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Another change is that each Company is assigned three [[Chaplains]] instead of one. These individuals, called the "Death Speakers" serve the dual role of recounting the tallies of the honored dead, as well as keeping order in the Chapter.<sup>e</sup>
The Executioners seem to disdain the use of bikes and attack bikes, and instead rely on Land Speeders for scouting duties. <sup>c</sup>
Each Captain of the Chapter is allowed a degree of autonomy, and considered a warlord in their own right. Although the Chapter Master, called the High Executioner, holds the ultimate authority in matters regarding the Chapter's practices, but if he should be found unfit or unworthy by popular assent, then any Captain has the right to challenge the incumbent for the position. Such contests are almost always bloody<sup>d</sup>.
==Notable Executioners==
*'''High Chaplain Thulsa Kane''' - The overall leader of the Chapter's forces during the Badab War, Thulsa Kane was charged with fulfilling the blood debt the Executioners owed to the Astral Claws. Possessed of a macabre wit and scornful demeanor, Kane is nonetheless a potent warrior, whose tally of heads taken in the name of the Emperor he himself had long lost count of.<sup>i</sup>
==Sources==
**<sup>g</sup>: P. 30
**<sup>h</sup>: P. 46
**<sup>i</sup>: P. **<sup>j</sup>:**<sup>k</sup>:**<sup>l</sup>:**<sup>m</sup>:**<sup>n</sup>:175
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