Dark Apostle (Warhammer 40, 000 S.)

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Lord of Terror (Aura). When enemy units take morale tests within 6” of your warlord, they roll 2D6 and take the highest result. Also, they count as half strength for Attrition tests. This is OK, but the number of situations where it matters are pretty small and usually you want other effects on your Warlord. C- The Word Bearers are among the most skilled practitioners of all the Traitor Legions in the dark art of summoning and binding Daemons to suitable hosts – after all, Argel Tal and the Gal Vorbak were the first examples of this practice during the Horus Heresy, so it’s fair to say that the Legion set something of a precedent in the field of possession! Being a second caster with a single cast. He’s often the perfect caster for Psychic Interrogation or Warp Ritual, as giving up his cast is a lot less of a problem than giving up two or three casts with the Master of Possession.

Dark Apostles make up the priesthood of the Dark Gods. Just as the Chaplains of the loyalist Space Marines uphold the creeds of their Chapters, the Dark Apostles devote their lives to the propagation of the unholy word, actively spreading the worship of Chaos across the galaxy. Their efforts do not go unrewarded – Dark Apostles are surrounded by daemonic auras of protection that shimmer and writhe as they chant their blasphemous prayers. In any legion but the one they foremost belong to, these units are Elites choices and can never gain a Legion Trait. However, this doesn’t mean that they aren’t worth taking – to the contrary and as we’ll see, these units can be very powerful in standard Chaos Space Marines armies, though some more than others. Erebus became a devout servant of Chaos thereafter, mastering the tenets of the Old Faith of Colchis which in had always simply been yet another of the myriad guises of Chaos worship. When the Covenant of Colchis fell to the control of Lorgar and his followers, Erebus went into hiding for a time before reemerging as an acolyte of the primarch's new direction for the faith. Over a million fanatical Chaos Cultists of the Word accompanied the Hosts, brainwashed men and women crammed together like cattle in hulking slave vessels. These slaves' free will and resistance had long been broken, and they were now true devotees of Chaos.

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These were the Titans of the Legio Vulturus, who had once fought for the Emperor during the bygone era of the Great Crusade. They had declared their allegiance to the Warmaster Horus ten millennia before, turning upon their own brethren mid-battle and wreaking terrible devastation and chaos upon the war engines of the Legio Gryphonicus and the Legio Victorum, destroying over 40 Titans in one unexpected engagement. This particular demi-Legion had fought alongside the Word Bearers since the start of the Great Crusade. In this section we’ll cover the main rules for the army, starting with the faction’s army-wide special rules, then diving into the Stratagems, Warlord Traits, Relics, Secondary Objectives, and Psychic Powers available to all Chaos Space Marines. Faction Special Rules Thirteen immense battleships had been sequestered for Marduk's Dark Crusade. Five complete Word Bearers Hosts stood ready to embark upon the Dark Crusade against the hated Imperium. Marduk's flagship, the battleship Infidus Diabolus, stood ready amongst the deadly armada. The Chaos Space Marines are set to receive a huge wave of new reinforcements in the near future – not to mention the amazing Daemonkin units in Warhammer 40,000: Shadowspear – so this week, we’re taking a closer look at the Traitor Legions themselves. Give praise to the Dark Gods, as today we’re looking at their most devout servants, the Word Bearers. Who are the Word Bearers? After the defeat of Horus at the Siege of Terra, Erebus fled into the Eye of Terror with the rest of his Legion. Erebus is currently a Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion and a member of the Legion's Dark Council, the ruling body of Sicarus, the Daemon World ruled by the Word Bearers within the Eye of Terror.

As Kharn and Tal were close comrades, Erebus was nearly killed by the World Eater once he discovered the First Chaplain's hand in his friend's death. Erebus was viciously beaten by Kharn before being forced to teleport himself from the World Eaters' flagship, the Conqueror.

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In truth, the campaign was a plan by The Brotherhood of Kor Phaeron under the command of Marduk's latest subordinate, First Acolyte Ashkanez, to purge the Word Bearers Legion of his rival Dark Apostle Erebus' loyalists. Naked. Five models with bolters or chainswords. No frills, just a more durable place for 10 Obsec wounds that can hold objectives and raise banners. If your legion doesn’t have great passive buffs for Legionaries, you’re probably going this route. During that ceremony, Erebus entered Horus' visions and served as the proxy for the Chaos Gods as they showed Horus visions of the future intended to inflame the jealousy and arrogant desire for power that had grown within him since the Emperor had left him in charge of the Great Crusade. In the course of this seduction, Horus accepted the offer of the Chaos Gods to rebel against the Emperor and in return they healed him of his wound. From that day afterwards, Horus Lupercal was the pawn of the Ruinous Powers. In Greek mythology, Erebus is the Primordial God of Darkness, and the son of the primordial entity Chaos. Erebus had willingly turned to the service of Chaos even before he had ascended to become an Astartes and was personally responsible for corrupting his own Legion's Primarch Lorgar, Horus and the Death Guard First Captain Calas Typhon to the worship and service of the Ruinous Powers.