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Currently working on fleshing out my Chaos warband, would appreciate feedback, especially on the accuracy/likelihood of these things actually happening within the 40k universe. Here's what I've got so far:

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The Cannibal Creed are a deviant sect of the Word Bearers founded sometime during the 32nd Millennium. They are known for their particularly brutal cannibalistic rituals, unusually strict discipline (for Chaos) and zealotry, and a unique view of the Chaos pantheon that holds Khorne and Nurgle as analogues to Yin and Yang forces, considering Slaanesh and Tzeentch to be unbalanced devils and the patrons of cowards. The Cannibal Creed icon is a stylized dog skull biting into a chunk of rotten human flesh. While the warband has no known battle cry or motto, some Adeptus Astartes have reported hearing the growls of rabid, snarling dogs during skirmishes with the traitors, though the sounds don’t seem to come from the Chaos marines themselves. Their colors are blood red, brazen gold, and corpulent green.

Cannibal Creed attacks on the Imperium are rare, usually focusing their campaigns against followers of Slaanesh and Tzeentch. This has earned them the moniker "The Traitor Inquisition". The warband are sworn enemies of the Word Bearers, and have tormented their Founding Legion for nearly eight Millennia. Their most notable victory occured in 888.M41, when they covertly commandeered an Imperial Cruiser during the Exterminatus of Typhon Primaris, instead steering the ship to the Bushwine Sector and exterminating most of a hive world controlled by a Slaaneshi cult.

Important Characters:

Augustus The Abbot, Warlord of the Cannibal Creed – The Abbot’s origin is unknown. The first recorded account of his existence dates back to the Heterodox Schism in late M32 that separated his warband from the Word Bearers forever. Before the Schism, Augustus served on the Dark Council as a high-ranking Dark Apostle. However, he found himself fervently disagreeing with his fellow council members’ interpretations of the Book of Lorgar, and in the end disregarded the book itself. Decrying his Legion as puppets to both the Changer of Ways and Prince of Pleasure while ignoring what he considered to be superior powers, Khorne and Nurgle, Augustus staged a coup that would place him at the top of the hierarchy while defeating Lorgar through subversion. This plan came crashing down when Augustus and his band of rebels were betrayed by double agents, who leaked his plans to the Dark Council and orchestrated the near decimation of the rebels.

Augustus and his mutineers narrowly escaped Sicarus on the hijacked warship CVRVLIS ANTHROPOPHAGORVM. Fleeing the Eye of Terror, they searched for decades to find a suitable home world, and have kept this base a secret from the Word Bearers and Imperium well into the 41st Millennium, although they are most active in the Scarus Sector. The Abbot has since declared an unholy war on the Word Bearers and anyone who owes fealty to gods other than Khorne and Nurgle. He is said to never remove his suit of defiled Mark III Iron Power Armor, and typically wields a lightning claw and power axe on the battlefield. He also carries a heavy flamer, to send the whelps of lesser gods burning into the jaws of their weak masters.


Brother Cyprian, Supreme Presbyter – Brother Cyprian is a Dark Apostle and second-in-command of the Cannibal Creed. He is a draconian arbiter of Divine Law, often inflicting harsh punishments which include death on his charges for the smallest perceived acts of disobedience. Aside from his congregational duties, Cyprian is also in charge of the mechanized support of the warband. While The Abbot heads the primarily Khornate devotees, the Presbyter is the official seat of predominately Nurgle worshippers. Because Nurgle is viewed as the passive aspect of Chaos, only Nurgle marines are allowed to perform the humble task of operating and maintaining machinery, but are forbidden to speak casually unless spoken to by a Khornate or Nurglite superior.

Brother Cyprian was formerly an overzealous troop of the Dusk Raiders Space Marine Legion, and still wears his pockmarked Terminator Armor today. After defecting to the Word Bearers Traitor Legion under unique circumstances, he aided Augustus The Abbot as an advisor in his attempted upheaval of the Dark Council. A corroded lightning claw is crudely welded to the right gauntlet of his Terminator Armor, while his left gauntlet is a power fist dripping with poison, which he uses more on his own parishioners than on the front lines.

A crudely drawn MS paint version of the Cannibal Creed icon: