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The '''World Eaters''', originally known as the '''War Hounds''',{{Fn|6}} were the '''XII Legion''' of the original twenty [[Space Marine Legion]]s. Their [[Primarch]] is [[Angron]], sometimes known as the '''Red Angel'''.{{citethis}} or '''The Lord of the Red Sands'''((citethis)). The Legion was amongst the first to turn traitor during the [[Horus Heresy]]. Already known for their peerless martial savagery - thanks in part to the effects of the psycho-surgical implants known as the [[Butcher's Nails]] that most of their members possessed - the World Eaters would eventually devolve into a legion of blood-crazed maniacs dedicated to the [[Chaos God]] [[Khorne]], glorying in violence and slaughter and with no other purpose than spilling blood and taking skulls in the name of their god. After the catastrophic [[Battle of Skalathrax]], they were scattered into disparate [[warbands]], and have rarely fought as a unified Legion since.{{Fn|13a}}
Their warriors are some of the deadliest [[close combat]] fighters in the [[galaxy]], amongst whom are counted large numbers of the infamous [[Khorne Berserker]]s.
|Battle Cry=''Blood for the Blood God!'', <br>often followed by ''Skulls for the Skull Throne!''
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==Homeworld==The World Eaters did not possess a typical [[homeworld]] in the manner of many of the other Space Marine Legions. Their Primarch, Angron, was discovered upon the world of [[Nuceria]], but the events surrounding his discovery did not lead to a unifying of the planet and his legion.{{citethis}} The World Eaters instead retained the use of various muster posts, the chief of which was the world of [[Bodt]]. Bodt was seized by the legion during their early days, and became a principal fiefdom. A volcanic and arid world with no recorded native inhabitants, it would serve as the training ground of the Legion.{{Fn|14a}}
== History ==
===Early Days===
**{{Endn|13a}}: p.13
*{{Endn|14}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book One - Betrayal]] pgs. 85-97
**{{Endn|14a}}: pp.86-87
*{{Endn|15}}: [[Betrayer (Novel)]]{{cite this}} pgs. 240-242
**{{Endn|15a}}: Chapter 9
