Editing Gorgers (section)

=Culture=
The Gorgers Legion had a thriving culture before the fateful battles in the Sol system. The warbands and other descendants have inherited many customs, but they become skewered and half remembered as the years tick by. 
==The Philosophy of the Hunt==
The most important aspect of the Legion was the Hunt. This was the ultimate quest in their eyes, the culmination of humanity's abilities and will. Taking on a prey that is even stronger than you are as a collective is the epitome of the Hunt. The Hunt is driven by the Hunger, which is always prevalent and must be sated. Without calming the Hunger, madness and kinslaying will occur as the dark nature of the Gorgers origin as crazed combatants will arise again making them unwieldy, wild, bloodlusting.

==Before the Hunt==

The Legion has ceremonies before each battle where the Master Hunters would raise gigantic pyres around which duels, competitions, and revelries would be organized to increase the resolve of the marines and make them long for the coming battle. Members of other Legions and even soldiers of the Imperial Army would be invited to take part in these events as all were believed to be part of the Pack once a campaign had begun. These celebrations were always bloodless and merry, as the Hunt was about to begin. What more joyous occasion could there be? It was seen as allowing the Pack to mingle with itself, as a reminder that all were important to the whole, and the success of a battle.

Marines of high ranks would tell of the deeds they were going to perform in the following battle, of the amount of braves they shall cut and kill, of the numerous corpses that awaited them tomorrow. Each of those words would be remembered by their fellows, who would come to those who acted on their words and exalt them. Newcomers were encouraged to make oaths, which were sometimes humorous but other times serious in their declaration. Young blood which could fulfill the ambitious were held in high regard throughout the Legion.

==After the Hunt==

After a Hunt, the solemn ritual of the Feast begins. The mightiest of the enemy dead would be picked and chosen as the Gorgers closed themselves off from the rest of their allies. These corpses were kept to the side, sometimes cooked over mighty roasting hearths. The flesh of dead comrades took precedence over these, however , as small bits barely the size of a human's thumb would be passed out. Every Gorger received a small handful of these small chunks of skin or muscle, each chip came from a different brother who had fallen. The Gorgers were expected to eat each of the small parts they had been given, to commemorate their sacrifice and consume their strength.

After this, the Gorgers would set themselves loose on the either raw or grilled flesh of those they had beaten. This is the more jovial half of the Feast, where the dead are now remembered and the Hunger can now be properly satisfied. Many toasts are had for those who showed their mettle during the Hunt, leading to much cheering and chanting of songs.

===The Slaughtering Grounds===

In the cases of major battles against overwhelming force, once victory was achieved the Gorgers would start the preparations for the Ceremony of the Slaughter Grounds. The Gorgers were most of the time sent to worlds with quite strong resistance against Imperial forces. Whether physically or mentally, these people would not give up requiring the brutal hammer that was the XVIIth Legion. The Gorgers would come in a terrifying, non-stop display of violence would eliminate the resistance. The civilians would be mostly sparred but in order to gain their absolute loyalty and show them the cost of defying the Great Crusade and the Imperium, the Gorgers would create a Slaughtering Ground.

These were gigantic holes, surrounded with the iconography and symbols of the legion. Here the corpses of those the Gorgers just crushed would be amassed. Either the Legionnaires themselves or those human soldiers fighting alongside them would gather the leaders of the planet, along with a large following of civilians. The purpose of this was to show them the Ceremony of the Feast, which normally happened behind closed doors as a private enjoyment by the Legionnaires. There was to be no joy here, at the Slaughtering Ground. Those who witnessed that ritual learned the lesson remarkably fast. If you oppose us, you will be consumed. 

The Gorgers would then be free to leave the planet or system to the Imperial regiments, hurrying toward new battles. The planets without exception never made a problem for the Imperium again. The irony of this is during the Hektor Heresy these planets formed the backbone of Loyalist defiance against the Traitors.

==Attire==

Gorgers would sometimes decorate their armors and weapons with feathers of great hunting birds. Gorgers of high ranks would instead use scales or eyes from dangerous animals, tying them to their armors. The more different the colors of those ornaments, the more prestige it gave to their wearers. While the normal Legion colors were Iron and Red, sometimes these would be fashioned in every color imaginable. Rainbow brows of feathers usually denoted Master Hunters, who had gone to Thorund-ul and killed every type of giant hunting avian on the surface in the remote regions of the world which still had them. A few of these feathers would be handed out to promising Legionnaires, as a sign of support and respect for their growing abilities.