"Faithful... enlightened... ambitious... bretheren. In but a single decade -a few mere swipes of the pendulum- we have gathered a sacrifice to Khorne that will be made legend. Though it was a simpler, weaker voice that illuminated me during my centuries upon the Judgement of Carrion...it was Khorne's messenger who showed me the true path of freedom from our pathetic corpse Emperor. And what is this path? This meaning, this purpose to which we gather the skulls of our foes? It is nothing. There is no meaning, no purpose. We murder. We kill. It is mindless savagery, this UNIVERSE is mindless. In mere hours, billions will die! Innocent! Guilty! Strong and weak! Honest and deceitful! ALL of them! They will scream, they will burn, and for no purpose but that mighty Khorne may revel in their bloodshed! And united in this void of purpose, fear, or duty... we shall at long last be free! Blood for the blood good! Skulls for the skull throne! Let the galaxy BURN!" - Azariah Kyras

“忠诚…启发…野心…兄弟。在短短十年内，仅仅几次钟摆的摆动，我们就为恐虐收集了一份将成为传奇的祭祀。尽管在腐尸审判号的几个世纪里，是一个更简单、更微弱的声音启明了我……是恐虐的信使向我展示了从我们可悲的尸皇那里获得自由的真正道路。这条路是什么？这意味着，我们收集敌人颅骨的目的是什么？没什么。没有意义，没有目的。我们谋杀。我们杀戮。这是无脑的残暴行为，这个宇宙是无意识的。仅仅几个小时，数十亿人就会死亡！无罪！有罪！强者和弱者！诚实和欺骗！他们所有人！他们会尖叫，他们会燃烧，除了强大的恐虐可能会陶醉于他们的流血之外，没有任何目的！在这种没有目的、恐惧或责任的情况下团结起来……我们最终将会自由！血祭血神！颅献颅座！让银河燃烧！” - 亚撒利雅·凯拉斯

Azariah Kyras was the leader — Chapter Master and Chief Librarian both – of the Blood Ravens.

亚撒利雅·凯拉斯是血鸦的领袖 — 战团长和首席智库。

Azariah Kyras 亚撒利雅·凯拉斯

Biography 传记

Relatively little is known of the leader of the Blood Ravens. What is known is that 1,000 years before the Black Legion's invasion of Subsector Aurelia, planet Aurelia disappeared during a Warp Storm after being pushed sufficiently out of orbit for the planet to be covered with glaciers and almost the whole population killed. Just before the planet was taken by the Warp, Epistolary Kyras managed to imprison a wounded Great Unclean One of Nurgle by the name of Ulkair, after his master Moriah was killed fighting it. Soon after, the Warp took the planet, and Azariah Kyras with it.

人们对血鸦的领袖知之甚少。众所周知的是，在黑色军团入侵奥瑞利亚分区的1000年前，奥瑞利亚行星在一次亚空间风暴中消失了，因为它被推离了轨道，被冰川覆盖，几乎全部人口死亡。就在这颗行星被亚空间夺取之前，星语官凯拉斯在他的导师摩利亚被杀后，设法监禁了一个名叫乌凯尔的受伤的纳垢大不净者。不久之后，亚空间夺取了这颗行星，亚撒利雅·凯拉斯也随之而去。

Assumed dead, Kyras was posthumously awarded honours for bravery. Kyras returned five centuries later, appearing inexplicably before the battered elements of the Blood Ravens 5th Company aboard a space hulk called the Judgment of Carrion. Kyras aided Apothecary Galan, the leader of the expedition, in fighting the daemons and Tyranids infesting the hulk. Though the Space Marines had found a lost Battle-Brother, they were still marooned, unable to escape. Their "exits sealed, and beacons failed," Galan and his Marines were given to despair. Galan was haunted by a daemonic presence, which was given name when Kyras regaled the other survivors with his tale of losses endured by their Chapter in imprisoning Ulkair. The daemon reached out from his imprisonment within the Warp-swallowed world of Aurelia, tormenting the Blood Ravens and hungering for their gene-seed. Kyras did nothing to hinder the defeatist mood, and spread the taint of Chaos into his brothers instead. Eventually Kyras made a pact with Ulkair for their release from the Judgment of Carrion, which required that Galan be possessed by a daemon of the Warp.

凯拉斯被假定死亡，并因勇气而被追授荣誉。五个世纪后，凯拉斯返回，在一艘名为腐尸审判号的太空废船上，莫名其妙地出现在血鸦第五连队的残破成员面前。凯拉斯协助探索队领袖药剂师加兰与侵扰废船的恶魔和泰伦作战。尽管星际战士已经找到了一个失踪的战斗兄弟，但他们仍然被困，无法逃脱。他们的“出口被封锁，信标失灵”，加兰和他的战士陷入绝望。被一个恶魔实体所困扰，当凯拉斯向其他幸存者讲述他们的战团在监禁乌凯尔时所遭受的损失时，这个实体就被命名了。恶魔从被囚禁在被亚空间吞噬的奥瑞利亚世界中伸出手来，折磨着血鸦，渴望得到他们的基因种子。凯拉斯没有采取任何行动来阻碍失败主义情绪，而是将混乱的污染传播给了他的兄弟们。最终，凯拉斯与乌凯尔达成了一项协议，将他们从腐尸身审判号中释放出来，该契约要求加兰被亚空间恶魔所占据。

Both Galan and Kyras escaped the Judgment of Carrion, and Kyras' return was hailed as a blessing by elements of the Blood Ravens, but not by the Captain of the 3rd Company, Gabriel Angelos who viewed the return of Kyras as an ill omen. Sometime thereafter, Kyras rose to the ranks of both Chief Librarian and Chapter Master. Galan was stationed as an Apothecary within the Honour Guard. Angelos subtly investigated Kyras' actions.

加兰和凯拉斯都逃脱了腐尸审判号，凯拉斯的回归被血鸦的成员誉为祝福，但第三连队连长加百列·安杰罗斯却认为凯拉斯的归来是凶兆。此后的某个时候，凯拉斯晋升为首席智库和战团长。加兰在荣誉卫队中担任药剂师。安杰罗斯巧妙地调查了凯拉斯的行动。

The Second Aurelian Crusade 第二次奥瑞利亚远征

The Black Legion's invasion into subsector Aurelia finally revealed Kyras' corruption. The Blood Ravens attached to the 4th Company boarded the Judgment of Carrion and discovered evidence left behind by Galan and Kyras, suggesting chaotic influence and revealing the pact with Ulkair.

黑色军团入侵奥瑞利亚分区最终揭露了凯拉斯的腐化。附属于第四连队的血鸦登上了腐尸审判号，发现了加兰和凯拉斯留下的证据，表明存在混沌的影响，并揭示了与乌凯尔的契约。

Kyras himself was not present in the subsector during the invasion, instead having sent Captain Apollo Diomedes of the Honour Guard to represent his authority and order a withdrawal from any contact with the Black Legion. However, according to Galan's confession as he lay mortally wounded by the Force Commander, Diomedes himself was not corrupted; only some of the men under his command had been tainted.

在入侵期间，凯拉斯本人没有在该分区在场，而是派荣誉卫队的阿波罗·狄俄墨得斯连长代表他的权力，命令他退出与黑色军团的任何接触。然而，根据加兰在被部队指挥官重伤时的供词，狄俄墨得斯本人并没有腐化；只有他手下的一些人受到了污染。

Gabriel Angelos and Aramus disobeyed the Chapter Master's order to withdraw and stayed to defeat the stirring Ulkair on Aurelia. The ending of the game states that the "renegade" Blood Ravens plan to depose Kyras, creating a prologue for a Chapter-wide civil war. Kyras declared Angelos and his follows traitors and ordered the Marines loyal to him to hunt them down.

加百列·安杰罗斯和阿拉穆斯不服从战团长的命令撤退，留下来击败奥瑞利亚上出现的乌凯尔。游戏的结局表明，“变节”血鸦计划推翻凯拉斯，为全战团内战拉开序幕。凯拉斯宣布安杰罗斯和他的追随者是叛徒，并命令忠于他的战士追捕他们。

Kyras the Ascended 升格者凯拉斯

Ten years after the Second Aurelian Crusade, the subsector remained in turmoil as remnants of the Black Legion, Orks and Tyranids continued to cause further chaos on the Imperial worlds. The civil war amongst the Chapter also continued, which combined with the chaos, forced the Inquisition to declare Exterminatus on the entire subsector. In order to prevent this, Captain Diomedes investigated the allegations made by Captain Angelos, resolved to either prove Kyras' corruption, or to redeem him.

第二次奥瑞利安远征十年后，该分区仍处于动荡之中，因为黑色军团、欧克和泰伦的残余继续在帝国世界造成进一步的混乱。战团之间的内战也在继续，再加上混沌，迫使审判庭宣布对整个分区进行灭绝令。为了防止这种情况，狄俄墨得斯连长调查了安杰罗斯连长的指控，决定要么证明凯拉斯的腐化，要么救赎他。

The resulting investigation proved that Kyras had fully committed himself to Chaos, orchestrating the events in Subsector Aurelia to force the Exterminatus. Diomedes confirmed that, while the whispers of the Great Unclean One Ulkair started Kyras on the path to Chaos, it was ultimately the daemon of Khorne released from the Maledictum by Gabriel Angelos on Tartarus that fully convinced Kyras to forsake the Emperor. Kyras eventually extended this offer to Diomedes, but was rejected.

由此产生的调查证明，凯拉斯完全致力于混沌，策划了奥瑞利亚分区的事件，以迫使灭绝令。狄俄墨得斯证实，虽然大不净者乌凯尔的低语让凯拉斯走上了混沌之路，但最终是加百列·安杰罗斯在塔尔塔罗斯从诅咒之石中释放的恐虐恶魔完全说服凯拉斯抛弃了帝皇。凯拉斯最终向狄俄墨得斯提出了这一提议，但遭到了拒绝。

With the Exterminatus under way, Kyras went to Cyrene, a former Blood Raven recruiting world that had been subject to Exterminatus years before. There Kyras' ascension to Daemon Prince was interrupted by Blood Ravens forces under Angelos and Diomedes arriving as reinforcements. Though Kyras severely wounded Angelos in the course of ensuing battle, he was ultimately defeated and slayed by Captain Diomedes himself.

随着灭绝令的进行，凯拉斯去了昔兰尼，一个多年前曾受灭绝令影响的前血鸦招募世界。在那里，凯拉斯升格恶魔王子的过程被安杰罗斯和狄俄墨得斯率领的血鸦部队作为增援部队打断。尽管凯拉斯在随后的战斗中重伤了安杰罗斯，但他最终还是被狄俄墨得斯连长本人击败并杀死。

Angelos succeeded Kyras as Chapter Master after a bloody purge of the tainted elements of the Chapter.

在对战团中的被污染成员进行血腥清洗后，安杰罗斯接替凯拉斯成为战团长。