There are many corroborated accounts of Legionaries of the Damned enduring firepower that would annihilate a warrior clad in Tactical Dreadnought Armour. Most eyewitnesses dispute even the Legionaries' mortality, for an eerie glow suffuses their sable armour and a halo of ghostly fire dances about their feet. These silent warriors are Space Marines in appearance, their black armour adorned with images of bones and fire, yet they are not of any Chapter recognised in the Imperium. The haunting legend of the Legion of the Damned is known across the galaxy, and even nonbelievers speak of such things in hushed tones. Combat can initiate the final stages of the disease, in which the afflicted Space Marine reaches a peak in physical power but also enters a permanently berserk state that ends with his death. The Legion's Space Marines are afflicted by a strange Warp contagion that destroys their sanity as it progresses, their bodies decay physically at the cellular level, but they grow in supernatural strength and the ability to use the power of the Empyrean against the Emperor's foes.Įach Astartes of the Legion is rapidly approaching the moment when he will finally succumb to the contagion. They fight as a single unit and often appear mysteriously to aid Imperial military forces at a moment when they are about to be overwhelmed by the foe. In truth, the Astartes that make up the self-proclaimed Legion of the Damned are suspected to be remnants of the lost Loyalist Fire Hawks Chapter. Rare is the person that has witnessed the sudden violence of their attack, rarer still those with the strength of will to keep their sanity intact afterwards. These warriors are variously said to dwell in the spaces between reality and the realm of the Warp, in the hopes and dreams of desperate men, and in a pocket of reality eternally lit by the fires of hatred.
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The Legion is an army of vengeance and of flame, a brotherhood of warriors who appear at first glance to be Space Marines but quickly prove to be more lethal than even those most formidable of transhuman warriors. They are a legend, whispered in secret by a suspicious few, that the Emperor has the loyalty of a force from beyond reality. Once their bloody work is complete the Legionaries vanish into myth once more. The Legion of the Damned is a mysterious band of Space Marines which appears unbidden when all hope seems lost, striding forth from its hidden netherworld in the Immaterium to bring retribution to the Imperium's foes.