Editing Traitor Legion Loyalists (section)

==Loyalist Legion Traitors==
Traitors? In our Loyalist legions? It’s more likely than you think.

* [[Raven Guard]]
** Alastor Rushal, “The Raven”: Was captured, tortured, and brainwashed by the Night Lords. Had his tongue cut out. Had no official rank but was somehow able to rise to the Kyroptera, the informal council of captains of the Night Lords. Wielded a gravity hammer weapon, at least part of the time, which is usually a World Eaters weapon. Raven Guard in the Night Lords wielding a weapon usually used by World Eaters. [[Space Sharks|Hmmmm...]] 
** Nathian: Left for dead on Istvaan V. Lorgar found him and converted him to Chaos. He later joined the Emperor’s Children to be a mad doctor.
** Some of the Terran-born Raven Guard who'd served with the Luna Wolves prior to Corax's rediscovery defected to the Warmaster's side since they felt more at home with Uncle Horus than with Papa Corax, who'd never liked them very much and had exiled most of them to distant crusade fleets. After the war they vanished and were never seen again...[[Carcharodons|supposedly]]...
* [[Dark Angels]].
** Luther. This is so complicated it's not worth getting into here, just look at the Dark Angels and [[Fallen Angels]] pages.
** Merir Astelan. One of the first 5,000 Space Marines. Claims to still be loyal to the Emperor, but seems to be mainly out for himself. Responsible for the whole "Lion el'Jonson was sitting out the Heresy to see who would win" meme. Part of one of the factions that formed in Caliban. Again, look at the Fallen Angels page for details.
**Vortigern. Defected to Horus and after Horus's death was promoted to the Ezekarion, the [[Black Legion]]'s high command.
* [[White Scars]]
** The Legion almost fell into a civil war until [[Jaghatai Khan]] intervened and showed them what the traitors were actually doing. Those who had gone too far were executed and the rest were sent on suicide missions as the Sagyar Mazan, the last of whom died trying to delay Mortarion long enough for him to get blown up by the overloading reactors on Jaghatai's flagship. Ironically, despite this near disaster, the Scars got off pretty lightly given that the stupid parts of the legion who would fall to Chaos lies were most of the casualties by the end of the Heresy. Others that were cut off joined up with the Night Lords during the [[Thramas Crusade]], but sacrificed themselves once they realized their allies were wanton psychopaths and because they were actually loyalists tricked by the Night Lords into believing the Dark Angels were traitors due to the First Legion's isolation, all died in the fighting attacking the Night Lords. One group who stayed loyal to Horus and avoided the almost civil war by immediately leaving almost made it to Terra, but got caught by Nathaniel Garro and Macer Varren and got butchered to the last. Also, the Khan was to fell to Chaos but someone switched his fate with Fulgrim's, with both the Emperor and Malcador surprised by this outcome as it was caused by [[Cegorach|an unknown third party]].
* [[Iron Hands]]
** A company of Iron Hands bearing mixed X and XVI Legion heraldry fought at the Battle of Mezoa, but whatever happened to them after that is unknown.
* [[Space Wolves]]
** ''Conquest'' mentions that there may have been an entire Great Company who turned traitor, unlikely as it seems.
* [[Ultramarines]]
** Yes, not even the Smurfs were immune. Consul-Chaplain Ankarion of the 547th Company fell to Chaos early in the Underworld War on Calth and led the Word Bearers in butchering 200,000 civilian refugees who had taken shelter in the Auroran arcology, along with the Ultramarines of his company. When the 4th Destroyer Company of the Nemesis Chapter came to retake the arcology, he skewered their captain on his ritual spear. Said captain dragged himself down the spear so he could stab Ankarion in the throat and trigger a melta bomb, killing them both.