| rdfs:comment | - Jago Sevatarion is said to hold the dark honour of being the first Traitor to utter the words, "Death to the false Emperor," although in truth this was but one in a long line of crimes and blasphemies committed by the First Captain of the Night Lords over many years. The Night Lord known as Sevatar was born in City's Edge in Nostramo Quintus, the capital city of the sunless Hive World of Nostramo, a little more than a century before the end of the Horus Heresy. At an early age he displayed innate psychic abilities, though he attempted to suppress them for the remainder of his life. An arrogant individual, Sevatar sometimes had great difficulty understanding the point of view of his Terran Battle-Brothers or regular humans. Part of the problem was that he was so rarely wrong. It made it har
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| abstract | - Jago Sevatarion is said to hold the dark honour of being the first Traitor to utter the words, "Death to the false Emperor," although in truth this was but one in a long line of crimes and blasphemies committed by the First Captain of the Night Lords over many years. The Night Lord known as Sevatar was born in City's Edge in Nostramo Quintus, the capital city of the sunless Hive World of Nostramo, a little more than a century before the end of the Horus Heresy. At an early age he displayed innate psychic abilities, though he attempted to suppress them for the remainder of his life. An arrogant individual, Sevatar sometimes had great difficulty understanding the point of view of his Terran Battle-Brothers or regular humans. Part of the problem was that he was so rarely wrong. It made it hard to take other people's opinions and observations seriously. He had always been that way, even as a child. His mother had told him that he would grow out of it, that he would become better with people. Following his induction into the VIIIth Legion, though arrogant, he proved an extremely gifted and supremely ruthless, even dishonourable, combatant. His meteoric rise through the ranks of the Night Lords soon earned him a place at his Primarch's side as his First Captain and Equerry. This demeanour was carried through to his appearance, which was contrived to inspire fear in all who looked upon him. His midnight blue Power Armour was wreathed in flayed flesh and his helm was wrought in the form of a leering skull. Beneath that deathly visage lay not just the soul of a murderer, but one gifted with latent, if repressed psychic powers which, although unwelcome, served to increase Sevatar's already fearsome capabilities to preternatural levels. Sevatar long repressed these abilities, which were more often in use subconsciously rather than by direct will. His powers made him different as an Astartes as well, especially in battle. He did not quite understand how it was possible, but he was able to run faster, kill quicker and tired more slowly than his enemies. He had duelled Sigismund of the Imperial Fists once -- the only warrior ever to beat him to a deadlock in over a hundred standard years of warfare. The duel had lasted almost thirty long, long hours of sweat, swearing, and the crash-clash of iron against iron. Sevatar had cheated, in the end. He finished the duel, as hundreds of warriors from both Legions looked on, by headbutting the Templar and disqualifying himself. It broke the rules, as well as Sigismund's winning streak. True to his nature, Sigismund had done nothing but laugh. The proud stoicism the First Captain of the Imperial Fists was so famous for did not bleach all humanity from his humour. Sevatar had always envied him that, for he found it very difficult to laugh, to joke, to bond effortlessly with his brothers-in-arms.
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