Claws Viduanine

## The Claws Viduanine

The Claws Viduanine's symbol is a white star of chaos with a black power claw replacing its two vertical points drenched in blood on a green field

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## Chaos Warband

### **Chaos God**

Chaos Undivided (Worships leader, Viduanus)

### **Allegiance**

Heretic
(*Traitoris Perdita*)

### **Allies**

- Black Legion (loosely)

### **Colours**

black, gold, and green

The **Claws Viduanine**, also called the Talons of Viduanus is an infamous Chaos Warband that has long resided in the Eye of Terror. Originally made up of marines created from the remnants of Sons of Horus geneseed taken by drawing blood from the weapons of Abaddon the Despoiler after he killed Fabius Bile's clone of the Primarch Horus Lupercal, the Blood Talons are fiercely loyal to the cause of Chaos Undivided, and have long aligned themselves with the Black Legion. Like the majority of their treacherous brethren, they look down on those who continue to actively serve the Imperium, venerating the Ruinous Powers of Chaos but do so with disdain for the Four primary gods, particularly Tzeentch, though they do still attempt to garner his favour. The Clawss occupy a strange cultural sphere among the allied warbands which are often placed under the banner of the Black Legion, as they are led by Viduanus, a Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided who ascended before Abaddon was declared the leader of the Legion, and thus still very strongly maintain the cultural elements of the original XVIth Legion in both its Luna Wolves and Sons of Horus form.

However, none of their gene-seed was derived from the original Horus and they were created after the Sons of Horus were shattered as a Legion. As such they have a distaste for Abaddon's replacement of the XVIth Legion with the Black Legion, but acknowledge that it was the only remaining course of action after the inability of their original Warmaster to fulfill the broader traitor cause to ensure the safety of their future. They view the Black Legion as little more than a warband of warbands, clusters without any real discipline or loyalty beyond that of loyalty to Abaddon. As far as they are concerned the only god truly deserving of worship is the manifestation of their own posthuman will, their leader Viduanus, and he is viewed with equal measures of fear and respect. They follow Abaddon, because Viduanus follows Abaddon. They release instability and suffering upon the Imperium with their powerful shock assault warfare, and they serve to break the Imperium down to its most basic parts as they spread terror through the Galaxy, with the hope that it can be rebuilt anew. They also see their creation as being some form of an organized act of penance for Chaos worshipping humanity for the death of their primarch, Horus Lupercal and later his clone. As such all initiates to the Warband carve out their left eye bloodying red the power talon on their gauntlets as a reminder and censure against following mortals over principles, be they as powerful as Horus or not. They have become one of many of the warbands derived from the Sons of Horus, to keep alive their Primarch's wretched legacy and reawaken the memory of his visage in the faces of their brothers.

## Warband Gene-Seed

Unlike much of the Black Legion, The Claws Viduanine have a very distinct and internally controlled gene-seed stock that shows very little, if any signs of direct degeneration or Chaos mutation. However, this is because they faced far less exposure to large bursts of the energy of Chaos during their creation as they were made since the death of Horus. All of their gene-seed is sealed in an archaeotech device which produces an array of micro-gellar fields and can fold or unfurl spacetime within its core. This prevents the psychic and physical effects of Warp taint on the gene-seed to prevent degeneration. However, strange effects were caused by the derivation of the gene-seed from stock whose Warp presence was altered by the fact it was taken from a clone after death of Horus and the destruction of his soul on the Vengeful Spirit. The Warp in response to this has dispersed elements of the idea of Horus into the genestock and caused some epigenetic alterations to achange their geneseed's phenotypes. All members of the Warband bear the striking resemblance to their Primarch which helped to earn their founder legion the name the Sons of Horus, they hold this trait always. Almost all of the Claws Viduanine are also deadened to even basic empathy. They lose the ability to see themselves in others drastically and understand the future consequences of their actions only on the grounds of their interests. They do however share an immense comraderie with one another in response to this lack of empathy. The reason for this is that they do not perceive a need for empathy or to consciously put themselves in the place of their brothers as they already perceive themselves in that place by the fact that they see their own face, the face of their Primarch. This has occured with most of the geneseed with the exception of those who have the abilities of a psyker, as their connection to emotion, experiencer and thought allows them to see into the minds of others, better perceiving the realities of the death and destruction of anyone who rebels against them.

## Warband Appearance

### Warband Colours

The Warband wears the black and gold armour of the Black Legion but also wears pauldrons the same green colour as the armour of the Sons of Horus

## Relations

### Allies

* **Night Lords**

* **Black Legion**

## Notable Quotes

### About the Claws Viduanine

 Tzeentch Warbands
 Nurgle Warbands
 Slaanesh Warbands
 Chaos Undivided Warbands
 Malice Warbands
 Minor Chaos God-Aligned Warbands

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