"we are many, we are his lost sons, we are the forgotten, depised and the hunted, we are

the
excomunicated"

History

"you inquire of our origins, well i shall tell you as i have told those who have come before and
shall come again, sit, grab a goblet and learn of our new shared linage, for it long in the telling
and begins in the dark times......"

-Ancient Dexsius

the great crusade and the horus heresy

The history of the excomunicated began during the great crusade and into the horus heresy
where they went by another name, expunged from the imperial records for all time to the point
they became the forgotten, the iind legion.

Once they had a primarch, a homeworld, vast companies of brother bringing the imperial truth
and justice to the wild and lost regions of space where honours and glories were heaped upon
them by the emperor and their fellow legions.

Of their legion name and primarch they will not speak of it for to do so would would revael a
great secret as to the reason of their expilsion from the records of history.

Those who would become the excomunicated and would come to bear that as their title and
identity for millenia to come tell that when the order came to disband and integrate with the
ultramarines this group of lost sons where out on campain to the galactic north near the ghoul
stars fighting against heretical mechanical organisms that would later be known as the necrons,
those of the expiditionary fleet held a council to decide their fate, return to the imperium and
enact the orders the emperor had given and renounce everything they had stood for, fought for,
died for or ingnore the decree and be damned in the eyes of their brother legions but keep their
identity and continue on as had been decreed by their primarch, follow all their traditions and
fight till the last had died with the colours of the legion on their chests and honour in their
hearts......till a third option was proposed renounce all that they had once been, they would
darken their armour and leave thier livery behind, their once pround legion colours became
blacker than the night, they would finish this the last campaign as they once were and set out to
forge a new destiny and so became the first blackshields.

When the time of the herersy came and the warmasters great betrayl became known the
excomunicated formed their council again as to where they stood within this chaotic time, it was
decided after many days of deliberation that they would fight for the emperor and on him
neither parleying nor accepting non other than he, they would treatise with no other legion, nor
follow orders of any of the primarchs.

it was during this time that gave rise to other blackshield warbands, shattered legions and the
lost, it was decided by the legion command that they would seek these disperate souls and offer
them a place within the excomunicated both loyalist and traitor alike were offered, those that
accepted were celebrated and honoured as true sons of the emperor, upon acceptance they had
to renounce everything they once were and join them in the noble cause of upholding the
emperors truth and justice. those that rejected were purged from the galaxy as traitors and
heretics, their wargear and fleets annexed, their gene seeds stolen torn from their bodies and
used for future generations.

this tactic was much needed without support of the homeworld or forge worlds to re-supply and
re-arm them they quickly turned to reaving and scavenging, from old battlefields to fighting their
brother legions to piracy of minor forgeworlds at the egde of communications range. with the
out break of the heresy there was a great influx of war meterials, new tactics and most
importently recruits.

when they heard of istavaan they made all haste to the system once horus and his traitors had
left for terra to hound his rearguard also to honour the dead and look for suvivors.

many where found and many accepted the offer of retribution, they also found many traitor
warbands and were discussted with what they found.

above the planet at this time arrived shadrak maduson and his shattered legions, a brief skirmish
broke out to determine friend from foe, when the hostilities ended and loyalties were deined
the offer was given to maduson and meduson offered his, both were rejected instead an oath of
moment was given, the oaths given were to help each other defeat the forces of the arch-heretic
and honour their fallen brothers.

at the time of the siege of terra and after in the scouring they harrowed the rear and flanks of
the chaos forces hekping in secret to heard the fallen into the great eye, when they would defeat
a force they would take what they neede from the dead and burn the planet from orbit so no
trace was left behind.

the second founding and beyond

during the second founding the excomunicated sought out their brothers of the forgoten and
gave them the chance to join and rebuild what was, some accepted like those that had come
before during the heresy some mysteriosly disapeared and others were left to carry on the great
work of the emperor.

when the great beast arose they tried and to their shame failed to halt the great ork warboss
that came to ruin the galaxy after taking the orks head on, instead they decided to attack from
their flanks in a similar to the dark times.

21st founding

as the centuries passed they continued to fight in the manner that had been laid down by the
forefathers but at great cost in dwindling man power and supplies despite influxes throught the
centuries of those who had been dishonoured and purged, it was not enough though until the
21st founding which gave the excomunicated their greatest influx of recruits and supplies.

they also found allies within this founding those chapters the imperium persecuted but
tolerated (just), the excomunicated did not attack though as these chapters had upheld their
honour and oaths of fealty to the imperium and were still apart of the emperors fighting forces.

also during this time they came across a single strange figure clearly of dark angels decent who
weilded am ornate sword but did now unsheath the weapon and fought with dual wielding
pistols an ornate plasma pistol and an ancient pattern bolt pistol. this was cypher.

to the excomunicated cypher and his band of marines were nothing more than lost souls driven
out of a cruel and dark shadow of an imperium that had fallen into atrophy and decay, the offer
to join was made but was declined by some and sought by others of these "fallen", cypher
neither refused nor accepted, stood there in silence, turned and left leaving the fallen that had
refused behind to their fate.

Baddab war

during the baddab civil war the excomunicated were fighting against chaos warbands at the edge
of the maelstrom on the coreward side is that great warp rift, fighting to try and keep more
reinforements from joining the astral claws and helping to tip the balance of power in favour of
the imperium

after the war the excomunicated sought out the chapters that had sided with the astral claws
but been given a penetence crusade in order to renew their oath to the imperium, mantis
warriors, excecutiorers, enen astral claws that had in their hearts stayed loyal to the imperium
joined, when it came time to offer the lamenters they were in a sorry state for they had been on
their crsade for centuries and had been ravaged by the tyranid threat and only a small force
joined the blackshields in their self imposed exile, instead of purging those that had refused like
many time previously the excomunicated decided to ferry the lementers backto baal and let
commander dante decide their fate.

the black crusades

for every black crusade that has come forth the excomunicated has met them with zeal and
hatred, wishing to seek revenge against horus's traitorous dogs and his damned allies.

with the coming of abbadons 13th and largest crusade yet, the excomunicated gather at their
home anchor a secret place known only to them....the original legion homeworld.

of home, great secrets and allies

the original title along with the original founding legion heraldry and primarch identity has been
locked away deep within the vaults of the fortress monistery under the highest authority and
cannot be opened by decree of the founding legion council, one of them still lives and slumbers
within the monestery the vaults gaurdian, the last line of defence of their secrets, he is known as
the last, the secret keeper, he is Ancient Dexsius last chapter master of the 2nd second to only
the primarch.

once every century Dexsius is awoken to tell of their founding and recount of all marines that
have joined and tell those that have gathered of every hereldry that covers the great hall, some
have been lost to time others have prospered and become legendary chapters in their own right.

Daxsius tells of the mighty wolves of luna, the war hounds, relentless dusk raiders, the shattered
legions, of the other blackshields that have joined, too others such as absolvers, black consuls,
blood ravens, soul drinkers, hammeres of dorn, storm wardens, celestial lions, dark angels and
hundreds more but there is one spot that is blank upom that great wall, the fist spot, when
asked about this Dexsius tells them "its legion buisness and only for the emperor to know".

over the ten milenia the excomunicated have worked up a network of allies from loyalist
chapters, renegades that are loyal to the emperor and several rougue forgeworlds.

the allies within the loyalist chapters are those who were intergrated within the ultramarines
legion all those long millenia ago, but kept their true identiies a secret and accepted their new
legion, when the second founding came and the ultramarines were broken apart into chapters
those that were left of the 2nd leagion sought out others of their brotherhood that where
distrabuted within the other chapters, some but not all were nearly composed of the old legion,
some their chapter command or single figures of a high rank, when tthe excomunicated heard of
this they sought out their long lost brothers and struck bonds of kinship and fealty to one
another in secret, the excomunicated would help when needed and lend their strength but only
those chapters whom they swore the oaths too and the chapters were to help in return with
new recruits and supplies.

alas as time has passed it has not been a kind mistress to the decendents of the forgotten, many
are lost to the annals of history, many fighting to the last during some of the imperiums many
wars and greatest atrosities. those far beyond the point of recovery have joined with the
excomunicated rather than be wiped out and become nothing more than a footnote in the
history books, a few still remain at fighting strength and with the rising of the 13th great
crusade, the tyranids and demonic incursions a call has gone out to those of the forgotten still
remaining tho meeet them at the homeworld....

the message reads....."i am dexsuis, the last chaptermaster of our once great legion, it is time to
come home my sons, it is time to remembered........."