Flesh Tearers - Flesh Tearers: The Flesh Tearers is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and the smallest Second Founding successor of the Blood Angels, once numbering only four full companies of Astartes at their nadir before the Devastation of Baal.They are true servants of the Emperor of Mankind though their heavy affliction with the genetic flaws of their Primarch Sanguinius and the resulting brutality has led to their investigation on charges of heresy by the Inquisition. They have been cleared of suspicion at present.Like their progenitors, the Flesh Tearers are known for their bloodthirsty nature in battle, bad temper and are feared for the flaws like the Black Rage and the Red Thirst that they carry within their gene-seed.They fight as mad butchers, ripping apart their foes in a vain effort to quiet the fury in their blood. In battle, the whir of their chain weapons is lost beneath guttural snarls of hate and the pain of the Red Thirst and Black Rage that is the truth of their tattered souls.The Flesh Tearers' blood-rage is infamous across the Imperium, as are the savage deeds said to have been performed by their battle-brothers. So divorced have the Flesh Tearers become from the rest of Mankind that most Imperial Commanders accept the Chapter's help only in the direst of circumstances.There is good reason for this caution. On more than one occasion, the enemy body count has not been enough to sate the Flesh Tearers' bloodlust, and many are the Imperial Commanders who have thought themselves saved only to watch in horror as the warrior angels sent to liberate them succumb to their curse.Lost in the throes of slaughter and the Red Thirst, the Flesh Tearers often fail to recognise a battle's end, turning their weapons on their allies and even the mortal Humans who thought them angelic saviours. They kill until nothing remains but bloodied ground, churned viscera, and the fading thrum of their double hearts. This is their truth, the core of their beings -- not the imagined half-divinity believed by the Imperial masses, but the red truth of angels of death lost in a dream of suffering and slaughter.The Flesh Tearers' relationship with the other Blood Angels Successor Chapters that comprise the Sanguinary Brotherhood is strained at best. The sons of Cretacia have fallen far from the artisan angel that spawned them, and they stand as a dark mirror of what all the gene-sons of Sanguinius might one day become.It is not a reflection other scions of Sanguinius can look upon without fearful shame. Worse still is the attention that the Flesh Tearers have drawn from the wider Imperium. Continued animosity between the Flesh Tearers and members of the Inquisition have drawn the eye of judgement to the descendants of the Angel and the genetic flaw in their blood.Indeed, it was only through the intervention of the Blood Angels' High Chaplain Astorath at the trial of the Carmine Court, when the Flesh Tearers' Chapter Master Gabriel Seth stood before Dante and every other Chapter Master of the successors, that the Flesh Tearers were prevented from being cast out and destroyed. Whatever Astorath knows or has seen of the future, whatever plans he has for Seth and his army of slaughterers, they are a mystery to even Commander Dante himself.In the wake of the Indomitus Crusade and the Devastation of Baal in ca. 999.M41, the Flesh Tearers' dwindling ranks were brought up to full strength by an infusion of hundreds of Primaris Space Marines drawn from Sanguinius' lineage. As these new Astartes are believed to be more resistant to the Flaw in Sanguinius' gene-seed than their brethren, it remains to be seen what change, if any, this will bring to the Flesh Tearers' and their penchant for uncontrolled savagery.The Flesh Tearers generally make use of the tactical organisation pioneered by the Blood Angels, though they favour close combat over ranged warfare and most Flesh Tearer Space Marines are skilled with melee weapons like chainswords or Power Swords and bear them into battle.The Flesh Tearers call the Death World of Cretacia home. It is a violent, tropical world where the dominant forms of life are giant reptiles very similar to the dinosaurs who once roamed Terra during the Cretaceous Period more than 65 million standard years ago. It is a common right of passage for Flesh Tearers aspirants to hunt these massive animals and bring back a trophy of their kill before they are made neophytes of the Chapter.