Death Consuls

The Death's consuls are a loyalist chapter made up from the remnants of the Night Lords. While Konrad Curze was being an edgy little shit, some of the Nightlords from Nostramo remembered the good old days when everything was fine and dandy in their little corner of the Imperium. After the heresy, due to their heroic conduct, they were given control of an icy hellhole that was also a penal colony because someone someone in the Administratum really REALLY hated Batman Night lords.

Of course being straight edge bastards, they managed to turn this backward icy hellhole into frozen australia with a healthy helping of East Germany IN SPACE, Also, they really hate the Dark Eldar, and try to out-edge them, making Konrad Kurze proud in the afterlife.

Death Consuls
Battle Cry	Death calls, and the hunt awaits!
Number	1,000 (Estimated)
Founding	Second Founding
Successors of	Night Lords
Chapter Master	Tigar Palme
Primarch	Konrad Curze
Homeworld	Siberis
Allegiance	Imperium of Man
Colours	Black and White

Combat Doctrine

The Death's Consuls are codex adherent - to a degree. They know that due to their dubious heritage, and practice of non- ecclesiastical worship, they are always under some form of surveillance from the Imperium. As a result, they follow the codex astartes - as long as it suits them.

Ever since their second chapter master, they have slowly but steadily incorporated the hunting tactics of the Great White Tigers that Roam the planet's surface. As a result, scout training is far more rigorous that is generally adopted by the codex. While the devastators and tactical teams follow the tactics and ideas of the Codex Astartes, they are also taught to camouflage themselves and stalk their targets, like big cats are wont to do. They are generally kitted for close quarters combat, with a large number of flamers and melta weapons. Due to their long history, they also have a larger number of power weapons than average.

Interestingly, the chapter has few dreadnoughts. Wounded Consuls are generally given the emperor's benediction, because a permanently crippled hunter is a pitiful creature.

Relations

The Imperium at Large

living on Siberis for generations, hunting tactics used by the great cats have slowly but steadily become a part of the chapter's combat doctrine.

Even it's investigations of heresy on other planets have been noted by the Arbites and several inquisitors to be unorthodox. Instead of arresting and making the cultists confess, the Death's Consuls have been known to let the cultists stew for years on end before swooping in and killing them in extreme manners. The corpses left behind to be cleaned up by local law enforcement of inquisitorial troops have been described as being hunted down and immolated.

Due to such a peculiar anti-heresy strategy, the world of siberis has drawn the attention of the ordo hereticus. While inquisitorial investigations have taken place, there has been no evidence of chaos activity on the planet. However, more purist aspects of the Ecclisiarchy have raised concerns about the presence of strange shamanistic totems on the planets that penal worlders use to appease the god of the hunt. It remains to be seen if they worship the emperor, or some ruinous power of chaos.

Important Figures

Jurgen of the Tigers The second Chapter master of the Death's consuls and the first recruit for the chapter since the horus heresy

Jurgen was sent to the planet of Siberis along with his mother and baby sister when their father was caught poaching on some noble's hunting grounds. Jurgen was captured as he tried to escape and deported. His father was executed for trespassing.

Settling with his mother and sister on the far reaches of Siberis, Jurgen put his father's lessons to good use and became a hunter. He leaped into prominence when he was the first human to actually hunt down a Great white tiger. It was thought that the tigers were a part of the world, and the local shamans thought that the great hunter had marked Jurgen. He is said to have walked into the proving grounds wearing the tiger's hide as a cloak and standing triumphant at the end of the day armed with nothing but his flaying knife.

His rise among the Death's consuls was meteoric, and with the loss of Malus Nighthaunter and Markus Bloodbane during the devastating Dark eldar raid of Siberis, he was elected to be chapter master. His first act was to make the chapter swear the vow of Bloodbane as their own, and his second was to make Bloodbane the captain of the 1st company until he was proved to be Killed in Action.

He was granted the emperor's benediction at the end of the first Black crusade, forgoing the chance to be entombed in a dreadnought because he believed that a crippled tiger was the most pitiful creature of them all.