Roaring Blades
The Roaring Blades are a Traitor Guard regiment, closely associated with the Emperor's Children.[1a]
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History
Before the days of the Horus Heresy during the era of the Great Crusade, the Roaring Blades were known as the Righteous Blades; one of the most decorated and respected infantry units in all the Imperium. The Righteous Blades were vassals to Fulgrim and his Emperor’s Children of the Legiones Astartes, who fought on countless worlds in the name of mankind’s Emperor, and won several victories. But when the Emperor’s Children were led by the Warmaster Horus in turning traitor and dedicating themselves to the Gods of Chaos, the Righteous Blades followed them into damnation. The Imperium lost a proud band of warriors that day, now called the Roaring Blades they lost their souls and became sense-addicted acolytes of Slaanesh.[1a]
The most recent action taken by the Roaring Blades was to join the Emperor's Children warband led by Sybaris, in attacking the planet Vernalis.[1a]
Organization
The Roaring Blades seemingly take new members from worlds they have fought on, including mutants, with little care for organization. They have been so corrupted by their worship of Slaanesh, that they find pleasure in all sensation, the more intense the sensory input the greater the pleasure. It was believed by Imperial intelligence that the nervous systems of the Roaring Blades has been altered by their masters in the Emperor’s Children, so that their bodies now reacted in the same way to pain that a normal human body reacted to adrenaline. As a result, if a Roaring Blade received injuries on the field of battle, even fatal ones, they would actually be strengthened as a result, becoming ever more ferocious and deadly, right up to the point when they finally collapsed from their wounds. The results of these modifications, have given the traitor guard a preference for close combat with bladed weapons of all kinds and for howling with extacy in battle.[1b]
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