Deliverers
The Deliverers were among the few Raven Guard to wear Terminator Armour in the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, as its use was often shunned by the Legion.[1]
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Description
Squadrons were led by Deliverer Chieftains and during the course of the Great Crusade they perfected clearing enemy-held entrances and holding foes in brutally grinding stalemates.[1]
History
Deliverers were usually Terran born Raven Guard, who had fought beside the Luna Wolves and trained under the infamous Justaerin and mastered the tactics of close range shock assault from both aerial transport and teleport deployment. The Legionaries of the Raven Guard and the Luna Wolves came to refer to these detachments as ‘Deliverers’, both for the carnage they brought to the enemy and for their tendency to be deployed when the daring assaults favoured by the XIXth Legion floundered and threatened to fail. Horus himself is known to have honoured the Deliverers attached to the Pale Nomads Chapter for the ferocity of their counter-attack at the Siege of Novas-Praxim, including them as part of his personal entourage until the Raven Lord reclaimed command of his Legion.[1]
After Corax took command, though, their past with the Luna Wolves, as well as their brutal manner of fighting, led the Deliverers to become ill-favoured by their Primarch, and they were rarely called upon by him. Most were assigned to distant Great Crusade fleets, and those that remained at Corax’s side became the avatars of his carefully controlled anger, loosed when an enemy proved itself worthy only of utter destruction. They then became a dour brotherhood, but never balked at sacrificing themselves for the Raven Guard and still sought to prove their worth to Corax.[1]
By the time of the Horus Heresy, the Deliverers had long been exiled from any position of honour in their own Legion and felt abandoned by the Primarch that the Emperor appointed as their master. When their old patron Horus raised his banners in rebellion, some of the few remaining Deliverers would see an opportunity to rise to glory in his name once more, abandoning the Raven Lord to serve the Warmaster. Others though would see in the tumult a chance to prove themselves worthy of Corax's notice, even if only in death.[1]
Known Members
- Beyar Kedron - Centurion.[1]
- Caeden - Deliverer Chieftain.[2]
- Syban Nethkal - Shade-Captain.[3]
- Heklan[2]
Sources
- 1: Exemplary Battles of the Age of Darkness: The Breaking of the Perfect Fortress, pgs. 3-6
- 2: The Horus Heresy: Legions - Dropsite Massacre Expansion - Raven Guard
- 3: Campaigns of the Age of Darkness: The Siege of Cthonia, pg. 32
