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| - In the dark days of the Horus Heresy, great numbers of the Adeptus Mechanicus were lured into the service of Chaos with promises of forgotten and forbidden knowledge. The Tech-Priests of Mars were pitched into bloody civil war, known as the Schism of Mars, unleashing forbidden weapons to scour the surface of the red planet. The Titan Legions of the Collegia Titanica split into Loyalist and Traitor factions, with over half of the Titan Legions joining Warmaster Horus. Throughout the Heresy innumerable battles were fought between Titans on a multitude of world, and whole cities shook beneath the heavy tread of these awesome god-engines. With the failure of the Heresy, the Chaos Titan Legions were driven into the great Warp rift known as the Eye of Terror, where they still dwell after ten mil
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| - In the dark days of the Horus Heresy, great numbers of the Adeptus Mechanicus were lured into the service of Chaos with promises of forgotten and forbidden knowledge. The Tech-Priests of Mars were pitched into bloody civil war, known as the Schism of Mars, unleashing forbidden weapons to scour the surface of the red planet. The Titan Legions of the Collegia Titanica split into Loyalist and Traitor factions, with over half of the Titan Legions joining Warmaster Horus. Throughout the Heresy innumerable battles were fought between Titans on a multitude of world, and whole cities shook beneath the heavy tread of these awesome god-engines. With the failure of the Heresy, the Chaos Titan Legions were driven into the great Warp rift known as the Eye of Terror, where they still dwell after ten millennia, waiting to board Space Hulks and devastate the worlds of the Imperium again. During the long sojourn among the Daemon Worlds the renegade Titans have warped and mutated, for the mutable power of Chaos is not limited to creatures of living flesh. These gigantic engines of terror are universally feared as they wander the daemon worlds from battle to battle, eternally wreaking the carnage they were built for. No one quite knows whether they still contain their original crews, their lives unnaturally prolonged by the warping powers of Chaos, or something far worse. Chaos Titans are feared and respected by the followers of Chaos as monstrous, brooding effigies of ancient gods of war. The Imperium fears the Chaos Titans as the avenging revenants of a horrific past. Most Chaos Titans are corrupted Warlord-class Battle Titans as these were the most common type at the time of the Heresy. Nearly all of them have been altered in some way. Some have had their heads reshaped into daemonic visages, or mounted with close combat weapons or extra guns, and another common change is the addition of long sinuous tails mounting weapons or gigantic blades. The Banelord is aligned to the Chaos God known as Khorne, and has taken on the appearance and hues associated with the Blood God. Flags, kill banners and pennants fly from the weapons and arms of the Titan, with the Mark of Khorne prominently displayed. It is not known if a Banelord is a corrupted Warlord Battle Titan or whether it was created in one of the Hell-Forges of a Dark Mechanicus Warpsmith. Like all servants of the Blood God, the furious-minded Banelord desires nothing more than to enter into close combat to get to grips with the enemy. Those followers of Khorne who fight alongside these ferocious war machines are strengthened by the release of psychic energy brought about by the bloodshed and death unleashed by the Banelord. Their potency increases if the battle continues to go well for the armies of Chaos. To add to its already formidable defences, the Banelord is under the protection of Khorne, and this makes it particularly resistant to psychic attacks.
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