Crimson Slaughter
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The Crimson Slaughter are a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Blood God Khorne. Originally a loyalist Chapter known as the Crimson Sabers, they incurred the wrath (pleasure?) of Khorne when they slaughtered a planet full of people on the Jungle World of Umidia to stop Khorne's worshippers there from summoning one of his Greater Daemons. The reason there is some confusion over whether Khorne was pleased or angered by this act is as the god of slaughter he doesn't care who butchers who but then they did disturb a ritual....oh whatever it is completely confusing and pointless to try and reason what a ball of madness like Khorne could be thinking.
Anyway, he 'gifted' the marines of the Crimson Sabers the ability to constantly hear the cries of those they had killed and to see their faces whenever they closed their eyes. As you can imagine it didn't take long to drive all of them completely barmy from this and soon madness and paranoia gripped them all. They did discover a temporary reprieve; by killing others they could drown out the sounds of their victims and gives themselves a time of quiet before the voices starting to come back.
Truly Khorne found the perfect way then to drive even the greatest of the Imperium's marines mad and make them join the ranks of Chaos. Only question is, why did he only use it on a single chapter?? Surely it would make common sense to......oh there's my answer. Common sense and Chaos hardly skip through the grass together even on the best of days.
So the Chapter Master of the Crimson Sabers, Sevastus Kranon (who would later be called Kranon the Relentless after he fell) in desperation sent his Marines to purge the systems surrounding Umidia on the pretense that they had been corrupted too by proximity. It was during this time that the Inquisition and the High Lords of Terra suspected the Sabers were falling due to their mad slaughtering and declared them renegades. At this point Kranon's brother Sevarion attempted to protest, but was tricked into a Helbrute's shell and was promptly reduced to a bloodthirsty maniac himself. With a last shred of dignity remaining, Kranon took his men into the Eye of Terror to slaughter heretics instead of innocents but the downside was the eye corrupted them fully and the sabers became the chaos warband known as the Crimson Slaughter.
Since their fall, the Slaughter has been trying to track down the mystical Hellfire Stone which Kranon believes can rid his chapter of the voices that continue to haunt them. What good it will do them now though since they are fully corrupted and some of Khorne's best new recruits is unclear. As part of their search for the stone they hooked up with one of the Black Crusades and earned the ire of the Dark Angels who they gave a good beating to. The Angels' Ffifth company has sworn to hunt down and destroy the Crimson Slaughter and has fought several battles against them in the running, and the revelation that the Crimson Slaughter has discovered the secret of the Fallen Angels after Kranon captured one of them himself has only redoubled their zeal to see them stopped at all costs.
In reality, the Hellfire Stone wouldn't have silenced their voices at all- instead, it would have summoned the very Daemon of Khorne whose summoning ritual the Crimson Sabers had interrupted in the first place. Irony is a bugger, isn't it.
GW has announced that they are getting their own supplement in the near future. Why they would focus so much on a minor warband over the other Traitor Legions is a mystery.