Betrayal at the Bloody Crag

### Attacker

Skull Reapers Chapter, Unknown Astartes Chapter (Turned Against the Imperium During the Battle)

### Defender

Death Guard Traitor Legion, Chaos Cultist Forces, Unknown Traitor Astartes Chapter

### Segmentum

Unrecorded.

The **Betrayal at the Blood Crag** is a little known campaign that took place sometime during the wider events of the Indomitus Crusade that was launched by the Imperium of Man following the formation of the Great Rift after the destruction of Cadia during the 13th Black Crusade.

## History

In the aftermath of the Great Eye opening the Galaxy was plunged into disorder, Chaos erupted across the Imperium's world's, systems and entire sectors were plunged into darkness, only a Son of the Emperor, a Primarch could stem the tide. Roboute Guilliman led his Crusade across the breadth of his fathers realm, saving what he could and destroying what he couldn’t save. And now one hundred years have passed and the Indomitus Crusade is ending, the Imperium stabilised but there are still many worlds that remain under the control of the Great Enemy. The Fortress World of Ursax had fallen to the forces of Chaos, the Death Guard and the Cult of the Diseased Hand had captured it during the terrible times known as the Noctis Aeterna, severing a line of fortified worlds that acted as bulwark against the rising tide that threatened to engulf the Imperium Nihilus, the Skull Reapers were determined to retake it and make an example to all in the process, they also seemed utterly determined to take the fight to the Death Guard and during the Battle seemed to take great satisfaction in destroying these foul traitors the most. Fielding their entire Chapter along with an Entire Astartes Chapter whose name as been lost to History. Landing in full force the Imperial forces drove the enemy back meter by meter to the formation designated as Ridge-140 now known as the Bloody Crag when a betrayal of the basest kind took place, the Skull Reapers allies turned on them and willingly joined with the Heretics and launched a brutal counterattack, caught between these 2 forces and outnumbered by almost 50 to 1 the Astartes of the Skull Reapers showed all the resilience they have become legendary for and launched assault after brutal assault, the Reaper Lord was the very epitome of death, smashing into the ranks of the vile Death Guard his great scythe sweeping left and right, every blow sending mutated corpses tumbling through the air. The traitors hurled themselves at the towering warrior in their midst yet they were laughably outmatched in every regard, heads were ripped from their shoulders, bones pulverised, gene-forged superhumans torn apart as if they were nothing. Finally at the climax of this cataclysmic battle Crysos Kalaeb-Temeter, Lord of the Skull Reapers came face to face with the architect of this destruction, The Lord of Puss, a vile Deamon Prince of Nurgle, a cloud of flies erupted from maggot-infested hives on his back while his entrails hung round his sore encrusted feet, a screaming Daemon Sword infused with the essence of a Greater Daemon clutched in diseased dripping hands yet he was laughably outmatched in every regard, the two duelled for mere moments before Crysos overwhelmed and defeated the vile daemon, the Reapers Scythe parting his head from his neck and sending him screaming back to depths of hell where he belonged. With the Reaper Lord and his brothers reaping an horrific tally of dead the Skull Reapers emerged victorious and purged all life from the corrupted world, once the smoke had cleared over 600 Skull Reapers lay dead as for the heretic forces they had been utterly wiped from the face of existence and the names of these traitors expunged from history so completely that future generations will never know they even existed.