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This article is comprised of a complete list of all the fanon Chaos Warbands created by our contributors here on the WH40K Homebrew Wiki. Along with a brief synopsis of each warband, this list also serves as a visual reference. This compilation also includes those warbands that do not fall under any particular allegiance to the Chaos Gods, including those that are considered Blackshields. However, this list does not include warbands that fall into the humour category. This is an ongoing project, and as such, additional warbands will be added or removed accordingly. For those warbands that are missing from the list, please feel free to edit this article and add it, or if the Chaos Warband article has been deleted, feel free to remove it.
Chaos Undivided Warbands
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| Abaddon's Shields |  |
Abaddon's Shields is a notorious Chaos Warband that has fought beside Abaddon the Despoiler for some millennia. Initially originating from the Third Company of the Shield Bearers, they escaped Imperial judgment during the Splinter War by fleeing into the warp but became trapped. As they remained in the warp, numerous succumbed to death or madness, and the disloyalty of Chief Librarian Tebaldus Thrian allowed Chaos to infiltrate the ship. The ships would reemerge from the warp a few millennia after its departure, but what remained of those onboard were husks of their former selves driven to heresy. This Chaos Warband plagued the systems on the fringe of Segmentum Obscurus until a defeat at the hands of the Iron Snakes led them to seek out Abaddon. When they appeared before the Despoiler, he sent them to a planet consumed by the warp, where they captured a minor chaos deity and brought it back to Abaddon. The Warband was accepted into the Black Legion for the feat and renamed themselves Abaddon's Shields. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Abyssal Conclave |  |
The Abyssal Conclave is a Chaos Warband with roots in the Word Bearers Traitor Legion. They have largely withdrawn from their Legion's fold, disillusioned by the millennia-long power struggles between Kor Phaeron and Erebus, they now maintain a considerable distance from their Legion's affairs. While still acknowledging the authority of the Dark Council of Sicarus, they seldom make appearances on their legion's homeworld itself. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Angels of Despair |  |
The Chaos Warband known as Angels of Despair are a former loyalist Chapter, that turned its back to the Imperium and is classified as 'heretical'. They were formerly known as the Flames of Iron, a successor Chapter of the Iron Drakes and were quite respected. But through unknown events, they started worshipping new gods and started civil wars against the Emperor. Now they roam the galaxy under the name Angels of Despair and bring doom to unfortunate Imperial Worlds. Just like their predecessors, they tend to use fire and heat as a weapon and are formidable opponents in melee. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Angels of the Apocalypse |  |
The Angels of the Apocalypse are a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter, known as the Sons of Redemption, that had fallen to the dark whims and false promises of the Chaos Gods. They exist only to undermine the name and honours of the Templars of the Golden Dawn Chapter, and they seek to ruin their reputation and bring them into the light of the Chaos Gods themselves. They follow Chaos Undivided, and are split into four factions: the Order of Lost Light (Tzeentch), Princes of Desolation (Nurgle), Hellforged Kings (Khorne) and the Lords of Lust (Slaanesh). (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Angels of the Void |  |
The Angels of the Void are a mysterious Chaos Warband that descends from the noble Astral Angels. Although a relatively small fighting force when compared to other heretic factions, they are still classified by the Inquisition as Periculum Maximus for their secretive ways and ability to deceive most Imperial officers that attempted to investigate their obscure agenda. These traitors have been harassing the Imperium of Man since early M36, when they turned their back on the Emperor. Currently, the Angels of the Void reside in the daemon world of Dark Terra, a blasphemous mockery of its realspace counterpart in the Eye of Terror. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Apostates of Ash |  |
The Apostates of Ash are a fanatical Chaos warband of Word Bearers numbered among the Disciples of Be'lakor. Though they adhere to the mandates of the Dark Council of Sicarus, they are viewed with suspicion by many within the XVIIth. (Traitoris Maximus) |
| Apparitions Unleashed |  |
The Apparitions Unleashed are a chaos Warband of ghostlike traitor marines who haunt the worlds they assault with the seemingly random appearances of a particular Warp Storm which travels across the galaxy. They were created by a group of Warp Ghosts who were gifted the power to reanimate dead marines into a state that vaguely resembles that of the substance of Daemons, likely for their role in enabling the first Black Crusade fleets to break through the eye and into Imperial realspace. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Ashen Princes |  |
The Ashen Princes are a Chaos Warband whose roots lie with the Word Bearers Traitor Legion. While considered savage and barbaric by their brethren, they are nonetheless fanatically loyal to Lorgar and are devout worshippers of the Ruinous Powers, seeking to commit ever greater acts of violence for the Dark Gods in the name of their Great Hunt. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Bararozza |  |
The Bararozza are an infamous Chaos-aligned corsair warband that came from a multitude of lineages due to taking in defectors from both the Imperium and other Chaos Warbands. Little is known of their exact origin, with Imperial records stating they were first encountered in M34, though with no information on their parent warband, Traitor Legion, or exact founder. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Black Bloods |  |
The Black Bloods are a complex and interwoven Warband formed from the remnants of the 11th Company of the VIIIth Legion, the Night Lords. They, and their conquests, are led by Decipus Irax, the so-called "Rancor Prince." They operate as a force of battle brothers, conquered levies, and interconnected allies, all bound together by fear, codependency, and mutual understandings like the ancient gangs of Nostromo once were. Chief among the forces within his sphere of influence is Decipus' greatest allies and most insidious threat, a small splinter cell of the Alpha Legion led by their Headhunter Prime, Prodokos Pitoss. These enigmatic and unknowable marines have served as close allies and co-conspirators of the Black Bloods since the beginning through a system of mutually beneficial dealings. It is through this impenetrable and horrifying combination of the Alpha Legion's infiltration and information-gathering skills and the Night Lords' lightning assaults and fear-mongering that the Warband as a whole has absorbed so many lesser assets. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Black Devourers |  |
The Black Devouers are a notorious Chaos Space Marine Warband that was a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter created during an Unknown Founding. Extant evidence points to this warband hailing from the proud lineage of the noble Rogal Dorn. To the shame of all Scions of Dorn, the fallen Black Devourers are descended from their lineage. They are one of the arch-foes of the Iron Blood Chapter, a feeling which is mutual. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Black Scions | |
The Black Scions are a warband of Heretic Astartes. They are a disparate gathering of renegade Space Marines, who have coalesced under the leadership of the Chaos Lord Azreth Krul. Under his command, they have come to command a pocket empire of their own within the blighted Sepulchine Stars, beyond the borders of the Uridian Isola, in the Segmentum Pacificus. With legions of mortal cultist at their back, the Black Scions have steadily becoming a significant threat to Imperial hegemony in the region. Renowned for their skill of arms, the Black Scions have become feared void combatants over the long millennia; a bane of the Navis Imperialis, and a dreaded sight for any Chartist Captain. Purported to have once been a part of the Sons of Horus before the defeat of the Warmaster in the Siege of Terra, the Black Scions have since become an eclectic mass of various breeds of warrior Astartes, stemming from multiple different gene-lines; both of the Traitor, and the Loyalist. |
| Blades of The Shadow |  |
The Blades of the Shadow are an infamous Chaos Warband comprised of former members of the infamous Night Lords Traitor Legion. After the death of their Primarch, Konrad Curze, the Night Lords Legion retreated to the Eye of Terror where they would be safe. The warband was formed after a long argument during the Night Lord's fractious time in the Eye of Terror. The Warband is Chaos army of which was formed in 39th Millennium and are perhaps best known for their part in the 13th Black Crusade alongside the Black Legion and Warmaster Abaddon the Despoiler. They are mainly now mercenaries but will only fight when it is in their best interests to do so. They have one goal in mind: to retrieve the Corona Nox and revive the Night Haunter. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Blight Butchers |  |
The Blight Butchers are a newly emerged Chaos Warband made up from the renegade elements of the traitorous Storm Zealots, Space Naga, and the Thousand Blades Space Marine Chapter. The creation of the Blight Butchers were followed by the end of Skabbian Heresy in M42, where the traitorous forces were spirited away by the forces of Chaos Gods shortly before the destruction of Indravari II. The Blight Butchers are created from vengeance and bitter defeat the traitor Zealots, Nagas and Thousand Blades suffered from their former brethren. The Blight Butchers are masters in Berserker Assault as well as employing Virus weapons and daemons. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Blood Wyverns |  |
The Blood Wyverns are a notorious Chaos Warband in the service of Chaos Undivided. They were formerly a Loyalist Chapter of the ill-fated 21st 'Cursed' Founding going by the same name. They presumably come from the gene-stock of Roboute Guilliman, though this remains unconfirmed. Despite the fact there were no physical or mental defects with this Chapter, the fear and suspicion of the Imperium had caused them to go rouge when the Blood Wyverns had come to blows with an Inquisitorial Task Force. For the sin of daring to attack representatives of the Inquisition, they were declared renegades. Making their retreat to the farthest edges of Segmentum Pacificus, the Blood Wyverns soon turned to Chaos, however the Warband prefers to keep Chaos at arm's length. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Bloodied Claws |  |
The Bloodied Claws are an infamous Chaos Warband made up of the remnants of the Night Lords 42nd Company. Unlike the vast majority of their traitorous brethren, who either look down on those who serve Chaos with disdain or view the Chaos Gods as nothing more than a tool to be used to suit their needs, they have become devout worshippers of the Ruinous Powers. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Brethren of Hel |  |
The Brethren of Hel were are formerly Loyalist 2nd Founding Iron Hands Successor Chapter known as the Iron Invictors. This Chapter, along with the Iron Gorgons, Iron Harbingers and the Templars of Iron, formerly made up a quadrumvirate of 2nd Founding Iron Hands Successors, collectively known as the Frateris Firmitatis ("The Ironclad Brotherhood"). Unfortunately, the Iron Invictors' pathological obsession with certain forbidden mysteries and nightmare sciences of the Dark Age of Technology eventually saw them being declared Excommunicate Traitoris, and cast out of the Imperium. Now they are hunted by their former erstwhile brethren, who will not rest until they see this warband utterly destroyed. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Buraku Seichi Warband | |
The Buraku Seichi (武楽生知) is a Chaos warband devoted to the four gods of the warp, evangelizing for their peculiar creed in the name of the Prophetess Koeru Chouetsu and her Four Champions. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Children of Iron |  |
The Children of Iron is an Iron Warriors mercenary warband, taking employment from almost anyone that can supply the resources to support the warband. This warband was created after Warsmith Zalm and his forces fled the Siege of Terra an linked up with a half dozen Iron Warrior Battalions. They were their Legion's section of a greater reserve fleet that included elements of most of the Traitor legions with large task forces of Night Lords and Sons of Horus as well. This reserve fleet would go on to become the corsair warband known as the Dogs of Arrogance, while the newly created Iron Warriors warband declined the offer to join with them and instead became a group of elite mercenaries. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Chosen of Aurelian |  |
The Chosen of Aurelian is a fanatical and ruthless Word Bearers Chaos Warband formed by their Primarch Lorgar Aurelian to ensure the XVIIth Legion remains united and ideologically pure. Though led by a Dark Apostle, they have a special sanction that allows them to operate independently of the Dark Council of Sicarus. (Traitoris Maximus) |
| Claws of Konrad |   |
The Claws of Konrad are a chaos space marine warband broken from the Night Lords legion. Like their parent, they specialize in terror tactics, and elements of the warband utilize sorcery. The warband consists of about two thousand men and a mid-sized fleet. They take resources and recruits from the planetary tithes of two dozen worlds, which they have subjugated and placed puppet rulers on. (Note: This warband falls under the Expanded Universe category.) |
| Claws Viduanine | |
The Claws Viduanine, also called the Talons of Viduanus is an infamous Chaos Warband that has long resided in the Eye of Terror. Originally made up of marines created from the remnants of Sons of Horus gene-seed taken by drawing blood from the weapons of Abaddon the Despoiler after he killed Fabius Bile's clone of the Primarch Horus Lupercal, the Blood Talons are fiercely loyal to the cause of Chaos Undivided, and have long aligned themselves with the Black Legion. Like the majority of their treacherous brethren, they look down on those who continue to actively serve the Imperium, venerating the Ruinous Powers of Chaos but do so with disdain for the Four primary gods, particularly Tzeentch, though they do still attempt to garner his favour. The Claws occupy a strange cultural sphere among the allied warbands which are often placed under the banner of the Black Legion, as they are led by Viduanus, a Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided who ascended before Abaddon was declared the leader of the Legion, and thus still very strongly maintain the cultural elements of the original XVIth Legion in both its Luna Wolves and Sons of Horus form. |
| Crow's Children |   |
The Crows Children are a notorious Chaos Warband made up of Heretic Astartes formed from the renegade Order of the Crow from the Loyalist Penitent Knights Chapter. Daedelus, the Warband's Chaos Lord, fell to the Ruinous Powers and turned traitor against his Chapter Master, Archalus, after constant frustrations over the Highlord's sympathy for the mortal civilian life of the Imperium. And even when Archalus reprimanded Daedelus for disregarding orders, a strange voice whispered into the ear of the Knight Captain, telling him that he would have his day. After the mutiny of the Order of the Crow, and the company escaped into the Warp, the powers of Chaos changed them all to Chaos Space Marines, and their sole mission was to destroy their loyalist brothers. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Dark Vultures |  |
The Dark Vultures, or 'Tenebris Vulturis', are a formidable Chaos Warband of ill-repute. They were once Astartes of the Gore Vultures - a brutal and unforgiving Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes created during the 8th Founding from the lineage of the angelic Primarch Sanguinius. Relentless and savage, the Gore Vultures quickly garnered a reputation as a ferocious and merciless Chapter. A fleet-based Chapter, the Gore Vultures fell upon recalcitrant worlds that had forsaken their oaths of fidelity to the Emperor. Without warning, the Chapter fell upon their enemies like a tsunami, utterly annihilating everything in their path. Rumours soon began to circulate of these gore-spattered Astartes stalking the battlefield to devour the bodies of the fallen after a battle as a final mark of disrespect for their weakness. The Gore Vultures committed so many excesses in the Emperor's name that by the latter years M35 onwards, this Chapter all but disappeared from official Imperial records. Unable to ignore the atrocities committed by this Chapter the High Lords of Terra eventually declared the Gore Vultures Renegades and cast them out from the light of the Emperor's realm. Despite this edict, the Chapter refused to acquiesce to the High Twelve's declaration. For a time, the Gore Vultures still considered themselves to be loyal servants to the Emperor of Mankind, if not to His Imperium. However, over time, this renegade Chapter was forced to take drastic measures to ensure their survival. Taking refuge within the Eye of Terror, they Gore Vultures disappeared and were assumed destroyed. However, two millennia later, they returned to the material realm, they were wholly corrupted by the insidious influence of the Ruinous Powers and become the Chaos warband known as the Dark Vultures. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Death Knights | |
The Death Knights are a formerly loyalist Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes, now turned traitor chaotic warband. Once known as the Chevaliers, they turned to chaos when half the captains saw terrible visions of chaos, starting a civil war for the chapter that they won. After this war they accepted their fate as Chaotic warriors. Their former knightly honor was twisted into a dark reflection of its former self, and in their minds they still fight for civilization, seeing the Imperium as a rotting corpse and Chaos as the coming evolution of civilization. They chose the name Death Knights, and left Monchesto behind to bring about the new order throughout the galaxy. With noble class befitting of their station, of course. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Dogs of Arrogance | |
The Dogs of Arrogance are a large corsair warband that operates in smaller groups but can be hired as mercenaries as well. Besides ravaging Imperial space they are also one of the main raiders of Pueblo Confederation space, making them one of the most constant enemies of their Confederate Militarum as well as a renegade chapter called the Void Paladins that has long made their capital world home. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Dothane's Pride |  |
Born in the opening moments of the Sable Pride's civil war, Dothane's Pride vowed vengeance against the Dark Angels and the wider Unforgiven for their perceived transgressions and humiliations of his chapter, and in the Warband's eyes, the death of the true Sable Pride. To this end, the warband considers the chapter of the Sable Pride to no longer exist, instead referring to it as the Pride of whoever is the current Grand Marshal and currently referring to the chapter as Sephram's Pride, after the current Grand Marshal of the chapter. This is in reference to the naming of themselves and their foes during the War of the Two Prides, with the warband viewing the modern 'Sable Pride' to simply be a descendent of the loyalist forces under Grand Marshal Purion and not the true chapter of old. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Dragons of the Rift |  |
The Dragons of the Rift are a notorious Chaos Warband who was formerly known as the Imperial Dragons, a loyalist Space Marine Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. Despite steadfastly serving the Imperium for several millennia, the Chapter became corrupted by the influence of Chaos and fell from grace. Deemed Traitoris Perdita, their home world was destroyed by Exterminatus, forcing the Renegade Chapter to become fleet-based. Cast from the light of the Imperium, the Imperial Dragons were forced to live as outcasts and raiders. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Eternal Battalion |  |
The 74th Grand Battalion, better known as "the Eternal Battalion" is a merciless chaos warband originating from the bitter stock of Daemon Primarch Perturabo. They specialize in siege warfare and the use of automata. The warriors can be considered an orderly warband, overseen by Warsmith Shah. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Everchosen |   |
The Everchosen are a warband of the damnable Word Bearers, being the 72nd Host of the Legion. The warband is led by the Dark Apostle Ur-Daevas, the Voice of Lorgar and Master of the Union. Below Ur-Daevas are Xarxes and Zar Kaon. Xarxes is the First Acolyte of the Everchosen, being Ur-Daevas' personal apprentice and second-in-command. Zar Kaon is Coryphus of the Everchosen who handles the warbands battle and tactical decisions. After ten long millennia, the Everchosen remain unquestionably loyal to their Primarch Lorgar Aurelian, whom they view as the "greatest prophet in the history of Mankind." The Heretic Astartes of the Everchosen see themselves as “bringers of enlightenment” who spread the “good word” of Chaos to all corners of the Materium. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| False Saviours |  |
The False Saviours are a mysterious and enigmatic Chaos Warband formed from the 88th Company of the Night Lords and an unknown Alpha Legion group. Hiding in the shadows, they strike at the enemy and disappear as suddenly as they have arrived. This threat has bewildered the Imperium for years, unable to track down the unseen attackers. Only recently have they found that the False Saviours exist. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Fallen Widows |  |
The Fallen Widows are a notorious Chaos Warband whose core members were once Astartes of the Blue Widows, a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter created during the ill-fated 21st Founding, the so-called 'Cursed Founding', sometime during M36. Like many of their fellow Chapters created during this time, they were plagued by aberrant gene-seed and extensive mutations. Deemed by the Inquisition as an abomination, the Imperium declared the stalwartly loyalist Chapter as renegades. The Chapter was forced to flee their homeworld of Draix, leaving the to its pre-ordained destruction by Exterminatus. Cast out from the light of the Imperium, the Chapter was forced to live the outskirts of known space within the mysterious region known as the Halo Stars. When they finally emerged centuries later, they were no longer the once-proud Blue Widows, for they had wholeheartedly pledged themselves to the ruinous powers. Now known as the Fallen Widows, the vengeful Chaos Warband vowed to enact their vengeance upon those who cast them out and drove them from their former homeworld. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Forgekings |  |
The Forgekings are a Chaos Warband of Iron Warriors, led by the Warpsmith Seleukian, known as the Forgeking and Warsmith of the 33rd, 55th and 72nd Grand Companies. From their Hell-Forge, the Doomforge, the Forgekings craft numberless war machines, weapons and daemon engines to bolster their ranks and to supply their legion and allies with the weapons to help bring about the destruction of the hated Imperium of Man. These merciless warriors have committed countless acts of destruction and horror in the 10,000 years since their legion's fall to Chaos. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| The Gorthaurim |  |
The Gorthaurim are a notorious Chaos warband dedicated to the full worship of Chaos Undivided. Although the warband was officially founded by the end of M41 and start of M42, its core members can be traced back to the great crusade and Heresy, hailing from the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion. Only in later millennia did the warband truly manifest as such through the union of smaller, lesser known splinters into a unified group of aligned goals. Lead by the Demon Prince Sidonius, the Gorthaurim have nested themselves inside the Somnium Stars warp storm area launching assaults into Imperial space from their demon world of Gorthauros. They seek the ultimate elevation of humanity aligned with the vision of Lorgar Aurelian, the union of the material and the immaterial in perfect symbiosis, and as such make great uses of Possessed units and the summoning of demonic hordes to bring down any who oppose them. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Heirs of Lupercal |  |
The Heirs of Lupercal is a notorious Chaos Warband whose origins hearken back to the ancient days of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras when they were originally the 22nd Company of the Sons of Horus. Following the defeat of the Traitor Legions during the epic Siege of Terra, and subsequent flight into the Eye of Terror, the 22nd Company struggled to survive the internecine conflicts fought between the various Traitor Legions. Eventually, they broke off from the main body of the XVIth Legion and formed their own warband, renaming themselves the 'Heirs of Lupercal'. Since that bygone age, this warband has continued to plague the realms of the Mankind in their neverending Long War. (Traitoris Maximus) |
| Hellforged Brotherhood |  |
The Hellforged Brotherhood are a semi-notorious Chaos Warband descended from the lineage of the Iron Hands Legion of old. Formerly known as the Iron Gauntlets Company, this warband's betrayal hearkens back to the dark days of the Horus Heresy, when the galaxy was torn asunder to civil strife and unimaginable bloodshed - specifically, the dire events that occurred on the world of Isstvan V - during the lamentable event known as the Dropsite Massacre. Fleeing for their lives, the die was cast, and the Iron Gauntlets were set upon the path of damnation from which they could never escape. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Iron Crucifiers |  |
The Iron Crucifiers is a Chaos Warband descended from the lineage of the Iron Warriors. They serve as the private warband of Hell-Forge Fornax, fighting their battles and in return benefitting from Fornax's abundance of production capacity. Due to their long-standing relationship with the Hellforge, and their debt to the Chaos Gods, they are less averse to the touch of the True Omnissiah. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Iron Shrikes | |
The 94th Grand Batallion, or as they have dubbed themselves in the aftermath of the Dropsite Massacre, the Iron Shrikes, are a large warband of the IVth Legion (Iron Warriors). They have an economy dependent upon refinement of warp-corrupted Prometheum and consist of members from multiple fragmented grand companies, battalions, and even the airwing repertoire of the dissolved 47th Grand Flight. Their Warsmith since the days of the heresy is Ashurbanipal, an ancient Lyssatra smith whose genius as a munitions creator has leveraged some grace from other Warsmiths, especially partial to cooperating with the Stor-Bezashk whose need for his engineering waxes and wanes with the waging of wars. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Knights of The Beast |  |
The Knights of the Beast is a Chaos Space Marine Warband led by the Dark Apostle Drachlock worshiping the Beast, an incarnation of Chaos Undivided. Drawn from the Word Bearers Traitor Legion, a small group of Heretic Astartes followed the vision of the Dark Apostle Drachlock and willingly joined his cause. He spoke of the primordial entity known "The Beast" - the incarnation of Chaos Undivided itself. Since breaking away from their former legion, they have continued to lead their war of destruction on the Imperium, converting the survivors of their rampages to the worship of The Beast. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Knights Malevolent |  |
The Knights Malevolent are a renegade turned Chaos Space Marine fleet-based warband created during the 21st "Cursed" Founding who almost immediately turned to Chaos. They are known for their cunning and pragmatic approach to warfare. They prefer to strike quickly and without warning, using stealth and guerilla tactics to gain the upper hand. They are not above using conventional methods, such as siege warfare, if it serves their goals, but their preference is for hit-and-run attacks that allow them to avoid prolonged engagements. They use their knowledge of Chaos and the Warp to manipulate others and gain advantages in battle, often luring their enemies into traps or exploiting weaknesses in their defenses. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Kronos Consortium |  |
Born in the fires of the Horus Heresy, the Kronos Consortium is an alliance of renegades and heretics that make their home in the Space Hulk Kronos at the center of the Vortex of Despair. Its original members are made up of Word Bearers Legionnaires and a cabal of Thousand Sons who grew disillusioned with the Heresy as their supposed brothers-in-arms fell to the ways of treachery and malice. Although many brothers of the Host still believed wholeheartedly in the Teachings of Lorgar it became apparent to all that in his preoccupations the Legion had become increasingly under the thumb of Erebus and other unworthy corrupters of the Faith. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Lernean Vipers |  |
The Lernean Vipers are a warband of Chaos Undivided, splintered from the elusive Alpha Legion. Unlike their parent legion the Lernean Vipers worship Chaos in it's guise of Chaos Undivided, with a focus on Slaanesh, believing their brethen to be cowards for not acknowledging the power and truth of the Ruinous Powers. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| The Leviathan Dogma |  |
The Leviathan Dogma were once a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter known as the Gilded Knights before the warband's leader, Urlaban, undermined the chapter master's authority and turned a majority against the Imperium. They have since grown in size due to their allegiance to the Iron Warriors, and currently use their increased numbers to terrorize the galaxy, navigating the Great Rift, in order to raid gene-seed vaults and take slaves. However, to the warband's ire, they are still technically under the Iron Warriors' heel and are obligated to give tithes and assistance at their behest. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Lords of Oblivion |  |
The Lords of Oblivion are a warband of the damnable Black Legion. Led by the Chaos Lord Veles Apollyon, the Lords of Oblivion have pledged their service to the the Warmaster of Chaos, Ezekyle Abaddon, though seemingly operate independently until specifically called upon by the Despoiler. The Lords of Oblivion have become known for possessing an uncanny gift for diplomacy. Somehow, the warband has managed to forge a web of alliances with several other Chaos groups. As a result, the Lords of Oblivion are able to field massive armies even when their own numbers are limited. In some instances, the Lords of Oblivion have managed to swell their numbers by effectively absorbing weaker allies. The core membership of the Lords of Oblivion is made up of ancient veterans who served in the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. These one-hundred veterans once served in the 6th Company of the Sons of Horus Legion (formerly known as the Luna Wolves). (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Maelstrom Flayers |  |
The Maelstorm Flayers are a Chaos Warband hailing from the Maelstorm, a Warp Rift located near the galactic center. After spending many years infiltrating and corrupting nearby Imperial planets to increase its number, this warband was almost totally destroyed during a Crusade led by its leader Narsak Soulflayer to recover some artifacts after it was halted by the Themes Shadow Regiment and Sisters of Battle. But they eventually recovered before being annihilated for a second time during the Themes System invasion and saw the loss of its leader. Since then the warband ceased to exist, albeit a few survivors are seen fighting and continuing to use the same strategies, possibly awaiting for a new warlord to unite them once again, albeit there are no further information about their whereabouts. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Merciless |  |
The Merciless are a large warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to Chaos Undivided. The Merciless are a splinter warband of the Iron Warriors that are founded and commanded by the infamous Chaos Lord Torian, the 'Iron Butcher of Xiollon II', a former Battle-Brother of the Iron Warriors who had fought alongside Perturabo during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy that followed. The embittered Merciless march to war once more, their sole intent to wreak such devastation upon the Imperium that no stone stands upon another. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Night Lord 38th Company |  |
The Night Lords 38th Company are a large group of Renegades that split from their parent Traitor Legion following the death of their Primarch Konrad Curze on the world of Tsagualsa. Like their brothers they do not worship any of the four Chaos Gods individually, but acknowledge them equally in the form of Chaos Undivided but in reality they see them only as a means to an end, using them so that they can enact their own twisted vision for the Galaxy. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Nightgaunts |  |
The Nightgaunts are an elusive but rightfully feared warband of the Night Lords Traitor Legion. They were first recorded and catalogued in Imperial Archives during the years of the Ghost War and some of their number were counted among the dead on Midian where the Blood Angels held out until the arrival of the Carcharodons who put the traitors to rout. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Noxclad Banished |  |
The Noxclad Banished is an infamous Chaos Warband made up of the remnants of multiple Night Lords Companies. Like the majority of their treacherous brethren, they look down on those who actively serve the Ruinous Powers of Chaos with disdain, particularly for the inability of the broader traitor cause to ensure the safety of their primarch against the assassins. They view the Chaos Gods as little more than clusters or manifestations of human fear and instability and they serve them only inadvertently as they spread terror through the Galaxy. They also see themselves as being an organized act of penance for the death of their primarch, and as such all wear red gauntlets of censure. They have become one of many of the warbands derived from the Night Lords, acting inadvertently as devout benefactors of the Ruinous Powers. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Other Sons |  |
The Other Sons is an Alpha Legion warband that conduct the majority of their operations in secret and often with no discernable goal to those that are not briefed on the reasonings. The warband has worked both against and for the Imperium's interests at varying times throughout their history. (Traitoris Maximus) |
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| Red Veils |  |
The Red Veils are a small, young Chaos Warband originating from the dreaded Word Bearers Traitor Legion. The brothers of this Warband take the Word Bearers naive zealotry to a far extreme, making them an easy target for manipulation if one were to fluff themselves up enough. The Veils also have an extreme attitude of penance and self-destruction, committing violent acts of self-harm at the slightest failure. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Reforged |  |
The Reforged are a Chaos Warband that have broken away from the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. Brutal savage warriors, they are also able to quickly construct fortifications and can tear them down just as quickly depending on which side of the fight they find themselves on. With an ever-burning hatred of the Imperial Fists and their Successors, they will break off any battle to track them down and slay them. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Rift Sharks |  |
The Rift Sharks is a Chaos-aligned warband that has chosen to forgo established world by world dominance and instead rule by territory. They rush into combat, appearing from unexpected angles and tearing into the enemy with borderline animalistic ferocity. After each engagement, they devour the flesh of the killed enemies, not for any tactical advantage but because they enjoy it. The mortal followers follow in tow, keeping up with their Shark overlords and engaging with the same animalistic savagery seen in the Astartes. |
| Rusted Sons |  |
The Rusted Sons are a brutal and cunning Chaos Space Marine Warband which can trace its origins back to the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. Compared to many of the other Grand Companies, the Rusted Sons are exceptionally patient, and have used this patience in conjunction with their aptitude for grand strategy to great effect when battling the forces of the Imperium. The most ancient Traitor Astartes of the warband have armour that is truly rusted in place instead of simply painted in the colour, and the dullness of their armour's trim and pauldrons is more a reflection of its age as opposed to any intentional effect. Newer members of the warband mimic their veteran commanders and brothers by intentionally dulling the colour used for the trim and pauldrons, and some go so far as trying to artificially age their armour to make rust on a superficial level. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Scions of Devastation | |
The Scions of Devastation are an infamous Chaos Warband that broke away from their parent Traitor Legion, the Iron Warriors. The Scions of Devastation answer to Ignus the Irregulator, a Terran-born Iron Warrior that was inducted into the Legiones Astartes in M30. Known then as Igarol, the gifted warrior received his training in Mars under the watchful eyes of the Adeptus Biologicus. During the Horus Heresy, command of the grand company fell to Igarol and his fellow Iron Warriors, Molon following the death of their Exalted Warsmith. Following the defeat of Traitor Legions during the Siege of Terra, Molon wanted to take the Iron Warriors back into Olympia and defend it to the death, while Igarol wanted to preserve the Iron Warriors and follow Perturabo into the Eye of Terror. This caused their Grand Company to split into two separate warbands. After the destruction of Olympia, Igarol changed his name into Ignus, letting his name be buried alongside the memories of the grand company and his sworn brother. The rest of the Iron Warriors followed this ritual and took up the name the Scions of Devastation and swore to avenge the dead Olympians. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Servants of the Truth |  |
The Servants of the Truth are a Chaos Warband formed at the end of the Horus Heresy by Blood Angels that turned away from the Imperium. The Servants of the Truth are primarily driven by their belief that in his final moments, the Primarch Sanguinius turned to Chaos before being slain by not Horus, but the Emperor. Thus, by their service to the Ruinous Powers, they are fulfilling their Gene-Father’s final orders. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Siegebreakers |  |
The Siegebreakers are an infamous Chaos Warband created upon the daemon world of Medrengard by the Black Legion sorcerer Yvael. While governed as part of the Black Legion, their recruitment base is primarily conquered Iron Warriors factions, thus providing the Black Legion with a dedicated specialty unit of consummate siege assault and fortress-breakers. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Skyrar's Dark Wolves |  |
Skyrar's Dark Wolves, also known simply as 'Dark Wolves', are a renegade faction of Chaos Space Marines bearing the genetic lineage of the Space Wolves who turned to the Dark Gods. They were first sighted by Imperial forces operating in the Fenris System. Skyrar's Dark Wolves are a renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines who turned from the Imperium after the Space Wolves' Successor Chapter - the Wolf Brothers - was forced to disband by the Inquisition. The survivors of that conflict bound themselves together under the command of the former Wolf Priest Skyrar. This infamous band of reavers now prowl the stars hunting members of the Inquisition, bringing death to those who would so readily decry loyal members of the Imperium, or selling their services as mercenary trackers and assassins. They worship the wolf-god Morkai from Fenrisian folk-lore. They believe that Morkai will bless them with the wolf within, a higher form of both man and beast intertwined that all members of the warband aspire to embody. (Excommunicate Traitoris) (Note: This warband falls under the Expanded Universe category.) |
| Sons of the Abyss |  |
The Sons of the Abyss is a Chaos Warband dedicated to Chaos Undivided, formed by former loyalist Astartes turned traitor at the culmination of the 41st Millennium. The warband is mostly comprised of Sorcerers and Masters of Possession who use their dark powers to infuse their followers and subordinates with the powers of the warp to form their own small armies of Possessed and Cultists. During the long periods of time that the Warband is stuck in the warp they often find themselves drained of resources and manpower, creating a harsh and brutal environment where only skillful political maneuvering and raw displays of power keep one alive. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Star Flayers |  |
The Star Flayers are a Heretic Astartes warband led by Chaos Lord Serkân Thul the "World Culler" the exiled Undivided Champion from the Word Bearers Traitor Legion. Serkân lead his two brothers and his warbands through iron fist and zealotry. Able to absorb and unite the squandering aimless Chaos Warbands such as the Blight Butchers, Warp Haunters, and Crimson Wyrm to become The Star Flayers where his leadership goes unchallenged and favored. From the newly formed warp storm anomaly known as the "Tears of Shar" at the edge of Ultima Segmentum came out a Great Space Hulk known as the Fist of Luna. Wherever the Space Hulk went by, terror fall into the system it went. For the Heretic Astartes of the Star Flayers poured forth bringing their Legionaries and flaying the planets of its inhabitants, turning it into a Daemon World to please the Dark Gods they serve. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Steel Horizon |  |
The Steel Horizon is a Chaos Warband composed originally of Iron Warriors, but has since recruited Chaos Marines from a wide range of other lineages. Specialising in mobile warfare, the Warband turns to its wide arsenal of vehicles to crush its foes under a relentless tide of moving metal. Typically operating on the machinations of their leader, Lord Savaphoz Kaghast, the Warband will also occasionally act as mercenaries, provided the deal benefits the Warband greatly. In addition to specialising in mobile warfare, the Warband also has a proclivity for engineering new weapon systems or combining weapons systems onto their vehicles, going so far as to incorporate captured xenos weaponry onto their own wargear. This has resulted in mixed results, with some projects ending far better and with fewer unintended deaths of Warband members than others. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| The Strigoi |  |
The Strigoi are an infamous Chaos Warband formed in the wake of the death of their Primarch Konrad Curze at the hands of an Imperial assassin sometime in the 31st Millennium. This caused the Night Lords Legion to fracture into several smaller warbands, each of different philosophies and a state of various degrees of Chaos-corruption, led by their own Talon Master. The Strigoi was born during this inter-Legion strife, comprised of various Legionaries who did not favour the use of Chaos or its corrupting influence. Instead, they held to the old ways in honour of their gene-sire's original vision for the VIIIth Legion - to act as judge, jury and executioner over the sinners across the galaxy, bringing their own form of perceived "justice" in the form of unrestrained terror and brutal torture of the wicked. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Tuskborn Ravagers | |
The Tuskborn Ravagers are a Chaos Warband with roots in the Iron Boars. They have separated from their Loyalist brothers due to the Aprum Sector Civil War. The relatively new warband travels the warp plotting to create an empire for their dark lord to rule. While they actively worship the full pantheon in the vision of Chaos Undivided, their delving into tech-heresy for power sees them contracting with Vashtorr. They still hold to worship of the four main chaos Gods but through their relationship to the Soulforge they remain neutral to all four. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Unchained Confederation | |
The Unchained Confederation is a chaos warband that was created from the thirst for innovation, power and knowledge. They are a grouping of warbands that no longer believe in the Sanctity or righteousness of the Emperor. They feel that the Emperor's rules and visions bog them down from acquiring the power and knowledge that could make them a Power House in the Universe. Although they do not share knowledge and information between the many parts of the warband, they are quite effective considering their erratic and adaptable fighting style. Not knowing exactly who their leader is, puts them at an advantage for their leader cannot be found and killed to terminate the warband activity and if, by happenstance, she was to be killed, any other member can keep the warband together because only a select few know who the leader is. This warband is very adverse to being bogged down by rules and are quite successful in their mission for knowledge and innovation. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Unrivalled |  |
Created as part of the 21st 'Cursed' Founding, the Unrivalled were once staunch, if arrogant defenders of the Imperium of Man, in the years since their creation however, their strive for martial perfection has driven them into the embrace of Khorne, much to the fury of the Third Legion. Since their fall, the Unrivalled has taken a cruel, vicious pleasure in mocking their despised progenitors, twisting the indulgence of Slaanesh and the Emperor's Children by turning all towards Khorne's endless hunger for blood and skulls. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Unwilling Sons |  |
The Unwilling Sons are a Renegade Space Marine Chapter once known as the Sons of Somnius, a formerly Loyalist Successor Chapter created during the ill-fated 21st "Cursed" Founding from the genetic lineage of the Ultramarines. The Chapter was originally created for immaculately planned operations involving both protection roles for other Imperial forces and for devastating attacks where every kill seemed to be calculated. To aid in this role, the Chapter's gene-seed was tampered with to produce mutations that allowed Astartes to glimpse the future though this ultimately caused a side effect of intense paranoia. Since their betrayal of the Imperium, the Unwilling Sons wage war in the Eye of Terror, brokering deals with other forces and betraying them when the paranoia settles in. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Void Stalkers |  |
The Void Stalkers are a formerly Loyalist Successor Chapter of the heroic Blood Angels created during an Unknown Founding that fell from grace and became a notorious Chaos Warband, led by Abraxas Diablo. The Warband serves Baphomet, a Greater Daemon of Chaos Undivided. Operating from their main fortress of Basilica Noctis on the planet Valafar in the Eye of Terror, the Void Stalkers terrorize the Galaxy by launching multiple raids throughout the Materium. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Wall of Iron |  |
The Wall of Iron is a notorious Chaos Warband who were founded in the wake of the events of the War of the Beast by members of the Fists Exemplar Chapter. This was a massive Ork WAAAGH! of an extraordinary size that threatened Terra itself in mid-M32 and brought an end to the prosperous period of Imperial history remembered as the "Time of Rebirth." It was led by the mysterious Warboss known only as "The Beast.". Due to unforeseen circumstances, the First Captain of the Fists Exemplar was forced to align with an Iron Warriors Battalion to survive an attack by a massive greenskin fleet. Choosing to align themselves with their Iron Warriors allies, these Fists Exemplar Astartes further damned themselves when their commander killed a fellow Scion of Dorn the High Marshall of the Black Templars. This decision forced them to walk the path of the traitor forevermore. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Wolves of the Betrayer | |
The Wolves of the Betrayers are a notorious Chaos Warband of great size. Originally hailing from two separate Loyalist Chapters - the Blood Eagles and the The Emperor's Hounds - both went renegade and became adherents of the Ruinous Powers. A large amount of Fallen Angels have joined their forces. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Wraith Claws |  |
The Wraith Claws are a notorious Chaos Warband that were former members of the Shattered Star Space Marine Chapter that was created during the lamentable 21st 'Cursed' Founding. Sometime during the first few centuries of their existence, the lamentable event known as 'The Shattering' occurred, which resulted in the loss of half of the Chapter's battle-brothers. While enroute to answer a distress signal for an Imperial world besieged by Orks, the Chapter entered the warp while a warp storm emerged. This caused half of the fleet to be lost in the warp. When they emerged from their ordeal, they were wholly transformed into willing followers of the Dark Gods. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Writhing Cadavers |  |
Once a Chapter of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion, the Writhing Cadavers threw themselves to the worship of the Dark Gods with a zeal almost unmatched among the Legion. Their beliefs are deemed eccentric even among the Word Bearers; they worship Chaos as a single entity, of whom every Chaos God, daemon, warp storm and even the Anathema are reflected aspects. Known for using Terminator and Dreadnought formations protected by sacrificial cultists and reinforced by so-called "Gal Vorbak", they believe that the constant conflict between these aspects is vital to allowing Chaos to continue to exist and thrive in the dark future of M42. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Wulfbane's Ravagers |  |
Wulfbane's Ravagers is a Red Corsairs warband who have spat on their oaths to Huron Blackheart. They reave the shipping lanes and lightly defended worlds; fighting fiercely if there is something of value to gain. Their lord, Hrimnir, renamed his force after his most famous exploit: stealing all the mjod in The Fang while the Space Wolves were fighting the Thousand Sons. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Angron's Wrath |  |
Angron's Wrath is a warband of the berserker World Eaters. The warband is led by the Chaos Lord Zhâkhul and is made up of ancient Heretic Astartes who have been spilling blood since the dark days of the Horus Heresy. Indeed, the core membership of the Angron's Wrath were once part of the World Eaters 50th Assault Company ("Emperor's Wrath"). The Angron's Wrath warband is loyal to the Blood God Khorne and the Daemon Primarch Angron. The Astartes of Angron's Wrath saw themselves as the personal enforcers and executioners for their Primarch, taking orders directly from and answering only to him. However, Angron's Wrath are rarely in correspondence with their father, instead carrying out what they believe his vision would be. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Battleforged are an infamous Khorne-dedicated warhost that numbers in the thousands with a mix of World Eaters & Iron Warriors to create a brutal meat grinder of a warhost that has crazed Berzerkers as well as powerful warpsmiths and their daemon engines. While all of the warhost is currently involved in the 13th Black Crusade in some way a couple battalions are part of the armada under the control of Archspinner Akemos of the Cabal of Destiny and is amassing to assault the planet of Troii along with the rest of the forces under his control Including the Plague Ravens. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| The Beast Host |  |
The Beast Host is an infamous Renegade Chapter of Space Marines. There is very little intel known about these ravenous cannibals. That is known for sure, but the mass majority of the chapter is mostly hidden and forgotten left to be forever a mystery to the expanded knowledge of the Imperium. Other then the obvious cannibalizing and hatred for the weak it has also been expected that these renegades have been known to have a odd combination of Greco Roman and Satanist culture if the names of their battle brothers are anything to go by as well as that they seem to have fallen to Chaos God known as Khorne. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Blood Beasts |  |
The Blood Beasts are a notorious Khornate Chaos Warband descended from the bitter siege-lords of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion, infamous across the breadth of the Imperium of Man for their refusal to give into mindless berserk bloodlust like so many followers of the blood god the Blood Beasts make war with a cold detached loathing, all the better to reap Khorne's tally and grind down the defeated to feed the machine of war. When the Blood Beasts go to war they bring with them a menagerie of daemonic horrors, due to their leader; daemon prince Kr'atos Wrathchild also commanding the daemonic legion known as the Ashborn the Blood Beasts are able to bring with them innumerable daemon engines. As a member of the chaotic alliance known as the Children of Madness the Blood Beasts often serve alongside the Nurglite Sisters of Battle Order of the Decayed Rose, Tzeentchian marines; Tyrants of Destiny and the Slaaneshi warband; the Howls of Ecstasy. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Blood Jaws |  |
The Blood Jaws are a formerly Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines created during an Unknown Founding, and from uncertain lineage, in 013.M37. This bellicose and ferocious Chapter was created in order to stand as a bulwark against constant attacks in and around the Eye of Terror, from both the Forces of Chaos and various xenos threats. Unfortunately, within the first century of their creation, the Chapter fell from the light of the Emperor, for unknown to them, their first Chapter Master had been corrupted by a Greater Daemon of Khorne. Following their ill-fated sojourn into the Eye of Terror, the Blood Jaws was slowly corrupted by the insidious touch of the Blood God. When they finally emerged, they had been transformed into a large Chaos Warband, wholly dedicated to slaughter and murder. Now they commit the most obscene levels of carnage wherever they go, in tribute to their brutal and bloody deity. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Blood Templars are a Renegade Chaos Space Marine Warband characterized by a Chivalric Code and their Zealous Crusade. As a renegade chapter of the Black Templars, their existence is kept a secret, and are constantly hunted by their former leader and Black Templar, Castellan Grattus Kermine. Unusually for a Khornate Warband they do not directly worship Khorne, instead worshipping the War-god Ershon of their lost homeworld Cambraie Primus. Furthermore, while they can fall into psychotic blood-rages (as all servants of Khorne), they generally strive to avoid such behavior unless approaching an enemy champion or monster. They maintain a fleet of civilian-manned ships and recruit exclusively from said population (or the strongest sons of a conquered world). (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Bloodborn Wolves |  |
The Bloodborn Wolves are an infamous Chaos Warband comprised of former Space Wolves Astartes that fell to the worship of the Chaos Blood God, Khorne. Renaming themselves the Bloodborn Wolves, these Heretic Astartes have given themselves over to the beast within, revelling in bloodletting and beastial fury. Now, as Khorne's chosen, they have turned on the Emperor, whom they see as the 'Arch-Sorcerer'. They slaughter all in their path, taking skulls and trophies from their fallen opponents for the glory of the Blood God. The Bloodborn Wolves are split into two factions which are divided into two major sections. They perfectly represent Khorne's dual nature, with some of the group, known simply as "The Bloodborn" - representing martial prowess and honour - while the other side, known as "The Bloodied" - represent corruption, anger and bloodshed. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Bloody Hymn | |
The Bloody Hymn is a name that strikes fear into the hearts of those who are both remotely sane and unlucky enough to have heard of it. Carving a path of slaughter and destruction wherever they go, this Warband of Khorne-worshipping Chaos Space Marines were once a loyal Chapter of Adeptus Astartes descended from noble and heroic Blood Angels. Though the Bloody Hymn once reflected this nobility they have since devolved into treacherous monsters in service of the Blood God and a horrifying example of what sons of Sanguinius may become if they turn from the light of the Emperor. In many ways, they remind their cousins of the World Eaters Traitor Legion, yet through their rampage they maintain an odd, twisted grace about them, a twisted mockery of inner excellence and hope that is innate to those of the Blood. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Corrupted Scorpions | |
The Corrupted Scorpions is a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Blood God Khorne. They originated from the loyalist Penitent Scorpions Chapter and rebelled against their loyalist brethren in 463.M41 after they came under the influence of Khorne. The traitors ravaged world after world as they chased the loyalists to the feudal world of Mezicus where they were defeated after their leader, Sarth Tranar, was killed by Arterion Joron, Chapter Master of the Penitent Scorpions. The survivors, approximately 400 or so Chaos Space Marines, fled into the Eye of Terror, where they found and claimed the daemon world of Scorza, in the name of Khorne. They would then go on to terrorize the Imperium for the next 600 years and were loathed by their loyalist brethren who took any chance they had to hunt them down. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Crimson Hyenas |  |
The Crimson Hyenas are an infamous Chaos warband, derived from the bloody-handed World Eaters Traitor Legion. They were originally formed as an Inductii Company with the sole purpose of being used as mere meatshields and cannon fodder to support the veterans of the legion. Under the leadership of the animalistic and savage Captain Gorgum, the rabid and frothing horde that was the 212th Inductii Company quickly fell in line behind their Captain. Instilling a tribal discipline amongst the company, for the short remainder of the Horus Heresy the 212th Inductii proved almost to be an almost competent force. However, after the Heresy had passed the Company joined their legion in exile within the Eye of Terror. Gorgum would take his company and abandon his legion, walking their own path and becoming little more than mercenaries and scavengers with a thirst for blood and great devotion to the Lord of Rage - Khorne. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Crimson Thunderers |  |
The Crimson Thunderers is a Chaos Warband dedicated to the Chaos God, Khorne. They were once a loyalist Chapter descended from the noble Blood Angels during the 23rd 'Sentinel' Founding. The Crimson Thunderers suffered many problems over the centuries, with a large portion of their forces falling to the Red Thirst and Black Rage, following the destruction of their homeworld Ion Delta near the end of the 40th Millennium. During the Gothic War, the entire Chapter provided aid near the end of the war, but were betrayed when Imperial Forces abandoned them when a massive World Eaters warband attack the planet Oran. The rage they felt at that action drove the survivors into madness, eventually falling under the loyalty of the Khorne, who empowered these new followers to slaughter most of the World Eaters. Taking the survivors, the Crimson Thunderers now set out across the galaxy to get revenge on the ungrateful Imperium, spilling their blood for the Blood God. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Gore Sons |  |
The Gore Sons is a large World Eaters warband which coalesced from the wars for possession of the Daemon Primarch Angron's former chainaxe, Gorefather. The warband's leader, Griven 'Skullfiend' Krassek, currently wields this dark relic and has been blessed by Khorne. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Heirs of Blood are an infamous Chaos Warband within the Segmentum Obscurus, comprised of Khorne-worshipping Astartes. They took their name from their self-perceived ownership of the legacy of the World Eaters, loathing with vitriol what the legion has turned into as a result of Skalathrax, remembering the events there with utmost shame and disgust. Their most important goal, above all else, is the discovery of some sort of cure, medical or warp-borne, for the Butcher's Nails, seeing the devices as the cause of the events on Skalathrax. Without the knowledge of creating Astartes with the Butcher's Nails absent, the Heirs of Blood fell into worship of Khorne, finding limited relief from the curse. Now, as followers of the Blood God, the warband butchers and kills any in their path, in an attempt to achieve their coveted goal of purification from the Butcher's Nails. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Hounds of Cerberus |   |
The Hounds of Cerberus are a notorious Chaos Warband whose real origins are completely unknown. The traditions of the warband are based on an absolute devotion to War, unusual even for Astartes, which led them to follow Khorne as their own God. However, they honour Khorne as the God of War and martial pride, and they believe the cults that venerate him as the Blood God are simple fanatics who misrepresent the true path of War, and that their fate is to became no more than cannon fodder. Unlike many servants of Chaos, the Hounds of Cerberus do not consider themselves aligned with the legions of Chaos. They fight only for their own purposes or, not infrequently, have sold their services to the highest bidder. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Lost Hounds of Istvaan | |
The Lost Hounds of Istvaan are the splinter warband of Traitor Legions that formerly belonged to the World Eaters, and are dedicated to the worship of Chaos God Khorne. Formerly they were called as the 82nd Battalion of the World Eaters Legion. They were formed into a separate faction in the wake of events of death of Warmaster Horus and the defeat of the Traitor Legions during the epic Siege of Terra, and subsequent flight into the Eye of Terror. The 82nd Battalion would suffer many casualties during the Great Scouring. If not for the leadership of Lieutenant Commander Thalrak, the scattered battalion of World Eaters would have been wiped out by Imperial forces, instead they fled and took refuge within the hellish realm of the Ocularis Terribilis. For years they remained stranded within the volatile realm, fighting off against other splintered warbands of Traitor Legion, but with the arrival of a lone Fallen Angel hailing from the Ist Legion and subsequent assimilation of a weakened splinter warband of Night Lords faction, and made their long journey out of the Eye of Terror. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Ravager Jackals |  |
The Ravager Jackals are a bellicose and savage Chaos Warband that fanatically follows the Blood God Khorne. Originating from the merciless and uncompromising Iron Warriors Traitor Legion, a tetrarchy of former Warsmiths formed a separate formation and struck out on their own, eventually becoming the notorious Ravager Jackals Chaos Warband. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Red Swords |  |
The Red Swords are a notorious Warband of Chaos Space Marines that broke off from the rest of the World Eaters Traitor Legion after witnessing Captain Kharn's Massacre of the Legion at the Battle of Skalathrax. Led by the former World Eaters' 58thCompany's Captain Konok, the 'Red Slayer', this notorious Warband set out among the stars to raid and pillage in Khorne's name, and to claim whatever spoils of war remained. In time the Red Swords grew to the point where some say that their numbers rivaled that of the Red Corsairs though this claim may be true. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Shackles of Khorne |   |
The Shackles of Khorne are a ferocious, if oddly lucid, band of Chaos Space Marines and fanatic cultist followers. Led by their enigmatic and devout Dark Apostle, Lord Arkhamos Esephotokylanam, who despite being a devout lord of the Blood God, is as intelligent and cunning as any Tzneetchian tactician. Their goal is to consume the entire galaxy in an orgy of blood and violence, and to this end, recruit as many followers and devotees as they can. As a result, those entering battle with the Shackles of Khorne risk not only their lives, but their souls, as these scions of the blood god will capture alive those enemies they deem worthy, and break them until they are fanatic disciples of Khorne. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Sons of Makhai |  |
The Sons of Makhai are a warband formed from the IVth Legion after the Great Scouring. Formerly the 43rd Grand Battalion, the Sons of Makhai are dedicated to the Blood God Khorne and specialise in brutal close-quarters combat and siege techniques. The warband is also allied with an unnamed Dark Mechanicum sect and in combination with these hereteks, the Sons of Makhai are adept at the crafting and subjugation of Daemon Engines. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Sons of Victory | |
The Sons of Victory are a Khornate Chaos Space Marine Warband comprised of three smaller and formerly Loyalist Successor Chapters of the Raven Guard, Salamanders and Iron Hands. While they worship Khorne, they do not go on crusades of mindless slaughter, instead fighting worthy opponents in great gladiatorial arenas in honourable combat. More so, they govern the Veinhold Empire, and are currently defending it from loyalist forces. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Sons of the Black Impaler |  |
The Sons of the Black Impaler are a notoriously savage and horribly violent Chaos Warband that originally hailed from the Loyalist Draconian Impalers Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes, as well as traitors from various Blood Angel chapters. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Trial |   |
The Trial is a mysterious Chaos warband dedicated to Khorne known for never uttering a word in battle and preferring to attack other Chaos warbands over imperials or xenos. This odd trait is attributed to their belief that only the strong may fight for Chaos while the weak perish. Thus if a warband shows any sign of weakness such as suffering a humiliating defeat or failing in their objectives, then the Trial will come for them like predators attracted to the scent of blood. There have been many occasions of the Trial being wiped out, either by a strong warband or by themselves, yet they continue to reappear time and time again. As of M42, the Trial is in its 64th incarnation. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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Bound to the will of the Bloodthirster Woaroch, Woaroch's Wagers, are Chaos Champions across the galaxy who sealed pacts with the Blood God’s Greater Daemon. Woaroch’s demands are simple: his followers must wage war in his name and offer him the skulls of worthy warriors; in return, the Bloodthirster bestows mighty boons. Every skull claimed in Woaroch's name restores his honor and reduces his sentence in the Warp. Once Woaroch gathers a thousandfold more than a thousand worthy skulls, the Blood God shall free the apocalyptic Bloodthirster from Khorne’s Rage. There, Woaroch has remained since his banishment. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| World Eaters 23rd Grand Assault Company | |
The World Eaters 23rd Grand Assault Company emerged from the tumultuous era of the Horus Heresy, and stands apart from other Khorne Berserker units due to its unique approach to warfare. In contrast to the unrestrained frenzy often associated with Khorne's followers, this company retains a semblance of its pre-heresy-era discipline. Distinguishing themselves further, they incorporate heavy weapons and armor into their ranks, forming a deadly combination with their brutal shock troops leading assaults in a true display of combined arms tactics. What sets the 23rd Grand Assault Company apart is a dark pact forged with Khorne, a deal to temper their bloodlust. In exchange for maintaining a semblance of discipline for a longer duration, the company pledged to offer an unending stream of skulls to Khorne's glory. Amused at their arguments Khorne obliged, but only as long as the skulls and blood flowed. This dark bargain allowed the company to retain a level of strategic coherence during their assaults, making them a force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. This strategic decision enables the 23rd Grand Assault Company to execute more methodical and sustained assaults, culminating in the acquisition of a substantial number of skulls for the Blood God. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Academy of the Most Sublime Art |   |
The Academy of the Most Sublime Art is a Chaos Warband that operates as a murderous art academy. They believe that the highest human artistic expression is the craft of war, murder and assassination; and that Slaanesh is a Great Muse that motivates them to master this violent art form, as well as all other artistic crafts. They also hold the religious belief that their warband was chosen by the Prince of Pleasure to play a special role in the future, as it was prophesised that one of their ranks will one day rise to recreate a destroyed artistic masterpiece known as the "Obra Magna", a work of art so beautiful that they believe could unite all of humanity under the devotion of the Great Muse. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Angels of Sin |  |
The Angels of Sin is a Chaos Space Marines warband dedicated to the Chaos God Slaanesh known for their hatred towards the Imperial Creed and their cannibalistic tendencies, eating their victims alive. The warband is led by B'osch, the Archangel of Slaanesh, a Daemon Prince and former Chaos Sorcerer of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion who left them to enter into the service of Slaanesh, hating the religious asceticism of his former brethren. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Angels of Succession |  |
The Angels of Succession are a notorious Slaaneshii Chaos Warband that has plagued the galaxy for over ten millennia. In another age they hailed from the Fifteenth Company of the fallen Emperor's Children Traitor Legion. Following the end of the Horus Heresy and their eventual exile into the hellish realm of the Eye of Terror, the former Emperor's Children fought a desperate battle for survival against their rivals from the other Traitor Legions, all while desperately trying to maintain their honour and dignity as they slipped deeper and deeper into madness and corruption by the Pleasure God Slaanesh. Realising their fate didn't have to be fixed, their commander declared that he would stem the tide of hedonism and debauchery and restore what remained of the Third Legion to their former glory. Declaring himself the rightful Lord Commander of the Emperor's Children, he renamed his followers the 'Angels of Succession', and has continued to wage the Long War against the followers of the false 'Corpse God', all while attempting to have his former legion rise from the ashes like the mythical phoenix. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Angels of the Voracious Chalice |  |
The Angels of the Voracious Chalice, known commonly as 'The Voracious', are an infamous and savage Chaos Warband that were once members of the noble but doomed Knights of the Throne Space Marine Chapter. This Lost Chapter of the Blood were doomed to the Blood God Khorne by fate, but are now bound to the Prince of Pleasure by choice. Connoisseurs of blood, they seek new flavours by mixing the blood of xenos, daemon and the myriad breeds of humans together. Special pleasure is taken in rite of Black Sanguinalia, an impromptu celebration that takes place whenever they defeat their own gene kin in battle. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Artists of Agony |  |
The Artists of Agony are a notorious Chaos Warband that is small in numbers, yet cunning mind. They are a Slaanesh-worshipping Chaos warband that control the world of Dragoste as their own twisted demesne. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Cult of the 6 Arms |  |
The Cult of the 6 Arms is a Chaos Cult devoted to the Dark Prince Slaanesh, and a Vassal of the Knights of Laeran. The Cult is focused on achieving perfection and complete mastery over their own bodies, and thus the Cult is separated into 6 Arms to represent the ways of achieving this. The Cult originally hailed from the Coroxian System until they were forced to flee by the Argent Leviathans during the Coroxian Crusade. After this, the Cult spent many centuries drifting throughout the galaxy, increasing their overall numbers and destroying any who refused their gift of perfection. Now, they serve as a Vassal of the Knights of Laeran, but their true loyalty only lies in their leader, Amet Volupte. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| The Enraptured |  |
The Enraptured are a warband of Heretic Astartes who are zealously devoted to Slaanesh. They are the remnants of various Emperor's Children forces and other Slaanesh-worshippers who have allied to increasing their god's power and serve him in the Great Game. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Flawless Heralds |   |
The Flawless Heralds are a Chaos Warband formed by elements from the Emperor's Children and survivors of the 69th Grand Company of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legions, seduced and later corrupted by a Daemon of Slaanesh. The Flawless Heralds follows the mysterious designs of their daemonic master and if a good offer is presented, they join the battle of others as mercenaries. Interested to achieve perfection in their warfare art, they are prideful, cruel and ruthless. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Forsworn |   |
The Forsworn are an infamous Chaos Warband of Heretic Astartes dedicated to the perfection of killing, and thus servants of the Chaos God Slaanesh. The feared Warband stalks Imperial space lanes, plundering and murdering as they see fit. This was not always so, for once they were a promising Loyalist Space Marine Chapter, aspiring to great accolades and glories, the former Astral Consuls fell into a tragic downfall of ill-fate which led to the destruction of their beloved home-planet of Costov, as well as the branding of the Chapter as Excommunicate Traitoris and declared Renegades. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Grand Hellguard |   |
The Grand Hellguard is a Traitor Guard warband primarily devoted to the worship of Slaanesh. Originally the Ashimar 30th "Show Stoppers" Infantry Regiment, they fell to the sway of the Dark Prince while battling a cultist uprising on the hive world of Paradius. However, while many followers of Slaanesh are utterly lost to sadism and depravity, these fallen Ashimar maintained a semblance of discipline and self-control. They are driven by one goal: the conquest of their homeworld, Ashimar, and the destruction of their loyalist kin, the Ashimar Nova Guard. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Pain Harvesters is an Emperor's Children warband that formed following the Slave Wars, claiming an ancient agri world turned daemon world of pleasure and striking out often to gather slaves and materials as well as cause general havoc somewhere in the Imperium. (Traitoris Maximus) |
| Pink Tabards |  |
The Pink Tabards are a large and old Slaanesh Chaos Warband led by Duke Penolan the Glorious and the Council of 6. They are mostly Emperor's Children but have members from any chapter or legion who fell to the worship of She Who Thirsts. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Princes of Quintessence |  |
The Princes of Quintessence are a Chaos Warband of the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion dedicated to the Chaos God Slaanesh. The warband is led by Pygmalion, a Chaos Lord affiliated with the Phoenix Conclave, a collection of leaders of various Emperor's Children warbands whose goal is restoring the former IIIrd Legion to its old glory and await the return of their Primarch Fulgrim. Prior to their fall to Chaos, the Princes of Quintessence were once the 6th Millennial of the IIIrd Legiones Astartes, the Emperor's Children. The oldest members of the warband were veterans of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, with Pygmalion, previously serving as the Lord Commander of the IIIrd Legion's 6th Millennial. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Princes of Vanity |  |
The Princes of Vanity are an infamous Chaos Warband descended from the ranks of the vile and infamous Emperor's Children Traitor Legion, and are extremely dedicated followers of the Chaos Pleasure God, Slaanesh. They were created by Vanitas, a member of the Daemon Primarch 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. As the legion changed to become hedonistic barbarians, Vanitas had enough. Vanitas rallied all the men 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. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Scions of Ostentine |  |
The Scions of Ostentine, infamous for their gaudy displays of wealth and pride, raid the galaxy in search of precious metals. With these, the warband’s Astartes show their devotion to the Motive Force and Dark Mechanicum by replacing their eyes and teeth with metal replicas; electricity courses through their veins and crackles between their jaws as streams of endless code flood their minds with mechanical bliss. Blessed knowledge of tactical strategies, battle reports, and combat techniques pour into the Scions’ minds with rapturous sensation, even in the throes of battle. The Scions of Ostentine augment their bodies much like the Cult Mechanicus and communicate with one another in streams of code. The prideful Scions consider it a great inconvenience to speak in biological tongues, often demanding translators from any who petition their supplies or services. The respect their warband demands, however, is not often returned: the Scions view baseline humans and those with fewer cybernetics as inferior. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Serrated Caress |  |
The Serrated Caress are a warband of Raptors and Chaos Space Marines from the fractured Night Lords Traitor Legion. This warband has found favour with Slaanesh due to their extreme sadism, obsession with the hunt, and the excessive terror they induce in their victims. They operate primarily in Segmentum Ultima. (Traitoris Perdita) (Note: This warband falls under the Expanded Universe category.) |
| Sisters of the Night |  |
The Sisters of the Night, are a Slaaneshi warband that was created when a small number of Adepta Sororitas were corrupted by Chaos during a joint mission with the Verum Illuminate. These Sisters' original order was the Order of the Dawn but they had taken the oath of Repentance and had joined the ranks of the Repentias. Slowly, whispers of doubt and corruption started poisoning her mind. Julia Sansoucy was the founder of the Sisters of the Night. Being well-liked and a great fighter, she became a role model for the other sisters Repentia. Those who knew her best would follow her without any question so when she fell to Slaanesh, four other sisters followed. They are now a minor Order of Slaanesh, as they called themselves, recruiting civilians and other sisters who would have ended up in a penitent engine or Mortifier, to fill their ranks. The sisters of the Night are fleet-based warband and move from adventure to adventure on a whim but some are stationed in orbit of Slaanesh cult strongholds in order to protect the planet. (Traitoris Maximus) |
| Sons of Drahkule | |
The Sons of Drahkule or the 'Strigoi' are a notoriously dark and debased Chaos Warband that hails from the bleak mountainous feral world of Carpathius IV. They are a warband known for their sick yet oddly eloquent and noble nature as they impale their enemies outside of their decrepit fortress monastery like lawn ornaments. Masters of torture, manipulation, and flesh shapers, the Sons of Drahkule are diabolical and calculated in their plans of corruption and seduction as they seek to seep every city and every hive with the blessings of Slaanesh even if they have to use fear to do so. In fact, their love of torture and drawing out fear one of the things that keep them in the praises of the Dark Prince. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Sons of Phthisis |  |
The Sons of Phthisis are a splinter warband of Chaos Space Marines that formerly belonged to the Sons of Horus Legion and are dedicated to Slaanesh. Following the death of their Primarch Horus during the final battle of the Horus Heresy and their subsequent retreat into the Eye of Terror, the Sons of Phthisis were among those who took refuge on the Daemon World of Maleum. After the destruction of Maleum and the splintering of the XVIth Legion, the former Centurion Phobire formed his own warband of those who were still loyal to the memory of their fallen Primarch and led them into hiding on the derelict moon of Phthisis to lick their wounds and escape persecution from Abaddon and the other Legions, hence naming themselves the Sons of Phthisis. Unlike others from their former Legion, the Sons of Phthisis began to worship the Chaos God Slaanesh in an attempt to gain favour from a single God to aid in their survival, the pleasures of Slaanesh also providing pain relief from their cursed existence. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Violators of Pain are a Chaos warband of Heretic Astartes primarily drawn from the Emperor's Children Traitor Legion and devoted to Slaanesh, the Prince of Pleasure. Like all followers of Slaanesh, they have devolved from the once great Astartes they were into insane degenerates unable to differentiate pleasure from pain, living only to inflict pain on any unlucky enough to fall into their hands. Led by an infernal Daemon Prince of Slaanesh known as the Soul Eater, the Violators of Pain have plagued the Galaxy for nigh on 10,000 years. Thankfully, their raids into realspace are rare but are always accompanied by great loss of life and displays of sadism and mutilation of a scale rarely seen, however since the emergence of the Great Rift, their raids have become far more common as they seek the knowledge necessary to find and devour the Aeldari Craftworld of Mynathensar whose inhabitants have thwarted the goals of the Souleater, time and time again. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Astral Wardens |  |
Once the Astral Wardens were a loyalist Space Marine Chapter of the glorious Adeptus Astartes. They fight over millennials for the Imperium and humanity. Until the day the despicable Lord of Change Kairos Fateweaver committed what is perhaps his most hateful act. He occupied the Astral Wardens with a terrible curse. Henceforth, they regarded the Emperor's loyal servants as heretics and the followers of Chaos as the Emperor's loyal servants. And now so deceived, they wage an endless and futile war against those whom they have recognized as loyal leaders and protect the corrupt slaves of the dark gods. It is hoped that their curse will eventually be broken and that they can rejoin humanity. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Azure Blades |  |
The Azure Blades are an infamous Chaos Warband comprised of Heretic Astartes that follow the Chaos God of Change - Tzeentch. They were once a loyalist Successor Chapter, created from the noble and heroic lineage of the proud Ultramarines during the ill-fated 21st Founding, the so-called 'Cursed Founding'. The Chapters of this particular founding were both wracked with genetic mutations as well as catastrophic, and oftentimes, spontaneous and uncontrollable genetic flaws. However, their lust for acquiring forbidden knowledge would lead the Chapter down a dark and twisting path, forever damning them for all eternity, as they found themselves enslaved to the Architect of Fate. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Blue Claws |  |
The Blue Claws is an infamous Chaos Warband that was originally a Loyalist Chapter, known as the Fists of Justice. Their devastation at the hands of an unknown chaos-tainted plague brought them great shame and resentment. This shame caused them to abandon their oaths to the Imperium and be cast out as renegades. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Blue Hand |  |
The Blue Hand Chaos Space Marine Warband are a small force of Traitor Astartes born of the former Loyalist Chapter of the same name. Being few in number, the Blue Hand have sought to raise heretical cults on worlds across the Ultima Segmentum. Such cults are known as The Cult of the Blue Hand of Tzeentch. They are dedicated to the Chaos God of change, as are the Blue Hand Marines, and incorporate the Warband’s eponymous sigil into their iconography. The Blue Hand Space Marine Chapter was a respected loyalist force for millenia, before their fall to Chaos. Now, those few Imperials who know of their existence speak their name with the deepest scorn and the fiercest hatred. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Brotherhood of the Sacred Mother |  |
Brotherhood of the Sacred Mother is a Chaos Warband under Tzeentch rule that is dedicated to the Fallen Tech Priestess Jazmine. Who is now a Tech Sorcerer for Tzeentch and working on becoming a Champion. The Warband is made up entirely of fallen Azure Ravens Space Marines, Chapter Serfs, and occasionally some cultists who managed to get lucky to be put in the Warband. As wars go on and the Azure Ravens Crusade. Every Fallen Raven goes directly to Jazmine's Warband. Be it serf or Chapter Master. As time goes on though, her influence wanes and the Azure Ravens fight her influence and slowly break free. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Cabal of Destiny |  |
The Cabal of Destiny is a Chaos warcult dedicated to the Chaos Lord of Change, Tzeentch and lead by a Thousands Sons Chaos Sorcerer named Akemos, his loyal sorcerer followers, a former Void Paladins Astartes named Xzore the Splinterer, who brought the foundation for there gene-seed, and a Heretek named Relth of the Dark Mechanicum, who supplies there vehicle and munitions. There mechanicum allies have skitarii & servitors as well as a scrap planet called the Orb. Recently Akemos has gained favor with Abaddon after the Fall of Cadia, giving him access to millions of cultists, thousands of air & ground vehicles, dozens of warships & void transports, several warbands of chaos astartes, & a squad of Abaddon's Chosen to join the Honor guard of Akemos. (Traitoris Perdia) |
| Carrion Crows |  |
The Carrion Crows are a blight upon the stars - once noble warriors of the Adeptus Astartes, now twisted heralds of damnation. They operate from within the malignant warp rifts known as the Hellgates, twin cyclones of empyrean madness perilously close to the cradle of the Imperium itself - less than a thousand light-years from Holy Terra. Of these storms, the Ashaklun Gate serves as their rotting nest, from which they issue forth like flies from a carcass to strike at the realms of Mankind. These Heretic Astartes were once the proud warriors of the 8th Company of the War Ravens Chapter - descendants of Corvus Corax - masters of shadow and silence. Now, they are no more than mockeries of that noble lineage, their oaths shattered and their flesh branded by the twisting promises of Tzeentch, the Changer of Ways. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Ebon Talons |  |
The Ebon Talons are a traitorous chapter of Heretic Astartes formerly named the Emperor's Talons. Utilising the gene-stock of the ancient and wild White Scars, the Emperor's Talons were created as a part of the 23rd Founding, the so-called 'Sentinel Founding', which occurred during the latter part of the M37 and early M38. Corrupted during the fratricidal war known as the Endrabian Heresy, the Talons have carved out an empire as vassals of the Lord of Change Gra'ndruz the Fleshweaver. Now fully enthralled by Tzeentch, the Ebon Talons have constructed a degenerate philosophy worshipping mutation as the cause of human salvation. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Grimoire Heralds |  |
The Grimoire Heralds are a break-away, independent Sect of the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion originating from an unknown Cult. The Grimoire Heralds roam the galaxy, obsessed with bringing about their unknowable "Grand Plan" by creating upheaval, gathering knowledge, and collecting artifacts. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Hands of Ske'ghor |  |
The Hands of Ske'ghor are a mysterious but sinister Tzeentch-aligned warband dedicated to the Lord of Change known as Ske'ghor. The origins of this warband are unknown, with the only information pertaining to the warband in Imperial records being their name, recognized engagements with the Imperium, and known members. According to available records, the Hands of Ske'ghor have been responsible for the spread of hundreds of cults that worship Ske'ghor and its writings. Said cults have caused the downfall of several star systems, and many within the Inquisition, particularly the Ordo Hereticus, suspect that they may be responsible for some incursions by various xenos races as well. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Heralds of Treason |  |
The Heralds of Treason were once a loyal chapter called the Blades Mordant which fell to Chaos during the Abyssal Crusade. Completely unaware of their own corruption, they returned to the Imperium which promptly tried to exterminate them. Reviled and driven back into the Eye of Terror, they surrendered themselves to the service of Tzeentch. Due to the increased risk of mutation, the warband contains more Chaos Spawn than most. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Immortal Sons |  |
The 'Immortal Sons' were once a Thrallband of the Cult of Knowledge within the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion, being exiled by the Thousand Sons Magnus the Red because of the cults obsession with the accession of The Emperor of Mankind. The Immortal Sons have searched the galaxy for the secret of behind the Emperors apparent godhood, so that they themselves may rise to the same rank as the Emperor and be reborn gods, scouring any imperial world that may come in there path towards there holy mission. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Lords of Chains |  |
The Lords of Chains are a Tzeentch-aligned Iron Warriors warband led by Warsmith Iram Maleros. The warband has gained a fearsome reputation both inside and outside the Eye of Terror for their brutality. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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The Mad Thinkers are a ragtag Warband of Chaos Space Marine made up of Traitor Astartes who defected from the ranks of the Imperium from an unknown Loyalist Chapter. They are known to be many, but are rarely seen in action. They see no interest in participating in the Black Crusades as they lack the influence to make changes on the Warmaster's tactics. Most of their existence is devoted to the study and preparations of pinpoint strikes against the Imperium, often reliant on domino effects and roundabout moves. More than destroying the Imperium like their fellow Traitors, the Mad Thinkers primarily want to prove themselves superior schemers and worthy of the full attention of their patron deity, Tzeentch. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| March of Flames |  |
The March of Flames (also known as the Marching Flames) is a diverse doomsday cult, notorious for its fiery sermons and tactics as well as its otherworldly allies. Organized into Congregations led by Daemonhosts, the various denominations of the Marching Flames worship facets of warpflame. They also share the universal belief in Oceanfire: the March of Flames seeks out planets with large bodies of water, especially Ocean Worlds, to bring about apocalyptic change; once the Marching Flames firmly establish themselves, a psyker sets themselves alight and drowns on the planet, igniting its oceans like oil and causing them to boil away. The world is then subjected to daemonic invasion as the Scintillating Legions warp it into another dominion of Tzeentch. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Ninefold Acolytes |  |
The Ninefold Acolytes are a notorious Chaos Warband comprised of the remnants of the formerly Loyalist Grey Gorgons, a Successor Chapter of the stoic and unforgiving Iron Hands, created during the 25th Founding. They are currently led by the former Librarian and now Sorcerer Lord Thanatos. They are known to worship the Minor Chaos God Charon, and to a lesser extent, Tzeentch. Although the core group of members of this warband were all originally Traitor Grey Gorgons, casualties have reduced their number, and it is not known if any still live. Some of the Chapter may have remained loyal and may have even fought during the Centurion War against their former brothers. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Ninefold Knights are chaos Warband of Tzeentch made up of members of the Alpha Legion and Fallen Angels. They inhabit the Segmentum Ultima and scavenge different planets by causing civil wars and inner conflicts between small systems. Their Warlord is Galeth the Ninefold Sorcerer who gained his title by causing a civil war so great in a system with nine different planets and wiping out almost the entire population of the system in a grand plot, gaining the favour of Tzeentch. The Ninefold Knights are known in Imperial records to have great armour, usually of the Mk III and Mk VI patterns of power armour. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Obsidian Suns, known formally as the Cult of the Obsidian Sun, are an unconfirmed Chaos Warband of the Fallen Primarch, Magnus the Red, of the once Loyal XV Legion - the Thousand Sons. Splitting off from the bulk of their Legion, this roving Chapter eventually found their own world to call their own and claimed it in the name of the Lord of Change - Tzeentch. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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The One Truth is a little known, fleet based Chaos Warband that takes their name from their creed, "There is but one truth in the universe, and that is change." The members of this Chaos Warband worship the god of change, Tzeentch, and believe that change is the driving force in all of existence. As part of their belief, they cast aside any and all ties to the past, so it is unknown who they were before they fell to Chaos or anything about their genetic heritage. It is nearly impossible to predict what they will do in any given combat situation as well, since they are always changing their battle tactics and rarely use the same formations or strategies twice. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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The Privileged are an infamous Chaos Warband that were formerly known as the Sons of Tyreme, a Successor Chapter of the stoic Imperial Fists that was created during the 23rd 'Sentinel' Founding in the latter part of M37. After two millennia of loyal service, the Chapter eventually fell to the corrupting influence of Chaos in M39 and were declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the High Lords of Terra. They later became the Chaos Warband known as The Privileged. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Tizcan Anathemas |  |
The Tizcan Anathemas are a mysterious warband originating from the Thousand Sons Legion. A sect of the Cult of Time, the mad sorcerers who lead this warband have set upon the quest of changing the past itself. Though a seemingly unattainable goal, the Lord Magister T'Varos will stop at nothing until either he is dead, or his impossible goals are achieved. From their former their warp-soaked planet of Tahaddine Primus, they have launched countless strikes to gather powerful artifacts, weaken critical worlds, or crush future opponents to advance their grand scheme. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Warp Serpents |  |
The Warp Serpents are a Chaos Warband from the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion. Like their parent Legion, they are dedicated to the Chaos God Tzeentch. They are led by the Chaos Sorcerer Thoth Ibis, formerly a member of the Legion's 1st Brotherhood and a part of the Pavoni Cult. Thoth's thirst for knowledge and the understanding of where all things come from and where they will end made him take some of his own forces, including a substantial number of fellow Sorcerers, and form his warband. The Warp Serpents now travel the galaxy, searching for ancient relics, both xenos and humans and battling the many factions and races they come across. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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The Blightborn are a warband (more commonly known as a 'vectorium') from the Death Guard Traitor Legion's 4th Plague Company: The Wretched which operates as the personal army of Bardorax the Exile. Having suffered a humiliating defeat which reflected poorly upon their patron god, Bardorax and his remaining followers have temporarily lost Nurgle's favour and are a shadow of their former selves. Cast out from their demesne, and known as the Scions in Exile, they now roam the galaxy in search of redemption. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Brotherhood of Half-Life |  |
The Brotherhood of Half-Life was born on a dead world as the Imperium entered the Age of Apostasy, in M36. Amid the atomic stench and the fading glow of detonated missiles, Korughar, one of the lesser lords of the Seventh Plague Company, took command of the last surviving warriors of his septic cohort. Standing on the defeated daemon of the Deceiving God, he shouted unholy oaths, promising the Great Grandfather a true manifestation of faith and service. Since then, the worlds of the Imperium have been overwhelmed by new misfortunes, for the strength of the Brotherhood grows in proportion to it's offerings to the Gardens, and their gifts are very, very numerous. Awarded with the Mantle of Corruption, Korughar combined the best features of his Legion's knowledge - the monstrous Gifts of the otherworldly kingdom, savage rituals, the immoral possibilities of necromancy and alchemy, as well as the natural law of nature into the basis of the Brotherhood's martial doctrines. Their specialization is the recreation of that shaky border between life and death on each of the visited worlds, in order to generate as many and as many different life forms as possible. The worlds of mortals for them are nothing more than seeds, and the enemies, trying in vain to stop them, are only fertilizers, a consumable for their holy duty. Because of this approach, the Brotherhood of Half-Life spends much longer time in Imperial space, reaping a rich harvest for their research. The consequences of their experiments are such that the armor of each of the brothers resembles a completely rotten corpse with its external texture, and their bodies are filled not only with pathogens, but also with parasitic fungi, cysts full of larvae, clots of semi-intelligent abscesses and other things. They are human gardeners, perverted terraformers and breeders whose field of action is anyone who has the misfortune of being alive. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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The Clotted Apostles or Clotkin are a large vectorium originating from the Death Guard's 5th Plague Company ("Poxmongers"). Like their fellow Poxmongers, they are host to the Sanguous Flux but they also carry a disease first contracted by their master. They serve the daemon prince known as Scabris the Bitter, First Host of the Spitebile Pathogen. |
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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 Blight Bringers and Butchers of Atrophy in order to break their enemy's morale. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Keepers of The Garden | |
The infamous Keepers of The Garden Chaos Warband emerged as a formidable presence in the aftermath of the final battles of the Horus Heresy. While the Horus Heresy culminated and traitor legions were banished to the Eye of Terror, the Keepers of the Garden endured as a relentless blight on the galaxy, a testament to Chaos's corruption. Transforming from remnants of the Death Guard Legion's 19th Grand Company, the Keepers of The Garden warband waged a ceaseless plague-ridden campaign of warfare throughout the galaxy. Comprising Plague Marines and daemonic allies, and led by Kalgore Bloatscum the Grand Gardner and Harvester of Souls, the Keepers of The Garden warband is dedicated to advancing the vile agenda of Nurgle, the Chaos God of disease and decay. Now, under the Grand Gardener's command, they continue their unending crusade, spreading pestilence and decay, and disseminating Nurgle's nefarious teachings to all who dare to listen, as they attempt to bring forth more plague-ridden planets dedicated to Nurgle's image. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Kylor's Reavers | |
Kylor's Reavers are a Chaos Space Marine Warband of Kylor the Maniacal, a deranged Chaos Space Marine version of a Apothecary who lead his Warbands as his personal cult. They are infamous for their biological creatures and weapons which they let loose. Many reports about plagues, attacks of mutated creatures and even the increase of mutations are secretly their deeds. How many of such biological disasters were orchestrated by them is unknown, they could caused tens of thousands of such acts or even just a couple of such attacks, even how many were truly started by them and not just worsened by them is unknown. However, two things can't be ignored: the terrible damage done by them and the nightmarish experiments or weapons unleashed on their victims. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Nurgle's Children | |
The Nurgle's Children are a relatively small warband of Chaos Space Marines, more akin to a pirate flotilla than an actual group of warriors capable of ravaging entire systems. And yet, they are rightfully feared by the Imperial forces that have come to meet them head on, for these are savage warriors capable of sustaining incredibly punishing damage and walking out of it unhindered. Indeed, even when considering the relatively small reach of operations from the band, they have been able to wreak considerable havoc across their area of activity. This particular warband is most famed across the Agritha sub-sector, where they occasionally attack unguarded harbors or assault weak patrol vessels, all while spreading the disciplines of their rotting god. In fact, the vast majority of the warban is, composed of cultists rather than astartes, former pirates and corsairs that fell to desillusion and gave up their souls in the pursuit of power. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Pilgrims of the Plague Moon | |
The Pilgrims of the Plague Moon, known for their mysticism and void-travel, have mastered the art of divination: their Sorcerers expertly navigate the Warp & embark on meticulously planned campaigns across the galaxy, the fruits of their efforts only seen decades or centuries after they laid the foundations for their conspiracies. It is a rare sight indeed to see the Pilgrims battle near their base of operations in the Galactic Core. |
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The Plague Ravens are a formerly Loyalist Raven Guard Successor Chapter created during the 21st Founding, the ill-fortuned 'Cursed Founding'. Originally called the Royal Ravens, they were corrupted in its entirety by the Chaos God Nurgle thanks to a coven of Death Guard Sorcerers. Though devoted to the Plague God, they are part of Chaos Undivided to better spread their Grandfather's gift. Currently, the Plague Ravens are part of the armada led by Akemos of the Cabal of Destiny that gathered to smash the backwater fortress world of Troii, along with the Battleforged and Pain Harvesters. Their forces under Akemos numbered about 300 Plague Ravens with a large amount of undead as well. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Praetors of Ruin |  |
The Praetors of Ruin are a Renegade Astartes chapter descended from the Imperial Fists. Founded during the 17th Founding as the Praetorian Masters. It's unknown when they fell to Chaos, but they have become some of the vilest, most loyal followers of the Plague God, Nurgle. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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The Rancid Lords are the 3rd Sepsis Cohort of the 7th Plague Company, who are feared across the Imperium and within the Death Guard themselves. There ability to bring the full force of a Sepsis cohort to bear against any who face them has meant they are able to overwhelm many a foe with their sheer size and ability to utilise a variety of tactics and assets as they see fit, when combined with the terrifying and legendary endurance and tenacity of the Death Guard makes them a force to be feared across the Galaxy. The Cohort has been commanded since it's creation by the Lord of Contagion, Garstag the Rancid, a veteran of Mortarion's liberation of Barbarus and the Great Crusade, he is a hulking giant of an Astarte's, who's aggression and brutality is only surpassed by his undying loyalty to Mortarion. His willingness to do whatever the Death Lord orders of him and his success in doing so has meant many times Mortarion has sent him and his Cohort to hunt down those who have betrayed, failed or split from the legion. So much so that he has earned the Nickname, the Axe of Mortarion. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Withered Hands |  |
The Withered Hands are a Chaos Space Marine warband that splintered off from the traitorous Death Guard over ideological differences on the will of Nurgle. This would eventually lead to the conquering of their home world of Carcino by the Chaos champion Typhus. Despite their exile, the Withered Hands still remain loyal to Nurgle and their Daemon Primarch Mortarion, but they believe Typhus has become selfish only intent to overthrowing Mortarion and achieving apotheosis into a Greater Daemon Prince instead of truly fulfilling the desires of their god. Eventually the warband caught the ire of the White Scars after attempting to steal their precious gene seed and were hunted down and eliminated. This loss festered in the Warband for centuries leading them to assault the location where this insult occurred. The Withered Hands are now interlocked in combat the resident Iron Bison chapter in a series of conflicts known as the Pox Wars. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Wolves of Rotigus |  |
The Wolves of Rotigus are a notorious Chaos Warband of Plague Marines that serve the Chaos God Nurgle. Formerly, they served the Minor Chaos God Malice. However, upon growing tiresome of serving under Malice and the constant struggle of having too many foes across the Galactic Map, it seemed there was no such thing as "allies" in the service of The Renegade God. This occurred to the point where their numbers were beginning to falter and those still left in the Warband eventually agreed to abandon Malice's patronage to deny the other of the Dark Gods of Chaos their wishes. Allegedly, upon seeing a few lost souls, Grandfather Nurgle being "kinder" amongst the Chaos Gods, offered them a place in his garden, and in return for their loyalty, they would be granted many boons, and one day, they would even surpass the Death Guard' Daemon Primarch Mortarion and become as powerful as Brother Typhus. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Dark Core |  |
The Dark Core is a large Chaos Warband that has gained infamy for the past ten millennia. They are known to attack various Imperial military forces, xenos armies, and even fellow Chaos Forces. This is because they are one of the rare few who worship the Renegade Chaos God, Malice. As such they see it as their duty to spread discord and destruction, fighting only the best enemies in order to appease their Dark God. Since they do not worship the other Gods of Chaos, they have little Daemons, instead forcefully binding lesser Daemons to machines, having a large number of Daemon Engines to serve them. The warband is also infamous to raiding Rogue Traders, Imperial Navy Ships and even Loyalist and Chaos Space Marine ships, adding their vessels to their growing fleet and forcing the survivors into the service of Malice. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| The Lost |  |
The Lost are a Chaos Warband dedicated to the service of the renegade Chaos God known as Malice, also called the "Hierarch of Anarchy and Terror." A unique trait of The Lost is their use of outdated and ancient technology. They utilise such antique and relic weaponry due to a lack of supply primarily, but the ancient and forgotten tech is also highly revered as it reflects the goal of the warband to show others the light of Malal. Their loyalist origins start with the Horus Heresy when they were still an incomplete chapter. Their Chapter Master, Meragrus Rarth, aka "Unfound", led them to follow Horus, but the unnamed legion quickly learned to hate Horus and the Ruinous Powers as they felt abandoned and used as cannon fodder. They disappeared without a trace through warp space and were never to be seen until the opening of the great rift gave Malice and his legions of The Lost great power and will to exact revenge on the ruinous powers and the Black Legion, their mortal enemy. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Pawns of Fate |  |
The Pawns of Fate are a former Thousand Sons Thrallband now dedicated to the service of the renegade minor Chaos God, Malice. The events that led them to this unusual path are confusing, even to the minds of their greatest sorcerers, who have replaced the idea of understanding the designs of the Architect of Fate with abandonment and humility. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Daughters of Purity |  |
The Daughters of Purity are a Chaos Warband dedicated to the worship of the minor Chaos deity, Alysios, the Chaos God of Purity, Wisdom, Discipline, Righteousness, Hope, Truth, and Hate. Seen as the last remnant of the noble glory of old from before the darkness of his fellow Chaos gods pumped their venom into the very veins of Mankind, he is the complete opposite of his brethren, representing order and benevolence. This warband is primarily made up of former Sisters of Battle of the Order of the Twilight Dawn. Having pledged their undying and eternal devotion to their new patron god, this makes it impossible for them to betray him. Even after death, they will continue to serve Alysios, their souls turning into his daemonic minions. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Loss of All Hope |  |
The Loss of All Hope is a relatively new Chaos warband that has become known for its brutal night raids. They are dedicated to the minor Chaos God Zetsuris, also known as the God of Despair, or the Hope Crusher. The Chapter was originally a Raven Guard successor, called the Hopebringers. They were part of a relief campaign to the worst affected areas bordering the Citrix Maledictum. However, the Inquisition then launch an Exterminatus of a planet full of innocent lives. Outraged, the Chapter Master abandoned the Imperium, who he felt had betrayed them. The God Zetsuris, newly empowered by the panic and hopelessness of the worlds bordering the Great Rift, granted the Chapter Master power enough to destroy the Inquisitorial fleet, and the Chapter quickly fell to Chaos. They have since become known for their brutal night raids, silently slaughtering small sections of encampments and impaling them on spikes. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Melded Ones | |
The Melded Ones are an infamous Chaos Warband made up of the remnants of Astartes with Iron Hands gene-seed from multiple chapters. Like the majority of their treacherous brethren, they look down on those who actively serve the primary Ruinous Powers of Chaos with a general disdain, and instead worshipping Feirocarne and his Cult of the Accursed Oneness. They are particularly known for the their use of an unstable viral strain made with parts of the Obliterator Techno-virus which creates merged fleshmetal abominations and mutational gifts more quickly than other warbands. They are generally found to have an inability to ally with the broader traitor cause as they seek solely to gain power from Feirocarne by ensuring the safety of their god. They view the other four Chaos Gods as little more than manifestations of human fear and emanations of desires. They see Feirocarne as a being of a perfect blend of organic, bionic and daemonic.They continue to spread terror throughout the Galaxy in the name of their god, but also to conquer forge worlds of the Adeptus Mechanicus to steal their technology and bind them to both daemons and human flesh. |
| Molten Sons |  |
The Molten Sons is an Iron Warriors warband who came into existence during M41 in light of the Arks of Omen. The warband is led by Warsmith Ivan Tianus, a veteran of M41. Having fought on Cadia during its fall and provided support through hell-forged daemonic engines as well as his warriors. During the aftermath of Cadia and later the arrival of the Arks of Omen and the appearance of Vashtorr the Arkifane, Ivan would align his warband with the daemon and begin worshipping the Arkifane as a god. While his followers chose not to question Ivan's belief in Vashtorr, the greater force of the Iron Warriors considered Ivan a madman, and they would be right in believing this. Ivan Tianus is insane and highly corrupted by daemonic and warp energies, fueling his belief in Vashtorr as the fifth Chaos God and saviour of the Iron Warriors; Ivan would have to escape and abandon the Iron Warriors legion along with those who saw his vision, leaving only 300 Astartes within his company. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Muted Cabal is a relatively new and large Chaos Cult that worships the God of Despair and Hopelessness, Zetsuris. They emerged in the Ska'Fel System during early M42 after an Inquisitor was turned to a Cenobyte of Zetsuris. At the moment they are the largest and most organised of Zetsuris' Despair Cults, and sow their prisoners' mouths shut. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Night Shield |  |
The Night Shield are the followers of the minor Chaos deity, Neheia. They made a pact with her to fight Chaos with Chaos. Gifted with powers, their gene-seed mutation gives them red eyes Their engagement against the savage World Eaters. It is unknown what Founding they were created as their genetic forebears, the Serrated Shield, have redacted all records about them, but the Imperium has been alerted of their renegade status. Recently, Abaddon the Despoiler has taken an interest in the Night Shield warband. Under the leadership of the charismatic and cunning Lord Vardek Kor, the Night Shield began to carve out a significant domain within the Eye of Terror. Kor, a former captain of the Night Lords, was a master tactician and a fervent devotee of Tzeentch. His visions and schemes led the Night Shield to numerous victories against both Imperial and rival Chaos forces, solidifying their power and influence. (Excommunicate Traitoris) (Note: This Chapter falls under the Alternate Universe category.) |
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| Sons of Torment |  |
The Sons of Torment are a notorious Chaos Warband that serves the cruel and foreboding Chaos God Timor, the god of nightmares and fear. Once known as the loyalist 3rd Founding Sons of Corax Space Marine Chapter, they loyally served the Imperium for millennia, until they were corrupted from within by the baleful influence of Timor, who had secretly corrupted their Chapter Master Luctus Miseria, who turned upon those still loyal to the Emperor. With his newfound powers as Timor's 'Herald of Fear', those loyal to the corrupted Luctus turned upon their loyalist brethren, and in night of carnage and blood, destroyed the once-loyal Sons of Corax. Spreading their deity's dark faith across the galaxy, Luctus is the favoured son of Timor, and as his 'Herald of Fear'. (Traitoris Perdita) |
| Serpentine Truth |  |
The Serpentine Truth are a mysterious Chaos Warband who claim lineage from the duplicitous Alpha Legion, yet also claim to once be members of the now deceased loyalist Grecians Chapter, specifically its 1st Company, the Cretans. If this claim is true, they would be the last survivors of this once proud Chapter. Officially, not much is known about the Warband's aims and goals, but rumours and speculation show that the Serpentine wish to corrupt their former brother Chapters and plunge Segmentum Pacificus into heretical control. If this goal was to be achieved the heart of the Imperium itself could be threatened and subjected to incursions from the forces of the Ruinous Powers. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Sleepwalkers |  |
The Sleepwalkers are a Chaos Space Marine warband which serve Somm, the minor Chaos God of exhaustion, surrender and nihilism. Having no set gene-seed or founding, it is comprised of defectors from an array of loyalist chapters and other Chaos warbands, each drawn to the ice planet Painajainen by the siren's call of Oblivion. All Sleepwalkers have undergone the Rite of Noctum, a chaos ritual that destroys their consciousness and turns them into mindless, tireless machines of war. The servitor-marines of the Sleepwalkers require no food or rest, feel no pain, and are equipped with vile warp-touched bionic implants that the Adeptus Mechanicus would never consider tainting the sacred flesh of an Astartes with. These fierce foes of the Imperium are superior to standard Space Marines in terms of durability, but the same can not be said for their intellect. Sleepwalkers have no mind of their own and are dependent on their daemonhost captains to strategize for them in battle. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Weeping Fellowship are renowned for their worship of one of the newest chaos gods and their small numbers, the Weeping Fellowship are a chaos warband that specialize in the methods of torture and tactical/cunning attacks against their enemies. In spite of being her being a new chaos deity and still earning a reputation, Sophia, the Lady of Cruelty, has already proven to have fearless worshippers that find pleasure in killing and torturing the mortal coils of those who would oppose her not for the thrill of loot or out of bloodlust. In honor of sacrificing their broken forms and crippled souls to her 'holiness', as proven when her Herald of Cruelty Joshua the Wicked lead his new brothers on a raid on the planet of Portus, where they captured each and every mortal that had been settled there and tortured them nonstop for days on end, only healing their wounds so that they could continue their divine shattering upon them until they finally gave out from either suicide or pitifully begging for death, as each corpse were slashed ten times before then being offered at the shrine. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Bloody Hands are a Chaos Warband dedicated to Chaos Undivided. Originally they were the Ruby Sabres, a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter from the 15th Founding. The Chapter was known for its close adherence to the Codex Astartes. They defended the Imperium from the countless enemies of Mankind for centuries. Yet one battle-brother would soon make a grave mistake on the world of Thesulia Prime. Now they fight against the Imperium, against those they once swore to protect. A large number of Alpha Legion have found their way into the warband, which the Bloody Hands have accepted with excitement, for any opportunity to sabotage the Imperium that the Alpha Legion uses, the Bloody Hands are glad to assist in. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Fluxborne Vainguard |  |
The Fluxborne Vainguard is a Chaos Warband that operates in the 42nd Millennium, led by Phoebe Ionos. They contain mostly those of the Emperor's Children, Thousand Sons, Word Bearers and Iron Warriors, although they do have several members hailing from Night Lords heritage and Death Guard, with previous members being of Alpha Legion heritage and Sons Of Horus. Most notably, several members have Salamanders, Imperial Fist and even Ultramarine geneseed, although this is the result of gene-seed being stolen during raids of successor chapters of the three founding legions. The group officially has no set Chaos alignment, as the members may worship any Chaos God of their choosing with the strict exception of Khorne. While the majority follow Saikos, Slaanesh or Tzeentch some several Astartes in the group follow Nurgle with some following Vashtorr the Arkifane and others not following any god at all. The cultists may worship any god they choose, provided they further the Warband’s aims and is not Khorne. |
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Once known as the faithful Star Drenched Fists, the Gore Stained Scions turned their back up on the treacherous Imperium of Mankind and became a warband of Khorne. Thoroughly disgusted with the duplicity of the Imperial bureaucracy and its betrayal of its own soldiers, they have long forsaken such a dastardly institution. Now they fight to tear it apart, ripping it apart violently limb for limb. They have become, in their minds, the champions of humanity, fighting to free it from an unjust, inhumane system. Perhaps one of the largest Chaos warbands in existence, they have recruited members from far and wide across the stars and have so far had the most profound impact on the Peloponnese Sector, where their fall to the darkness occurred. |
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| Howling Sirens |  |
The treacherous warband of the Howling Sirens are a group of Heretic Astartes that hail from the VIIIth Legion - Night Lords Traitor Legion - that specializes in the use of hit-and-run tactics performed by their Raptors and bikers, accompanied with fire support from the Cult of the Gaping Maw, a small Kakophoni composed of Nostraman-born Astartes who have been corrupted by Slaanesh. |
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The Thraexatii, at times referred to as the Thraexian Legion, is a splinter traitor warband the formed from the Legion of Doros and began a civil war with its parent chapter during the Nova Terra Interregnum. They would flee to The Shroud. The warband is fleet based, and 'recruits' from the worlds within the warp storm. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Betrayed are a Chaos Warband made up of traitorous Astartes that are former members of the Sworn of Guilliman, a formerly Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and sole known Successor Chapter of the Metamarines, created during the 26th Founding. Following the near-annihilation of the Chapter, during the events the now-rebellious Astartes call 'The Betrayal', the renamed Chaos warband, known as The Betrayed, are now slowly drifting towards pure Chaotic corruption - even if its members are still far from true believers - instead favouring the use of minor daemons as auxiliaries in their raids. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
| Brimstone Brotherhood |   |
The 42nd Grand Battalion, also known simply as the Brimstone Brotherhood, is a grand battalion of the cold and callous Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. Unlike many other Chaos Warbands, the Brimstone Brotherhood remains an integral part of the Traitor Legion it spawned from and consistently maintains loyalty to the Daemon Primarch Perturabo. Many members of the Brimstone Brotherhood are ancient, having fought in the bygone days of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. Among these veterans is Warsmith Tarvax, who has led the Grand Battalion for more than ten millennia. Like many Iron Warriors, the Brimstone Brotherhood shows little to no veneration for the Dark Gods of Chaos. Instead, they view Chaos as a tool fit to be subjugated and bent to their will. After the Horus Heresy, the Brimstone Brotherhood made a home for itself on the Daemon World of Medrengard and now operate out of the towering fortress known as the Arx Tenebrous. |
| Bullhorn Company |  |
The Bullhorn Company is one of a multitude of Chaos Space Marines Warbands active in the Galaxy and sells its services to the highest bidder. Such services reach from brutal onslaughts againsts enemy positions over destruction of rivals of the bidder to sabotage. They fulfill always their contracts and fight with such skill and fears that their low numbers are made good. Such services come with a cost and can ruin the employer even if he doesn't upsets the Company. But for those who can hire them regularly has a powerful ally and can engage with them in arms and supply trade for other services and potential support if needed. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Chaos Creed are an infamous Chaos warband that was once the 2nd Company of The Creed Chapter. The "Chaos Creed" as they are called (due to their now official name) now live in the deepest regions of Creed's oceans, slaughtering anything that dares to live. There life at the bottom of the ocean has sprouted coral and other aquatic vegetation from their armor, and some like their leader Rommel, have completely mutated. They still believe in the old world God just like their renegade counterparts, but they believe they are the truest believers, resenting anything and everything including themselves. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Dark Soldiers | |
The Dark Soldiers is a Renegade Astartes warband from the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. They are led by the former Commander Skvann Hellhammer, and are dedicated to survival above all else. They believe that the Imperium is too uncaring about tactics, and solves all of its problems by throwing men at the issue. They also dislike the imperial ban on certain weapons technology. However, they despise the extremes that the forces of Chaos all go to, and have become a more moderate, renegade faction. (Excommunicate Traitoris) (Note: This Chapter falls under the Alternate Universe category.) |
| Descendants of Saikos | |
The Descendants of Saikos were a Saikosian Warband before falling to Khorne. The group was founded in early M41. In 009.M41, their sole ship, all its crew, cultists, Astartes and other members vanished during warp transit. Little is known of what happened between that time and their re-emergence in 314.M41, but what is known is that they had fallen to Khorne. |
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The Eclipse Jackals are a renegade unit of Astartes born from secretive experimentation done by an Apothecary known as the Form-Flayer to create a unit of Blackshield Chymeriae. As a faction they are loosely aligned with the Traitor Legions but have rejected the worship or gifts of the Ruinous Powers of Chaos on multiple occasions. The Eclipse Jackals see themselves as an entirely distinct organization similar to the old Legions called a "Tagma". This band of Space Marines were made from the Blackshield organization of the same name during the latter years of the Horus Heresy as contingency against a counter assault by members of the Shattered Legions of the Drop Site Massacre. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Emperor's Martyrs is a Renegade Space Marines warband from the Emperor's Wardens Space Marines Chapter. They are led by the Warden-Captain Jozief Bosch and have swore to fight against the enemies of the Imperial Truth, preached by the Emperor at the time of the Great Crusade. Thus, they have now chosen to be on their own, serving only the Emperor' vision for his domain and not the corrupted Imperium's leadership. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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| Grasping Shadows |  |
The Grasping Shadows are an anomalous Chaos Space Marine warband that have plagued the Eastern Fringes since 813.M41. The heretics would appear seemingly out of nowhere and perform fast and deadly strikes on whatever settlement was unfortunate enough to draw their attention. At least initially, the Grasping Shadows seemed to prioritize T'au targets over others, swooping in at the dead of night and slaughtering everything in the area. Since the opening of the Great Rift, however, these silent monstrosities have begun to appear across the galaxy, leading some to believe that they are more than a mere band of isolated traitors. There has been no noticeable strategy in their attacks outside of killing for the sake of killing and doing so silently and efficiently. The only discernible motive for their actions is their ghoulish obsession with using the severed arms and hands of their victims to adorn their armor. |
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| Invisible Hand |  |
The Invisible Hand, also known as the Nth Harrow, is a warband of the mysterious Alpha Legion. The warband, much like the legion it spawned from, is shrouded in mystery and little concrete information is known. It is unknown how large they are, what their goal is, or even where their true allegiance lies. Like their progenitors, the Invisible Hand specializes in espionage, sabotage, infiltration and assassination, maintaining a vast underground network of mortal servants to subtly manipulate events to further their clandestine goals. Among the few scraps of knowledge that is known about the Invisible Hand is that they are led by a veteran of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy known as Harrowmaster Nemo Anon and that the warband operates out of a hidden star fortress dubbed the Star Chamber. |
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| Iron Brotherhood |   |
The Iron Brotherhood is a Traitor Astartes Warband from the scattered remains of the 86th Grand Battalion of the Iron Warriors traitor legion. While at the beginning and under the influence of their first leader, the Iron Brotherhood distanced itself from its former brethren moving a step near reconciliation with the Imperium, power games and conspiracies led to the acclamation of a new leader who strengthened the relationship with the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion, consolidating their alignment amongst the traitors. Their passion for amassing and recovering ancient artifacts and weapons will lead them to various war confrontations with the Adeptus Mechanicus and the loyalist chapter of the Iron Juggernauts. (Traitoris Maximus) |
| Iron Scourge |  |
The Iron Scourge are a force of Iron Warriors, made up from the remnants of the 27th Line Company from the 3rd Grand Battalion of the IVth Legion. Mostly consisting of 950 or so veterans, though there are 550 newer warriors created throughout the long centuries present within the warband. They favour heavy infantry assaults with heavy armour and heavy artillery supporting and reinforcing the attack. There are also many daemon engines that are created by the leader of the warband, a warpsmith named Ogdromok. (Traitoris Maximus) |
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The Nameless are a mysterious successor of the Alpha Legion that has a long history of turning Imperial worlds against the Imperial regents, forming cults and militias to sow chaos amongst local PDF and Imperial Guard regiments. Their motives and objectives are only know to them and their loyalties are even more shrouded in mystery and deceit. Not much is known about them in Imperial Records whether or not this is due to a logging issue of an inside agent is unknown. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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"Fear" is a commonly misunderstood word that means so much to so many. Fear of heights, open spaces or space flight: none of these compare to mere moments in the presence of Nosferatus, for when one encounters the horrific embodiment of absolute terror, one learns the true meaning of fear. Somewhat differentiating Nosferatus from similar Night Lords warbands is its history concerning the inclusion of Plague Marines as a means to extend its terrifying reputation and destructive reach. It is well known that at a fateful turning point in the warband's history, the warband's founder demanded that several of his followers dedicate themselves to Nurgle. As a result, this was seen as a significant decision by Nurgle who apparently thought it worth investing in this possibility, if only for entertainment value, as each Chaos Undivided or Godless warband is a source of potential worshippers. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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The Oath Broken are a notorious renegade Warband that once hailed from the proud and secretive Dark Angels Legion. This warband's history harkens back to the bygone era of the Horus Heresy, when they were still members of the Ist Legion's 98th Company, under the command of Captain Astayis. Following the betrayal of Luther and the destruction of Caliban, Astayis and his followers were hurdled through time and space, throwing the renegade Space Marine commander over ten millennia forward in time. Coming into contact with other Fallen and learning the truth of what happened to his old legion, Astayis formed his own Chaos Warband and vowed to not rest unil they have hunted and killed all those they feel are responsible. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Screaming Blades |  |
The Screaming Blades are a Chaos Warband of the terrifying Night Lords Traitor Legion. While they initially focused on their own survival, many members of the Screaming Blades have been consumed by their obsession with spreading fear and terror. While they often use Chaos as a useful tool, the Screaming Blades vehemently deny being "Slaves to the Dark Gods." Prior to their fall to Chaos, the warband was once the 66th Company of the Night Lords Legion. The oldest members of the warband were veterans of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, with the warbands leader, Koshei, previously serving as the Night Lords’ 66th Captain. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Seers Revenant are a renegade group of Astartes, bound together by prophetic visions of doom and ancient oaths binding them together. For ten millennia, the Seers Revenant have stood against the dark doom, alone, forging a small stygian empire upon the planet Macabrus and the neighbouring worlds of the Aesis Sector. (Excommunicate Traitoris) |
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The Shattered Blades comprise the survivors of a contingent of Taskforce Onyx under command of Praetor Xenaphi that became trapped within the warp for five millennia. Emerging back into realspace the blackshields have been radically affected, mutated, driven insane and fallen to corruption. Those few that remained sane have made bargains, murdered and enacted dark rituals to keep their, and their brothers in arms, alive; Xenaphi chief among them, sacrificing his honour and principle to save ‘his sons’. Bound tightly by their brotherhood, and their faith in The Emperor still burning in the recesses of their dim souls, the Shattered Blades return to their former work, setting forth on a Crusade against the enemies of the Emperor, but most of all against those traitor legions that robbed their duty of them. The Shattered Blades have become known as such as it is a paragon of what they are, the blade is broken, but the jagged edged hilt is still a weapon. They fight as a wild animal, an mindless horde of rage and violence, directed by a handful of warriors that have mastered their corruption and remain clean of mind. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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The Silver Snakes are a mysterious Chaos Warband believed to be formed by members from the traitor Alpha Legion, while officially has not been proved their attitude strongly implies it. The number of engagements it is strangely low against Imperial forces and nearly null against Astartes forces. However, it has been confirmed that the Silver Snakes have taken the battlefield against xenos races and other Chaos Warbands for supremacy or other objectives. Some radical minds believe that the Silver Snakes could be secretly loyal, but the mere idea is always dismissed as little more than a naive hope. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Vargarian Guard |  |
The Vargarian Guard is a Renegade Grand Company of the notoriously ruthless Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. They are a particularly grim and unforgiving Grand Company of the Iron Warriors that have taken their Legion beliefs in inner strength and cold-blooded pragmatism to its logical conclusion. To the Vargarians, Chaos is a tool - in the complete sense of the word. They are a highly assault-focused force that favours massive armored assaults supported by daemon engines and mechanized infantry. A highly organized and mobile army, they have plagued the Imperium of Man for millennia on end, and was known to have fought in many of the Warmaster’s Black Crusades; before shaking off his shackles and going rogue. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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The Vindicta is a mysterious group of Fallen Angels. As with all members of the mysterious Fallen, little is known of the Vindicta save the knowledge that they have been in existence for at least 10,000 years and have some sort of close relation to the enigmatic Cypher. The Vindicta is a small group, only 16 in total, and so rely on subterfuge and ingenuity in order to achieve victory. Despite their status as Fallen it appears the Vindicta hunt their own kind in vengeance for Caliban, their hunt for Luther their biggest prize. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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The Void Legion is a massive Chaos Warband of the Alpha Legion. Like their parent Legion, there are many mysteries about the Void Legion. They have conducted numerous attacks on Imperial Worlds and Xenos races, gathering resources and artefacts. Much of their activities have left the Inquisition confused due to being unrelated and apparently random. Captured Astartes and mortal members claim before they commit suicide that they are still loyal to the Emperor but believe that the Imperium has fallen from his vision. Whatever the case is, the Void Legion continues its actions in preparations for something. (Traitoris Perdita) |
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| Wolves of Retribution |  |
The Wolves of Retribution are an infamous Chaos Warband that was formerly a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter created during an Unknown Founding and from uncertain lineage. Once devoted servants of the God Emperor and Imperium. Now they are the enemy of the Imperium and Chaos, seeing all but themselves as heretics against the God Emperor. Blinded by their fiery rage, the twisted and deluded Wolves of Retribution crusade evermore. Were they not blind, they would see that their holy scripture has become the perverted language of the Dark Tongue, their armies of devoted flocks merely raving cultists and the angels they fight alongside and worship, daemons of the Octed. (Traitoris Perdita) |