Chaos Space Marines are at our doorstep, so this week its only right that we tribute one of the most iconic legions of Chaos in our Pics of the Week.
Pics of the Week happen every Tuesday where I share from my Warhammer pic library. I collect these all the time from all over, and sharing them is just fun.
The World Eaters via 40k wiki
The World Eaters are one of the Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines who now inhabit the Warp rift known as the Eye of Terror in the Imperium of Man's Segmentum Obscurus. The World Eaters, originally known as the War Hounds, were also once the XII Legion of the twenty First Founding Space Marine Legions, and one of the first to betray the Emperor of Mankind for the service of Chaos and the Warmaster Horus. The World Eaters are the dedicated servants of the Blood God Khorne, the Chaos God of War and Murder, and live for nothing more than to spill blood in his name. The World Eaters' Primarch, Angron, was one of the first of the Space Marine Primarchs to join with the Warmaster Horus when he turned against the Emperor and began the Horus Heresy. The Legion is no longer united, having long ago surrended to the pure blood lust inspired by their patron Khorne and instead operate as separate warbands who seek to spread death and terror in the name of the Blood God across the galaxy.
Of all the Space Marine Legions created by the Emperor of Mankind during the First Founding, none were more feared than the World Eaters. Always leading the bloodiest assaults and most vicious battles of the Great Crusade, the name of the the World Eaters soon became a byword for bloodshed and fear on a mass scale. The XII Space Marine Legion was active in the Great Crusade for several decades before its Primarch Angron was rediscovered. During that time the Legion was known as the War Hounds, a name that had been chosen by the Emperor after he saw the XII Legion fight in the Cephic hive-sprawls and they reminded him of the white war hounds the Yeshk warriors in the north of Terra once used. Angron renamed his Legion the World Eaters after he assumed command. He chose the new name for his Legion when Dreagher, a Terran-born Astartes who served as Captain of the Legion's 9th Company, promised Angron after meeting his Primarch for the first time that under his leadership the War Hounds would become "...the eater of worlds."
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