[Showcase] Calling all Traitor Legions!

[Ikarus]

This is a call out to all enemies of the Imperium.

If you have a traitor legion or anything from your army, share it with us here!

Just provide us your army name, background history or anything of that sort!

DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR!

[Dragoon King]

Cirative's girl has a very cool traitor legion in the works. Not really seen many others.

[hairyyahoo]

i'll drag my army fluff from the depths of my depraved mind today and edit this post later

edit; here it is...enjoy

History of Lord Xinn

By the time the traitorous warmaster rebelled against the rightful rule of his father the Emperor, brother captain Calistinos was a veteran of many campaigns. Indeed he could clearly remember the Emperor's address on the eve of the Great Crusade before the silver fleets left the Terran system to liberate the worlds of man, when the Lord of Earth laid out his grand designs for the galaxy. That day a dream took hold of his heart, and a vision of mankinds destiny free from the malign influence of aliens, dark age technological slavery and pseudo-religious constraints, that would become the driving force of his life took root in his mind. The Emperor's age of enlightened thought and forward progress was a goal worthy of a mans life.

During the great crusade Calistinos fought with honour, loved the Emperor and served his Primarch with distinction. He brought many new worlds into the Emperor’s realm and prided himself on using diplomacy as often as force of arms to do so. He became a shining example of the Emperor’s vision.

When the traitorous Warmaster rebelled against his father Calistinos was as shocked as anyone at the betrayal. Heeding the orders of Rogal Dorn, Calistinos rushed his forces back to Terra, and arrived just in time. He stood on the walls of the Emperor's palace as the traitorous servants of Horus assaulted earth and yelled his defiance at the heretics as he slew them. When the Emperor went to confront Horus aboard his own ship calistinos begged to be allowed to join him, but the Emperor forbade it, saying that if he was to succeed in his task good men would need to hold the walls of the palace in his stead.

When news of the Emperor's dire condition after his duel with the arch heretic reached his ears, Calistinos went berserk. Defying the orders of his Primarch he gave chase to the traitors, harrying them across the galaxy and following them into the eye of terror itself to punish them for their sins. For many long years he and his company fought in the very stronghold of their enemy, venting their rage against the betrayal of their brothers. But when they returned to real space Calistinos was shocked to find that a thousand years had passed. The Emperor had been installed on the Golden Throne, the Primarchs had all died or disappeared and the Imperium was under the rule of lesser men, the High Lords of Terra. Somehow, through the many years of his absence, the Emperor's grand vision had been lost.

Calistinos immediately contacted the rest of his legion, who promptly fired upon his fleet after labelling them excommunicate traitorus for disobeying Dorn’s orders. Calistinos was stunned to the very core of his being. Everything he had fought for was gone. The Emperor’s realm of enlightenment had been replaced with the very thing he had fought to oppose; the Imperium had become a xenophobic and paranoid religious theocracy. The High Lords were keeping the Emperor imprisoned on the Golden Throne and using his authority to do as they pleased. This was a betrayal equally as great as that of Horus!

For decades the fleet wandered the galaxy as renegades, sometimes attempting to help beleaguered imperial forces in times of need, but never welcomed, and always disgusted at what the Emperor’s realm had become. Slowly it became clear what must be done…the Emperor's dream was dead and the shining vision he had fought so hard to create was now beyond reach. The only thing that remained was to allow the Emperor to die and to tear down the obscenity that the High Lords had created. The Imperium must burn!

With a heavy heart, Calistinos embraced the one power in all the galaxy that could accomplish this…the dark gods of the warp! He sought out Abbadon and pleadged his allegiance to the Black Legion, and in that moment brother captain Calistinos died, to be reborn as Lord Xinn.

Since that day Lord Xinn has set about destroying what he once helped to create, with hatred for the High Lords of Terra and despair for the actions they have forced him to take always festering in his heart. More than once he has attempted to sway loyal servants of the Imperium to his cause by showing them the truth of the past, using the gifts granted by the gods of the warp to imprint his own memories into the minds of others, pulling down the realm of man from within and without, his once heroic name now rooted in infamy.


(this may not be a true fluffy representation of the crusade or the heresy, but is an insight into the mind of lord xinn and is told from his point of view, so you can forgive me right?)

[Heroka Vendile]

If I were to post the full uncut background of Adothmael and his Nova Legion (formerly Nova Lords), it would take several hours to read =P
Once i've done some more work on painting them up they'll make a more formal appearance on here.

[Dragoon King]

Originally Posted by Heroka Vendile

If I were to post the full uncut background of Adothmael and his Nova Legion (formerly Nova Lords), it would take several hours to read =P
Once i've done some more work on painting them up they'll make a more formal appearance on here.

Nice, I like seeing Traitor Legions. At first I hated the 4th ed. for concentrating so much on them, but it really allows for a lot of creativity.

[Baron von Lexus]

I'm about as hardcore Imperium as you can get but I've broken down and gotten a force of Night Lords going. I'm going to be starting painting this army after my Death Korps are at least mostly done.

[Sister Sin]

I have a rather massive army of World Eaters. Some of the miniatures date back to Realms of Chaos days. I began them when those books came out, my second army. Blood Slaughterers feature in this too.

They are the warband of Skaralax, now a Daemon Prince and some of the models, notably the Chosen and Dreadnoughts, still have some of the blue and white armor of the original colors. The World Eaters still think of themselves as a First Founding Legion.

Under construction for this; Brass Scorpions, Banelord, and a new Daemon Prince, this time female in fact, and a combination of scratchbuilt and converted. One of these days I'll finish her. The idea came from the book Storm of Iron, where the Imperial Guard lass donned the helm of a Khornate Champion...and took his place rather neatly. Strictly speaking she won't be a World Eater, but she will be a Daemon Princess of Khorne.

Due to a slick individual's tutorial on true-scaling, I'm eyeing this Legion and considering having a go in that regard..including the vehicles. I'm such a sucker for a challenge!

Sister Sin

[Astral Claw 126]

Emperor's Children 13th Grand Company (Painlords) AND Death Guard 2nd Great Company Pestilence Guards!!

[God_Grinder]

The Blood Reapers: renegade Blood Angels led by the Prophet Cruentus Mortis

Cruentus and many others in the warband wher beloved sons of sanguinius during the crusade. they wher all among the chosen bloodangels to join ther primarch's retinue in the assualt on horus's ship. during the assualt they wher thown straigh to the bridge of the warasters vessal wher they wher assualted by the strongest and most intense maddening warp energies and foul enteties of the warmasters fleet, while his sons fought for ther lives and sanity they wher forced to bear witnes to the death of ther beloved father sanguinius. as the primarc died ther was a great blast of psycic energy witch assailed every bloodangels mind. opening ther minds eye to ther beloved fathers last moments this coupled with the warp energy they wher emired in infected ther minds and drew the attention of the lord of change, Tzeech. who instantly began wispering to Cruentus showing him the truth of how it was no coincidence that the emperor happend to show up just as saguinius died.

showing cruentus the truth of how the emperor perposly sent them ther so that horus would kill sanguinius knowing that with sanguinius's death ther wouls be nobody to stande in his path to godhood once he desposed of horus. bade by the wispers in his head cruentus knelt at his fathers side and collected all the blood that was spilt as to not leave any trace of his lord in this acursed place collecting it all into a chalace that was found among horuses possesions on the bridge.so the cult of Sanguin was born. they all then returned to ther chapter and lernt to deal with the new found curse of the red thirst, and the bloodrage. centuries passed and cruentus and his followers secetly festerd and worshipped around the chalace of ther fathers blood, witch never seemed to go dry even as they drank from it at every dark gathering. ther numbers grew till one day they wher discoverd and ther was a large battle as the cult of sanguin took ther revenge one ther brothers for worshipping the betrayor who sent ther father to his death. many wher slain but many survived to escape into the warp.

after ther breaking from the betrayors cruentus underwent a dreastic mutation he grew many feet taller and wings sprouted from his back all in the image of father sanguin. and the psycic powers he had been hidng since he witnessed his fathers death grew rapidly.from that point on he has worn the deathmask of sangine as his old self was nomore and creuntus mortis was reborn. they use the blood of the father from the chalace of blood to survive and indoctrine new followers into ther ranks when ever lost renegades find them. over the centuris many of bloodangels and others have joined ther ranks. across the galaxy the new found Blood Reapers went spreadding the word of the prophet Cruentus and the promis that one day sanguin will be breborn. wher ever they go cults of sanguin remain. and blood runs ever red.

well that is a summery ther is much more to it but i still need to do some smoothing and such.

[Dragoon King]

I am really excited about the Blood Reapers, GG. Very cool and fluffy. I look forward to more pics of them!