Zhalk 'Zaharmee

Zhalk 'Zaharmee
"Make no mistake about Zhalk, because he won't let you make another. Underneath that venire of Sangheili he is no less than a machine."

- Major Jero 'Watinre

Personality
Zhalk was a cold, efficient, and remorseless individual to the extreme, but a hightly effective and logical commander who only took the most effective course to ensure victory. He rarely spoke and when he did it was only to convey the bare minimum amount of words for his soldiers to carry out his orders. He was shown to be an intense perfectionist and accomplished everything with the minimum amount of energy required with no wasted effort as he was known to have a strong distain for wasted energy.

He was a commander first before anything else and a master strategist. Nothing of his own personal traits bled through his intensely impassive air. He had neither pride nor ego, felt no anger, remorse, or any other kind of emotional baggage that might distract him. He was a commander and nothing else.

Motivational Analysis
Despite his near machine lack of emotions, a closer analysis of his actions would reveal clues to his byzantine motivations. After the Covenant fell he took his fleet and became a renegade faction on the world of Fell Judgement. It has always been a great mystery in the Sangheili armed forces as to why someone with no ego would take a world has his own fiefdom and then declare war. This behavior is highly irregular for someone like Zhalk who would not have any need of for an empire of his own. Logically he would have fallen in line. A clue is his refusal to drop his -ee suffix, signifying his service in the military. Perhaps with the Human-Covenant War over he believed that it was the end of the Sangheili people as he knew it? With an exceptional mind like his, Zhalk may have foreseen that with their loss of their faith and purpose as holy warriors that the nature of his people was going to irrevocably change, and so with it the need for soldiers like him, that the golden age of warriors is over.

So perhaps his drive all along was his simple love of being a commander and his will to die as he lived.

Traits
Zhalk was a massive example of the Sangheili standing at 8'6

Blade Style
Zhalk's fighting style is also just as efficient and relentless as he is. Every blade stroke is designed to kill as quickly and with as few unnecessary movements as possible but with his raw power coupled with calculated precision.