Yafrir Valqash

Void Lord Yafrir Valqash is the current Chapter Master of the Void Ravens Space Marine Chapter.

Background
The current Void Lord of his Chapter, Yafrir Valqash has served the Imperium for more than 700 years. This grizzled veteran, whose face bears the scars of hundreds of campaigns and whose hair forms a dark mane around his grey skin, is renowned for his talents with the twin blades he has wielded for centuries, and an incredible cunning, matched only with his sadism. Valqash was born into an old spaceship, the Ghost of Moebius, which travels between several planets in the Gothic Sector. The Ghost was said to be cursed and for the Void Borns of other ships, their kin from this one was to be avoided at all costs. Those born there, they said, take pleasure in making others suffer.

Yafrir Valqash has proven time and again that they were right. While he can be almost charming at times, the way he deals with the enemies of the Imperium reveals the deep pleasure he takes in inflicting suffering and terror. In any other Chapter, such an individual would have been prevented from ever ascending to the rank of Chapter Master, but among the Void Ravens, Valqash has thrived. Among those Astartes, he learnt and then taught, how to seed terror in the hearts of traitors and heretics and how to make them suffer before killing them. And yet, Yafrir Valqash has displayed a strangely quiet and caring facet of himself when dealing with those who, trapped within enemy territories, still serve the Emperor with fervour. For them, and them alone, the Void Lord will take any risk, butcher any civilian and even bet his own life. And if in doing so, he can indulge his personal sadism, then it is all the better.