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Word Bearers Contemptor Dreadnought Cyrnair of the Annunake Attached to the Flayed Hand Chapter Dainhold, Calth An ancient of the Annunake, the name given by the Word Bearers to those members of their Legion that are entombed within the metal shell of a Dreadnought, Cyrnair was at the head of the Flayed Hand Chapter as it mustered amongst the towering manufactoria of Dainhold. Where once he had proudly worn the stone-grey of the Iconoclasts, Cyrnair was now adorned in arterial red, and bedecked in runic symbols and engravings that hinted at the terrible change undergone by the Word Bearers. Cyrnair was amongst the first of his brethren to break ranks in the aftermath of the Campanile’s arrival, ploughing into the ranks of the shocked Ultramarines and slaughtering them before they were even aware of the attack. By the end of that bloody day, Cyrnair had claimed the lives of several dozen of Guilliman’s warriors, including the Centurion Jorvan Dolomel, whose sundered corpse he later bore strapped to his sarcophagus as a macabre trophy.
The Beast of Scaidava Unknown Legionary of the Unspeaking Chapter Pier Record, the Battle for Ithraca Cm', Calth This pict was recovered via necro-corrical probe from the ruins of the town of Scaidava, northern Calth. The entire town was slaughtered in the hours just before the Battle of Calth began, along with a dozen other nearby settlements, all in areas later untouched by the larger battles which raged across the planet. Initial reports blamed such destruction on orbital debris or mistargeted artillery strikes, but eye witness accounts by those who had fled the region revealed the truth. In every account, the slaughter of these towns was no random accident, no tragic misfortune, but a deliberate act of callous and horrific brutality perpetrated by monsters clad in the remains of blood-red Legiones Astartes plate. The creature depicted in this pict capture was identified as perpetrating the slaughter in Scaidava, and clearly displays the insignia of the Unspeaking Chapter of the Word Bearers and other iconography of the XVI l,h Legion. I hough once a Legiones Astartes warrior, some horrific transformation has rendered this Legionary into something almost unrecognisable.
Word Bearers Breacher Legionary Legionary Shir Shadiru Zaradnar Siege Squad, 4m Company of the Flayed Hand Chapter Newly recruited from the teeming cities of Colchis in the years immediately prior to the Isstvan rebellion, Legionary Shadiru was blooded in the fighting against his fellow Legiones Astartes having known no other foes. Shadiru was one of the first of a new generation of Legionaries whose primary combat experience was the fratricidal wars of the Horus Heresy; warriors who never knew the glorious days of the Great Crusade and the crusading spirit it had engendered in the warriors of the Emperor. This new breed of Legionary fostered a scathing disregard for the achievements of the Great Crusade and a brutal pragmatism regarding the horrors of Horus’ rebellion. As the war progressed, warriors like Shadiru became increasingly common in the ranks of both sides. Shadiru, recorded here during the early stages of the Calth muster by an Ultramarines monitoring station, wears Mk III Astartes battle plate. Many Legionaries came to favour this mark over more advanced examples during the Heresy as its reinforced frontal plating proved more resistant to bolter fire than other marks, a trait armourers had never thought to purposefully engineer in the more advanced issues of armour. Shadiru’s armour is covered in meticulously applied Colchisian runes, assumed to be excerpted from one of the seditionist texts penned by the Word Bearers commander Erebus or the Traitor Primarch Lorgar. Shadiru also bears several trophy skulls alongside the emblem of the Flayed Hand Chapter on his boarding shield, considering the campaigns in which Shadiru had participated, the origin of these skulls may be that of Loyalist Legiones Astartes. Panoply of War 1. Autotellurian pattern grav-gun. 2. Tigrus pattern bolt pistol.
>— Sïjj.' ttmt ¿y, à.^/T.•* fcrr-j: •> »•»*<la * «/ Word Bearers Ashen Circle Legionary iafön ; i •î» ft Iconoclast Nul Vaber ICNEUS MAN1 VEfUTAns’ ASHEN CIRCLE COTERIE AnACHED TO THE UnSPEAKINC CHAPTER Iconoclast Vaber is one of the few remaining Terran Legionaries in the Word Bearers’ ranks. During the fighting in Ithraca City, Iconoclast Vaber and the other members of his coterie engaged in wanton slaughter of civilians fleeing the war zone and the destruction of Imperial iconography, even to the point of ignoring more tactically valuable targets. The final fate of Vaber and the rest of his unit is unknown, as is that of the vast majority of the Word Bearers units operating in Ithraca. The Ashen Circle is an organisation that predates Lorgar’s return to the XVH,h Legion, and as such maintains a unique pattern of heraldry that is distinct even within such a diverse Legion as the XVIIth. By the time this pict was recorded, few elements of this heraldry remain, with only the modified destroyer icon on Vaber’s belt and the dark gun-metal grey colouring of his armour unobscured by the Colchisian symbology and trappings of Lorgar’s new creed. The battle plate worn by Legionary Vaber is a pattern of Mk III Maximus’ power armour unique to the Word Bearers Legion. Panoply of War 1. Astartes axe-rake. 2. Akkadic pattern hand flamer. 4|Éft \ V ? I! Î * \i I III [i/i/ nwfru p j
Legionary Ortan Cinapher Unknown Terminator Squad Unknown Chapter The Word Bearers force present at Calth was intended in the earliest stages of the battle to fool the Ultramarines Legion into thinking that the entire Word Bearers Legion had been committed to the muster, while in reality the majority of the Legion was in the process of assaulting a number of worlds across Ultramar. Legionary Cinapher is one of many Legionaries who took to the field under false colours to further this deception, and was only correctly identified post-action in various pict recordings by the three hooded skulls on his chestplate -an honour marking won in the wars to pacify distant Corphyra. Legionary Cinapher's cataphractii armour bears the insignia of the Chapter of the Osseus Throne upon his left greave. Alongside other Legionaries bearing the insignia of the chapter, this was intended to make it appear that the entirety of the Osseus Throne was on Calth, a ruse later exposed when several detachments of the Osseus Throne Chapter were deployed to the fighting on Armatura. In all, it is thought that as many as 20,000 of the Word Bearers Legionaries deployed at Calth were bearing false colours, with small detachments noted as bearing the ciphers of all known chapters of the Word Bearers. Unfortunately, the Ultramarines would not notice the deception until it was far too late. Panoply of War 1. Meridius pattern power maul. 2. Phobos pattern combi-plasma. , 77 .7/ l| II2,
Word Bearers Diaboiist Unknown Centurion-consul Attached to Command Elements of the Chapter of the Inscribed Images of this Word Bearers officer were recovered via neural cortical probe from the remains of several members of the Ultramarines 22nd Chapter recovered from theThrascian Highlands. Though it defies current understanding of the denizens of the aetheric medium, it appears that this Legionary was directing the corporeal manifestations of the Warp—manifesting what some observers have referred to as warp magic. Vox records from the few survivors of the 22nd Chapter of the Ultramarines refer to such officers as Diabolists, a designation later adopted en masse by their brethren to identify those Word Bearers commanders whose training appears to somehow harness the aetheric medium as a weapon of war. Carefully hidden from Ultramarines observers, other officers of similar specialisation to those observed at I'hrascia appear to have been present in most of the Word Bearers units mustered on Calth. Indeed, ritual use of psychic powers by these individuals appears to have been the source of some of the bizarre transformations and illogical tactical choices made by certain Word Bearers formations. One of many dictates issued by Guilliman in the campaigns following Calth was the priority targeting of enemy officers classified as Diabolists. Panoply of War 1. Charatran pattern chain axe. 2. Ryza ‘Sunspite’ pattern plasma pistol.
Word Bearers Variant Heraldry When first the Primarch Lorgar assumed control of the XVH* Legion, he imposed his own ideals of organisation and hierarchy upon its ranks. Informed by the mysteries of Colchis in which Lorgar had been raised by Kor Phaeron, these structures were typically impenetrable to those not party to the complex and mystical hierarchies of that ancient culture. The titles and iconography of the chapters into which Lorgar first sub-divided the XVII* Legion were derived from the constellations seen in the night skies of Colchis. As the Word Bearers’ descent into treachery and corruption accelerated, newly founded chapters drew their titles and symbols from other, less visible and far darker sources. Of the six chapters shown here, the Twisting Rune Chapter illustrates this principle well, its title referring not to the night skies of Colchis but the language of dark, forbidden crafts. WORD BEARERS VEHICLE MARKINGS The Word Bearers adorn their war machines with a complex range of symbols, icons and markings, much of it entirely impenetrable to outsiders but which holds ritual and esoteric meaning to those privy to the teachings of the Book of Lorgar. Most of the Legion's vehicles mount the Word Bearers Legion icon, often placed at the convergence of an intricate web of geometric lines. This motif is derived not from the mysteries of Colchis bur from the fell wisdom obtained by Lorgar in the aftermath of his fall to dark powers, and by the time of the Battle ofCalth it was commonly applied to vehicles of all classes. The white text often applied to the flanks of Word Bearers Legion vehicles represents passages copied from the Book of Lorgar. It is also common for vehicles to have paper prayer rolls applied to them before battle, a practise derived from ancient Colchisian battle-rites but twisted into new and debased significance as the Word Bearers fell ever further from grace. Osseous Throne Chapter Tri-fold Crown Chapter Broken Scythe Chapter Star of Judgement Chapter Twisting Rune Chapter Serrated Sun Chapter
мм XVII'h Legion Tactical Squad The Unspeaking Chapter Legion Chaplain The Unspeaking Chapter, command cadre variants XVIIth Legion Icon Flayed Hand Chapter THE LEGION OF OLD By the time of the Battle of Calth, the arterial red and abyssal black first worn by the Serrated Suns Chapter had become widespread throughout the Legion. Also almost entirely supplanted was the use of ancient Colchisian runic script, once employed extensively to denote a Legionary’s rank, status, role and deeds in a manner comprehensible only to other Legion inductees and to varying degrees depending on the viewer’s level of initiat ion into its mysteries. The runes came to be replaced with distinctive esoteric geometry, readable only by those steeped in the mysteries revealed to them by Lorgar in the aftermath of his journey into the Great Eye. Graven Star Chapter Black Comet Chapter
Legion Icon with Colchisian script Geometric symbols derived from the teachings of Lorgar High command personal heraldry Unidentified sub-cult icon Heavy Support Legion Icon variant WORD BEARERS BANNERS The Word Bearers make extensive use of a wide range of banners, icons and vexillas at every level of the Legion's command structure. Initially derived from the runic script of ancient Colchis, the banners have come to display ever more disturbing and debased symbols as the full extent of the Legion’s treachery and corruption has been revealed. In particular, the burning book icon which held such significance to the Legion prior to its shaming at Monarchia changed dramatically, a leering devil face appearing from the flames and investing it with an entirely different and highly portentous meaning.
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