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|Specialty=[[Daemonancy]], [[Dark Apostle]]s, Combined arms & garrisoning (Pre-Heresy){{Fn|52}}
|Battle Cry=An appropriate passage from their sacred texts and dolorous roars.{{citethis}}
|Warbands=
*[[The Blessed]]{{Fn|38}}
*[[Bringers of Enlightenment]]{{citethis}}*[[The Brotherhood]]{{citethis}}
*[[The Faithful (Warband)|The Faithful]]{{Fn|43}}
*[[The Foresworn (Word Bearers)|The Foresworn]]{{citethis}}*[[Holy Sons of Lorgar]]{{citethis}}*[[Iconoclastic Brotherhood]]{{citethis}}*[[Infernal Host of Kor Megron]]{{Fn|55}}*[[Ivory Fang]]{{citethis}}*[[Lords of Desolation]]{{citethis}}*[[Prophets of the Blighted Path]]{{citethis}}*[[Runic Blazon]]{{citethis}}*[[The Sanctified]]{{citethis}}*[[Screaming Mind]]{{citethis}}*[[Sons of Damnation]]{{citethis}}*[[Weeping Veil]]{{citethis}}
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The '''Word Bearers''', originally known as the '''Imperial Heralds''' and the '''Iconoclasts''', is the '''XVII Legion''' of the original twenty [[Space Marine Legion|Space Marine Legions]]. They were the first of the nine Legions which betrayed the [[Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]], becoming the first known [[Chaos Space Marine|Chaos Space Marines]], pledging their allegiance to their [[Primarch]] [[Lorgar]] and to [[Chaos Undivided]].
**{{Endn|53b}}: pg. 116
*{{Endn|54}}: [[The End and the Death: Volume II (Novel)]], 8:vii
*{{Endn|55}}: [[White Dwarf 370 (UK)]], pgs. 90-97 – ''[[Army Workshop]]: [[Word Bearers]]''
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