Red Butchers
The Red Butchers was a specialized World Eaters infantry formation during the Horus Heresy.[1]
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Overview
During the Battle of Isstvan III many World Eaters went completely berserk with rage and bloodlust and only left the battlefield in chains. The Techmarines of the World Eaters later made customized suits of Terminator Armour to serve as both wargear and a means of confinement. These suits were, in effect, mechanical prison cells that could be immobilized with the press of a button.[1]
The Red Butchers were unleashed for the first time during the Dropsite Massacre. Few survived the engagement, but they nonetheless ripped through loyalist formations. Moreover, World Eaters that went completely mad in later battles could be imprisoned within recovered suits.[1]
The Red Butchers were adorned in Cataphractii Pattern Terminator Armour and armed with twin power axes. Their squad leaders were known as The Devoured, who often wielded two chainfists.[2]
Millennia later, the Red Butchers still exist, but it is a title given to the World Eaters's elite members. They are all vicious killers, who have committed atrocities beyond number in the Chaos God Khorne's name.[4]
Known Red Butchers
- Zhukel Dror - Horus Heresy-era[3]
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Sources
- 1: The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre, pg. 216
- 2: Forge World: World Eaters Legion Red Butchers (last accessed 4 June 2019)
- 3: The Horus Heresy Book Six - Retribution, pg. 124
- 4: Warhammer Community: The Eightbound Are an Unholy Apex Amalgam of Daemon and World Eater (posted 02/02/2023) (last accessed 02/02/2023)
