[Question] Dragon warriors

Les Dragon Warriors ne respectent qu’une chose : l’autorité de leur chef. Tout Marine est logiquement dévoué à son supérieur, mais chez les Dragon Warrior ce trait est exacerbé par les manipulation sur les glandes progénoides qui donnèrent naissance au Chapitre.
Une fois la mégalomanie des leaders devenue assez grande pour s’affranchir de cette loyauté envers l’Imperium, ce trait ne décrut pas, et les Capitaines de Compagnie devinrent vite de véritables dieux aux yeux de leurs subordonnés, qui n’avaient plus l’empereur à adorer.

Mais parmis ces grands Champions, un individu se détache nettement du lot : Kravex le fou, anciennement Capitaine Kravinius.
Ses talents martiaux n’étaient pas à démontrer bien avant la rébellion du Chapitre, et le renoncement à ses obligations pour se concentrer à des buts totalement personnel n’a fait que libérer son potentiel. Mais ce qui a vraiment porté son art à son summum, et l'a réellement placé second dans le Chapitre, et lui à valu son sobriquet, il le découvrit sur la planète Jobertnia, quelques 350 ans après la sécession du Chapitre.
Protégé pendant plus de 2 millénaire par une secte de cultistes originaires de ce monde barbare, il trouva une hache en suspension dans un champ de stase. La nature brutale des Dragon Warriors les empêcha de collecter la moindre information à propos de l’artefact, car avant de poser la moindre question, plus un seul cultiste n’était en vie.
La hache, d’une taille conséquente, même pour un Space Marine, ne comportait aucune gravure, aucun signe, et n’était décorée d’aucune façon. Un manche, une lame luisante, et la promesse d’un outil simple, mais robuste et efficace.
Kravex en prit logiquement possession, et fit des merveilles de massacre avec son nouveau jouet, dont le poids lui permettait d’effectuer des moulinets ravageurs dans les rangs serrés d’adversaires.
Des changements se firent alors progressivement remarquer : la lame de l’arme commençait à développer des dents, une gueule de dragon se formait sur son manche, et ses prouesses au combat allaient crescendo. La lame de l’arme semblait littéralement dévorer tout ce qui rencontrait son chemin, et les carcasses de véhicules ainsi que les cadavres que semait Kravex sur le champ de bataille semblaient plus avoir été déchiquetés par une bête féroce, que fendu ou coupé par une lame de hache.
Mais des changements s’opéraient aussi sur Kravex lui-même, son style martial qui lui valait sa renommée au sein du Chapitre disparaissait progressivement au profit de charges furieuses et violentes, dénuées de toutes feintes ou parades, mais dont l’efficacité ne fut jamais démentie.
Etait-ce le poids de son arme, ou une étrange influence ? Toujours est-il que lorsque Kravex faisait fendre l’air à sa hache en direction d’un adversaire, aucune parade, aucune protection ou feinte ne pouvait arrêter le coup, et jusqu’ici, aucun adversaire n’eu de seconde chance.
Ses propres troupes comprirent rapidement que leur chef n’était plus ce qu’il était, car il n’était pas rare que lors d’une charge épaule contre épaule, les larges moulinets de leur capitaine tranchent des membres ou des têtes qui n’étaient pas des adversaires.

Le Maître du Chapitre fut alors très satisfait lorsqu’il comprit que les ambitions politiques de son meilleur lieutenant se limitaient maintenant à un seul objectif : tuer.
Kravex fut maintenu Capitaine de sa Compagnie, mais il ne la dirige plus vraiment, il se contente de monter dans le transport de ses hommes, qui eux suivent maintenant les ordres direct du Maître de Chapitre, et tentent de ne pas rester près de leur Capitaine dans la mêlée.

Mortarion a écrit:Comme le souligne génésis,ils sont "décrits" dans le codex SMC actuel. Mais mis à part que ce sont des spécialistes du combat rapproché et qu'ils utilisent massivement des armes à fusion et des lance-flammes,il n'y a rien d'autres.

Ils me font penser à un mélange de World Eaters(pour le combat) et de Salamanders(pour les armes)...

Spoiler:

The dawn of the "Dragon Warriors" came as a great surprise to all especially the former brothers of the seed known as the Salamanders. While on a long range patrol near the Eye, the 15th company of the Salamanders Legion came under attack by a band of organized rogue traders fielding a battle cruiser class ship and many frigates. The single Battle Barge (Nocturnal Gecko) was horribly outnumbered and loosing shields fast from the on slot of the traders. The cannons blazing as fast as they could the battle barge was to become an inevitable chunk of space debris, until what is now referred to as the "Great Mother's intervention" the lead ship blew to pieces from a shot not of this reality.
In the blast wake came the great red celestial dragon that shook the 15th's faith in the Emperor to it's very foundation. Seeing the great dragon's massive power and believing it to be of a divine intervention, they threw out the ideals they fought for so long and took the great dragon to be their new cause and formed a belief system in her glory. This belief was reinforced when the 15th (now calling themselves the "Dragon Warriors") went into any major conflict where many lives were lost (theirs or the enemies) the "Great Mother" would appear. She would "bless" them with her aid in destroying any foe they were faced with (usually after the battle was already won) bringing the Dragon Warriors further into the belief they had created around her and her divinity.
Her blessing was to change their skin from the soot black to a slight red hue and their eyes took on a golden color instead of the red of their birth. those that preformed exceedingly well were loaded into a dread claw and sent to "have an audience" with the great one. Holding a respectable distance from the great dragon they started to take on more of a dragonish look. They began growing slight red scales on their skin and reshaping of their physical shape to be in line with that of the great mother herself.

Unknown to the Dragon Warriors the mutation was the great dragon's way of reproducing (through means of a genetic modifying radiation she exhibited) in her natural reality. The Dragon Warriors believed she was the creator of all the gods in the chaos pantheon. Khorne is her right hand, champion and first born. Tzeentch is her left hand and second born, the seeker of knowledge and converter of the masses. Nurgle was the poor unwanted third son and his body writhes with all the nastiness that she found week of the human flesh. Slaanesh is the "red headed stepchild" of the great mother, created of Eldar folly he was only accepted by the great mother as a court jester and something to be played with but not of any true god stature to her.

Trying to emulate the Great Mother the Dragon Warriors use close in fighting to make sure the bodies in front of them are truly dead, burnt to the ground with meltaguns and flamers. They believe that with enough of the blessings of the mother they will not need the bindings of humanity anymore, and thus as they grow scales they wear armor on less parts of themselves. One that has truly been blessed by the mother will become a Demon Prince with the look of a great winged dragon and the spells of the mother to change the flesh of the weak to what they truly are... spawns of chaos.

Their view of the Emperor went from he is the god of mankind, to the weak false god of those that are truly condemned to burn in her glory.
The alliance with Horus was an easy path to find, for when he committed the great heresy for he was following the will of the chaos gods and thus the children of their great mother. This fall to chaos began the feeding of the great mother with souls and blood to keep her appearing to feast and bless them with her gifts. This just further bolstered their faith that this was the one true god.

The Dragon Warriors are a warband of Chaos Space Marines. Some of the warband's members were originally Renegade Space Marines from the 6th Company of the Salamanders Chapter. Captain Terellus of the Salamanders' 6th Company led these warriors to betray the Chapter and the Emperor of Mankind and swear their loyalty instead to Chaos. After being discovered by the Salamanders and refusing a chance at redemption, the Dragon Warriors fled into the Eye of Terror. The shifting tides of space-time within the Immaterium led to the passage of almost a thousand years, subjectively, for the Dragon Warriors, even though only approximately 40 standard years had passed in realspace. The Dragon Warriors are specialists in short-range firefights and melee combat. They also prefer the use of Melta and Flamer weapons. The Dragon Warriors are dedicated to the destruction of both the Salamanders Chapter and their homeworld of Nocturne.