Variel Reeve

Variel Reeve was a Mortitat of the Night Lords Legion and a member of the now disbanded Kyroptera during the latter years of the Great Crusade. A warrior of ill repute among a Legion of murderers, Variel was inducted from the eternal night of Nostramo and escaped a life of petty murder to commit even more horrific acts to the galaxy itself.

Strangely, Variel was in fact possessed with latent psychic abilities, which he forcibly repressed for half his life. While not used at will, they did grant him limited precognition and increased physical regeneration. As a result, Variel has survived for far longer than a usual Space Marine through the many threats of the galaxy. Unfortunately these powers took a tole on his already weary mind, further unbalancing the Night Lord. Variel became and continues to be an ill omen to friend and foe alike.

History
Born to the darkest pits of the ancient Terran prisons, Variel enjoyed a status as one of the near mythological "night's children". Actively avoided by even the most callous killers, the powder skinned youth travelled silently through the hellish night-scape. Surviving with fear and superstition as his weapons, Variel carved out a life amongst the pain and suffering. At this early age his psychic talent first manifested, but was swiftly suppressed by the child, who knew it could lead to his death instinctively. However this constant weight of suppressing ones nature would eventually eat away at his mind and soul.

So it was the cold minded child was lifted from that pit, and moulded into one of the fearsome Adeptus Astartes. At this time the Great Crusade was well underway, with the Night Lords establishing themselves as a brotherhood of brutal killers. In fact, it was less then seven standard years before the Night Lords were united with their Primarch. In those intervening years Variel distinguished himself as a talented and cool headed marksman. Variel eventually ascended to a position as a Destroyer Sergeant, enjoying the irony of his own weapons slowly killing him. Oddly, this very duty and doom accelerated the subconscious use of his psychic abilities. As such, his cells repaired even as the constant radiological damage scarred his physique. Wether this was out of some desire for a quicker death or some strange masochism, Variel nevertheless continued in his role, launching his squad directly into the heart of an enemy again and again.