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The World Eaters, originally known as the War Hounds6, are one of the Space Marine Legions, created by the Emperor at the dawn of the Imperium. They were among the first Legions to turn to Chaos in the Horus Heresy and have since resided in the Eye of Terror.
The Speculum Historiale describe the first years of the World Eater primarch Angron as less than blissful. He was stranded on a technologically advanced planet with a poor and downtrodden population ruled over by an elite class of nobles. The most popular form of entertainment for the masses was gladiatorial duels between cyber-enhanced warriors, and destiny had it that one of the gladiator slavers would find the young Primarch. Angron was mortally wounded when he was discovered, almost killed by alien warriors thought to be Eldar trying to stop the Primarch before he could turn to Chaos.
Angron survived, and over the next years would become the greatest gladiator the planet had ever seen. A discontent one, having plotted his escape for years he finally led his fellow warriors in an armed revolt. A revolt doomed to fail, however, as the newly arrived Emperor warned him, for the forces under the nobles vastly outnumbered the gladiator band. Angron with his martial pride refused to listen to or receive aid from his father; preferring an honourable death to outside help.
The Emperor did not accept this, and teleported Angron to his Battle Barge the night before the last battle. The gladiatorial army was slaughtered to a man and Angron's honour was blemished. It is said he never forgave his father for the incident.
The Legion was already active by the time Angron joined them but called themselves the War Hounds in reference to a named coined by the Emperor who remarked on their similarity to a culture on Terra. They would soon be influenced by Angron's thirst for battle, amplified by the use of psycho surgery similar to that Angron had received during his gladiator training. These implants turned the already fierce Space Marines into frenzied berserkers so feared that whole systems would eventually surrender rather than face them in battle. The technology was unstable, however and was forbidden by the Emperor after the Ghenna Scouring, in which the World Eaters wiped out an entire planet during one night. As the hour of the Horus Heresy grew near, Horus had little problem with corrupting the bitter and unhappy Angron. The World Eaters were probably the first Legion to join the Sons of Horus in their revolt and would be instrumental both during Isstvan V and the Siege of Terra itself. World Eaters lead the assault on the walls of the Imperial Palace and it is said that one of their champions, Khârn, was the first to enter the breach.
Yet they lost the battle, and the remains fled to the Eye of Terror along with the other Traitor Legions. Angron was elevated to daemonhood and the World Eaters would continue to function as a Legion up to the Skalathrax Incident. Originally a fight against the Emperor's Children the battle escalated when Khârn attacked his fellow comrades. Refusing to fall back before the deadly cold of the Skalathrax night Khârn burned their shelters and forced a desperate fight between brother Marines for the few remaining safehouses. This divided the Legion into individual warbands, a formation they have kept ever since.
Angron was last seen during the First War for Armageddon, where he lead the invasion of a Khornate host upon an Imperial forge world. He was eventually banished to the Warp for a hundred years, at the cost of the lives of a large number of Grey Knights lead by Brother-Captain Aurellian.
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Iron warriors Tributeby DevilsMachine865 views
the pre heresy colour scheme looks class!!
daveeol1987 1 month ago
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lordgluzman 5 months ago
they were real crazy before they turned to chaos, now they are happy in the service of Khorne!
i bet they eat Khorne flakes with plenty of blood every day.
huntercd 7 months ago