Editing Soul Drinkers (section)

===Re-founding===

''On the isolated world of Kepris, a Primaris Space Marine Chapter deploys to break the bloodthirsty cult that rules the world.  But will this new Chapter's name spell its doom?  After all, the universe has never been kind to the '''Soul Drinkers'''...''

An upcoming novella by Ben Counter, ''Traitor by Deed,'' who just so happened to write the original Soul Drinkers novels, has a very interesting marine on the cover -- a Marine from the newly formed '''Soul Drinkers chapter of Primaris Space Marines.''' Officially declared a loyalist chapter by their actions at the end of the above novel series, the Soul Drinkers are one of the many destroyed chapters that were re-founded during the Ultima Founding with fresh Imperial Fist Primaris Marines, straight out of the Indomitus Crusade. As a result, they are composed entirely of Primaris marines and have no members who knew of the "old Chapter" under Sarpedon or the "old old Chapter" under Gorgoleon. They also likely don't adhere to the Catechism Martial (or any of Daenyathos' teachings) anymore given what happened the last time the chapter did that.

The newly re-formed Soul Drinkers immediately are sent to Kepris to deal with a Chaos cult, which presumably goes about as well as possible for a chapter with a cursed name and a legacy of being tied to Chaos. Except, as it turns out, it's not a Chaos cult at all, but a cult started by a noblewoman whose family has been taken hostage by some Eldar from Biel-Tan. The Eldar are seeking to retrieve one of their ancient artefacts from one of the planet's many cathedrals, where it had been enshrined as a relic of the local Imperial saint. The Soul Drinkers team up with the remaining loyalists on the planet, plus an inquisitor who happened to be there (and who knows more about the OG Soul Drinkers than he lets on). Things actually go pretty well for the new Soul Drinkers, but one of their Marines smashes the Eldar artifact instead of letting the spess elves have it or handing it over to the inquisitor. The inquisitor gets all [[butthurt]] about it and tells the Marines that they've made an enemy of the Inquisition again. What, if anything, will come of this remains to be seen. From his reactions,  Inquisitor Stheno might be a member of the Xenos Hybris faction. As a non-radical member wouldn't give a shit if some Eldar trinket was destroyed.