The fractured warband name?

[Lord Kallozar]

Hi

 

Just a curiosity thing rather than anything else... but names of chapters and war bands usually depict their theme and philosophy. So what could be the theme/philosophy behind the warband known as the fractured? How could they have got their name?

 

Thanks

[Goreshed]

They were only a portion of the chapter who went to chaos?

 

Or

 

The chapter turned as a whole but suffered from some defeat or disagreement between commanders that saw it split up into warbands.

 

Those are at least the first two that pop into my head.

[Panzer]

You could also split your warband in two or more groups like the Dark Angels Deathwing/Ravenwing or something. An undivided warband with specific units assigned to specific gods maybe. Or doing the same thing but not god specific but rather a split based on your selfwritten fluff.

Let those groups compete with eachother but still work towards the same goal. So they're fractured but still whole in terms of an army.

[Doctor Perils]

Or it could be something deeper, ie their souls are fractured (whatever that could mean)

[Scourged]

Their was a horrific gene flaw discovered by their chapter. The implant designed to strengthen and ossify their bones actually weakened them. Increasingly more and more at the mercy of shattered, broken, amd fractured bones they were deemed too weak to survive as a chapter. To save what little honor was left they embarked on a crusade into the Eye. But once inside, hope for their condition was found in the darkest places...

[Res Ipsa Loquitur]

Some of them ate their eggs from the big end, and some from the little end.

 

Words like fractured in this context always make me think of events like the Istvaans and Skalathrax; brother v. brother.

 

Maybe half the Chapter went Slaanesh (or Khorne) and the other half went Nurgle (or Tzeentch) and they fought each other.

Edited March 24, 2018 by Res Ipsa Loquitur

[Skaorn]

You could go for a psychological angle with them. They could be obsessed with breaking their opponents that they run elaborate psychological warfare schemes that might be worthy of a Batman villian. Individually they might be the equivalent of a slasher movie villain to an insane doctor doing their own terrible version of the Milligram Experiment. Like the Joker though, they are prone to practicing on each other, leaving them all more batty than usual chaos.

[Withershadow]

Their was a horrific gene flaw discovered by their chapter. The implant designed to strengthen and ossify their bones actually weakened them. Increasingly more and more at the mercy of shattered, broken, amd fractured bones they were deemed too weak to survive as a chapter. To save what little honor was left they embarked on a crusade into the Eye. But once inside, hope for their condition was found in the darkest places...

That Eye of Terror Vitamin D is no joke.

[totgeboren]

Hi

 

Just a curiosity thing rather than anything else... but names of chapters and war bands usually depict their theme and philosophy. So what could be the theme/philosophy behind the warband known as the fractured? How could they have got their name?

 

Thanks

 

It could be a reference to South Park too, GW have after all done stuff like that quite a few times. :)