Editing Brazen Drakes (section)

===War Of The Spider===
Eventually though, the Brazen Drakes were defeated. With no other choice, they fled through the Nachmund Gauntlet towards the Cadian Gate. Once there, they conquered the Fortress World of Dessah (despite only having a few Marines left and literally zero ability to hold territory...). Initially, they joined the [[Black Legion]] and renamed themselves as the Shriven. Still being pursued by the Torchbearers, they came across [[Fabius Bile]], who was similarly on the run from the [[Death Guard]] under the command of [[Typhus]]. Seeing this as an opportunity, the two forces made an uneasy alliance, and the Shriven (still being new to the whole Chaos thing and unaware of how things tended to end for those that get chummy with the Sick Fuck), surrendered themselves to Bile's "services." Bile gave Corian elixirs and augments, making him far stronger, but at the cost of making him dependent on Bile. A few of the Shriven were selectively chosen to become grotesque experiments known as Terata.

The first test of these new augments was a planned ambush on the planet of Limaxis. The plan worked well enough and stalled the Death Guard for some time. Seeing the ferocity of the Terata, many of the Shriven volunteered to become test subjects for Bile. Corian realized that his grip on authority was fading, but realized that he couldn't remove Bile from his warband, especially since he'd become chemically dependent on Bile's formulas. All he could do was remind his followers of who their true master was. The Torchbearers entered the Belis Corona System, and the Shriven and Bile's forces engaged them on the planet of Bairsten Prime. The Shriven retreated when Corian was shot in the head by an Exitus sniper rifle. Bile decided to take the lifeless body to his laboratory, where the Enlightener was corrupted into a golem of insidious runes, wiring, muscle, and pipes, with psychic power circling around it. Bile used the now mindless Enlightener to kill all those loyal to Corian with psychic beams of fire, leaving those that survived utterly loyal to the Primogenitor and also volunteering to become lab rats.

In the end, Bile spun a web on Dessah to ensnare and tie up all the loose ends. Typhus and the Death Guard arrived first. Shield-Captain Tyvar and his Torchbearers soon followed. Bile made his escape as the Enlightener blasted poxwalker hordes with psychic blasts. In the midst of the battle, the Execution Force finally made their move and battled the Enlightener and the Terata. In the end, only the Culexus and Callidus Assassins survived the battle. The Shriven fared little better. Without leadership and with few of its remaining members of sound mind, the warband was effectively dissolved, now little more than another tally on the list of sick fuckery committed.