In battle, this being comes to dominate the mind and body of the warrior. It is said that each of the Gal Vorbak was a host to some form of warp entity, itself subservient to the greater scheme plotted between Warmaster Horus and the nightmare powers beyond. Their psyches infiltrated by creatures from the darkness of the Ether, the survivors are named the Gal Vorbak or “Blessed Sons” in the language of Colchis, and are possessed of strengths and abilities far above those of other astartes. The Gal Vorbak is built upon the remnants of the Serrated Sun Chapter of the Word Bearers Legion, the conquerors of the primitive world of Cadia who looked into the depths of the Eye of Terror itself and in doing so were changed for all time. Their 40k counterparts are often regarded with scorn when deployed on the table – so how do the progenitors of the unit fare? The first of what the modern imperium would call possessed chaos space marines, the Gal Vorbak were the elite of the Word Bearers legion during the upheaval that the Horus Heresy created. Combining deadly combat skills with the ferocity of a daemon, the Gal Vorbak had few opponents that could match them. During the Horus Heresy, the Gal Vorbak became one of the most sinister and feared forces to deploy on the war torn worlds of the imperium.

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