Festeross Rebellions

The Draconian Impalers outmatched against daemons and traitors.

The **Festeross Rebellions** marks one of the most shameful chapters within the historical annals of the Draconian Impalers Chapter as well as other chapters, when one of their companies fell to the corruption of the Dark Gods and joined the Festeross Chaos Warband.

## Background

A dark period in history of the Draconian Impalers and other chapters, overshadowed by the 7th Black Crusade, the Rebellions was not unconnected to Abaddon the Despoiler's attack but a prelude. A chaos Lord by the name of Puram Festeross, servant of Abaddon and blessed by Nurgle, was charged by the Despoiler to spread the corruption of chaos across the stars and rally those willing to bolster his forces. To this end, the foetid warrior traversed the galaxy, drawing dozens of the warbands and traitor forces to himself all in preparation for the next Black Crusade. Most prevalent of these traitors being the Fallen warband of The Hollowed.

## Draconian Impalers

In order to help stem the tide of growing evil, the Draconian Impalers sent their 4th> and 5th companies. It was here that the stain of betrayal would darken the Draconian Impalers and hang over their history like a pall for generations to come.

During an action against a Khornate horde, the Lieutenant Tristam was drawn into a trap and forced to grapple with the Dragul's Hunger. Writhing in torment for 3 days, a deamon confronted the Space Marine and offered him freedom in exchange for a body. Initially, the veteran warrior refused but soon found the strain of thirst too unbearable and relented to the vicious creature. Fully half of the 4th Company joined the Festeross warbands as Khornate berzerkers, alongside elements of other chapters to various powers of Chaos.

Cut to the core by this harsh betrayal, the Draconian Impalers sent the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th companies into war, to blot the inky stain of betrayal that now covered their name, fighting alongside a number of other chapters who took action against the growing warband. After many months of battle, the 4th Company, going by the Dragons of Blood, were destroyed save for the possessed Tristam, known now as Scourge of the Angel, who was captured. Sealed within the Pillar of Twin Tragedies, Tristam is seemingly all that remains of the failed rebellion.

Though these traitors had been all but eradicated The Hollowed were still a threat to everything the Draconian Impalers uphold, with the aid of the remaining loyalists they drove away the chaos marines and daemon alike though not without great loss, most of the following weeks were spent counting the dead and exterminating what little pockets of warp fiends were still left.

## Arbiters of Caliban

The Arbiters, having been summoned to defend the Imperium from Abbadon's treacherous assault on Humanity, forged their way through the void to reach the bleeding edge of combat to try and stem the endless tides of Chaos. The Arbiters had no idea of the torments and terrors they would witness.

The Arbiters, having been stationed in Segmentum Obscurus almost since their conception as a chapter, responded to the onset of the crusade in 813.M37, handling an offshoot that spread its insidious strains towards the Arbiters' recruiting world. This tendril of Chaos was primarily composed of Khornate daemons and cultists, and the Arbiters responded to their incursion with righteous fury and might, meeting them on a minor moon in a forgotten system cursed by its proximity to the Chaos-infested arms of the Eye of Terror.

At the initial onset of the combat, the Arbiters fared well, holding the many daemons and cultists at bay, slaying hordes of the impure. However, this constant interaction with Chaos bore no good, and soon, Marines were beginning to stray away from the Imperium, drifting towards the welcoming madness of Chaos. Over the course of the year they spent on that forsaken moon, 40 Marines were corrupted by Chaos, but their treachery was not revealed until the end of the Arbiters' time there on the moon

In a final confrontation that broke the lines of the Khornate Cultists, the Fallen Marines renounced the Imperium and turned on their brothers, exacting high casualties the likes of which haven't been seen since the Great Crusade. In the wake of this heresy, Chapter Master Antioch Marbahd Declared that no heretic shall be spared. in a swift, decisive movement, these heretical marines were killed, to the man. Their names have been expunged from the records of the archive, but their tale has been told, their names removed from that record as well, as a reminder that no Arbiter must ever let their guards fall. An extensive search for fallen amongst the Arbiters was enacted to ensure that no further heresy pervaded the Arbiters. The entire debacle was finished by the end of 816.M37

## Notes

This campaign was designed with the intention that should another homebrew author desire to have a campaign where their chapter suffered traitors, they can use this campaign and its elements to achieve that goal. As such, anyone with that desire may edit this page so long as that is their goal. Enjoy