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Crimson Slaughter (formerly Crimson Sabres) Battle Cry Originally "For the memory of Rhogon and the glory of Terra!", now "Take from them everything. Leave only corpses." Founding Unknown, but before M36 (possibly the 13th Founding) Successors of Unknown Successor Chapters none Chapter Master Sevastus Kranon Homeworld Formerly Rhogon (rendered uninhabitable) and Drogsh, currently the space hulk Lost Hope Specialty All-out slaughter, formerly drop pod assaults, utilizing spooky ghosts Allegiance Chaos Undivided, leaning towards Khorne Colours Dark red, with gold trim

"Only the fury of battle can silence the dead!"

– Avitus

The Crimson Slaughter are a warband of Chaos Space Marines that debuted with 6th edition. They were originally the equivalent of a filler villain that was just one of many warbands, seemingly made to pad out GW's Dark Vengeance set and give the Dark Angels a villain to destroy. They've since been expanded upon via a few novella, a summer campaign, and even a codex supplement. Somewhat unpopular with the fandom. Basically a World Eaters color scheme, somewhat predictable fluff, and trying to take the Red Corsairs place, who were trying to take the Black Legion's place, as the warbands on box art.

History [ edit ]

Originally a loyalist Chapter known as the Crimson Sabers (seriously), not much is known about their pre-Chaos history save for a few mentions dating from the Age of Apostasy. The most notable of these was an incident referred to as the Amalgamation Schism, when the fledgling Chapter's disregard for the seniority of the Dark Angels and the Blood Angels (as well as the unintentional interruption of an interrogation of one of the Fallen SOME RANDOM TRAITOR THAT WAS IN NO WAY ASSOCIATED WITH THE DARK ANGELS) during what was supposed to be a routine space hulk cleansing led it to the Chapter cutting all ties to its now-unknown founding Chapter and swear to become so Codex-adherent that even the Red Scorpions and the most stereotyped perception of the Ultramarines would think they were taking things too far. Over time, they built a reputation for being effective, but prone to bouts of paranoia and highly critical of even the most trivial faults of their allies, especially in regards to breaches of the Codex Astartes.

In 928.M41, they incurred the wrath (or maybe pleasure) of Khorne when they slaughtered a planet full of people on the Jungle World of Umidia to stop Khorne's worshippers there from summoning one of his Greater Daemons (although the most recent version of the story claims that they were duped into killing loyal citizens by a Lord of Change and its human servants and only realized that they had been tricked after they had killed everyone).

Anyway, Chaos 'gifted' the marines of the Crimson Sabres with the ability to constantly hear the voices of those they had killed and to see their faces whenever they closed their eyes. As you can imagine it didn't take long to drive all of them completely barmy from this and soon madness and paranoia gripped them all. They did discover a temporary reprieve; by killing others they could drown out the sounds of their victims and give themselves a time of quiet before the voices starting to come back. They're basically marines who spent too much time in the bush and can't hack it back in the real world.

Truly Khorne found the perfect way then to drive even the greatest of the Imperium's marines mad and make them join the ranks of Chaos. Only question is, why did he only use it on a single chapter? Surely it would make common sense to......oh there's my answer. Common sense and Chaos hardly skip through the grass together even on the best of days.

So the Chapter Master of the Crimson Sabres, Sevastus Kranon (who would later be called Kranon the Relentless after he fell) in desperation sent his Marines to purge the systems surrounding Umidia on the pretense that they had been corrupted too by proximity. It was during this time that the Inquisition and the High Lords of Terra suspected the Sabres were falling due to their mad slaughtering and declared them renegades. At this point Kranon's brother Sevarion attempted to protest, but was tricked into a Helbrute's shell and was promptly reduced to a bloodthirsty maniac himself. With a last shred of dignity remaining, Kranon took his men into the Eye of Terror for one last suicidal crusade to slaughter heretics instead of innocents, but this didn't work out as intended. The Sabres massacred their way through planet after planet butchering everything from cultists to Khornate berserkers and as time passed this began to affect them. The Chaplain's litanies changed, they began grow extra append