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==Known Blackshield Bands==
===Named groups===
*'''[[Ashen Claws]]'''*'''[[Brotherhood of Set]]''' — Took part in the Solar War{{Fn|2}}*'''[[Burnt Word]]''' — Took part in the [[Solar War]]{{Fn|2}}*'''[[Company of the Sundered]]''' — Pirate band{{Fn|1b}}*'''[[Dark Brotherhood (Blackshields)|Dark Brotherhood]]'''*'''[[Death Eagles (Blackshields)|Death Eagles]]'''{{Fn|4c}}*'''[[Desolation Hounds]]'''{{Fn|8b}}*'''[[Disciples of the Flames]]'''{{Fn|1f}}*'''[[Fangs of the Emperor]]''' — Loyalist warband led by [[Endryd Haar]]{{Fn|1d}}{{Fn|8b}}*'''[[Gerasene Host]]''' — Undertook unsanctioned [[gene-seed]] hybridization, creating "Chymeriae" Astartes{{Fn|1a}}*'''[[Marauder Squad]]'''{{Fn|5}}*'''[[Mind-Blade]]'''{{Fn|8b}}*'''[[Nine Blades]]''' — Established a petty slave empire in the Truan System{{Fn|1b}}*'''[[Skyrar's Dark Wolves]]''' — Mixed [[Sons of Horus]]/[[Space Wolves]] warband{{Fn|4a}}{{Fn|8a}}*'''[[Third Covenant]]'''*'''[[True Flame]]'''{{Fn|8b}}*'''[[Twelfth Truth]]''' — Took part in the Solar War{{Fn|2}}*'''[[Umbral Hundred]]''' — Scoured twelve [[System]]s in the [[Chonma Sector]] in 011.[[M31]]{{Fn|1b}}
===Unnamed groups===
*Loyalist Blackshields of Battlegroup Revenant{{Fn|4b}}
*[[Khorak]]'s group - A faction of Death Guard members who turned against their Legion when [[Mortarion]] used witchcraft during the [[Battle of Molech]]. They considered themselves the last "true" remnants of the Death Guard, and retained the legion's symbols and colors, though sought to eventually kill their Primarch. The group was wiped out at [[Agarvian]].{{Fn|6}}
*[[Crysos Morturg]]'s warband, based on the [[Strike Cruiser]] ''[[Malice(Strike Cruiser)|Malice]]'';{{Fn|6}} later became the 108th Independent Company.{{Fn|1e}}
==Famous Blackshields==
==Sources==
*1: [[The Horus Heresy Book Six - Retribution]]:
**{{Endn|1a}}: pgs. 220–224
**{{Endn|1b}}: pgs. 18–19
**{{Endn|1f}}: pgs. 35-51
*{{Endn|2}}: [[The Solar War (Novel)]], Chapter 14
*{{Endn|3}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre]]:
**{{Endn|3a}}: pg. 73
*{{Endn|4}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Four - Conquest]]:
**{{Endn|4a}}: pg. 19
**{{Endn|4b}}: pg. 216
*{{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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