Honour Mauls

Honor Mauls armorial with Chapter iconography.

Honour Mauls Intercessor of the 3rd Company, 6th Battleline Squad.
Note: Colour of the Aquila or Imperialis affixed to the plastron (chest guard) indicates company assignment in accordance to the dictates of the *Codex Astartes*.

## Space Marine Chapter

### **Allegiance**

Imperium of Man
(*Fedelitas Constantus*)

### **Successor of**

Excoriators
 (Rogal Dorn lineage; Classified as having some mutations, details undisclosed.)

### **Homeworld**

N/A, Fleet-Based
*The Bolt of Censure* (Flagship)

### **Colours**

Halved Dark Charcoal Grey & Yellow with Blue trim.

### Successor Chapter(s)

None

The **Honour Mauls** are a fleet-based Successor Chapter of the Excoriators. They were originally created as an experiment during the ill-fated 21st 'Cursed' Founding to study the effects of genetic modifications made on another Primarch's gene-line, in an effort to cure the Excoriators' mutation. The attempt was unsuccessful but created extremely resilient Astartes with powerful physiques.

## Chapter History

Near the end of the 35th Millennium, the gene-smiths of the Adeptus Mechanicus attempted to perfect the gene-seed of the Adeptus Astartes and remove the imperfections and abnormalities that had taken root over the millennia since the First Founding across almost all gene-lines. Samples were taken from the Excoriators, whose depressive bouts of "Dorn's Darkness" and fixation on pain posed an interesting question as to how they might be fixed or replaced. After seeing the results of the Sons of Antaeus, an attempt at modifying and enhancing Ultramarines, the Adeptus Mechanicus' gene-smiths saw that the Sons of Antaeus grew abnormally large, standing a head taller than other Astartes and that they had increased metallic carbides in their highly dense, enhanced bones. These traits made them immensely more pain resistant. This gave the Mechanicus' gene-smiths the idea to make an attempt to replicate their prior experiment in another gene-line.

To implement all the introductions and modifications of the progenoid genome that they made to Ultramarines stock for the Sons of Antaeus in the gene-seed of the Excoriators. It was decided that their first chapter master would be selected directly from the first batch rather than from an outside chapter, due to the fact that his gene-seed needed to be the same in order to show solidarity with his subordinates. More importantly, he would be trained specially by a team in order to instil within him strong moral convictions. The team was made up of a Chaplain of the Exorcists to teach him the importance and matters of faith, a sergeant of the Hammers of Dorn to teach him the value and sanctity of the *Codex Astartes* and a company champion of the Iron Knights to teach him to loathe Chaos and to master the art of siege warfare and fortification holding. These men would come to select Ingram Klavar to become this leader and would teach him that he must be a hammer that breaks the foes of the Imperium.

They distilled their philosophy down to three words, "Honour, Ruthlessness, Duty" which would become the basis for the motto that Klavar would instil in his own battle-brothers, "Honour in our Ruthless Duty". When the members of the first batch of this new chapter awakened from their completed gene-seed implantation procedure, there appeared to be a great success. Like the members of the Sons of Antaeus, the battle-brothers were, vigorous, immensely strong, and larger. However the folly of the Mechanicus became clear when they began testing for the effects and interest in pain among the battle-brothers, as within one year it was clearly visible that the increases to their pain resistance and durability had not filled the chapter with a strength to overcome Dorn's darkness, but instead intertwined their depressive bouts with a craving for pain, the feeling they lacked so profoundly.

Klavar made it his first priority to teach his brothers how to control this lust for the pain of battle and death by any means possible - if he was unsuccessful, the Chapter would be far less effective, and its future would be dark and short like so many of the other chapters of their Founding. Those Astartes who found it easier to resist than the others discovered such means through meditation and prayer, which allowed them to suppress the darkness. A young Klavar ordered that they become the Chapter's first Chaplains and that they teach their fellow Battle-Brothers how to control the darkness through faith. The comparison made by these early Astartes between their craving for that which they were nearly unable to feel and the craving for peace in their greatest enemy, the World Eaters has remained a parallel which fascinated remembrancers for millennia.

## Notable Campaigns

### Fortress-Monastery

The fortress-monastery of the Honour Mauls is a temple aboard their flagship, the *Bolt of Censure*.

## Chapter Beliefs

The Honour Mauls are an adamantly religious and strict chapter who believe wholeheartedly in the Imperial Creed and that the Codex Astartes was divinely written by the God-Emperor and administered through the intercession of Primarch Guilliman as his prophet.

## Chapter Gene-Seed

As with the other chapters descended from the genetic lineage of Rogal Dorn, the Honour Mauls lacked a functioning Sus-An Membrane and Betcher's Gland until the arrival of their Primaris reinforcements and their firstborn crossing the Rubicon Primaris. However due to the tinkering of the Genetors of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the chapter also has an enhanced Bioscopea and Ossmodula which causes the Honour Mauls to be roughly a head taller than average, their bone density is significantly greater than other Astartes and is comprised of more of the metallo-ceramics in the Space Marine's diet than in others, and they are both extremely resistant and highly desensitized to physical pain

### Genetic Flaws

As with their Excoriator forebears, the chapter is prone to an advanced, altered form of Dorn's Darkness which causes them to correlate the sensation of pain with the release from their depressive states. The chapter is known to use their Pain-Gloves more frequently than other scions of Dorn and generally will see less effect from that use. They also display a willingness to take callous, silly risks that other Astartes would not as the flaw progresses into a malformed understanding of their relationship with suffering.

## Deathwatch Service

The Honour Mauls treat the Deathwatch as a high Honour and are noted for sending many of their Veterans to be permanently seconded to the Long Vigil. Their most frequent role is as one man attack unit "Kill-Marines" but there have been some members of the chapter who have gone on to become Keepers.

## Chapter Appearance

### Chapter Colours

The Honour Mauls paint their battle-plate in a halved colour scheme of dark charcoal gray and yellow. The Aquila or Imperialis affixed to the plastron (chest guard) indicates a battle-brother's assigned company, utilising the *Codex*-proscribed colours for company designation; 1st Company (White), 2nd Company (Yellow), 3rd Company (Red), 4th Company (Green), ect. A large white coloured Roman numeral stenciled on the left poleyn (knee guard) also indicates company assignment and helps in easy identification in the heat of battle.

A black squad specialist icon is stenciled on the right pauldron inset, indicating a battle-brother's assigned squad specialty (Fire Support, Close Support, Battleline, Veteran or Command). A small yellow Roman numeral stenciled on the squad specialist icon indicates squad assignment.

### Chapter Badge

The Honour Mauls' Chapter badge takes the form of a stylised charcoal grey thunderhammer, whose dual heads are shaped into the clenched gauntlet symbols of their Imperial Fists forebear's Chapter icon.

## Relations

### Allies

* **Last Wall Chapters**

* **Fratres in Augmentationem** - The Honour Mauls are a member chapter within the Fratres in Augmentationem.

## Notable Quotes

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