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I play with my own Traitor "chapter" the glacier serpents, and after making the fluff and model for my Lord i wanted fitting rules.
What do you think?

(due to mixed content i posted this in both background and proposed rules)



Lord Kraxis

The Allchosen, Lord of the Glacier Serpents

The systems surrounding Karyvan is normally quite safe, being protected by the Adeptus Astartes that have their homeworld there. However, there is one thing that they all fear.
The Glacier Serpents, the Arch-Traitors, The Cold Ones.

Once, they were loyal Thunder Dragons, fighting for the emperor with great fervor.
But three thousand years ago, a powerful Daemon Prince named Z’Sath possessed Calun, a Thunder Dragons librarian. He slowly began to corrupt the chapter, going unnoticed for years. Eventually, he was discovered by Chaplain Turan Aleo, but by then it was too late.

Almost two hundred Thunder Dragons turned traitor, inflicting great damage on the planet’s infrastructure before escaping on a Battle Barge. Calun was killed by Turan, but the Daemon Prince was too strong to banish. Thus, the Chapter’s gathered Librarians bound the Daemon into a rune, which was hidden on a moon many systems away.

After Calun’s death and Z’Sath’s imprisonment, the traitors were divided. Leadership was contested between Kraxis, a former Veteran sergeant, and Sharikh, a talented former Lexicanum.
However, Kraxis was slightly stronger, both tactically and martially, and was also more popular. Thus, Sharikh became second-in command.
Training, fighting in the Eye of Terror and occasionally entering the normal world to wreak hovoc, the new-proclaimed Glacier Serpents was making a name for themselves.
However, the original warriors were dwindling in number, and so Kraxis decreed two acts. First, small groups of traitors from all kinds of chapters would be absorbed into a “rabble” squads; Marines with different colours and backgrounds, and these would act as the main fighting unit.

The other was that Sharikh would enchant all the original Serpents, increasing their might with a ritual known as the Icebinding. And so it did, raising the strength, speed and endurance of the traitors to even higher levels. However, it also made their bodies incredible cold. Sharikh meant that this was well, for none of them should feel warmth while the loyalists were still alive.

Now, the original traitors are even fewer. Only Kraxis, Sharikh and a few Terminators are still alive, though their experience has rendered them even deadlier. Kraxis has already stolen the rune in which Z’Sath was imprisoned, crafting the rune into his sword, thus taking the Daemon’s power for himself.

Now, three thousand years later, the Glacier Serpent’s fleet leaves the warp, and it has its sights set on the Optimus system….





Lord Kraxis
pts: 225

WS7 BS6 S4 T4 W3 I5 A4 LD10 SV2+


Wargear:
Terminator Armor
Combi-melta
Z’Sath
Mark of Chaos Ascendant (not included in profile)

Z’Sath: Z’Sath is a Daemon Weapon
that allows you to choose which bonus to use each turn.
It also grants Melta Bombs to the user.

Special rules:
Will of Chaos, Stubborn, Tactical Mastery, Supreme lord, Psychic talent, Chosen of Kraxis.

Chosen of Kraxis
The warriors that accompany their leader to war is the elite of the Glacier Serpents; the best of the best. Pick one Chaos Space Marine squad, a chaos chosen squad or a chaos Terminator squad. That squad has +1 WS.

Tactical Mastery
An army that includes Kraxis can reroll reserve rolls as long as he is alive.

Supreme Lord
In an army that includes Kraxis, Chosen are Troops choices.

Psychic Talent
Kraxis has a minor psychic talent. Though normally too small to make a difference, Sharikh has augmented his powers. While not as powerful as a dedicated sorcerer, Kraxis can still use this power to his advantage. Kraxis has the Psyker special rule. He can only use the following power:
Minor Warptime
Allows the user to reroll one to hit and one to wound roll in close combat that turn

Here is some more fluff:

Sharikh
The Doombringer, The Dark Master



Sharikh is a true master of sorcery, capable of conjuring massive storms and summoning legions of daemons to his aid.

Before the Great Corruption, Sharikh was a Lexicanum, whose talents were promising indeed. However, at the time, the chapter was currently quite restricted with psykers; they were forced to learn at a very slow pace, and many secrets were hidden from him. Sharikh, however, did not fear what would happen to him if his spirit ventured into the Warp. Thus, he began to look into the warp, learning more and more, and becoming more and more powerful; even taking of his Psychic Hood, the better to see what others dared not.

However, the authorities of the Chapter did not approve of such things, and Sharikh was restrained by the chaplain Turan Aleo, one of the greatest heroes of the Chapter, and put under control.

When the Great Corruption erupted, Sharikh escaped to join the traitor forces, having seen the wonderful things that existed in the Warp. Seeing his talent, Culan accepted him.
After Culan’s death, Kraxis, a veteran sergeant, realized how useful Sharikh could be and made him second-in-command, and that he remains to this day.

Since then, Sharikh has persuaded Kraxis to attack worlds with knowledge about sorcery, his power growing with each forbidden tome he read. Now, having read enough to become an extremely powerful sorcerer, Sharikh searches the knowledge of the Eldar, for with their power surely he would be unstoppable.



Kraxis is a warrior almost without peer. For three thousand years has he led the Glacier Serpents, burning countless worlds in his bloody conquests. However, it has not always been this way.

Three thousand years ago, Kraxis was a talented veteran sergeant in the Thunder Dragons chapter. Yet, when the Great Corruption erupted, Kraxis was one of the first to pledge himself to these new gods. When Culan, the corrupted librarian was killed, and Z’Sath was imprisoned, Kraxis took command.

Kraxis is a incredibly brutal warrior. Using his minor psychic powers to his favor, none have so far been able to beat him, tactically as well as martially. In 456.M41, he retrieved Z’Sath’s rune prison from a cold moon, forging it into his own blade to increase his powers.

Kraxis is death incarnate on the battlefield, weaving through the ranks of the enemy with a speed that is surprising for a wearer of Terminator armor. His Terminators, the Immortals, are all original traitors from the Great Corruption, and they are more than a match for all enemies that wish to harm their lord.

Kraxis has only recently left the Eye, setting his course for the Optimus system.

There might have been some repetitions there. (due to copy+pasting from Word documents)





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I've written rules for Sharikh too, ill put them up later.

Spoiler for post before I saw this in Rules as well...


Fluff seems good. It might be better to attribute the Warptime to the daemon though.

He seems a little OP for the points cost, but he would be fun to play against.
The fluff is great though, puts mine to shame.

Thanks for that, i haven't edited the rules here yet; I'm on it now. Also thanks for the positive comment above the fluff (most seem to forget that, instead raging about the rules)


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Seems like I'm better at writing fluff than rules though...
but i like my characters this way, i have tried to use logic in each characteristic.