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Sons of Malice

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Summary

Marine	Basic Data		Warband Symbol
	Name:	Sons of Malice
	Founder/Leader:	Unknown
	Homeworld:	Scelus
	Chaos Dedication:	Unknown	Model
	Colours:	Quartered black and white, with silver trim
	Speciality:	Unknown
	Battle Cry:	The Sons of Malice fight in complete silence
	Current Strength:	Unknown

Background

The Sons of Malice chapter turned renegade some time prior to the Thirteenth Black Crusade. It was founded to watch over the Eye of Terror. Events leading to the chapter's excommunication began following the successful end of the Cilix 225 campaign against heretics who had threatened to depressurize three underwater hive cities.

Kathal, Captain of the First Company of the Sons of Malice¹, led the chapter victory rites, which bordered on cannibalism, observed by Inquisitor Pietas, a senior member of the Ordo Hereticus. Flesh-eating rituals are common among the Space Marines; Pietas was obviously unacquainted with the barbarous customs of Space Marines and mobilized a strike force of Adepta Sororitas Celestians to deal with the "heretics". The Sisters made planetfall right in the midst of the Company at the height of their celebrations. Kathal and his troops responded to the interference of their sacred Chapter rites by savagely attacking the strike force, defeating the Celestians. Kathal dragged the meddling Inquisitor before the chapter altar where she was ritually sacrificed.

The Sons of Malice were excommunicated and now reside within the Eye of Terror, from which they wage a hate-fueled war against the Imperium they see as betraying them, as much as against other followers of Chaos.

Their homeworld was Scelus, in the Cadian Sector, and the grisly tendencies which caused their excommunication were found to be rooted in the barbaric practices of the native, feral world population. These tribes were almost entirely eradicated by the Cadian 331st in a planet-wide campaign of genocide following the chapter's withdrawal into the Eye.

Scelus was declared Perdita. During Abaddon's 13th Black Crusade the Sons of Malice fought alongside the Chaos forces, trying to reclaim their homeworld².