"Pain is power, and power is everything. We therefore seek every opportunity to inflict pain, and We do not allow limits to be imposed upon our imagination. The flesh, the mind, the soul -- all can be made to feel torments eternal. And when all three scream in agony within a single being, the path to immortality lies open before us. So it has been since the beginning, and so it will continue until we extinguish the stars and the galaxy lies dark and fallow."
- — Mantra of the Kabal of the Dying Sun
A Kabalite Warrior of the Kabal of the Dying Sun
The Kabal of the Dying Sun is one of the major Drukhari Kabals of the Dark City of Commorragh. Those who fight under the symbol of the Kabal of the Dying Sun belong to one of the oldest Kabals, renowned for their overweening pride and disdain for anything that has not endured for Terran millennia.
They prefer to raid at sunset, for their overlord, Archon Vorl-Xoelanth, is obsessed with the transition from light and hope to darkness and despair.
The Kabal's wild claims that they retain the ability to extinguish stars are infamous, though their rivals have never quite managed to explain the deterioration of the sun Echillos during the Aleuthan Persecution.
The truth is that the Kabal of the Dying Sun possess ancient fragments of forbidden arcana, heirlooms from the days of the Aeldari Empire of old. Their stronghold in Commorragh -- the "Pinnacle of Disdain" -- is an impenetrable mountain of elegant, buttressed armour and echoing chambers, within which the Kabal hide their darkest secrets.
These timeless artefacts, hidden away in shadowy vaults, possess the power to kill stars, suck the life force from worlds and exterminate whole species of sentient beings. However, they are ill-understood and, in many cases, charged with psychic potential.
Thus, they are as lethal to their Drukhari owners as they are to their victims, not least because it would attract the violent displeasure of the Dark City at large should their existence become known.
They are therefore used very sparingly, deployed by the Trueborn elite of the Kabal only as a last resort -- but knowledge of these trump cards' existence fills the Kabal's upper echelons with justified arrogance.
The arch-rival of the Kabal of the Dying Sun is the Kabal of the Falling Moon, with the lunar sect ruled by Vorl-Xoelanth's twin brother, Y'polleon, though both Kabals claim the same colours for their Kaballite Warriors.
Sources[]
- Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition), pg. 62
- Codex: Dark Eldar (7th Edition) (Digital Edition), "Kabals of Commorragh"
- Codex: Drukhari (8th Edition), pp. 22, 126
- Colours of the Kabals (Defunct Site)