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Jarkhyr was, at one point, a lowly criminal, who spent a long time running from the C’tan. The C’tan, of course, found him and he was brought to the bio-furncaces, where they prepared to make him warrior. Little know to the other C’tan, the Deciever had made a pact with him to make sure he held his power over the world, and it would give Jarkhyr the power he so craved. So, when he came out the other side, he was a mighty overlord. By the time the war in Heaven began, Jarkhyr was fighting fiercer than anyone else, along with his elite squad of lychguard whom he called ‘the angels of steel’. But, during the war, Jarkhyr saw how the Deciever was using him as a pawn, but remained by his master’s side, plotting, waiting.

When the Silent King called for the counter-attack, the Deciever called upon Jarkhyr for aid, and Jarkhyr came to his side. The Deciever nearly had him fooled into helping him, but Jarkhyr knew differanly. He killed the cryptek with the weapon designed to kill him, and picked it up. The Deciever asked for it and Jarkhyr turned... and unleashed it upon the C’tan. Surprised, the C’tan didn’t stand a chance. He was obliterated, thrown across time and space and the force was such that the staff snapped in two. Jarkhyr kept one end of it, but the other was hurled across reality... and inot the hands of the collector known as Trazyn the Infinite. Jarkhyr was dishonoured for killing the cryptek, and was cast out into the void on a slow moving ship. Jarkhyr knew all was not lost for his own Cryptek, gifted to him by the Deciever, returning him to his home planet, where he found it in stasis. He had been lost in the void for millions of years and a new, abundant life force lived on it- humanity, and even more importantly, the Fire Dragons space marines. Jarkhyr teleported down to find his home was in ruins, filled in by this primitive species. Jarkhyr found his way into the tomb through an entrance in the icy north of the planet known as Karis, and found the designated Overlord. His cryptek re-wired it so jarkhyr was in charge, and Jarkhyr put his plan into action. First, his elites woke, his 20 strong Lychguard now known as the Angels of Death , and Jarkhyr awoke his Deathmarks, tasking them with killing the Chapter Master of the Fire Dragons.

Little did he know the planet had been part of the Sautekh dynasty and it wasn’t long before Imotekh learnt of Jarkhyr’s little invasion, and soon the Stormlord launched his attack as Jarkhyr launched his. The Fire Dragons fought hard, but had to make a retreat after the Fight of The Endless Plains, in which Jarkhyr attacked them and then Imotekh sent in his flayed ones to mop up, before landing. The pair met shortly after.

Imotekh was unwilling to negotiate. He wanted full power, but would make Jarkhyr in charge of the planet, just he had to do whatever Imotekh said. But Trazyn, learning about Jarkhyr’s half of the weapon, dropped in at the last second, his coven of crypteks coming with him, and they blew apart Imotekh’s retinue, leaving Imotekh alive but damaged. As Imotekh’s body fixed itself the ground shook and out rise one of the necron’s most feared weapons adaptment- the Ultralith. A giant pyramid of solid black, armed with arrays of gauss cannons, assault gauss cannons, and particle whips, with Jarkhyr’s army inside. Trazyn asked for the other half of the weapon but Jarkhyr’s cryptek teleported them away into the megalith, and the army escaped the planet, leaving orbit, and head off.

Imotekh and Trazyn both swore revenge, but Trazyn needed the staff intact, and thus didn’t join Imotekh in the attack on the ultralith. But then he arrived the ultralith was in pieces. Presuming Jarkhyr dead, he retreated to the tomb world and set it up as a fortress.

Jarkhyr’s fleet had narrowly escaped Imotekh’s wrath and they looked for a place to go. They set their eyes on a lush green planet known as Fengrat Prime, and as the ships descended the human colonists that had recently arrived were in disarray and were quickly rounded up, before being killed. Jarkhyr set up his base, and soon the necrons slumbering on the planet awoke, but Jarkhyr set them as the guard, taking little from the planet’s forces.
At this time, Imotekh was about to receive news of Jarkhyr’s survival. Imotekh set out a great distance to the planet, and when he arrived his troops landed in the jungles. After a failed attempt to assassinate Jarkhyr, Imotekh decided his revenge must be made an example, and his cryptek teleported him right in front of Jarkhyr’s forces. It was at this moment then Jarkhyr was the one to call a challenge of single combat- one that Imotekh would not win. But Jarkhyr showed mercy to the necron, who simply left, all ideas of revenge left from his mind in respect for the greatest fighter he had ever seen.

Jarkhyr, with this new planet under his will, gave the Sautekh dynasty’s warriors gold shoulder plates, to put them apart from Imotekh’s forces. Jarkhyr now set his eyes on the rest of the system, populating it and then setting up a coven of crypteks to design a new weapon for him- another ultralith, after the cryptek who originally designed it was killed in the explosion as he personally detonated the ultralith. He eventually reclaimed the system, restoring a dock full of a whole fleet ready to set off. Jarkhyr, from here on, began to form his dynasty, whom he labelled the Jarkhyrakt, after himself.

It wasn’t long before the Fire Dragons found their prey, and they descended on Jarkhyr’s crown world with fury, drop pods dropping down alone the crest of the mountains, space marine squads coming out and making a small fortress. Jarkhyr launched an assault but the combination of a highly defensible position and the steep mountain meant he could not advance. Soon thunderhawks swooped down and deployed dreadnoughts, and then a large ship descended. Jarkhyr sent Doom Scythes after it but after a fight with the Thunderhawks and Aerial defences jarkhyr had to pull out his Doom Scythes, leaving the heavily vehicles deployed.

Jarkhyr had set up his army at the bottom of the mountain, just behind the forests, with high walls and a solid pair of gates. Finally, Jarkhyr’s fleet arrived, just in time, before the Fire Dragons could call in orbital bombardment. Jarkhyr was pleased with this but it wasn’t long before squads of bikers and a formation of Predators made their way towards the gates. No sooner did Deathmarks emerge from the forest, ready the snipe the bikers. But several squads of scouts had infiltrated the forest, and fired at the Deathmarks. Soon they were locked in a sniper duel, but Jarkhyr had thought of this, and at that moment tomb blades swept in, gunning down one of the biker squads. But the returning fire wiped out the tomb blades. Jarkhyr then sent in his shock troops- 20 destroyers lead by a destroyer lord, into the bikers. The first salvo wiped them out but it was Predator’s turn to fire. It hit home, leaving the destroyers scattered. They had been obliterated, leaving no way to rebuild themselves, and then Jarkhyr unleashed his final stage of his counter- three Doomsday Arks. They fired their Doomsday cannons, taking out the three Predators with ease, but then Jarkhyr saw something. A thunderhawk swept down, and the Doomsday Arks were on cooldown. A doom scythe swept in, opening fire, but the thunderhawk spun, looping up, round and opening fire. The thunderhawk flew through the smoke of the Doom Scythe and then it opened fire on the gates, blowing them open. Jarkhyr’s main army was behind it, and an Annihilation barge opened fire, destroying the thunderhawk.

Then the Fire Dragons descended. Jarkhyr loaded up his tachyon arrow and his Cryptek teleported them up behind the main Space Marine army, and fired an arrow straight though their ranks... and straight towards the Chapter master. One of his bodyguards threw himself in the way and the arrow went straight through him, killing the terminator in one shot. The Chapter Master turned and charged through the forest, his Terminators fighting with the Lychguard in close combat.

Jarkhyr ran straight into the Chapter master and they duelled, and were equally matched. But Jarkhyr made a mistake, and he felt a sword slide through his chest. Jarkhyr fell to the ground, on one knee, and then to the ground. The Chapter Master roared a victory call but then Jarkhyr re-animated, standing up as nano-scarabs re-knitted his body, and then Jarkhyr’s warscythe sliced through the space marine’s neck, decapitating him in one blow. The terminators were finished off by the Lychguard, and then Jarkhyr looked over the battlefield. The Fire Dragons were in full retreat, but Jarkhyr wasn’t going to let them escape. Thus, an array of Monoliths teleported in and immortals stepped out, opening fire on the fleeing space marines. Jarkhyr looked at his army. He had taken heavy losses, but he was alive. And soon he would be lord of this galaxy, and the Ultralith neared completion...