Editing Imperial Purgators (section)

===The Trees that Move===

Veilund, Chapter Master of the Purgators, was a master of the forge and of the fire, chosen to head the newly founded Chapter. They were a late addition to the ranks of the Space Marines, and one of those rare chapters who can trace their lineage to Vulkan and the long suffering, long enduring [[Salamanders]].

For their first mission the Pugators were dispatched to a cluster of stars in Segmentum Tempestus. The Quercus cluster contained several Agri-worlds that had fallen silent and ceased paying the imperial tithe.

When they arrived at Salix, the closest of the agri-worlds, they found no fields or crops; only vast forests with humans living like savages amongst them. It was not long before Veilund and the Purgators encountered the cause of these worlds' silence. A xenos race of tree like creatures, sentient, mobile, and vegetative had managed to enslave the Imperial colonies.

These tree-like xenos and their human servants, the druid priests, had taken command of the world reducing the human population to such a state of barbarism where they could not even kindle a fire to warm themselves.

The name of this species is unknown. It is not known whether the walking trees were natural, or the result of some unknown warp sorcery. Their language is unknown. How they enslaved the humans is unknown. The creed of their tame 'druid' slaves is unknown. All that is known of them now is that they burned.