Malum Scions

The Malum Scions are a once loyalist, now declared renegade chapter of the Adeptus Astartes that now supports the Imperium of Man from a distance, making sure they do not negatively harm the greater Imperium. Their founding is unknown and their parent legion also remains a mysterious matter. Some sources suggest they are have Blood Angel descent due to their unnatural rage and affinity for melee combat but nothing is for certain. They have a morbid history of death, chaos, and misfortune. They tend to wield equipment stolen from the Imperium. Most of their weaponry is battle-damaged due to their nature of scavenging battlefields where Astartes fought to harvest their equipment for the Malum Scions own purposes and desires. They tend to menacingly march towards their enemies with battle-damaged armor, bolters, and various melee weapons firing at them until they are close enough to hack and slash through them with their chainswords, power axes, and such. They are an overall dark and grim chapter with much sorrowful happenings and death.
== History ==
The history of the Malum Scions, or as they were once called the Silver Liege, is a very shaken one of heresy and mistake dating back to the start of the 39th millennium. Once, they were loyalist and fought for the Imperium of Man trying to drive the horrors of the grimdark future away from humankind. Now, they have been declared renegades and have since fought for the Imperium of Man from a distance. 
Before their declaration as heretics, they went on battles and crusades for mankind, whose much of outcomes of said battles and crusades resulted in the chapters equipment becoming damaged and often times never becoming repaired. Afterwards of warfare, the space marines of this curse-ridden chapter walked out of battles trenched in blood, which eventually drove them to acquire a Khornate curse, named the Bloodied Soul that eats at their very souls and eventually would cause daemons of Khorne to appear in almost every battle they fight in. The Malum scions also are on bad terms with the Adeptus Mechanicus because during the middle of the 39th millenium Lok Maliam, Lord of Evil (what the chapter calls their Chapter Master) went into battle himself once fighting the Dark Mechanium cooperating with World Eaters. The Adeptus Mechanicus that were deployed to this battle ended up becoming afflicted with the Bloodied Soul curse that the Malum Scions bear. During that battle, every Adeptus Mechanius troop and vehicle that were deployed to that battle became cursed and transformed into various warp entities and daemon engines. Since then, the Adeptus Mechanicus have had a resentment and refuse to aid the Malum Scions out of superstition and fear, sometimes even opening fire upon the Malum Scions if Mechanicus members ever encounter an accursed Astartes of this chapter. 
Since, the Malum Scions equipment has became decrepit and often times took long times to repair or never got repaired in the first place. Due to the Adeptus Mechanicus's resentment to the Malum Scions, many of the vehicles and equipment possessed by the Malum Scions end up becoming decrepit and unmaintained, so far to the fact that many vehicles do not even work. After the Malum Scions fell deeper into their curse, the machine-spirits of the Malum Scions equipment became accursed by the Bloodied Soul, and the weapons would gain a Khornate nature, ever-thirsting for blood, and ceasing to function if they become starved of blood. 
Due to the Bloodied Soul and what would eventually become nature, fellow Astartes and Imperial Guardsmen that fought alongside the Malum Scions often resented their support since their curse granted by Khorne caused additional daemons and often times caused Guardsmen and sometimes even Astartes to become possessed by daemons of Khorne. In particular circumstances, Imperial Guard cooperating with Malum Scions would sometimes even straight up kill themselves as to prevent them from being cursed. Fellow space marines would also sometimes open fire on Malum Scions, seeing them as curse-ridden heretics of Khorne. They were not always called the Malum Scions though. The reason behind them being named the Malum Scions, was due to how curse-ridden they became, and overtime and due to many happenings and ever-increasing hatred for them from the Imperium, they eventually embraced this hatred and renamed themselves the Malum Scions, and becoming very pessimistic, blood-obsessed, and a very rude chapter of space marines. Overtime, they became resented by the Imperium of Man and eventually, near the middle of the 39th millennium, an Inquisitorial investigation was held...
What the Inquisitor known as Torax found among his research into the chapter was... shocking. He found that the chapter had eventually become obsessed with Khorne and succumbed to their curse. The Inquisitor found the space marines partaking in blood rites, abducting Imperial citizens and Guardsmen, and even space marines to drain their blood and bath themselves in it while trying to summon incursions of Khornate daemons. There were even Malum Scions cooperating with a few World Eaters chaos space marines to try and assimilate themselves into the World Eaters that were present within the chapter's fortress-monastery and World Eaters becoming a part of the Malum Scions even. Torax, after secretly conducting his investigation, brought this to higher notice of the Imperium and forces were sent to utterly eradicate and purge the cursed, Khornate chapter, now turned warband. A force of Blood Angels, whose specialization was melee combat, would attempt to dispatch them with their melee prowess against the fellow swords and axesmen. The Cadian Shock Troopers were also deployed to prove as a mainstream attack force against the Malum Scions. The Malum Scions would valiantly defend their home-world now turned daemon-world against the oncoming Cadian Shock Troopers and Blood Angels space marines. The Malum Scions, with the aid of summoned and bounded World Eaters and daemons of Khorne managed to defeat, slaughter, and drive the Imperial opposition away from Sacrilege, the Malum Scions home-world. The whole world of Sacrilege became a daemon-world, infested with many daemons of Khorne and the Malum Scions. The now chaos warband would conquer nearby planets and subjugate many Imperial citizens, Guardsmen and even small groups of space marines sent in a futile attempt to fend off the Malum Scions. The Malum Scions became a sizable threat to many worlds of the Imperium and would become a high priority threat against the Imperium of Man. Lok Maliam, the now chaos lord, would even declare what he called the Malum Quest, his own spin on the Black Crusades where he was hellbent on spreading bloodshed, sorrow, evil, and the warp wherever the Lord of Evil could, against both the forces of Chaos and the Imperium of Man. This act of declaring what was the Lord of Evil's own personal Black Crusade rivaled that of Abaddon's Black Crusades. The Imperium of Man would have a very difficult counteracting this powerful and extensive chaos warband that conquered a plethora of planets of the Imperium and would eventually conquered the entirety of the Ynexa star system, which would see the entire star system being renamed the Malum Cluster by the Imperium of Man. Eventually, during the closing days of the 39th millennium, the Imperium would go on crusades and win decisive battles and eventually cornered the Malum Scions to their daemon-world of Sacrilege, where a large detachment of Blood Angels, whose has issued their own crusade against the Malum Scions out of vengeance against the chaos space marines who originally defeated the Blood Angels, another very sizable detachment of Death Korps of Krieg would siege the chaos space marines, another large detachment of White Scars to hit the Malum scions hard and fast, and the most elite and esteemed members of the Raven Guard to sabotage, destroy, and break the Malum Scions defense from within. Eventually, in the closing days in the 39th millennium, they were destroyed and supposedly purged from the Imperium. 
Whilst this seemed like the end of the Malum Scions, it truly wasn't despite their millennia long disappearance. They were found to have reemerged in the closing days of the 41st millennium, where they were found to have mysteriously reappeared to aid the Black Templars during one of their many and numerous crusades. They apparently kept their distance from loyalist forces and had a variation of an 8-pointed star with a skull in the middle and laurels on the sides regarding their insignia. Little is known what they are up to but if certain theories and Inquisitorial investigations intend are true, they are going on penance crusades by themselves without any official Imperial declaration to make up for their past sins and treachery. Since, they have been aiding Imperial forces without getting too close out of fear of their curses and sins afflicting the ones whose they are trying to support. It is also speculated that the Lord of Evil, Lok Maliam actually survived the final battle on Sacrilege and overtime regret his treachery and turned on chaos and with a handful of fellow renegade Astartes that felt the same way, went back to the Imperium side of things to aid the Imperium of Man from afar, constantly keeping distance and staunchly resisting the strong will and power of the Dark Gods and the Bloodied Soul that curses the Malum Scions. However, nothing is for certain about their current status and how they are still alive or if they even are Imperial now or just simply chaos yearning for more bloodshed for Khorne whilst maintaining some strange sense of rationality, slaughtering the enemies of the Imperium while keeping their distance...
== Home-world ==
The home-world of the Malum Scions known as Sacrilege is located in the solar system known as Ynexa. It is a mild, arid landscape with oceans that cover approximately 40% of the planet. With desert-like landscapes and vast forests and jungles combined, from orbit it looks a strange swash of blue, green and yellow. The deserts are vast and yellow, with high dunes, with minimal rainfall, and smalls forms of life that try to sustain themselves on the very small streams that only seem to fade even more as the water is evaporated from the neighboring star known as Kelal. The forests are lush, vast, and green landscapes suitable for living comfortably, yet harsh enough to train an Astartes. The wildlife on the planet is not the most brutal, but stepping out into the forest well surely result in you getting mauled by a Woil (a native species that are similar to wolves that have and walk on six legs and have large jaws with many teeth and mandibles that protrude out the sides of the creature) pack or two. The cities and where the people live aren't the biggest nor brightest as the people work harshly and tirelessly for the every-expanding requirements of the Imperium of Man. Whilst Sacrilege does provide production for the larger Imperium, its main focus is to act as a space marine recruitment world. It has minimal resources and thus is far more suited for recruiting Astartes on the planet.
However, due to the treachery of the Malum Scions, the world has since become a daemon-world. Its environment consists of a writhing landscape of blood and horrific abominations that eternally and perpetually fight due to the Malum Scions eventual Khornate nature and practices. The infrastructure and buildings tend to be massive and vast fortresses and towers of spikes, blood, stretched skin, and skulls. Overall, the now daemon-world could be shortly described as a somewhat Iron Warriors world mixed with a plethora of blood, Khornate structures and symbols, and infinite bloodshed and fighting. However, the daemon-world of Sacrilege has since been subject to virus bombing once the Malum Scions had been supposedly driven off and eradicated from Sacrilege and everywhere else during their alleged final battle. The once home-world, then daemon-world has now become a desolate, polluted, green, toxin-ridden wasteland that is utterly uninhabitable and unusable by either the Imperium of Man or the will of the Dark Gods.
Since this, they have recently begun to operate on a variety on unknown worlds, where they secretly coordinate plans and sometimes come into light to help Imperial forces while staying their distance until the threat is resolved in which they disappear never to come out until such a battle that requires them arises once more.
== Fortress-Monastery ==
The chapter of Malum Scions have a fortress-monastery named Ferios, located on their home-world on Sacrilege. Ferios is a vast fortress-monastery, consisting of many halls and space marines stationed there. The Lord of Evil, Lok Maliam resides in this mighty fortress, where he commands the chapter and marches forward unto battle if necessary with his mighty personal guard known as The Possessed.
Due to the Malum Scions supposed eradication of both the chapter and their home-world turned daemon-world, the fortress-monastery of Ferios has since also been razen and destroyed. Since then, the Malum Scions do not maintain any sort of home-world, let alone fortress-monastery.
== Beliefs and Ideals ==
The beliefs and ideals of the Malum Scions were once originally whole-hearted and caring. They believed in a central equality and tend to not view themselves as better as even a regular Imperial citizen. However, over time due to the curse of Khorne put upon them and the distrust of others, they eventually became pessimistic and rude, and eventually devolved into an utter belief in Khorne and then henceforth caused their fall from grace into more slaves and toys for Khorne and the Dark Gods as a whole.
== Geneseed ==
The geneseed of the Malum Scions is quite corrupted due to the inherit rage and bloodlust it gives to the one who bears this geneseed. Whilst it did not have a Khornate curse originally, the rage and bloodlust of the geneseed that were expressed in the Malum Scions created a gateway for Khorne to manipulate and tamper with. Eventually through time, the geneseed became corrupted into an abominable Khornate amalgamation. It was once somewhat pure at one point before the Malum Scions downfall, but now it has descended into an impure, chaotic, and unusable state.
Stashes of Malum Scions geneseed were mysteriously recovered from Adeptus Mechanicus Expedition Fleets on various planets, but were found to be utterly usable and completely corrupted.
Another notable fact about the Malum Scions geneseed, is that a lot of the organs that are usually present for a normal Astartes geneseed, are missing such as the addition heart, lung, etc. However, they possess an unnaturally fast healing rate which makes them virtually immortal simply because most Malum Scions can, with most wounds and time, heal from wounds that would normally be fatal to a regular Astartes. Even getting shot in the heart, a Malum Scions will still function as long as no more excessive damage is sustained. The most effective way to actually end an Astartes of this chapters life is to decapitate it. Aside from that, they will be able to regenerate from possibly any physical wound.
However, there are downsides to this aspect of them. A few examples would be that since they lack an extra heart and lung, they often tend to move a bit slower for an Astartes simply because their body can't keep up with the overall size of the regular Astartes. Another example would be then they also lack the regular ultra-sonic hearing of the regular Astartes and thus have hearing of that of a regular human. One last example would be since they lack the additional lung, they are especially susceptible to toxins and gases. This has thus emerged an aptitude towards daemons of Nurgle and Plague Marines in which if an Astartes of the Malum Scions faces such a force, they have been noted to literally turn tail and run away as fast as quickly as to prevent internal corruption of their respiratory system.
== Recruitment ==
They only tended to recruit from their home-world of Sacrilege before their fall of grace. Their recruitment consisted of finding the strongest among Sacrilege and testing them through immense trails. They often would hunt very dangerous wildlife and indigenous species among Sacrilege as training. An example of a trial every Malum Scions space marine would eventually partake in is referred to as the Cataclysm Mandrex.
In this trial, five neophytes are gathered in a group. Each one of them would hunt a very dangerous creature that is found only on Sacrilege known as a Mandrex. A Mandrex is a very dangerous, wyvern-like creature that breathes fire. Each neophyte will have to find one of these fire-breathing menaces, slay it, and take its skull to prove that you killed it. If the neophyte succeeds this trial, then they are full assimilated as a Curse Fly.
If they die in the process, then they are not assimilated obviously since they have died. If the body can be recovered, there body is since then harvested for whatever geneseed and additional organs that were in the Astartes-in-training, and are then used for new, potential members of the chapter. The potentially recovered body is then ritually burned and the aspirants family is gathered to honor their lost son. If the body is not recovered, then there is a memoriam that is held to honor the lost son and the aspirant's family is then gathered to honor, mourn, and grief over there lost son. Eventually however due to the Malum Scions Khornate curse and their slow descent into chaos, there trials would eventually become very bloodied and brutal. Dead Astartes would be harvested for geneseed and organs and then bloodletted, the chapter eventually going to bath themselves in the blood of their fallen brethren.
In the closing days of the 41st millennium, their recruitment methods are unknown, but it is rumored that they sway loyalist Astartes to their side and indoctrinate said Astartes into the ways of the Malum Scions. Due to this nature, there has been quite a radical nature in the geneseed and organs of the Malum Scions as a whole. Most Malum Scions tend to have the original effects and quirks in their geneseed, but there have been rare and strange noted cases of this not staying true which suggests the theory of their recruitment and indoctrination of once loyalist Astartes as stated above to indeed perhaps be truth. They are also known to use their corrupted geneseed to straight-up create new Astartes and train them from birth. However, this is incredibly rare and often very secret and heavily classified projects the Malum Scions undertake.
== Chapter Organization ==
Little is known about how the chapter/warband organizes themselves now. It is speculated that they retain their previous titles and ranks before their fall to chaos since it has been heard that Astartes of the Malum Scions tend to shout phrases in combat such as "For the Lord of Evil!" and "For the curse inside of us and for the Imperium!"
Notable organizational differences compared to other chapters would be that the Khornate curse is heightened and affects librarians and the such in the Malum Scions even greator than that of other places in the chapter. Another notable difference would be that the chapter lacks any sort of techmarine, let alone master of the armory, due to the Malum Scions having a terrible relationship with the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Omnissiah, and machine-spirits overall. 
One more notable fact is that all space marines who are of normal ranks will not be an assault or devastator marine. Instead, each marine is equipped with a frag grenade, melta bomb, choice of melee weapon such as chainsword or power axe, and a regular bolter. There original names of ranks before they underwent their metamorphosis to become Malum Scions have since been wiped from Imperial records.
They have many of there own names for their ranks and companies if we are to relay on their pre-heresy titles.
They also tend to have unique units of their own, such as Curse Holders and Death Marines.
They lack any sort of Primaris space marines.
They also lack any sort of fleet due to their dissatisfaction from the Adeptus Mechanicus. Instead, the psykers of the Malum Scions create warp portals for their Astartes to travel onto battles.
It is also to be noted that their "chaplains" are called Mortifers, and the "Master of the Reclusiasm" is called the Lord of Cruciatu. The reasoning behind this is the chapter's extreme disliking of the Inquisition out of fear because of their curses and Khornate nature. Many Inquisitors before tried investigating but most disappeared due to very well covered up plans. One succeeded however, the Inquisitor named Torax. The Mortifers of the chapter often are stripped of their Inquisitorial past and are utterly indoctrinated into the Malum Scions.
* Lord of Evil (Chapter Master)
* The Maledictus (Chief Librarian)
** Curse Lord (Codicier)
*** Malum Lock (Epistolary)
*** Malum Sorcerer (Librarian)
* Lord of Vita (Master of the Apothecarium)
** Life Bringer (Apothecary)
* Lord of Cruciatu (Master of the Reclusiasm)
** Mortifer (Chaplain)
* Lord of Flies (Master of Recruits)
* Curse Fly (Neophyte)
* Curse Bearer (Space Marine)
* Curse Bearer Supreme (Sergeant)
* Curse Zealot (Veteran)
* Curse Bringer (Standard Bearer)
* Curse Elite (Vanguard and Sternguard Marine)
* Curse Beholder (Teminator)
* Curse Beholder Marshal (Terminator Sergeant)
== Combat Doctrines ==
They tend to fight by often sending normal space marines, no assaults or the like, into battle with explosive and tactical equipment, such as blind grenades, melta bombs, and krak grenades depending on what the situation requires, a simple bolter, a boltpistol, and a melee weapon. Malum scions on the field tend to relentlessly march towards their enemies, taking excessive damage to their armor yet still surviving. How this could be is unknown but it most likely has something to do with their curse and/or geneseed. They walk towards their enemies, firing their bolters at them until they are close enough to slice and bash them with their chainswords, maces, and the like. They tend to field little to no vehicles due to their bad reputation with the Adeptus Mechanicus and machine-spirits. 
They also have unique units that they have created and field them. Unique units of the Malum Scions include Curse Holders, Death Marines, Bringers of the Damnable, Curse Marauders, and Curse Berserkers, and The Possessed. They also tend to field heavy amounts of standard bearers to march unto the enemy unflinchingly. 
Their combative styles tend to boil down to slow and intimidating marches. They often employ psychological warfare due to their slow and grim nature, boiling down to aggressive and brutal close combat rushes when they get close enough to their adversaries to slice and bash them apart. Such displays of death and brutality often cause the allies of the Malum Scions enemies to run and cower in fear where they too will inevitably be torn and shot to shreds by the bolters, chainswords, and the wrath and fury of the Malum Scions. 
Depending on the enemy, they may field more elite space marines such as Curse Beholders and Curse Elites if the situation calls for such a reinforcement. 
== Appearance ==
They tend to appear in an all white color, with a grey shadow and light blues upon their accents and markings, and with the entirety of their right pauldron and their right vambrace being red with accents and tints of grey. Most, if not all of their armor and weaponry has sustained countless damages often going unrepaired due to the chapters mishappenings with the Adeptus Mechanicus. The chapter, despite maintaining an elite status before and after their downfall to the Ruinous Powers, often looks decrepit and like a thrown-away chapter of space marines whose only merit is fear.
== Unique Units ==
The unique units created and employed by the Malum Scions are the Curse Holders, Death Marines, Bringers of the Damnable, Curse Marauders, Curse Berserkers, and The Possessed.
The Curse Holders are a unique unit of the Malum Scions. They are similar to that of librarians with there warp-potency. Instead of being a Malum Sorcerer and the like, they utilize their curse to their advantage and utilize bloodied warp powers and sometimes even summon and bind daemons of Khorne to their own use. This usually happens in the midst of battle to utilize additional reinforcement if needed during an engagement.
The Death Marines are another unique troop of the Malum Scions. They are slow and insidious, and radiate auras of death and decay. They are often preserved in pods on the chapter's fortress-monastery, and launched into battle when a situation is incredibly dire and bleak. The nature of this strange type of Astartes tends to be that has soon as they are launched into battle, they start decaying, and in most battles, eventually decay into nothing but an armored golem, fade away, and die onto a battlefield. Since they are hard to create, and expire frantically quickly, they are only fielded in the most extreme of situations, and only a handful of Death Marines are maintained in the fortress-monastery for rare use in cataclysmic situations. Their creation is unknown, but it is deemed that they were created from a project The Maledictus took apart in alongside the Lord of Vita, to create unstoppable super-soldiers. They succeeded in their endeavor, but at the cost of these soldiers being rapidly decaying masses and having to be preserved in pods. The method use to create them was most likely some warp-meddling involving most like both Khornate and Nurglite powers and entities.
The next unique, manufactured unit would be the Bringers of the Damnable. These unique troops are Astartes psykers that have a strange link built in them that links them to the Legion of the Damned. With these supremely powerful psykers, in the time of great need, they can call upon the Legion of the Damned for support. However, the cost is great to perform such a feat. This psykers are of a powerful nature, and in the process of contacting and summoning the Legion of the Damned, the said psyker is consumed by the warp and is utterly obliterated. These psykers only do this feat if it is absolutely necessary, since they would rather preserve their powerful nature and powers.
The next unique troop of Malum Scions are the Curse Marauders. These are powerful, fast, and utterly melee-oriented space marines of the Malum Scions. They often wield long, large power axes with inscriptions on said weapons and charge head-first, blindly charging into enemy lines to slaughter and slay as many as possible. It is not a guarantee they survive their battles, and most do not, but the ones that do become legends. They are created from stringent training, embracing their Khornate curse, and would among the first of the Malum Scions to submit to their Khornate Curse. They are fast, and relentless, having extra organs carefully yet forcefully implanted into them. This organs include a second heart and a third lung, so that these special kinds of Astartes can be as brutal as they are. They are of a rarer and more elite variation among the Malum Scions, but they aren't on par with the Death Marines.
The next unique unit of the Malum Scions are Curse Berserkers. These troops were originally World Eaters chaos space marines but decided to side with the Malum Scions when the Malum Scions officially went chaos. Having been trained further by the Malum Scions, they are overall stronger and faster than your typical Khorne Berzerker.
The final unique unit of the Malum Scions and the personal bodyguard of Lok Maliam, Lord of Evil himself, are called The Possessed. These are a group of four Astartes of the Malum Scions. There has been four, and there will only ever be four. These are the most elite Malum Scions to ever be employed, right under Lok Maliam himself that is. Their names were never revealed, not even needing names. They sometimes were called by cowards and strong-willed individuals alike as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse if there rumored and mysterious existence ever managed to cross someone's mind that is. They have utterly embraced their Khornate curse, and obediently follow Lok Maliam wherever he pleases. They are nothing but Khornate bloodlust and power armor. Their armor have since gained many protrusions on them and their weapons are fused to them. They only ever appeared twice. During Lok Maliam's conflict with the Dark Mechanicum and World Eaters, and the final battle on Sacrilege where the alleged destruction of the Malum Scions took place.
Ever since the supposed destruction of the Malum Scions, none of these unique troops have been spotted in action. Most, and most likely all of these unique troops were killed in the purging of Sacrilege. The only troops employed by this renegade chapter after their eradication would be their regular, steadfast, golem-like space marines, and Lok Maliam himself supposed to have been sighted leading his troops wherever need be.
== Lok Maliam ==
The Lord of Evil, Lok Maliam, is an enigmatic figure shrouded and veiled with much illusion and mystery. No one knows how he came to be or he is actually still alive. It is speculated that he was an Inquisitor and created the Malum Scions himself in an attempt to create his own personal chapter of Astartes. However, due to his meddling with the Immaterium and the possibly theory of him using Blood Angels geneseed, the space marines of this chapter would come to lack many of the additional organs regular Astartes are implanted with and the Astartes of the Malum Scions would acquire a Khornate curse overtime. The reason that is happened is speculated to be linked to how Malum Scions would often exit battle drenched in blood, but it is also noted that due to the warp meddling Lok Maliam performed in his making of this geneseed and Astartes, perhaps that created an initial portal for Khorne to meddle and tamper with.
Lok Maliam has rarely ever gone into battle, but when he does, it is noticed that he has constructed his own weaponry and power armor that is also battle-damaged. Why he doesn't repair he equipment even though he has the intellect to do such a thing remains a mystery, it is speculated the reason the Lord of Evil doesn't repair his equipment is so that he can be more in line with his chapter, since the rest of the chapter's equipment is battle-damaged and often stays battle-damaged due to the chapter's bad standing with the Adeptus Mechanicus.
Lok Maliam's armor is called the Malum Bulwark. It is an elegant yet battle-damaged suit of power armor with many ornate carvings, various sorts of an embossing across the power armor, and many signs of valiancy and heroism displayed on the armor. He often marches unto battle with a custom melta-plasma gun combi weapon in his right hand named the Malum Wrath. It is also battle-damaged yet having many royal and esteemed carvings and ornaments on the combi weapon. In his right hand, he singlehandedly wields a thunder hammer, named Bane of the Malum Scions. It, alongside the Malum Wrath and the Malum Bulwark, also has unrepaired battle-damaged and is decorated with various amounts of ornaments and engravings.
== Notable Members ==
* Lok Maliam - Lord of Evil, and the only Lord of Evil to be noted. He most likely created the Malum Scions by himself, most likely utilizing Blood Angel geneseed, and warp energies. It is unknown how Lok Maliam came to be, but it is noted that he was once an Inquisitor perhaps. That is mere speculation and there is nothing behind that slight glimmer as to the man known as Lok Maliam, more commonly known as the Lord of Evil.
* The Maledictus - This powerful Astartes psyker's past is also shrouded in mystery. Next to nothing is known about this entity, all that is known is that he was the only Chief Librarian of the Malum Scions, and that he cooperated with the Lord of Vita to create the Death Marines. He also presumably was decapitated during the purging of Sacrilege, thus making his death most likely confirmed. It is most likely he is dead, but concerning his powerfully psychic nature, he could still be alive.
* Lord of Vita - Another being shrouded in mystery. Once more, all that is known is that he was the Master of the Apothecarium, and the only Master of the Apothecarium and that he cooperated with The Maledictus to create the Death Marines. He was confirmed dead when a Raven Guard by the name of Korvyx assassinated him in Ferios and took his head as a trophy to display to the rest of the Imperium of Man and to prove that he had successfully killed the Lord of Vita.
* Lord of Cruciatu - Another Astartes of the Malum Scions shrouded in mystery, little to nothing is known aside that he captured many different enemies of the Imperium for his own interrogations and possibly pleasure. He disappeared during the destruction at Sacrilege and hasn't been seen since. It is speculated that he is the one orchestrating loyalist Astartes to turn to the Malum Scions however nothing is certain though.
* Hetaria Ulria - Mortifer, interrogated a Dark Eldar known as L'yx where he broke before the Mortifer and gave his plans of assassinating the High Lord of Terra to Hetaria. Ulria then brutally tortured, most likely for personal pleasure, the sorrowful Dark Eldar for another 57 hours until taking the Dark Eldar's pelvis as a sick and crude trophy.
* Juiv - Curse Beholder, summoned an incursion of Khornate daemons during a losing battle against the Goffs, led by a Warboss known as Grat Throatslicer. The red tide of the daemons turned the tide of the battle and then Juiv slew the Warboss.
* Poevio - Bringers of the Damnable, sacrificed himself during a battle against a massive Ork Wagh to call upon the Legion of the Damned so his fellow brethren could escape the Green tide.
* Unium - Curse Bringer, charged forward against oncoming Eldar fire, seemingly shrugging it off as he inspired his fellow battle-brothers to charge the Aeldari lines and slaughter and tear them all apart to win a decisive battle.
* Askyin - Curse Bearer Supreme, singlehandedly went through Dark Eldar territory to rescue a captured squad of Catachan Jungle Fighters who had attempted to sabotage a Dark Eldar installation.
* Menium Alpharium - Curse Elite, was what seemed like a potentially last loyalist descendant of the Alpha legion, led his squad through an Eldar Craftworld to steal ancient Eldar technology for research. Unfortunately, in the end, him and his squad were discovered and killed, but not without taking out a hundred Aeldari xenos with him singlehandedly, alongside his members of his squad racking their were own killstreak up.
* Ion Perio - Curse Beholder, went toe-to-toe and crushed the skull of a Chaos Lord know simply as "The Talon" that was ravaging the home star system of Ynexa.
* Tyrus Getara - Lord of Flies, went into hand-to-hand combat with a Plague Marine while deployed on a reconnaissance mission to scout Dark Mechanicum territory for the chapter to study and perhaps research and employ so that the chapter could hopefully have vehicle support., and slew the Plague Marine of Nurgle. The mission ended up becoming a failure however as the Plague Marine had corrupted the data Tyrus acquired and scouted.
== Notable Battles and Events ==
* M39.337 - The Treachery of L'yx, the Dark Eldar plotted to assassinate the High Lords of Terra, and would've succeeded in his secret endeavor if the efforts of Hetaria Ulria hadn't foiled his plans.
* M39.547 - The Wagh of Grat, it was during this battle that the Curse Beholder known as Juiv would summon a Khornate incursion to turn the tide of the losing battle and eventually Juiv and his daemons of Khorne obeying his will would slay the Warboss Grat Throatslicer.
* M39.600 - The Dark Mechanicum's Quest of Destruction, it was during this lengthy battle and quest of the Dark Mechanicum where the already bad reputation of the now turned Malum Scions would come into full effort. It was here that the Adeptus Mechanicus would fully distrust the chapter as a whole and would then officially spark the downfall of the chapter from the noble space marines and defenders of the Imperium of Man into a savage and ravaging warband of Chaos. During this battle, every single machine sent by the Adeptus Mechanicus to try and aid the Malum Scions to see if this chapter could once more be actually trusted, turned into horrific warp engines and various kinds of daemon engines. From this battle on, the Adeptus Mechanicus, and eventually the Imperium of Man as a whole would come to regret the Malum Scions, distrust them, and cause their slow and gradual fall to the Dark Gods.
* M39.666 - Defense of Forge-World Genrox, during this battle, a massive Ork Wagh would approach this planet once more looking only for mere biomass. The Malum Scions deployed here, in an effort-in-vain to try and get the Adeptus Mechanicus and the greater Imperium to once more appreciate them and not resent the chapter as a whole. These efforts were futile however, as this battle fought only by the Malum Scions and Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii and the like, would barely succeed in the defense of forge-world Genrox. It would cost the sacrifice of Poevio, Bringer of the Damnable to call upon the Legion of the Damned to just barely hold back and defeat the oncoming onslaught of the Green Tide. This close and pyrrhic victory would go unrecognized by the Adeptus Mechanicus and thus the Malum Scions would continue to be resented.
* M39.700 - Attack on Operrox - During this close victory against the Eldar it was here that the Curse Bringer whose name was Unium, charged forward unto oncoming Eldar fire and valiantly charged with his squad of fellow Curse Zealots against the Aeldari, eventually breaching their lines and slaughtering them all with bolter and chainsword a like.
* M39.890 to M39.900 - The Talon's Wrath, an absolutely vicious chaos lord ravaging the home star system of the Malum Scions known as Ynexa, where he spread much chaos for the chapter and the system as a whole. It wasn't until the valiant efforts of the Curse Beholder Ion Perio went into hand-to-hand combat with the chaos lord and slew The Talon, taking his head a trophy to prove his own strength and the potential the chapter holds.
* M39.970 to M40.002 - The Malum Scions Anarchy, it was during this time period that the Malum Scions officially went chaos and started ravaging and causing much mayhem and sorrowing for the Imperium, claiming entire worlds from the Imperium of Man for the sake of Chaos. It wasn't until a large amount of Imperial forces were sent to dispatch of the chaos warband and eventually corner the Malum Scions to their now turned daemon-world of Sacrilege, where the planet was utterly subject to virus bombing, never to be inhabitable once more.
* M41.999 - Malum Scions Reappearance, it was during this time period that the Malum Scions would mysteriously reemerage to help an ongoing Black Templars crusade against the T'au. It is noted this group of space marines kept their distance from Imperial forces, had a paint scheme exactly as that of the Malum Scions, and heavily battle-damaged power armor and weaponry.
== Notable Artifacts ==
* The Malum Sanctifier - This was a unique crozius wielded by the Lord of Cruicatu. It had a unique aspect that wherever it was directed at an entity, it could curse that entity with the Khornate curse that afflicts the Malum Scions. This is also speculated as to how new recruits that are abducted from the Imperium are afflicted with the same curse that affects the rest of the original Malum Scions.
* Malum Bulwark - The unique, scarred from many battles, suit of power armor the Lord of Evil wields. It is a very damaged, yet ornate and intimidating appearance and radiates an aura of death and evil, causing fear in anyone who so dare challenges the Lord of Evil.
* Malum Wrath - The melta-plasma gun combi weapons he wields in his right hand. It is battle-scarred as the rest of his equipment, yet having an ornate appearance.
* Bane of the Malum Scions - The unique, battle-damaged thunder hammer that Lok Maliam wields into battle in his left hand. It also has a unique feat the hammer can perform. It can charge up the Khornate curse that affects Lok Maliam and the whole chapter, and unleash the whole curse on a signal entity. Such an attack usually results in the enemy becoming a flayed, bloodied mess of flesh and jutting bones.
* The Cruibolus - This power axe is a large axe, of great power and bloodshed, only wielded once by the most powerful Curse Marauder, only known as The Executor. This figure is an enigmatic case. Nothing is known about him aside from he would charge into battles valiantly, slicing adversaries in half and chopping the heads of enemies off and taking their skulls and various bones and using it as decoration across his armor.
* Malum Infinium - A unique staff wielded by The Maledictus. It radiates a unique aura of death and evil, causing even the most strongest-willed of even chaos space marines, to feel shaken to the core.
* Hetea Nium - A book in the possession of The Maledictus. It contains accursed knowledge, most likely about the creation of the chapter and the backstory behind the Lord of Evil. However, The Maledictus is the only being to ever gaze into the text of this ancient and accursed tome.
== Gallery ==
A handful and simple portraits of what the Astartes of the Malum Scions appearance is.
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