Editing Raven Guard (section)

==History==
Found during the [[Unification Wars]] as the '''XIX Legion''', its original recruits were from the techno-barbaric Xeric tribes of the Asiatic Dustfields. As the Emperor's ([[Alpha Legion|other]]) hidden hand, the XIX excelled in conducting reconnaissance, infiltration and decapitation strike missions alike. Their bread-and-butter during the Unification Wars was first, they would infiltrate a hostile force. Then during the critical moment when the enemies refusing to submit to the Emperor, the XIX marines would step out of the shadows and poised to annihilate the leadership and most critical personnel of their foes. Upon facing such checkmate maneuvers, most would throw down their arms and surrender. Those who resisted would suddenly find their leaders assassinated, their ranks thinned and their coherency broken as the XIX struck from the most unexpected quarters with unimaginable lethality and precision. At this point their forces would quickly be thrown into disarray and falling apart, and in rare occasions when they didn't, the XIX would melt into the shadows then repeating the process again and again until the enemies were subjugated. Influenced by the fierce Xeric culture of might makes right, the XIX aimed to strike with excess brutality, not hesitating to resort to repression and terror tactics to ensure that their vanquished foes would never gather enough strength or courage to rise up against them again.

During the [[Great Crusade]] and before their Primarch was located, the XIX often fought alongside the [[Luna Wolves]]. Horus was very fond of the Raven Guard and employed the complimentary specializations of the two Legions to devastating effect. During this period, Horus deliberately left the Raven Guard relatively small and treated it as little more than his ''de facto'' vassal. Also during this time, the Warrior Lodge began to spread from the Luna Wolves to the Raven Guard as a direct consequence of their close cooperation and proximity.

It would be more than a century into the Great Crusade that Corvus Corax - their Primarch - was discovered by the Emperor. At that point he had liberated [[Deliverance|Lycaeus]] - the prison moon which his gestation pod landed on. Corax was took in by the inmates of Deliverance who saw him as their savior and immediately hid him from the prison wardens who ran the place. Beside the Primarch's eidetic memory which was planted into his mind by the Emperor at birth, Corax also got his education from the intellectuals and political dissidents who were banished to toil on the prison moon because Kiavahr - the planet which Lycaeus orbited - was always in need of slave labors. As Corax grew up, he sought to deliver the inmates from their captivity, spending years to recruit, organize and building up the means to achieve that end. He was so good at stealth that during the period of 10 years between when he landed on Lycaeus and then finally launching his revolt, he was never discovered by the jailers. After a bloody uprising, finally Corax and the prisoners had liberated the moon and renamed it Deliverance. It was at that moment a mysterious spacecraft approached Deliverance, and Corax ordered his troops not to intercept the craft as he took stock of this new development.

It was none other than his [[Emperor of Mankind|father]]. For the first time in his life, Corax was suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of awe and voluntarily obedient. His first impression of the Emperor was simultaneously the most ordinarily looking human ever to the point of bland, as well as the most respectable, charismatic and virtuous being imaginable. Corax held an audience with the Emperor during which big E explained about his Crusade which was going on out there spearheaded by Corax’s brothers. The Emperor didn’t give Corax his Legion right there and then though, he still had to conquer Kiavhar on his own. 

So Corax did just that, he basically loaded transportation shuttles (which were originally used to transfer materials mined on Lycaeus directly to Kiavhar’s industrial hubs) full of nuclear IEDs and then sending them down Kiavhar’s five biggest cities, blowing the planet’s main manufacturing centers up. He then sent a message to the Kiavhar’s rulers which informed them that [[Rape|out of the thousands of nukes which were in his possession, he had only used five]]. Kiavhar capitulated and the [[Adeptus Mechanicus|Mechanicum]] stepped in to help rebuilding and running its manufacturing facilities (though it remained independent from the Mechanicum as the only authority which Kiavhar recognized was the Raven Guard). The planet has supplied the Raven Guard with weapons ever since, some of which are unique to Raven Guard only such as the [[Whispercutter]], the [[Shadowhawk]] and the [[Darkwing]].

After having been united with his legion, Corax did much to rid the Raven Guard of influences from its Terran marines, as he deemed them to be cruel and oppressive. He eventually turned the Raven Guard into a Legion which was much more humane, selfless and considerate compared to before. And so during the Great Crusade, worlds brought into Imperium's fold under the hands of the Raven Guard suffered much less collateral damage compared to other Legions on average as they actively tried to minimize civilian casualties. 

Near the end of the crusade, for some reason [[TTS|Fucking]] [[Horus]] ordered the Raven Guard to carry out a frontal assault into the direct gun lines of the last citadel of their enemies during Battle of Gate Forty-Two. Corax talked back to Horus and proposed a more reasonable plan, which riled [[Perturabo]] up and accused Corax of insubordination. As the two were at each other's throats, only an intervention from [[Leman Russ]] averted them from coming to blows. Having no other choice, Corax made the best out of the worst by ordering the Terran elements of his Legion and the most pro-Horus officers to serve as the vanguard of the assault. The Raven Guard won but at the cost of heavy casualties, compounded by the fact the legion's specialization was the opposite of what they were asked to perform. The only silver lining was that as the Terran Raven Guards were much depleted, the Warrior Lodge within the legion almost went extinct as a result, sparing the Raven Guard from getting corrupted by it during the [[Horus Heresy]]. Needless to say Corax was beyond [[RAGE|livid]] because of how his sons were treated as meat shields by the Warmaster, he immediately opted to remove himself and his Legion from Horus' command and swore that they would never serve under Horus again.

When the Horus Heresy broke out, the Raven Guard was ordered to Istvaan V to attack the traitor Legions who were reported to have holed up there. The Raven Guard, [[Iron Hands]] and [[Salamanders]] arrived and formed the first wave of the assault against the [[Sons of Horus]], [[World Eaters]], [[Emperor%27s Children]] and [[Death Guard]]

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