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==Known Blackshield Bands==
===Named groups===
*The '''[[Ashen Claws]]'''*The '''[[Brotherhood of Set]]''' — Took part in the Solar War{{Fn|2}}*The '''[[Burnt Word]]''' — Took part in the [[Solar War]]{{Fn|2}}*The '''[[Company of the Sundered]]''' — Pirate band{{Fn|1b}}*The '''[[Dark Brotherhood (Blackshields)|Dark Brotherhood]]'''*The '''[[Death Eagles (Blackshields)|Death Eagles]]'''{{Fn|4c}}*The '''[[Desolation Hounds]]'''{{Fn|8b}}*'''[[Disciples of the Flames]]'''{{Fn|1f}}*The '''[[Fangs of the Emperor]]''' — Loyalist warband led by [[Endryd Haar]]{{Fn|1d}}{{Fn|8b}}*The '''[[Gerasene Host]]''' — Undertook unsanctioned [[gene-seed]] hybridization, creating "Chymeriae" Astartes{{Fn|1a}}*The '''[[Marauder Squad]]'''{{Fn|5}}*The '''[[Mind-Blade]]'''{{Fn|8b}}*'''[[Nine Blades]]''' — Established a petty slave empire in the Truan System{{Fn|1b}}*The '''[[Skyrar's Dark Wolves]]''' — Mixed [[Sons of Horus]]/[[Space Wolves]] warband{{Fn|4a}}{{Fn|8a}}*'''[[Third Covenant]]'''*The '''[[True Flame]]'''{{Fn|8b}}*'''[[Twelfth Truth]]''' — Took part in the Solar War{{Fn|2}}*The '''[[Umbral Hundred]]''' — Scoured twelve [[System]]s in the [[Chonma Sector]] in 011.[[M31]]{{Fn|1b}}
===Unnamed groups===
*A Blackshield group which crippled the Death Guard warship ''[[Morbid Revelation]]''{{Fn|1b}}
*Warband which bore hybrid Iron Hands-Sons of Horus smybols and fought for the traitors in the [[Mezoan Campaign]]{{Fn|4a}}
*Death Guard loyalists who returned to the symbols of the Dusk Raiders before fighting the Iron Warriors at [[Kibron]] and [[Malinche's Fall]]{{Fn|4a}}
*Night Lords loyalists who were active on [[Estaban III]] during the [[Great Scouring]]{{Fn|4a}}
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Blackshield (Short Story)]]
*{{Endn|7}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/01/25/shattered-legions-and-blackshields-star-in-the-next-expansion-for-warhammer-the-horus-heresy/ Warhammer Community: Shattered Legions and Blackshields Star in the Next Expansion for Warhammer: The Horus Heresy (posted 25/1/2024)] (last accessed 25/1/2024)
*8: [[Campaigns of the Age of Darkness: The Battle of Beta-Garmon]],
**{{Endn|8a}}: pg. 80, ''Fractured Hosts''
**{{Endn|8b}}: pg. 88, ''Heraldry of the Blackshields''
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