World Eaters
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| Battle Cry | "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!" | |
| Number | XII | |
| Original Homeworld | Unnamed but known | |
| Current Homeworld | Hell if we know (emphasis on 'hell') | |
| Primarch | Angron | |
| Champion | Kharn the Betrayer | |
| Strength | More than you would expect | |
| Specialty | Berserkers | |
| Allegiance | Khorne | |
| Colours | Blood red | |
The World Eaters, worshipping Khorne, are the canon Angry Marines without the infantilism, a Chaos Legion (or rather a collection of various warbands that all share kinship in that legion) dedicated entirely to the principle of rage. Their Primarch's name is a pun on the fact that they're so damn angry (Angron). They use any kind of ECKSBAWKS HUEG melee weapon capable of putting Terminator armor to shame, a pistol, their Berzerker-styled power armor and Khorne's everlasting rage, which turns them angry beyond all reason that they simply refuse to run away when spilling blood for the blood god, even if they're hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned by 100-1. It is unknown who pilots their tanks but they still have transports; it is very unlikely that the Khornate marines are driving their vehicles like their loyalist counterparts; as with their anger they will most probably use a Rhino as a makeshift powerfist instead of a transport and if somehow made to use a Rhino, they'll probably end up killing the driver and tear their way out of the vehicle onto the battlefield. ("We need a new driver, this one is dead!")
Legion History
Even as a baby, Angron didn't take any shit. The Eldar used their psychic powers to look into the future, and saw that if Angron ever grew to be a man, he would spend his whole life slaying faggots. 24/7, nonstop, all the fucking time. So the Eldar sent a contingent elite Eldar warriors to kill him. But Angron tore their fucking eye balls out so they couldn't see, then he ripped their fucking legs off so they couldn't run away, and he killed them all with his dick. When Khorne saw how mighty the slaughter was, he approved. But Angron was not yet ready to fulfill his destiny.
So he was on some planet in a city called Desh'ea, which was run by a bunch of fat fucks whose only purpose in life was to build armies of cyborg warriors and watch them kill each other. Cool hobby. But they fucked up when they recruited Angron for their cyborg army. First he went all Conan the Barbarian on the other cyborg guys. Then word got out that there was a new fucking sheriff in town. Fools started to defect, and pretty soon Angron had his own cyborg army ready to take over the whole planet. They started killing every warlord and their armies in sight non-stop, but eventually, Angron and his merry band of warriors faced against a combined army of 7 warlords. They were readying themselves for their inevitable deaths because they were already outnumbered and outgunned, when the Emperor came down and talk to Angron, promising him an army of his own and a life of eternal war for humanity.
But then, Angron said: "Fuck that shit I'm taking care of business." And because the Emperor didn't really like taking no for an answer, he forcefully beamed up Angron into his ship, just before the final assault, which naturally pissed off Angron to levels unseen since Khorne threw Skarbrand out of his Brass citadel because he didn't die along with his soldiers. This made Angron develop an ever lasting hatred of his father that would eventually come back to bite him in his divine ass.
First stop was this planet they were supposed to help conquer with the Luna Wolves and the Ultramarines. Angron could have sent his lowliest recruit to ace that whole fucking planet one handed, but he decided to play it cool instead. He let the other marines use their "tactics" or whatever for two whole minutes before he raged the fuck out and unleashed his unstoppable legion of axe-murdering bad asses. The Luna Wolves and Ultramarines knew shit had hit the fan, and went and hid behind a rock or something while Angron's chosen took care of business. When they were finished cowering in fear they looked around them, and all they saw was an ocean of blood and a mountain of hacked-up faggot corpses. They all started to puke and barf because they were so terrified. Then they ran off to their emperor and started bitching and moaning about how Angron and his World Eaters had fucked shit up too hard. Then the Emperor said to Angron "hey you're not supposed to do that. I thought I told you. Gosh." Angron was about to go totally sick house and rip the Emperor's fucking arms off, then beat him to death with his own arms while he screamed and twitched in a pool of his own blood, when the Emperor suddenly remembered he had left his stove on or something and had to leave.
Before they were reunited with their Primarch, Angron, they were known as the War Hounds. When they were reunited with their Primarch, they changed their name to the World Eaters, the 12th Legion reunited. Angron added implants and neurosurgery (partial lobotomization) to remove the ability to feel or care about fear, but increased their aggression to large amounts. The Emperor banned this practice when the World Eaters exterminated all life on a planet in one night. Horus, seeking to turn the Primarchs to his cause, didn't have to do much to get Angron to side with him, as all it took was to tell him that the Emperor was weak and to appeal to his martial pride. They were on Isstvan III, and Isstvan V, where Horus led the loyalists into a trap. When the Legions of Horus attacked the Imperial Palace, the World Eaters were at the forefront of the Chaos Marines, seeping into the breach and killing the most inside the palace. Sadly, they lost when Horus was killed aboard his flagship, and the World Eaters with Angron fled to the Eye of Terror, where Angron was elevated to Daemon Prince.
World Eaters Schism and Khârn
A hell of a guy by the name of Kharn comes from this Legion. Hell of a guy that Kharn is...even if he single handily split his legion into countless warbands.
The World Eaters are not organized anymore (at least no more than any other Chaos Legion), as Kharn separated the Legion on Scalathrax when the World Eaters were kicking the Emperor's Children's asses. Kharn got pissed off at his fellow Legionnaires for taking shelter from the Ice Cold Darkness, because the cold stuff on Scalathrax would freeze you to death. Kharn took a flamer and torched everyone's shelters and started killing everything in sight, while his fellow brothers fought for whatever shelters were left, even after kicking the Emperor's Children's asses off the planet. The World Eaters are now fractured into Warbands, who sell their services to other Chaos Armies for the lulz.
Catch Phrase
World Eaters use the most used catch phrase in 40k next to "WAAAAAAAAGH!!!!" or something for the Emperor. They scream BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD in combat, while taking skulls for the skull throne. It is unknown what they scream while taking blood for the blood god, but it is probably SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE. Luckily the two activities are rather interchangeable, but in home life all is confusion as they bellow UNBLOCK THE TOILET while filling out their tax returns.
Noteworthy engagements
- The Cleansing of Arrigata (Pre-Heresy shit)
- Isstvan III
- Isstvan V
- Siege of the Emperor's Palace
- Most of Failbaddon's Black Crusades
- Cholercaust Blood Crusade - The World Eaters and Khornate followers in general curb-stomp the Imperium into the ground, until they're turned back by the fucking Legion of the Damned because GW loves its stagnation and if they continued on they would have gotten to Terra and killed the Great Vegetable. But they're still rampaging around Imperial space so all the Imperials got was a Pyrrhic victory. This is also clear evidence that Khornates are the only Chaos Worshipers who get shit done.
- Doombreed's actually successful black crusade.
- Angron's Dominion of Fire campaign, where 50,000 World Eaters and Angron wasted over 70 Imperial Sectors in two Centuries.
- First war of Armageddon
General need to know information
The World Eaters are all Berserkers according to the flop of a codex that is Chaos Space Marines 4.0, thanks to the partial lobotomization. They use Chain Axes, which are just close combat weapons to 4.0 now, and used to be some of the most brutal hand to hand units in the game, but lost their feel no pain, and have to be mechanized or they won't be effective. For Lords, the mark of Khorne with wings turn them into the best Lords available to use, mainly with a Daemon weapon or with Dual Lightning Claws. However, because GW sucks at maintaining army lists besides Codex: Ultramarines, everyone will try to argue with you that two Lash Princes are the optimal choice to take. Also, the World Eaters killed all their Librarians and Sorcerers in the name of Khorne.
The Helmets that Berserkers wear, are representations of the Khorne Skull icon, or the mark of Khorne. It's like a cool stylized eight thing. Khorne's favorite number is eight, so every Khornate Warband transfigures it's marines into squads of 8 and it's multiples. Scary shit. But it also proves that World Eaters are just big nerds with rage, because they can do on-the-spot mathematics in the middle of a combat scenario just so they can make sure they do everything in multiples (or factors) of eight. Bet the Loyalists can't do that. Bet the Blood Angels with THEIR prissy version of RAEG can't do that. Thus it is proved that Zerkers are smart and can drive tanks.
Summary
Ruthless, manly, bloody, and awesome. They are the most angry and brutal Space Marines out there, even if their latest rules suck. Imperial equivalent are the Flesh Tearers, Space Wolves and Black Templars in the canon, and Angry Marines in /tg/ canon.