Foetid Seraphim

"We sow the seeds for our grandfather and for it we have been rewarded! His gifts course through each and every one of us, our blood, our muscle, our lives belong to the great unclean one. We have taken this planet and will take many more, for we are strong and those who are sound of mind will have the common sense to join us in spreading his joyous creations!."

- Rotlord Morbus the Afflicted after conquering Moriens Prime during the Wars of Worth

The Foetid Seraphim is a Chaos Warband dedicated to the Chaos God Nurgle, originating from the Blood Angels. The Warband was originally the Loyalist Space Marine Chapter known as the Soaring Chalice before turning to Chaos during late M37. The Foetid Seraphim mainly utilise shock tactics in order to win battles, deploying their infamous Pox Bringers and Blight Butchers in order to break their enemies morale.

The Soaring Chalice
The Space Marine chapter known as the Soaring Chalice were a Blood Angels successor made during the 13th 'Dark Founding'. They mainly stayed within the Segmentum Pacificus, fighting Ork and Xenos threats. Due to this, they very rarely came across Chaotic forces, and if they did it would normally be small Chaos cults. This continued for a century. The Chapter had been particularly fond of attrition tactics, beating down their enemies without much complicated strategies required, because of this the chapter regularly utilised Death Companies and Astartes afflicted with the Black Rage.

On 617.M37 the entire chapter was mobilised to defend against a large Ork Waagh, lead by their current Chapter Master Israfel Lordin, however they would never be seen after this point and would be deemed destroyed. The Bell of Lost souls tolled 1000 times for each slain battle brother in the chapter, however a much worse fate instead awaited the brothers of the Soaring Chalice Chapter.

The Great Journey
After entering the warp, the ships carrying the brothers of the Soaring Chalice quickly got caught in warp turbulence and quickly became lost in the warp. After being lost in the warp for what appeared to be years, the Gellar fields on the ships began to shut down, allowing daemonic influence to seep through into the ships.

After the Gellar fields were disrupted, many diseases began to sweep through the ships, killing all non-Astartes on board. However, the Astartes tried to endure the pain while a voice in the back of their heads told them of a way out of the pain. However, the Astartes endured for an unknown amount of time, ranging from 10 to 1000 years in the warp. After the torture had killed all of the Scout Company and many more full Astartes, Chapter Master Israfel Lordin whispered one word to the voice asking him if he wanted a way out, 'Yes'.

After this, all of the Astartes left alive began mutating rapidly, with their flesh merging with their power armour and their bodies becoming bloated, yet the pain was over and after the years of torture from the pestilences they were subject to, many of the Astartes' minds were broken.

However, 100 years after the Chapter was considered destroyed, a new threat emerged from the warp within the Segmentum Obscurus. Ships covered in corrupted and rotting flesh, its metals rusted and decayed. The Astartes had been broken and their souls now belonged to Nurgle, the brothers that entered the warp over a century ago were no longer. All that remained were twisted mockeries of what they once were. The chapter of once proud angels were now bloated and diseased. The proud angel Israfel Lordin was no longer, instead, he took a new name, Morbus the Afflicted, Rotlord of the Foetid Seraphim and he wished to spread his grandfather's gift.

Organization
The organisation of the Foetid Seraphim is very simple and not particularly organized. All of the warbands forces are split into whatever speciality they are, for example, regular heretic Astartes are grouped together, the Pox Bringers are grouped together and so on. The Warband typically sees those with more mutations as superior, due to this most of the leaders of the Warband are the most tainted and twisted in the Warband.

Command Ranks

 * Rotlord
 * Blight Surgeon
 * Pestilent Champion
 * Decayed Butcher

Specialist Ranks

 * Pox Bringers
 * Blight Butchers
 * Bloodrot Terminators

Notable Members
Rotlord Morbus the Afflicted:

Pestilant Champion Norghul the Decayed:

Decayed Butcher Korvas the Bloated

Blight Surgeon Borghal the Noxious:

Warband Colour Scheme
The colour scheme of the Warband remains slightly similar to their pre-heresy colours, however, it is severely degraded due to their time in the warp. What was once a bright red is now a dark, damp scarlet, and now all you can see of their once bright burnished bronze is a thick layer of rust, the metal underneath impossible to see.

Warband Badge
The badge of the Foetid Seraphim is a twisted mockery of their Soaring Challice badge. It consists of a demonic stone goblet with rotting wings centred on a dark red field.

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