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The Berzerker-surgeon Gahlan Surlak[1c]

Berzerker-Surgeons, also known as Butcher-Surgeons[4], are the Apothecaries of the World Eaters Traitor Legion.[1a]

Description

They operate across the galaxy, either working with different Chaos Lords[1a], within a Warband[1b] or even with outside groups that are not a part of the Traitor Legion[3]. The Berzerker-surgeons' skills are drawn from ten millennia of their experimentation, which has allowed them to hone a dizzying array of gory techniques to create new World Eaters. This includes accelerated recruit induction techniques, utilized during the Great Crusade, which are brutally enhanced with forbidden methods that were granted to the Berzerker-surgeons after the Horus Heresy's Drop Site Massacre.[1]

They have also learned heinous practices regarding Daemonic pacts and the harnessing of the Warp which aid in creating monstrous warriors who have no concept of fear, pain, or death. As the World Eaters' gene-seed has become horribly corrupted over the centuries[1a], the berzerker-surgeons now use those taken from other space marines to fulfill the traitor legion's needs. However, substantial work must be performed on the captured gene-seed before the Berzerker-surgeons can use it to create new World Eaters[1b]. Their skills are also utilized by warbands who expand their numbers using Khornate space marines who were not born of the Traitor Legion. These outsiders must also undergo the psycho-surgeries practiced by the Berzerker-surgeons - a process they see as a kind of apotheosis that brings them closer to their wrathful and bloody god.[1a]

Known Berzerker-surgeons

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World Eaters Forces
Command Chaos LordDaemon PrinceMaster of ExecutionsButcher-Surgeon
Elites & Monsters Chaos TerminatorsExalted EightboundChaos Spawn
Troops Khorne BerzerkersEightbound
The Lost and the Damned JakhalsBloodgorsOgryn Berserker
Vehicles & Daemon Engines Chaos Dreadnought (HelbruteBerzerkerContemptorFerrum Infernus) • RhinoPredatorChaos Land RaiderVindicatorDefilerForgefiendMaulerfiendBlood SlaughtererBrass ScorpionLord of Skulls
Aircraft HeldrakeThunderhawkStormbirdStorm Eagle
Special Characters AngronKharnInvocatus