Kabal of the Obsidian Rose

Kabal of the Obsidian Rose
Lead Archon	Aestra Khromys
Kabal Specialties	Weapons testing, Long-range assault
Colours	Crimson and Blue, Armor is Black and Red.

The Obsidian Rose is a Kabal of the Dark Eldar, and one of the major ones vital to the Dark Eldar success. They are a bunch of perfectionist gun nuts obsessed with building the very best guns and the very sharpest knives, and as such have a stranglehold on the weapons manufacturing in the city of Commoragh.

Origins and Organization

The Kabal of the Obsidian Rose was previously a relatively uninteresting among Commoragh's gaggle of edgelord gangs, with your typical asshole Archon, by the name of Vhorlac, who happened to toss a certain Aestra Khromys into the weapon shops, hoping she'd just die from boredom doing menial labor for daring not to suck his dick or something. Because the Dark Eldar are sense-freak sweatgoblins, anyone stuck to this fate often go deliriously mad or their soul starves, but Khromys...Khromys had a plan. She became obsessed with weapons, how to make them better, fire harder and faster, make the swords and knives sharper, make the whips even more painful, and she set to work making weapons that were beyond compare, all to her insane exacting standards. It paid off; within a year she went from slave to artisan master gunsmith, with many Archons asking for her workshop's gear by name. Eventually, Vhorlac, who had long forgotten about her, purchased her workshop wholesale, and Khromys lavished him and his retinue with some of the very best and edgiest weapons she had ever made. On the day of the sale, she and the other smiths brought a bunch of well-made but seemingly useless trinkets as gifts to Vhorlac, but in fact were a bunch of concealed weapons that just so happened to disable the stuff Vhorlac and his men were wearing, and with that, Khromys slew them all to a man in an act of meticulous, perfectly executed treachery that is still talked about to this very day in Commoragh.

The Obsidian Rose since then has entrenched itself deep into the heart of the Commoragh arms business to the point that they're almost the only game in town, and they do it by instilling that same level of obsessive perfection into everything they do. Khromys got to where she micromanages literally everything out to the letter and by having only the very best quality weapons and armor, and she expects the exact same thing out of her gunsmiths and Kabalites, because anything less would tarnish their flawless reputation, and that shit cannot happen. Normally because she personally makes her way down to the workshop with her Pain Engine known only as "The Overseer" to go dole out some especially brutal punishment when they dare to be anything other than perfect. This extends even into their warfare, where they practice their roles in the coming battles to the point that the average warrior can do their part in the fight blindfolded, and those who get caught daring to allow blood to get on their weapons during raids will often get strung up with the slaves they capture, that's just how anal retentive they are when it comes to perfection.

Khromys these days spends most of her time raiding, specifically looking for Eldar slaves of any variety, as only they have the dexterity required to meet her insane standards, meaning she is probably on a lot of hitlists around craftworlds.

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