The Hamadrya seems to gift Huron with strange powers, slowing time, allowing him to see lies, and to know truths that no mortal should. Each time an attack is made with such a weapon, the target cannot have the Benefit of Cover against that attack. It is thought that Huron let some of the Imperial ships flee, holding fire when they broke from battle. The Jagged Oath, who eat the flesh of the dead after battle, and the Nine Eyes, a cabal of infamous sorcerers and deceivers, are just two of an ever-changing patchwork of corruption within Huron's followers.

Since Huron's fall to Chaos, his armour has changed due to long exposure to the Warp, as well as displaying the usual heretical Chaos iconography and fetishes.Multiple instances of the Benefit of Cover are not cumulative – a model cannot benefit from this rule more than once at any one time. M41 following the fall of Cadia to the Despoiler, the Maelstrom has become but a part of a far larger empyric anomaly that spans the Imperium from one side to the other.

Two insane and power-hungry enemies of the Imperium at different times – one and the same individual. Lufgt Huron, now known as Huron Blackheart or The Blood Reaver [3] [12], was the Chapter Master of the Astral Claws, a renegade Space Marine chapter which gained notoriety as the piratical Red Corsairs. The denizens of the Maelstrom named Huron the "Blackheart," and he wears that title like a crown still.M41, the Astral Claws' submission of required gene-seed tithes to the Magos Inviglia of the Adeptus Mechanicus became infrequent and incomplete. After his fall to Chaos, Huron armed himself with a Power Axe and the Tyrant's Claw, a monstrous bionic power fist with a built-in heavy flamer.