Archived: Elijah Melekh

Elijah Melekh, also known as the Storm Lord, the Midnight Prince, and the Liberator, is the currently missing Primarch of the Stormseekers Legion of Space Marines and its Successor Chapters. Elijah presented a striking countenance, at least when he wished to be seen. He gained many scars from his troubled upbringing and he was possessed of short hair as black as midnight. Most remarkable and unsettling were his eyes, which were an unsettling dark blue. Lightning danced upon his dark blue armour, and upon his back was mounted a Jetpack. But most notably was his Scythe, Promise, taller than even himself and a symbol of fear.

Elijah was tortured all his life by terrible, dark visions of the future, and this generated a level of psychic anguish and despair that set him apart from most his fellow Primarchs, bar Cleophus who he found many commonalities with. His psyche damaged by the difficulties of his early life, Melekh never recovered his mental balance and constantly pushed himself and his Legion to the breaking point.

Though soft spoken, and a true believer in the mission of the Imperium, he was a brutal warrior who believed in the use of fear as the most potent weapon against one's foes, and he taught his Astartes to be as brutal and savage as necessary to put down the enemy. Elijah did not enjoy his role as an Imperial war leader but showed great affection for his sons, the Space Marines of the XVIIIth Legion that had been created from his genetic template.

Ultimately his friendship with Cleophus would place him against his brother Primarchs who had sided with Uriel, though he displayed an uncharacteristic hesitancy to commit during the Great Sundering. This would save him and his legion from the full devastation of the Battle of Valinkesh, in which the Archtraitor Molos decimated every loyalist legion. His legion would join Cleophus' Companions and Uriel's forces in relieving the Furies during the Siege of Terra. Afterwards Elijah and his Stormseekers would take a very active role in the Great Scouring, taking heavy losses as Elijah pushed them harder and harder, until they were withdrawn and censured by Cleophus for their recklessness.

The fragile Pact of Terra barely survived the end of the siege, despite Elijah's hopes that Uriel and Cleophus would reconcile. He would continue serving under Cleophus until the end of the 1st Great Reaving. His disgust at the state of the traitors, worsening relationship with Cleophus and mind at the breaking point led him to abandon everything, including his legion, and disappear, leaving behind only a letter of unknown contents to Cleophus.