Checkout the origins and history of one of the baddest captains of the Horus Heresy, Jago Sevatarion first captain of the Night Lords legion.
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Jago Sevatarion, also known as Sevatar and the Prince of Crows, was Captain of the Atramentar (First Captainof the Night Lords Legion) during at least part of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. A Nostraman native and senior adviser to the Primarch Konrad Curze, Sevatar was regarded as one of the most dangerous Space Marines of his day, comparable in skill to First Captain Ezekyle Abaddon of the Sons of Horus, Lord CommanderEidolon of the Emperor’s Children, and Chapter Master Raldoron of the Blood Angels.
Biography
Jago Sevatarion was born in City’s Edge, Nostramo Quintus, more than a century before the Horus Heresy. As a child, he began displaying psychic powers. He was eventually taken into the Night Lords, showing himself to be a fast and deadly warrior. He eventually rose to the post of First Captain and officer of the Kyroptera (an inner circle of senior Captains). Sevatar suppressed his psychic powers, but Konrad Curze was aware of their existence.
Sevatar was present with Captain Malcharion for the gathering of Captains and Commanders from the Night Lords, Iron Warriors, Alpha Legion, and Word Bearers Legions in preparation for the Drop Site Massacre. He greeted Argel Tal, Chapter Master of the Gal Vorbak, and stood at his side for the meeting. After Lorgar Aurelian concluded a speech to the gathered Astartes, the Space Marine’s passions were fired up by Lorgar’s rhetoric, and Sevatar became the first to utter the phrase “Death to the False Emperor“, a rally cry which would be used by the forces of Chaos for millennia to come, and shook Tal’s hand in the manner of fellow warriors.Following the battle, where the Gal Vorbak had revealed that they were Daemonhosts, Sevatar’s attitude changed, and he became openly hostile to the Word Bearers.
Following the Drop Site Massacre, Sevatar joined his Primarch in the Thramas Crusade, battling theDark Angels. When Curze offered a parlay to Lion El’Jonson, the two brothers agreed to be accompanied by two of their Astartes. Sevatar was one of Curze’s bodyguards, along with Curze’s Huscarl Shang. The two Dark Angels were Master Alajos and Paladin Corswain of the Ninth Order. Sevatar had seriously wounded Alajos during the Thramas Crusade, and mockingly promised to use his head as a trophy. When Corswain told Sevatar and Shang that he knew their mothers had mated with pigs in Nostraman, the two Night Lords were greatly amused, and Sevatar noted that his Nostraman had a horrendous accent but was very accurate. By this point, Sevatar was also wearing sinner’s red gauntlets, a sign that he was condemned to death at Curze’s hands for crimes committed by “traitors and fools”. When Corswain asked which Sevatar was, he replied “both”. The parlay broke down when Jonson attacked Curze for slandering his loyalty, and Sevatar would ultimately kill Alajos in the subsequent fight.
During a later period of the ongoing Thramas Crusade, Curze was badly injured by Lion El’Jonson in a massive Dark Angels ambush at Sheol. Rather than flee with the rest of the Kyroptera, Sevatar ordered the Nightfall to remain and help the slower ships to evacuate. It subsequently fell to Sevatar to reform the VIII Legion survivors of the ambush. Creating a new Kyroptera (after killing two of the former members) Sevatar divided the Legion among himself and five of his brothers into six Great Companies that would be allowed to operate independently of Legion command.
In an attempt to awaken Curze, Sevatar used his long-suppressed psychic powers to enter Curze’s mind, but was thrown back by his Primarch. Returning to consciousness, Sevatar found the Dark Angels had discovered the Night Lords. Mustering the Night Lords fleet, Sevatar was in the midst of commanding it in powering through the Dark Angels battleline when Curze awoke and ordered his First Captain to instead bring the Atramentar with him in boarding the Invincible Reason, the Dark Angels flagship.
Complying with his Primarch’s order, Sevatar joined him in battle. However, his unlocking of his psychic powers shortly before the combat began to have adverse effects upon him; he lost consciousness during the battle as a result, being captured along with the Atramentar.
It was said that Sevatar was eventually killed during the Horus Heresy, and was succeeded as First Captain by Zso Sahaal, a Terran born marine. Following his death, the Atramentar largely dissolved. Some, like Apothecary Talos Valcoran, put this down to Sahaal not being a Nostraman, but according to the Atramentar asked by Mercutian, a member of First Claw, 10th Company, it was mostly because the Atramentar felt no one could live up to Sevatar’s reputation. During a moment with his Chosen, Curze demanded Sevatar come forward, only to be informed that Sevatar was long dead, a revelation which left the Night Haunter extremely agitated. Mercutian confided to Octavia, the Navigator of the Echo of Damnation, that he believed Sevatar was still alive, a prospect Talos dismissed.
Is Sevatar still alive? Only the Emperor knows for sure, and he’s not talking much these days.
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