Executioners
| Executioners | ||
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| Battle Cry | Unknown. Possibly homicidal screaming. | |
| Founding | Third Founding | |
| Successors of | Imperial Fists | |
| Chapter Master | High Executioner Arkash Hakkon | |
| Primarch | Rogal Dorn | |
| Homeworld | Twin worlds of Sytgia-Aquilon | |
| Strength | Less than 1,000 Marines and declining. | |
| Specialty | Close-combat and Head-Hunting | |
| Allegiance | Imperium | |
| Colours | Blue-Grey with Red | |
"You may cleave to your courage but that will fail you, look to your weapons but you will find them not enough. Run, fight, hide, pray, cry out or cower -- it does not matter, for we are coming."-Fafnir Rann, first High Executioner
The Executioners are a Chapter of Space Marines created by Forge World for Imperial Armor 9 and 10. They are a succssor chapter to the Imperial Fists, but if one were to look closer they probably wouldn't be able to see many similarities. Think the World Eaters if they stuck far more closely to the "honorable" side of Khorne paired with the sheer stubbornness and grit of the Iron Warriors.
They're notable for being one of the four secessionist chapters that fought alongside the Astral Claws during the Badab War. Their motives were not heretical, instead they were fulfilling a debt to the Astral Claws who saved their asses a couple millennia before. Whether this falls into the category of Lawful Stupid is up to interpretation, but point is being that they turned against the Imperium solely based around honor and brotherhood.
Most of their beliefs and combat doctrine derives from the Feral Worlds they recruited from, resulting in a high emphasis on honor, dignity, and of course glorious close combat. Of course this can result in a lot of infighting and conflict within the chapter, where it can easily turn into bloodshed unlike say the Space Wolves. Because of this the Executioners also have an unusually high amount of Chaplains in order to keep the Marines in line and to encourage them on the battlefield. They also have a preference for taking the heads of their enemies as trophies, obviously earning them the distrust of the Inquisition.