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The '''Sons of Malice''' [[chapter]] turned renegade some time prior to the [[Thirteenth Black Crusade]]. It was founded to watch over the [[Eye of Terror]]. Events leading to the chapter's excommunication began following the successful end of the [[Cilix 225]] campaign against heretics who had threatened to depressurize three underwater hive cities.
[[Kathal]], Captain of the First Company of the Sons of Malice<sup>1</sup>, led the chapter victory rites, which bordered on cannibalism, observed by [[Inquisitor]] [[Pietas]], a senior member of the [[Ordo Hereticus]]. FleshAlthough flesh-eating rituals are common not uncommon among the Space Marines; , Pietas was obviously unacquainted with the barbarous customs of Space Marines and mobilized a strike force of [[Sisters of Battle|Adepta Sororitas]] [[Celestians]] to deal with the "heretics". The Sisters made planetfall right in the midst of the Company at the height of their celebrations. Kathal and his troops responded to the interference of their sacred Chapter rites by savagely attacking the strike force, defeating the Celestians. Kathal dragged the meddling Inquisitor before the chapter altar where she was ritually sacrificed.
The Sons of Malice were excommunicated and now reside within the Eye of Terror, from which they wage a hate-fueled war against the Imperium they see as betraying them, as much as against other followers of Chaos.
Scelus was declared Perdita. During [[Abaddon]]'s [[13th Black Crusade]] the Sons of Malice fought alongside the Chaos forces, trying to reclaim their homeworld<sup>2</sup>.
Their chapter master Chapter Master is Kathal , who is now over 1000 years old. Every century the chapter returns to the ''Labyrinth'' a , an old and scared scarred ship that has become the chapters Chapter's holy ground and meeting place since the loss of their homeworld. Every warband attends at the correct time , regardless of their current status or who they are fighting. Slaves from every race encountered are then brought to the ''Labyrinth'' ; each battle brother then retreats to a cell , where they eat the slave assigned to them alive. Every century , some brothers Sons of Malice set off into the halls of the ''Labyrinth'' to compete for a place amongst the legendary doomed onesDoomed Ones. Only one an can make it to the end and escape, ; the rest will either die , or be transformed into the beasts that inhabit the ship as the warp Warp corrupts the shipit. This challenge took place eleven times (, eleven being Malals Malal's sacred number) , with each victors victor's body being stored in a casket until the final champion arose. he The eleventh champion was brother Brother Invictus who, along with the other ten champions, was sacrificed so that Malal could appear and the Sons of Malice could begin their crusade to retake their homeworld.
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