Editing Scale Bearers

=Summary of Legion XXV=
Jungle warfare specialists who fight alongside the reptilian warbeasts known as Sors (native to Jer Asyk) and often use them as mounts. They have deployed biological weaponry on occasion as well, most notably on Kras Xenkoh. (They probably learned it from the Life Bringers - this could also be why they don't use it anymore.) Led by the Primarch Tiran Osoros until his death during the Hektor Heresy. Their homeworld of Jer Asyk is covered in vast jungles, and serves as their main source of recruits as they replenish their numbers, but other worlds have contributed Astartes to the Legion, including Kras Xenkoh and Krate Shias.

Their defeat at the hands of [insert traitor legion here] early on in the Heresy left them numbering less than 700, and their efforts to rebuild since then have proven only moderately fruitful. By the 41st Milennium, the Scale Bearers would likely hover around Chapter strength, rather than the just over 10,000 that followed Tiran into the Great Crusade. Regardless of these setbacks, the Scale Bearers continue to serve the Imperium with everything they can muster.

==Legion Tactics==


==Legion Equipment==

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==Legion Doctrine==

=Tiran Osoros, Primarch of The Scale Bearers=

==Appearance==
8'7" tall, dark-skinned, black hair in short braids, yellow eyes. Green scales on arms below elbow, upper back, and legs below knee. Armor has a not-Stegosaur skull on the left pauldron, but is otherwise just upscaled from his Legion's armor. Wields a power mace.

==Youth==

When the genetor-pod fell to the surface of Jera Syk, landing in the jungle near the village of Gand Wanunlen, few could have guessed that the child within would grow up to unify the planet. An old hunter named Ayl Osoros found the child two days after he landed, first witnessing the strange ability of the young Primarch - his command over the great saurians of the jungles. Already, he had befriended a three-horned, white-scaled hatchling. For thirteen years, the boy grew without a name of his own, known only as Ayl's son. That all changed when he repelled an attack on the village's food stores by the carnivorous pack hunters called Tirans. Fighting alongside his animal companion, who he had come to name Keradops, or "Hard-Headed," he killed the pack's leaders and convinced the rest to stand down. In honor of his defeat and taming of these creatures, the boy was named after them.

Eventually, Tiran, after teaching his village to ride the beasts he commanded, began a campaign of conquest against the rival villages in the area, such as Sorn Hafen, Hyl Crek, and Yrash Pak. Each of these and others were brought under the dominion of the Gand Wanunlens, and their surviving soldiers brought into the army. The saurians of the jungles, now known by the collective name Sors, were the unstoppable instrument of Tiran's victories. The war lasted for some twelve years, and Tiran, as a Primarch, grew larger than all but the village's best armorers could account for. On the night that he and Keradops were to ride into the village of Larun Tya and complete the unification of the known world, however...

==The Coming of The Emperor==

...great plumes of smoke and flame descended from the heavens, rivaling the stars in their brightness. As the great buring Sors (so far as anyone could tell) landed near Larun Tya, a group of massive men in strange armor stepped forth, flanking a man who dwarfed even them. Tiran found himself strangely drawn to this man, whose armor shone like the lightning and seemed harder than stone. Instructing Keradops to guard his army, the leader of Gand Wanunlen's grand force stepped onto the great starship. At the break of dawn, he returned, wielding a great mace and clad in armor of green and bronze colors. He explained to his people the revelations he recieved - that he had been created and chosen by a ruler of many men to conquer beyond these villages, but that he first had a job to finish on his homeworld. With the aid of the Sors, Tiran completed his conquest of Jera Syk within a year, having found evidence of other continents on the planet in Larun Tya itself. In doing so, he brought the world under proper Imperial rule, and was in turn united at last with his Legion. The Primarch of the Scale Bearers was truly home at last.

==The Great Crusade==
With the planet secure and his Legion bequeathed to his command, Tiran took to the stars with renewed fervor. After conquering several minor worlds and establishing further populations of Sors, Tiran led a full half of the Scale Bearers into the Palia Ceen system, hoping to quickly capture the small, relatively primitive human cultures there. Instead, however, Tiran was dealt one of his greatest defeats at the hands of an unidentified Eldar Craftworld. The Eldar sabotaged the food supplies of the Legion, assumedly somehow knowing about their defunct Preomnor organs, then routed them time and time again on the battlefield. Some 2,000 Scale Bearers were lost during that campaign, and the system was only captured by Imperial Army forces after the mysterious departure of the Craftworld, which appeared to have achieved its objective. Refusing to let this setback deter him, Tiran took his Legion to world after world, bringing the myriad jungles of the stars into Imperial rule. However, on the dead world of Meteon, Tiran met his greatest rival - the Ork Warboss Sarkus. Sarkus had been leading a massive WAAAGH throughout the nearby systems, and he was especially fond of running roughshod through his opponents with Squiggoths. This parallel to the Scale Bearers' use of Sors was uncanny, and contributed to the deaths of over 3,000 Marines. One Marine, Krate Shias, came close to killing the Warboss himself, but Sarkus' Power Klaw and immense strength proved too much for the superhuman. The battle was ultimately lost, and even with the casualties on the Ork side, the WAAAGH now outnumbered the Legion ten to one. Now, however, the Legion had a target for revenge - as did Keradops, who had become an old and massive Sor by this point, and did not take being beaten and scarred by Sarkus' personal Squiggoth lightly. Some manner of respite and recovery came for the Scale Bearers during the Cleansing of Kras Xenkoh. After marching their Sors across the planet and eliminating the local mutants (who were later discerned to be Chaos-aligned, based on the Legion's records), they were able to establish a Sors population on the world and recruit from among the human populace. The most noteworthy of these recruits would turn out to be one Lukas Ilion, whose carnivorous serpentine Sor, Aleph, led the pack that attacked and killed Warboss Sarkus when the Legion met the WAAAGH again on Henom IX. Keradops, meanwhile, finally had his revenge against Sarkus' Squiggoth, defeating it in single combat and goring it on his horns. Even with this symbolic victory, the Scale Bearers were only at half strength when terrible news came - several Legions, led by the Wolves of Dawn, had turned against the Emperor himself!

==The Heresy==
Having heard about the massacre at Istvaan III, Tiran rushed his Legion towards Istvaan 5 in an effort to stop the traitors before they could gain ground. However, he was intercepted by [insert traitor legion here] and killed in single combat. The elderly, enraged Keradops, seeing his master and oldest friend fall, rushed at the enemy with reckless abandon, felling dozens before finally being consumed in tank fire. His sacrifice, however, allowed the Scale Bearers to escape and lick their wounds. Lukas, the oldest remaining member of the Legion, decided to head for Terra to warn their father the Emperor of the treachery, but a Warp Storm prevented the Marines from ever reaching Mankind's holy homeworld. By the time the Warp Storm over the planet Krate Shias receded, the Heresy was already over, and the Imperium was in shambles. The Legion itself was much worse for wear - the interception that cost them their Primarch had also reduced the Legion to a mere 650 Astartes. While gene-seed was technically in good supply, the chaos of the Heresy and the low population of Krate Shias had left them with no real recruitment options.

==Post-Heresy==