Eyes of Mordred

Eyes of Mordred
Battle Cry	STARE INTO THE DARKNESS AND DESPAIR!
Number	Unknown
Founding	Unknown (32nd Millennium)
Successors of	Doom Eagles
Successor Chapters	None
Chapter Master	Mifune Toshiro
Primarch	Roboute Guilliman
Homeworld	Unknown
Strength	Unknown
Allegiance	Imperium
Colours	Unknown

The Eyes of Mordred are another product of fat/tg/uys playing around with the Chapter Creation tables from Rites of Battle. After a lot of dice rolling, the results came in; an Ultramarines successor chapter that, while still following the Codex Astartes, are practically loyalist Night Lords.

Fluffy bits

Fluff goes here.

The Whisperings

Chapter Master Mordred (Previously known as Septimus, but he changed his name after he left the Ultramarines) didn't want to be like this. Not after so long. Those gems he plundered and attached to his armor, he could hear them screaming in rage. He always knew some men considered him mad, and he was deathly afraid their rumors would become true. He looked at the foul Dark Eldar across the battlefield and was filled with a great loathing he had never felt before. The screams became comprehensible speech as he marched closer. "slaves to their decadence" "fallen brethren" "kill them". In rage he charged up to their leader, and before he could react decapitated him with a clean cut from his power sword. With inhuman speed even for a Space Marine he quickly shot all of his escorts with his plasma pistol. Under his helmet, he grinned. He felt like hundreds, no, thousands more years of battle experience crept into him. With a mighty roar he descended upon the rest of the Dark Eldar army, the First Company following

Many years later...

Mordred had his honor guard take their leave. He sat alone with the Warlock he had captured for interrogation. "Now, Veldara, I have a single request for you." he said coldly. Veldara replied "I shall not give in to the likes of you! You have stolen the souls of my brethren!" Mordred edged closer to her, and quietly spoke "That is what I want to know about. I hear the gems in my armor. When I fight your kind, they weep. When I fight Chaos or Dark Eldar, they scream in rage." Veldara quickly responded, saying "Those gems contain the souls of those of us who have died! If your armor is damaged, it will feed She Who Thirsts herself!" Mordred took off his helmet and stared at her with black, emotionless eyes. "Good. You have confirmed my theory. Now, do you want to see your fallen brethren?" Before Veldara could respond, he quickly shot her in the head. Taking her soulstone, he left the dungeons, attaching it to his helmet.

Many years later, still...

Mordred laid on the ground, writhing in pain. A Dark Eldar poison had penetrated his armor, and he knew he would die shortly. Such a small thing as death would not stop him from serving the Emperor, though. He had a secret kept with the Chief Librarian, one that could ruin his chapter's reputation if it had gone out. He knew that one of the stones in his armor was empty, and attuned to him by the Librarian's ritual. He died with a strangely calm expression on his face.

A week later, the new Chapter Master put on the armor of his predecessor. He heard the voices, and for a moment he thought he heard a very familiar one...

Crunchy bits

Chapter History

32nd Millennium Founding

Chapter Progenitor

Doom Eagles

Chapter Purpose

Counter

Stat Bonuses

+5 Weapon Skill, +5 Fellowship

Gene-Seed Purity

Altered Stock

Gene-Seed Deficiency

Oversensitive Occulobe, resulting in improved sight in the dark, but poorer sight in the light.

Organization

Codex Chapter

Combat Doctrine

Terror tactics

Chapter Belief

Esoteric Beliefs

Chapter Founding Father

Mordred, a single tactical marine of the Ultramarines who was stranded in a craftworld after a failed attack. As he could not carve his way out, he started killing Eldar and wearing their Soulstones as trophies. Eventually he managed to intimidate an Eldar passenger ship's captain to transport him to the nearest webway gate on an Imperial World. For his bravery and tenacity, he eventually became the founding father of the Eyes of Mordred.

During an assault on an eldar craftworld by the Ultramarines, a squad of tactical marines was stranded when the chapter retreated. The members of the squad were picked of one by one over the following days, leaving just one member alive; Septimus. The details of his time on the craftworld have been lost. Some say that he spent the weeks or months aboard the craftworld stalking the eldar from the shadows, killing them in vengenge for his lost battle brothers and taking the gems attached their armour as trophies. Others say that he was single handedly able to destroy an entire aspect temple or even the seer council of the craftworld. However what is know is that despite the terrible odds against him, Septimus was able to survive alone and somehow find his way back to his chapter either by seizing an eldar vessel or via other means.

Upon returning to the chapter he was proclaimed a great hero, the gems he had found attached to his armour by the chapter artificer. Around this time, as fortune would have it, the high lords of terror were nearing the completion of a newly created chapter using the Ultramarines geneseed which was to guard against the increasing eldar presence in the [SOMETHING] sector. Septimus was chosen to be the chapter master of this new chapter. He was from then on know as Septimus no longer; he renamed himself Mordred. So they might emulate his example against impossible odds, the new chapter was named The Eyes of Mordred.

In the years that followed, the gems in Mordreds armour began whispering to him, mocking him and weeping into his mind if he attacked the craftworld eldar, but working him into an uncontrollable fury if he were to attack their dark kin. After much secret study and private consultation with the Master of the librarium they understood them to be eldar soulstones. Mordred and the Cheif Librarian were eventually able to atune a soulstone to Mordred himself, so that even in death he would be able to lend guidence to the chapter that beared his name.

Chapter Homeworld

Uninhabited, Airless

Chapter Strength

Nominal

Chapter Friendship

Imperial Navy

Chapter Enemy

Dark Eldar

Chapter Battlecry

"STARE INTO THE DARKNESS AND DESPAIR!" (standard)

Solo Mode Abilities

The Chapter strictly follows the guidelines for combat set down by its parent Chapter. Choose one Solo Mode Ability from the Ultramarines.