Editing Executioners (section)

==Founding==
[[Image:Mark V Axe Brother.jpg‎|250px|thumb|left|Executioner in Mark V "Heresy-pattern [[Power Armour]].]]The Executioners have their roots in the VII Legion's Assault Cadre (misleadingly named though, as they seem to have all been breachers, which means they assaulted enemy positions in the modern and Great Crusade sense of the word) under the command of Seneschal [[Fafnir Rann]]. Which is to say that their forebears fought in all the same brutal battle as [[Sigismund]] and the future [[Black Templars]], including the [[Battle of Pluto]] and the [[Siege of Terra]]. Presumably they stayed at Rogal Dorn's side through the Scouring and subsequent wars until the [[Third Founding]], when they became their own Chapter. Unlike most of their cousins, the only real links that the Executioners really care to maintain are those with their own Successors.

As a result they came to bear little resemblance to the Legion they sprang from, becoming not unlike the Wolves of the Great Crusade era, distrusted by many on their own side and regarded as barbarians, and ever keen to punish anyone who turned against the Emperor. Thus they remained for millennia, kicking ass and taking heads. Until [[Huron Blackheart|some fucker]] over by the Maelstrom threw a big old spanner into the works.