Editing White Consuls (section)

==History==
They feature in [[Anthony Reynolds]] [[Word Bearers]] series. Like other Successor Chapters from the XIII Legion, the White Consuls have a strong hatred of the Word Bearers, further magnified by the death of their brother Chapter, the [[Black Consuls]]. However, before the launch of the 13th Black Crusade, the Word Bearers launched a campaign on one of the White Consuls protectorates.

Half the Chapter was deployed, with offers of assistance coming from the rest of the [[Astartes Praeses]] and the [[Grey Knights]], but the Word Bearers used a [[Necron]] relic to cut off warp travel, stranding the White Consuls with only their PDF. The meatgrinder that followed took a heavy toll on the White Consuls, but was nothing compared to the slaughter that occurred when the Necrons showed up wanting the relic back. The combined Word Bearer and Necron campaigns wiped out half the Chapter, including one Chapter Master Valens and most of the First Company, with only three White Consuls surviving. Additionally their protectorate was all but destroyed, with most of the PDF (and civilians, but who cares for them) slaughtered by the World Bearers and Necrons, and land tainted by Chaos. All in all, a bad day.

They were more or less crippled by a Death Guard warband shortly after the fall of Cadia--with the bulk of their forces off fighting Abaddon, one of their chapter masters was killed, their geneseed stocks wiped out, and their whole [[Plague Planet|planet]] turned into one giant satanic petri dish after it got swallowed by the [[Great Rift]]. At least some became part of the Terran Crusade, and the last surviving captain was even commander of Guilliman's personal security until the early stages of the Indomnitus Crusade. Since then, they have managed to recover well with the influx of Primaris marines, as they were able to send out 5 companies by the time of [[War of Beasts]].

Pretty much the only notable White Consul is 
Vitrian Messinius who is a Captain and Master of Recruits who commands the [[Indomitus Crusade]] Fleet Tertius' Battlegroup Saint Aster as a Lord-Lieutenant as well as being in charge of [[Roboute Guilliman]]'s security (probably due to[[Battle of Thessala| him getting shanked ]]) and is part of his personal retinue, the Victrix-Guard <del> sounds Roman enough right [[Games Workshop]]? </del>