The Berserkers of Uran - a thread from the past

[bluntblade]

Gwaelyn Lorthryk
Baroness of House Lorthryk, Tyrant of Gulaka, Slaughter’s Mistress

Baroness Gwaelyn was only twenty seven years of age when she rose to command House Lorthryk after a costly battle against an Ork empire. Nonetheless she did so with a tally of slaughter far longer than what was expected of so young a scion, even in this notorious House. Within the grim alliance that Raktra built around his Legion, she achieved a rare power, almost equal to the masters of the Legio Yharma.

Six years into her reign, House Lorthryk followed the Berserkers of Uran into betraying the Emperor. Fanatically loyal to the Ashen King, Baroness Gwaelyn led her scions in a fresh chapter of atrocities that exceeded anything the savage Knights had committed before, and the Tyrant of Gulaka became a source of fear across the Imperium.

Edited October 27, 2018 by bluntblade

[Raktra]

Been way too long since I did anything! So, with that in mind, there’ll be a new character done tonight, as crunch-wise, I’m replacing Kehl. Much as I like him, a slow, durable, average-melee unit is not what marks out the ‘serkers, so he needs changing out. I shall post more in an hour or two!

[Raktra]

Slynnat

The Knight of Thorns, the Final Architect, Beastborn

 

WS:7 BS:5 S:4 T:4 W:3 I:5 A:5 LD:10 Sv:2+

Unit Composition

• 1 (Unique)

 

 

​Unit Type

• Infantry (Character)

 

Wargear

• Pain and Suffering
• Impact thrusters
• Frag, and krak grenades
• Refractor field

 

Special Rules

• LA: BoU
• Independent Character
• Master of the Legion
• Sadistic

 

Warlord Trait

• Bloody-Handed

 

Pain and Suffering: The blade that earned Slynnat the moniker "Knight of Thorns" is a visible manifestation of all that is cruel about the VIIth. Its hooked cutting edges snag and tear at soft tissue and sinew, leaving its victims twitching in a pile of their own useless limbs.
S+1, AP2, Debilitating Strike, Melee, Specialist Weapon

 

 

Sadistic: Slynnat's melee attacks may never cause Instant Death, regardless of special rules or respective strength and toughness values.

[simison]

Some observations of my experiences as an officer in prison:

• The one thing inmates don't like is change. One of my instructors said inmates secretly crave discipline, but I suspect that inmates crave familiarity. These are individuals who have been deprived of a number of freedoms and liberties, and want some kind of guarantee that the system that has chained them is functioning smoothly. That could be for the positive ("I know that we will get recreation every day") or the negative ("Where are the loopholes in the system and can I continually exploit it?"). 
• Any new authority figure will be challenged. This is in part of developing a new familiarity or to see how much more or less they can get away with the new authority. It's guaranteed. 
• Any informal system beneath the formal system will exist only if there is an inmate with a great deal of authority. Otherwise, if that is absent and the formal authority is weak, it's a free for all. *shudders*
• Staying occupied is a major concern. Boredom is one of the chief tormentors of a prison and will lead to an inmate doing all kinds of things to keep it at bay. 
• Surprisingly, it's not hard to find a lot of music in a prison. Rap is obviously a huge part of it in an American prison, but I'm curious if Uran would have any musical traditions/schools to help deal with the harsh environment. Not necessarily a positive influence either. The lyrics I've heard in prison does not encourage a positive view of the human spirit. 

[Raktra]

Awesome insights, Sim. Thanks for that, Blunt/I’ll be able to make good use of that.

[bluntblade]

Suggests a certainly restlessness would be evident in the VIIth, aye?

[simison]

Aye

[simison]

BL Fluff Segment (12k words)

Anthology: 30% - Incomplete? - (Unlike previous cases, they might very well have the words, and simply need confirmation. Unless we don't count Shepherd-centric stories.)

FW Fluff Segment (10k? words)

History: 15% - Complete 

Organization: 15% - Incomplete - (Legion Org section is too short)

Exemplary Battles: 15% - Complete

Crunch

Legiones Astartes & Wargear: 5% - Incomplete - (Don't know if they have banner quotes)

Rite of Wars: 5% - Incomplete - (Have not been reviewed)

Unique Units: 5% - Incomplete - (Not yet reviewed)

Unique Characters: 5% - Incomplete - (N.Y.R.)

Primarch: 5%- Incomplete - (NYR)

 

Total - 30%

 

The Berserkers are surprisingly close to to publishing. It's just that they are a little short on multiple fronts. 

[Raktra]

Blunt and I can probably burn that all out in a week or so. Mainly Blunt on the long form obviously, but the unit entry fluff I can hammer out.

[bluntblade]

You know, if there's one thing I'd rather put in its own anthologies, it's the BL-style fluff. Partly because I can't muster inspiration to go chasing word count. Edited April 26, 2019 by bluntblade

[Darkcommander]

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Edited January 23, 2020 by Darkcommander

[bluntblade]

VII^th Legion Destroyer Terminator

Centurion Thanatus Vagraedon

17^th Company, The Blood Boilers, The Blackening Scourge

Centurion Vagraedon's topknot signifies his Cthonian origins - though the runes on his armour demonstrate considerable immersion in Uran's culture - which he shared with many among the Blackening Scourge. Recruited a year after Raktra took command of his Legion, he demonstrated an aptitude for destruction and a cold disregard for life which his superiors found commendable. In short order he was assigned to the Blackening Scourge's destroyer units, and rose to join the infamous Blood Boilers (this image is composited from picts taken prior to that elevation; once inducted, a Blood Boiler would never have his armour cleaned unless filth and gore impeded its function). Within this heartless brotherhood he would reap a tally of lives which ran into the thousands before the Great Crusade's end. On Hazat and several other worlds, he would build on that frightening toll, rendering soldiers and civilians alike into nothing but organic slurry.

Edited December 27, 2019 by bluntblade

[bluntblade]

VII^thLegion Praetor

Overlord Nychus

The Burned Eyes

Nychus ascended to rose to the rank of Chieftain soon after the Fourth Rangdan Xenocide, during the Berserkers’ campaigns in the Ghoul Stars, and became Overlord of the Burned Eyes Horde in the Garhoylt Purges. While no match for the Ashen Host or the Angel Rippers, the Burned Eyes were a mighty Horde in their own right. Commanding them, Nychus earned a dark fame indeed, known for both his skilled use of tanks and Titans, and his unstinting cruelty. In the aftermath of Kartyg he demonstrated both, visiting scorched-earth attacks on a dozen planets.

Unleashed against Subsector Chalcea, Nychus was one of the first Overlords to deploy and the Burned Eyes fought throughout the campaign. While Nychus operated under Raktra for the majority he did undertake a handful of independent planetary campaigns, committing a string of massacres all his owns. The most notorious of these was the Butchery of Jantoya, in which his forces destroyed that world’s proud Army regiment and wiped its six hives clean of life in three days of unbridled atrocity. Nychus would trouble the Imperium for the rest of the Insurrection and another decade after the Siege of Terra, until his death at the hands of an erstwhile brother, Aegar Vyrn of the Shepherds of Eden.

Nychus’ Mk III warplate bears the marks which distinguish a VII^th Legion Overlord, most notably crossed chains over the chest. Also note the Uranian rune on his right knee, which denotes the Horde’s origins in the forges and furnaces of Uran’s vast labour complexes, and their more ornate sigil on his right pauldron. The whip symbol on his vambrace is derived from War Maniple Scatha of the Legio Yharma, who were oathed to the Burned Eyes from the Legio’s founding. His weaponry is of a singularly savage bent; a chainsword and power claw, with an inbuilt hand flamer.

Edited November 7, 2019 by bluntblade

[Nomus Sardauk]

Shouldn't that be VIIth Legion Praetor, not Vth? Edited November 7, 2019 by Nomus Sardauk

[bluntblade]

Argh

[bluntblade]

Trying to remember names for the Seven Hordes. Off the top of my head:

- Angelrippers

- Blackening Scourge

- Arisen

- Burned Eyes

[Raktra]

The Crossed was one. I don’t think we nailed down the final two.

[bluntblade]

They might've been left open for other project members.

[bluntblade]

Havocmongers are the Horde I was trying to remember.

[bluntblade]

The Berserkers of Uran

Lore

History + Structure

War Disposition

VII^th Legion Praetor

Exemplary Battles:

The Hermeka Compliance

The Targhurun War

Rules

Rite of War: We Go Further

Rite of War: 

Banner Fluff for Raktra

Raktra Akarro

Doran Kldier

Riktus Innorvak

Milewalkers

The Wretched

The Architects

 

Book Campaigns

The Agony of Chalcea

Edited December 26, 2019 by bluntblade

[Raktra]

Kldier doesn't have rules anymore, we replaced him with Slynnat. But also this is a stark reminder that holy crap we're miles away from finishing.

Edited December 27, 2019 by Raktra

[bluntblade]

Oops. Do you have the Rites of War?

[Raktra]

Daemons, We Are

We Go Further

Might Makes Right*

 

Name here may be changing.

[bluntblade]

Sweet, have we got posts for them with both rules and fluff?

 

Actually, should we looks into updating those?

[Raktra]

I did most of it on Discord with Grifft, if you message me at about 7 tonight I’ll be back from work to nab it all. And jah, let’s get to work on them. We Go Further needs a huge change now that the Boilers have rules.