Lambach Kropor

Lambach Kropor
Title/Honours	Master of Undeath
Discovered (world)	Miletus
Discovered (period)	850.M30
Legion	Chosen of Hecate
Great Crusade Command	Primarch, 414th Expeditionary fleet
Unique Weapon	Venus Gospel
Distinguishing Traits	Confidant and Knowledgeable, Powerful psyker.
Flaws	Overconfidence
Brotherwar role	Traitor Nurgle
Fate	Daemon Prince of Nurgle

This page is part of the Warmasters Triumvirate, a fan re-working of the Warhammer 40,000 Universe. See the Warmasters Triumvirate page for more information on the Alternate Universe.

Lambach Kropor, Primarch of the VIII^th Legion, The Chosen of Hecate, was a calm and collected man. Possessing a fierce intellect and sharp wit. Raised on a peaceful planet Kropor, unlike many of his brothers had no desire to rule over the mortal populace and strongly believed that the future of the Human race was paved on the psychic path. A vision he was led to believe was shared by his Father, the Emperor of Mankind. This illusion would be shattered at the council of Nikea and ultimately lead Lambach to the embrace of Nurgle.

During the Great Crusade Lambach would often leave management of the 414th fleet to his First Captain and friend Radcliff Kaden in order to make visits to his brothers legions and help to install the Librarian program he, Emil and Pacha had set up throughout the Legions. While Kropor was generally well liked by most of his brothers for his amicable disposition there were those among the brotherhood who considered Lambach to be ill fit to lead a legion or indeed mankind at all, though in truth Lambach was more than competent he simply had no desire for such things in the long term.

Lambach had extremely close bonds with Linares of the Silver Blades, whom he began his time in the crusades fighting alongside. Raj Vokar of the Titan Marchers, the brother most in tune with Lambach's own character. Je'she of the Sentinels who Lambach respected more than any other for the Warmaster's skill in warfare and desire to make it obsolete. Pacha of the Golden Mountains as the two shared in humble beginnings and love for their people. Elsu of the Soaring Host who would greatly appreciate Lambach's acceptance of his mutations in an Imperium that saw him as an outcast and Gyhadred of the Dusk Phantoms who would share with Lambach his Legions dark secret and would gift Lambach with his favored weapon, the Venus Gospel.

Lambach's relationship with his brother Ashur of the Loxodontii was another story entirely. While on the surface the two brothers should seemingly have been the closest of friends both had such varying opinions of the use of Psykers within the Legions that a wedge was driven between them and open hostilities would often boil beneath the surface of any encounter the pair had.

Fate & Legacy

Lambach did not ascend to the rank of Daemon Prince until well after the siege of Terra. His resistance to his own fate was a massively contributing factor in his slow transformation. Though by MK41 there is little left of the man that Lambach once was. His physical body is now little more than a skeleton seemingly held together by warp magics. He sees with green wraith fire burning in the sockets where once his stone grey eyes would have been. The self assured smirk he was famous for now replaced by the rictus grin of a skull. Lank, ghostly white hair drapes his skeletal face, hanging to about shoulder length. An enormous crater, caused by the pistol of his Daemonic brother Deshain Kane, hollows out Lambach's chest allowing a view of his withered innards.

His once brightly polished battle plate now dulled with time, hangs loosely about his form. Cracked and cratered in countless places through decades of neglect. Lambach’s vibrant green, hooded cape, known during the Crusade as the Hide of the Nemean Lion is now little more than a long and tattered robe, filthy with grave moss and the dusts of time. The sickly green mist that permeates the corrupted version of Miletus follows in Lambach's wake whenever he decides to leave the world, wilting vegetation with its very presence. The lord of Undeath’s foot falls leaving ghostly, green, burning footprints with each stride.

Amazingly Venus Gospel, Lambach's polearm remains looking as if it were almost brand new, completely untouched by time or corruption. Though where once, when activated it shone with the bright golden light of Lambach's power now the same light is the pearlescent, dark green of warp lightning.

What appears to be a ghostly, agonized face floats around his head, while others hear nothing Lambach himself will constantly prattle to it and chide it for interrupting his speeches. None know the origin of this “ghost”, Lambach believes it to be the sentience of his brother Raj while most of his closest advisers are certain it is merely a creation of Lambach’s own psychic energy that in his madness he has created to keep himself company.

After Warmaster Marduk's defeat at the siege of Terra Lambach Kropor retreated much like the other Legions, into the Eye of Terror with his fleet as well as the corpse of Raj Vokar. The Master of Undeath retired to his own world in the eye and immediately set to turning it into a twisted version of his once beloved Miletus.

A sickly, green mist blankets the streets and grave moss and decay cling to what would once have been considered beautiful architecture. Lambach spends his time in the large temple he has had constructed. Dedicated to Hecate which Lambach now knows was just an ancient incarnation of Nurgle itself, misconstrued by time.

Forever seeking the answer to the question that plagues him still; How to resurrect his dead brother. The corpse of Raj is kept in an eternal ward of stasis conjured by Lambach’s sorcery in order to prevent its decay. Lambach has grown increasingly insane with the frustration of this endeavor and while his constant experiments may yield success on regular humans they seemingly have no effect on Raj himself.

The Primarch of the VIII^th Legion rarely leaves his work but when he does it is too chase some rumor or snifter of knowledge retaining to his impossible task that he feels he cannot trust his underlings with.

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