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|Origin=Formerly the '''Death Falcons''' [[Chapter]]{{Fn|1b}}
|Homeworld=[[Bastonbeil]]{{Fn|1b}}
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|Colours=Grey{{Fn|1b}}
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The '''Company of the Shadow''' are a [[Chaos Warband]], who were originally the '''Death Falcons''' [[Chapter]].{{Fn|1b}}

==History==
Their [[Heresy]] began during the [[Fall of Bastonbeil]], when an ancient and terrible creature rose from the [[Underhive]] of [[Bastonbeil]]'s capital. The creature soon began to feed upon the souls of the living and devoured millions of Bastonbeil's [[Imperial citizen|citizens]]. As it was a prime [[Adeptus Astartes Recruiting World|recruiting world]] for the '''Death Falcons''', they responded with their entire [[Chapter]], and battled the mindless zombies left by the creature, before hunting for the beast itself.{{Fn|1b}}

It is not known what occurred in the dark depths of the capital's underhive, but three months later, the Death Falcons were no more. Instead, the '''Company of the Shadow''' emerged, wearing grey [[power armour]] that writhed with the faces of the damned. Storming the upper reaches of the capital [[hive]], the Warband overthrew the [[Imperial Commander]], and took control of Bastonbeil.{{Fn|1b}}

Over the last nine hundred years, they have used the enslaved world as their base and use it to launch bloody attacks against neighbouring [[system]]s.{{Fn|1b}} The Company of Shadow also still have control of their [[Adeptus Astartes Homeworld|Homeworld]], that was given to them by the [[Imperium]].{{Fn|1a}}

==See also==
*[[Chaos Space Marine Legions and Warbands (List)]]
*[[Space Marine Forces (List)]]

==Sources==
*1: [[Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition)]]:
**{{Endn|1a}}: pg. 23
**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 41

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