ART - Modelling the Brotherhood of the Lost

[bluntblade]

We've got a bunch of nutters and one maniac, one Psycho can hardly hurt :)

[Chief Captain Redd]

Awesome model Apologist! Also belayed to welcome Apologist! And welcome Psycho! If you have any questions regarding just about anything but you're not sure who to ask, ask me I'm our IP/Continuity manager.

[Sigismund229]

We've got a bunch of nutters and one maniac, one Psycho can hardly hurt :)

What does that make me??

 

Awesome Apologist, it's exactly how I imagined the GS when I thought of them sneaking through the streets of that unfortunate hive world and nailing people up on buildings or leaving their flayed bodies in the streets. I love the red accents. Nice touch.

[MikhalLeNoir]

Welcome Psycho. Maybe next time we can joim the tale of hobbyists or if enough join make one with this alteranste universe.

 

 

And Apologist.....damn...that looks so freakin awesome. Now I won't post anymore. My models look like child's play compared to you.

[Sigismund229]

Oh and Welcome Pyscho! As I said to Apologist, may the Brotherhood of the Lost bring you much enjoyment and not take away your sanity as it has done to some of us*shudders at long repressed memory*

[bluntblade]

 

We've got a bunch of nutters and one maniac, one Psycho can hardly hurt :)

What does that make me??

 

Awesome Apologist, it's exactly how I imagined the GS when I thought of them sneaking through the streets of that unfortunate hive world and nailing people up on buildings or leaving their flayed bodies in the streets. I love the red accents. Nice touch.

You're either a lunatic or a fruitloop.

 

Hey, don't do yourself Mikhal, I'm digging the Wardens of Light

Edited September 1, 2016 by bluntblade

[MikhalLeNoir]

@: Blunt: Obly because the dual sabers look like kanu paddles...mixed with chain swords^^

[apologist]

Don't do yourself down, MikhalLeNoir – your models are fantastic.  :)

 

Glad you like him, Grifftofer; hope he's useful in promoting things, too!

 

This was good fun, so I'd be quite happy to have a pop at another Legion. Hoping to get the nod from Hesh Kadesh, as his Drowned have a scheme that appeals a lot, and that Legion symbol looks cool.

 

Simison, am I right in that you're essentially prima inter pares and organising things? Are there any that would be particularly useful?

[simison]

 

Simison, am I right in that you're essentially prima inter pares and organising things? Are there any that would be particularly useful?

 

Ummm...

 

*quick Google Search*

 

Ah! Yes, yes, I am. And, if by your second question, you mean another painting opportunity, then I'd recommend one of the Iron Bears, if you want to keep it simple. They're our equivalent to the Iron Tenth of our universe as the first legion to lose their Primarch to war, and yet to have a painted model to represent. They also feature heavily in the same key battle that involves the Grave Stalkers, so there's a natural connection there as well.

 

Finally, fantastic work on Ahluic! I see that you're fame is well earned.

[apologist]

[The Iron Bears]  also feature heavily in the same key battle that involves the Grave Stalkers, so there's a natural connection there as well.

 

Finally, fantastic work on Ahluic! I see that you're fame is well earned.

 

 

Not sure about the second point, but thank you  http://image.bolterandchainsword.com//public/style_emoticons/default/unsure.png

Is there anywhere I can read about the key battle you mention? Might get some cogs turning.

[Sigismund229]

*opens document entitled book 1*

It should be here somewhere....

*finds it among heaps of other writing*

AH HA!

There you go Apologist

 

The Death of the Bear
Of all the legions that stood against Icarion and whose loyalty he knew he couldn't sway, he foresaw that it would be the VI, the Iron Bears who would cause him the most grief if they weren't removed from play in the opening stages of the Insurrection. More numerous than the Crimson Lions and lethally better equipped than the Scions Hospitalier, if they weren't destroyed beyond hope of recovery before news of the Insurrection reached them and they mobilized for war, then Icarion foresaw that the Iron Bears would be a major obstacle on his road to Terra, one which would inflict heavy casualties upon his forces and slow them, perhaps even long enough for the other loyalists to gather upon Terra. With the full strength of those loyal to the Emperor guarding the homeworld, it would be impossible for Icarion to launch a successful assault upon it and support for his cause would gradually fade away, leaving him little more than an isolated rebel, doomed to be annihilated by his vengeful brothers. So it was decided. The Iron Bears had to be destroyed, crushed beyond any hope of recovery. 

However, Icarion also foresaw that unless his brother, Daer’dd Niimkiikaa, was killed, then they would meet once again on a world of black hills and stormy skies but where once it would have been a brotherly re union, full of joy and laughter, this time there would be nothing but hate and sorrow. While in many paths Icarion emerged from this confrontation victorious, his brothers body at his feet and the VI legion scattered, in others it was the Iron Bear who was victorious, Icarion’s body lying broken at his feet as the Bear roared in triumph and a lightning storm began to dissipate, fresh rays of sun breaking through the clouds to illuminate a field of dead bodies in the white and black of the I. In no version of events did the Iron Bear turn to Icarion’s cause. Deciding that such a course of events could not be risked or even allowed to come to pass, Icarion was decided. His brother must die. 

In this decision, Icarion also saw an opportunity to test two of his newfound allies, Koschei Kharkovic and K’awil Pakal. While both had declared that they would join their legions to his cause and rally beneath his banner, Icarion was uncertain of the exact loyalties of his two brothers. Koschei was motivated by his dreams, visions of legionnaires long since dead, their bodies rotting, visiting him to give him visions of a world in which all were equal and none needed to die for their ideals. In Icarion's insurrection, Koschei saw an opportunity to realise this dream. Icarion had foreseen paths where, instead of pledging himself wholeheartedly to Icarion’s cause, Koschei deserted him or, seeing through his visions and recovering his previous loyalties, stood beside their father at Eternity Gate, united in defiance of Icarion, blind to the ultimate fate Icarion had foreseen their father inflicting on them all. As for K’awil, K’awil had always been a mysterious figure, not truly close to any of his brothers yet never truly hateful of them either. Icarion could not be certain of his motives or true loyalties and even his attempts at seeing into his shadowy brothers future had provided little enlightenment in this regard. It seemed that even the warp was blind to K’awil’s true allegiance. So it was that the Stormborn seized the opportunity to test his brothers and seal their loyalty with blood. The blood of the Bear. 

Two legions, the Godslayers and the Grave Stalkers, a total of 173,000 astartes, were to surprise the Iron Bears over the world of Kataii, a world whose governor had just declared his independence from the Imperium at large. While the Warmaster had dispatched the Iron Bears to bring the world back into the fold, by force if needs be, Icarion had persuaded his brother to send the VIII and XX to aid the VI. While he had accepted that such overwhelming force was unnecessary, he had persuaded his brother that presenting such a united front would send a simple but clear message to any potential rebels: any rebellion against the Emperor would be dealt with in such a manner that no man, woman or child of that world would survive the ordeal and all traces of them would be erased from the galaxy. A pre emptive strike. This also gave the two traitor legions the opportunity they needed to close the distance with the Iron Bears, bringing their ships within boarding range, some of them even boarding VI legion ships before the betrayal was revealed and inflicting maximum damage in the opening moments of the battle, crushing the VI before they even realised they had a battle on their hands. It would be a clean, relatively bloodless victory for the traitors, one which both removed any chance of Icarion having to run the gauntlet of facing the Bear in battle and one which effectively removed an entire loyal legion from play for a relatively small loss of rebel astartes, further widening the gap in terms of astartes numbers between Icarion and his father. 

With these objectives in mind, the annihilation of the Iron Bears and the death of Daer'dd, the Godslayers and Grave Stalkers set out for the Kataii system, unaware that their loyalty was being tested, for Icarion had presented their mission as an honour rather than a test, for it was they who would strike the first blow against their treacherous father and deal the first major, irrecoverable defeat to the loyalists. It was with their hearts swelling in pride from the compliments that Icarion had heaped upon their legions and the fact that it was they who had been chosen for this task, not any of the other legions with whom it was known Icarion was closer to. 

From the moment they went into the Warp to when they arrived in orbit over Kataii, the legions who had aligned themselves with the Lightning Bearers seemed to be favoured by some other worldly power. Whereas the Iron Bears had reported enormous amounts of turbulence in the Warp around Kataii, the Godslayers and Grave Stalkers arrived in orbit over Kataii within a matter of days, a miracle given that it had taken the VI weeks and they had been far closer to the Kataii system and even then they had arrived scattered and out of formation. By contrast, the VIII and XV arrived in perfect formation with all their ships intact. The only sign of Warp turbulence had been the whispers that many of the crew(mainly the unaugmented humans although some astartes and even, it’s rumoured, the primarch, Koschei, himself) had heard, a single word being repeated over and over again throughout the entire voyage: Nurgl’eth. 

As soon as the VIII and XV entered into real space in the system, they were greeted with warm hails by their brothers of the Iron Bears, with Daer’dd greeting his brothers in person using a hololithic message, completely unaware of the intended treachery. The Godslayer and Grave Stalker fleets were even provided with honorary escorts by the Iron Bears, a formality that Koschei and K’awil were only too happy to accept. Soon, the flagships of all three legions were drawn up alongside each other and the squadrons of Iron Bears war ships began to intermingle with their brothers of the VIII and XV. Daer’dd even invited his brother primarchs and their astartes aboard his flagship, the Dragon of Autumn, nominally for a meeting about strategy in regards to re claiming Kataii in the name of their father but actually in order to him to greet his brothers properly and re acquaint himself with them, for he believed it to have been too long since he had last waged war alongside his brothers. Unwittingly, the VI were playing into the hands of the traitors. 

With the legions combined strength assembled, the Godslayers and Grave Stalkers were able to fully observe the Iron Bears fleet. Of the legions total strength, only around 130,000 were in orbit over Kataii. The rest had either been scattered during the warp journey or were too far away to be assembled at such short notice as it would take them weeks, possibly even months to join their legion. Over the next few hours, the rebel ships moved into positions either amidst the Iron Bears fleet or on the outskirts of the system, so as to block the escape routes for any Iron Bears ships who managed to claw their way clear of the original ambush and the astartes of the Godslayers and Ghost Stalkers either intermingled with their brothers of the VI, maintaining full armour in many cases, although this was put down to the fact that they were to be prepared to assault Kataii at any time, or began to load themselves into boarding pods in preparation for the eventual betrayal. 

The first shots of the betrayal were fired by a legionnaire of the XV on board the Iron Bears strike cruiser Heart of Iron. Within moments, as if some unspoken signal had been spoken across the vox that the Iron Bears hadn’t heard, the legionnaires of the Godslayers and the Grave Stalkers began to open fire upon their brothers of the VI, slaughtering hundreds in the opening minutes with precise bolter shots or knife cuts to the throat. Even on board the Dragon of Autumn the VI were slaughtered without remorse, as the warriors brought on board by Koschei and K’awil turned on Daer’dd’s elite Totem Guard, as helpless as the rank and file against this treachery. Aboard the bridge, Daer’dd could only watch the reports in horror as commanders from all across his fleet demanded orders. Were they to open fire? What was happening? Why were their brothers opening fire? The Iron Bear had no answer for his warriors and both his brothers had vanished from the bridge an hour earlier, going to, they said, prepare their warriors for an assault on Kataii in case negotiations should fail. Thus, the Iron Bear was left helpless as the Godslayers and Ghost Walkers warships opened fire, launching both lance weaponry and boarding pods, at the scattered elements of his fleet, who had dispersed themselves amongst their brothers some hours earlier. While this had been intended to present a united front in the face of rebellion, the result was that the Iron Bears were helpless against their assailants, isolated and cut off from the other elements of the VI legion fleet, the Iron Bears were gradually being annihilated. However, as the Godslayers and Grave Stalkers butchered their way through his sons on the lower decks towards the bridge, it didn’t take long for Daer’dd’s shock and horror to turn to anger. The Iron Bear would find his wayward brothers and look them in the eyes and ask why. And then, he would rip their treacherous heads from their shoulders and hurl their toxic corpses into the void. 

Once they realised that there had been no mistake and that they were betrayed by those they had thought of as kin, the VI fought back with all the strength and courage they possessed, devoid of care for anything but the moment. While the Iron Bears continued to die in such numbers as never before seen by the legions astartes, each Iron Bear began to now take several foes to the grave with him for the VI now fought with the kind of savagery and determination that only men who know that they shan’t return from a battle possess. The first recorded ship kill was made by the Dragon of Autumn, a Grave Stalker light cruiser named the Hidden Shadow. Other kills by other VI legion vessels soon followed as the Iron Bears began to fight back and make their treacherous brethren pay for their betrayal. As the VI legion strike cruiser called Iron Soul was being overrun by astartes of the Godslayers, all but a token force of Iron Bears were launched in boarding pods at the warp engines of three near by Godslayer vessels and the remaining forces, and Sergeant Enoch Awanjish, who was commanding the remaining astartes on board the ship gave the following speech “My brothers of the VI legion, crew of the Iron Soul. Our enemies believe us to be easy prey. They think they will have a bloodless victory here. Well they don’t know the sons of Huron! Yes we are outnumbered and outgunned. Yes we can not hope to win. But we shan’t give up! We shall rail and rage against our fate with all the strength and might we possess and by the time we are done, not a single filthy whoreson of the VIII or XV will ever forget the last stand of the crew of the Iron Soul! We die as I speak but before we die, we shall carve a new legend from the flesh of our foes, a legend that will be repeated by the sons of Huron until the sun swallows our world, and even then from Terra to the Ghoul Stars all will know of the last stand of the VI! For Huron and the Primarch!”


Despite their anger at being betrayed and their desperation fuelled ferocity in combat, the sons of Daer'dd were gradually falling, outnumbered, isolated and outgunned. However, each Iron Bear who made it aboard the enemies ships died inflicting casualties of a hundred to one against enemy armsmen before eventually falling to the sheer number of weapons being shot at them. However, where lesser warriors would have given up in such circumstances, the Iron Bears were astartes and as such continued to fight with all their strength, even when knowing that death was coming for them. Fuelled by this undying spirit of defiance, the astartes of the VI began to experience some limited success. Several Iron Bears warships, battered and torn, some even still having enemy warriors on board, broke through the lines of enemy vessels and made it far enough away from the planet of Kataii to make an emergency warp jump. One party of some 600 Totem Guard led by Aandegg Niimkiikaa boarded a Godslayer battle barge and seized control of it, promptly using it to escape the massacre as their lord Daer'dd had ordered all Iron Bears capable of doing so to do. However, for the most part, such successes were just one small part of the battle and the brave sons of Daer'dd were cut down, fighting like men possessed but unable to stand against their fellow astartes or freezing to death in the cold depths of the void.

As his sons were slaughtered, Daer'dd was relentless in his hunting of his brothers. They had betrayed their father and slaughtered tens of thousands of Daer'dd's sons and that was not something that could go unpunished. Along with an elite force of 200 hand picked Totem Guard, he boarded the Grave Stalkers flag ship, leaving the remaining Totem Guard under the command of Shipmistress Lotara Sarrin. Daer'dd had only one objective: the death of his treacherous brothers, no matter the cost. While a small force of Totem Guard split off from the main group to seek out and destroy their enemies ships warp drives, the majority stayed with Daer'dd, willing to die to see their father enact revenge for their tens of thousands of fallen brothers. As they fought their way through the enemy flag ship, it soon became clear that without the element of surprise the normal Grave Stalkers were no match for the VI legion elite. Even a group of Grave Stalkers veterans was unable to do any more than delay the Iron Bears who ripped through(quite literally in Daer'dd's case) the battle hardened veterans of the XV.

However, following their death of dozens of XV legion veterans, the Totem Guard and Daer'dd finally found their quarry: K'awil Pakal. Standing before his brother accompanied by nearly three hundred of the fell Reapers of the XV, warriors without pity or remorse, it is said that in the weak light of the ships bowels, K'awil gave his brother a grin that spoke of treachery, death, and, ultimately, the joy of betrayal. Following this, the two primarchs and their warriors clashed, coming together with a sound that would echo down in history: the sound of betrayal and the anger of a betrayed brother. For a long time the two brothers fought, neither able to gain a decisive edge, Daer'dd launching great blows with his war maul at K'awil and K'awil darting in and out, attempting to bleed his brother dry. However, eventually, as the Totem Guard gained the upper hand in their battle against the Reapers, Daer'dd struck a decisive blow, smashing his brother aside, breaking bones and shattering any bonds of brotherhood that remained. Despite this victory, the Iron Bear was unable to strike the killing strike, the one that would end his treacherous brother for before he could, another force took his Totem Guard in the rear, a force of Godslayers led by the other traitor: Koschei.

While he already bled from a dozen cuts inflicted on him by K'awil, the Iron Bear burned with the rage of a brother betrayed and, with little left to lose, hurled himself at Koschei but this fight he couldn't win. With each swing of his maul he grew weaker and slower until finally, Koschei was able to move in for the kill strike. However, before he could, his brother, K'awil, although he had innumerable broken bones and bled as no son of the Emperor had bled before rose and, mustering what strength he could, drove his blade into the heart of his once brother and now mortal enemy, Daer'dd Niimkiikaa. So ended the tale of the Bear.
Lesser troops would have given in. With their primarch dead and their own casualties rapidly rising, many would have expected the VI to do just that. Indeed, that's what even a lesser legion would have done. Not the Iron Bears. The sons of Daer'dd fought on, exacting a bloody toll for their deaths, although there were ever fewer of them left and ever fewer were escaping. Among the ships that escaped was the flag ship of the VI legion which, commanded by the ever determined and capable Lotara Sarrin, fought its way free of the trap and managed, despite extensive damage to the warp drives and geller fields, to make an emergency warp jump as it was pursued by several Godslayer's vessels and with many hostile astartes on board(the last recorded order of the ship-mistress prior to translating into the warp was "Get these dog-screwing whoresons off my ship!"). Linking up and forming into ad hoc squadrons, dozens of Iron Bears vessels also managed to fight their way clear of the murderous trap designed to catch them all and destroy them and make warp jumps. Many more did not. Over the course of three bloody hours, the Iron Bears fleet was cut up into smaller and smaller pockets and destroyed through overwhelming fire power, their shields overcome and their weapons too heavily damaged to inflict any serious damage upon their enemies. Gradually, even these small pockets of resistance were extinguished, and the space above Kataii(which had now declared for Icarion) were left silent, the only disturbance being the hundreds of metal ship carcasses that littered the void and the thousands of astartes corpses that were drifting through the void, their wearers either killed in the fighting or frozen to death after their escape from their destroyed ships. 

Occasionally these carcasses were added to when an Iron Bears vessel, scattered by the warp in translation to Kataii, drifted into the space above the world and was hunted down by the Grave Stalkers and Godslayers. The Grave Stalkers were especially savage, exacting a bloody revenge for the crippling of their primarch, flaying alive any Iron Bear who fell into their hands, making the Iron Bears suffer in place of their fallen primarch. 

The battle could be considered a great success for the Insurrectionists. Over 90,000 Iron Bears drifted dead and frozen in the space above Kataii for less than a fifth of that number of Godslayers and Ghost Stalkers and most of their fleet was destroyed, effectively destroying them as a legion. What's more, their primarch had also fallen, leaving them leaderless and meaning whatever efforts they made from now on to strike back at the traitors would be uncoordinated and scattered, rendering them effectively useless as an asset to the loyalists and removing them from play, as Icarion had planned. The first loyal brother had fallen in the void above Kataii, and much of his legion had fallen with him. The first piece had been removed from the board. 

[Skalpynock]

First off: Apologist. In my Brotherhood. If I didn't expect a new collaborator, that's you. Your work has been most inspirational to my fluff, as well as my never-realised truescale projects.

 

Second: holy :cuss: this is glorious. I had trouble visualising the Grave Stalkers for a lot of time, but between the Testimony of K'awil Pakal and Ahluic Xbalanque, I now have a clear picture of what the XV^th truly is.

 

Third: Of all the Book I legions, the Scions Hospitalier are the one I want most to see in resin/plastic, if only because of their vastly divergent armour design. But as it is, I think an Iron Bear is needed to contrast the Grave Stalker.

 

Fourth: Welcome home, The Psycho! Your Fists are part of the reasons for the Void Eagles rank systems, and I'm eager to see you join us, whether it be in models or in fluff.

 

Fifth: For the Warmaster!

 

Ninth: For the Suzerainty!

[apologist]

Of all the Book I legions, the Scions Hospitalier are the one I want most to see in resin/plastic, if only because of their vastly divergent armour design. 

 

Any chance of some info/details/images of the armour concept? Sounds interesting.

 

[Archetypes]

To help me understand things, could someone explain the archetypes for the Legions? To give an example of what I mean, the Blood Angels' archetype would be 'Renaissance Vampire Angels'. Similarly, you'd know which Legions the 'Bitter Bombardiers' or 'Knowledge-hungry Egyptian Wizards' would be.

 

I know it's hard to distil lots of work down to just two or three words, but such pithy phrases really help to differentiate and characterise the Legions. There seem to be a lot of pariah Legions and those that have Native American elements, for example, and it's difficult (without reading a massive backlog of material) to work out which aspects are most important to which Legions.

 

As an illustration, both The Drowned and Scions Hospitalier seem to have an underwater element; but is it at the core of either Legion, or are other parts of their background more central to their character?

Edited September 1, 2016 by Apologist

[Sigismund229]

I could be wrong but I think the Scions and Drowned can be characterized as follows:

Scions Hospitalier: Intolerant genetic scientist apothecaries

 

Drowned: Brutal gribbly marines who hate happiness 

[simison]

I would suggest...

 

Scions Hospitalier: Greek scientist apothecaries rescurers

[Kelborn]

Drowned: Game of Thrones, House Grejoy in Space plus a crazy primarch who becomes a giant monster

 

Scions: greek scientist and apothecarii, kind of Atlantis theme

[MikhalLeNoir]

For the Drowned: Game of thrones, houseGreyjoy.meeting cthullu zoidberg^^

[Kelborn]

Got ninjad again? ;)

[MikhalLeNoir]

Seems so you damn ninja. But I mentioned zoidberg

[Slips]

Yeah, Scions are essentially a mix of Greek Oceanic Mythology, Atlantis and Apothecarion-Overdose.

[bluntblade]

With lots of underwater stuff. They have serious issues with mutants, but otherwise they're one of the most humane Legions. The main thing about their look is that they do a lot of underwater shenanigans, so their armour is much more streamlined an impersonal than most Astartes (highlighted by the fact that they frequently work with the Halcyon Wardens and Iron Bears).

 

Slips' references are here: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/312235-brotherhood-of-the-lost-the-scions-hospitalier/page-5

 

And fluff for flavour here: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/320524-brotherhood-of-the-lost-the-stories/page-3?do=findComment&comment=4419080 and here: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/320524-brotherhood-of-the-lost-the-stories/?do=findComment&comment=4340107

[apologist]

Cheers chaps; very helpful. :)  Both the Scions Hospitalier and The Drowned in particular sound like there's some great potential. Regarding The Drowned; am I right in thinking that it's not an official name, and they prefer a simple Legion number? The background for their organisation is pleasingly labyrinthine!

 

Had a little play around with some putty last night for the Iron Bear; so I've sent Redd a message to clear up some specific queries.

 

Any thoughts on archetypes for the other Legions? 

[Kelborn]

Predators, the XXth Legion: Take the Zulu army, caribbean voodoo culture, a tiny bit of Warcrafts Trolls and Demon Hunters and the Predators (movies), mix them together and voila! You got the Predators. http://image.bolterandchainsword.com//public/style_emoticons/default/smile.png

 

So basically hunters.

 

They are tasked to destroy a specific target (can be a leader, a fortress, whatever). They will stop at nothing until this target is brought down, not caring for casualties. They simply annihilate their target.

 

Use rad weapons, void bombs, infiltrators to disturb enemy lines and terminators / their own version of havocs to crush them.

Their Primarch Andezo is the only blind among our Primarchs. Instead of his eyesight, he has a spectral sight, enabling him to see the auras of others, further sense demons and the like.

 

Some of his Librarians sacrifice their eyesight as well to gain the spectral sight of their Primarch. These individuals are then put in charge of their elite infiltrator teams, the Striking Shadows.

Edited September 2, 2016 by Kelborn

[bluntblade]

The Warbringers (who I struggled with until, ironically, I read a novel about samurai) are a Legion built on elitism, with dozens of fellowships and ranks reflecting individual prowess. Their Primarch sees the Astartes as being fit to rule over lesser men, and encourages gene-augmentation to create better space marines and a ruling class of augmented humans (which propels him into conflict with Pionus). Culturally they're Tsarist, but Eastern European rather than simply Russian.

 

The Fire Keepers are our siege masters. Think Tolkienian dwarves, only eight feet tall and with a penchant for flamer and melta weapons.

 

The Eagle Warriors; our first heretics. Heavily based on Aztec culture but with a serious scientific bent too. They're probably the biggest tank users alongside the Iron Bears.

 

And the Berserkers of Uran. Well, what to say about them.... imagine the Marines Malevolent were a Legion, and their Primarch crashed down on a planet that was the Wasteland of Mad Max, but in a prison. The kind of guys who revere their Destroyers for being nastier than anyone else. They also have a breakaway faction called the Shepherds of Eden, who were the pre-Raktra Legion and generally lovely chaps. Needless to say, the Berserkers massacre them during the Insurrection. Except for just a few...

[MikhalLeNoir]

for the Wardens of Light: South East Asia Indonesia,Phillipines, Malaysia amd a little korean Influence. and tibetean buddhism mixed with Arthurian Lore. They are the peacekeepers and master of bling. Wearing half skirts and masks to contain and control their pariah abilities) they try to end conflicts as fast as possible in order to prevent the people from suffering. Flow Edited September 2, 2016 by MikhalLeNoir