Blood Gorgons - Notable Blood Gorgons: Gammadin (Khorsaad & Chaos Lord) - The first Chapter Master or Khorsaad of the Blood Gorgons, Gammadin led his Chapter into damnation and eventually became its Chaos Lord. It was recorded in the Chapter's history that it was Gammadin who had first begun to experiment in daemonology and the Chaotic rituals that would form the core of all later Blood Gorgons custom before the Chapter turned Renegade. Using Gammadin’s knowledge of arcane lore, the dark Rituals of Binding were first implemented. Gammadin was Blood-Bound to his most trusted lieutenant, Monomachus. This ritual involved the exchange of excised organs and blood and created a supernatural connection between the two Chaos Space Marines, a custom that was soon followed by every Astartes of the Renegade Chapter save for its Chirurgeon-Witches. Together, Gammadin and Monomachus led the Blood Gorgons to raid and terrorise the Imperial shipping lines of the Segmentum Obscurus. So attuned were they, that in battle the pair could orchestrate intuitive tactical decisions without verbal or Vox communication. For four centuries they fought as twin terrors until Monomachus angered the Chaos Gods and his form was corrupted into that of a Chaos Spawn. It was said that Gammadin was greatly shamed by this and slew Monomachus himself, an act that would have caused him considerable physical pain due to their Blood-Bond. By that time, Gammadin was a warrior so great, with blood so rich and vibrant with the power of Chaos, that no mere new Aspirant of the Chapter could hope to be blooded to him. Following Monomachus, numerous unsuitable Aspirants were killed by the rich blood of Gammadin when the Ritual of Binding was performed. The Ritual of Binding was dangerous, both because of the traumatic shock of the necessary surgery and the whims of the daemonic spirits involved in the ritual. Although Gammadin’s experience was vast, he could not share it, for dozens of Aspirants died or went mad in the rituals of transfusion and excise. It was not until Sabtah – an inductee from the legion plains of Symeon – that a new Bond-Brother survived the ritual and showed promise. The Aspirant endured months of torture on the operating slabs, his body sent into shock by the process of plasma binding, until he emerged as the young Bond-Brother of the great Gammadin. For the next 3,651 Terran years, Sabtah the Older served as Gammadin’s Bond-Brother, growing stronger and wiser through their synergy until the day Gammadin was betrayed by Anko Muhr, a Blood Gorgons Chirurgeon and Chaos Sorcerer, on the world of Belasia. However, Gammadin managed to eventually turn the tables on his betrayer, slay him and regain his rightful place as the Khorsaad of the Blood Gorgons.Barsabbas (Bond-Brother) - Barsabbas is a young Chaos Space Marine who was not renowned for past glories within the Chapter, having faithfully served as a simple foot soldier. Barsabbas ultimately found himself thrust into events that challenged him on every level. Barsabbas’s perseverance against impossible odds and surprising intellect was a contributing factor in Khorsaad Gammadin's selection of him as his new Bond-Brother after the death of Sabtah the Older. Barsabbas eventually underwent the Rituals of Binding, exchanging excised organs and blood with his Chapter Master to forge their Blood-Bond.Hammurabi (Khoitan - Captain) (Deceased) - Hammurabi was the Captain or Khoitan of the Khorsaad's personal guard, the eight Impassives. Hammurabi possessed an excellent sword arm, and was loyal as far as any worshipper of Chaos could be to another. He followed his orders as Gammadin’s First Blade religiously. He executed his duties well, until he met his end when the Blood Gorgon's Chirurgeon Anko Muhr betrayed Gammadin and all the Impassives on the world of Belasia and led them into a trap.Hazareth the Cruel (Khoitan - First Captain) - Hazareth is the Khoitan or First Captain of the elite 1st Company, the most Veteran unit of the Blood Gorgons Chapter. Wild and boisterous, he is an extremely violent spirit. When he laughs, and he does so often, the humour behind it is black and bitter yet genuinely mirthful. His face had been melted by fire and his cheek pockmarked with bullet scars. Hazareth wears his scars like laurels of honour, for his men fear him and the Chaos Gods favour him as well. One of their mutational "gifts" is a tortoise‐like shell of bone that had solidified around his shoulders and the power pack of his Power Armour like a hunch‐backed mound of bone, a powerful sign of Chaotic favour. A short, muscular tail sprouts from the base of Hazareth’s spine and ends in a knot of fibrous growth. Hazareth has become so monstrously thick‐framed that he resembles a living Dreadnought. Hazareth usually keeps his club tail swept low to balance his ponderous steps.Anko Muhr (Chaos Sorcerer) (Deceased) - Muhr was the Blood Gorgon's senior Chirurgeon, a powerful Chaos Sorcerer and the high priest of the Chapter's witch coven. Lord Gammadin did not trust Muhr, sensing a jealous ambition in his black heart. Gammadin was well-aware of the sorcerer's lust for power and the position of Khorsaad, but his intuitive insight did not prevent him and his personal retinue, the Impassives, from falling into a trap set by the cunning witch. When Lord Gammadin and his warriors embarked on a raid to claim a new slave world for harvest, Muhr played his cards and set a trap for his hated rival. Working in concert with Dark Eldar raiders, the superior force of these vile xenos overwhelmed Gammadin's small force. Muhr then worked his sorcerous magic and captured the Blood Gorgons' Khorsaad. Tired of their supposed "vagabond" existence aboard the Cauldron Born, Muhr devised a diabolical scheme to overthrow Gammadin, take over as the Chapter's new Khorsaad, and then seek favour from one of the individual Chaos Gods as a patron of the Chapter rather than continuing to serve Chaos Undivided. Conspiring with a powerful Chaos Champion of Nurgle, Muhr's plot nearly succeeded in forcing the Blood Gorgons to become thralls of the Plague God. Muhr eventually died at the hands of Gammadin's new Bond-Brother Barsabbas, who proved far less easy to kill.Sabtah the Older (Chapter Veteran) - Following the death of Lord Gammadin's first Bond-Brother Monomachus, the Chapter began looking for a suitable Aspirant to be blood-bound to the Khorsaad. Dozens of unsuitable Aspirants were killed by the rich blood of Gammadin or went mad in the rituals of transfusion and excision. It was not until Sabtah, inducted from the legion plains of Symeon, that an Aspirant showed promise. Sabtah endured the months of torture required to undergo the ritual on the operating slabs of the Cauldron Born, until he emerged as the young charge of the great Gammadin. For over three-and-a-half millennia, Sabtah the Older grew more powerful through his symbiotic bond with the Chaos Lord, until Gammadin was supposedly murdered by the betrayer Muhr. As Bond-Brother to Khorsaad Gammadin, by right, the wardship of the Chapter should have passed to Sabtah. But Muhr falsely claimed that Gammadin had passed the stewardship of the Chapter to him. Eventually, Sabtah confronted Muhr when he discovered Muhr's duplicity; the death of Gammadin and his plot to take over the Chapter and violate its traditions by rededicating the Blood Gorgons to the service of a particular Dark God, in this case Nurgle. Sabtah fought Muhr in personal combat for control of the Blood Gorgons, but was killed with the aid of a daemon summoned by the treacherous Chirurgeon. Sabtah was an impressive physical specimen for an Astartes. Arrayed in an ancient pattern of Mark II Crusade Power Armour, the relic lent an impressive bulk to his already broad girth. Most impressive was his beard, a tiered cascade of uniform ringlets that reached the bottom of his chest guard, which was black and well-oiled.