Editing Zahariel (section)

==Backstory==
Before the [[Imperium]] turned up, as a child of about seven years old he and his cousin ''Nemiel'' joined the '''The Order''' ''(a [[Paladin|knightly]] order where [[Lion El'Jonson]] was grand master)'' after spending a night stood to attention without moving, outside of their fortress walls... without shoes or a coat... ON A [[Death World|DEATH WORLD]].

After a few years and a cliche training montage, he loses his mentor and hero to a [[Chaos Spawn|Beast of the Forest]], so naturally he goes on an EPIC QUEST FOR VENGEANCE!

On the road discovers [[Watchers in the Dark]] who of course tell him "BEWARE", "THE FORESTS ARE HAUNTED", "TURN BACK", "YOU HAVE A SECRET HIDDEN POWER" and all that cliched shit, he continues on his merry way and eventually slays the beast.

Oh... the beast happens to be a [[Chaos Spawn|Calibanite Lion]]; the biggest, nastiest [[Chaos Spawn|beast]] on the planet, and only the [[Lion El'Jonson|Lion]] has ever killed a Lion before. Zahariel could only accomplish this by using his [[psyker|INNER POWER]] where he managed to slow down time enough that he wouldn't get chomped to bits and was able to phase through the thing to hit its weak point for massive damage.

Suffice to say this makes him a bit special, so he returns home the cliche hero and gets a sword made out of one of the Lion's teeth, and the [[Lion El'Jonson|Lion]] makes a few pointed remarks about him being the only other one to have a ''lion sword'' just like it.

Then they do a bit more [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|war]] and eventually take over the planet [[Just as Planned]]. Also wiping out the conservative Knights of Lupus on the way, who wanted to keep the beasts around to keep their knightly way of life relevant (but apparently tried to work with [[Chaos]] after all).

Then the [[Emperor]] turns up, shit breaks loose and he becomes embroiled in a taliban plot to bomb the parade. Zahariel is innocent though and uncovers the plot before it happens, gaining himself a personal audience with the Emperor, which he subsequently forgets due to mind wipe bullshit.

Then he and his cousin get drafted into the [[Dark Angels]] of course, Zahariel being one of the very first new Calibanite space marines... perhaps the first actually guaranteed to be admitted entry due to his psychic powers.

Zahariel becomes a [[Librarian]] while Nemiel becomes a [[Chaplain]] and all was well.

... Then he got sent home with [[Luther]] and a bunch of [[Fallen Angels|other brothers]], becoming more important, eventually sort of becoming Luther's second in command, along with the Lord [[Cypher]] (which was originally a post within the Order).

Shortly afterwards however, Nemiel gets his head punched off by his Primarch for having a minor disagreement over whether the legion can use [[Librarian]]s or not (during a FUCKING DAEMON INVASION I MIGHT ADD). ''Not that it stopped Zahariel using his powers back home anyway.''

So then, after much social and warp upheaval back home, Zahariel meets the [[Watchers in the Dark]] again who tell him how fucked up Caliban went, since humans killed all the [[Chaos Spawn|beasts]] in the forest that were guarding (and soaking up the energies of) the [[Chaos|tainted]] locations cause the planet had been hiding a dark secret since the beginning of time apparently (it is really close to the Eye of Terror), and now that shit (the [[Ouroboros]]) was waking up.

Luther ''(who in the mean time had been reading books from the [[Chaos|Knights of Lupus]] with encouragement from the then-current Lord Cypher, believed to be one of the Knights of Lupus)'' discovers some Terrans doing a ritual apparently to summon a daemon. He and Zahariel go to break that shit up. [[derp|Zahariel dies]] trying to kill it but learns its [[Daemon#True Names|True Name]] in the process.

BUT Luther [[What|brings him back from the dead]] using [[Chaos|"Advanced Medicine"]] just to ask him the creature's name so he can control it himself, using what he learned from the books of the Knights of Lupus.

Zahariel had been recovering for several months ([[Chaos|eight]] months to be exact), and when he awoke from his post-death coma Luther revealed that he now knew the [[Horus Heresy]] was in full swing ''(the [[Knights-Errant]] must have come to Caliban at this time and let that knowledge out)'' and Luther's plan to free Caliban from the Imperium was about to be enacted. Therefore an uncertain Zahariel lies to Luther and says he doesn't know the creature's name after realising that the Terrans were, in fact, trying to [[Not as Planned|banish the creature instead of summon it.]]

Later, after following Cypher around for a bit to see where he's been sneaking off to, Zahariel realises that he didn't manage to kill the Ouroboros earlier, and it comes back with a bit of a vengeance. [[Cypher]] has a spastic attack and runs away.

'''''Angels of Caliban''''' follows immediately after this point, where Zahariel has been buried under a cave of rubble and is treated to visions from the Ouroboros and comes to the conclusion that the Ouroboros is in fact the soul of Caliban, and takes a level up in power as he starts drawing from it.

His typically idealistic position starts changing at this point, where his position within Luther's circle of trust becomes the member who wants to see Caliban restored to its "pure" state, opposed to '''Astelan''' who sees only the glory days of the "First Legion" ''(distinct from the "Dark Angels" who came later)'' and separate from Luther's design for a resurgent "Order" ''(also distinct from the Dark Angels or the "First")'' or the Lord Cypher who -along with the Watchers- only wants to keep a lid on the Ouroboros.

When a fleet of transports arrives to finally collect the exiled Calibanites, he becomes a key part of the plot to root out sympathisers within the newly arrived Dark Angels and mentally influence them whilst Luther gives a stirring oratory. However, when it looks like things are going ''too well'', Zahariel takes issue with the lack of [[Chaos|conflict]], believing it will cause a stagnation of Luther's plan. So Zahariel kills that Dark Angel's commander Belath ''(Astelan's nemesis)'' and the party devolves into bloodshed.

He then chases down the Lord Cypher, who took the ensuing carnaged caused by the fighting to level a few plasma shots at Zahariel. They have a stand off where the Watchers in the Dark protect Cypher from Z's attacks, but back off when they realise he is being fueled by the Ouroboros and threatens to let it loose from the cage. Without the protection of the Watchers, Zahariel then kills the Lord Cypher. ''(We don't see the death in gory details, only Cypher's fall and the body being hidden by the Librarians.)''

When no-one can find the body, Zahariel is then invested as the new Lord Cypher by Luther.

At some point later the [[Fallen Angels|Angels fall]] and Caliban explodes.