A Kabal is one of the great piratical power-blocs that dominate the dark city of Commorragh, the primary form of political and military organisation among the Drukhari. Each Kabal is a vast pyramid of intrigue and cruelty, ruled by an Archon whose authority rests upon fear, cunning, and the constant elimination of rivals who covet the throne.
The warriors of a Kabal specialise in the arts of ranged warfare and raiding, descending upon unsuspecting worlds in swift Raider and Ravager craft to harvest slaves and inflict exquisite suffering. Such captives are dragged back to Commorragh to feed the soul-thirst that afflicts all Drukhari, for without a steady diet of others' anguish, their kind wither into shadows of themselves.
Kabals scheme endlessly against one another, forming and betraying alliances with breathtaking treachery, yet they will unite for a great raid when the promise of pain and plunder is rich enough. Within the labyrinthine dark of Commorragh, a Kabal's power is measured in captured souls and the terror its name inspires.