Editing Bloodborn (section)

==Organisation==
The Bloodborn was a highly mixed force, being centred on the remains of Honsou's great company and other allied Iron Warrior warbands. Other factions that took part in the Skull Harvest or joined up en route includes some [[Kroot]] mercenaries; a [[Loxatl]] warband; corsairs; blade dancers; and several bands of traitor marines from the [[Claws of Lorek]], the Skulltakers, the [[Apostles of Minthras]], and the [[Death Shadows]].

Besides M'kar and Honsou, the major leaders of the Bloodborn were as follows:

*Cadaras Grendel, former Captain of Arms for Warsmith Berrosus and Honsou's chief lieutenant. Was only following Honsou for the prospect of a good fight, but actually not a [[Berzerker]] (indeed, he briefly defected from Honsou to a Champion of [[Khorne]], but decided Honsou would be more likely to succeed without getting him needlessly killed). Ultimately, he was killed by former [[Raven Guard]] Captain Ardaric Vaanes.
*Ardaric Vaanes: A disgraced and exiled Raven Guard captain, who ended up throwing in with the [[Red Corsairs]], fought at Uriel Ventris' side during his assault on Honsou's fortress, then had a falling out with him and. After Honsou got tired of [[Imperial Fists|fighting from fortresses]] (because his favorite fort got blown up), he threw in with Honsou and stayed until he got captured when the Bloodborn attacked Ultramar. Although he didn't start to worship Slaanesh directly, he started to fall under his/her sway, and started to have occasional [[/d/|flights of fancy involving dismembered body parts]]. Under Honsou, his main job was more guerilla actions, and using his skills and friends to teach the Newborn to fight like a real man. He and Grendel hated each other. (He killed Grendel. We mentioned that, right?)
*Kaarja Salombar, the Corsair Queen, who lead a group of Corsairs that joined Honsou during the Skull Harvest. Salombar was strongly hinted to be half-[[Eldar]] (and given that the Corsairs were dressed in [[Slaanesh|bright and lurid]] costumes, implies that she's a [[Dark Eldar]] rape-baby). She spent the war rampaging across Espandor, before giving [[Cato Sicarius]] a run for his money, literally dancing around the Second Captain (which would be extremely impressive for an Exarch, let alone someone else). Ultimately, she got stabbed by Sergeant Scipio Vorolanus with the Company Standard, and Sicarius cut her head off.
*Vortheer Tark, renegade Magos of the [[Dark Mechanicus]]. If any one could out fail [[Abaddon]] at tactics, it was Tark. What made him so dangerous is that he could take any mechanical device all the way down to a pair of nail clippers, and turn it into a death machine that could take out whole squads of Ultramarines. He nearly had two companies torn to shreds until [[Torias Telion]] blew up his forges with him in them.
*Notha Etassay, Master of the Blade dancers and Champion of Slaanesh. He (she? It's kinda hard to tell) was going along with Honsou for the thrills and LOLs (and because Honsou gave Etassay such a good beating at the Skull Harvest that he had to find a clean set of spandex afterward). Ultimately killed during the attempt to free M'kar, when he willingly took on an [[Eversor]] assassin. We've mentioned that followers of Chaos often lack basic common sense, right? But to be fair (and because it was mildly awesome), he fought almost well enough to win; but Etassay did something truly psychotic, and tried to fight clean. A psychotic perfectionist doesn't count a fight as a proper win unless it was won fair and square, I guess.

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