Princes of Vanity

"'You can tell me how much I'm corrupted loyalist,it does not affect me because I know that my cause will help mankind more than your false Emperor' Vanitas before engaging in battle with one of the šar Bābili of the Lions of Babylon."

Origins
The Princes of Vanity descends from the Emperor's children traitor legion.They were created by Vanitas a member of Fulgrim's honor guard to try and recreate the glory of the legion and also try to reach the original goal of the legion make mankind perfect.

The Treachery
As the legion changed to become hedonistic barbarians,Vanitas had enough,he would not let his legion become monsters,Vanitas rally all the man he could to his cause, as for him serving Slaanesh was about working the finest of arts and being perfect to stop being associated with the new Emperor's children Vanitas and his other brothers fled with a ship of the legion to the world of Aphrodite to try and restore the name of the legion.

Aphrodite
When the newly formed warband arrived on Aphrodite they used their charisma to subjugate the planet and not spill blood,as they called the planet home they decided to rename themselves the Princes of Vanity.Also they did alter the art of the planet to become a sort of perfect fusion between Imperial art and Slaaneshi art.

Warband Organisation
Surprisingly the warband kept the original legion organisation with companies and rank.

Warband homeworld
Aphrodite is the warband homeworld,it is a lush paradise world who has been known for being a planet full of art,since the arrival of the warband not much as changed except that they twisted it to be a perfect unity between Imperial art and Slaaneshi art.

Organisation
The planet is organised in Imperial fashion and a surprising order is kept.Vanitas is the only ruler of this world and his warband are the military force.

Culture
The inhabitants of Aphrodite are taught to become artists from their youngest days hence why most of the populations used as artists for the warband.Most of these artists are female since the male population is used as recruits.

Wildlife
The world of Aphrodite is known for its avian species,the most notable of this species is the Palatine Phoenix named after the warband Primarch's Fulgrim title in his early days,this bird is known for having magnifiscent purple and gold feathers,it is mostly used by the warband as pets and by the artists as muses.

Warband Combat Doctrine
The warband kept most of their ways from before the heresy,they still have a great sense of honor.

Warband belief
The cult of beauty and perfection:The cult of beauty and perfection is a slaaneshi cult that worships all forms of beauty,beauty of mind,beauty of art etc.,the worshipers of this cult don't have an interest in bloodshed,they are only interested in perfection.

Warband Gene-Seed
The Princes have a somewhat untainted Gene-Seed,the only "benediction" they got from Slaanesh is their exessive beauty that makes everyone who look at them completly subjugated to them.

Notable Warband Members
Chaos lord Vanitas:Vanitas is the chaos lord of the Princes of Vanity,a former member of the Phoenix guard he decided to quit the legion after seeing that they've changed to become hedonistic killers,Vanitas kept his honor guard armor making various engraving on it.

Milicas the Butchered:Milicas is Vanitas right hand man,he got his surname by being disfigured by a Malku of the Lions of Babylon.

Warband relic
Armor of Vanity:Vanitas personal armor,it is blessed by Slaanesh to give Vanitas imense charisma,the armor is surpringly uncorrupted altough it has slaaneshi engraving.

Warband Colours
The Princes of Vanity paint their armor a dark purple with gold highlights.They tend to engrave their armor with gold.They also use a lot of pre-heresy era armor.Their faceplate is painted differently depending on rank for exemple Captains and Chaos lord paint their faceplate gold.

Warband Badge
The emblem of the Princes of Vanity is a sigil of Slaanesh with a stylised black rose at the bottom.

Enemies:
Emperor's children:The Princes despise their progenitors for not being interested in beauty or art instead prefering to follow their hedonistic ways.The Princes of Vanity see them as no more than hedonistic barbarians.

Khorne and khornates:As a slaaneshi warband the Princes of Vanity despise the blood god as in their eyes he is the anathema of beauty and as his followers they see them as no more than savages.

Lions of Babylon:The Princes of Vanity hate the Lions of Babylon as they see them as ungraceful savages altough they respect their code of honour.As for the Lions they the Princes has nothing but corrupted scum.

By:
"'What we may have called brothers are know gone,even though our father may have teached us the truth about chaos he is just a shadow of what he used to be...No our entire legion is just a shadow of her former glory,we wanted to lead mankind to perfection and now...Now our legion just want to destroy mankind...' Vanitas during his speech to rally his brothers to his cause."