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| rdfs:comment | - Though he would become one of the most reviled of the Dark Mechanicum, Archmagos Draykavac was an all but unknown figure before the civil war wrought by the Warmaster Horus' betrayal of his father the Emperor sundered the Imperium. Such records as still exist agree that Yelav Draykavac was already Cyclothrathe's most proficient warlord at the time of the annexation of Arrian and the subsequent discovery of House Atrax around 3447.853.M30. However no information is available on the real age or former position of Draykavac before his rise within the command structure of Cyclothrathe's Taghmata. With customary brutality, Draykavac forced the then still-independent House Atrax into utter submission, installing himself as Sovereign-Prelate and devising means to ensure that none of the surviving
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| abstract | - Though he would become one of the most reviled of the Dark Mechanicum, Archmagos Draykavac was an all but unknown figure before the civil war wrought by the Warmaster Horus' betrayal of his father the Emperor sundered the Imperium. Such records as still exist agree that Yelav Draykavac was already Cyclothrathe's most proficient warlord at the time of the annexation of Arrian and the subsequent discovery of House Atrax around 3447.853.M30. However no information is available on the real age or former position of Draykavac before his rise within the command structure of Cyclothrathe's Taghmata. With customary brutality, Draykavac forced the then still-independent House Atrax into utter submission, installing himself as Sovereign-Prelate and devising means to ensure that none of the surviving Knights would ever pose a threat to his rule. While nominally House Atrax still had its own Seneschals and Masters, in reality the House was little more than a puppet of the utterly callous and inhuman Archmagos. Draykavac's appearance was designed to inspire fear in those that would oppose him: a tall yet brooding figure dressed in black robes whose face was obscured by an equine skull which he customarily wore in place of a face-mask. Within Cyclothrathe's Taghmata his power was absolute, and only the sombre masters of the Forge World's ruling synod could give him orders. Draykavac was notoriously harsh and unforgiving, even by the standards of the Adeptus Mechanicus. When on the Agri-world of Numinal civilian unrest and Loyalist-led guerillas threatened to slow down Servitor-conversion of the entire civilian population, Draykavac's first action upon setting foot on planet was to rip out his subordinate's organic cortex and submit her body to the Magos Mortifex for ulterior reconversion.
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