Plague Ravens

The Plague Ravens are a Raven Guard Successor chapter that was corrupted in its entirety by Nurgle. Though devoted to Nurgle they are part of Chaos Undivided to better spread there Grandfather's gift. Currently part of the armada lead by Akemos that is gathering to smash the backwater fortress world of Troii along with the Battleforged. There forces under Akemos number about 300 marines with a large amount of undead as well. They are not fond of Akemos at all and have a squad of Miasma Marines & Plague Furys, commanded by a Rot Warden, hidden on his ship in case of deceit from the follower of Nurgle's main rival Tzneetch.

History
They were created in the Cursed founding, a small Mechanicus faction wanted to see if they could create a chapter of Corax lineage that had a strong output of his unique ability to “shadow walk” in the form of the Corax Strand. If not for Nurgle's warp storm they would have been happy to know that they succeeded. For 500 years after there founding they fought small battles in isolated areas to test and oversee there progress away from prying eyes. Every 100 years on that day being a kind of holy day for the marines.

The Plague Storm On there homeworld during the 5th Founding day celebration the entirety of the chapter was gathered when a plague storm hit the system and for 100s of years it was buffeted by every kind of blessing from Nurgle that broke even the hardest marine to beg for cosmic help. By the time the storms were gone the planet and its inhabitants had permanently changed. Unknown to all but the senior leadership this was all done on purpose, the librarians having held the ritual in secret to bring the storms with the deaths of most the planets population as the sacrifice to Nurgle. Those that stayed loyal to the end were brought back as pestilent Helbrutes.

Though the Imperium knew of the planets location they could not intervene to save it, or purge it once there corruption was found out. Instead they found that Nurgle had gained the powerful stealth based chapter and they retained much of that capacity fighting the loyalists. There meager fleet was added to by the local PDF navy and all ships docked at the popular spaceport including being touched by Nurgles rot, eventually a large Imperial patrol sent to scout the system was also added to there plague fleet. With this navy they sent out covert raids to slowly spread plague behind the known battlefields of the galaxy.

Homeworld
There homeworld is a plague planet and pumps out untold horrors like vat-born abhumans and plague cultists as well as zombies and poxwalkers. It was formerly a populated hive world but by the time the plague storm abated there was only 10% of the original population alive though they were plague cultists who ran the vat facilities or the other support roles. The other 90% were zombies or poxwalkers, or were otherwise killed. Though there gene-seed is now corrupted they still seem to produce more marines, if this is from some kind of recruitment or from warpcraft is unknown.

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Notable Campaigns
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Chapter Appearance
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Notable Members
Chapter Master Malarum- Leader of the chapter since they were founded & was part of the group that willingly subjected the planet and there entire chapter to Nurgle. He thinks that he is Corax reborn and arms himself like him with dual plague claws and fast movement, for a plague marine, along with his Corax strand ability. His face has even mutated to include a bird like beak with a fanged human mouth inside of it. Uses terminator armor with motted raven wings he uses for flight, & a melta added to each palm to further augment his supernaturally sharp plague claws. He also has the same miasma ability as his miasma marines and includes a squad as part of his honor guard. In time he became a powerful Plague sorcerer around the time his wings formed. (To Be Added)

Combat Doctrine
They can fight with the same unrelenting advance known for plague marines though they are skilled in ambushes and stealth assault given there gene-seed. They prefer to fight with small unit tactics to keep the enemy in dissarray while there heavier weapons take out the priority targets. They also employ large hordes of zombies and poxwalkers via there Nekromancers. They favored tactic is stealth missions behind enemy lines to spread plagues far away from where there target is ready for it, then while the main force hits there objectives the units behind enemy lines do what they can to hamper any counterattacks or defense measures.

Chapter Organisation
They make extensive use of vatborn abhumans like ogryn and ratlings though mutated to suit there infectious needs. The ogryn are fanged and clawed monsters with an extra layer of unnatural muscle on there rotted frame for use as shock troops, while the ratlings are used as terror troops as they slip behind enemy lines and sow disease and fear with mutilated bodies and ritual sites. They also employ huge amounts of undead for use as fodder when they can. When founded they were geared to emulate the original legion but condensed, using many of the same type of elite units like the Deliverer terminator squads or the airborne Fury assault squads. Due to the Mechanicus messing with there gene-seed they have a large amount of stealth forces that have Corax's famous Shadow-Walk ability, called the Corax Strand by the chapter. All of those who inherit the ability are used for one of the elite units like the Plague Fury Squads or the warp based Miasma Marines when possible though many end up as part of the chapters veteran squads or as part of an elite Rot Warden squad.

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Chapter Relics
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Chapter Fleet
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Allies
Cabal of Destiny- As followers of Nurgles main rival they do not trust this secretive group of Sorcerers but are still allied with them for the time being for the 13th Black Crusade.

Enemies
Void Paladins- They hate the Paladins for holding onto there loyalty to the Emperor even with the Imperium hunting them. As such they are very excited to spread Nurgle's Rot amongst there ranks on the planet of Troii.

Notable Quotes
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