Soul drinkers

Soul Drinkers
A Rogue Space Marine Chapter, were declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the Inquisition after there obsessive need to retrieve a relic called the soul spear (a vortex weapon gifted by Imperial Fists' Primarch, Rogal Dorn to there chapter at its founding) placed them in cofilct with the Adeptus Mechanicusplus the Adeptus Ministorum and Inquisition

witch resulted in the destrution of the lakonia star fort and major damage to several fleet ships of the Adeptus Ministorum and Adeptus Mechanicus. They are still very loyal to the Emperor, even though they have been exposed to the raw stuff of Chaos witch mutated the chapters marines apothecary Pallas managed to stop the spread of the mutation and halt he current one from advancing after the retrieval of information held on stratix luminae witch saw Sergeant tellos left behind.

In the 3rd novel crimson tear they come in to conflict with the crimson fist and dark eldar in an attempt to bring the now chaos marine tellos to justice. the fourth novel see the soul drinkers face enemy's from with in as well as with out brother Eumenes usurps the chapter leader ship from Sarpadon mean while the howling griffon's chapter has vowed to destroy the black chalice who they believe the soul drinkers are.

They were allegedly formed from the Imperial Fists' orbital assault contingent during the Second Founding. They participated along with the Imperial Fists, Fire Hawk and Black Templars chapters in the assault on Terra at the end of the Reign of Blood.

The current Chapter Master is a powerful Librarian by the name of Sarpedon. He is unique in that he has seven real arachnoid like legs and one mechanical, due to a mutation caused by Abraxes, a daemon prince of Tzeentch who was destroyed by the soul spear. He can telepathically send but not receive thoughts as well as being able to generate a mass illusion called 'The Hell', which feeds off the fears of his enemies.

Other notable marines in the chapter are Sergeant Tellos, apothecary Pallas, chapter master Eumenes, chaplain iktinos,Sergeant Luko

Their armour is purple with bone coloured shoulder pad trims and gold chest eagle. Their chapter badge is a golden chalice with three spikes rising out of the top.

The chapter's name derives from a mutation in their Omophagea. Normally this organ allows a Marine to absorb some of the memories of a creature by consuming its flesh;in the ceremony of the chalice in addition to this the Soul Drinkers also experience the creature's emotions and memories. Philosophically speaking they "see into the creature's soul".


 * ''See also Soul Drinkers contradiction for inconsistencies within published material about the founding of the Soul Drinkers.