The Lords of Dust - 40K Terra

NileChild · 12-30-2006

Originally the Imperial Pilgrims chapter, The Lords of Dust are a 22nd founding chapter. They have been under close watch by the inquisition, as all chapters of the 22nd founding, since the disaster of the cursed 21st founding. But they are still constantly checked on by the inquisition for a heresy that has left them scarred. The Imperial Pilgrims home planet was one on the eastern fringe of the Empire and therefore they fought much with the Tau xenos in their early days. Only several years into the existence, a little less than half of the chapter’s marines converted to the blasphemous “greater good”, serving the xenos scum. The Imperial Pilgrims were banished from their homeworld and sent on a 200 year penitence crusade. Along this crusade they ran into a large green skin world and lost many numbers to the foul orks. Then on the way back from the crusade, towards a new base planet on the opposite side of the galaxy from the Tau Empire the Pilgrims ran into a fleet of ships led by a traitor legion dedicated to Nurgle. The Pilgrims were able to force the remnants of the chaos fleet to retreat, but not without a large sacrifice of battle brothers. Now around the quarter of the size of the original force, the Imperial Pilgrims settled down on a small planet far away from the taint of their fallen brothers within the Tau Empire.
When they returned from the crusade, The Imperial Pilgrims renamed themselves the Lords of Dust, seeing it fit as their chapter was only dust compared to it’s original glory in their eyes. The original armor for the Imperial Pilgrims was white with black boots, knee pads and shoulder pads, with a red shoulder pad trim and red crests. There was no chapter symbol on the shoulders, but many had the Imperial “I” grafted on. Their distinct feature were their entirely white painted bolters. The Lords of Dust have since repainted that armor gray with black boots, knee pads and backpacks. One shoulder pad is painted black with a diagonal white slash and the other white with a diagonal black slash. The crests and trim have been painted a dark blue and the bolters still remain the pure white of old.
The Lords of Dust were one of the rare chapters created with the Raven guard gene seed. Since the gene-seed zygote acceleration process, used by Corax during the heresy, was not used, monstrosities and abnormalities did not occur.
The original chapter master, Jonas Serrotalon, was struck down in battle very early on in his career and was placed in a dreadnaught. Now due to the rapid loss of marines, the Lords of Dust have a substantial amount more dreadnaughts in their chapter than normal. Dreadnaughts are revered by the marines of the Lords of Dust almost to the point of thinking of them as avatars of the Emperor. They therefore take the “Heed the Wisdom of the ancients” trait advantage. Having lost many marines to the green skins on the pertinence crusade, there is a deep seeded hatred for the orks within the chapter and The Lords of Dust also take the “Suffer not the alien to live” advantage. However with a small amount of man power, they do not have as many men to use in bike and land speeder squadron and therefore take the “eye to eye” major disadvantage. They also in the words of a sociologist fall to the bottom of the social hierarchy of Space marine chapters and are not much like by the other chapters and therefore take the “we stand alone” disadvantage.

Notes:
I’m not really set on the color scheme, so any suggestion about that would be greatly accepted, thought I am pretty set on the pure white bolters, and any other suggestions would be greatly helpful. I would pick the Tau for the suffer not the alien to live, but the codex: space marines states you can only use it for orks, tyranids, and eldar.

r4wr89 · 12-30-2006

yea there is no tau choice for suffer not the alien to live, unfortunately. however, i personally get my revenge for the missing tau by plastering anti-tau stuff all over my army; i put kroot heads on my backpack exhausts like the ultras do for the 'nids, my commander carries 2 bonding knives he took from high ranking tau guys, etc.. :]

i haven't gotten a chance to look deeply into this, but i think your color scheme would be cool with a desert looking effect...but the white bolter doesn't fit that well with that : /
something like this
http://us.games-workshop.com/news/ev...l_perry_lg.gif
or this
http://us.games-workshop.com/news/ev..._arnold_lg.gif

that's what i think of when i hear dust, at least.
or you could do a lot of greys over a black primer, like a revilers sort of look, and maybe white trim on the shoulderpads, perhaps? just a suggestion or two :]

i'll come back and read the fluff after i go to the bathroom, lol
-ant

r4wr89 · 12-30-2006

hey wow, this fluff is interesting. haha well i like it cause it sounds a lot like my chapter, night hunt. 1. we share a first founding chapter; raven guard, and our numbers are both rather low, lol. our colors are also somewhat similar, as ours are black with some bleached bone or white, and our insignia is similar as well, mine is a grey slash through a circle. :]

nice fluff though, interesting but unfortunate for your chapter, they sure went through a lot of sucky stuff.

-ant

NileChild · 12-31-2006

The kroot parts as ornaments is a great idea since i don't use kroot in my Tau force and have a lot of extra kroot bits lieing around. I thought about a desert theme, since sand comes to mind a lot when the word dust is used. I might go with soemthign similar to this one:
http://us.games-workshop.com/news/ev...barnett_lg.gif
though i'd want ti a little bit darker, and i like the double shoulder trim and might experiment wiht that. But I don't know, I'm havign trouble on a color scheme.

I chose the ravne guard for geneseed cause i htink that they have the coolest first founding fluff, and i'd probably just make a rave nguard force if i liked their color shcme.

r4wr89 · 12-31-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by NileChild

The kroot parts as ornaments is a great idea since i don't use kroot in my Tau force and have a lot of extra kroot bits lieing around. I thought about a desert theme, since sand comes to mind a lot when the word dust is used. I might go with soemthign similar to this one:
http://us.games-workshop.com/news/ev...barnett_lg.gif
though i'd want ti a little bit darker, and i like the double shoulder trim and might experiment wiht that. But I don't know, I'm havign trouble on a color scheme.

I chose the ravne guard for geneseed cause i htink that they have the coolest first founding fluff, and i'd probably just make a rave nguard force if i liked their color shcme.

well i think your marines would look awesome with some of those kroot ornaments lying around...lol it'd give you a nice excuse to pit your armies against each other as well.

i sort of like that color scheme, but i think a darker look, like you mentioned, would look a lot better. maybe a lot of darker greys and then bleached bone trim or something, perhaps ? or white trim to match the white bolter ?

i do like the raven guard fluff but i hate the color scheme, it's so bland...lol and it's a pain to have to try painting all those ravens on the shoulderpads or getting transfers for it too is a pain.. ugh! so i changed my army and made my own chapter :]

-ant

NileChild · 01-02-2007

I used the space marien painter thing on the GW website to come up with codex grey power armor and shoulder pads, with a kommando khaki colored trim, boots, gloves, elbow pads, helmet and most of the backpack. I did the eyes, crest and boltgun all white. It looks fine on the online painter and i would do a white inner trim on the shoulder apds, but I have no idea how reliable the online painters are to the way colors will look. Any ideas?

Quote:

i do like the raven guard fluff but i hate the color scheme, it's so bland...lol and it's a pain to have to try painting all those ravens on the shoulderpads or getting transfers for it too is a pain.. ugh! so i changed my army and made my own chapter :]

lol, yeah, the raven guard could be at least ten times as cool as they are now.

r4wr89 · 01-02-2007

hmm... well the painter gives you a good idea of the colors, but most of the colors are actually off, and the metallic-ness doesn't show up at all, so you'll have to imagine the colors on a space marine.

the best way though, is probably to test paint a few models, maybe like those funky looking marines that come in the 40k paint box, or something like that :]
-ant

12-30-2006	#1 (permalink)
NileChild Trooper Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia Posts: 59 Rep Power: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	The Lords of Dust Originally the Imperial Pilgrims chapter, The Lords of Dust are a 22nd founding chapter. They have been under close watch by the inquisition, as all chapters of the 22nd founding, since the disaster of the cursed 21st founding. But they are still constantly checked on by the inquisition for a heresy that has left them scarred. The Imperial Pilgrims home planet was one on the eastern fringe of the Empire and therefore they fought much with the Tau xenos in their early days. Only several years into the existence, a little less than half of the chapter’s marines converted to the blasphemous “greater good”, serving the xenos scum. The Imperial Pilgrims were banished from their homeworld and sent on a 200 year penitence crusade. Along this crusade they ran into a large green skin world and lost many numbers to the foul orks. Then on the way back from the crusade, towards a new base planet on the opposite side of the galaxy from the Tau Empire the Pilgrims ran into a fleet of ships led by a traitor legion dedicated to Nurgle. The Pilgrims were able to force the remnants of the chaos fleet to retreat, but not without a large sacrifice of battle brothers. Now around the quarter of the size of the original force, the Imperial Pilgrims settled down on a small planet far away from the taint of their fallen brothers within the Tau Empire. When they returned from the crusade, The Imperial Pilgrims renamed themselves the Lords of Dust, seeing it fit as their chapter was only dust compared to it’s original glory in their eyes. The original armor for the Imperial Pilgrims was white with black boots, knee pads and shoulder pads, with a red shoulder pad trim and red crests. There was no chapter symbol on the shoulders, but many had the Imperial “I” grafted on. Their distinct feature were their entirely white painted bolters. The Lords of Dust have since repainted that armor gray with black boots, knee pads and backpacks. One shoulder pad is painted black with a diagonal white slash and the other white with a diagonal black slash. The crests and trim have been painted a dark blue and the bolters still remain the pure white of old. The Lords of Dust were one of the rare chapters created with the Raven guard gene seed. Since the gene-seed zygote acceleration process, used by Corax during the heresy, was not used, monstrosities and abnormalities did not occur. The original chapter master, Jonas Serrotalon, was struck down in battle very early on in his career and was placed in a dreadnaught. Now due to the rapid loss of marines, the Lords of Dust have a substantial amount more dreadnaughts in their chapter than normal. Dreadnaughts are revered by the marines of the Lords of Dust almost to the point of thinking of them as avatars of the Emperor. They therefore take the “Heed the Wisdom of the ancients” trait advantage. Having lost many marines to the green skins on the pertinence crusade, there is a deep seeded hatred for the orks within the chapter and The Lords of Dust also take the “Suffer not the alien to live” advantage. However with a small amount of man power, they do not have as many men to use in bike and land speeder squadron and therefore take the “eye to eye” major disadvantage. They also in the words of a sociologist fall to the bottom of the social hierarchy of Space marine chapters and are not much like by the other chapters and therefore take the “we stand alone” disadvantage. Notes: I’m not really set on the color scheme, so any suggestion about that would be greatly accepted, thought I am pretty set on the pure white bolters, and any other suggestions would be greatly helpful. I would pick the Tau for the suffer not the alien to live, but the codex: space marines states you can only use it for orks, tyranids, and eldar. __________________ To do list: More points to Tau More points to Ultramarines Begin Lords of Dust Samurai XV8 conversion Veteran Assault Marines conversion Scratch built DE army(Cause DE models suck)

12-31-2006	#4 (permalink)
NileChild Trooper Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia Posts: 59 Rep Power: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	The kroot parts as ornaments is a great idea since i don't use kroot in my Tau force and have a lot of extra kroot bits lieing around. I thought about a desert theme, since sand comes to mind a lot when the word dust is used. I might go with soemthign similar to this one: http://us.games-workshop.com/news/ev...barnett_lg.gif though i'd want ti a little bit darker, and i like the double shoulder trim and might experiment wiht that. But I don't know, I'm havign trouble on a color scheme. I chose the ravne guard for geneseed cause i htink that they have the coolest first founding fluff, and i'd probably just make a rave nguard force if i liked their color shcme. __________________ To do list: More points to Tau More points to Ultramarines Begin Lords of Dust Samurai XV8 conversion Veteran Assault Marines conversion Scratch built DE army(Cause DE models suck)

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