Archived: Cai Medraut

Cai Medraut is one of the Loyalists of the Knights Azure Traitor Legion, and one of the few members of the upper echelons to have remained loyal to the Imperium during the Great Sundering in the early 31st Millennium. Medraut is a being wrapped in shadow, an entity whose every move is cloaked in mystery. His motives and methods are themselves an enigma; to the Imperium at large, Medraut is either wholly unknown, or a being of shadowy rumour that seems to be somehow connected to or sought by the Knights Azure and their successor warbands. To the Vengeful, Medraut is a being of legend and untold speculation, known only as the mysterious master of their fleet. Medraut is the one whom the Commanders of the Knights Azure seek above all others, for he is their most hated foe.

During the Great Crusade he served as a Knight-Commander of the 4thCommandery, eventually becoming a member of the hallowed Knights Exemplar, Lotan's closest advisers. He refused to join any of the secret orders introduced by the First Captain, believing them to be contrary to the open brotherhood of the Astartes. As the Great Crusade neared its end he often found himself aligning wiith Emhreis against the other members of the Knights Exemplar, and during the Uhulis Campaign he aided Emhreis in combating Molos' dark ritual and in the process was unknowingly infused with part of Lotan's mind.

Guided by the echoes of his Primarch to seek out the truth, Medraut soon found that the Knights Azure had become a nest of serpents. Chaos had infiltrated the Legion through the First Captain and had thoroughly set root with near all the upper echelons being unknowingly damned. Though against it in principle, Medraut gathered in secret those he believed to be untouched and created his own secret order to combat the degradation of the Knights, though at the Battle of Valinkesh he would realise just how late his efforts were. Rallying his order, he provided those down on the surface and the rest of the fleet with the valuable information about the betrayal about to happen, before commandeering part of the Knights Azure's fleet.

Medraut and the loyalist forces of the Knights Azure were permitted to live, and to join the Pact of Terra. They took part in the Siege of Terra, and though offered a place in Cleophus' Imperium they refused. They reformed their devastated commanderies into five chapters with Medraut as their Knight Grand Cross, to embark upon a permanent crusade of vengeance against the Traitor Legions. Medraut has led this crusade for over ten millennia, never stopping nor tiring in his duty nor has he ever revealed his dark secret: that part of Lotan still guides him.