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* DeadpanSnarker: Several, most notably Sarpedon [[OnceAnEpisode when in the right mood.]]
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* DeadpanSnarker: Several, most notably Sarpedon [[OnceAnEpisode when in the right mood.]]
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* AlienGeometries: Whenever Abraxes shows up the material world seems to screw itself. Also, the Necron tomb interior is so unnerving that the Soul Drinkers have a hard time just walking in a striaght line - which doesn't help the fact that you're being killed by ghost zombie robots.
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* IGaveMyWord: Sarpedon's bound by it. [[spoiler: Averted in Chapter War, he completely double crosses Eumenes.]]
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* UndyingLoyalty: Even after the Imperium has turned its back upon them, Chaos has corrupted their bodies, lost hundreds of battle brothers - All SoulDrinkers remain loyal until the bitter end. [[spoiler: Some to the Emperor, others to their true masters...]]
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* UndyingLoyalty: Even after the Imperium has turned its back upon them, Chaos has corrupted their bodies, lost hundreds of battle brothers - All SoulDrinkers remain loyal until the bitter end. [[spoiler: Some to the Emperor, others to their true masters...]]
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** [[spoiler: That nice Chaplain Iktinos? Why does he have a psyker perpetually locked in a box at the bottom of a pool, in a giant spacehulk for months on end?]]
*** [[spoiler: Because he's trying to find Daenyathos and Abraxes.]]
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*** [[spoiler: Because he's tryingend? To carry out a complex millenia long scheme to find Daenyathos and Abraxes.cripple the Imperium.]]
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*AboveGoodAndEvil: [[spoiler: Iktinos thinks that his work for Daenyathos and Abraxes is important to the Chapter, regardless of motive]]
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** Arguably, Sarpedon qualifies as an AbsentFather, in that he never seems to have a clue what's going on in his own chapter. Notable examples include [[spoiler: Tellos' turn to Khorne, Eumenes' mutiny, Iktinos's Tzeentch cult, and Daenyathos being still alive.]]
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: ''Crimson Tears''. A Kabal of Dark Eldar that had given up and sworn to Slaanesh? ''Just'' possible, the little bastards enjoy changing allegiances almost as much as other people's pain. Calling Grotesques "Haemonculi"? Mistake, pure and simple.
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: ''Crimson Tears''. A Kabal of Dark Eldar that had given up and sworn to Slaanesh? ''Just'' possible, the little bastards enjoy changing allegiances almost as much as other people'spain.pain, but one must remember that if Dark Eldar go anywhere near Slaanesh their soul are MindRape - d for eternity. Calling Grotesques "Haemonculi"? Mistake, pure and simple.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Sarpedon seems to be making a habit of it.
* DidNotDoTheResearch: ''Crimson Tears''. A Kabal of Dark Eldar that had given up and sworn to Slaanesh? ''Just'' possible, the little bastards enjoy changing allegiances almost as much as other people's
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* LawfulStupid: The inquisitor and his interrogator from the first book should really think about who they're trying to kill.
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* {{Mutants}}: While initially proud for it, the Soul Drinkers now thinks a bad idea. Some of the more notable examples include: Sarpedon's spider legs, Tello's regeneration speed, Pallas's snake scales, and Graevus' mutated hand.
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* BackForTheFinale: ''Phalanx'' features the return of Sister Aescarion and Lord Inquisitor Kolgo of the Inquisition, Reinez of the Crimson Fists, Captain Borgannor of the Howling Griffons, and [[spoiler: Abraxes]].
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* BigBad: Each book has its own. The overall Big Bad of the series, however, is [[spoiler: a BigBadDuumvirate composed of Abraxas and Daenythos, who have been manipulating the Chapter for ''millennia''.]]
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* BigBookOfWar: The ''Catechisms Martial'', written by Daenyathos which formulates the Soul Drinkers combat philosophy.
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* TakingYouWithMe: Turns up a lot in the series, often as a HeroicSacrifice.
** [[spoiler: Special mention has to go to Librarian Tyrendian in Phalanx who, after being swallowed by a [[PhysicalGod Greater Daemon]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome overloads himself and self destructs with the force of a small nuke.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Special mention has to go to Librarian Tyrendian in Phalanx who, after being swallowed by a [[PhysicalGod Greater Daemon]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome overloads himself and self destructs with the force of a small nuke.]]]]
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* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler: Having been convinced that the Soul Drinkers were indeed loyal Astartes, the Imperial Fists inscribe the names of the Soul Drinkers who died fighting off Abraxes's army onto a memorial in the Apothecarion.]]
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* AFatherToHisMen: ''[[Literature/SoulDrinkers Chapter War]]'', at the climax Sarpedon tells Eumenes that the position of Chapter Master is not a prize for the [[{{Pride}} proud]] but a position of responsibility. Then they DuelToTheDeath.
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* AFatherToHisMen: ''[[Literature/SoulDrinkers Chapter War]]'', ''Chapter War'', at the climax Sarpedon tells Eumenes that the position of Chapter Master is not a prize for the [[{{Pride}} proud]] but a position of responsibility. Then they DuelToTheDeath.
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Daenythos's last words are a mindless scream of terror as he is dragged into the Warp by Sarpedon. Given [[YouHaveFailedMe what he can expect]], this is perfectly justified.]]
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* BlueBloodBlueBlood: ''Chapter War'', Lord Sovelin Falken. At one point, he throws his weight around, pointing out that the governor is his great-aunt -- but that's because he has vital information, and he has to use anything he can to get it through.
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* BittersweetEnding: Phalanx. [[spoiler: The SoulDrinkers Soul Drinkers prove themselves loyal to the Imperium by fighting off a daemonic army summoned onto the Phalanx but are killed to the last man. Sarpedon, mortally wounded, dies dragging the architect of the chapter's downfall, Daenyathos, into the warp.]]
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The SoulDrinkers are a {{Warhammer 40000}} chapter of renegade {{Space Marine}}s, a successor chapter to the ImperialFists.
They are the subject of a series by BenCounter: ''Soul Drinker'', ''The Bleeding Chalice'', ''Crimson Tears'' (collected in a omnibus), ''Chapter War'', and ''Hellforged'' and the serialized-but-later-compiled-into-a-book ''Phalanx'', . In the first, they are nearly seduced into the service of Chaos, but reject it. Nevertheless, afterwards, they do not return to the service of the Imperium but forge their own path.
!!The novels make use of these tropes:
* AFatherToHisMen
* AGodAmI: Teturact, who seems to think he's a hybrid of Nurgle and the Emperor.
* AxeCrazy: Tellos. How crazy? [[spoiler: After losing his hands and the damaged nerves being unable to take prosthetics he decides the best idea is jam fan blades into the stumps and run around topless...]]
* BearerOfBadNews
* BigBad: Each book has its own. The overall Big Bad of the series, however, is [[spoiler: a BigBadDuumvirate composed of Abraxas and Daenythos, who have been manipulating the Chapter for ''millennia''.]]
* BigBookOfWar
* BittersweetEnding: Phalanx. [[spoiler: The SoulDrinkers prove themselves loyal to the Imperium by fighting off a daemonic army summoned onto the Phalanx but are killed to the last man. Sarpedon, mortally wounded, dies dragging the architect of the chapter's downfall, Daenyathos, into the warp.]]
* BlueBlood
* ChainsawGood: Comes with [[{{Warhammer40000}} the territory]], but taken to the extreme with Tellos.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Of course, it's still very violent and angry.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Pretty much their original motivation.
* DespairEventHorizon
* DidntSeeThatComing: In ''Soul Drinker'' [[spoiler: If you don't have a long time interest in the game, you wouldn't get the hint about the Architect of Fate, which is Tzeentch's most oft quoted title.]]
** [[spoiler: That nice Chaplain Iktinos? Why does he have a psyker perpetually locked in a box at the bottom of a pool, in a giant spacehulk for months on end?]]
* DidNotDoTheResearch: ''Crimson Tears''. A Kabal of Dark Eldar that had given up and sworn to Slaanesh? ''Just'' possible, the little bastards enjoy changing allegiances almost as much as other people's pain. Calling Grotesques "Haemonculi"? Mistake, pure and simple.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Sarpedon seems to be making a habit of it.
* {{Doorstopper}}
* DuelToTheDeath: More like "duel to the spontaneous spiderleg mutation impalement".
* DueToTheDead
* FireForgedFriends
* FrozenFace
* GambitPileup: The Soul Drinkers just keep running into these.
* GoodIsNotNice: It is quite violent and probably mutated. This is ''Warhammer 40,000'', what else would it be?
* HealingFactor: Space Marines naturally have this, Tellos cranks up to 12 though.
* HeelRealization
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Sarpedon finds himself saying this too much to feel comfortable.
* IDieFree: According to WordOfGod, the entire series is turning into this for the chapter.
* IGaveMyWord: Sarpedon's bound by it.
* InItsHourOfNeed
* ItsRainingMen: ...and they're zombies. Lucky us.
* KangarooCourt: The Trial of the Soul Drinkers in ''Phalanx'' sounded to be set up as one, but Vladamir Pugh was pretty damn adamant about trying to avert this in spit of some people's best efforts.
* KneelBeforeZod [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Or Stab Zod In The Face!]]
* LawfulStupid: The inquisitor and his interrogator from the first book should really think about who they're trying to kill.
* TheMenFirst
* {{Mutants}}: While initially proud for it, the Soul Drinkers now thinks a bad idea.
* MyGreatestFailure
* NounVerber
* NumberedHomeworld: Typical of ''40k''.
* {{Pride}}: The recurring theme of the series.
* PrimalFear (really, the entire point of Sarpedon's "The Hell" psychic power)
* RebelliousRebel: A good number of Soul Drinkers, especially the young ones, realize that Chaos is tainting the chapter before Sarpedon does.
* RedRightHand: or Red Spider Legs. Or Huge Right Hand. Or Heals Insanely Fast. Or...
** Practically a pun considering their relationship with the Crimson Fists...
* TheReveal: In ''Phalanx'': [[spoiler: Daenythos, who is still alive, has manipulated the Soul Drinkers course since his "death" to become a force against the Imperium, using the Chaplains and the ''Catechisms Martial'' to ultimately turn the Soul Drinkers against the Imperium.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: The Voidspear. All we know is that it's scarier then any other weapon wielded by a Primarch.
* StrawVulcan: Archmagos Khobotov, to the point where anyone else would realize what happens when you piss off the Elite Space Marines of the Astartes and then present them with a nice big force to crush.
* TakeAThirdOption: The Imperium or Chaos? They ''are'' the third option, and it's not very easy.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs
* TooDumbToLive: Archmagos Khobtov, the Inquisitor and Interrogator from Soul Drinker. Pretty much any Imperial character that is going after them without any assistance from the Astartes.
* WeHaveReserves: Chaos loves this as much as the Imperial Guard, though in the first three novels the Guard never actually try this.
* WeNeedADistraction
* WorthyOpponent
* YouAreInCommandNow
* ZombieApocalypse: About 75% of ''Bleeding Chalice'', including ships redesigned as zombie-plague hypodermic needles and another set up to provide a zombie apocalypse ''orbit drop''.
** Happened earlier in ''Soul Drinker''. It seems Nurgle loves the "infect-your-enemy-with-a-plague-and-then-resurrect-the-dead-as-semi-demonic-zombies" approach to expansion.
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The SoulDrinkers are a {{Warhammer 40000}} chapter of renegade {{Space Marine}}s, a successor chapter to the ImperialFists.
They are the subject of a series by BenCounter: ''Soul Drinker'', ''The Bleeding Chalice'', ''Crimson Tears'' (collected in a omnibus), ''Chapter War'', and ''Hellforged'' and the serialized-but-later-compiled-into-a-book ''Phalanx'', . In the first, they are nearly seduced into the service of Chaos, but reject it. Nevertheless, afterwards, they do not return to the service of the Imperium but forge their own path.
!!The novels make use of these tropes:
* AFatherToHisMen
* AGodAmI: Teturact, who seems to think he's a hybrid of Nurgle and the Emperor.
* AxeCrazy: Tellos. How crazy? [[spoiler: After losing his hands and the damaged nerves being unable to take prosthetics he decides the best idea is jam fan blades into the stumps and run around topless...]]
* BearerOfBadNews
* BigBad: Each book has its own. The overall Big Bad of the series, however, is [[spoiler: a BigBadDuumvirate composed of Abraxas and Daenythos, who have been manipulating the Chapter for ''millennia''.]]
* BigBookOfWar
* BittersweetEnding: Phalanx. [[spoiler: The SoulDrinkers prove themselves loyal to the Imperium by fighting off a daemonic army summoned onto the Phalanx but are killed to the last man. Sarpedon, mortally wounded, dies dragging the architect of the chapter's downfall, Daenyathos, into the warp.]]
* BlueBlood
* ChainsawGood: Comes with [[{{Warhammer40000}} the territory]], but taken to the extreme with Tellos.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Of course, it's still very violent and angry.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Pretty much their original motivation.
* DespairEventHorizon
* DidntSeeThatComing: In ''Soul Drinker'' [[spoiler: If you don't have a long time interest in the game, you wouldn't get the hint about the Architect of Fate, which is Tzeentch's most oft quoted title.]]
** [[spoiler: That nice Chaplain Iktinos? Why does he have a psyker perpetually locked in a box at the bottom of a pool, in a giant spacehulk for months on end?]]
* DidNotDoTheResearch: ''Crimson Tears''. A Kabal of Dark Eldar that had given up and sworn to Slaanesh? ''Just'' possible, the little bastards enjoy changing allegiances almost as much as other people's pain. Calling Grotesques "Haemonculi"? Mistake, pure and simple.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Sarpedon seems to be making a habit of it.
* {{Doorstopper}}
* DuelToTheDeath: More like "duel to the spontaneous spiderleg mutation impalement".
* DueToTheDead
* FireForgedFriends
* FrozenFace
* GambitPileup: The Soul Drinkers just keep running into these.
* GoodIsNotNice: It is quite violent and probably mutated. This is ''Warhammer 40,000'', what else would it be?
* HealingFactor: Space Marines naturally have this, Tellos cranks up to 12 though.
* HeelRealization
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Sarpedon finds himself saying this too much to feel comfortable.
* IDieFree: According to WordOfGod, the entire series is turning into this for the chapter.
* IGaveMyWord: Sarpedon's bound by it.
* InItsHourOfNeed
* ItsRainingMen: ...and they're zombies. Lucky us.
* KangarooCourt: The Trial of the Soul Drinkers in ''Phalanx'' sounded to be set up as one, but Vladamir Pugh was pretty damn adamant about trying to avert this in spit of some people's best efforts.
* KneelBeforeZod [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Or Stab Zod In The Face!]]
* LawfulStupid: The inquisitor and his interrogator from the first book should really think about who they're trying to kill.
* TheMenFirst
* {{Mutants}}: While initially proud for it, the Soul Drinkers now thinks a bad idea.
* MyGreatestFailure
* NounVerber
* NumberedHomeworld: Typical of ''40k''.
* {{Pride}}: The recurring theme of the series.
* PrimalFear (really, the entire point of Sarpedon's "The Hell" psychic power)
* RebelliousRebel: A good number of Soul Drinkers, especially the young ones, realize that Chaos is tainting the chapter before Sarpedon does.
* RedRightHand: or Red Spider Legs. Or Huge Right Hand. Or Heals Insanely Fast. Or...
** Practically a pun considering their relationship with the Crimson Fists...
* TheReveal: In ''Phalanx'': [[spoiler: Daenythos, who is still alive, has manipulated the Soul Drinkers course since his "death" to become a force against the Imperium, using the Chaplains and the ''Catechisms Martial'' to ultimately turn the Soul Drinkers against the Imperium.]]
* ShroudedInMyth: The Voidspear. All we know is that it's scarier then any other weapon wielded by a Primarch.
* StrawVulcan: Archmagos Khobotov, to the point where anyone else would realize what happens when you piss off the Elite Space Marines of the Astartes and then present them with a nice big force to crush.
* TakeAThirdOption: The Imperium or Chaos? They ''are'' the third option, and it's not very easy.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs
* TooDumbToLive: Archmagos Khobtov, the Inquisitor and Interrogator from Soul Drinker. Pretty much any Imperial character that is going after them without any assistance from the Astartes.
* WeHaveReserves: Chaos loves this as much as the Imperial Guard, though in the first three novels the Guard never actually try this.
* WeNeedADistraction
* WorthyOpponent
* YouAreInCommandNow
* ZombieApocalypse: About 75% of ''Bleeding Chalice'', including ships redesigned as zombie-plague hypodermic needles and another set up to provide a zombie apocalypse ''orbit drop''.
** Happened earlier in ''Soul Drinker''. It seems Nurgle loves the "infect-your-enemy-with-a-plague-and-then-resurrect-the-dead-as-semi-demonic-zombies" approach to expansion.
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