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The Death Eaters are a semi-Codex compliant Space Marine Chapter of a unknown origin and founding whose gene-seed appears to be 'chimeric' - that is to say, it has somehow been altered or tampered with. Some reports have described the gene-seed by the Adeptus Mechanicus as being drawn from a prohibited source. This means that the gene-seed is made up of the genetic material of two different chapters, one or both of which are potentially from a traitor legion. Though any connection to other chapters remains a mystery, it is suggested by the brute strength, and physical need to shed blood and kill, that sends them into a berserk fury of unrestrained bloodthirsty psychosis.

Detractors point out that this indicates that perhaps, somehow, the forbidden gene-seed of the World Eaters Traitor Legion was somehow illicitly obtained and utilized to boost the bloodthirstiness of the Chapter. However, the Death Eaters also exhibit the signs of the genetic curse of the vampiric Red Thirst, thus suggesting their gene-seed stock is also descended from the Blood Angels (or one of their Successor Chapters) as well.

Chapter History
A majority of the Chapter’s historical records of it’s early conception have been scattered or destroyed, and what remains has been sealed by order of the Inquisition. From what the Librarians have managed to piece together, dating back to the chapters conception during the 8th founding in the M35, the Death Eaters were founded by the First Chapter Commander the Black Seraph Damodrios Sicallis. Sicallis was cloned in a secret lab on the planet Aggaros, the product of an illicit genetic experiment, conducted by the corrupted scientist Fabius Bile.

Bile engineered a gene-seed from both the Blood Angels and the traitor legion the World Eaters to create a vicious new line of Astartes, that would serve as mindless bloodthirsty thralls that would answer to Bile personally. It was Biles plan to engineer a new primarch, a false primarch from this gene-seed, to lead his new army. Through trial and error he managed to clone a being using spliced genetic material from both the deceased primarch Sanguinius and primarch Angron. The result was a child that Bile named Damodrios Sicallis. Sicallis bore features of his Primarch fathers, most noticeably Angron's physical characteristics, and like Sanguinius he developed wings. However, due to mutations during the cloning process instead of two wings, he had four, and the wings were raven black. At the time Bile was unaware of the mutations occurring within the Blood Angel gene-seed, but that would not matter as when Sicallis emerged from hibernation, he was plagued with visions of blood, visions of his gene-fathers and filled with a violent rage to kill. Feral and unhinged, he carved a bloody path through Biles guards, naked and unarmed attempting to escape his captor. Bile ordered his experiment be terminated and Sicallis was shot in the back while attempting to flee the lab. He awoke atop a bloody, rotting pile of Biles other failed experiments, his wound only being superficial.

Much of the false primarchs story has been lost to time after this point. It is suggested in further documents that were recorded, Sicallis left Aggaros to travel to Terra where he felt the psychic call of the emperor. However upon entering the Imperial Palace, he was arrested by the Adeptus Custodes and was spurned and labeled a heretic by many in the Imperium. He was imprisoned for a short time on Terra awaiting execution. However due to his genetic lineage and close resemblance to that of his gene-fathers he was released and handed over to the Inquisition. As they assessed him for corruption, the adeptus mechanicus and the inquisition determined that Sicallis’s visions of blood, and Angeron were not memories; like those of Sanguinius, but rather a psychic connection that allowed him to see through the veil of the warp into the realm of Khorne as he shared a psychic connection with his traitorous gene-father Angron. This connection worried the Inquisition, but however this ability proved useful as Sicallis was able to sense not only Angron’s movements and see where he would strike next, but also he could sense the movements of closeness of other forces of corruption and Chaos. This had the potential to give the Inquisition, and the Imperium an advantage in a number of various conflicts. They felt Sicallis to valuable a resource to be locked away, so they ordered his genetic material be sampled, screened, and processed into gene-seed to begin forming a Chapter that would serve the soul purpose of hunting the Heretic Angron and the World Eaters as well as combat the forces of Chaos from the realm of Khorne. They turned Sicallis into a living weapon through various augmentations and enhancements. Thus the false primarch was given an official military rank, and a cruiser "Reaper of Aggaros" he would go forth reborn that day as Damodrios Sicallis The Black Seraph Commander of the Death Eaters.

In Early M35 when a strange series of warp storms began to cause instability to the immaterium, Commander Sicallis and his Chapter began to patrol an area heavily affected by the shifting storms, sensing a chaotic presence growing closer and closer, they waited moving through the warp waiting. It was when Angron's ship the Conqueror, emerged from warp travel that Command Sicallis ordered his ship to immediately bombarded the battleship. Commander Sicallis felt as though fate was testing him. This opportunity was not going to slip through his fingers. He mobilized what are recognized as the predecessors of the modern Black Seraphims, to board and rip through their defenses before boarding with his veteran command squad. As the Space Marines of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th companies boarded the ship, Commander Sicallis made his way to the bridge to face his gene-father. It was here that with the aid of his elite soldiers and the aid of the Black Seraphi, Commander Sicallis would narrowly bring and end to Angron. Unfortunately Angron had two more warships emerge from the warp and open fired on the Death Eaters flagship. It was a trap! Commander Sicallis was forced to make a speedy retreat or risk the loss of his ship and a large portion of his Chapters assault force.

After proving their ability to track and intercept the forces of Khorne, the Death Eaters began to make their presence more known as they appeared out of nowhere, appearing in the midst of battles involving the forces of Chaos, and just like that disappearing at the conflicts conclusion much like those Space Marines of the mysterious Legion of the Damned, leaving many in the Imperium questioning their origin, and their intentions. They gained an unfavorable reputation amongst other legions as being known for their brutal, and unrelenting tactics, and savage bloodthirsty disposition. They are considered extreme, and excessively violent causing unnecessary damage and destruction. In numerous campaigns, they have leveled entire cities and fortresses, reducing them to dust in their pursuit of the heretics, especially those of the World Eaters, and traitorous Angron.

Their savage assaults and lack of retreat can be attributed to the use of cybernetic cortical implants known as butcher's nails, boosting the warrior's adrenaline, resulting in greater strength and aggression in battle. Many feared and revered the Black Seraph and the Death Eaters as some unholy entities of retribution sent to smite the enemies of the Imperium. It was during this time that Commander Sicallis established their Homeworld on Aggaros, the place of his conception and birth. And on the spot where the now abandoned laboratory sat, he leveled the structure and constructed a massive needle like tower known as the Death Spire and founded the Order of the Spire, the monastic order of Battle-Brothers; comprised of psychers, who serves as spiritual guides, and formidable psychic warriors.

Due to his gene-seed being diluted over the generations, around M37, the Death Eaters numbers were thinking and new recruits were being conscripted from various worlds, as it was longer viable to just search out and conscript psychers, the Death Priests of the Spire have had to develop a method to open initiates minds to the realm of Khorne and bind their senses to that of Chaos. These gene-sons; upon gaining the rank of initiate, before becoming a fully fledged Battle-Brother, are forced to perform a ritual known as the “Joining”. Initiates are given a chalice of blood belonging to a Daemon Prince from the Realm of Khorne, how the blood came into the Chapters possession is unknown, but it is an object of holy significance and is kept locked away only to be used for initiation rituals. Initiates are then taken to their quarters where they drink the blood.

As the initiates begin to suffer the effects of the exposure to the daemon blood, and the taint of Chaos a Death Priest, subjects the initiates mind to the warp through telepathic means. The Death Priests then begin the arduous and painful process of shielding the minds and spirits of all the initiates while simultaneously rendering intense psycho-indoctrination and conditioning. It is unknown how they perform the ritual, and where the shielding technique was learned, but it is known amongst all brothers of the Chapter that the shielding is not permanent and will wear off eventually. This gives new Death Eaters the unique ability found in their gene-father, to be able to sense Chaotic forces telepathically, and sense the taint of Chaos in others as well when in close proximity.

However unknown to the Death Priests at the time their shielding spell would not last. According to the records, on one such occasion, a large group of Battle-Brothers in early M39 turned traitor and amassed a force of five-hundred, and lead a siege on the Death Spire. With their connection to the realm of Chaos and the bloodshed so great, a warp tear formed in the catacombs deep beneath the Death Spire. From here various beasts and chaos marines breached the veil and began pouring into the Spire. Commander Sicallis, seeing the danger sealed himself and a group of his most elite warriors inside the catacombs of the honored dead, and began to fight their way to the tear. When the fighting stopped in the spire the remaining marines rushed to the gates of the catacombs to help their Commander. However they were too late. The Black Seraph was mortally wounded while sealing the tear and his elite vanguard slaughtered. Pulling his mangled body from the catacombs they purged the remaining chaos beasts and marines. The Lord Commander and gene-father of the Death Eaters made one final request to the High Schema, to take some of his flesh and eat it to preserve his memory, and it was with that the Black Seraph succumbed to his wounds and was laid to rest in the same chamber where he was born. The High Schema did as his Commander ordered, and was blessed with the vision of his Commanders last moments and his heroic effort to close the tear.

After the loss of their gene-father and their Commander, the High Schema passed an edict, stating when the shielding placed in the mind of all Brothers finally dissipates, they will experience an event known as “The Calling”, it is the psychic call of the Death Priests, an embedded telepathic message that will drive all Brothers to return to the Death Spire in their time, where they will take a Death Oath before the corruption and taint of Chaos can take hold. A Death Priest performs a final rights ritual and a blessing of the emperor before their Brother goes forth in exile to perish in battle and be cleansed in death. However not all Brothers agreed with this, and many attempted to desert in fear that the Death Priests had become power hungry. The Death Priests ordered a purge in mid M40, of all Brothers who did not comply with the edict, which lead to a full scale Chapter Civil-War that lasted only a short few months as eventually, as the Death Priests feared many Marines fell prey to the lure of Chao when the mind shielding faded. This group of renegade Marines began calling themselves the Bloodblessed and escaped into the Warp to join the forces of Chaos.

As time went on a new ritual began within the ranks of the Death Eaters. Once a Brother has perished in battle his body is collected and in an annual ritual known as the “The Black Feast”, the brothers of the Chapter come together at the Death Spire, and remove their armor, they are lead in a ritual by the Death Priests to drink and bathe in the blood of the now cleansed Brothers, and are given portions of the flesh of their fallen brothers to eat, and through their connection absorbs the memories of their brothers as a final act of remembrance. They are then led in a prayer of forgiveness, and ritualistic bloodletting. It is suggested that this ceremony helps to prevent the Red Thirst from taking hold and has been the Chapters way of honoring the loss of their Brothers, and as a show of remembrance of their Commanders last request to the High Schema as to not forget his sacrifice and the sacrifice they all must make some day for the good of the Imperium and the good of the Chapter.

Combat Doctrine
The Death Eaters are known for being the most brutal and direct of assault troops on the field. Their fearsome doctrine and methods are both inherited, and innate. Their reputation like that of their traitorous gene-brothers,they are brutal and savage, remorseless and unsubtle, the Chapter functions as a machine with but one purpose -- to kill.

Hand-to-hand combat is the Chapters preferred form of warfare, Their predilections for hand-to-hand bloodletting is a direct result of the genetic imprint left behind by Angron, as well as the Red Thirst of the sons of Sanguinius. The Chapter still utilizes the master-gladiators guides to warfare, as they teach their warriors how to use new weapons and new ways to kill. Following the doctrine of the cult of personal combat. The Chapter makes regular use of the Chainaxe, Chainsword, and various other bladed martial weapons.

Because the Chapters warriors enjoy being in the thick of battle, they proffered method of entering the battle field is that of the drop pod. The drop pod is considered the ultimate weapon of terror and surprise. When a Drop Pod lands directly in the midst of an enemy line or formation and its occupants disembark and start wreaking havoc, there is little escape for the foe. The Death Eaters use this to their advantage, as their companies disembark in massive waves, their terminator squads lay down suppressing fire with their assault cannons to begin clearing the drop site of any initial close range threat. The terminator squads are supported by both assault, and devastator marines. The last marines to emerge from the drop pods are the blood thirsty, enraged berserkers wielding their power swords, and chain weapons charge into the fray unleashing their fury on the enemy clearing a path for their heavy armored vehicles. The armored vehicles and artillery are escorted by gunships that fly low and provide fire support

Though the Chapters nominal numbers allow them to field full companies and squads, the Chapter has also adopted the doctrine of the Flesh Tearers where each of their four companies is organised to be fully and independently functional. The Death Eaters Battle-Brothers undergo constant cross-training so that they may effectively serve in any role as the tactical situation necessitates. The Chapter has a great deal of resources at it's disposal. And each company is capable of maintaining sufficient resources in its armoury to equip its members with the gear necessary to fulfill any of these roles effectively.

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