Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-3416287-20140306195559/@comment-24405075-20140513082449

My made up 11th legion known as the "Blank Shadows" called that because they were a legion made up of pariahs. Their primarch, Umbra, has no known homeworld and has no record of his birth instead the earliest records of him were in the Culexus temple were he ws being trained. as a primarch he grew and learned quickly shooting up the ranks of his temple and was rumored to be slated to be the next head assasin if not for being discovered by Malcador The Sigil on one of his inspections of the temple.

Their coat of arms was a black skull ( like in pirate flags) that had no eye sockets. Their legion colors was black with a gray trim. Their opus morendi was assasinations and more often than not never entered a battlefield and instead operated behind the lines taking out   enemy commanders. they were also employed in hunting down psychic beings and rogue witches.

despite his status as a primarch. Umbra was often shunned by others and most legions such as the thousand sons and the space wolves would refuse to enter a campaign if he and his legion was involved. This left the entire legion wholly dissatisfied and angry with the imperium, this was further escalted as he was also shunned by his father, the Emperor, who was a psychic and hated pariahs.

A few decades before the Horus heresy the whole legion suddenly disappeared. due to their often secretive nature this wasnt reported at first but when their disappearance strectched into months, the emperor sent a team to investigate what had happened to them but by then they were too late and the Blank Shadows had completly erased their existance.

Fast forward into the 41st millenium and scattered reports have started to reach terra of Astartes with the legion colors of the blank shadows fighting alongside the tau empire