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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 '''The Lord of the Red Sands'''{{Fn|15c}} or the '''Red Angel'''.{{Fn|16b}} 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 [[Chaos Space Marine Legions and Warbands (List)|warbands]], and have rarely fought as a unified Legion since.{{Fn|14b}}
Alongside the [[Space Wolves]] 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. They are also the only known legion to have ever engaged [[Thunder Warriors]] in combat, during the bloody [[Cerberus Insurrection]].
==Additional Information==
===Related Articles===
*[[Chaos Space Marine Legions and Warbands (List)]]
*[[Space Marine Forces (List)]]
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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 '''The Lord of the Red Sands'''{{Fn|15c}} or the '''Red Angel'''.{{Fn|16b}} 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 [[Chaos Space Marine Legions and Warbands (List)|warbands]], and have rarely fought as a unified Legion since.{{Fn|14b}}
Alongside the [[Space Wolves]] 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. They are also the only known legion to have ever engaged [[Thunder Warriors]] in combat, during the bloody [[Cerberus Insurrection]].
==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.{{Fn|16d}} 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|15a}}
*''[[Blood Shrike]]'' - [[Strike Cruiser]] (pre-Heresy).{{Fn|1b}}
*''[[Silent Fury]]'' - [[Strike Cruiser]] (pre-Heresy).{{Fn|1b}}
*''[[Gladiator (Capital Ship)|Gladiator]]'' - Capital Ship (pre-Heresy}.{{Fn|21}}
*''[[Aggression]]'' - [[Cruiser]]{{Fn|17}}
*''[[Clavam]]'' - [[Cruiser]] (Heresy-era)
*[[Triarii]] (Heresy-Era)
===Trivia and Notes===
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*[[Angron]]'s origin as a gladiator-turned-leader of a rebel army, and his eventual 'disappearance' from their final battlefield, probably draws inspiration from the historical figure [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus Spartacus].
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==See also==
===Related Articles===
*[[Chaos Space Marine Legions and Warbands (List)]]
*[[Space Marine Forces (List)]]
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