Carcharias

Carcharias is an ice-cold Imperial Hive World covered in vast glacier fields that is also the Chapter homeworld of the Crimson Consul Space Marines. Carcharias is orbited by three moons named De Vere, Thusa Major and Thusa Minor. The capital hive city on Carcharias is called Hive Niveous, and its highest spirepeak served as the fortress-monastery of the Crimson Consuls, known locally as the Slaughterhorn. The Chapter used the Pale Maidens, three hive cities ruined hundreds of years in the past by a huge polar cyclone storm only remembered by Carcharians as "the Big One," as their primary training grounds. Another major hive city, Hive Archaphrael, was surrounded by a region referred to as the "Dry-Blind," which was a thik crust of snow and ice layered over the myriad crevasses and cracks within the glacial fields that covered the majority of the frozen planet's surface. The Dry-Blind was extremely dangerous to travel over, as the crevasses were often covered over by a layer of soft snow and the danger of falling into the great cracks to one's death was a real and ever-present one.