Editing Silver Spears (section)

==Homeland==
Cast to the Warp by the revenge of the Ruinous Powers, Kashaln crashed down upon the world of Divgharan during the festivities that marked the end of one of its long, dry summers. Divgharan was an arid, hilly planet with few exceptionally large bodies of water; human civilization clung to the edges of the great river valleys that cut across the planet's sweeping hills, mostly forming into disparate city-states with only a few sparse traces of cultural unity. His coming was heralded by what the primitive locals wrongly identified as a great, blue-feathered comet, thought to be a sign sent by the spirits of the closing season, and Kashaln's crash site was quickly discovered by a gaggle of horsemen under the command of a local warlord - a man named Aurangzeb. Considering the child to be a creature of the heavens, and therefore equipped with the righteous destiny to rule, Aurangzeb, fearing for his crown, had those who had discovered Kashaln killed, and took the boy in as his son, claiming that he had been born to one of his concubines on the hour of the comet, and would one day lead his armies across Divgharan.

As a Primarch, Kashaln quickly grew into a strong and swift young man, absorbing all that his 'father' taught him and soon surpassing any who might challenge him in the arts of war. By the age of ten, Kashaln was without equal in the court of Aurangzeb, and thirsted for leadership over the warlord's armies. Seeing his innate might, Aurangzeb allowed him to take to the fields of battle, and Kashaln spread his 'father's' domain to the edges of the known world, conquering and subjugating all that took up arms against him.

In the latter years of this great conquest, Aurangzeb had grown old and frail, retiring more often to his bedchambers, and soon it was upon him that he would surely die in the coming days. In his old age the warlord felt a pang of guilt for the way he had lied to his greatest servant, pangs that were enhanced by the question of what he would be afforded in the days of the afterlife, and as he felt the life slipping from him he called Kashaln to his chambers to reveal to the young man his true origins. He was shocked to find that Kashaln had known for some time - he had long ago guessed that he was not of Aurangzeb's flesh and blood, but he judged him a worthy lord to stand in service to. Moved by his son's incredible sense of duty and unerring instincts for right and wrong, Aurangzeb declared him a truer heir than any of his flesh and blood sons, and left his empire to him.

This decision was not without opposition, Aurangzeb's jealous wives making it known that Kashaln was no son of theirs, and the following years of Divgharan's story were remarkably bloody ones, an immense war of succession fought between Kashaln and the armies of Aurangzeb's true sons, who felt themselves cheated by this bastard star child.