The Order of the Broken Claws was one of the Dark Angels’ solution to this problem, being tasked with recording the lore of these battles and guarding the subsequent spoils of war. The Rangda are the bogeymen of the Horus Heresy, with the Rangdan Xenocides responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Astartes and the possible death of one of the two missing Primarchs. Credit: Kevin Stillman Dark Angels Inner Circle Knights Cenobium – Order of the Broken Claws I cannot for a moment understand why this has become a character trait of the First Legion but I really feel all it does is encourage the terrible memes about how Dark Angels are traitors. They parley here with the Magi of the Mechanicum in order to gain peaceful access to their techno-bounty, but upon leaving immediately blow up the planet. It again bears repeating that the Lion wasn’t a capital-T Traitor to the Emperor, but over and over the Dark Angels are traitors to their allies. The loyalist Dark Angels fight against the Iron Hands, Death Guard and Mechanicum, with no discussion on those factions’ allegiances except for their resistance to the Lion. This was also cute little example of how the lines of war are never neatly drawn. A xenos empire? Stronghold of fallen humanity? A sentient planetoid? Up to your narrative gaming group to discover! Even since Alan Bligh’s passing Forge World has done good work seeding lore hooks and tidbits throughout Perditus, we learn, is the ‘former home world and ruling seat of ’. We tend to skim over them, but the little system maps shown at the start of these articles have some neat content. I feel, with zero intel, that these articles weren’t written by the core team, so hopefully future 30K projects restore that more realistic tone. I personally feel this is a pretty bad turn away from what made the 30K setting and it’s “future history” narrative different to the mass battle game setting of Warhammer 40,000.
This may be an intentional style change to draw in a new audience, or it may be just the only style the author knows. The lore in these exemplary battles is neat in abstract, but each one is written very much in the heroic, over the top style we’ve come to expect from Warhammer 40,000, rather than the grim detached historical record nature of previous Horus Heresy writings. There’s not really a narrative arc this month no upstart noble Praetor seeking to rise above his station, just a bunch of large angry men in clean white terminator armour punching smaller, but still large angry men in dirty white power armour.
The Order of the Broken Claws are the protagonists this month, struggling to survive conflict with the Iron Hands, Mechanicum and Death Guard to claim technoarcana that was sequestered away by order of the Emperor Himself (hear that Lion? Daddy said no! Bad Primarch!). Claimed by the First Legion during the battles of Perditus, this month’s exemplary battle focuses not on the core story of this device, detailed in The Lion novella, but on one of the Dark Angels’ various side projects to claim deeply, darkly dangerous technology. The Tuchulcha is one of the most important narrative macguffins in the Warhammer 40,000/Horus Heresy setting, being key to the abilities and actions of the Dark Angels in both the Heresy and 40K timelines.
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