War Hounds



Of all the Space Marine Legions created by the Emperor of Mankind during the First Founding, none were more feared than the World Eaters. Always leading the bloodiest assaults and most vicious battles of the Great Crusade, the name of the the World Eaters soon became a byword for bloodshed and fear on a mass scale. The XII Space Marine Legion was active in the Great Crusade for several decades before its Primarch Angron was rediscovered. During that time the Legion was known as the War Hounds, a name that had been chosen by the Emperor after he saw the XII Legion fight in the Cephic hive-sprawls and they reminded him of the white war hounds the Yeshk warriors in the north of Terra once used. Angron renamed his Legion the World Eaters after he assumed command. He chose the new name for his Legion when Dreagher, a Terran-born Astartes who served as Captain of the Legion's 9th Company, promised Angron after meeting his Primarch for the first time that under his leadership the War Hounds would become "...the eater of worlds."