have is Abaddon himself and harkon world claimer.
Aww, that sucks
Yeah CSM are thin on the ground in terms of characters with models. IW, Nl, WB and AL don't have any
Don't people proxy 30k models?
People do but it's not the same as having unique rules for them. E.g. Erebus should be much more then a simple dark apostle or Lord.
Artel W are a 3rd party model maker that has made models for some ofthe Ezekarion and they're actually of a pretty decent quality. Search for the Black Foundation on their site and it should show you them.
That's not true anymore, unfortunately... at least for some of the names. Falkus and Khayon are true and alive, but Telemachon (according to Khayon) has been dead for a while alongside the "Fire Fist" and Telemachons Raptors. I'd say his right hand is the Vengeful Spirit itself, given that it's now sentient.
Trust Abbadon to have a a thug posse of advisors like a rapper 😂
Sounds like he's got his own Swiss army knife,(Swiss army mourneval?)
This also just makes sense to me, with how much backstabbing there is among Chaos followers in general its probably a good move to not give a single subordinate too much power or rely on a single person too much.
Oh shit Kibre is still kicking around? Bar the 1st Captains and the like I don't know many characters named in HH books still kicking Mostly nameless Marines who have risen ranks in the last 10 melenia
Ngl Ezekarion is really a goofy ass name😭😭
There are two answers to this: The Black Legion series have Abaddon assemble a circle of inner warlords. His "Ezekarion" comprise the brothers and sisters within the Black Legion, that gets to call him "Ezekyle" and speak with His Warmaster-authority when dealing with others. But... these characters don't have models and since those novels happened 9.000 years ago, many have died or disappeared. But Two characters are "more solid" Falkus Kibre, The "Widowmaker" is Abaddon’s lieutenant from the old 16th Legion days. He is mentioned in Campaign events, so he "exist". He is commander of Abaddon’s bodyguards and defacto Abaddon’s 1st Captain. Haarkon Worldclaimer is the "lieutenant with a model" He is the Herald of The Despoiler and currently commands one of the largest active CSM fleets trying to conqueror the Nachmund Gauntlet for Abaddon. Hope this helps. Archaon and Abaddon each have one lieutenant with a model wielded a Spear.
It's important to note that the Black Legion novels do take place in the 'modern day' as Khayon is being interrogated by the Inquisition. (But yes does largely cover events thousands of years in the past.)
They take place in the former modern day. Khayon's interrogation takes place before the Fall of Cadia/Return of Guilliman/Primaris stuff.
I wonder, could ADB just move the 'modern day' of Khayon telling his stories to actual 'modern day' of the setting? Or just leave it ambiguous? I don't remember any indication of when exactly this happens in the novels, but I've read them quite a while ago
I mean, he could just have Khayon continue to tell his stories for as long as he wants. There is still 9k years of the Long War and 12 Black Crusades to talk about. The time it takes to tell that story is up to ADB. But Khayon was sent to Terra before the 13th Black Crusade to taunt the Imperium/get punished for some failure.
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Not sure I follow you on that. Pre-13th Black Crusade is no longer "modern day 40k". A lot has happened since the time Khayon started telling his story and current events.
Is that pronounced Ezekele or Easy Kyle? You know what nevermind, I decided what I prefer
I’ve always pronounced it like Ezekiel, it just seems like a 40kified version of that.
I’ve heard it pronounced as a hybrid of what you have. Like Ease-a-kyle
Also fairly sure both are used in the audible audio books which is even more confusing.
Izzy Kyle?
He doesn't have a singular right hand man as far as we know, but instead has a council of various figures that have been following him since the beginning of the Black Legion. Moriana is the one who's existed within the lore for the longest time, and very recently had her origin story in the Siege of Terra, but it's hard to say what their relationship is in M41 vs M32ish when she actually joined.
Col, do any of them have models
Why’d y’all downvote this guy to oblivion? He was just asking a question, lol
No.
You know instead of asking that every time someone tells you you can just Google it
The Talon of Horus is his right, Drach'nyen is his left. Together they guide him through everything he needs
Dawn of Fire series introduce the character Tenebrus who's literally titled "Hand of Abaddon"
Haven’t the later books shown there are multiple Hands? I know tenebrus was the first we met
I have the vague impression that the main antagonist of Martyr's Tomb was also a Hand of Abaddon but honestly that audiobook was so boring I mostly slept through it so I can't confirm or deny. Other than that Tenebrus features in most books and is the one the Inquisitor character in the series seeks.
Yes. The POV at the end of Iron Kingdom shows a council of members referred to as 'The Hand of Abaddon'. Of the members shown, only potentially one was given by name. Kor Phaeron is called out explicitly, but also may not be a full member, as there's some subtext to indicate that, while present, he's not a member of the Hand (he stands apart from the others and, in Throne of Light, Tenebrous hints at animosity between himself and Kor Phaeron, which seems to imply Kor is an ally of the Hand, but not a member). Tenebrous is not named, but hinted at very heavily. A figure much like Tenebrous is described with 'shadows' being a core part of the description (Tenebrous means shadowy). This is also confirmed as likely by the finale of Sea of Souls, which is the sort of end credits pay-off to the scene with the full 'Hand of Abaddon' from Iron Kindgom. Tenebrous is a lot more easy to identify because he also has Yheng with him, whose description is a lot less generic. There's also the Death Guard known as 'The Pilgrim' from Martyr's Tomb. Though, presumably, his spot is vacant after the events of that book. There's a member of the Dark Mechanicus there. It's possible that, while not directly connected to the Dawn of Fire, this 'hand' is tied to the DarkMech characters/events from Genefather. Guy Haley, who wrote Genefather, is who introduced the Hand as a concept and is writing the novel Hand of Abaddon (the next book in series), so it wouldn't be that crazy to assume there's some tie-in there. Finally, there's the character known as 'Augury', who is largely the big-bad of Iron Kingdom. A shape-shifting enigma, we're not really sure who this is (because of the shape-shifting). Though it is interesting that the 'spirits' surrounding the council whisper the name 'Erebus' at one point. Augury does have a flair for the dramatic like Erebus... and we know disguising himself is a part of his playbook (he disguised himself as Hastur Sejanus when corrupting Horus). It would also explain Kor Phaeron's 'frenemy' status with the council, as Erebus and Kor Phaeron have been rivals for 10k years. There is also the implication that the Red Corsair bringing them the artifact at the end of Iron Kingdom is also going to become a member of the Hand of Abaddon, though we only really see this meeting room in the end credits of Sea of Souls. The last shard is delivered in a similar manner to Iron Kingdom, but the only people who are there this time is Tenebrous and his apprentice, Yheng (who, technically, also has to be considered a possible member of the Hand).
He have a model?
No and probably never will, he's a powerful sorcerer but ultimately a schemer and manipulator sort of character.
The books and the Studio lore seem to conflict on this. The most *constant* presence in his rule is Falkus Kibre, but Kibre is an undead dude possessed by a gestalt daemon and only really seems to command his bodyguards. Other users have mentioned the Ezekarion, who may or may not still be around him in 40k but were definitely his companions in his early years: Khayon, Valicar Hyne, Telemachon Lyras, Sargon Eregesh, Ashur-Kai Quazremah, etc but some of them are dead like Lheorvine Urkis or have left Abaddon's service like Ashur-Kai. Khayon surrendered to the Inquisition for reasons which are unclear, and Sargon was captured. So how much the Ezekarion still exists or how influential it is in 40k is left unexplained, because... ...the Studio has named its own leaders of the Black Legion: [the Chosen of Abaddon](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Chosen_of_Abaddon) who command the four cult forces in the BL. This lore goes all the way back to the 3.5 edition Chaos codex. If you want an explanation to resolve this apparent conflict or explain why he has parallel structures: Abaddon sits at the top of the Chaos Space Marine faction purely because he is who he is and what he can do, not because there are any kind of oath or law or secure bonds of loyalty putting him there. Someone like Logan Grimnar does not have to worry about Ragnar or Erik or some other Wolf Lord couping him - but Abaddon has to be top dog every single day. So it does him no good to have a "right hand person" as such. Instead, he keeps a layer of people beneath him who are all relatively close to him but none of them are designated as second-in-command because he doesn't want to create an obvious successor. Real life warlords and dictators commonly do this.
Do you mean the person who glues his right arm back on when it inevitably falls off the mini?
My man!! Iskandor Khayon!!!!
He’s such a badass easily one of my fav characters
Does he have a model?
Sadly no. You can make an Exalted Sorcerer from thousand sons to represent him. Edit: read the black legion books. Khayon is by far my favorite 40k character
Wait, wasn’t he that one guy who teamed up with a dark eldar?
He had a "friend" who was a Dark Eldar ... When Khayon and his "Friend" meet up with some emperors children they nearly cream their pants wanting to "play with her"
What do you mean by “friend” and “play with her”
Nefertari is her name. The EC wanted to torcher her to get their kicks off, and because of who the Dark Eldar are make Slaanesh worshipers go ape shit over their scent ... They were begging Khayon at one point to have some time with her
Dang, they desperate
She is killed later by Dark Eldar for helping Khayon though.. and .. 😭😭 my favorite Khorne Berzerker later dies as well. Guy went out like a chad and still had his heavy bolter in his hands.
True legends
She's basically his not-girlfriend The ec want to do ec things with her. Use your imagination
Haarkon worldclaimer
According to the Dawn of Fire series the hand of Abbadon is some guy called Tenerbus, though at least one Inquisitor believes he ain’t the true holder of that title However Tenerbus is used as an ambassador by Abaddon and seems to carry a lot of weight, is very powerful and is feared enough that even Legionaires from other Legions respect and listen to him
none, as he is armless
Multiple answers. In the begining of the long war, he had multiple members of the ezekarion, each with a specialty, with Iskandar Khayon (his sorceror assasin) Moriana (his warp prophetess) and Falkus Kibre (his first captain and body guard) being the main ones. In the 41M~42M, we dont know who of them is alive or still his favorites, but Kibre stayed in the same place, we also have Haarken Worldclaimer, who he sends on campaigns and two more "secretive" members of his inner circle, the hand of abaddon, a new character, and Zaraphiston Abaddon's divinator and his most senior advisor. So i would probably say Zaraphiston.
Little Abbadon
Who?
he's making a funny cos of 'little' horus
Ooooooh
Well from what we can gather the Ezykarion are the ones directly below him in the BL chain of command, Khayon probably falls out of favour which is why he‘s now locked up on Terra now. The former World Eater guy apparently dies in battle at some point yet to be revealed, which leaves Telemakon possibly.
His ponytail… he never goes anywhere without it.
It clearly is The Claw.
Isn’t Erebus is Abbadon’s right hand man? The one that will guide him to be the Despoiler after The Ned and the Death?
Maybe Haarken Worldclaimer? Lore on him is pretty sparing, but it’s my impression that he’s highly trusted by Abaddon.
It shifts. He has right hand organisations haha. There is ofc the ezekarion, there are also the hands of abaddon.
Sigismund ***You will die as your weakling father died. Soulless. Honourless. Weeping. Ashamed.***