Zurvan the Untethered

"You were born to meet me here, and here to die at my hand. Neither of us have the power to stop fate from tying the knot."

- Zurvan

The name Zurvan  is the only constant about the mysterious Chaos Sorcerer that stalks the infinite expanse of the Eye of Terror. His history varies per his incarnation, for he has died many times. The Warp will simply not allow Zurvan to die permanently, and like a shattered mirror, his essence is called from an alternate timestream. Serving his own inscrutable agenda, perhaps merely existing as Tzeentch's puppet, or perhaps something infinitely more grotesque, Zurvan is an engima, one that few who cross his path live to solve.

History (?)
"Time is a mirror, and I am but one jagged crack on its surface."

- Zurvan

Zurvan's history varies per his incarnation. In one reality, he is a proud member of the Prosperine Sorcerers. In another, he served the Word Bearers, or perhaps even a later chapter. Past, present and future collide around Zurvan, though there is but one constant fact in his infinite, fractured timestream. Zurvan had been navigating a vessel through the Warp, and was swallowed by Anthelion. As he and his crew were pulled into the Daemonic singularity, time slowing to a nightmarish crawl, Zurvan called out to the Ruinous Powers for his life.

Tzeentch was listening, and shattered Zurvan's temporal essence, transforming the Sorcerer into an aberrant, walking wound in spacetime. Contained within his power armor, Zurvan existed in all places and all times. He used this skill to navigate ships, escaping to the Eye of Terror with the unique ability to guide a ship temporally as well as spatially through the Warp. Put simply, what Zurvan offered was a limited form of time travel, technology undreamed of since the Dark Age of Technology. Any warlord or person of power can see the value of the Sorcerer, who seems to return after every death in a different incarnation. Whether each version is the same essence reborn in a new body or a totally different version of the same person drawn from an alternate timeline is unknown.

Zurvan has walked the Galaxy for millenia, appearing and vanishing from the Warp. His ability to perfectly control the temporal flows of the Warp carrying his vessel allows him to orchestrate plans spanning into eternity, simply appearing at key points to usher the timeline forward. Zurvan follows his own, unknown agenda, often allying himself to warbands out of convenience or in pursuit of some lore or artifact and vanishing soon after.

Wargear/Abilities
"You see in mere lines and curves. I see jagged edges, fractal clockwork, waiting to be hurled into Chaos."

- Zurvan


 * Chaos Infused Power-Armor - Zurvan's warplate shifts like a mirage, taking on different makes, models and colors. As well as being as strong as the armor of any Astartes, Zurvan's plate exists slightly out of sync with reality, making it hard to permanently damage.