Obax Zakayo
Obax Zakayo was a Chaos Space Marine of the Iron Warriors.
History
Originally a Lieutenant during the Horus Heresy[3], Zakayo mentioned once having fought at the side of Warsmiths Forrix and Berossus.[1a] By M41, Zakayo traveled in the entourage of Warsmith Honsou on Medrengard, having transferred his allegiance after Khalan-Ghol's previous castellan, Barban Falk, ascended to become a Daemon Prince.[1a] Honsou barely tolerated Zakayo's presence, feeling the same disdain for him as he did for most Heresy-era Marines, believing them too bound by the "older" strategies that had dominated the Legion since the Great Crusade.[1b] However, Zakayo was a natural genius with explosives and demolitions, and Honsou badly needed his expertise in the weeks following Honsou's return to Medrengard, when Khalan-Ghol was besieged by Warsmiths Toramino and Berossus.[1a][1b]
When the exiled Ultramarines Uriel Ventris and Pasanius Lysane infiltrated Khalan-Ghol, along with Colonel Mikail Leonid of the Imperial Guard, Ardaric Vaanes, and the Unfleshed, Zakayo was caught unawares and captured, and crippled by the Unfleshed. Such was his torment that he begged Ventris to kill him, in exchange for information on how to topple the fortress by releasing the Heart of Blood from its prison inside. Ventris agreed, but Leonid, who had watched the Iron Warriors overrun the Imperial citadel on Hydra Cordatus and had suffered horrific torments as their prisoner on Medrengard, refused to execute Zakayo, preferring to let him linger for a few more agonizing hours.[1x]
Zakayo was presumably killed in the collapse of Khalan-Ghol.
Several months later, during the Invasion of Ultramar, Honsou joined a small raiding party traveling through the caves of Calth, seeking the lost tomb of Ultramarines hero Remus Ventanus. Honsou remarked to Cadaras Grendel that Zakayo, if he were still alive, would say Honsou was being foolish by putting himself in danger on such an errand. Grendel rejoined that Zakayo would be right, and Honsou agreed with a laugh, saying that it still felt good.[2]
Sources
- 1: Dead Sky, Black Sun (Novel) — The Ultramarines Omnibus — by Graham McNeill:
- 2: The Chapter's Due (Novel) — Ultramarines: The Second Omnibus by Graham McNeill, Chapter Fifteen, pg. 705
- 3: Angel Exterminatus (Novel) by Graham McNeill, Dramatis Personae