Company of the Shadow
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The Company of the Shadow are a Chaos Warband, who were originally the Death Falcons Chapter.[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 citizens. As it was a prime 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.[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.[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 systems.[1b] The Company of Shadow also still have control of their Homeworld, that was given to them by the Imperium.[1a]
