Akshub
Akshub was a Chaos Cultist from Davin and a member of the Serpent Lodge.[1]
As a child, Akshub was already a member of the Serpent Lodge and during the initial conquest of the world by the Word Bearers encountered Erebus. Erebus instinctively sensed power in the girl and told her that he would return to this world one day and to be ready for what the Chaos Gods had planned.[2]
By the time of the coming of the Luna Wolves upon Davin, Akshub was the lead priestess in the Serpent Lodge. Akshub proved instrumental in ushering in the Horus Heresy by leading the ritual that would see Horus corrupted following his injuries at the hand of the Anathame, slashing Erebus's throat to allow him to enter Horus's mind in the Immaterium. Erebus vowed to kill Akshub after the ritual for her insolence in his presence.[1]
Akshub met Erebus again much later on the no-evacuated Davin, when he sought her out to learn from her how to pierce reality with his athame to travel via the warp. Having received visions of her destiny from the gods, Akshub agreed, teaching him all he needed to know and not resisting when he ritually killed her and devoured her heart. By usage of his Omophagea, Erebus was surprised to learn that Akshub had been instructed by an enigmatic figure to wait on Davin to teach Erebus how to travel with the athame. To Erebus's frustration, the memory was too hazy to learn the identity of the figure.[3]
Sources
- 1: False Gods (Novel), Chapter 13
- 2: Child of Chaos (Short Story)
- 3: The Shards of Erebus (Short Story) — Mark of Calth (Anthology)
- 4: The Horus Heresy: Legions
