Faces of Heresy: The World Eaters By NicholasWolf Watch

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Ten thousand years after the Horus Heresy ended the Emperor's Great Crusade and damned humanity, the Traitor Legions of the Chaos Space Marines still venerate the Arch-Traitor Horus for "freeing" them from the yoke of the Emperor and delivering them into the bosom of the Gods of Chaos. Behold the face of the freedom.



The difficult relationship between the Primarch of the World Eaters, Angron, and the Emperor began on ill terms. Several years before their fateful first meeting during the Great Crusade Angron had led a bloody slave revolt against his captors and escaped with his imprisoned gladiator brethren, and the Emperor, seeing that his son would surely be overwhelmed by enemy forces, saved Angron against his will while his fellow rebels were slaughtered in the battle that crushed the slave revolt. Although Angron was placated with the gift of a Legion of Space Marines to craft in his image, the painful rift between father and son had already become permanent. Their sour relationship was further eroded by Angron's practice of implanting a rage-inducing cybernetic called "Butcher's Nails" into all of his Legion's recruits, despite being expressly forbidden by the Emperor. The result of his grisly practice was a Legion of unstable warriors that would transform into berserk killing machines in the heat of battle. During the Great Crusade the World Eaters distinguished themselves as peerless masters of close quarters butchery, even among their brother Astartes, and with their bloody prowess came a reputation for unparalleled, excessive savagery that saw entire worlds slaughtered out of sheer rage. This brutal mentality was epitomized by Angron's single diplomatic allowance to worlds about to be conquered: either use this one chance to surrender willingly, or be slaughtered to the last man. Although it is not known exactly when or why Angron sided with Horus and turned against the Emperor it is universally accepted that persuading the blood-soaked monster into rebellion would have required little cajoling. After ten thousand years of warfare the World Eaters have completely collapsed as a legion, and exist as roving warbands of battle-crazed butchers actively seeking out the bloodiest warzones to commit genocidal carnage in the name of Khorne, the Blood God.





So sorry that this took so much longer than it was supposed to. I was actually intending to do the Emperor's Children next, but a computer glitch all but erased the file and I decided to give that image a break, ergo, the Berzerkers of Khorne. Hope you all enjoy!

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Published : Sep 14, 2012