Finally things reached their breaking point and Corax's forces launched their attack, taking key positions.
Corax took full advantage of the environment the Kiavahrans had set up, doing a bang-up impression of Anonymous and staging strikes, sit-ins, and riots in strategic spots, knowing that the Kiavahrans would deal with them harshly and feed the flames. He began using the mines' fabrication tech to create weaponry, and then hid stockpiles of equipment in strategic positions throughout the mines. He began his task by quietly organizing the workers into fight teams, promoting the best, smartest, and strongest to squad leaders. Believing that Corax was their salvation from the Kiavahrans' tyranny, they began training him in the various skills he would need both as a leader and as a warrior: urban warfare, close combat, and demolitions work as well as political and philosophical training and analysis - ultimately Corax's abnormally-fast maturation (being a Primarch and all) comforted the slaves and united them in believing that Corax was the savior they had waited for.įinally the day came when Corax was old enough to assume leadership and fulfill his destiny. They named him Corax - "The Deliverer," in their language - and in spite of the risks and drain on resources, they took him in and kept him safe from their masters. When the people of Lycaeus found Corax as an infant, they were mystified - no one could identify where he had come from and yet all could tell there was something unearthly - and extremely important - about the child. The slaves of Lycaeus were mostly regular people - inhabitants of the moon, as well as criminals, political opponents of the wealthy aristocracy on Kiavahr, and Kiavahran workers who had done crimes such as failing to meet quotas or taking one too many bathroom breaks - in essence, Lycaeus was an unlimited source of free, exploitable manpower, which they kept in line with hired guns and openly executing anyone who tried to escape. At this time the planet was a technologically advanced Forge World, providing Kiavahr's gigantic manufactorums with minerals extracted from Lycaeus by slave labor.
Corax wound up on Lycaeus, a dry, dusty moon with no atmosphere, orbiting the planet Kiavahr. Like all the Primarchs, Corax was scattered by Chaos to prevent the Emprah from destroying their plans. Poor guy got fucked nearly as hard as the Lamenters. The Liberator File:Past-Corax-Primarchs-.jpegĬorax during his Marylin Manson phase. He shares his name with that of the Common Raven, also known as the Northern Raven, a large, all-black passerine bird noted for being among the most intelligent avians, if not the singularly most so. However, he hid this ability even from his own Legion, being quite aware about the Imperium's attitude towards psykers. So Corax himself is still fully visible in reality (explaining why machines can still see him), but he's manipulating other people's minds to erase his presence from their perception, in the same way how ECM is able to fool radars by masking a plane's radar signature. From how it sounds, it appears that Corax erased himself from people's minds. He was reportedly able to walk among people and pass completely unnoticed (maybe like Big E himself when doing his Odin thing?) It doesn't work on machines or any other kind of mechanical device, due it not being actual invisibility. He also had some kind of psychic-invisibility. He got a suit of power armour named after him, unlike others who could have. Whilst tg often jokes that he's emo, he's also a complete badass, like a lot of the Primarchs, and unlike this fucker actually got shit done. Corax was big on fast assaults (and screamo music it's a surprise his chapter motto isn't Brand New lyrics) and is notorious both for being the head of one of the hardest-hit legions during the Horus Heresy and for the steps Corax took to try to help the Imperium, as well as the self-imposed exile he put himself to in an attempt to atone for what he had caused. Not to be confused with the awesome Neo-Medieval Band of the same name.Ĭorvus Corax, aka The Deliverer, the Raven-Lord, Chooser of the Slain, the Liberator, the Lord of Shadows, Edgar Allen Primarch, Heavy Metal Anti-Social Sanguinius and Space Goth BraveStarr, is the Primarch of the Raven Guard. "How much more perfect a monster could I have been had the shadows loved me as much as they loved Corax!" – Konrad Curze on how Corax owned the night. "You cannot see the future with tears in your eyes." – Navajo Proverb You do things that make dirty look good." – The Punisher "When you're on your own, behind enemy lines, no artillery, no air strikes, no hope of an evac, you don't fight dirty. "Fuck you", said the Raven." – Neil Gaiman