Berzerker-surgeon
Berzerker-Surgeons, also known as Butcher-Surgeons[4], are the Apothecaries of the World Eaters Traitor Legion.[1a]
Description
They operate across the galaxy, either working with different Chaos Lords[1a], within a Warband[1b] or even with outside groups that are not a part of the Traitor Legion.[3] The Berzerker-surgeons' skills are drawn from ten millennia of their experimentation, which has allowed them to hone a dizzying array of gory techniques to create new World Eaters. This includes accelerated recruit induction techniques, utilized during the Great Crusade, which are brutally enhanced with forbidden methods that were granted to the Berzerker-surgeons after the Horus Heresy's Drop Site Massacre.[1]
They have also learned heinous practices regarding Daemonic pacts and the harnessing of the Warp which aid in creating monstrous warriors who have no concept of fear, pain, or death. As the World Eaters' gene-seed has become horribly corrupted over the centuries[1a], the berzerker-surgeons now use those taken from other space marines to fulfil the traitor legion's needs. However, substantial work must be performed on the captured gene-seed before the Berzerker-surgeons can use it to create new World Eaters.[1b] Their skills are also utilized by warbands who expand their numbers using Khornate space marines who were not born of the Traitor Legion. These outsiders must also undergo the psycho-surgeries practiced by the Berzerker-surgeons - a process they see as a kind of apotheosis that brings them closer to their wrathful and bloody god.[1a]
Today Berzerker-Surgeons are few in number, and corruption and attrition has led to a depleted World Eaters Gene-Seed. Berzerker-Surgeons have adapted by harvesting genetic materials of other Space Marines, creating stocks of organs that can be forcibly implanted into captured Initiates. Those that survive are then implanted with Butcher's Nails.[5]
Known Berzerker-surgeons
Sources
- 1: White Dwarf 477:
- 1a: pg. 81 - Index Hereticus: World Eaters
- 1b: pg. 89 - Kill. Maim. Burn. (Short Story)
- 1c: pg. 97 - World Eaters - Painting and Converting Your Models - Created by Luis Hoyos
- 2: Apothecary's Honour (Short Story)
- 3: Fabius Bile: Clonelord (Novel), Chapter 1
- 4: Angron: The Red Angel (Novel), Chapter 16
- 5: Codex: World Eaters (10th Edition), pg. 17
| World Eaters Forces | |
|---|---|
| Command | Chaos Lord (Arch-Slaughterer) • Daemon Prince • Master of Executions • Butcher-Surgeon • Slaughterbound |
| Elites | Chaos Terminators • Exalted Eightbound |
| Troops | Khorne Berzerkers • Eightbound |
| The Lost and the Damned | Jakhals • Goremongers • Bloodgors • Ogryn Berserker |
| Vehicles & Daemon Engines | Chaos Dreadnought (Helbrute • Berzerker • Contemptor • Ferrum Infernus) • Rhino • Predator (Infernal Relic Predator) • Land Raider • Vindicator • Defiler • Forgefiend • Maulerfiend • Blood Slaughterer • Brass Scorpion • Lord of Skulls • Heldrake |
| Aircraft | Thunderhawk • Stormbird • Storm Eagle • Hell Blade • Hell Talon • Harbinger |
| Daemons | Bloodthirster • Herald of Khorne • Bloodletter • Flesh Hound • Bloodcrusher • Chaos Spawn |
| Special Characters | Angron • Kharn • Invocatus • Skarbrand |
