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==Shad'ck the Foe== 

Also known as the Cobra, or the Renegade Prince. He currently reigns as the Overlord of the Warp Riders and head of the Black Rider Renegade faction.

Once a promising young aspirant of the Astartes, he lost his way in a scouting mission against the forces of Chaos. An enthusiastic rider of the biker scout squad, he spent years trying to find his way back to his home world before falling in with a band of Astartes renegades.

Proving himself a worthy rider, and far from the ministrations of his chaplain, his faith began to erode under their tutelage. He was briefly returned to his old comrades, but when he got back it was too late. His faith was gone, and he chaffed under the authoritative strictness of the chapter. Before he could be taken back to his homeworld for indoctrination, Shad'ck gave up his position to the Black Rider Renegaes, who stormed the position and killed his brothers. Baptised by this treachery, he was inducted as a member of the Black Riders and introduced to the larger warband as a talented new recruit. He proved himself in the ship-circuit and on Dust Bowl as a rider on par with the best in the Warp Riders, and quickly rose up the ranks of his own faction, before taking command altogether after defeating his former mentor in a hammer armed mounted duel. He crushed the old man and keeps his skull as a fond trophy, one he is often caught conversing with in his more withdrawn moments.

The man is a one of shifting moods and interests. He never keeps his focus on anything for long before grasping a new obsession, and quickly grows bored with his victories. He is only truly loyal to two things, his bike and his hammer, and has earned a cut throat reputation as a result. Mostly content to sit around and enjoy himself in hedonistic revelry and games of oneupmanship, his rule of the Warp Riders is punctuated by his fleeting obsessions; when something strikes his fancy he'll lead his forces out to procure or destroy the target of his desires. His latest target was the first daughter of the El-Aim sector dynasty, kidnapping her in a raid that left half a hive in ruins, destroyed a spaceport, and crashed a space station into the planet's surface.