Zakarah Sawul

Zakarah Sawul, known as the Golden Prince, and the Night Serpent, is the Primarch of the Viii Legiones Astartes The Night Serpents. Known for his inspiring and charismatic presence, largely inherited from the Terran legionnaires of the Viii. Choosing not to reform his legion into his own culture upon integration with them, as his brother Heizo would. Instead, ever the statesman, immersing himself in their culture and traditions, shrewdly studying its merits for integration into his new Legion.

Early life
Zakarah would land on the planet Katarah, a world with a deep divide between the rich, living in huge advanced ivory towers isolated from the lower cities, of a "modern" tech level. Forbidden from leaving the protection of the upper cities by his adopted noble family, he would escape the towers confinement as a teen during nights, and spend his life pre discovery as a vigilante, killing the violent criminals that plagued the lower cities and using them as an example to others, creating a legend of a "Night serpent" bringing a crude form of peace.

he advanced to rule Katarah, and it's small empire of planets surrounding it, working to remove division between the isolation of the upper spires, and the lower cities,before being found by the great crusade, upon which he pledged to the emperor almost immediately. For the simple reason of having near exhausted the ability of Katarah to expand or further advance, their current crude colonies being as far as the technology of the world could bring. Zakarah was simply bored of his nations stagnation, and upon unification with the emperor, strived to explore the newly available galaxy, and bring new worlds into the kataran interstellar rule he had created.

The Great Crusade
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