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The Bloodborn was a [[ | The '''Bloodborn''' was a [[Chaos]] warband in [[Warhammer 40,000]]. It was led by the biggest bastard in the galaxy, the [[Iron Warriors]] Warsmith named [[Honsou]]. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
Revision as of 18:17, 13 February 2014
The Bloodborn was a Chaos warband in Warhammer 40,000. It was led by the biggest bastard in the galaxy, the Iron Warriors Warsmith named Honsou.
History
Honsou had been engaged in a little science project to make his old daddy Chaos proud, which involved creating supermen (Space Marines) by shoving preteen boys back into wombs of immensely obese women. Thankfully Uriel Ventris turned up and wrecked that and Honsou's grand company to pieces. This made him just a little upset.
He decided the best way to show how ticked off he was by killing every Ultrasmurf in the galaxy….and then smashing their worlds apart for good measure. You can’t say Chaos doesn’t do things by half. To achieve this end he took part in Huron Blackheart's Skull Harvest, where Chaos warbands and mercenaries would compete and whoever won would gain the right to lead the assembled host. After a number of bouts of bitchslapping Honsou gained that right and led his new delightful band of scum and villainy off to trash the smurfs. On the way they hooked up with M'kar the Reborn, Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided and all-around failure who became the patron of the host. He named the warband the Bloodborn, for no reason other then trolling Honsou who clearly disliked the name.
(Just a background note, M'kar was a former Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers who took part on the assault on Ultramar during the days of the Great Crusade and achieved nothing of note and was left to die by his fellows. For some reason though chaos granted him daemonhood. The qualifications for daemonhood weren't very strict back then.....)
Honsou's first act with his new force was to destroy the world of Tarsis Ultra which Ventris and his company had fought so hard against the Tyranids to defend against. This is proof that Honsou clearly is a few planets short of a system, as he was willing to waste men and resources and destroy an inhabitable world (a rare prize in the vast galaxy) just to spite someone.
He then began his assault of Ultramar and against the Ultramarines but here things started to fall apart. He was beaten after a series of intense battles and the Bloodborn was broken and shattered. M'kar was banished back to the warp and Honsou fled Imperial retribution, only pausing to shake his fist like a Saturday morning cartoon villain and scream he would be back. Though given that he basically built the Bloodborn up from nothing, this might be truer then we care to think….
Organisation
The Bloodborn was a highly mixed force, being centred on the remains of Honsou's great company and other allied Iron Warrior warbands. Other factions that took part in the Skull Harvest or joined up onroute includes some Kroot mercenaries; a Loxatl warband; corsairs; blade dancers; and several bands of traitor marines from the Claws of Lorek, the Skulltakers, the Apostles of Mithras, and the Death Shadows.
Besides M'kar and Honsou, the major leaders of the Bloodborn were as follows:
- Cadaras Grendel, former Captain of Arms for Warsmith Berrosus and Honsou's chief lieutenant. Was only following Honsou for the prospect of a good fight, but actually not a Berzerker (indeed, he briefly defected from Honsou to a Champion of Khorne, but decided Honsou would be more likely to succeed without getting him needlessly killed). Ultimately, he was killed by former Raven Guard Captain Ardaric Vaanes.
- Ardaric Vaanes: A disgraced and exiled Raven Guard captain, who ended up throwing in with the Red Corsairs. We meet him doing guerilla fighting on Medrenguard. After Honsou got tired of fighting from fortresses (because his favorite fort got blown up), he threw in with Honsou and stayed until he got captured when the Bloodborn attacked Ultramar. Although he didn't start to worship Slaanesh directly, he started to fall under his/her sway, and started to have occasional flights of fancy involving dismembered body parts. Under Honsou, his main job was more guerilla actions, and using his skills and friends to teach the Newborn to fight like a real man. He and Grendel hated each other. (He killed Grendel. We mentioned that, right?)
- Kaarja Salombar, the Corsair Queen, who lead a group of Corsairs that joined Honsou during the Skull Harvest. Salombar was strongly hinted to be half-Eldar (and given that the Corsairs were dressed in bright and lurid costumes, implies that she's a Dark Eldar rape-baby). She spent the war rampaging across Espandor, before giving Cato Sicarius a run for his money, literally dancing around the Second Captain. Ultimately, she got stabbed by Sergeant Scipio Vorolanus with the Company Standard, and Sicarius cut her head off.
- Vortheer Tark, renegade Magos of the Dark Mechanicus. If any one could out fail Abaddon at tactics, it was Tark. What made him so dangerous is that he could take any mechanical device all the way down to a pair of nail clippers, and turn it into a death machine that could take out whole squads of Ultramarines. He nearly had two companies torn to shreds until Torias Telion blew up his forges with him in them.
- Notha Etassay, Master of the Blade dancers and Champion of Slaanesh. He (she? It's kinda hard to tell) was going along with Honsou for the thrills and LOLs (and because Honsou gave Etassay such a good beating at the Skull Harvest that he had to find a clean set of spandex afterward). Ultimately killed during the attempt to free M'kar, when he willingly took on an Eversor assassin. We've mentioned that followers of Chaos often lack basic common sense, right? But to be fair (and because it was mildly awesome), he fought almost well enough to win; but Etassay did something truly psychotic, and tried to fight clean. A psychotic perfectionist doesn't count a fight as a proper win unless it was won fair and square, I guess.