Brotherhood of Darkness

Brotherhood of Darkness
Warcry	Unknown
Founding	Unknown
Successors of	Unknown
Successor Warbands	Unknown
Number	Unknown
Primarch	Unknown
Chaos Lord	Unknown
Homeworld	Unknown
Allegiance	Chaos Chaos Undivided
Colours	Black with red trim and glowing yellow glyphs

Brotherhood of Darkness warband colour scheme

The Brotherhood of Darkness are a warband of Chaos Space Marines of unknown genetic origin and allegiance, though some scholars posit that they may be related to the Night Lords Traitor Legion, due to their similar iconography and their penchant for often working together as allies.

Warband History

At an unknown point after the Horus Heresy the Brotherhood of Darkness assaulted an Imperial astropathic relay station near the Eye of Terror, alongside the Chaos Sorcerer Ahzek Ahriman during his exile from the Thousand Sons Legion. They burned the relay station's astropaths alive and massacred the civilians aboard.

Notable Campaigns

• War of Broken Wings (261.M33) - A unified armada of vessels drawn from the Night Lords Legion and its myriad allies assaulted the Angels Sanguine Chapter's battlefleet in high orbit above their homeworld of Anzyra. The Angels Sanguine, fighting for their homeworld and the very survival of their Chapter, were pressed into a defensive battle to prevent the mass bombardment of their fortress-monastery. To end the engagement, which records list as lasting for several solar days of protracted void warfare and ship-to-ship boarding actions, the Angels Sanguine forced a final resolution by offering the perfect bait: they allowed their flagship, the Cruor Domina, to be crippled and boarded by hundreds of enemy Heretic Astartes. While the Space Marines defended their battle barge to keep it from being taken as a prize by the raiding Night Lords, a full three hundred Death Company warriors were sent by Boarding Torpedoes to slaughter their way through the vulnerable crews of eight enemy capital ships, including the renowned Lies of Dawn, the Foresworn, and the Brotherhood of Darkness' warship Sightless Godling. The Angels Sanguine, as a member Chapter of the Sanguinary Brotherhood, had always suffered fiercely from the Flaw in Sanguinius' gene-seed, and such an assault represented a standard century's worth of prisoners within their fortress-monastery's Tower of the Lost suffering from the Black Rage being unleashed into battle one last time. Without Chaplains to lead them, the afflicted Astartes of these Death Companies were sacrificed in desperation, with no hope of recovery. Yet their crazed assault turned the tide. Suddenly, at risk of losing many of their own flagships, the Traitor warbands fought their way back to their own vessels, only to be cut down by the enraged defenders as they turned their backs and fled. Those Traitors that managed to return to their own ships were met with entire decks left as abattoirs by the rampaging Space Marines of the Death Companies, and were forced to contend with the blood-maddened boarding parties even as they ordered their ships back from the primary assault.

• Qabbalis Heresy (Unknown Date.M40) - The Brotherhood of Darkness are known to have taken part in the Qabbalis Heresy.

• Destruction of Convoy 36/129/b (003.998.M41) - A convoy of Imperial vessels including cargo carriers, transport spacecraft and civilian passenger liners was ambushed by warships belonging to the Brotherhood of Darkness Chaos Space Marines in the Pandraxx Sub-sector of the Acteron Sector in the Ultima Segmentum. All spacecraft in the convoy were destroyed and no survivors were found.

Notable Warships

• Sightless Godling (Unknown Class) - A warship of the Brotherhood of Darkness that came under assault by the Black Rage-afflicted Death Companies unleashed by the Angels Sanguine upon the Heretic Astartes forces led by the Night Lords that assaulted their Chapter planet of Anzyra during the War of Broken Wings in 261.M33.

Warband Appearance

Warband Colours

The Brotherhood of Darkness wear jet-black power armour with red trim on the shoulder guards. The armour is covered in glowing, yellow blasphemous glyphs.

Warband Badge

The badge of the Brotherhood of Darkness is a bone-coloured, horned skull with crimson bat-like wings on a black background, strikingly similar to that of the Night Lords Traitor Legion.

Sources

• Ahriman: Exile (Novel) by John French, pp. 256, 579
• Battle Missions (2010), pg. 9
• Codex: Chaos Space Marines (4th Edition), pg. 18
• Index Astartes: Death Company (6th Edition) (Digital Edition), "Hall of Valour", pp. 9-10