Editing Blood Pact (section)

==History==
[[File:BloodPactSoldier.jpg|280px|right|thumb|Nice skull you have there.]]
While no one knows for sure where these guys came from, what we do know is that they were first sighted some 3,000 years ago on a planet known as Ghourra, sometimes pronounced Gaurra [[Derp|because nobody knows the proper way to say that broken piece of Low Gothic,]] at the edge of the Sabbat Worlds. At that time, the tribal society of Ghourra was ruled by a feudal overlord, or Gaur (sometimes referred to as "Ghour" or "Gour", [[Herp|which is not to be confused with the]] [[Beastmen (40k)|Beastmen's Gor]]). The Gaur surrounded himself with an elite priesthood who conducted the ritual observances by which the Gaur made tribute to the one and only Khorne. This militant-priesthood evolved over time into a bodyguard force which practiced its martial skills as diligently as it had once conducted its bloody sacrificial rites.

As the Gaur's influence grew, he eventually started to expand his power and conquer neighboring worlds and yadda yadda yadda-- basically every Chaos origin story told to man. After that cliche, it soon became a mark of respect to be 'bloody-pacted" to the Gaur. Numbers grew, recruited from vassal worlds, and the bodyguard force eventually became an army in its own right: the current Blood Pact.

Uniquely, every single member of the Blood Pact (and Imperial tactical estimates suggest there may be as many as three quarters of a million Blood Pact warriors) is personally inducted into service by the Gaur himself to prove his allegiance in blood to both the Gaur and the Blood God. Induction is hopefully done in batches, because otherwise (assuming one induction per second 24/7/365) it would take almost a year and a half of non-stop work to process that many soldiers.

Suffice to say, as the Blood Pact grew in size and power, it was an eventuality that they will come into the noggins of the IoM. The Imperium's first encounter with the Blood Pact occurred in the aftermath of the Battle of Balhaut in 765.M41. After some personal infighting, Gaur's Blood Pact had been encountered in combat during the early years of the Crusade, but never properly identified. However, once he became Archon, the Blood Pact became a backbone element of the Chaos host. It is believed many other archenemy units and divisions, wishing to prove their loyalty to the new Archon, converted to the Blood Pact. Within just a few years, the Crusade forces came to recognize the Blood Pact as elite infantry of the archenemy after several rounds of being metaphorically pimp-slapped.

This recognition was aptly demonstrated at the Battle of the Akkorite Peninsula on Belshiir Binary in 771. A vital and much-contested world due to its promethium wells, refineries and processing depots, Belshiir Binary was the site of a notable Blood Pact victory. A force of two hundred Blood Pact troopers, supported by just four [[Stalk Tank|stalk-tanks]] and two [[Loxatl]] brood groups, [[FATAL|cut off and annihilated a force of three thousand Imperial Guardsmen.]] The outnumbered Blood Pact force was commanded by an officer called Vesh Etogaur (the second word indicative of rank, as in 'demi-gaur' or General) whose strict command led to the Pact force lying in baking heat for three days without breaking cover until the Imperial forces had moved into the cone of their ambush. The resulting combat lasted twenty-two minutes. No members of the Guard unit survived the slaughter, and the Akkorite Peninsula refinery remained under Chaotic control for a further fifteen months. Pimp-slapped indeed.