Kabal of the Unyielding Horror

''"Death solves all problems- No man, no  problem." - Anatoly Rybakov''

From the fringes of Commorragh's outer ports, a young, angry Kabal has taken shape from the slums, gutters and oubliettes of numerous minor gangs and nameless cults. Virighn Ceanech united many of the factions under his rule into the closest thing the Dark City has the sledge hammer. The Unyielding Horror are a long lasting, loose conglomeration of gangs and cults, though are an infant Kabal existing for less than a century. They are a testament to how far someone can get in Commorragh on little more than brute force.

History
Virighn Ceanech is one of innumerable half-born Drukhari incubated in honeycomb labs before being decanted and loosed into the ghettos of the outer ports. Like countless before him, he grew up fast and hard, learning how to kill to survive. Unlike most, he did not immediatly seek passage into the inner spires of the Dark City. While his brothers and sisters saught to draw the eyes of powerful wych cults and kabals to earn a place within them, he instead fell in with local arena rings, hellion gangs and reaver circuits. It was easy to subsist on slaves brought in from beyond the Dark  City, picking them from passing ships or charging what the major kabals considered a pittance and easier to pay than resist.

Over the years, Virighn's location never changed, though his ambition was much like the rest of his kin. Over time he began to amass influence among the outer ports by dominating their nameless arenas, reaver circuits and crushing rival hellion gangs. He spent centuries assimilating his rivals and amassing a horde of blood thirsty cut-throats, reavers and brigands.

Recently, Virighn's ambition took the gangs under his rule to new heights. While they had already gained slight attention due to their rule over a cluster of outer ports, they were never of much note to any but the smallest Kabals who based  their operations in those areas. Those Kabals were among their first victims, their slaves and factories seized by Virighn through overwhelming force. Raiders, splinter rifles, armors and armories were all appropiated for their use. After a brief period of upheaval within the horde, Virighn maintained his rule over his warband while proclaiming himself their archon. He began establishing weapon trade, narcotic rings and even forged a reaver circuit as something of a racketeering operation to facilitate a regular business for his new kabal, though a kabal only according to him.

Lesser Kabals engaged Virighn's kabal as soon as they began establishing themselves. A series of brutal skirmishes ran through the fringe ports, slave stealing and factory looting, plundering of sub-realms and raiding of oubliettes. Each victory added to the kabal's might and mass. While scourges and assassins were commonplace, Virighn's thuggish nature made bullying and bludgeoning his primary weapons against his rivals. Ultimately a Kabal of note, The Book of Sorrows, brought an end to the feuding by offering their patronage. Virighn was offered legions of slaves in exchange for mercenary work, using his subjects as the main muscle of a realspace raid. Upon return from striking an Imperial Hive World, Virighn had the wealth required to move into the inner ports of the Dark City and establish his faction within their own spire.

While finally involving himself in spire politics and nexus society, Virighn began to be known among the lesser spires and even among minor archons within the greater Kabals. Unfortunatly, he was more infamous due to his brutish rise to power and lack of grace. His peers recieved a clear display of his character when, at a social event on the nexus, Virighn was insulted in a catty manner by a courtier of the  Kabal of the Dark Mirror and  he decided to murder her in the middle of the event with her Incubi bodyguard. When the others recoiled in shock, he dared a one of them, he so-called 'allies' to do anything about it. He returned to his spire without consequence. When assassination attempts were made, he responded by storming the client's spire with his warriors to collect their skin. It wasn't until it came to the nexus spires themselves and the greater Kabals that Virighn found the patience to play the court game.

A brute like Virighn wasn't bound to make it very far, however his outsider methods made him quite interesting when the powers of the greater kabals took notice. At first, it would make sense for the Poisoned Tongue or the Black Heart to see him dead, though despite his appearance he has been careful to avoid battering any toes beloing to big names. Instead, many courtiers and aspirants within the greater kabals have found it appropiate to hire Virighn's kabal as a blunt object to quickly settle disputes outside of the nexus. Many haemonculi covens and wych cults have found use for them as a mercenary foce during realspace raids. As long as Virighn kept his racketeering operations outside of the nexus spires, the major kabals cared little for trade wars and territory disputes with other fledgling factions.

It wasn't until the flood  of daemons into Commorragh that Virighn's force became of major note to those in the nexus. While panic and havoc consumed  the spires, the horde of warriors in white and red worked to turn back the tide of beasts. Their combat prowess and overwhelming numbers let them save their territories while other kabals mustered  their forces. In the subsequent period of Vect's death and return, they restocked their dimished resources and slaves by plundering the rivals of Vect once their kabals were thrown into disarray. When the fires died and order was restored, Virighn swore loyalty to Vect like so many others, and was formally recognized as the Archon of the Kabal of the Unyielding Horror.