Excuse me. Mr. Saqqura? Are you aware of the mythical raven hat?
Saqqara leans back a little, folds his hands. Smiles demurely.
"Yes, the bird hat … it does indeed appear in several places in writings and accounts, and although some would like to see it as some kind of urban legend, it is almost certainly a true demon. Or even … well, not quite. Neverborn are usually known to be splinters of the ruinous powers - but the hat … well, he seems to be something else.
The earliest mentions are from before the rebellion and they survive in very fragmentary form. But there is a text by a Salamander that speaks of the Raven Guard having built a 'raven hat' to give to Corvus Corax."
Saqqara shrugs. "That alone, of course, can't be linked to anything. But then, shortly after the retreat from Terra to the Eye of Terror, the Primarch Lorgar added a drawing to one of his texts that makes no sense on its own - but it's clearly a raven hat of some kind. An avian creature that is still clearly a headdress, but already has shadow tentacles, as we know them from many Neverborn. And how Corvus Corax itself seems to have developed them later.
Some time later, one of my possessed brothers asked the Primarch for advice, as it seems that a hat-shaped bird demon was constantly lying in wait to attack him. There was no response from Lorgar himself, but apparently the hat changed its behaviour and continued to be cooperative.
Again later, there are eyewitnesses who claim to have seen the Hat, along with several other manifested Neverborn, attempting to open some sort of Nurgle-pleasing fast food restaurant."
The Diabolist smiles almost apologetically. "Yes, I know it all sounds very bizarre - but this is the Eye of Terror. There are planets of flesh, of crystal and beings of music. A Nurgle burger, on the other hand, turns out almost normal. Besides, this restaurant never really seems to have existed. There are only rumours.
And this is also where the trail of the demonic bird hat gets lost. Perhaps it has returned to its master? Since Corvus Corax now seems to be a creature of the warp as well, he may be the right company for the hat."
