Changes - Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum

Changes

From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
Jump to: navigation, search

World Eaters

2,779 bytes added, 00:44, 12 March 2016
more, still wip
The principal concentration of War Hounds [[astartes]] (around 8,000 Legionaries) had been grouped into the 13th [[Expeditionary Fleet]], alongside dedicated support and naval elements. As the Crusade wore on and the various Legions grew in size to the point where they no longer needed a standing reserve reinforcement force, the scattered units of War Hounds were consolidated into the 13th Fleet, upon the legion muster-world of [[Bodt]]. Added to the 13th were many other Imperial forces, especially those who had similarly dark or questionable reputations for violence, particularly [[Feral World]] and [[Abhuman]] troops. Notable additions to the 13th were the [[Titans]] of [[Legio Audax]] and the warriors of the [[Numen Gun Clans]], both powerful elements whose conduct had fallen under a pall of suspicion and distrust. It is believed this particular grouping was a deliberate choice by the [[War Council]] to corral into one force all the Imperial elements which had shown a tendency to cause massive destruction and loss of enemy life during their campaigns, so that the Imperium had a formation at hand that could be deployed where the total annihilation of the enemy and their works was desired. The war record of all of these various forces led to the 13th Expeditionary Fleet becoming known as '''"The Bloody 13th"''' in various Imperial circles.{{Fn|15c}}.
{{QuoteBox|quote = '''''The Emperor is assembling a carnival of monsters for his amusement, although I doubt whoever he unleashes them upon will see the jest.'''''<br>-Reportedly the [[Primarch]] [[Sanguinius]], upon reviewing the muster rolls of the 13th Expeditionary Fleet{{Fn|15c}}'''
|align = center
|width = 70em
The discontented Angron plotted his escape for years, before finally leading his fellow gladiators in an armed revolt. A revolt doomed to fail, however, for the forces under the nobles vastly outnumbered the gladiator band. Although aware of this eventual doom, Angron refused to countenance any other course of action. His rebel force was eventually pursued into the mountains by no less than five armies, each outnumbering his own ten times or more. It was then that the Emperor - who had been secretly watching his son's actions with pride for some time - chose to intervene. Coming to Angron, he offered him his birthright; a place by his side. To the Emperor's surprise, Angron rejected the offer, instead choosing to remain and die by the side of his gladiator brethren. The Emperor would not accept this refusal, however, and the night before the final battle he [[Teleportation|teleported]] Angron from the field and to safety. Angron's followers - named the Eaters of Cities - were massacred to the last man and woman on the following morning.{{Fn|15c}}
It is said he never forgave his father for the incident, and that the blow to his honour would eventually fester into a soul-deep wound.{{Fn|15c}} After Angron was spirited away by the Emperor, he was transferred to a vessel of the the awaiting War Hounds. Unlike other meetings between primarchs and their legions, Angron's first contact with his genetic sons was one of extreme violence. Lost in an apparently inconsolable rage over what had just happened to him, Angron brutally murdered every legion officer of the War Hounds who attempted to speak to him, starting with their [[Legion Master]], [[Gheer]]. As the War Hounds officers largely attempted to speak to him in order of seniority, their senior officer cadre diminished rapidly. Eventually, the 8th [[Captain]] - [[Kharn]] - was able to both survive his meeting with Angron, and in fact even forge a tenuous bond with him. When Angron emerged, ready and willing to assume command of his legion, Kharn introduced him to his officers with the phrase "'''Salute the one whose soldiers were named the Eaters of Cities"'''. One of the officers, Captain [[Dreagher]], issued a response that would result in an momentous occurrence.{{Fn|6}} {{QuoteBox|quote = '''''Primarch! General! Your warriors were eaters of cities, lord, but with you to command us the War Hounds will be eaters of worlds!<br>World Eaters. World Eaters. So shall you be, then, little brothers. Come with me, then, World Eaters.'''''<br>-[[Captain]] [[Dreagher]] of the [[War Hounds]] [[legion]] and [[Angron]], their [[Primarch]]{{Fn|6}}'''
|align = center
|width = 70em
When it became clear that almost two-thirds of the deployed forces had survived the [[life-eater]], Horus made plans to saturation bomb their positions from orbit. However, his stratagem was altered by the actions of Angron, who seemingly decided that the survivors of his legion should be cut down by his own hand. Descending to the surface, with a full 50 companies of World Eaters at his back, Angron made straight for the largest concentration of his own betrayed troops and engaged them in close combat. Watching from orbit in outrage, Horus realised he had no choice but to commit his own ground forces in order to reinforce Angron's move. Thus the [[Battle of Isstvan III]] was begun.{{Fn|15h}}
The {{QuoteBox|quote = '''''Tell me why, father. Why stand with the Arch-Traitor?<br>I do not stand with Horus. I stand against the Emperor. Do you understand, Kauragar? I am free now. Free.'''"<br>-World Eaters Legionary Kauragar and the Primarch Angron, after the former's mortal wounding by the latter.{{Fn|24}}|align = center|width = 70em}} Angron and his second wave of World Eaters spent most of the battle combating and wiping out the World Eaters of the first wave, but were instrumental marshalled and brought in for the kill of the last loyalist bastion, after its walls were breached by Titan assault. The final obliteration of the battles loyalists was to be by orbital bombardment, and Horus ordered his fellow primarchs [[Mortarion]] and [[Fulgrim]] to drag Angron from the field if he would not quit of his own accord; the World Eaters' strength was to be conserved for the planned [[Battle of Isstvan IIIV]].{{Fn|15i}} The Battle of Isstvan V, also known as the [[Drop Site Massacre]], saw Angron and the World Eaters unleashed, their assault splitting the [[Raven Guard]]'s line of communication from that of the Iron Hands. The World Eaters then turned their ire upon the Raven Guard, causing many casualties in the sable-clad legion.{{Fn|25}} Indeed, the World Eaters seemed to focus on the Raven Guard as their targets even after the battle had been settled in the favour of the traitors. As well as sending out hunter squads after the Raven Guard survivors trapped on the surface, the World Eaters were recorded to undertake a strange and barbaric practice, almost akin to a ritual; they decapitated and flensed the heads of the fallen, stacking them in ossuary-cairns. The [[Khorne|significance]] of this post-battle development would not be truly appreciated by observers of the legion until some time later, but the cairns were noted to have a bizarre and deleterious psychic effect on the Raven Guard marines hiding in the area. Angron himself remained upon Isstvan V, leading the force hunting the Raven Guard personally. Eventually, after 98 days of cat-and-mouse hunting, the World Eaters were able to run the Raven Guard survivors down, launching themselves at their exhausted prey in what would surely be another, final massacre. This was not to be however, as the Raven Guard force - including their primarch, [[Corax]]- were rescued by a relief force of their own legion, in what some would come to refer to as a miracle.{{Fn|26}} The World Eaters were instrumental in the battles of the [[Shadow Crusade]], and the [[Siege of Terra]] itself.{{Cite This}}
Legion records claim that it was the World Eaters who made the first breach in the walls of the [[Imperial Palace]]{{Fn|19a}}, a claim perhaps verified by surviving Imperial vid-logs of the Siege, which show the World Eaters breaching the walls with Angron at their head{{Fn|5c}}. However, it is also said that it was one of their champions, [[Khârn]], who was the first to enter said breach{{Cite This}}.
**{{Endn|5c}}: p. 16
**{{Endn|5d}}: p.14
*{{Endn|6}}: ''[[After Desh'ea (Short Story)|After Desh'ea]]'' by [[Matthew Farrer]]
*{{Endn|7}}: [[The Sabbat Worlds Crusade (Background Book)|The Sabbat Worlds Crusade]] by [[Dan Abnett]], p. 65
*{{Endn|8}}: [[White Dwarf #286]], pp. 64-65
*{{Endn|9}}: [[The Traitor's Hand (Novel)|The Traitor's Hand]] by [[Sandy Mitchell]], Chapter One
*10: [[Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Rulebook]]
**{{Endn|10a}}: p. 199
**{{Endn|15g}}: pp. 40-47
**{{Endn|15h}}: pp.49-50
**{{Endn|15i}}: p. 57, p. 59*16: [[Betrayer (Novel)|Betrayer]] by [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]]
**{{Endn|16a}}: Chapter Seventeen
**{{Endn|16b}}: Chapter Twenty-One
**{{Endn|16c}}: Chapter Nine
**{{Endn|16d}}: Chapter Eighteen
*{{Endn|17}}: [[Dark Millennium (game system)|Dark Millennium]]: '''Damnation's Gate''' - [http://wh40k.lexicanum.de/mediawiki/images/6/6e/DMG014Aggression.jpg '''Aggression'''], card description *{{Endn|18}}: [[Talon of Horus (Novel)|Talon of Horus]] - ''Dramatis Personae''
*19: [[Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness]]
**{{Endn|19a}}: p. 259
**{{Endn|19b}}: p. 168
*20: [[The Horus Heresy Book Six- Retribution]]
**{{Endn|20a}}: pp. 106-107
**{{Endn|20b}}: p. 114
*{{Endn|21}}: [[Horus Heresy (game system)|Horus Heresy]]: '''Core Set''' - [http://wh40k.lexicanum.de/mediawiki/images/8/80/Gladiator_%28Karte%29.jpg Gladiator], card description
*{{Endn|22}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Seven - The Siege of Vraks - Part Three]], p. 17
*{{Endn|23}}: [[False Gods (Novel)|False Gods]] by [[Graham McNeill]], Chapters Eighteen to Twenty*{{Endn|24}}: [[Lord of the Red Sands (Short Story)|Lord of the Red Sands]] by Aaron Dembski-Bowden*{{Endn|25}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre]], p. 35*{{Endn|26}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination]], pp. 34-35, 38, 45
[[Category:Armageddon Wars]]
Mob
6,166
edits
Retrieved from "https://lex.124811.xyz/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/293938"