History Characters / TheRoboutianHeresy

* TheManBehindTheMan: While the Ethereals manipulate all of T'au society (and their client races) Farsight's visions reveals that they themselves are slaves to ''something'' that he can't see.

* [[Characters/TheRoboutianHeresyLegionesAstartes Legiones Astartes]]

** [[Characters/TheRoboutianHeresyLegionesAstartes]]

[[folder:Eldrad Ultran]]

An infamous heretec who predates Imperium.

[[folder:Eldrad]]

[[/folder]]
!Ruinous Powers
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[[folder:Slaanesh]]

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[[folder:Tzeentch]]

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[[folder:Khorne]]

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[[folder:Nurgle]]

* {{Determinator}}: At least according to his own admission, has been alive and fighting for humanity since before the Dark Age of Technology, so at least 25,000 years old. During this long life, he has faced off Eldar, Chaos, various aliens, human warlords and even the Emperor. He never gave up his dream of a species-wide transcendence into the machine for humanity in face of all that.

!Gods

[[/folder Khorne]]
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!!Unaligned

* [[Characters/TheRoboutianHeresyLegionesAstartes Legiones Astartes]]

!!The Lost and the Damned

[[folder:General]]

[[folder:[[spoiler:The Death Korps of Krieg]]]]
A corrupted army/horde of hateful and bloodthirsty soldiers from the destroyed war world of Krieg, the Death Korps are one of the L&D forces Sigismund the Destroyer had cultivated over ten thousand years for his ultimate blood crusade against the Imperium and the galaxy.
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* BadassNormal: Take everything great about the Death Korps of Krieg in canon, give them to these Khornate Kriegers, and you will have a good idea as to how dangerous they are in the RH-verse. Jurten's vengeful Blood Crusade against the Imperium after conquering Krieg managed to ravage over fifty star systems and took no less than ''three Space Marine legions'' and billions of Imperial Guardsmen to finally put down, and even then not completely. Even ''Khorne'' and Sigismund the Destroyer was impressed by them, and the Kriegers are among the very few the latter shows even a modicum of respect in their dealings.
* FallenHero: Colonel Jurten in this timeline, all because of an [[ObstructiveBureaucrat administrative]] [[ForWantOfANail screw]]-[[NiceJobBreakingItHero up]].
* ForWantOfANail: An administrative error led to Colonel Jurten receiving no notification from the Imperium at large that a fleet capable of breaking through the rebelling Krieg world's orbital defences would be forthcoming nor instructions to use any means necessary to fight back. As a result, rather than doing it almost immediately to even the odds, Jurten and the Imperial loyalists held out conventionally for many years in increasingly grim and desperate odds and circumstances before finally resorting to atomic warfare. Witnessing the sheer devastation he wrought upon Krieg in the name of the silent God Emperor emotionally broke the by then spiritually and physically exhausted colonel, allowing the Dark Gods to reach into his soul in his moment of abject horror, doubt and vulnerability. Believing the Emperor and the Imperium abandoned Jurten and Krieg to their fate, Jurten went mad and embraced Khorne, followed by his subordinates and followers, and after finally winning the war on Krieg hijacked Imperial vessels to go on a vengeful rampage across the galaxy, nuking world after world and slaughtering uncounted millions with his mass-produced Krieg korpsmen before his Blood Crusade was finally stopped and pushed back to Krieg with the combined might of no less than three Space Marine legions and billions of Imperial Guardsmen. However, the sheer carnage they wrought would lead to them being spirited away by Khorne before the Death Guards could exterminate them all, depositing them into a space hulk where they would rebuild their strength and form a tenous alliance with Sigismund and his Black Templars warband.
* WarIsHell: Like their loyalist counterparts from canon, the Death Korps of Krieg represents the sheer dehumanisation of industrial warfare which Khorne also embodies. Everything already horrible about them - being legions of faceless mass-produced soldiers obeying their orders without fear or conscience, killing without hesitation or mercy, living and dying bleak existences as disposable weapons of galactic war and genocide - are ramped UpToEleven. Some in the Imperium believe the Kriegers are what await Humanity-at-large should Khorne corrupt the species.

!!Unaligned
[[folder:Moravec]]
* {{Determinator}}: At least according to his own admission, has been alive and fighting for humanity since before the Dark Age of Technology, so at least 25,000 years old. During this long life, he has faced off Eldar, Chaos, various aliens, human warlords and even the Emperor. He never gave up his dream of a species-wide transcendence into the machine for humanity in face of all that.
* MadScientist: Scientist - "upgraded" himself with machine transcendence. Mad - allied with Chaos against Eldar, then turned against Chaos by cutting his own body off. Mad Scientist - merged with the Void Dragon.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Became this after fusing with the Void Dragon to become [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Moravec-as-the-Dragon]]. As per [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-roboutian-heresy-a-warhammer-40k-alternate-universe.440554/page-379#post-80206636/ Word of God]], Moravec could even, somehow, kill '''the Emperor''' in this state.
[[/folder]]
!Eldar
[[folder:Eldrad]]
* AdaptationalBadass: While already the greatest Eldar seer alive in canon, RH Eldrad goes even further, becoming [[PhysicalGod the Eldar God of the Dead incarnate briefly]] and its herald permanently.
[[/folder]]

!!Imperium of Man
!!!Leadership
[[folder:The Emperor of Mankind]]
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The Emperor seems to be much more openly caring of his sons, with the fic detailing several heartwarming moments between him and characters such as Lorgar, Perturabo, Angron, etc., when they first meet. There is one aversion of this trope, however: when the Emperor comes to rescue Corax from the Tech-lords, he seems to view Corax as nothing more than a tool to be used (which is disturbingly similar to what the canon Emperor told Guilliman). However, it's implied the Emperor merely pretended to act coldly in order to avoid looking weak in front of the Tech-lords, who might have tried to manipulate him into an unfavorable bargain if he openly displayed affection and concern for his son. In addition, the scene is from Corax's perspective, who may be an Unreliable Narrator.
* AndIMustScream: When we finally get to see what His ascension to the Golden Throne meant. And he endured that for ''ten thousand years''.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Rather than accept godhood and ascending to become a true power in the Warp to counter the Ruinous Powers as his son Omegon had wanted and planned, the Emperor of Mankind decides to finally die and disperse his vast accumulated power and conglomerate souls across time and space, leading to the creation of every Imperial Saint throughout imperial history as well as other things, all to give the Imperium and Humanity facing the 'Time of Endings' a fighting chance to survive and prevail against the forces arrayed against them]].
* KillTheGod: [[spoiler:On the receiving end of this courtesy of His NayTheist son Lorgar Aurelian, with His full consent as a MercyKill to end His ten-thousand years torment/vigil on the Golden Throne and allowing him to pull off His HeroicSacrifice]].
** [[spoiler:With the end of the Angel War and its revelations this is also the true nature and ramification of His act: the Warp operates on ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve, where 'Perception becomes Reality becomes Law'. Having been seen as or is a god whether He like it or not thanks to ten thousand years of worship, by allowing Himself to be killed by mortal hands (or close enough with his Primarch son), He made it possible for all the other powers and false gods of the Warp to be killed by mortals as well]]. This became apparent when at the climax of the Angel War, [[spoiler:Lorgar and Epharel Stern was able to use the Sword That Was Promised to wound '''Slaanesh''', forever marring hir 'perfect' visage and ''frightening'' hir into fleeing the Sol system in pain, fear and rage, the implication there being that they really could had killed hir right then and there with the Sword being powered by untold aeons of accumulated hopes and dreams of Humanity]].

[[folder:Malcador the Sigilite]]
* ChessmasterSidekick: As in canon, most of the Imperium's non-Astartes institutions and institutional failsafes by extension are Malcador's legacies, including the Administratum, the Assassins (technically under the Admin's power, but worthy of its own mention), the Inquisition and (partially) the Grey Knights.
* HeroicSacrifice: As in canon, Malcador dies again holding the Golden Throne against the tides of Chaos while the Emperor and Magnus fight Roboute and Lion El'Jonson respectively, in separate duels.
* InSpiteOfANail: While much has changed in the Roboutian Heresy, Malcador's story did not diverge much from his canon self. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as Malcador himself and his role in the Imperium was not affected much by these changes.

[[folder:The Martian Collective]]
* AncientConspiracy: A surprisingly young example of this trope, aged "merely" around ten thousand years during the events of the Times of Ending. They are responsible for [[spoiler: maintaining the lie that the Imperium "won" on Mars during the Heresy by keeping traitor remnants of the Mechanicum out of sight]].
* GeniusCripple: Joining the Collective means this as members [[BrainInAJar are stripped of almost their entire body]].
* GodzillaThreshold: The constant stream of abominations created in the Haydesian Kingdoms have forced the Collective to innovate and research just to prepare effective counters to whatever lurks in the martian depths. The best example of this are the Itzamna Proxies and the Heliarchs: The former are nanotechnology bound by what are functionally AI without true sapience, and the later are regretful hereteks bound to the sun's essence to wield a fraction of its power.
* SecretWar: [[spoiler: The Collective is the guiding force behind the Adeptus Mechanicus' secret war against their traitor counterparts]].
* TheStrategist: The Collective is ''collectively'' this on the grand scale, and has individual members of military upbringing fitting this trope on the battlefield with their brains floating in [[TankGoodness coffins]].

!!!The Inquisition
[[folder:Ramius Steele]]
* LivingMacGuffin: Like his canon self, Ramius only matters because he has information leading to [[MacGuffin Sanguinius' lost legendary weapon, the Spear of Telesto]], and...
* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Like his canon self, Ramius set up a plot against the Blood Angels while being possessed by a daemon]]. At least [[AdaptationalVillainy this time around he does not need to corrupt them]].

[[folder:Bronislaw Czevak]]
* MacGuffinEscortMission: Almost all of Czevak's screentime is devoted to his mission transporting the Atlas Infernal, a map of the Webway, to Cypher.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Morgana]]
!!!Daughter of Luther, adoptive sister to Lion El'Jonson, Lady Inquisitor
* AdaptationalBadass: Morgana's canon counterpart [[KilledOffScreen died sometime before Luther found Lion]]. She gets an entire storyline in this alternate universe. Technically does not fit this trope because she, in canon, has no character.
* TheAgeless: Has lived for over ten thousand years, being born to Luther, trained by the Watchers in the Dark, fought on Caliban, been one of the founding members of the Inquisition and [[SeenItAll serving the organization to this day facing some of the galaxy's darkest facets]]. Has been wounded during the War of Unmaking on Caliban.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Myth/ArthurianLegend.
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!!!The Imperial Guard
[[folder:Ciaphas Cain. Hero of the Imperium]]
* AdaptationalBadass: From his introduction to in the cadian apocalypse Part III we can glean that his life up to at least [[Literature/CiaphasCain Cain's Last Stand]] has gone in a mostly similar way. But on top of his exploits he also: Became an operative of the Alpha Legion, survived the political intrigues of Holy Terra and the High Lords themselves, and is trusted enough to be shipped straight to Cadia to strenghten it against Fabius Bile's black crusade. During the events of The Cadian Apocalypse he has also [[spoiler: foiled the plans of an Archduke of Cysgorog to ruin Cadia's defenses, was proclaimed as Comissar-Castellan of the entire planet, fought to destroy cults of Tzeentch all across Cadia with members of the Alpha Legion and the Grey Knights, renewed the resolution of several Custodes sent to him in the wake of the Emperor's death, ran a mostly succesful evacuation from Kasr Tyrok to the Elysion fields and Kasr Kraf, and become a [[BackFromTheDead LIVING SAINT]]]]!
* OocIsSeriousBusiness:
** Despite Cain's self-proclaimed annoyance at so-called "Emperor-botherers", his introduction in The Cadian Apocalypse pat III is a prayer to the Emperor for clarity and guidance.
** Amberley Vail notes that after [[spoiler: Jurgen's death,]] Cain acted with absolute anger, Cain himself notes that he was extremely close to falling into Khorne's embrace at the moment.
* SeenItAll: According to WordOfGod, differences between Cain's usual behavior and what is seen here are due to having plenty more of experience, with an [[OlderAndWiser age to match.]]
* [[spoiler: WhatYouAreInTheDark: After his death at the hands of the Lord of Wraiths he realizes that one of the Emperor's shards is ready to bond with him, either to protect his soul from the daemons that want revenge on him or to become a Living Saint. Hearing all of the people he led shouting his name in defiance is enough for him to choose the latter.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lord Castellan Ursakar E. Creed [[spoiler: Korahael. Archduke of Cysgorog]]]]
* [[spoiler: AdaptationalVillainy: This time he survived the Chaos Assault in Kasr Gallan because he was actually possesed by an Archduke of Cysgorog, allowing him to rise to the position of Castellan and be the one left in charge after the Tyrok infamy.]]
* [[spoiler: MoleInCharge: After Chaos Cults attacked the mustering of Imperial command in Kasr Tyrok he was placed in charge of Cadia's defenses, allowing him to subtly sabotage the placement of units to make weaknesses for the black crusade to exploit. If Ciaphas Cain hadn't noticed and stopped him the planet would have fallen in days.]]
* [[spoiler: MotivationalLie: After Korahael's vanishment the official story as that Creed had been wounded by a poisoned blade, eventually developing a Warp-born sickness that he accidentally spread to his command staff and the Cadian 8th, resulting in their purge.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ibram Gaunt]]
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil:
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Thanks to Cain's efforts he is turned into an avatar of Vindicta, allowing him and the rest of the Ghosts to turn against the remaining Dark Angels in the Elysion Fields.]]
* KilledOffScreen: Since the one who attacked Tanith in this timeline is an Imperial Fist voidmaster, all means of escaping the planet were lost before anyone could escape. Meaning that all three regiments on the planet were forced to fight to the end, and the Tanith First-and-Only were never created. According to the Alpha Legion's intel he is presumed dead, but [[his body was never seen as a trophy NeverFoundTheBody]] among the Chaos troops. [[spoiler: This is because he was captured]]
* UndeadAbomination: [[spoiler: As the Lord of the Wraiths he was ritually bonded to the spirits of Tanith's guardsmen, allowing him to command the tortured ghosts into battle]]
* [[spoiler: SurprisinglySuddenDeath: In the middle of turning the tide, Khalida was suddenly assassinated by a Tzeentch-cloaked Azrael. However, in a universe where souls exist, she is NotQuiteDead at this point. Two chapters later she reveals that she was NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay.]]
[[/folder]]
!!!Others
[[folder:Khalida the Watchful Daugther]]
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Khalida was found by the Thousand Sons on a planet within a [[EvilTaintedThePlace Chaos-tainted supernova]], which is [[https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Wrath_of_the_Chaos_Sun an event of repurposed canon infamy]].
* LivingMacGuffin: As an alpha-plus psyker, Khalida is so powerful even [[DoesNotLikeMagic Khorne]] wants her. Tzeentch refers to her as the Emperor's "pawn" outright.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Single-handedly turns the tide of battle during the siege of Terathalion's most important city, Ahat-iakby.
* ShoutOut: Following Zahariel's tradition of employing the trope for original characters, Khalida appears to be one for [[https://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Khalida_Neferher/ Khalida the Tomb Queen]].
* [[spoiler: SurprisinglySuddenDeath: In the middle of turning the tide, Khalida was suddenly assassinated by a Tzeentch-cloaked Azrael. However, in a universe where souls exist, she is NotQuiteDead at this point. Two chapters later she reveals that she was NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay.]]
[[/folder]]

!!The Lost and the Damned

[[folder:General]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:[[spoiler:The Death Korps of Krieg]]]]
A corrupted army/horde of hateful and bloodthirsty soldiers from the destroyed war world of Krieg, the Death Korps are one of the L&D forces Sigismund the Destroyer had cultivated over ten thousand years for his ultimate blood crusade against the Imperium and the galaxy.
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* BadassNormal: Take everything great about the Death Korps of Krieg in canon, give them to these Khornate Kriegers, and you will have a good idea as to how dangerous they are in the RH-verse. Jurten's vengeful Blood Crusade against the Imperium after conquering Krieg managed to ravage over fifty star systems and took no less than ''three Space Marine legions'' and billions of Imperial Guardsmen to finally put down, and even then not completely. Even ''Khorne'' and Sigismund the Destroyer was impressed by them, and the Kriegers are among the very few the latter shows even a modicum of respect in their dealings.
* FallenHero: Colonel Jurten in this timeline, all because of an [[ObstructiveBureaucrat administrative]] [[ForWantOfANail screw]]-[[NiceJobBreakingItHero up]].
* ForWantOfANail: An administrative error led to Colonel Jurten receiving no notification from the Imperium at large that a fleet capable of breaking through the rebelling Krieg world's orbital defences would be forthcoming nor instructions to use any means necessary to fight back. As a result, rather than doing it almost immediately to even the odds, Jurten and the Imperial loyalists held out conventionally for many years in increasingly grim and desperate odds and circumstances before finally resorting to atomic warfare. Witnessing the sheer devastation he wrought upon Krieg in the name of the silent God Emperor emotionally broke the by then spiritually and physically exhausted colonel, allowing the Dark Gods to reach into his soul in his moment of abject horror, doubt and vulnerability. Believing the Emperor and the Imperium abandoned Jurten and Krieg to their fate, Jurten went mad and embraced Khorne, followed by his subordinates and followers, and after finally winning the war on Krieg hijacked Imperial vessels to go on a vengeful rampage across the galaxy, nuking world after world and slaughtering uncounted millions with his mass-produced Krieg korpsmen before his Blood Crusade was finally stopped and pushed back to Krieg with the combined might of no less than three Space Marine legions and billions of Imperial Guardsmen. However, the sheer carnage they wrought would lead to them being spirited away by Khorne before the Death Guards could exterminate them all, depositing them into a space hulk where they would rebuild their strength and form a tenous alliance with Sigismund and his Black Templars warband.
* WarIsHell: Like their loyalist counterparts from canon, the Death Korps of Krieg represents the sheer dehumanisation of industrial warfare which Khorne also embodies. Everything already horrible about them - being legions of faceless mass-produced soldiers obeying their orders without fear or conscience, killing without hesitation or mercy, living and dying bleak existences as disposable weapons of galactic war and genocide - are ramped UpToEleven. Some in the Imperium believe the Kriegers are what await Humanity-at-large should Khorne corrupt the species.
[[/folder]]

!!Unaligned
[[folder:Moravec]]
* {{Determinator}}: At least according to his own admission, has been alive and fighting for humanity since before the Dark Age of Technology, so at least 25,000 years old. During this long life, he has faced off Eldar, Chaos, various aliens, human warlords and even the Emperor. He never gave up his dream of a species-wide transcendence into the machine for humanity in face of all that.
* MadScientist: Scientist - "upgraded" himself with machine transcendence. Mad - allied with Chaos against Eldar, then turned against Chaos by cutting his own body off. Mad Scientist - merged with the Void Dragon.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Became this after fusing with the Void Dragon to become [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Moravec-as-the-Dragon]]. As per [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-roboutian-heresy-a-warhammer-40k-alternate-universe.440554/page-379#post-80206636/ Word of God]], Moravec could even, somehow, kill '''the Emperor''' in this state.
[[/folder]]
!Eldar
[[folder:Eldrad]]
* AdaptationalBadass: While already the greatest Eldar seer alive in canon, RH Eldrad goes even further, becoming [[PhysicalGod the Eldar God of the Dead incarnate briefly]] and its herald permanently.
[[/folder]]

* [[Characters/TheRoboutianHeresyImperiumOfMan]]
* [[Characters/TheRoboutianHeresyForcesOfChaos ForcesOfChaos]]

[[folder:Lord Castellan Ursakar E. Creed [[Korahael. Archduke of Cysgorog]]]]

[[folder:Lord Castellan Ursakar E. Creed]]
* [[spoiler: SurprisinglySuddenDeath: In the middle of turning the tide, Khalida was suddenly assassinated by a Tzeentch-cloaked Azrael. However, in a universe where souls exist, she is NotQuiteDead at this point. Two chapters later she reveals that she was NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay.]]

!!The Imperial Guard

* [[spoiler: SurprisinglySuddenDeath: In the middle of turning the tide, Khalida was suddenly assassinated by a Tzeentch-cloaked Azrael. However, in a universe where souls exist, she is NotQuiteDead at this point. Two chapters later she reveals that she was NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay.]]

[[folder:Khalida the Watchful Daugther]]
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Khalida was found by the Thousand Sons on a planet within a [[EvilTaintedThePlace Chaos-tainted supernova]], which is [[https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Wrath_of_the_Chaos_Sun an event of repurposed canon infamy]].
* LivingMacGuffin: As an alpha-plus psyker, Khalida is so powerful even [[DoesNotLikeMagic Khorne]] wants her. Tzeentch refers to her as the Emperor's "pawn" outright.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Single-handedly turns the tide of battle during the siege of Terathalion's most important city, Ahat-iakby.
* ShoutOut: Following Zahariel's tradition of employing the trope for original characters, Khalida appears to be one for [[https://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Khalida_Neferher/ Khalida the Tomb Queen]].
* [[spoiler: SurprisinglySuddenDeath: In the middle of turning the tide, Khalida was suddenly assassinated by a Tzeentch-cloaked Azrael. However, in a universe where souls exist, she is NotQuiteDead at this point. Two chapters later she reveals that she was NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay.]]
[[/folder]]

!!The Inquisition

!!The Lost and the Damned

[[folder:General]]

[[folder:[[spoiler:The Death Korps of Krieg]]]]
A corrupted army/horde of hateful and bloodthirsty soldiers from the destroyed war world of Krieg, the Death Korps are one of the L&D forces Sigismund the Destroyer had cultivated over ten thousand years for his ultimate blood crusade against the Imperium and the galaxy.
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* BadassNormal: Take everything great about the Death Korps of Krieg in canon, give them to these Khornate Kriegers, and you will have a good idea as to how dangerous they are in the RH-verse. Jurten's vengeful Blood Crusade against the Imperium after conquering Krieg managed to ravage over fifty star systems and took no less than ''three Space Marine legions'' and billions of Imperial Guardsmen to finally put down, and even then not completely. Even ''Khorne'' and Sigismund the Destroyer was impressed by them, and the Kriegers are among the very few the latter shows even a modicum of respect in their dealings.
* FallenHero: Colonel Jurten in this timeline, all because of an [[ObstructiveBureaucrat administrative]] [[ForWantOfANail screw]]-[[NiceJobBreakingItHero up]].
* ForWantOfANail: An administrative error led to Colonel Jurten receiving no notification from the Imperium at large that a fleet capable of breaking through the rebelling Krieg world's orbital defences would be forthcoming nor instructions to use any means necessary to fight back. As a result, rather than doing it almost immediately to even the odds, Jurten and the Imperial loyalists held out conventionally for many years in increasingly grim and desperate odds and circumstances before finally resorting to atomic warfare. Witnessing the sheer devastation he wrought upon Krieg in the name of the silent God Emperor emotionally broke the by then spiritually and physically exhausted colonel, allowing the Dark Gods to reach into his soul in his moment of abject horror, doubt and vulnerability. Believing the Emperor and the Imperium abandoned Jurten and Krieg to their fate, Jurten went mad and embraced Khorne, followed by his subordinates and followers, and after finally winning the war on Krieg hijacked Imperial vessels to go on a vengeful rampage across the galaxy, nuking world after world and slaughtering uncounted millions with his mass-produced Krieg korpsmen before his Blood Crusade was finally stopped and pushed back to Krieg with the combined might of no less than three Space Marine legions and billions of Imperial Guardsmen. However, the sheer carnage they wrought would lead to them being spirited away by Khorne before the Death Guards could exterminate them all, depositing them into a space hulk where they would rebuild their strength and form a tenous alliance with Sigismund and his Black Templars warband.
* WarIsHell: Like their loyalist counterparts from canon, the Death Korps of Krieg represents the sheer dehumanisation of industrial warfare which Khorne also embodies. Everything already horrible about them - being legions of faceless mass-produced soldiers obeying their orders without fear or conscience, killing without hesitation or mercy, living and dying bleak existences as disposable weapons of galactic war and genocide - are ramped UpToEleven. Some in the Imperium believe the Kriegers are what await Humanity-at-large should Khorne corrupt the species.

!!!Unaligned
[[folder:Moravec]]
* {{Determinator}}: At least according to his own admission, has been alive and fighting for humanity since before the Dark Age of Technology, so at least 25,000 years old. During this long life, he has faced off Eldar, Chaos, various aliens, human warlords and even the Emperor. He never gave up his dream of a species-wide transcendence into the machine for humanity in face of all that.
* MadScientist: Scientist - "upgraded" himself with machine transcendence. Mad - allied with Chaos against Eldar, then turned against Chaos by cutting his own body off. Mad Scientist - merged with the Void Dragon.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Became this after fusing with the Void Dragon to become [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Moravec-as-the-Dragon]]. As per [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-roboutian-heresy-a-warhammer-40k-alternate-universe.440554/page-379#post-80206636/ Word of God]], Moravec could even, somehow, kill '''the Emperor''' in this state.

!Eldar
[[folder:Eldrad]]
* AdaptationalBadass: While already the greatest Eldar seer alive in canon, RH Eldrad goes even further, becoming [[PhysicalGod the Eldar God of the Dead incarnate briefly]] and its herald permanently.

!!Unaligned

* BadassNormal: Take everything great about the Death Korps of Krieg in canon, give them to these Khornite Kriegers, and you will have a good idea as to how dangerous they are in the RH-verse. Jurten's vengeful Blood Crusade against the Imperium after conquering Krieg managed to ravage over fifty star systems and took no less than ''three Space Marine legions'' and billions of Imperial Guardsmen to finally put down, and even then not completely. Even ''Khorne'' and Sigismund the Destroyer was impressed by them, and the Kriegers are among the very few the latter shows even a modicum of respect in their dealings.