Kairn Golgarth
Kairn Golgarth was the Chaos Lord of the Voidrippers Warband, which worships the Chaos God Khorne.[1j]
History
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Like all of its founding members, Golgarth[1j] was originally a Space Marine of the Stormwatcher Chapter. However they embraced Heresy, by worshiping Khorne and then began converting or killing their Battle Brothers, who refused to do so as well. When they had finished hunting the loyalists down, the Heretic Stormwatchers became the Voidrippers and began Crusades within the Warp. The Warband was unaware, however, that a few survived loyalist Stormwatchers survived their purge and over the next millennia, they were able to rebuild the Chapter with the aid of the Inquisitors of the Caligari Conclave. The Stormwatchers and Conclave also worked together to keep the existence of the Chapter a secret and to hide the Voidrippers' connection to it[1e]. They also made the Gwaelod System forbidden to enter[1a], as it contained the Voidrippers' Blood Fort[1c]. However, the Conclave made the mistake of keeping all knowledge of the Stormwatchers and Voidrippers, available only to its high ranking members.[1e]
This proved disastrous in M42, when a low-ranking Caligari Conclave Inquisitor was sent to aid the invaded Starfort of the Navigator House Ranieli. It had been attacked by the Word Bearers Warband of the Sorcerer Lord Rutial Glinthar, who ransacked the Ranieli's stored knowledge of the Caligari Sector. His sought to find the hidden Gwaelod System in order to destroy[1a] the Voidrippers[1c], after they had insulted the Word Bearers and defied the will of Abaddon the Despoiler. The Inquisitor destroyed the Warband, however, and used the Warp Folio Glinthar had stolen to discover the Gwaelod System's location. Despite being warned against doing so by the head of his Conclave[1a], the Inquisitor entered the forbidden System and discovered a seemingly abandoned Stormwatcher Starfort[1b]. This was actually the Voidrippers' Blood Fort and the unknowing Inquisitor began activating it, alongside his Stormwatcher retinue member, Sergeant Caius Thorn. This awakened the Voidrippers slumbering there, who then warned their brethren in the Warp, before attacking the interlopers[1c]. The Inquisitor and Thorn were able to escape back to his ship, though, before they were killed. However the Voidrippers were now aware that the loyalist Stormwatchers still lived[1d] and this led the Warband to begin a Crusade to destroy the Chapter once and for all.[1e]
At that time, Golgarth commanded the Voidrippers[1i] and when the Warband discovered that Ascalon served as the Stormwatcher's Homeworld, the Chaos Lord ordered a full scale invasion[1e]. They began their attack, after opening a Warp Rift within one of Ascalon's forts and caught the Chapter by surprise[1i]. The Voidrippers were joined in the invasion by their servants the Goreforged Cult, which Golgarth ordered his Warband to use as fodder against the Stormwatchers[1g]. They were also joined by their allies, the Chaos Knight Abraxas[1h] and the Khorne Daemons of the Gore-Drenched One Herald[1i]. This large force allowed the Voidripppers to begin overwhelming the Stormwatchers, who were led by their Grand Master Godfrey Magnusson[1f]. However the tide finally turned against the Warband, when the contrite Inquisitor who had entered Fort Blood, and brought about the invasion, arrived with the Freeblade Ambrose Caradoc. Their strength[1h] allowed the Stormwatchers to attack the Voidrippers captured fort and they sought to close the Warp Rift. Doing so would stop the Voidrippers from receiving any further reinforcements, but Golgarth and the Gore-Drenched One stood watch over it.[1i]
Grand Master Magnusson knew the Chaos Lord would be there, though, and so ordered his Stormwatchers to purge other areas of the fort. This was to prevent Golgarth from being given the chance to reveal the Chapter's true history with theVoidrippers, to any Stormwatchers he encountered. Instead Magnusson was aided by the Inquisitor, who had entered the Blood Fort and as a result now knew of the connection between them. The two would then make for the Warp Rift, where they met Golgarth, the Herald and several other Voidrippers. In order to make it a fair fight, though, Golgarth killed the other members of his Warband, so that only he and the Gore-Drenched One faced them. Magnusson was surprised that the Chaos Lord showed something akin to honor, but Golgarth simply stated that the Stormwatchers never knew what it took to be real warriors. In the fierce battle that followed, however, it was the Imperials who were triumphant. After the Chaos Lord was slain and the Gore-Drenched One was banished to the Warp, the Grand Master and Inquisitor closed the Warp Rift. This was a hard blow to the Warband's invasion and they also suffered heavily losses in the attack on the fort. Despite this, though, the remnants of the Voidrippers invading forces continue to fight on Ascalon and now remain active in the Caligari Sector.[1i]
Sources
- 1: Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Prophecy
- 1a: Campaign Mission - The Consecrated Archives
- 1b: Campaign Mission - Fort Echoes
- 1c: Campaign Mission - Slumbering Horrors
- 1d: Campaign Mission - The Gaping Wound
- 1e: Campaign: Awakenings Investigation Completed
- 1f: Campaign Mission - Bastion of Heroes
- 1g: Campaign Mission - Capture the Ascalon Void Port
- 1h: Campaign Mission - Mayhem and Carnage
- 1i: Campaign Mission - Fort Blood
