Kabal of the Flayed Skull

From the highest and most savage of High Commorragh's spires, a needle of black adamant crowned with docks and grav-moorings beyond counting, the Kabal of the Flayed Skull rules the skies of the Dark City. This is the Poisoned Crown, and about its jagged summit hangs a perpetual, shifting haze of attack craft: Razorwing Jetfighters and Voidraven Bombers wheeling in their thousands, ready to fall upon realspace like a plague of steel. Reckoned the second most powerful war-kabal in all Commorragh, the Flayed Skull has raised the art of airborne murder to a pitch no rival can equal.

Its warriors are known at a glance by the stylised streaks of blood daubed across their snarling faces, a mirror of the flayed and screaming visage that serves as the kabal's sigil. They march to war beneath their archon, Vraesque Malidrach, the self-styled Murderprince of the Poisoned Crown, who clads himself in bone-white war-plate the better to display the gore of those he has slain. So complete is the kabal's mastery of the air that its histories boast of the conquest of Thrandium, a whole world enslaved without a single Kabalite Warrior ever setting boot upon its soil.

To sustain such campaigns the Flayed Skull draws mercenaries into its orbit as a flame draws moths. Flocks of winged Scourges, the fickle sky-killers of Commorragh, sell their loyalty and their firepower to Vraesque, while creeping bands of Mandrakes lend their shadow-craft to his raids. Those gladiators who fight their way free of the arenas and win an attack craft of their own gravitate eagerly to the kabal's banner, for beneath the Poisoned Crown there is always another sky to darken and another world to drown in fire.