Of all the Wolf Lords in the Fang, Andilus Greatsword is perhaps the most grim. After enduring the various tests of initiation, he was finally admitted to the Test of Morkai and drank from the Cup of Wulfen before being cast into the wilderness. The potency of the Canis Helix nearly overcame Andilus, and he drew dangerously close to succumbing to its bestial effects. However, he managed to wrestle against the animal inside and made his way back to the Fang, finally becoming a full-fledged Space Wolf as the last of the geneseed was implanted. Andilus rose through the ranks quickly, and it soon became apparent that the fierce warrior was also a surprisingly skilled leader as well. In recognition of his talents, the chapter's Iron Priests recast his Fenrisian greatsword into a power weapon which would become his namesake. After a couple decades of service, he was admitted to the Wolf Guard, and then became Wolf Lord when his master was slain in battle by a Daemon Prince. Quiet and intractable when not at war, Andilus leads his men from the front, where he erupts into a fury that is terrible to behold. However, behind his outer facade of grim stoicism, Andilus hides a dark secret - the curse of the Wulfen still prowls beneath the surface, waiting for a chance to rear its head. The curse has already claimed the life of Andilus' former Lord and he knows that if he cannot reign it in that it will claim him as well. The animal inside Andilus wants to be set loose, and it takes every ounce of strength to keep it at bay on the field of battle.

With the realm of mankind under threat once again, the Great Wolf has unleashed his companies onto a great hunt. As headstrong as any Space Wolf, Andilus seeks to make the names of he and his company resonate in the sagas of the chapter once again, seeking out only the greatest foes to slay and the fiercest battles to snatch glory. He will personally rend the foes of Russ and the All-father to satiate the price in blood that must be paid for their transgressions...

Distinguished Individuals and Units of Andilus' Great Company
Wolf Lord Andilus Greatsword

As Jarl of his company, Andilus is a wise leader. However, he becomes particularly barbaric in combat, tearing into his foes through brute force. It is whispered that he is afflicted with the curse of the Wulfen, but he hides the truth behind a facade of grim stoicism. Whatever the case may be, Wulfen are common and well-utilized in his great company. Andilus leads his troops from the front, preferring to make speedy raids into the enemy lines before tearing them to pieces. The Wolf Lord always seeks out the toughest enemies to slay and add to his already lengthy saga, which includes confrontations with a Hive Tyrant, C'tan shard and Chaos Warlord, amongst others. Some say that he is eyeing the Great Wolf's throne itself, but such an ambition is only befitting one as glory-hungry as he.

Andilus has close ties with fellow Wolf Lord Valdyr Galich. The pair often work in concert in large-scale battles, with Galich providing hard-hitting support with his Thunderwolf Cavalry and powerful bombardments from his Long Fangs.

Rune Priest Ellri Hraustr

The Rune Priest Ellri Hraustr has served the Space Wolves chapter for almost 300 years now, and has become quite adept at reading the wyrd to plot the course for the hunt. He is learned in the casting of the runes, using them to divine the purposes of Russ and the All-father. While the Priests are a part of Logan Grimnar's company itself, the Great Wolf has noted a hunter's cunning between Andilus and Ellri, and often assigns the pair together on campaign. Ellri prefers to lead the battle from the front, using his divining skills to direct his brothers to victory and cutting down the foes of the Emperor with his axe when necessary.

Wolf Priest Ottoman

Ottoman is a Wolf Priest who is quite long in the tooth, with over 400 years served in the chapter. He has seen his fair share of battle and causes his fellow wolf-brothers to erupt into a fervour of rage. Like Ellri Hraustr, Ottoman is typically assigned to Andilus' Great Company due to the cohesion between them. Like all Space Wolves, the company reveres the Wolf Priest and Andilus often comes to him for counsel.

Wolf Priest Greypelt

A relatively young member of the Priesthood, Greypelt spent many years seconded to the Deathwatch. After gaining a measure of fame in his service, he returned to the Space Wolves and was promoted to the position of Wolf Priest. A member of Andilus' great company before his service in the Deathwatch, Greypelt is often seen leading and teaching packs of Blood Claws in the art of war. He prefers lightning assaults and is (somewhat) less superstitious than the average Space Wolf, feeling no aversion to using a jump pack to close with the enemy quickly (Russ's intentions be damned!).

Skjald Snjallr Skyn
Snjallr is a Fenrisian-born human who serves as Andilus' company's main skjald - that is, the retainer and recounter of the company's sagas. He often recites these stories between battles to rejuvenate the spirits of the Wolves, while collecting ever more after each campaign they fight in. In fact, Skyn himself is often present on the field of battle, although not in an expressly combat-oriented role - he is merely present to observe and witness events first-hand. After all, what good is a storyteller who has not witnessed such events first-hand?

The Skulls
A pack of Grey Hunters in Andilus' company with a particularly sick sense of showmanship has earned the nickname "The Skulls". The pack has taken upon itself to distinguish itself through a gruesome ritual which involves an annual hunt. Each member of the pack goes into the wilderness and finds a predatory Fenrisian creature. They then kill their prey, tear out the skulls and mount these trophies over their helmets like a mask. Suffice to say, the Skulls have earned a reputation for brutality amongst the other companies, but such a reputation is befitting of a squad serving under Andilus Greatsword.

1st Talaimh Éadroim regiment, ‘The Floating Bees’

General Background

Talaimh Éadroim is a very small planet. It is characterised by incredibly tall mountains which, over the years, have formed long, thin spires. At the base of the spires sit deep forests, through which large rivers flow like veins. There are no seas on the planet, a result of a mad governor’s desire for a ‘green carpet to gaze upon’ during a dark period of the planet’s history. This governor fell to the forces of chaos, and he tried to sell his soul, and that of his planet, for eternal life and a green planet. The molten core of his planet was removed by great drilling machines, and in return the forests thrived. However, the planet’s gravity was drastically altered.

When one reaches the snow line, one would notice the gravity dramatically shifting from a near earth level to barely enough to retain a thin atmosphere. This becomes more significant the higher you climb the mountains, until there is no atmosphere to speak of, and no gravity. Smaller space-faring ships can in fact dock with the ports built onto the top of these spires.

This queer gravity has lead to the citizens of this planet developing two distinctly different lifestyles. Those who grow up below the snow line tend to remain there throughout their lives, becoming used to the forests and rivers in which they make their homes and livelihood. Those who are raised in the spires become adept at living and working in the unique gravity of their mountainous homes. They service the shipyards which have spread out from the peaks of the spires, and in doing so often develop skills in the use of void-sealed equipment and vehicles.

The Floating Bees are the second of the guard regiments to be raised from Talaimh Éadroim, and have two distinctive strengths. This is because of the dichotomous nature of their world. The men recruited from the lowlands are experts in conflicts in forested terrain, masters of stealth and tracking. They move light, tending more towards using large numbers of stealthy infantry with very limited armour support, as there are very few factories on the planet, and the forest is not the best terrain for developing and training armoured companies. The men recruited from the spire mountains approach warfare in a different way. They carry out manoeuvre warfare at an expert level, dropping from their Valkyries and Vendettas, or in void sealed ‘eggs’ which break apart in stages of re-entry before revealing a heavily armed guardsmen who makes a (hopefully) pinpoint landing with his grav chute. After engaging and destroying the enemy, they disengage from the contact, either by calling in their aerial support or, if that is unavailable, the Mark II Standard Issue Boot.

Since their participation in the cleansing of their own planet, cutting the canker of Chaos which had taken root in the governor’s office from their lives, the Floating Bees have been co-opted into Inquisitorial service many times, their faith in the Emperor as their sword and shield against the forces of darkness one of their most powerful weapons. This has lead to many units painting a gold Inquisition symbol on a black field upon their left shoulder pads.

Famous Engagements

Battle for Talaimh Éadroim. Known inside the regiment as the brón or the doilíos.

Years before the world’s First Founding, Talaimh Éadroim was riven by internal strife. If a scribe was to ask a citizen of this world about those times they would be met with a stoney silence, a wall barring the inquisitive from all information about the shame these people carry in their hearts. The recorded histories of the world are similarly impossible to access regarding this time, having been sequestered by the Inquisition, and so it is only in the songs of the world that a version of the truth can be found. Referred to as the brón or the doilies, these songs are not sung around a foreigner who has not earnt the knowledge.

If one was to petition the Holy Ordos for access to their records of the incidents, or hear the songs of Talaimh Éadroim sung by a native, they would learn not only the truth behind this world’s shame, but would also come to understand why the world is one of the most devout in the sub-sector. The story begins with the last Imperial governor of the world.

Governor Bómánta was already an old man when the first regiment of his planet was raised in response to a Chaos incursion in another part of the subsector. The regiment specialized in armoured advances, mechanized infantry supported by lumbering tanks. His son was promoted to colonel, and led them into battle. They fought well for a time, taking part in several successful actions, during one of which they turned the tide with their heavy armoured assault.

No regiment can fight forever without suffering defeats, and in a blasted forest on an unnamed planet, the Talaimh Éadroim First Regiment were killed almost to a man. The survivors returned home, but unknown to the masses who cheered their return, they carried a dark passenger. They had sold their souls to escape the fates of their brothers in arms, and it was this corrupt seed that they sowed throughout society upon their return. Some joined the PDF as experienced advisors in many roles, spreading their influence around both the command structure and rank and file, as well as the Administratum and the Imperial Navy ships in permanent orbit around the planet. Finally, the governor’s son returned to his father and his role as heir and began to exert his malign influence at the highest level of governance.

As the fingers of darkness wormed their way into the governor’s mind, his sanity began to fray. Increasingly confusing and contradictory edicts were issued from his office, giving the PDF increased authority and limiting the amount of off world trade until it ceased completely. After isolating the world from traders and travel, the governor embarked upon his largest project so far. He had an urge to gaze upon a field of green when he looked out from his spire, a forest thick and lush. Thus the governor made his first bargain with the powers that his son had revealed to him. All they wanted in trade were souls. The souls of every member of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica present on the planet, and the members of the Navis Nobilite who resided on the ships in orbit around the planet.

Convening a ‘council of seers’ in his audience room, these poor men and women gathered at the behest of their governor. Upon arrival they received a benediction from the Ecclesiarchal members at the door, drawn upon their foreheads in oil. After they had all arrived in the chamber, the doors were shut and locked behind them. Murmurs of confusion turned to shouts of fear, and then screams of terror as first armed men emerged on the balconies, and then glyphs of the chaos gods were unmasked around the room, stitched from the flesh of the personal astropaths of the governor, their screaming faces still howling their eternal pain from the centre of the sigils. What the terrified astropaths had thought to be symbols of benediction were revealed to be marks of chaos, burning into their flesh and tearing their souls from their bodies to be drawn into the warp.

As soon as the pact was sealed, grass and trees immediately began to bloom, supplanting the homes of families on the plains and destroying the temples of the emperor on the planet’s surface. The heretics of the governor’s office set to defacing the shrines throughout the spires, and suppressing all opposition to this action. Finally, a warp storm erupted, separating the subsector from the rest of the Imperium. But the night is darkest before the dawn, and the spark of resistance yet burned in the hearts of much of the population.

Bereft of hope, and under the heel of an oppressive regime, some of the populace began to despair. Loved ones would disappear, healthy men were taken from their homes and put to work in far away cities, never to be seen again, and all presence of the Imperial Church was stamped out. Yet despite these measures, Chaos never controlled the wider populace, only the elements of the PDF who survived the purges and their masters, practising their insidious rituals in the tallest spire on the planet.

The rebellion began in two places almost simultaneously. Men from the forests will tell you that it began in the deep forests before spreading to the spires, while those from the mountains will vehemently deny this and claim the reverse to be true. Whatever the truth, resistance grew over the following months, striking at every symbol of the great enemy that they could, and spreading a new belief in the Emperor in its place. After months of guerrilla warfare, gathering equipment, and preparing to take back their home world, the Loyalists were presented with an opportunity to make a bold, conflict-ending strike.

Interrogation of prisoners had revealed a gathering of the foe’s leadership for a blasphemous rite, set to take place at the highest level of the tallest spire. A plan was hatched, the guerrillas of the forest would lead an assault on the base of the spire, holding the PDF forces of the enemy in a contact. This would be costly, many of the men resigned themselves to dying for their faith and their freedom, yet this sacrifice would serve a purpose. Utilising void sealed suits, men from the uppermost levels of the spires, who were used to moving and working in the low atmosphere of their homes, would carry out a manoeuvre which had never been tried before. They would jump from one spire to another, a distance of 2 kilometres. Protected from the almost complete lack of atmosphere by their thick suits, armed lightly, and with almost no control over their direction barring the low powered compressed air thrusters of the suits, they would attempt the impossible, so that they could win everything.

 Engine of War wrote:
The entire fluff of my Regiment is spread across my construciton blog.

But here goes.

91st Schrott Experimental Regiment.
Heavy Mechanized/Armored Regiment.
Commanding Officer: Commander Martin Andrews.

Home Planet: Schrott (Death World)

Hailing from the scrap metal and wreckage coverd planet of Schrott, the only regiment ever raised there is the 91st which commands vast legions of Armored war machines. It gains the name "Experimental" due to Schrotts past and the units that are employed. Schrott was once a massive Vault that contained uncountable numbers of Mechanicus Prototypes and Experiments that were squestered away and sotred inside the Vault for one reason or another. A massive war erupted on Schrott where many Xeno and Heretic factions attacked Schrott, each for their own reasons. The Imperium responded and send a great number of Imperial Guard regiments and several Space Marine Chapters to defend it. During this conflict many of the Prototype war machines stored inside the Vault were brought back online to aid in defense of the planet. After many many years the fighting ended in victory for the Imperium left the planet covered in hundred of meters of scrap metal, wrecked vehicales, and more. It was turned into a planetwide junkyard, with what was left uncovered was turned utterly barren.
Years after Those who had made a living on Schrott were asked to raise a Regiment of IG. Salvaged war machines were sent to the call and set out to fight across the galaxy.

The Mechanicus took intrest after many Prototype machines were recovered and pressed into service with the 91st and they keep tabs on the data collected by feild testing of these weapons. Now the 91st commands a massive armada of Salavaged and Prototype weapons. From the recovered Leman Russ Foe Hammer to the Experimental Sonic Cannon weilding Leman Russ named "The Shatterer".

One of the great battles of the 91st involved the use of a gigantic Artillary piece known as "The Harbinger of Conquest" which stopped a Ork Offensive with a single Thermonuclear shell.

New war machines are constantly uncovered or built on Schrott and are sent to the front without a lick of paint, carrying a old worn appearance with the little color being the gold or silver of the Aquilla, The red of a missles nose cone or tanks name, or the yellow of the caution bar on a dozer blade.

Recently a series of powered Exo-suits were recovered and with sanction of the Mechanicus a Elite unit was created called "Section 9".
Section 9, under Colonel James "Iron Fist" Adams has the best of the best suited up in powerful armored Exo-Suits. The armor allows the troops to be practically equal to a Space Marine if only a bit less due to the lack of Genetic/Cybernetic enhancement. The recruitment rate of Section 9 is high but onyl 5% ever make it past the exams. then only a 2% survive the training to use the Exo Suits. on Top of the Exo-Suits, Section 9 is armed with a type of Coil-Rifle (or Gauss gun) that uses magnitic coils to accelerate rounds at hyper velocitys which the impact matches a more rare bolter in power. Section 9 even has heavy exo suits equivilent to Tactical Dreadnought armor in power and durability which the squad has its own Land Raider type machine for transport.

Most battles the 91st fights by itself or far away from other Imperial Forces ever since the Experimental weapons were implimented into the regiment. outsiders who see the army often "vanish" or are mind wiped.

91st Experimental (Picture out of date. more machines have been created, that are not included.)


Section 9


An Example of a Salvaged War Machine during a 91st offensive. The Citadel of Vengeace.

Example of a Experimental. "Paladin" Beam tank (plays as a punisher)

The Kinlad Liberation Army

Background

During the close years of M41 the planet Kinlad and it's surrounding planets was liberated from the Tau Empire by the combined force of hundreds of Imperial Guard regiments, a Titan Legio, the full might of the Infinite Crusaders chapter and the Adeptus Soritas. The conflict was one of many in the conflict known as the "Greywatch Crusade", named after the planet it started from. The Crusade had an entire Battlegroup dedicated to it and had won the Imperium a well fortified, Tau controlled sector. However, the fighting had devastated the Battlegroup and the remnants remained on Kinlad to refit or to restore order to it's populace.

A company of the Infinite Crusaders also remained on Kinlad to assist Inquisitor Harland in his quest to investigate the growing reports of Chaos worship amongst the locals, specifically in the central regions of the planet. Harland, to his horror, had discovered that an entire city had converted to Slaanesh worship and was about to open a portal to the Warp. Fortunately the Infinite Crusaders were able to react quickly and purged the city before Kinlad could be invaded by daemons. At the same time, a small time business owner named Karshoff began espousing anti-Imperial propaganda. He was swiftly imprisoned for slander against the Emperor, awaiting execution.

The next day Karshoff left the prison unharmed and had a group of followers dedicated to his cause. He began preaching about how the Infinite Crusaders had slaughtered a town full of innocent people and how they would do the same to every man, woman and child. At first this simply gained him a mob. However, his speeches soon reached the ears of the Imperial Guard generals that were in charge of occupation duty. Through Karshoff's oratory, he had convinced the generals of over a dozen regiments to rise against the Imperium that would slaughter them for even the smallest hint of heresy. During what became later known as the Slaughter of the Shifting Sands, the 5th Company of the Infinite Crusaders was utterly annihilated by the treasonous Imperial Guard regiments and their new-found allies in the Titan Legio "Excalibur". Inquisitor Harland barely escaped with his life.

The Imperial Guard traitors renamed themselves the "Kinlad Liberation Army". Soon the rebel movement swept the system and Karshoff had himself over 100 Billion men in his army. Amongst the planets he had conquered were the newly reestablished Forge World Tempest and Hive World Acropia. In the following decades the rebels had taken the sector the Imperium had worked so hard to fight over. At the height of their power the KLA boasted over 2 Trillion men and 6 Titan legio. However, the Kinlads were not to last. During 043M42 Premier Karshoff, as he had dubbed himself, revealed himself to be a Keeper of Secrets. He, or she, unleashed the daemonic Hordes upon Kinlad. Many KLA troopers turned to chaos. However, some refused to bow to the daemons they hated so much and a civil war erupted. By 045M42 both factions were destroyed and once more the Imperium ruled over the sector.

The Kinlad way of war

The Kinlad Liberation Army operated very similarly to it's Imperial Guard roots. They used wave after wave of men supported by massive machines of war. However, they had a new category of soldier called the "Shock Trooper". A shock trooper was essentially a Guardsman that was trained above what a recruit would be trained in. They were sometimes given carapace armor and always given the best choice of weapons. Shock troopers often made use of the plentiful Plasma guns. Meltaguns were a close second amongst their ranks. They could be found riding around in Chimeras, Valkyries, Vendettas or, quite rarely, their own dirty boots as they marched on. Shock troopers could operate on their own or could be assigned to Company Commanders as weapon specialists.

The Cold Bloods
However, they also made use of a newly discovered Xeno race known as the Coldbloods, a lizardlike race. The Coldbloods weren't a uniform race. Rather, they had several different subtypes that operated in different fashions. One subspecies was known as the "True ones", used as basic soldiers, were about as capable as an average human soldier. The "Mutilators" were hulking giants and were given heavy weapons to operate. The "Thin Ones" were often used in infiltration roles as they were capable shots and adept at concealment. The "Ravagers" were no different than Mutliators but were given drugs to enhance their might at the cost of their intelligence.

The Coldbloods despised the Imperium as much as the Imperium despised them. They were considered to be ill suited for occupation duty as they were quite cruel to any Imperial, citizen or soldier. Reports of human consumption were not uncommon but no Coldblood was ever convicted for the crime. The use of the Xenos was the perhaps the greatest sign of the fall of the once noble Guardsmen.