Editing Nobledark Imperium Primarchs (section)

== Jaghatai Khan == 

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From an early age, it was clear to most people that Jaghatai “White Scar” Khan was going to grow up to be a troublemaker. Some might have doubted such a claim, but that doubt would have been put to rest by the time Jaghatai was ten; he was thrown from his vehicle during an accident while tending the flocks, giving him the scar that would later become his most identifying feature, only to dust himself off with little to no concern for the cut on his face. Unfortunately, “most people” did not happen to include the Despot of Ursh. For years, Jaghatai and his people had lived the way his people always had, raising flocks of livestock on the steppes as shepherds and drovers with the help of motorcycles and off-road vehicles. It was this skill with motor vehicles that had brought the people of the steppes to the Despot’s eye. He saw a greater use for their talents than simply herding livestock, and so he pressed the people of the steppes into service. The people of the steppes were turned into shock troopers — raiding enemy supply lines, tearing into retreating battalions, and burning down villages that refused to completely subjugate to the Despot — becoming yet another boogeyman for the Despot of Ursh to use to scare his enemies and subjects into submission.

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Jaghatai’s father was the nominal representative of the steppe peoples to the Despot of Ursh, and so was given the title of Khan; a once noble title that had come to mean nothing in the years since the people of the steppes were enslaved by Ursh. Jaghatai's father pleaded with the Despot to try and make the lives of his people better, but the Despot had a heart harder than adamantium and had no love for people whose loyalty was not absolute. And so it was that at the age of nineteen Jaghatai was awoken one night by emissaries from the Despot of Ursh, who dropped his father's head in a sack on his doorstep and gave Jaghatai the same ultimatum the Despot had given his father: "Serve me absolutely, or die".

Faced with not only the threat of his own demise but the demise of his people, Jaghatai swore loyalty at the point of a sword. But privately, the new Khan swore another oath. He swore that if there was any justice in this world he would not rest until he had avenged his father and it was the Despot of Ursh who had his head put in a sack. And so it was that for several years Jaghatai served as the leader of the one of the most feared forces in the entire Urshii army. And he hated it. He hated seeing his people being turned into animals, being used as attack dogs to terrorize people whose only sin had been to ask the Despot of Ursh for a bit of mercy. He hated the pain and suffering he caused in every burned out husk of a settlement he left behind him. Even when his people were kept out of the fray of raiding and pillaging, his conscience still gnawed at him over the fact that it had been his support that had allowed the Urshii to win and allowed this to happen.

This went on for several years, until reports began to come in about a strange new power known as "the Imperium" led by a most peculiar Warlord, which was pushing against the Urshii from the west. Fortunately for Ursh, much of the south and west of the Urshii heartland was bordered by near-impenetrable mountain ranges, with only a few major passes between them. Khan and his people were dispatched as part of a force to guard one of these mountain passes from incursion, along with several thousand elite Urshii troopers. The Urshii soldiers had no love for the nomads, forcing them to set up camp far away from the rest of the army and foisted upon them most of the scouting and reconnaissance duties. It was because of this that the Khan and his forces were alone when they quite literally stumbled upon the expeditionary force of the Warlord one fateful day.

Coming around a corner in the bottom of a river valley, the Khan and his scouting forces quite unexpectedly came across some incredibly angry men holding some very imposing guns. After a few minutes of tense standoff, the leader of the opposing forces called a ceasefire to try and figure out why neither of the two sides had begun shooting at each other yet. It was at this point that the Khan first met the Warlord. The Khan realized that this was his opportunity to get revenge on the Despot of Ursh and avenge his father. He told the Warlord the truth, the real truth he had carried inside him since the day his father died. Although initially skeptical, the Warlord was impressed by the sincerity of the Khan's answer, enough so to believe the Khan's story.

The Warlord and the Khan thus began to conspire as to how to defeat the Urshii army at the pass. At first, the Warlord suggested to the Khan that he simply "forget" to show up to the battle, but the Khan vehemently disagreed. The Urshii had denigrated his people, the Khan said, and blood had to be repaid in blood. Therefore, a new plan was formulated, in which the Khan's forces would change sides once the Urshii and the Imperium became locked in combat. Rather than being flankers as intended, the Khan's troops would tear into the Urshii army from behind, forcing them to fight a two-fronted battle. The plan was a resounding success, and the battle ended in a complete rout of the forces of Ursh, allowing the Imperium to cross the mountain passes into the core Urshii territories. The former slaves of Ursh were skeptical to see the Khan's people as liberators, rather than devastators, and this bad blood would persist for years even after the fall of Ursh. Nevertheless, being involved as the front lines of a massive liberating army went a long way towards alleviating such concerns. When the Despot of Ursh was toppled and his abominable empire finally fell, the Khan finally felt that his father had been avenged.

The Warlord had earned the Khan’s gratitude and trust, but the Khan made sure to let the Warlord know that his people would never again be unthinking slaves.

''“You have helped me avenge my father and free my people, and for that you have my gratitude. But remember that gratitude makes my people and I your allies, not your slaves. For all that you have done, you have my trust. But if you abuse that trust, know that not even death will be fast enough to catch you before I do.”''<br>
 — Jaghatai Khan, reportedly said to the Warlord upon the final fall of Ursh

Fortunately, the Khan never had to put his newfound trust to the test. The years of the Great Crusade were probably some of the best of the Khan's life. His people were no longer slaves; in the place of chains and endless toil was a vast new galaxy that had just become open to them. He even fell in love, something he had been studiously avoiding under the reign of the Despot in order to avoid giving that monster something he could exploit him with. He caught the eye of a girl, a former Urshii woman who had worked in the fields as an agricultural serf. He showed her the ways of the steppes, and the two of them fell deeply in love. He was heartbroken when she died. She died at 110 — a ripe old age by the standards of those who lived before the Dark Age of Technology — from a disease that befell many who had worked in the fields of Ursh in the later years of their lives, which unfortunately no amount of juvenant drugs could fix. And yet the Khan had to go on, as the Imperium still had need of his services. It was this sense of duty that led Khan to become an Astartes. Khan spent most of the Crusade on planets that had problems with orks and occasionally Dark Eldar, beings that the Khan saw as truly reprehensible and therefore had no moral problems with hunting them down.

Late in life, the Khan began to feel his age seeping into his bones, and looked back at what he had accomplished during his life. He had avenged his father, freed his people, taken them to the stars, started a family, and helped build an empire. It was "more than any man could hope to accomplish in one lifetime", as the Khan said in his own words. But there was still one last thing Khan had to do. The old warrior planned to travel the galaxy one last time, to say goodbye to the friends he made before he passed away. However, the Khan never finished his trip. Although most of the people close to him did report seeing him shortly before his disappearance, the Khan never made it back to Earth to be buried in his homeland, like he wanted. Many of the White Scars say that like many of the other Primarchs, Khan did not truly die, and will return to lead them once more when times are dire. One can only hope.

Although the Khan got along well with many of the warrior Primarchs like Russ, perhaps his strangest relationship was his odd friendship with Magnus the Red. Part of the reason for this is that Khan actually knew Magnus (though not well) before either had become known as Primarchs, back when they had been bound under the Despot of Ursh. Khan knew firsthand that Magnus was a man, not a monster, and treated him as such. It was probably this friendship that lead to the Khan being so pro-psyker in life. Although he was not a psyker himself, he knew of the suffering psyker powers could bring to an individual, and so was a strong advocate for pro-psyker policies like the Schola that would help psykers control their gifts. He was also not averse to the use of psykers in combat, though like most he drew the line at warp sorcery.
Outside of the Steward and the Primarchs, the Khan often had trouble socializing with other people. Part of this was due to a lack of things he could talk about with other people, and part of this was that he never really got the hang of Gothic — always speaking it with a rather heavy accent, which he was embarrassed by. As a result, the Khan was often known for being taciturn at public appearances, and was well known for regarding actions higher than words.

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