Within a few years of his Legion's reunification with their Primarch on Nostramo, Zharost was one of the few ill-favoured and withering remnants of Terran Astartes that still served in the VIII Legion. He was disgusted by those who had come after him, the Nostraman criminals who supplanted the original Terra-born Legionaries, and now made up the majority of the Night Lords. A few centuries earlier, he had been born in the prison sinks beneath Albia, which was the realm of the banished and the condemned. He was raised from this hell when the Great Crusade had already left the light of Sol, though only by a few standard decades. That made him old compared to most of the Legionaries of the VIII Legion, but young compared to some. Zharost understood, better than anyone, that his Legion had bec