Gettin' all fluffy with my army collection!
LET IT BE KNOWN that the
Scythes of the Emperor have recognized the resurrection of their chapter with an infusion of Primaris space marines by the Adeptus Mechanicus as a debt that cannot be ignored, and have, as repayment of that debt, launched what shall heretofore be known as the
Gryphonne Crusade to assist the
Gryphonne IV Remnants (with whom the Scythes have a particular solidarity in the shared experience of the loss of a homeworld to the Great Devourer) in scouting out, conquering, and founding a new Forge World at an appropriate site. Praise be to the Emperor! Praise be to the Omnissiah!
The Crusade has at its core an alliance of the Scythes of the Emperor's 2nd (Battle) company led by
Brother-Captain Fentius Jorr, and forces of Gryphonne IV consisting of the 1st Cohort (Expeditionary) of the forge world’s single remaining Macroclade, under the command of
Domina Vishti Ramh X10C5. The Crusade is accompanied by
Inquisitor Harken Alford of the Order Xenos and his retinue, on his own recognizance.
In the relatively short time they have been fighting together, Brother-Captain Jorr and Domina Ramh have developed respect for each others’ strengths—Jorr as a seasoned and powerful front-line fighter, and the Domina as a bona fide tactical genius—and find that they work well together, both on the battlefield and in the Chamber Tacticum. The Brother-Captain’s fiery zeal for the Crusade (he was one of its first and most enthusiastic proponents in the Chapter conclave) is tempered by Rahm’s rather more detached nature, while at the same time it cannot be denied that his fervor energizes her and the forces she commands, helping to overcome the sometimes too-careful conservatism her position as marshal of some of the last forces of Gryphonne IV has instilled in her. Inquisitor Alford’s presence is tolerated with unease at best by the Domina—she suspects, with a calculated accuracy rating of approximately 76.3%, that the Inquisitor would balk at or even interfere with the re-foundation of Gryphonne IV on the basis of xenotech findings, something which she herself sees as a distinct, and not unwelcome, possibility. She also suspects, with a calculated accuracy rating of approximately 92.8%, that this is in fact the very reason Inquisitor Alford attached himself to the Crusade. For his part, while Brother-Captain Jorr is privately not entirely fond of some of Alford’s more unorthodox methods, he is pleased at least to have a reliable psyker along, as the Scythes’ newly-reestablished Librarium did not yet have enough members to spare any for the Crusade, and he respects the Inquisitor as a dedicated agent of the Imperium who has proven ready and willing to put himself (and the troops he commands) in harm’s way in the Crusade’s battles.
(Basically, a fluff explanation for my probably sub-optimal choice of using AdMech allies and the cool Eisenhorn model I picked up at Yodobashi together with my Scythes for Nagoyahammer.
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I hope to get around to doing my own for the Exodites at some point. 