Flesh Tearers - Chapter Beliefs: As the Black Rage continues to consume its membership, the leaders of the Flesh Tearers have come to the inescapable conclusion that their beloved Chapter may be doomed to eventual disintegration. They continue to seek a cure for this curse, but some consider their eventual depletion inescapable. Some among the leadership have begun to embrace the notion that if they cannot continue then their best approach is to make certain that they leave a bold legacy in keeping with the Chapter's proud traditions.Most vital to these traditions is the way that they embrace savagery in combat. This is likely a combination of their susceptibility towards the Black Rage as well as the Blood Angels' tradition of excellence in assault actions. Even with their acquisition of Cretacia as a homeworld, the Flesh Tearers proudly exhibited this preference. For the natives' survival in the face of that planet's massive creatures requires an ability to overcome even the most extreme odds through constant warfare.Of course, the Flesh Tearers are tremendously unlikely to compromise with regards to their savagery. The Flesh Tearers have a long tradition of attempting to honour these memories by fulfilling their primarch's and the Emperor's wish for a galaxy under complete Imperial Compliance.In many instances, the only way the Chapter had a reasonable chance to achieve victory is by taking the most extreme of actions against its opponents. There are very few known instances where Flesh Tearers commanders ever hesitated to unleash weapons of cataclysmic proportions. With each battle won, battle-brothers of the Flesh Tearers Chapter feel confident that their primarch's legend has been preserved. This serves as the most effective method of preserving his glory as well as that of the IX Legion he once led.In many cases, the worlds targeted by the Chapter have strayed in some significant way from the Imperium. It is these conflicts that offer the greatest temptation for Flesh Tearers to fully engage their thirst for savagery. Those who show any taint of heresy, or who even choose to ally themselves, however briefly, with Heretics, are targeted for purging. In some instances, purges have continued well beyond a reasonable level, as battle-brothers of the Chapter continued their acts of savage brutality long after any justifiable conflict had been completed.For many Flesh Tearers Space Marines, such frenzied battles represent a very real warning of the doom that encroaches upon their minds. With each period of savagery, their chance to return to a more normal state of consciousness can become increasingly difficult. This represents a very real sign to these battle-brothers that their final emotional and mental collapse approaches them.The rank-and-file of the Chapter remains divided over what should be their fate. Some dare to cradle hope that their Chapter Master, Gabriel Seth, will lead them to salvation. They stand proud that they have the strength to fight on the side of the righteous despite the madness in their blood. Others welcome a swift, blood-fuelled end, asking nothing more than the chance to wreak terrible destruction upon their enemies before the thirst claims them. Which angel of their hearts will rule their fate -- murder or mercy -- only time shall tell.But the sands of those times run swift as the Dark Millennium closes, and even the most optimistic Sanguinary Priests within the Chapter know that extinction may take them before damnation or salvation arrives.