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====The Eaters of Worlds====
[[Image:WEHeresyEra.jpg|thumb|right|200px|World Eaters legionary]]
After Angron assumed command of his newly-rechristened legion, they once again mustered upon the world of [[Bodt]], where Angron took stock of his forces. Always possessed of the harshest self-inflicted training regimes in the Space Marine Legions, the World Eaters went to new lengths under Angron's direction, adopting fighting pits and gladiatorial combat into their doctrines. Each warrior who passed the new tests wore scars aplenty to show it. Those who failed did not live to try again. Whatever Terran martial traditions that existed in the War Hounds were erased by Angron's new gladiatorial ones, and by the time the Primarch led his World Eaters from Bodt under their new fanged maw symbol, the World Eaters had embraced Angron's own red code of savage competition and the butchery of the weak.{{Fn|15d}} However , Angron still refused to acknowledge his sons, and during their campaign's he ordered them to defeat the targeted world within 31 hours. This was the span of a single [[Nuceria]]n day and the amount of time it had taken Angron and his army of slave rabble to score their greatest victory. Despite the brutality and even hatred Angron showed his legion, the World Eaters were committed to earn his respect.{{Fn|31a}} Meanwhile, Angron had ordered his [[Apothecarion]], under [[Gahlan Surlak]], to replicate his [[Butcher's Nails]] and implant the resultant creations into the brains of his legionaries. However, early on the process proved fatal to any marine who dared try to endure the process.{{Fn|31a}} Angron proved disgusted with his "weak" sons, and managed to flee to a [[feral world]] for two whole years before [[Kharn]] found him and convinced him to rejoin the Legion.{{Fn|31c}}
Time and time again the World Eaters failed to meet this deadline and each time Angron demanded the punishment be decimation, forcing 1 of every 10 World Eaters to be killed by the other 9. After [[Centurion (Rank)|Centurion]] [[Mago]] refused to comply with decimation after the [[Ghenna Massacre]], Angron was thrown into a bloody frenzy and massacred several World Eaters before being subdued by his own [[Librarian]]s. The episode created a crisis within the Legion that saw Mago lead a revolt when [[Apothecary]] [[Gahlan Surlak]] announced that he had finally perfected a method for mass production of the Butcher's Nails within the Legion. However , the [[Ghenna Massacre|revolt failed]], Mago was slain, and Kharn became the first World Eater to successfully endure the Nails.{{Fn|31b}}{{Fn|31c}} The result of an entire Space Marine Legion 'enhanced' with the aggression engines was seen during what became known as the [[Ghenna Massacre]]; an entire planetary population massacred in one night of unparalleled violence.{{Fn|15d}}
Soon the World Eaters would become a byword for mass-scale slaughter and violence, their enemies not merely shot down or blasted to oblivion, but killed to a man in their streets and fortresses. Their legend for brutality became so strong that more than once non-compliant worlds would surrender at the threat of the World Eaters being unleashed upon them. Already a breed apart, Angron's legionaries began to be actively shunned by their fellow Space Marine Legions and spoken of in dread by those Imperial citizens who knew of their actions. The planets upon which the World Eaters fell were not merely crushed - they were destroyed utterly. This caused concern even among hardened Imperial Commanders, not least of whom was Primarch [[Roboute Guilliman]] of the [[Ultramarines]], who decried the atrocities of Angron during the [[Cleansing of Ariggata]].{{Fn|15d}} Eventually [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]] brought his Space Wolves to confront Angron, bringing word that the Emperor wanted the World Eaters to cease implanting themselves with aggression engines, and to further urge Angron to cease his massacres. What resulted was a brief but [[Night of the Wolf|bloody confrontation]] between the World Eaters and Space Wolves, with Angron besting Russ in single combat but allowing himself to become encircled and doomed to be killed by Space Wolves in the process, if they so wished. When it became clear that Angron was a lost cause and did not understand that his own failure to lead resulted in him becoming entrapped, Russ ordered a withdrawal.{{Fn|16a}}
