World Eaters - Pre-Heresy Personnel: Angron - Sometimes called the "Red Angel," Angron is the primarch of the World Eaters Traitor Legion of Chaos Space Marines. He was the most bloody-handed and savage of the primarchs. When Horus began his rebellion, Angron was quick to join in his treachery, but his only true master was the rage and bloodlust within him. He fell to Chaos during the Horus Heresy and was transformed into a Daemon Prince of the Blood God Khorne, through the machinations of his brother Primarch Lorgar, when the World Eaters moved to cleanse Angron's homeworld of Nuceria of all life in vengeance for the atrocities inflicted upon him in his youth.Ibram Ghreer (KIA) - Ibram Ghreer, a Terran-born Astartes, was a respected general and the Legion Master of the War Hounds who commanded the XIIth Legion for nearly three solar decades until he disappeared without explanation from his taciturn Legion. In truth, he was killed by Angron within the bowels of the flagship Conqueror so that the primarch could assert his rightful command over the XIIth Legion whose Astartes had been created from his own genetic material. Ghreer was considered to be an axeman to stand with the best of the XIIth Legion's warriors. He had proved to be a poor strategic planner, yet had managed to transform bluntness into a virtue for the XIIth Legion alongside brutality.Nigh Vash Delerax (KIA) - Nigh Vash Delerax was a lieutenant commander of the XIIth Legion by the time of the Horus Heresy. He took part in the Drop Site Massacre on Isstvan V, but much to his displeasure was relegated to commanding the battle barge Dedicated Wrath, and instead took part in the void battles in Isstvan V's orbit against the Loyalist fleet. Following the massacre, Delerax was re-assigned to track down and destroy any surviving Loyalist vessels that managed to survive the battle, a task at which he excelled and pursued with ferocious glee. However, he was further enraged by being forced to play host to an Alpha Legion Astartes aboard his ship who served as the Warmaster's ambassador, and whose mission was to ensure the World Eaters under Delerax's command followed the Warmaster's orders. Captain Althix Kordassis, Delerax's second-in-command, acted as a go-between and a minder for the Alpha Legion Astartes that claimed he was actually the Primarch Alpharius. Delerax later received word that the World Eaters were to pursue the Primarch Corax and his surviving Raven Guard Space Marines who had managed to escape the slaughter in the Urgall Depression during the Drop Site Massacre. Following the destruction of a Loyalist Salamanders vessel, Delerax made for Isstvan V with all haste in order to take part in the inevitable slaughter that would ensue that had been denied him earlier. Once the World Eaters neared the planet, however, Delerax received new orders to destroy a nearby Loyalist fleet that was intent on evacuating the surviving Raven Guard on the planet's surface. When it was discovered that Delerax had refused these new orders, his Alpha Legion overseer confronted the lieutenant commander in order to enforce the Warmaster's orders. Enraged, Delerax refused to be dissuaded from reaching Isstvan's surface. "Alpharius" informed the impetuous World Eaters commander that Corax and the surviving remnants of his Legion would be allowed to escape, for they still had a role to play in the wider civil war. Refusing to heed "Alpharius'" words, Delerax ordered the Alpha Legionary to be removed from his bridge. However, Delerax was caught off guard when the Alpha Legion member masquerading as Captain Kordassis placed a Bolt Pistol to his head. Incensed at such a base betrayal, Delerax attempted to wrest control of the Bolt Pistol from "Kordassis," but was instead killed by a point-blank shot from his Bolt Pistol. Following his death, another member of the Alpha Legion took Delerax's face and continued to masquerade as the World Eaters lieutenant commander for several standard years, until the Battle of Yarant. It was during this engagement against a joint Loyalist force of Raven Guard and Space Wolves that the Delerax doppelganger was killed by an assassination strike by a Dark Fury Assault Squad, led by the Raven Guard Sergeant Ghelt.Kunnar (KIA) - Kunnar was a War Hound and Champion of the 1st Company, killed by Angron after he assumed control of the XIIth Legion.Shinnargen (KIA) - Shinnargen was a War Hound and Captain of the 2nd Company, killed by Angron after he assumed control of the XIIth Legion.Khârn the Betrayer - Previously known as Khârn, this violent and ferocious Legionary once served as the Captain of the XIIth Legion's elite 8th Assault Company. Even before the World Eaters united with their Primarch, Khârn had a reputation as superlative and ferocious warrior and was known by the epithet, "The Bloody." When Angron returned to the XIIth Legion aboard their flagship, then known as the Adamant Resolve, he still raged at being taken from his homeworld against his will by the Emperor and denied the opportunity to fight and die alongside his rebel gladiator comrades' sides during the Battle of Desh'elika. In his blind rage Angron brutally slaughtered, rended and dismembered any who dared come into his presence. Khârn ultimately took it upon himself to convince Angron to take his ordained place at the head of the XIIth Legion, though he took a severe beating in the process. Khârn's fortitude proved to Angron that the War Hounds were worthy successors of his genetic heritage. Angron promoted the man who had shaken him out of his despair to the position of his Equerry, a rank combining the roles of squire, councilor and personal confidante. Yet there were many, both amongst the World Eaters and outside it, who respected Angron's choice but doubted its wisdom: the Equerry's primary role was to serve as a counterpoint to the Primarch's personality and a foil for his decisions. For all his qualities as a warrior, Khârn was neither patient nor particularly subtle, nor a great orator, and instead of guiding and tempering Angron's words and decisions with wisdom, he often was second into the thickest of the fray right behind him. Khârn eventually became a Chaos Champion of Khorne soon after the World Eaters turned to the service of the Chaos Gods. Khârn stood in the forefront of the World Eaters' assault of the Imperial Palace at the Siege of Terra during the closing days of the Horus Heresy and was killed during the vicious, hand-to-hand fighting before the Palace's Eternity Gate. His battered body was discovered laying atop a large mound of Loyalist corpses. When the assault was broken by the defeat of Horus at the hands of the Emperor, his fellow World Eaters found Khârn's body and carried it away. Soon after, they found that Khârn had apparently been resurrected by his patron God, Khorne. After the World Eaters had been driven into the Eye of Terror the entire Legion was ultimately consumed by the bloodlust of Khorne and became his most potent mortal servants, often fighting his eternal battles against his hated rival Slaanesh and the Prince of Pleasure's favoured mortal servants, the Emperor's Children Legion. The Daemon World of Skalathrax in the Eye of Terror was one of the places contested by both Traitor Legions shortly after the end of the Horus Heresy in the 31st Millennium. After a full day of vicious fighting, the terribly frigid Skalathrax night began. Horrified, Emperor's Children and World Eaters alike ran to their shelters, for the freezing night would kill even a Chaos Space Marine in a matter of moments. Khârn raged over being delayed from slaughter for even a single night. Filled with anger when he saw that his brother Chaos Marines were creeping back to the shelters, he took up a flamer and burned them down, slaying with his Chain Axe Gorechild any who tried to stop him. The night was filled with the screams of the dying and the freezing as Khârn strode the streets of the dead city of black stone, killing Emperor's Children and World Eaters alike, burning any shelters he found. The night was lit by flames as the Emperor's Children and the World Eaters fought each other and themselves for the few remaining shelters. By morning, most of the World Eaters were dead, the survivors split into small warbands, the shattered remnants of the once great Companies of the XIIth Legion. The Legion would never reunite and would remain scattered in warbands for the next ten millennia.Dreagher - Dreagher was the Terran-born World Eaters Astartes who served as Captain of the XIIth Legion's 9th Company during the early days of the Great Crusade. After meeting his Primarch for the first time, he promised Angron that under his leadership the War Hounds Legion would become "...the eater of worlds." In this way, Dreagher inadvertently inspired Angron to rename the XIIth Legion the World Eaters.Ehrlen (KIA) - Ehrlen was a Loyalist captain of the World Eaters who took part in the attack on Isstvan III. He led a division of World Eaters Loyalists towards the Precentor's Palace in the Choral City, meeting thousands of civilians who tried to stop them, and with his fellow World Eaters, slaughtered all of them. Ehrlen was encountered by the Emperor's Children Captain Saul Tarvitz, who warned the World Eaters to take cover as the Warmaster Horus was about to virus-bomb the planet. However, Tarvitz's warning came too late, as many World Eaters were too far away from bunkers or other air-tight shelters and were unable to survive the massive bombardment by biological weapons. Captain Ehrlen led the World Eaters' counter-attack on the forces of their Primarch Angron and their traitorous fellow Battle-Brothers, where he is believed to have died at the hands of his Traitor brethren. However, at the end of the fight, a few World Eaters managed to survive and link up with the remaining Loyalist forces on the planet, where they helped drag out the battle against the Traitor forces for a further three solar months before Horus finally unleashed an orbital bombardment that ended all Loyalist resistance.Vostigar Catacult Eres - Vostigar Catacult Eres was a Captain of the World Eaters Legion during the Great Crusade. During this time, he fought alongside the Imperial Fists Captain Amandus Tyr at Varleth Gorge. Following the battle, Tyr gifted Eres with an Achilles-Alpha Pattern Land Raider, which became his most prized possession. Following the discovery and reunification with their Primarch Angron, after he took over command of his Legion, he ordered the construction of the neural cortical implants, known as the Butcher's Nails. After finally finding a viable way to surgically implant these neural implants, the World Eaters began to reap the benefits of enhanced aggression and savagery in the heat of battle. Most unusual, amongst his fellow World Eaters, Eres had a different attitude towards the use of the Butcher's Nails, feeling that his Legion squandered it's gifts, often giving into their inherent rage and killing over petty or insignificant matters. He felt that the Nails degraded with overuse and a Legionary must focus on controlling their emotions and commit their kills outside of battle with cold efficiency. When the Horus Heresy began, Eres following his Legion into damnation, turning against the Imperium and later taking part in the Shadow Crusade alongside the Word Bearers Legion. During this campaign, Captain Eres was ordered to aid the Word Bearers Chapter Master Torquill Eliphas in the invasion of the Ultramarines world of Kronus. When a fellow Captain, Nordas Vyre, heard of this, he confronted Eres and insisted that he should leave behind his prized Land Raider. When Vyre kept insisting, Eres' second-in-command, Khordul Arukka, cut the Captain down for his insolent behaviour. Shortly thereafter, Eres took part in the invasion of Kronus and easily routed the Ultramarines garrison located there. However, Eliphas allowed a small number of Ultramarines to escape, so that they could bring word of what had occurred. After conquering the planet, the Word Bearers proceeded to enslave the population and force them to build the Templum Daemonarchia, a vast cathedral dedicated to the Ruinous Powers, which would allow Primarch Lorgar to set foot upon Kronus once enough blood and souls had been gathered. Forced follow the commands of Eliphas, Eres had nothing to do, but wait, while the massive cathedral was still being constructed. During this time, Eres concluded that he had been forced to undergo his current mission as a form of punishment due to his different beliefs in regards to the Butcher's Nails. Though it troubled him, he laid the matter to rest and put it aside for the time being. Shortly thereafter, the construction of the cathedral was concluded, just as an Ultramarines strike force returned to reclaim Kronus. In the ensuing battle, Eres' World Eaters forces took the brunt of the fighting, while Eliphas was more concerned about harnessing the necessary blood and souls needed in order to power the cathedral. As the battle concluded, the Ultramarines were killed and their souls harvested. With this final contribution, the Templum Daemonarchia was powered up, allowing the Word Bearers Chapter Master to contact Lorgar. However, Eliphas was shocked to hear the news that the Shadow Crusade was concluded and that his forces were to report immediately to rejoin his Legion on Tarsaron. Reluctantly, Eliphas withdrew his forces while Kronus was left in Captain Eres' control. Eres' ultimate fate is unknown.Althix Kordassis (KIA) - Althix Kordassis was a Captain in the World Eaters Legion during the Horus Heresy era. During this time he served as the second-in-command for Lieutenant Commander Nigh Vash Delerax. During their mission to Istvaan V, at some point, Kordassis was murdered and his face was surgically removed and later grafted to an Alpha Legion operative, who continued to masquerade as Delerax's second-in-command. The ultimate fate of this doppelganger is unknown.Maruuk - Maruuk was a captain in the World Eaters Legion during the Horus Heresy. While the World Eaters fleet was enroute towards the Throneworld to take part in the Siege of Terra, Maruuk was aboard the World Eaters' flagship Conqueror. By this time, the vessel itself had fallen under the corrupting influence of the Blood God Khorne, which resulted in the flagship becoming a hostile environment to those aboard it, which resulted in the rapid depletion of supplies and manpower, primarily due to the World Eaters losing themselves to berserker rages and then slaughtering anyone unfortunate enough to be nearby. This led to Maruuk to join a conspirator group of fellow like-minded World Eaters and crew members that wished to depart the flagship for their own safety. This group was led by the ship's own Captain, Lotara Sarrin and Destroyer Sergeant Skane, who served in the 8th Company under Kharn. Meeting clandestinely, this group eventually grew to include 50 World Eaters and over 300 crew members. They were forced to meet in secret as the majority of the World Eaters aboard the Conqueror would view their actions of abandonment as mutiny. Per their plan, Captain Sarrin secured five shuttles to ferry the escapees over to the frigate Bestiarius, and one-by-one, the shuttles were filled and departed the Conqueror. However, the conspirators' plan was discovered, for when Maruuk and his group reached the shuttle bay, Kharn confronted them before they could escape declared them all traitors. When Kharn moved forwards to confront them, Skane charged forward to confront his former commander, telling Maruuk to escape while he still could. However, Skane was no match for Kharn and was soon beaten to the ground, but by then Maruuk managed to steer his shuttle away from the Conqueror. But just as they made their escape towards Bestiarius, the Conqueror suddenly opened fire upon the doom shuttles, destroying them one at a time. Soon, only Marduk's shuttle remained, and he quickly came to the realisation that they had been betrayed. Despite his inevitable fate, Maruuk contacted Captain Sarrin aboard the Conqueror, cursing her for their treachery and asking her why she had betrayed them. The Captain refused to give him a reason, then gave the order to destroy Maruuk's shuttle. With Maruuk's death, the World Eaters brought an end to the escapee's mutiny.Nordas Vyre (KIA) - Nordas Vyre was a Captain in the World Eaters Legion during the Horus Heresy era. He took part in the Shadow Crusade, however, before Vyre could take part in this campaign, he confronted his fellow Captain, Vostigar Catacult Eres, when the found out that he had been re-assigned to serve under the command of the Word Bearers Chapter Master Torquill Eliphas and take part in the invasion of the Ultramarines world of Kronus. When Vyre insisted that Eres not take his prized Achilles-pattern Land Raider with him, he was cut down by Eres' second-in-command, Khordal Arukka, for his insolence.Centurion Delvarus (KIA) - Centurion Delvarus was born on the jungle world of Novus Principa, which was conquered by the World Eaters Legion in the early decades of the Great Crusade. He gained a reputation as a formidable fighter and for being undefeatable in the Legion's fighting pits, and when he was paired with Sigismund of the Imperial Fists, the pair won every fight to first blood in less than half a minute. Delvarus was one of the few World Eaters not to shave his head. The discomfort of hair in his helm was irrelevant; he'd never cut his long black locks. This may have been a habit derived from his former culture. In the fighting pits, he always wore it loose. His dark skin marked his genesis in the jungles of whatever world he once called home. Like many World Eaters, Delvarus was inducted from a planet conquered in the Legion's earliest solar decades rather than from a specific homeworld. No Legion except the Ultramarines was as diverse as the World Eaters, coloured by so many shades of skin from so many different worlds, reflecting a diversity of flesh overruled by the bonds of brotherhood. During the Ghenna Massacre, most of Delvarus' squad was wiped out by the Ghennan "Simulacrums", including his commander, Captain Barca. Though a mere sergeant, Delvarus was able to hold his own against the numberless hordes of the enemy. Delvarus commanded the 44th Company, specifically he commanded the elite Triarii - five full companies of the World Eaters' finest shipboard warriors that excelled in void warfare and boarding actions far beyond traditional Legion training. Five hundred of Angron's best warriors, led by the Legion's undisputed pit champion, all of whom were vowed and honour-bound to defend the flagship Conqueror. Delvarus had a bad reputation for taking part in planetary assaults with the rest of the XIIth Legion, often "neglecting" to inform command of his intentions. After an unsanctioned planetary drop that left the Conqueror exposed to enemy boarders comprised of Ultramarines above the war world of Armatura during the Shadow Crusade, Delvarus was shot by the ship's captain, Lotara Sarrin, and confined to his quarters. When he was finally released, he was forced to fight twenty-six blood duels in the Legion's fighting pits, contrary to the normal limit of eight pit fights, before being humiliated when Apothecary Kargos 'Bloodspitter' spared his life in a Sanguis Extremis duel. Towards the end of the Horus Heresy, Delvarus had become Possessed. The daemon-possessed Delvarus went on to lead The Riven, a brutal Chaos warband comprised entirely of 'Secondborn' (possessed heretic legionaries). After the Great Scouring, Delvarus exercised his independent nature once again, and both he and the Riven later joined the Black Legion and become the guardians of Abaddon's flagship, the Vengeful Spirit. Delvarus later met his fate during the 1st Black Crusade in 781.M31,  when he was killed during the First Battle of Cadia by Thagus Daravek, a prominent Death Guard Sorcerer Lord, during a boarding action aboard the Vengeful Spirit.Deranax - Deranax was a Centurion of the World Eaters Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. He was once a great believer in the ideals of the Great Crusade and the Imperial Truth. However, when the Horus Heresy began, he willingly followed his Primarch into damnation and joined his Legion in tearing down everything the Great Crusade had accomplished. Following the Signus Campaign and their temporary isolation in the Realm of Ultramar, Horus learned that the Loyalist Blood Angels Legion was attempting to bypass the Ruinstorm in order to reach the Imperial Throneworld. Intent on denying the Emperor another Loyalist Legion at His side, the Warmaster tasked Deranax with halting their efforts. Given command of the Battleship Gladiator and several of his Legion's warships, Deranax prepared an ambush for the Blood Angels in the Diavanos System, which they would have to pass through in order to reach Terra. However, the world of Diavanos, a planet that embodies the Imperium's ideals, discovered the nearby World Eaters' fleet and sent out an astropathic distress signal requesting aid. Unaware of this, Deranax's fleet was caught by surprise when the Ultramarines Legion fleet suddenly entered the system without warning, after receiving Diavonos' request for aid. During the subsequent void battle that ensued, the World Eaters' fleet was utterly annihilated, but not before Deranax aimed his stricken vessel at the Loyalist world, and with one final act of spite, prepared to launch a Cyclonic Torpedo. However, Deranax had the ordnance rigged to explode, but not destroy Diavonos. He had anticipated that Primarch Roboute Guilliman would attempt to personally stop him in order to save the Imperial planet, and so, the Centurion had planned to personally self-destruct the torpedo within the Gladiator when it was boarded. When Guilliman personally led a ship-to-ship boarding assault upon the Gladiator, the World Eaters set off rigged explosives which destroyed every passageway that led to the bridge, forcing the Ultramarines to make their way, and then enter, the torpedo bays. However, Deranax's plans were foiled, for upon entering the torpedo bay the Primarch quickly assessed and understood the Centurion's true intentions. The Ultramarines charged the World Eaters protecting the torpedo and Guilliman slew Deranax before he could self-destruct it.Centurion Gruner - Centurion Gruner was Terran-born veteran of the War Hounds Legion of Jermanic descent who had served in the Unification Wars. He was the XIIth Legion's grizzled Master of Neophytes and a formidable warrior within the XIIth Legion who prepared newly selected Neophytes for battle upon the training grounds of the War Hounds' vassal world of Bodt. Gruner's bare torso rippled with superhuman strength, sporting an elaborate tattoo of a canine predator tearing into its prey. He was responsible for training the future champion Khârn, and introduced him to "The Contest", the XIIth Legion's well-established tradition of taking 1,000 skulls in battle.Karak - Karak was a Tribune of the World Eaters Legion during both the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. Following the successful campaigns in the Isstvan System, he was re-assigned to command his Legion's forces in Tredecimmia, the capital city of Bodt. However, he was later killed by Loyalist forces, when the planet was invaded in 008.M31.Jeddek - Jeddek was the Standard Bearer of the elite 8th Assault Company under the command of Captain Khârn. At the time of the Horus Heresy, Jeddek was one of the oldest living World Eaters. He'd crusaded across the stars from the Legion's founding, long before they rediscovered the Primarch's homeworld, or started recruiting from worlds beyond Terra. He was one of the first successful volunteers to undergo the implantation of the Butcher's Nails neural implants. Having worn the Nails longer than anyone, Jeddek felt nothing outside of slaughter -- no smiles, no tears, nothing. He possessed a dead-eyed glare, murmuring to himself in a low monotone between battles, until he was once again turned loose upon an enemy. Only then could he feel, experiencing a palette of emotions beyond staring at everything and nothing with his face twitching in pained distraction. Jeddek was eventually killed upon Angron's homeworld of Nuceria during the Shadow Crusade by the avenging Ultramarines Legion, who had been tracking Lorgar's whereabouts for the atrocity committed against the Imperial world of Calth.Kalibos - Praetor-Apothecary Kalibos was the commander of the Legion mustering point on the Ocean World of Duat. Seeking to rejoin the Legion on the front lines of the Horus Heresy, he tried to prove his worth by experimenting on the World Eaters' gene-seed. he managed to develop a method to speed up the implantation process to produce Neophytes significantly, albeit at the cost of a horrendous loss of life as the new process was survivable by substantially few candidates. Kalibos was slain by Endryd Haar during the raid of his Loyalist Blackshield force on Duat, putting an end to his grisly experiments.Kargos, "Bloodspitter" - Kargos was an Apothecary of the elite 8th Assault Company as a part of Captain Khârn's command squad during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. He was known throughout the XIIth Legion by his pit-fighting name "Bloodspitter", earning the epithet for his habit of spitting blood into the eyes of his opponents, the oldest of tricks, when fighting in the World Eaters' fighting pits in the belly of their flagship Conqueror. When the World Eaters deemed those of other bloodlines worthy to fight within their fighting pits, Kargos was often paired with Nassir Amit, a fierce Captain of the Blood Angels Legion, known as the "Flesh Tearer", for he fought with the same savagery and brutality as his hosts, a trait that would later be passed on to the Flesh Tearers Chapter he led after the Heresy. Few ever wished to come up against the "Bloodspitter" and the "Flesh Tearer". They were known for always fighting past first blood, third blood and into sanguis extremis (to the death). No dirty trick seemed beyond them, and every one of their matches was a death bout. Kargos was stalwart and ferocious warrior on the battlefields as well. He possessed a caustic wit and was never afraid to make light of a desperate situation through the use of dark humour, making his brothers laugh with great mirth. Kargos' ultimate fate following the Horus Heresy is unknown.Gahlan Surlak - Gahlan Surlak was an Apothecary of the World Eaters during both the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. During his time as a medical officer of the XII Legion, he became obsessed with overseeing a viable way to successful install the Butcher's Nails neural cortical implants without killing their host. However, due to changing command priorities, Gahlan became more involved with the induction of Aspirants as opposed to healing wounded Legionaries. Gahlan was an associate and student of Fabius, Chief Apothecary of the Emperor's Children, he initially failed to successfully implement the Nails within his brethren, as it resulted in a 100% fatality rating. However, during the Ghenna Massacre, Gahlan was able to successfully reverse-engineer Ghennan technology, and with the advent of this discovery, announced that he had finally discovered a viable method of mass induction of the Butcher's Nails without killing their hosts. This caused the Terran veteran, Centurion Mago, to attempt to sabotage Gahlan's work. Sending Techmarine Korit to Gahlan's lab to destroy his work, the Apothecary had taken appropriate precautions for such a treacherous act. Gahlan subdued Korit with a poison dart given to him by Fabius. Rendered physically unable to move, Korit was subjected to Gahlan's sadistic side, when the Apothecary took his time, and with great pleasure, in putting the Techmarine through an agonizing death with his Chirurgeon drill. He justified his brutal methods as punishment for the attempted treachery committed against him. Following the conspirators' failed attempt to sabotage his work, Gahlan went on to oversee the successful mass induction of the Butcher's Nails throughout the XII Legion. Following the aftermath of the Isstvan III Atrocity, Surlark learned the secrets of gene-seed from Fabius, and with the aid of the Word Bearers, established new bio-vats to rapidly produce new Legionaries on the World Eaters' thrall world of Bodt. Following the end of the Horus Heresy, Gahlan Surlak's ultimate fate is unknown.Skane (KIA) - Skane was a Sergeant of the World Eaters, commanding the Destroyer Squad in the elite 8th Company under the command of Captain Kharn. Skane's pale skin showed an unhealthy lightning-storm of veins and blood-bruises staining his flesh, from proximity to his own toxically lethal weaponry. He often spent many hours watching medical diagnostic hololiths picturing the exact radiation degeneration of his body from his long years of service. Offered the chance to leave the Destroyeres, he flatly refused. His neck was collared in dark metal, forming armour around his augmetic throat. An aggressive cancer had stolen his vocal chords, but the Apothecary Kargos had given him new ones. As the Horus Heresy drew to a close, and the World Eaters were enroute towards the Throneworld to take part in the Siege of Terra, the XIIth Legion's flagship Conqueror had become corrupted by the insidious influence of the Blood God, which resulted in rapidly declining supplies and unnecessary deaths, as the World Eaters were prone to losing themselves to berserker rages and slaughtering anyone unfortunate to be in close proximity. Skane was among those suffered terribly under the Conqueror's insidious influence, as it greatly affected his radiation-ravaged body. This eventually led Skane to violently corner the flagship's Captain Lotara Sarrin and informing her they needed to leave the Chaos-affected vessel for their own safety. Led by Captain Sarrin, soon a small group of conspirators began to meet in secret, intent on escaping the Conqueror for their own safety. They had to meet in clandestinely, as the majority of the World Eaters would feel this act of abandonment as being tantamount to mutiny. When they were ready to enact their plan, Sarrin secured five shuttles for her fellow conspirators in order for them to escape to a nearby frigate Bestiarius. After most of the shuttles departed, Skane, Captain Marruk and Sarrin remained behind, as Captain of the Conqueror, Sarrin would be the last to depart her ship. However, when they reached the shuttle bay they were confronted by Kharn, who declared they were all traitors. Skane valiantly rushed his former commander, in order to buy Marruk and Sarrin time to escape. However, Skane proved to be no match for the ferocious Kharn and was viciously beaten down. As the last shuttle fled the shuttle bay, Kharn prepared to execute the treacherous Skane. As he raised his chainaxe Gorechild to finish him off, Sarrin stopped him before he could deliver the killing blow. She informed Kharn that Skane's death was her responsibility, and with that, she leveled her pistol at Skane's face and shot him through the eye. Shortly afterwards, Sarrin gave the final order to destroy the fleeing shuttles, thus bringing the mutiny to an end.Kharad Huygan - Huygan was an Assault Legionary and a Terran Veteran of long-standing, deployed with the first wave sent to reconquer Istvaan III. He is recorded as being part of the assault force sent to take possession of a northern sector communications relay. His fate following the firestorm after the initial bombardment by the Life-eater virus remains unknown.Juljak Nul (KIA) - Juljak Nul, known as "The Storm Walker", was a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought of the World Eaters Legion. Nul had the dual distinctions of being the first Master of Ordnance of the XIIth Legion -- later known as the War Hounds -- and being one of the first of the Legion's officers interned within a Dreadnought frame after being horribly mutilated by Slaugth murder-minds at Rangda. An Imperial Loyalist, he was betrayed to his death at Istvaan III and was finally destroyed during the great battle between his Legion's two factions following Angron's landing, carrying many of his former brothers with him into death's embrace.Hellesek - Hellesek was one of the first War Hounds to be interred as a Dreadnought before the techniques had been perfected. Though they were unstable and volatile, his thirteen early Dreadnought Battle-Brothers, interred within prototype Lucifer and Deredo Pattern Dreadnought chassis, variously abandoned or intentionally forgotten by the rest of the XIIth Legion, still listened to Lhorke as they had in life. Hellesek possessed two crushing Dreadnought-sized Power Fists as his primary weapons.Krydal - Krydal was one of the first War Hounds to be interred as a Dreadnought before the techniques had been perfected. Though they were unstable and volatile, his thirteen early Dreadnought Battle-Brothers, interred within prototype Lucifer and Deredeo Pattern Dreadnought chassis, variously abandoned or intentionally forgotten by the rest of the XIIth Legion, still listened to Lhorke as they had in life. Krydal's sarcophagus was bolted into his chassis, still damaged from battle, blessed and consecrated by holy oils but installed without his delicate vocabulator circuitry in place.Neras - Neras was one of the first War Hounds to be interred as a Dreadnought before the techniques had been perfected. Though they were unstable and volatile, his thirteen early Dreadnought Battle-Brothers, interred within prototype Lucifer and Deredeo Pattern Dreadnought chassis, variously abandoned or intentionally forgotten by the rest of the XIIth Legion, still listened to Lhorke as they had in life. Neras was the worst of his brothers, and often awoke from stasis enraged, forever lost to the madness of the Butcher's Nails implants, even while he slumbered in stasis. Between battles he had to have his chassis chained up, securing him in case he went on a bloody rampage with his massive Dreadnought-sized Chainswords when he was awoken. Once awoken, Neras was often still frantic and fierce, but always managed to come back from the mental precipice and function as a powerful addition to any assault by the XIIth Legion.Styvath the Berzerker - Styvath was a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought of the World Eaters Legion who was barely controllable and subject to indiscriminate and savage bouts of rage thanks to the unpredictable interaction between his psycho-surgical implants and the Dreadnought's cybernetic control systems. Styvath was kept in a deep coma between battles. At Istvaan III he was unleashed by Drop Pod and rampaged across the battlefield, caring not who he killed.Mica Vulkov (KIA) - Vulkov was a section leader for a World Eaters Legion Tactical Squad attached to the first wave on Istvaan III, and he managed to survive the virus bombardment by virtue of being engaged against Istvaanian rebels in the depths of a manufactory unit during the initial attack. Incensed to the point of madness by his Legion's betrayal, he fought relentlessly against them, finally falling alongside Loyalist Death Guard forces in the northern zone of the Choral City.