It was only after the discovery that the Imperial Assassin had stolen several of the primarch's possessions, including the Corona Nox, the 'Crown of Night', a symbol of leadership for the Night Lords Legion, that the rest of the Legion eventually joined in the hunt.īut Talos had no care for the Night Lords' stolen relics, he only burned for vengeance for his gene-father's death. Though his fellow Legionaries tried to dissuade Talos from his chosen path, he remained committed to his revenge. Talos ignored his primarch's last orders to leave his Assassin be and began the relentless pursuit of M'Shen, whilst the rest of his fellow Night Lords wept for their gene-father, following his final orders and not pursuing his killer. You will hunt one shining soul while all others turn their backs on vengeance.' This is how he earned his sobriquet the 'Soul Hunter' as had been prophesied by his primarch before his death: Talos' meteoric rise within the ranks of the Legion eventually allowed him to claim a place within the Night Haunter's inner-circle.įollowing the murder of Konrad Curze at the hands of the female Callidus Assassin known as M'Shen after the death of Horus, Talos disobeyed his primarch's last order and was the first to hunt the Imperial Assassin in the name of righteous vengeance.

Talos served the Night Lords Legion as an Apothecary within the Night Lords' 10 th Company throughout the Great Crusade and during the dark days of the Horus Heresy, willingly following his gene-father into treason against the Emperor. Shortly after the Night Haunter had reunited with the Emperor of Mankind and departed his homeworld of Nostramo to take part in the Emperor's galaxy-wide Great Crusade, Talos Valcoran was recruited into the VIII th Legion from Nostramo along with his future squadmate Xarl. However, his gene-seed remained viable, and was used by the surviving Night Lords to eventually create a new prescient prophet to guide what remained of their fractured Legion. Talos met his end on Tsagualsa in the 41st Millennium just before the start of the 13th Black Crusade, slain in single combat with the Phoenix Lord Jain Zar and the Asuryani forces of Craftworld Ulthwé, who viewed Talos as a potential future threat to the survival of their people. Talos was subject to the manipulations of his immediate superior, as well as those of the powerful Abaddon, which placed him and his warriors in mortal danger time and again. His dark gift made him valuable to both the leader of his warband, who was known as The Exalted, and to the Warmaster of Chaos Abaddon, the leader of the fractious forces of the Chaos Space Marines within the Eye of Terror. These visions were debilitating and occurred randomly and without warning, but they were a great boon to his Night Lords warband and a sought-after commodity amongst those who seek power. The visions were supposedly more accurate than most, and independent of Warp activity, unlike most seers who had a difficult time interpreting prophetic visions clearly due to the unpredictability and often turbulent Immaterium.

Talos suffered from prophetic visions, much like his 'martyred' Primarch Konrad Curze. Talos Valcoran, called the Soul Hunter, was a former Apothecary who became the sergeant of the 1 st Claw (squad) of the 10 th Company of the Night Lords Traitor Legion. Talos Valcoran, the Soul Hunter, of the Night Lords Legion

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