The Reborn

[Lord Kallozar]

Anyone remember the reborn chaos space marines - those chaos marines that were said to wear weathered brass/bronze armour and carry ancient weaponry into battle?

 

Apart from what Lexicanum states about them (which really isn’t much) does anyone know anything further about them, or if they have been mentioned any any other fluff or literature anywhere?

 

Many thanks.

[Syrakul]

Looking at page 21 of 4th ed codex (printed in 2007) it has that same small photo shown on lexicanum pages but no other details, along side dozen or so similiar undocumented chapters.

I can't see any story blurbs about them in the book.

 

 

Since GW decided to enshrine another 4 or so renegade chapters in the recent campaign books you've probably got at least half a decade before GW adds rules to more chapters for CSM then they have already so take them and run with it!

 

If you like the look of minotaurs or custodes but want CSM it could be pretty slick.

[Lord Kallozar]

Thanks for the reply. The name and the fact they have old weaponry and armour seems to HU t at the possibility of these being undead space marines perhaps?

[Lucerne]

Or just underequipped/relic hoarders...

[battle captain corpus]

The Reborn are like a lot of the chapters created around 4th edition time (such as the Violaters) that had a tiny paragraph or so of blurb & a painted miniature.

 

This does mean that you can add and spice them up until your hearts content!

 

BCC

[Syrakul]

Just a side note, renegade chapters can have alot of flavor from 3 origin stories;

1 Their parent SM legion seed-traits and passed down culture

2 The nature of their chapter on inception and growth (flesh tearers vs blood angels etc)

3 And how they as a chapter or a fleet/missions worth of marines turned traitor.

 

(Made up origin story here, strong BA/Emp children vibes)

Ican imagine a blood angels sired chapter, 'gifted' (purposefully founded at regional planetary governors requests) to a region of space known for complex and valuable tithes (eg forgeworlds/hiveworlds producing genetics, medicines, rare metals etc) with a particularly well off noble class. Their mission to protect those worlds from both within and without. Naturally the blood curse was hidden but blood angels geneseed was sought because 'noble, gifted artisans etc' with the chapter colors being primary gold.

 

Of course the flaw pops up and their belief they can cure it (possibly from outside or inside corruption) leads to some even more terminal flaw:

Are they infected with a nurgle flesh eating disease under there?, mummies? Maybe just looking like nosferatu vamps. Etc. The tarnished armor could be gross leakage or simply rust because their shame/insanity means they let their once ornate suits fall into filthy disrepair....

 

A bit cliche I know but pull enough tropes together and they melt into a powerful , divergent story

 

Food for thought