God Flayers

The God Flayers were previously called the Black Revenants. It was a loyalist chapter created in the Third founding utilizing Iron Hands’s primarch geneseed. They met their end at the hand of themselves during a particularly unique encounter where the fleet of the Black Revenants found themselves battling against various versions of themselves within the warp in a death gauntlet. The various dead would be entombed and resurrected by the survivors again and again utilizing the rites of cybernetic ressurection. The chapter fought their way through the trials for thousands of years, evermore relenting their flesh in favor of the certainty of the machine as more was revealed to them. Upon facing an overwhelming warp entity and being defeated, they were forced out in M40 with an army of Cybernetic Revenants, a mission, and oddly alive. They took the face of the entity as its symbol and struck out into the galaxy with too much and too little information about the future. All felt that something was to come and they had leads pointing to many sectors of the galaxy. Although they would question it, the pull of curiosity was too great to ignore.

Chapter History
Their history is convoluted and extremely complex even up to this point. Having been formed from the most technologically open minded and witty of the iron hands, they undertook a quest to seek forbidden archeotech deemed heretical by their primarch in order to “Unleash righteous retribution upon the enemies of humanity”. The “Keys of Hel” would reveal themselves in time outside of Medusa as questing knights would ride out to ever more unique places, seeking any lead. Among one of the earliest findings, the secrets to cybernetic resurrection granted them their previous name of “Revenants” and mark the way through which the chapter is capable of sustaining incredibly disastrous losses without losing much or any long term combat efficiency.

In the minds of the survivors, the gauntlet started upon the tearing of the great rift. Their homeworld, Carin was an industrial powerhouse of a hive world. With manufacturing rings circling its atmosphere and deep forges digging their ways into the magma of the planet. Even bellow that, the fortress monastery rested. Its purpose was to manufacture vessels for the Imperial Navy. When the cicatrix maleficarum opened, it swallowed the world and twisted it in all manner of ways possible. Not only was it completely secluded, with escape not being possible, but also, the majority of the population was subject to possession, only the astartes being left somewhat untouched and stuck underground in their fortress monastery. The following cleansing was characterized by direct shameless interference from a warp entity in the form of a one eyed owl. Their quest was to ascend into the heavens, climbing the hive city all the way from the under hive to the very top in order to face him.

To be continued...

Appearance
A battle brother holds with his right hand a force halberd, glowing amber and crackling like fire as it rests againt the ground. His armor is dark grey, large and scarred showing no adornments as those would have been taken by enemy fire a long time ago. The worn ceramite of his pauldron rests atop of his mechanical giant arms made of cybnernetic muscular fiber, shifting on the metal frame of his bones as he moves, breathing heavily. On it, the symbol of the Red skull and Back Cross. His legs, betraying his humanity as he walks on mechanical arachnid appendages connected to his spine being covered by red cloth to where his ankles would be and from the spine also comes out a mechanical arm holding an engraved golden bolter as well as many more appendages wielding all things from a lantern to various tools one would not understand. All set beneath his backpack. Finally, the head is covered by a grey helmet with the same amber glowing eyes. From it are emitted the sound of clicking from the vox caster.