VII Legion Astartes "fidelis ad mortem"

[Phalanx Warder]

Greetings,
 
I am going to start adding my work here, the goal is to generate interest in the VII Legion and get your take on my interpretation of the legion (not a whole lot of interest of my work in the WIP section of the B&C, and lets face it interest in the work we do pushes us to bigger and better things). As I progress through the task of building my legion list and getting it all painted up, I am looking for you the subject matter experts to help me discuss and think through a logical and fluffy list and help point my own fluff writing towards keeping true to what we already know and what we think Forgeworld will give us.
 
I feel that the VII is quite open to interpretation. There are a lot of facts about the legion but I think there is more dead space than facts, I plan to work in that dead space. We know that Dorn had to break the VII legion to better prepare it for the future, fluff states that the legionnaires were extremely loyal to the institution, how did we get to that point? As my version of the story unfolds I will attempt to explain this loyalty through the lens of my own fluff. Below is the RAW version of events. please bare in mind that this is the down and dirty to give you all an idea of how my mind is working:

 
Early in the Crusade (before finding Dorn) the VII encountered a death world with a small human population close to extinction maybe 100,000 down from hundreds of millions. The locals been the warriors they were challenged an Astartes to a death duel, Marine wins and the population all drop to here knees and swear a death oath to the Preator (among the savages of this world strength and skill at arms are the only currency/value a man has, each man woman and child give fealty to the strongest), who refuses. long story short they all eventually end up in followers camp or in the apothacarium for transformation into Astartes with close to 4 chapters worth of newly minted Marines coming into service.

 

The new marines were spread through most of the legion minus the force I plan to build.... anyway these Astartes influenced much of legion with there warrior code of "fidelis ad mortem" or "loyal unto death", given the knightly sentiment of the legion many Terrans embraced this code if not the individuals (I like the idea of barbarians and Knights mixing it up). My force will be modeled at the battle of Terra but I plan on taking the fluff up to the Iron Cage incident were 90% of my force will die. The remainder will go on to form my version of the not real loyalist Soul Drinkers.

 

the oath: . Tua est vita mea, aut totum, quod sum usque ad extremam guttam sanguinis erunt. fidelis ad mortem. (my life is now yours, all that I am or ever will be till my last drop of blood. loyal unto death)

 

So there you have it!

 

 

[Sevatar]

Good Luck. Sounds nice. I love the motto BTW.

[Phalanx Warder]

Good Luck. Sounds nice. I love the motto BTW.

thank you brother, I hope this thread is not a disappointment.  

[Phalanx Warder]

Okay below you will find fluff installation number 1:

 

I would often find myself in a Ludas of the VII Legion Astartes. It was here that I came into contact with lukas Tyrendian. An old man

by any standard, he had accompanied the Legion for all of his life and had become somewhat of a mascot to the marines stationed in this section of the palace.

This timeframe is what I would call a happy time or a silver lining of those dark days. Lukas would talk to me for hours of the Legion and I
learned some interesting facts about the Marines I often saw sparing with each other and close combat training servitors with an intensity and endurance that would see a human’s heart explode many times over.

 

I learned that there were just over a thousand Astartes organized into the defense of this sector, who all hailed from a death world called
1106 by imperial standards. But to the people who lived there it was simply called Infernum, by all accounts the entire population of about 100,000 demanded to be brought from the world as they all swore a death oath to the legion.

Infernum was a marvel, the planet was little more than a barren rock before the life breathing tech of the Dark Age brought it to life.
In those early years life on the planet flourished with tens of millions of humans inhabiting the planet, that is until the planet itself turned on the population. What happened in those many years before the arrival of the Imperium is unknown, what is known is that the population were close to collapse to the abominations that assailed them from all sides.

The legion found itself assaulting a planet overrun with deadly xeno forms of all shapes and sizes, each abomination worse than the next and containing an aggression that the legion found admirable and good sport. The Praetor in charge persecuting pacification of 1106 was ill prepared to encounter the human population. What happened next would change everything.

 

hope you enjoyed the read, more to follow once it is wrote. and some mini goodness!