Editing Soul Drinkers (section)

===Origins===
Officially, according to the Imperium's ''Index Astartes'', the Soul Drinkers are a successor Chapter of the Imperial Fists Legion. When [[Rogal Dorn]] was forced to break up the VII Legion under the dictates of the [[Codex Astartes]], he was left with <s>five</s> six Chapters' worth of marines: the veterans would remain with him as the Imperial Fists, the youngest and least-experienced neophytes would be heralded as the [[Fists Exemplar]], the most zealous would serve under [[Sigismund]] as the [[Black Templars]], the most tactically flexible would serve under [[Alexis Polux]] as the [[Crimson Fists]], the most masochistic would serve under Demetrius Katalfaque as the [[Excoriators]], and the boarding specialists would become the Soul Drinkers. During the War of the Beast, the other successor chapters - less than 2000 years after the heresy - thought of them as related. There has been some evidence that both disputes and proves that this is accurate, but we'll get to that later.

One of those Soul Drinkers was Daenyathos, who became a [[Space Marine]] sometime during the Age of Apostasy. Daenyathos was a sensitive soul and he didn't relish having to [[Goge Vandire|invade Terra]]. Over a few hundred years, he came to the conclusion that the Imperium was corrupt and inefficient (somewhat accurately), and that ordinary humans were nothing more than cattle (rather ''less'' accurately). However, Daenyathos believed that humanity could be made better through extreme bloodshed and suffering. He decided that the Soul Drinkers would be that agent of suffering, laying the seeds for them to turn against the Imperium within the ''Catechisms Martial,'' a spiritual treatise on the purpose and nature of the Soul Drinkers and their tactical Bible. At the same time, he co-opted the [[Chaplain|Chaplaincy]] and turned them into his agents in fomenting a contempt of the Imperium within the Soul Drinkers now and forever. When Daenyathos was struck down by a heretic, his loyal servants interred him within a haunted [[Dreadnought]] and he ascended to being the Soul Drinkers' [[Spiritual Liege]], second only to Rogal Dorn and the [[God-Emperor_of_Man|God-Emperor]].