Black Scions

Eight Pointed Star of Chaos

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The **Black Scions** are a warband of Heretic Astartes. They are a disparate gathering of renegade Space Marines, who have coalesced under the leadership of the Chaos Lord Azreth Krul. Under his command, they have come to command a pocket empire of their own within the blighted Sepulchine Stars, beyond the borders of the Uridian Isola, in the Segmentum Pacificus. With legions of mortal cultist at their back, the Black Scions have steadily becoming a significant threat to Imperial hegemony in the region.

Renowned for their skill of arms, the Black Scions have become feared void combatants over the long millennia; a bane of the Navis Imperialis, and a dreaded sight for any Chartist Captain. Purported to have once been a part of the Sons of Horus before the defeat of the Warmaster in the Siege of Terra, the Black Scions have since become an eclectic mass of various breeds of warrior Astartes, stemming from multiple different gene-lines; both of the Traitor, and the Loyalist.

As of the 42nd Millennium, the Black Scions have struck out once more to plunder and reave; striking undefended Imperial worlds and sacking Imperial naval anchorages during the chaotic tumult of the Noctis Aeterna, swelling the numbers of its Bloodgarde legions to sizes never before seen. Most recently, the Black Scions sacked the Mechanicus penal-world of Carthag, and its forge-moon of Carthagus Minoris, taking with them weaponry of ancient and nightmarish provenance.

## History

As with many Renegade Warbands, it is almost impossible to trace their origins with any degree of certainty. However, it has been long suspected by Adepts of the Adeptus Terra and Deparmento Stratagos, that the Black Scions are one of numerous splinter warbands to have fractured from the XVIth Legion 'Son's of Horus', following their ultimate defeat at the Siege of Terra in 014.M31, at the end of the Horus Heresy. However, though their exists similarities between in livery and combat doctrine between the Black Scions, and the Sons of Horus, there exists little other evidence proving any kind of affirmative link between the two.

### **Notable Campaigns**

* **Gothic War (12th Black Crusade) (139-160.M41)**
* **War of Sighs (999.M41-006.M42)** - The Black Scions played a major role during the Inaeon Wars against the Lightning Sons Chapter, leading the combined Chaos Warhost into the Inaeon System, and coming close to obliterating their Fortress-Monastery, were it not for the timely arrival of Imperial reinforcements.

## Notable Warband Members

* **Azreth Krul (Chaos Lord)** - Warmaster of the Black Scions, Azreth Krul has led his warband across the stars, from one end of the Imperium to the next, raiding, pillaging and defiling the false idols dedicated to the Corpse-Emperor. From whence Azreth Krul came, few can say with any degree of certainty, for few still live who knew of the man before his ascension to the position of Warmaster; if there ever even was a time. His is alleged to be as old as the Warband itself, if not older; his age unnaturally extended by the powers of the Warp, until he satiates his desire for vengeance.
* **Halden-Slor (Chaos Sorcerer)** - Halden-Slor's roots did not lie with the Black Scions. Once, a lifetime ago, he had belonged to another Chapter. Like many of the Renegade Space Marines from other Chapters that joined Azreth Krul's warband, Halden-Slor had attempted to disguise his original allegiance by obliterating the sigil of his former Chapter.
* **Horadhor Vaul (Warband Champion)** - Alleged to have once been a member of the Guardians of the Covenant, Horadhor Vaul has served as the personal Champion of Azreth Krul for almost a thousand years. By his foul power-mace, *Narkon*, thousands, perhaps even millions, have perished.

## Warband Fleet

* ***Hekaron (Desolator-class Battleship)*** - Flagship of the Black Scions, the *Hekaron* is a beast to be feared. Warship of the merciless Azreth Krul, the *Hekaron* has reportedly sailed at the head of the warfleets of the Black Scions since as early as 494.M39. Spotted in the Uridian Isola during the Noctis Aeterna, the *Hekaron* acts as the command and control centre for Azreth in his campaign of consolidation over his new realm in the outer reaches of the Uridian Isola.

## Warband Apperance

### Warband Colours

The Black Scions are known to wear a deep verdigris green-black Power Armour, with the power pack, helmet, both pauldrons, vambraces, gauntlets and poleyns coloured a ruddy black. Allegedly the result of the methods used to obliterate their old Imperial heraldry and symbols, the verdigris green was taken on by the Warband as their own personal heraldry, and a mark of their new allegiance.

With little established uniformity, warriors of the Black Scions are known to adorn themselves with a varying degree of power armour marks, as well as the typical and traditional trappings of warriors of the Ruinous Powers, adorning themselves with trophies of their triumphs, or displays of their perverse dedication. Each warrior of the Black Scions has the Warband's insignia, or the Star of Chaos painted across the left eye-lens of their helms.

### Warband Badge

The Black Scions warband badge is a red, horned and mutated Imperial Skull with four eyes, haloed by a Chaos star-burst.

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