| abstract | - Kor'sarro Khan is the White Scars Chapter's 51st Master of the Hunt -- an individual honorific since the days of the Chapter's Primarch Jaghatai Khan and a title that is unique to the White Scars Chapter. Above all other Astartes Chapters, it is the White Scars who choose to seek out the blood of an adversary who, through a quirk of fate or artifice, has faced them in battle and lived to tell the tale. The White Scars will not allow such enemies to revel in the small victory of their survival. Every 25 standard years, at the height of the Rites of Howling, the Master of the Hunt is despatched to seek out one such foe and bring their severed head back to the White Scars fortress-monastery on Chogoris as a trophy and proof of their deed. Kor'sarro can draw upon many resources as a Khan of the 3rd Brotherhood in pursuit of his prey, and often embarks upon a hunt with companions chosen from the Battle-Brothers under his command. These pursuits have been known to take months or sometimes years as the Master of the Hunt tracks his quarry from warzone to warzone and world to world across the width and breadth of the galaxy. Though at times the hunt may be postponed as wars and other more pressing duties for the Chapter interfere, it is never abandoned. Sooner or later, the quarry is tracked, cornered and beheaded. Kor'sarro Khan has brought nearly a score of hunts to a successful conclusion over his years as Master of the Hunt, beginning with his first such victory on the 3rd moon of the gas giant Mai IX. Some of the White Scars' greatest foes, such as the Daemon Prince Kernax Voldorius and the Eldar pirate lord Varaliel, had evaded previous Masters of the Hunt only to have their heads severed by Kor'sarro's blade. When Kor'sarro returns to Chogoris it is a great time of celebration and moonlit feasting, for it marks the passing of another hated nemesis of the Chapter. When the carousal is done, Kor'sarro surrenders his grisly trophy to the High Chaplain, who takes up a brand from the flames and burns the eyes from the dead skull. As the flesh burns and peels, the hymn of vengeance is sung, and the quarry's name is struck from the roster of the hunt. The head itself is masked in silver and set upon a lance, and set upon the highest walls of the White Scars' fortress, destined forever to star out with its hollow gaze over the approach to the fortress-monastery. The White Scars' citadel is high in the Khum Karta Mountains of Chogoris; the road is long, yet the silvered heads of the slain line every pace of its passage.
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