The World Eaters' Primarch Angron was one of the first of the Space Marine Primarchs to join with Horus when he turned against the Emperor and began the Horus Heresy. The World Eaters are now the dedicated servants of the Blood God Khorne, the Chaos God of war and murder, and live for nothing more than to spill blood in his name. This Legion was a collection of nearly inhuman monsters long before Horus became corrupted and monsters they would remain, only with what little remained of their restraint and their Humanity stripped away after their fall to Chaos. The World Eaters, originally known as the War Hounds, were also once the XII th Legion of the twenty First Founding Space Marine Legions, and one of the first to betray the Emperor of Mankind for the service of Chaos and the Warmaster Horus. The World Eaters are one of the Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines who now inhabit the Warp rift known as the Eye of Terror in the Imperium of Man's Segmentum Obscurus. Captain Khârn of the World Eaters Legion's 8 th Assault Company, from his unpublished treatise The Eighteen Legions That is why we are the Eaters of Worlds, and the War Hounds no longer." They are tame, collared by the Emperor, obeying His every whim. In that regard, it is a mystery why they name themselves wolves. The Wolves will always come to heel when called. They have a discipline we lack, because their passions are not aflame with the Butcher's Nails buzzing in the back of their skulls. The Wolves can be trusted, when we never could. We are not the tame, reliable pets that the Emperor wanted. We've all drawn blades purely for the sake of shedding blood, and we've all felt the exultation of winning a war that never even needed to happen. He needed a weapon that would never bite the hand that feeds. The Emperor needed a weapon that would never obey its own desires before those of the Imperium.
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