Leviathans Eclipse

The Leviathans Eclipse are a Chaos Warband that was created from the corrupted Lord Executioner of the Novus Krakens Space Marine chapter named Androgous Mokurn. Since their formation at the start of The Fall of Mobidium, they had not been seen conducting war against the Imperium until their return in 999.M41 when the Cicatrix Maledictum ripped the galaxy asunder.

Whispers of the Promise
Beginning in early 837.M41, Androgous Mokurn had taken a warp-tainted force axe from the hive world Ildebad. This possessed axe immediately took advantage of a weakness that had been ever present in the Novus Krakens to cloud his mind. Where another astartes might have sealed or broken the weapon Mokurn took it to be his own, for he could feel psychic might tingle his fingertips. The Lord Executioner believed he could tame the weapon, but instead became tainted by promises of power and glorious combat all in service to the Emperor of Mankind. These promises of power became too much as his mind bent more and more to the will of the daemon in the axe, and while he could wield psychic might, control over his emotions waned.

Return of the Leviathans
Nearly a century and a half later, after the Leviathans Eclipse armed themselves for war, enslaved the weak that bent before them, festering their hatred, and honing their psychic might, the Cicatrix Maledictum broke the galaxy in two, and the Leviathans poured from The Maelstrom, their prison and source of strength for sixteen decades.

Notable Conflicts

 * The Fall of Mobidium [837.M41 -- 838.M41] - The year-long conflict where the Novus Krakens chapter was split into three separate factions of Space Marines. When the Lord Executioner Androgous Mokurn returned from The Purge of Ildebad, the chapter's psykwraiths (librarians) felt the eddies of the warp nip at the corrupted Kaptein. Chapter Master Kørær desired keeping this matter within the chapter, and was going to have the Lord Executioner confined within the Fortress Monastery when an inquisitor of the Ordo Hereticus arrived demanding the audience of Chapter Master Kørær and the suspected corrupted Lord Executioner. The corrupted Kaptein Mokurn, outraged with such an accusation, cut down the Inquisitor where he stood. Chapter Master Kørær immediately brought his thunder hammer to bear, but was interrupted by a well-placed punch by the former Lord Executioner, who hastily and violently escaped the Fortress Monastery. The 3rd, 6th, 8th, and 9th companies all betrayed the chapter, assisting in the escape of the vile Mokurn. Together, the traitors formed their own warband, proclaiming the fallen Lord Executioner Mokurn their Warmaster; and so the Leviathans Eclipse came to be. Roughly half of the chapter's fleet was stolen by their traitorous kin, which proved to make the skies over Mobidium as deadly as the war on the surface. Towards the end of the war, Chapter Master Kørær was slain by the traitor Mokurn, who had succeeded in breaking the defenses of the Fortress Monastery. Despite being the Regent, Kaptein Jorgun Kelios denied the position of Chapter Master, instead handing the title Herald av Krakonicus to Hargus Meltrak, who was the Kaptein of the 2nd Company at the time. Kaptein Kelios led what remained of the 1st Company and the chapter's Dreadnoughts to defend the retreat of the Chapter to the last Spaceport on the planet to retreat. Of the nearly 59 veterans and 4 dreadnoughts that were committed to the defense, only 4 veterans were recovered and the dreadnoughts had been destroyed. The fate of Kaptein Kelios was unknown, for the four had vowed themselves to eternal silence. The Novus Krakens fleet, after finishing their planet-wide orbital bombardment, chased the Leviathans Eclipse warband out of the sector, and into the Maelstrom. Knowing that they may all be susceptible to its influence, Chapter Master Meltrak gave up the chase. While monitoring the Maelstrom, the new Chapter Master began working to rebuild the chapter's losses. Ultimately the Chapter would move on from the Maelstrom, seeking to carve a new legacy to replace the one lost to treason. However, they would monitor reports from Imperial territory surrounding the great warp phenomenon extensively in anticipation of the return of the Leviathans.