Flame Liches

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Flame Liches Battle-Brother of the 4th Company, unknown (Battleline) squad.

### **Specialty**

Anti-Heretic/Mutant Operations, Attritional Warfare, Shock Assault, Planet-Kill & Extermination Operations,

### Successor Chapter(s)

Flame-Liches (Recreated in the Era Indomitus)

The **Flame Liches** was an exceptionally secluded Successor Chapter of officially unknown origin created during the ill-fated 21st 'Cursed Founding'. They originally acted as a designated offensive force and militant arm of the Ordo Permutatio, and paired with those defensive and investigative experts in the Ordo itself, were a part of the powerful alliance of Inquisitors and retinue members intended to analyze and prevent genetic drift as well as mutation. The Chapter was exterminated in full by a lack of resource support for the Ordo Permutatio combined with the incursive wars of the various Chaos forces including the Harrowing Cobras.

Since the Indomitus Crusade the Primaris Space Marines derived from the modified gene-seed of Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl have been given to various chapters and founded into their own Chapters. The Flame Liches gene-tithes too were made into a Primaris strain through the gene-works of Cawl. From this stock the Chapter has been reborn under the slightly altered name of the Flame-Liches Chapter, serving once again to preserve the Emperor's biological vision of humanity as the Ordo's Chamber Militant, now armed with the gifts of the three Primaris organs.

### Founding

The Flame Liches were created during the Cursed Founding alongside a number of their fellow experimental Successor cousins. Their original bloodline and the charter previously issued for the planet to become their homeworld is unknown, as shortly after their creation, their gene-seed and their Chapter organization resulted in the Inquisition secretly deliberating as to whether the planet should be issued an order of Exterminatus and the Chapter disbanded. They. They were counted as one of the most variants of Astartes in terms of organization that originated from the 21st 'Cursed Founding' of the Adeptus Astartes. As such their continued existence was tied to the Inquisition’s decision and they were to be charged with genetic and moral heresy. The chapter however was spared by the Ordo Permutatio, who was able to negotiate with notable members of both the Ordo Hereticus and the Ordo Xenos to spare the Chapter if they acted permanently under the purview of the Ordo Permutatio. From that point on the Flame Liches began investigating and protecting the Imperial sectors near the world of Lhiorey from unsanctioned psykers while searching the surrounding areas for sources of mutation, common mutations or potential genetic drifts, and even rooting out undiscovered abhumans near the Eye of Terror.

## Chapter Organization

Due to the Chapter’s ties to one of the Ordos of the Inquisition as a Chamber Militant, it is considered a specialist organization of the Imperial government and as such they are waived from Codex Astartes compliance to better suit their needs. This has given the Flame Liches Chapter the justification for not being organized into ten companies but instead into twenty-three demi-company-sized units called a Signum,(Plural Signi)

## Chapter Gene-Seed

Almost nothing is known officially about the gene-seed of the Flame-Liches outside of the Chapter and the

## Deathwatch Service

Because the Chapter is already the Chamber Militant of another Ordo of the Inquisition the Flame-Liches send very few marines to the Long Vigil. Usually, it is done as a more honorable form of military discharge if a member of the chapter has one of his arms amputated. By losing his bindings he is detached from that which seals him to the Chapter and is given bionics with the choice to go out into the galaxy to die honorably in battle or to join the Long Vigil to do likewise. Only one Flame Lich Astartes has ever been returned, the Chief Executioner during the Era Indomitus, who was so distinguished in his service, that when he crossed the Rubicon Primaris he was transplanted with vat-grown limbs and had his arms rebound with his arm sigils, permitting him to return once again to the Chapter, an unimaginable honour that has changed the precedent of the Chapter.

## Chapter Fleet

* ***The Burning Phylactery* (Unknown Class Battleship)** - *The Burning Phylactery* is a large battleship which serves more like a mobile space station and headquarters than an actual ship. Slow moving and loaded to the brim with heavy thermal weapons and virus bomb artillery guns, the vessel drifts in a trail around the various sub-fleets of the Chapter, prepared to lead an all-out planetary siege whenever necessary. The Burning Phylactery carries the Chapter's Reclusiam where all Aspirants of the flame liches have their arms ritually scarred with searing hot bindings made of thin metal with raised hexagrammic wards.

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### About the Flame Liches

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