History FanFic / WarbandOfTheForsakenSons

* BloodBrothers: That is the main reason the Forsaken Sons avoid infighting. They all fought together during the Exodus, and all have saved the life of almost every other Legionary - and been saved in turn.

* DemonicPossession: There are a few Gal Vorbak aboard the ''Hand of Ruin'', though they haven't made an appearance yet. The main example is [[spoiler: the Blood Champion, a World Eater who got possessed while butchering humans on a world engulfed in a Warp Storm]]. And in chapters 6 and 15, [[spoiler: [[UpToEleven first we see a forge-world possessed by a giant daemon, then Arken's warpsmiths create three possessed warships]] ]].

The fic, written by Zahariel of ''Fanfic/TheRoboutianHeresy'' fame, follows the adventures of the Traitor Marines as they seek their revenge upon the Imperium. It has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a lot of characters]], used to show the points of view of very different individuals in a group of Chaos-tainted traitors. Unlike most of such groups, it has so far been spared the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder infighting]] that tends to afflict them, united by Arken against the Imperium.

The fic, written by Zahariel, follows the adventures of the Traitor Marines as they seek their revenge upon the Imperium. It has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a lot of characters]], used to show the points of view of very different individuals in a group of Chaos-tainted traitors. Unlike most of such groups, it has so far been spared by the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder infighting]] that tends to afflict them, united by Arken against the Imperium.

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Asim, when channelling the power of the Warp to teleport the inmates of Parecxis Gamma to the nearby hive-world. It doesn't last, though.]]
* AndIMustScream : Poor, poor [[spoiler:Governor Tarsis]].
* ArcWords : the question 'what do you want ?' is asked at several times, to several characters. It highlights the motivations of those who would willingly side with Chaos and its representants.
* AristocratsAreEvil : Played with. On the planets conquered by the Forsaken Sons, some aristocrats will ally with them, while others - which are easily slaughtered - will fight to the last. And the governors we have seen so far appear astonishingly more competent than most readers of [=WH40K=] will be used to. According to [[WordOfGod Zahariel]], this is because the Imperium is still young and the inbreeding in the nobility still hasn't destroyed the capacities for which they became nobility in the first place.
* AxCrazy : We get to see into the mind of a World Eater in chapter four, and he has since become a recurring character.
* BloodBrothers : That is the main reason the Forsaken Sons avoid infighting. They all fought together during the Exodus, and all have saved the life of almost every other Legionary - and been saved in turn.
* BodyguardingABadass : Arken has a squad of Sons of Horus as his guards every time he takes to the field. Unlike most examples of this trope, in the third chapter, they save his life by dragging him to the transport while [[spoiler: the planet collapses]].
* CallingTheOldManOut : Though Horus is long dead by that point, in chapter two, Arken explains to all of the Forsaken Sons why their Primarchs failed and caused the rebels to lose the war. All nine of them.
* CursedWithAwesome / BlessedWithSuck : Arken does not need to sleep. Nor can he if he wants. This allows him to lead his warband more effectively, but it causes a strain on his mind that he can only release in [[spoiler: the Oracle's Chamber]].
* DemonicPossession : There are a few Gal Vorbak aboard the ''Hand of Ruin'', though they haven't made an appearance yet. The main example is [[spoiler: the Blood Champion, a World Eater who got possessed while butchering humans on a world engulfed in a Warp Storm]]. And in chapters 6 and 15, [[spoiler: [[UpToEleven first we see a forge-world possessed by a giant daemon, then Arken's warpsmiths create three possessed warships]] ]].
* DespairEventHorizon : When Horus dies at the beginning of the fic, Arken feels like he is about to experience this, and muses that he has seen Space Marines of the Iron Hands and Blood Angels react very differently to their own Primarch's death : some with soul-crushing sorrow, the others with fury such as the galaxy had never seen. He then decides that he knows which path he will follow.
* DidntSeeThatComing : Serixithar, [[spoiler: the daemon prince of Tzeentch who caused the ''Hand of Ruin'' to end up far away from the Eye of Terror]] didn't anticipate that [[spoiler: Tzeentch had sent him to Arken as a gift instead of the other way around]].
** [[spoiler: Later reversed when he ambushes Arken and revealed himself to be the Tzeentchian daemon [[SpannerInTheWorks sabotaging his campaign]]]]
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu? : Arken manages to defeat Serixithar, a [[PhysicalGod Daemon Prince]] of Tzeentch, and make him his servant. Justified, since he had the support of a coven of Sorcerers, and the daemon was being shot at by ''over a thousand'' Traitor Marines.
** [[spoiler: Played straight after he defeats Serixithar in a one-on-one duel]]
* DoomsdayDevice : Chapter three is about Arken searching one on a dead world.[[spoiler: He finds it, and activates it. It consumes the souls of the billions of the planet's inhabitants, killed by the Word Bearers in preparation for the Heresy. The resulting burst of Warp energy engulfes the entire sector - with one hundred human worlds inside - in a Warp Storm.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards : Seemingly invoked in chapter 10, where [[EvilutionaryBiologist Jikaerus]] is shocked by what Merchurion plans to do to Governor Tarsis ... before realizing that what he has done is no different, and that they have gone so far that at this point, there is no purpose in clinging to old ethics and morality.
* EvilutionaryBiologist : Jikaerus, former Apothecary of the Alpha Legion, is responsible for turning Mulor Secundus into a land where tribes of humans fight against horrible mutants, while he subtly alters the genetics of entire bloodlines to create new, enhanced recruits for the warband.
* FromNobodyToNightmare : Zigzagged with Pharod the Reborn. Once, he was a powerful lord of the Mechanicum, but an accident made him little more than a servitor, working as the Gardener. Then he became [[{{Plaguemaster}} touched by Nurgle]]...
* GeneticMemory : During the process of becoming a Marine, Mahlone experiences visions from the Heresy, implied to come from the gene-seed he has been implanted.
* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic : Subverted. Arken doesn't wear a helmet in his Terminator armor ... because he has a force-field surrounding his head instead.
* ImmortalitySeeker : How Arken convinces the Sertanov Patriarch to join with him.
* MadOracle : Serixithar. Though he(it?) isn't properly mad, his status as a daemon of Tzeentch means that Arken can only consult him by immersing his mind into a maelstrom of visions and try to make sense of them through sheer willpower.
* MadScientist : The entirety of the [[DeadlyDoctor Fleshmasters]]. Merchurion also more than qualifies.

* PlagueMaster : Pharod the Reborn.
* PowerGivesYouWings : [[spoiler: Hektor Heker'Arn]], a Possessed, gains wings upon his 'ascension'.
* PragmaticVillainy : Make no mistake, the Forsaken Sons are monsters. But Arken is a ''reasonable'' monster, and his goal is to inflict as much sufferring upon the Imperium as he can - and he is willing to take the long view to do it. The Forsaken Sons avoid much of the over-the-top and wasteful evil of most representations of Chaos warbands.
* TheQuisling : The Forsaken Sons use cultists to prepare the way in their invasion of the Parecxis system.
* ReforgedIntoAMinion : It seems to be the fate of [[spoiler: Governor Tarsis]], whose mortal remnants have been placed in a modified Dreadnought chassis, with its visual feeds altered to make him think he is fighting traitors.

-> '[[ArcWords What do I want ?]] I want the Imperium to pay for what it has done to us. I want to see the Imperial Palace ruined by my hands ! I want ten thousand billion souls screaming in pain in the name of my vengence ! I want to watch as the galaxy burns !'

* MadOracle : Serixithar. Though he(it?) isn't properly mad, his status as a daemon of Tzeentch means that Arken can only consult him by immerging his mind into a maelstrom of visions and try to make sense of them through sheer willpower.

* PragmaticVillainy : Make no mistake, the Forsaken Sons are monsters. But Arken is a ''reasonnable'' monster, and his goal is to inflict as much sufferring upon the Imperium as he can - and he is willing to take the long view to do it. The Forsaken Sons avoid much of the over-the-top and wasteful evil of most representations of Chaos warbands.

--> '[[ArcWords What do I want ?]] I want the Imperium to pay for what it has done to us. I want to see the Imperial Palace ruined by my hands ! I want ten thousand billion souls screaming in pain in the name of my vengence ! I want to watch as the galaxy burns !'

* AristocratsAreEvil : Played with. On the planets conquered by the Forsaken Sons, some aristocrats will ally with them, while others - which are easily slaughtered - will fight to the last. And the governors we have seen so far appear astonishingly more competent than most readers of WH40K will be used to. According to [[WordOfGod Zahariel]], this is because the Imperium is still young and the inbreeding in the nobility still hasn't destroyed the capacities for which they became nobility in the first place.

* DemonicPossession : there are a few Gal Vorbak aboard the ''Hand of Ruin'', though they haven't made an appearance yet. The main example is [[spoiler: the Blood Champion, a World Eater who got possessed while butchering humans on a world engulfed in a Warp Storm]]. And in chapters 6 and 15, [[spoiler: [[UpToEleven first we see a forge-world possessed by a giant daemon, then Arken's warpsmiths create three possessed warships]] ]].

* FromNobodyToNightmare : Zigzagged with Pharod the Reborn. Once, he was a powerful lord of the Mechanicum, but an accident made him little more than a servitor, working as the Gardener. Then he became [[PlagueMaster touched]] by [[GodOfEvil Nurgle]] ...

* MadOracle : Serixithar. Though he(it?) isn't properly mad, his statut as a daemon of Tzeentch means that Arken can only consult him by immerging his mind into a maelstrom of visions and try to make sense of them through sheer willpower.

* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter : Adverted. The Forsaken Sons have forges aboard the ''Hand of Ruin'', plunder the worlds they conquer for supplies, and even make a deal with [[spoiler: a daemon-possessed forge-world]] to get more stuff.

* ReforgedIntoAMinion : It seems to be the fate of [[spoiler: Governor Tarsis]], whose mortal remnants have been placed in a modified Dreadnought chassis, with its visual feeds altered to make him think he is fighting traitors.

--> '[[ArcWords What do I want ?]] I want the Imperium to pay for what it has done to us. I want to see the Imperial Palace ruined by my hands ! I wants ten thousand billion souls screaming in pain in the name of my vengence ! I want to watch as the galaxy burns !'

* TheQuisling : The Forsaken Sons use cultists to prepare the way in their invasion of the Parecxis system.

* AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Asim, when channelling the power of the Warp to teleport the inmates of Parecxis Gamma to the nearby hive-world. It doesn't last, though.]]

* PragmaticVillainy : Make no mistake, the Forsaken Sons are monsters. But Arken is a ''reasonnable'' monster, and his goal is to inflict as much sufferring upon the Imperium as he can - and he is willing to take the long view to do it. The Forsaken Sons avoid much of the over-the-top and wasteful evil of most representations of Chaos warbands.

* AndIMustScream : poor, poor [[spoiler:Governor Tarsis]].

* AristocratsAreEvil : played with. On the planets conquered by the Forsaken Sons, some aristocrats will ally with them, while others - which are easily slaughtered - will fight to the last. And the governors we have seen so far appear astonishingly more competent than most readers of WH40K will be used to. According to [[WordOfGod Zahariel]], this is because the Imperium is still young and the inbreeding in the nobility still hasn't destroyed the capacities for which they became nobility in the first place.
* AxCrazy : we get to see into the mind of a World Eater in chapter four, and he has since become a recurring character.

* CallingTheOldManOut : though Horus is long dead by that point, in chapter two, Arken explains to all of the Forsaken Sons why their Primarchs failed and caused the rebels to lose the war. All nine of them.

* DemonicPossession : there are a few Gal Vorbak aboard the ''Hand of Ruin'', though they haven't made an appearance yet. The main example is [[spoiler: the Blood Champion, a World Eater who got possessed while butchering humans on a world engulfed in a Warp Storm]]. And in chapter 15, [[spoiler: [[UpToEleven Arken's warpsmiths create three possessed warships]] ]].
* DespairEventHorizon : when Horus dies at the beginning of the fic, Arken feels like he is about to experience this, and muses that he has seen Space Marines of the Iron Hands and Blood Angels react very differently to their own Primarch's death : some with soul-crushing sorrow, the others with fury such as the galaxy had never seen. He then decides that he knows which path he will follow.

* DoomsdayDevice : chapter three is about Arken searching one on a dead world.[[spoiler: He finds it, and activates it. It consumes the souls of the billions of the planet's inhabitants, killed by the Word Bearers in preparation for the Heresy. The resulting burst of Warp energy engulfes the entire sector - with one hundred human worlds inside - in a Warp Storm.]]

* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic : subverted. Arken doesn't wear a helmet in his Terminator armor ... because he has a force-field surrounding his head instead.

* MadScientist : the entirety of the [[DeadlyDoctor Fleshmasters]]. Merchurion also more than qualifies.

* BodyguardingABadass : Arken has a squad of Sons of Horus as his guards every time he takes to the field. Subverted in the third chapter, where they save his life by dragging him to the transport while [[spoiler: the planet collapses]].

The fic, written by Zahariel, follows the adventures of the Traitor Marines as they seek their revenge upon the Imperium. It has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a lot of characters]], used to show the points of view of very different individuals in a group of Chaos-tainted traitors. Unlike most of such groups, it has so far been spared by the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder infighting]] that tends to afflict them.

The fic follows the adventures of the Traitor Marines as they seek their revenge upon the Imperium. It has [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a lot of characters]], used to show the points of view of very different individuals in a group of Chaos-tainted traitors. Unlike most of such groups, it has so far been spared by the [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder infighting]] that tends to afflict them.