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| Marine Px=200
|Name=Sons of Malice
|Symbol=MalalsymbolUnknown.jpg
|Homeworld=Scelus
|Leader=Unknown
|Chaos God=Malice (Malal)
|Colours=Quartered black and white, with silver trim
|Model=sonsofmalicemini.jpg
|Speciality=Fighting the minions of ChaosUnknown
|Battle Cry=The Sons of Malice fight in complete silence
|Current Strength=Unknown
[[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]]. Although flesh-eating rituals are 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 and , as much as against the other followers of the other Chaos gods as is the desire of their deity Malal.
Their homeworld was [[Scelus]], in the [[Cadian]] Sector, and the grisly tendencies which caused their excommunication were found to be rooted in the barbaric practices of the native, feral world population. These tribes were almost entirely eradicated by the [[Cadian 331st]] in a planet-wide campaign of genocide following the chapter's withdrawal into the Eye.
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>. ([[Abaddon]] is the only individual on record to ever persuade the Sons of Malice to fight alongside other chaos followers).
Their Chapter Master is Kathal, who is now over 1000 years old. Every century the chapter returns to the ''Labyrinth'', an old and scarred ship that has become the 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 Sons of Malice set off into the halls of the ''Labyrinth'' to compete for a place amongst the legendary Doomed Ones. Only one 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 corrupts it. This challenge took place eleven times, eleven being Malal's sacred number, with each victor's body being stored in a casket until the final champion arose. The eleventh champion was 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.
