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The Malice Brotherhood was a Chaos Cult located on Sepheris Secundus.[1a]

History

The cult was formed when members of the serf class located a tome in the ruins of a mine tunnel, that had been used by a previous chaos cult that had been destroyed by the Inquisition. The massive tome described many of the rites and rituals associated with the extinct cult. The words in the book disturbed them greatly and they considered ridding themselves of it, but they were a desperate people; having long endured the brutal environment and hopeless existence that entails being a miner on Sepheris Secundus. The tome gave a few deluded souls the idea that the best way to escape their fate was to bring down the wrath of the Imperium, to purge the world of all life, and to put an end to their miserable fates and that of their families and friends. Having formed the Malice Brotherhood, they set out to cause enough trouble that the powers in the Imperium would come and purge the planet.[1a]

The planet was too economically important to the Imperium, so instead of sending massive battleships to destroy the planet from orbit, as they had hoped, a platoon of the Imperial Guard was sent to deal with the cult instead. The Commissar in charge considered the cult to be nothing, but saboteurs and rabble-rousers and soon located the cults base in the tunnels of the Gorgonid Mine. Making short work of the cultists on the surface the Guard pursued the fleeing cultists into the tunnels[1b]. It was there though that the tide of battle turned against the Guard and the cult as well. Deep inside the tunnels were the mutant servants of the Antithesis Stone[1c]. The Stone was a large lavender stone, that gave off a pulsing pink glow, that was able to change anyone near it into a mutant, who then fell under its control.[1e]

Sensing a chance to increase its power the Stone unleashed its mutant followers on the Guard and cult alike. What followed was a massacre as the mutants killed everything in their path. The commissar had the tunnel sealed, leaving anyone inside to the mercy of the mutants. Those members of the cult that still lived were captured, along with the Guard, and changed into mutants that soon worshiped the Stone[1d]. Those members of the cult captured on the surface were executed by the Imperial Guard.[1f]

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