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The Sons of Ahriman are a formerly loyalist Space Marine Chapter descended from the genetic stock of Roboute Guilliman, formerly known as the Spears of Macragge. They were once wholly dedicated to the Imperium of Man and ideals for which the Emperor stood for, until they fought a fateful campaign against the infamous Chaos Sorcerer Ahriman of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion. Corrupted by the malefic spells of the Exalted Sorcerer, half of the Spears became wholly dedicated to the worship to the Chaos God of Change - Tzeentch. The Chapter fell into civil strife, and in the end, those still loyal to the Emperor were wiped out. Wholly dedicated to Chaos, the now Renegade Chapter fled into the Eye of Terror, becoming a Chaos Warband, and delving into the dark arts of sorcery and the study of the occult.

Warband History
The formerly loyalist Spears of Macragge Chapter, was a dedicated and stalwart Chapter dedicated to the Emperor and His ideals, until they fought against the infamous Exalted Sorcerer Ahriman, formerly of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion on the world of Atrios. It was here, that the Loyalist Chapter was "enlightened" by Ahriman. Using his malefic powers, he mentally manipulated a wounded Chapter Librarian with visions of their gene-father becoming a tyrant and a blood hungry conqueror who sought godhood after being granted promises of knowledge beyond that of mortal understanding. He would then go on to destroy the Emperor's mortal remains.

Corrupted by this false vision, the Chapter erupted into internecine conflict, which saw it split into separate loyalist and traitor factions. But in the end, those still loyal to the Emperor would be massacred by their traitoris kin. After the Chapter purged itself of the remaining loyalist elements, the Chapter kneeled in supplication to their new patron god - Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways - and pledged their undying loyalty to their new master. They renamed themselves the Sons of Ahriman and devoted themselves to the study of the occult and embraced the use of sorcery, carrying aloft their refashioned "Banner of a Thousand Change" into battle.

After the chapter turned traitor and cleansed their homeworld, they sacrificed 9,000 innocent souls to their new god. The Renegade Chapter then fled into the Eye of Terror as it was here, that the Chaos Lord Axilet Dorvicus, the wounded Primaris Librarian along with other librarians of the chapter planned the chapter's turn to Chaos, became a chaos lord as reward for his treacherous acts - not just for bringing his brothers into the hands of the Lord of Change - but for sacrificing his former Chapter Master and 9,000 innocent civilians - which caused a prodigious warp storm to swallow the Chapter's former home system into the Immaterium. The Sons of Ahriman renamed their homeworld of Edenius, to Sacratios, which became a daemon world fit for the servants of Tzeentch and his warband. Meanwhile, within the hellish realms of the Eye, Ahriman and Tzeentch's laughter could be heard across the warp, rejoicing at their newfound toys.

Notable Campaigns

 * - Campaign (000.M42) - The history before the chapters fall to chaotic corruption was brief and glorious, in 000.M42 the Spears of Macragge invaded a Tau world, aided by the Astartes from both the xenos-hunting Deathwatch and Blood Angels Chapters.
 * Defence of Edenius (014.M42) - The entirety of the Chapter defended its homeworld alongside reinforcements from the Ultramarines, Omega Marines and the Sons of Orar Chapters, from a large Death Guard invasion. The Chapter survived with only 15% of the Chapter killed.
 * Arios Castigation (015.M42) - Once the Chapter recovered to full-strength, they deployed in its entirety to the world of Arios to fight against the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion, led by Ahzek Ahriman. After the conflict the Chapter turned traitor and cleansed their own homeworld, sacrificing thousands of innocents, two chapter companies with a virus bomb ,which caused a massive warp storm to consume the system and swallow it whole, pulling it into the Immaterium.


 * Sons of Ahriman Revealed (019.M42) - The formerly Renegade Chapter reappeared in the material universe as the Sons of Ahriman Chaos Warband. They were no longer recognisable as the Spears of Macragge and they were no longer held back by the dictates of the Codex Astartes and the Imperium's restrictions. Empowered by both sorcery and psychic powers, the warband raided Chapter recruitment worlds and stole several gene-seed shipments, making their existence known to the wider Imperium.


 * Destruction of the Chapter (021.M42) - The Sons of Ahriman wiped out an entire Loyalist Space Marine Chapter by casting a powerful psychic ritual, a lesser version of the dreaded Rubric of Ahriman and converting the surviving loyalist Astartes into revenant slaves similar to the Rubric Marines of the Thousand Sons, to be utilised as shock troops for the warband.

Warband Demesne

 * Sacratios - Edenius was once the homeworld of the Spears of Macragge - a once beautiful and elegant world - now twisted beyond recognition by the powers of the warp, it was renamed to Sacratios. Here, the now wholly corrupted Daemon World is where the Heretic Astartes studies the occult and powers of the warp, utilising sorcery to their heart's content.
 * Alziarse - After the warband cast a spell similar to the infamous Rubric, that converted an Imperial Fists Successor Chapter into a Chapter of revenant Astartes, the Architect of Fate himself, gifted the warband with another world to rule. The warband uses this world to house their slaves and captured Astartes as a Hell-Forge to produce corrupted armour, weapons, and daemon engines for the warband.

Warband Beliefs
The warband are devote in their worship of Tzeentch and sorcery the entity of the warband worship Ahriman as if he's a demigod and shows deeper loyalty to him as the warband always refers him to as father Ahriman

Warband Combat Doctrine
Once this chapter was held back by the codex limited the chapters abilities, once when the warband was the spears of macragge the chapter was codex standard that primarily specialized in fortifications and trench warfare although the warband still holds its mastery in fortification the warband seems to acquire a heavy usage of Sorcery to corrupt high ranking or key members of enemy forces to lower the defenses along with assassinations and misdirection. Unlike most Tzeentch forces who relied on portal for transportations the Warband uses their ships primarily for orbital support and transport along with portal uses for ground troop deployments.

Notable Warband Members

 * Axiket Dorvicus: When he was wounded fighting the thousand sons legion and he and the other librarians were given visions by Ahriman of their gene-fathers plans, after his recover he started a chapter civil war and wiped out the loyalist elements then sacrificed his chapter master and the 9,000 souls on the chapters homeworld and tricking 2 companies of a loyalist chapter with a distress signal and detonated a virus bomb, he later ascended to demonhood after renaming the chapter to the Infamous Sons of Ahriman warband.


 * Saraz Scion: Picked by Ahriman himself to primarily gather knowledge on the creation of Primaris Marines and to act as the Sons of Ahriman's Chief tactician and spiritual guide to whom the warband holds high esteem and respect for

Warband Fleet

 * Hand of Ahriman: An Emperor-class battleship that was lost in the warp one point in time with its occupants either merged with the ship or slaughtered by demons is now claimed by the sons of Ahriman and now tainted and modified with the powers of sorcery and the warp to be utilize as the warbands flagship.


 * The Eye of Tzeentch: Once a glorious Black Ship of the Inquisition that the warband acquired and tainted this one holy ship to act as a reconasist ship and kept some Inquisitorial markings to mock the Imperium.

2 Repulsive-class Grand Cruisers, 3 Despoiler-class Battleship, 4 Battle Barges, 5 Strike Cruisers, 2 Hunter Destroyers.

Warband Relics

 * Hammer of Change - This once pure power hammer blessed by the former Chapter's Chaplins, is now corrupted by the dark powers of the warp and archaic sorcery.
 * The Claws of Tzeentch - A power claw made from the warband's allied Hell-Forge. It is inscribed with malevolent runes and spells, enabling the Claw to rip through heavy armour and scramble the minds of mortals with ease.
 * The Book of Ahriman - A arcane spellbook bound in the skin of a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch which contains countless spells and knowledge, authored by Exalted Chaos Sorcerer Ahriman himself, and gifted to the warband for their devotion to him and their master Tzeentch.

Enemies
The Imperial at large and all other chapters who descended from Roboute Guilliman genetic stock.

Notable Quotes
"We're the fire and flames of progress and your not but dust!"

- Battle-cry of the warband

"Come slaves to the false father let us bring you death and enlightenment!"

- Axiket Dorvicus, Daemon Prince and Chaos Lord of the Sons of Ahriman Warband