Sons of Malice

The Sons of Malice are a Renegade Chapter of Chaos Space Marines who turned Renegade some time prior to the start of the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41. It was originally founded to watch over the sectors of Imperial space surrounding the Eye of Terror. Events leading to the Chapter's excommunication began following the successful end of the Cilix 225 Campaign against heretics who had threatened to depressurize three underwater hive cities on that world, and ultimately led the Chapter to declare itself to be both enemies of the Imperium of Man and the Forces of Chaos even as it took up service with a Chaos God, the Renegade God Malal.

Chapter History
Kathal, the Captain of the 1st Company of the Sons of Malice, was granted the honour of leading the Chapter's victory rites after the successful completion of the Cilix 225 Campaign. These rites bordered on cannibalism, and were observed by Inquisitor Pietas, a senior member of the Ordo Hereticus who had accompanied the Astartes to Cilix 225. Although flesh-eating rituals are not uncommon among the Space Marines, particularly among Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels, Pietas was horrified by the Sons of Malice's behaviour and believing them to have been corrupted by some Chaotic taint, mobilised a strike force of Adepta Sororitas Celestians to deal with the heretics. The Sisters made planetfall on the Chapter homeworld of Scelus right in the midst of the Chapter at the height of their victory celebrations. Kathal and his troops responded to the interference with their sacred Chapter rites by savagely attacking the Inquisitorial strike force, defeating the Celestians. Kathal dragged the meddling Inquisitor before the Chapter altar where she was ritually sacrificed and her flesh devoured by the Sons of Malice.

Following this direct blow against the Imperium, the Sons of Malice were declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the High Lords of Terra and now reside within the Eye of Terror, from which they wage a hate-fueled war against both the Imperium they believed betrayed them, as well as against all the other Forces of Chaos, for the Sons of Malice have become the instruments of Malal, the Renegade God of Chaos who grows in power by assaulting his fellow Chaos Gods and their servants, for Chaos even feeds upon itself.

Notable Campaigns

 * Cilix 225 Campaign (41st Millennium) - The Sons of Malice successfully prevented a band of heretics from detonating weapons that would have depressurised 3 underwater hive cities on the water world of Cilix 225.
 * The 13th Black Crusade (999.M41) - During Abaddon's 13th Black Crusade the Sons of Malice fought against the Imperial forces, trying to reclaim their Chapter homeworld of Scelus.

Chapter Warcry
The Sons of Malice reportedly fight in utter silence, and those who have fought against them cite this as the prime source of the deeply disturbing aura surrounding them.

Chapter Homeworld
The Scelus Sub-sector is a lonely, isolated area of space on the western edge of the Eye of Terror in the Segmentum Obscurus. Scelus, the capital world of the sub-sector, was the Chapter homeworld of the Sons of Malice, and was declared Perdita at the time the Chapter turned upon the Imperium. A cold, desolate place, Scelus is home to the savage and barbaric tribes from which the Sons of Malice recruit their number. It is made up of jagged, blackened mountain ranges, with almost no moisture in the atmosphere at all. A barren, rocky world whose meager population eke out a precarious existence on the flanks of the more sheltered mountain ranges. The native tribes were almost entirely eradicated by the Cadian 331st Regiment of the Imperial Guard in a planet-wide campaign of genocide after it was revealed that the grisly tendencies that led to the Sons of Malice’s excommunication was found to be rooted in the barbaric practices of the feral population.

The Labyrinth (a Space Hulk) is the closest thing the Sons of Malice currently have to a permanent base, although they only visit it once per century. On this occasion, a small number of Brothers of the Chapter volunteer to participate in the "Challenge of the Labyrinth", an ultimate trial undergone by those who wish to prove their worth to Malal.

Chapter Colours
The Sons of Malice Chapter paints their Power Armour as quartered black and white, with silver trim

Chapter Badge
The Sons of Malice Chapter badge is a skull that is white on its left side and black on its right, very similar to the Mark of Malal.