Burias Drakshal

Burias Drakshal is a Word Bearers Dark Apostle of the Traitor Legion, associated in Legion tradition with the daemon world of Sicarus. As a Dark Apostle he belongs to the priesthood that leads the Word Bearers’ Hosts in the veneration of the Ruinous Powers, the rank through which the Legion’s doctrine is carried from its seat of authority to its scattered warbands.

Few dated deeds are attached to him, and accounts of his origin, his service before the Horus Heresy, and his personal following are sparse; this entry records only what is established and leaves the remainder open. His setting is Sicarus, a cathedral-world within the Eye of Terror where the Dark Council meets in the Basilica of the Word and where Kor Phaeron is held to have made his refuge after the Battle of Calth. No specific alliance, rivalry, or master–disciple bond is firmly established for him, and none is asserted here.

Drakshal’s significance lies chiefly in what he represents: the named Apostles who administer the Word Bearers’ faith during Lorgar’s long withdrawal. His most useful contemporaries on Orrery are Kor Phaeron and Erebus, together with the Dark Apostles Marduk, Paristur and Mothac, and his place on the map is Sicarus. His current status is not established, and any account of his fate should be treated as unconfirmed.