Rolled 71

>>22280541
Hmm, Strategic Prognostication.

Alright, let's see WHEN it was founded!

Rolled 24

>>22280565
40th Millennium, so fairly recently. Alright, let's find out who gave rise to our illustrious chapter!

Rolled 1

>>22280574
Aw, bit of bad luck. Looks like we're of Ultramarine stock. Let's see how pure we are then, shall we?

Rolled 8

>>22280583
Aaaaaaand we're Pure. Well, perhaps we'll have an interesting demeanor.

Rolled 27

>>22280588
Suffer Not the Work of Heretics, eh? Seems we're definitely a little holier-than-thou. Perhaps we'll get a gene-seed deficiency of some sort.

Rolled 51

>>22280600
Nope, pure as the day our cells were scraped off Guilliman's ass. Let's see what sort of characteristics we're known for!

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>>22280583

Rolled 13

>>22280606
Toughness and Willpower. I suppose we hold up well under torture. Let's see who our chapter hero was!

Rolled 72

>>22280615
Oooh, a Battle-Brother seconded from our parent chapter. Let's roll once again to see what rank he was.

Rolled 6

>>22280619
Our first Master of the Forge! What did he do that was so worthy of remembrance?

>>22280625
Chocked on a chicken bone.

Rolled 28

>>22280625
Hmm, something related to Orks. Perhaps he out-meched a Big Mek? Well, no matter, what's our home world like?

>>22280630
He was purer than the rest. That Chicken bone showed him right.

NONE PURER!

Rolled 64

>>22280636
A Hive World! How... Pedestrian. What sort of terrain has it got?

Rolled 8

>>22280640
Oooh, interesting. An ocean world with hives rising from the depths. How do we govern such a place?

>>22280636
He duelled a ork warbos in a squig eating contest, bested the foul xeno who lost its face and the WAAAGH disbanded, saving a entire sector from bloodshed but the Master of the forge choked on the last one.

Rolled 1

>>22280651
Distantly, it would appear. I wonder what the Blessed Primarch would say...

Well, let's find out how closely we adhere to his greatest work!

op you are doing this completely alone, why don't you just sit in your room and make up space marine chapters.

>>22280656
A hero's death.

Rolled 5

>>22280660
We adhere strictly to the codex. Ho hum. What sort of Solo Mode ability have we got?

i dont get it. does he just roll and explain what he makes up?

>>22280664
Especially as he would not receive help from the other Battle brothers, for he was to pure for that.

At least that are how the constant hand gestures were interpreted as.

Holier than though prick.

>>22280684
>>22280662
ye wtf r u doin op

>>22280684
He's going from the Rites of Battle book.

>>22280818
then why is he telling us? Even if he wants us to play with tem afterwards, why rolling on-board instead of for himself and then presenting it to us? Not only could he have made them look awesome, connecting the dots in his presentation, he also wouldnt have made people feel left out of the process because it wouldve been just prepwork.

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>>22280651
>An ocean world with hives rising from the depths

>>22280846
Mainly because with many people getting involved, and thinking about them, you might get something neat.
OP's pic was from a chapter randomly generated on /tg/.

>>22280999
yes, and by rolling for himself he's denying anyone else any involvement

>>22281021
Huh, sorry, wasn't completely paying attention, you're right. That is strange.

>>22280999
But /tg/ helped roll for the BJags, thus feeling involved in their creation and were more invested in fleshing them out.

That and it's hard to get behind yet another ork-adversary chapter, much less one from Ultrasmurf stock whose specialty is being even purer and more self-righteous than the Ultramarines.

>>22281068
Hell, we had like 4 or five threads just for their fluff.

Everyone want me to take over from OP's bullshit?

>>22281101
Fuck it, doing it anyway.

First off, we need to see what our bolter polishers were founded for.

I need a 1d10

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>>22281101
Yeah, sounds good. Take it away.

Rolled 5

>>22281143
Rolling

>>22281165
Counter. Pretty predictable. Once we find out who our enemies are, we'll know why.

Alright, 1d100 for when the fuck our manly men of extreme manliness were founded.

Rolled 25

>>22281197

Rollan.

>>22281270
35th Millenium.

1d100 for our founder.

Rolled 16

>>22281315
Let's hope we get someone interesting.

>>22281359
No such luck. Ultramarines.

1d10 for Geneseed purity

Rolled 9

>>22281382
c'mon horribly flawed

Rolled 2

Come on 8-10

>>22281409
...YEP. Altered stock.

Time to roll for Geneseed deficiencies. I need 1d10.

>>22281409
I'm glad your post got through before mine.

Rolled 7

>>22281440

>>22280583
>Ultramarines
>Bad luck

But to be descended from the Great Primarch is the best one could hope for.

>>22281479
go back to sleep Matt

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>>22281452
We've lost a zygote. Roll 1d100 to find out which one.

Rolled 32

>>22281550
Hopin' we get... Lost something good!

>>22281572
We've lost our Occulobe, whatever the fuck that does.

Onto chapter traits. Another 1d100.

Rolled 75

>>22281587
something interesting

>>22281670
We're warrior scholars, +5 to perception and intelligence.

1d100 for our figure of legend

Rolled 55

>>22281697
better be something cool, not a damn regular tacticool marine

Rolled 55

>>22281587
I think it supposed to be for enhanced low-light vision.

Now rolling for legendary figure.

>>22281733
Fitting for a chapter of Scholars, our Chief Librarian, a psyker of great power an renown, who's knowledge seemed infinite.

1d100 for what he did beyond that.

>>22281739
>>22281733
Wow.

>>22281739
bad low light vision eh? I really want our homeworld to be in a near constant state of darkness now

>>22281587
Can't see shit.

Rolled 19

>>22281757
Let's get something good

no idea why but i'm imagining some sort of seeing eye beastie that each marine raises from a pup/cub/chick/whatever

>That feel when your roll made the Bjags sons of the sanguine angel and not a smurf.

These threads give such glory.

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>>22281779
...ORKS. WHY IS IT ALWAYS ORKS.
Our librarian really really hated Orks. Enough in fact, to fuck up an entire Waaagh for shits and giggles. The survivors still fear his name.

1d100 for our Homeworld.

>>22281792

Yeah losing an "occulobe" sounds more damaging than "can't see in the dark as well as other marines". It sounds like "lost the part of your brain that interprets visual signals".

Seeing eye beasts, white power rods as weapons, perhaps from a planet with an inhospitable surface so the people all live in dark caves/tunnels and thus don't use their eyes at all.

Helmets without lenses just flat armour could be pretty intimidating.

Of course a lot of that stuff could be changed by rolls yet to be made.

so i dont know that system for shit, but can we avaluate if we worship the emperor as human or as god?

Rolled 82

>>22281857
>>22281859

come on night world.

>>22281865

I'm sure in previous threads I've seen EXTREEEME devotion to the emperor come up as a chapter trait, seeing him as godlike or greater.

>>22281859
blank face plates are all kinds of awesome

>>22281900

Yeah I think regardless of how this chapter turns out I'm going to have to note down that idea and get an artist on it next time I see a drawthread.

>>22281697
>>22281767
Blind scholar marines, oh hells yea

>>22281873
Our fortress monastery is on an Uninhabited planet. We likely recruit from other habitable planets in the system. It might be possible that our world is a seriously fucked up death world that no one wanted to live on.

1d100 for terrain.

>>22281924
Got to have some sort of theme/philosophy of how the eyes can be deceived.

Rolled 83

>>22281938

Rolled 99

>>22281938

Uninhabited because...it has no sun so it's always dark and people don't need their eyes?

>>22281959
Uninhabited and dead. Now that's a winning combination.

>>22281954
"Neophyte, do not see with your eyes. The eyes are easily corrupted, and do not show the whole truth. The eyes are tricked often, vulnerable to attack, and inherently flawed. See instead with your mind and body, and you will never be fooled again." - Head Librarian to a librarian in training.

>>22281959
Dead. The world is barren of life - on it's surface at least.

So, how do we rule our system. 1d10 to find out.

>>22281924
So Astropath Librarians?

>>22281981

Also trust in the beast whos eyes have been shed and whos other senses are greater than our own.

"Seeing eye" beasts who are also blind.

Rolled 5

>>22282005

Come on living with the people!

>>22281959
yisssss
mother.
fucking.
deathowrld

>>22282016
Maybe they have like...seeing eye echolocation dogbat things.

So is that an actual chapter in the OP pic? If so, I would literally stab a baby for some pics of minis from it.

Quick, get something definitive, i wanna draw these fools

>>22282016
You know, that would be a sweet bit of fluff.
Every Librarian puts his eyes out, in honor of the revered first Librarian.

>>22282029
Dogbats? let's go balls to the wall mental here;
Sharkbats, echolocation and the ability to sense electrical fields

>>22282036
its a tg made chapter in one of the threads like this one

>>22282036
A chapter I rolled up with /tg/'s help, the Blood Jaguars. A /tg/ creation, you can find out more about them on 1d4chan.

>>22282026
Distant rule. We concern ourselves not with the actions of normal men, content to merely observe.

So, what if the chapter homeworld was located on a world which was scoured clean by a nova or solar flare. The marines stand watch over the ruins of the dead.

>>22282047
>sense electrical fields
That's catfish, not sharks.

And by dog, I just meant roughly dog-sized quadrupeds.

>>22282067
Whoops.

Alright, moment of truth. Do we follow the Codex?

1d10 to find out.

Blind scholars?
We are kinda like the Thousand Sons from the Dornian Heresy

Rolled 9

>>22282086
Come ooon not adhering

Rolled 7

FOR FUCKING THE ULTRAS

>>22282076

A flare that killed many and left survivors blinded.

And/Or forcing all life underground.

>content to merely observe.

The Watchers without Sight.

>>22282099
Divergent chapter.

Roll 1d10 for our chapter's preferred tactics.

Rolled 9

>>22282124
hurray no codex

Rolled 5

>>22282124
What do we get?

>>22282124
RESULT

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>>22282124
>Ultramarine successor that does not adhere to Rowboat
>mfw

>>22282138
Shock and Awe motherfuckers. We don't go around things we go THROUGH them. Our psykers call up lightning and fire to purge our foes, and we leave none alive, destroying fortifications from orbit.

1d100 for Special Equipment

Rolled 23

>>22282169
Close combat oo-raah

>>22282167
my penis is also quite stiff

Rolled 7

>>22282169

Hunting beasts should be our special equipment

Rolled 49

Beastial companion.
Come on beastial companion!

>>22282169

That could be a trait born of using touch rather than sight in a pitch black world. By the time you know something is there you have to hit it hard and fast before it strikes you because you are probably right next to each other.

>>22282184
Modified jump packs. Considering our Shock and awe tactics, they are likely made to sound noisier, and like the roar of some beast. The mouths of strange beasts belch fire and smoke as the Angels of Death descend upon the foe.


1d100 for chapter beliefs.

>>22282192
>>22282203

Regardless of the roll we're probably totally getting companion Beasts by democratic vote.

Rolled 68

>>22282231

Hmm, they could be lateral jump packs, working more like a turbo boost to rush up close to people rather than "JUMP" packs sending them into the air and down?

>>22282237
Companion beasts AND Modified Jump Packs it is then.

Rolled 83

>>22282237
I too wish for companion beasts. But could we give to our blind scholar warriors who scare the crap out of their enemies?

Rolled 57

>>22282231

I vote to name us the Unseen Vigil. The unseen and unseeing watchers, whose blinded eyes see beyond the sight of mortal men.

>>22282263
thats a long name

Rolled 37

>>22282263

The watchers in the dar...oh...

>>22282252
Possibly. That's actually a pretty cool idea. Also would be noisy as hell though.

We Honor the Ancestors. Our proginators are respected. Our dead are venerated, especially the Head Librarian, the Watcher in the Dark who despite his blindness became our greatest hero. And those poor souls who had once lived on our dead world pitied and asked for help in times of crisis.

1d10 for current status

>>22282303
dice+1d10

dont know man

>>22282303
yeah, dont lose the roar feeling on the packs, i like it

Rolled 9

>>22282303

>>22282252
>>22282303

Jet boosters that let them move as swiftly as their animal companions on the charge, and also roar like them?

Rolled 2

>>22282316
dangit, didnt put it in the field

>>22282303

Remembering the ancestors lost to the event that trashed the homeworld...

Rolled 6

>>22282319

>roar feeling

I think it would be neat to have these marines include a lot of animal iconography on their armor and weapons, as a way of preserving the dead world's ecosystem. Jetpacks modded to roar like its vicious sky-predators, chainswords howling like a pack hunter creature that once stalked the night... Maybe name the companies after different animals.

>>22282322
Normal strength, a full 10 companies.

So to sum up what we have so far, before we enter into allies and enemies.

[NAME REDACTED] Was founded in M35, and descended from the noble Ultramarines. However, over the interceding millenniums they have developed their own culture and tactics, while still following most of the guidelines of their founders. Notable for having some problems with their geneseed, unusual in a Ultramarines successor. The chapter is based on a long dead world, barren and dead. Nothing grows here, above ground at least. Below the surface, an entire ecosystem of blinded and bioluminescent creatures exists, and the chapter is known to keep several of the more useful species as companions. They have adopted a system of venerating the dead, doubtlessly influenced by their choice of homeworld, and the influence of their most famous member, a head librarian known as "The Watcher in the Dark" to the chapter.

>>22282397
Roll 1d100 for chapter allies.

Rolled 1

>>22282391
animal faces on the armor, except on the face, which is left blank. dozens of eyes of different creatures staring down from an eyeless mountain of a man.

>>22282391

The only thing I'm a little worried about is them turning into blind Night Lords.

Saying that loyalist Night Lords who watch and wait making sure their target is worthy of a terrifying assault rather than just fucking up the local civvies isn't a bad side line to go with the blind, watchers, honouring the fallen stuff.

>>22282231
I'd say extra load jump packs, allowing devastators to have them.

Devastators with jump packs. there is your shock and awe.

>>22282420
>1

Hold on to your butts.

(why don't i have that picture saved)

Rolled 33

>>22282420
>>22282455

Aww you only rolled a d10 not a d100 that's cheating.

Rolled 14

>>22282406
allies

>>22282454
jump devastators are the best things ever

>>22282466
The chapter is pretty buddy buddy with the Adeptus Astro Telepathica.

Yeah, we're buddies with the Astropaths.

1d100 for chapter enemies.

>>22282454
I like this.

Plasma rifles, Missile launchers, lascannons, meltaguns and heavy bolters on jump packs.

Who needs a fast deploying heavy weapons team on a rise or in a choke point to make shock and awe a truly successful tactic? We do!

Rolled 86

>>22282498
enemies

Rolled 5

>>22282504
looks good

>>22282501
>>22282252
Why not both?
Two different pattern series.

Hmm, given how the Ultramarines often have successors with "Eagle".

Something like "Screaming Eagles", or "Hooded Eagles".

Rolled 15

>>22282521
mm, yes, see

>>22282504
I like this. I really like this.
>>22282509
Chaos. We were founded as a counter to Chaos in general. I'm thinking the Traitor guards, but it's all up to you guys there.

AAAAND that's pretty much it.

We're semiblind warrior-scholars who love them some shock and awe and jetpacks, and our animal companions. We hate and were founded to fight Chaos, and love us the Astropaths.

>>22282541
OH, name. But come up with that yourselves.

>>22282536
Different purposes?

Upward for Devastators.
Horizontal for Assault troops.

Rolled 89

>>22282541
shock and awe against chaos? fuck me.

>>22282504

Thaaat is pretty cool.

>>22282541
Why not go full blindness? Nothing scarier than faceless, sightless marines with unerring accuracy.

so before the homeworld got a bad case of death, what was it like? culture etc. etc.
Also when did it turn into a dead world, that's important too

>>22282572
All psyker chapter?

>>22282564
Imagine it, bunch of traitor marines dicking around "hurp durp so cool and edgy"

Suddenly a roar fills the air, followed with "SPEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS.."

WHAM

A brother marine lands and splats a traitor, and starts spewing fire from his heavy bolter at the other traitors still disoriented from the jump pack landing.

>>22282541

Hmm. Prefer nighttime raids, when the shock and awe will be light-dark-light-dark confusion to Chaos, but won't matter one bit to the blind battle brothers?

>>22282589
not necessarily, being totally blind for almost their entire lives their other senses are heightened drastically, Psyker shenanigans can explain the rest

>>22282589
Sounds a bit too heretical

>>22282589
I like this idea although we would be under continuous observation by the inquisition.

>>22282589
That'd be pretty damn heretical... What if all their suits incorporate some sort of echolocation device plugged directly into their brain to simulate sight, and psykers are simply even more enlightened in regards to sight?

Would also mean that they REALLY hate noise marines.

>>22282589

Heightened other natural senses, some form of group psychic sight, animal companions and/or technology?

>>22282620
>Pretty damn Heretical
I point you to the Grey Knights.

As is though, that's a pretty good idea. Echolocation devices in the armor or Ladar or something. Or perhaps only the Librarians are totally blind.

>>22282589
Higher proportion of psykers, but we're no grey knights or exorcists.

Rolled 62

I'm liking 'Watchers in the Dark' or some variation on that for our chapter name.

>>22282620
>Would also mean that they REALLY hate noise marines.
Looks like we found our chapter adversary. Traitor guards backed by a Chaos Warband with lots of noise marines.

>>22282643

It gives them a ready-made nemesis as well. I like it.

>>22282614
>>22282617
>>22282620

The chapter has close ties to the astropaths. They could be responsible for a "third sight" which is technically only their first.

And a fair bit of protection from the =I= too.

>>22282652
The Blind Watchers?

>>22282643
totally blind on account of the fact they ripped out their own damn eyes!
>>22282652
It reminds me a bit too much of that dark angels thing.
maybe change it to something similar but more latin sounding?

Eyeless helmets. For the love of god, make it happen; it's a regular occurancefor marines to put out their own eyes, partially out of veneration to the watcher in the dark, partially because our eyesight relatively sucks for spess mehrens anyways.

Rolled 71

>>22282620
why not just armor-mounted bionic eyes? Like on the chest?

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>>22282689
>mfw Illidan Marines

>>22282558
Indeed. Everyone is either riding a transport, has a telleporter or is strapped with a jumpjet.

Now since assaults and devastators dont get shining performances out of rhinos, they get jumpjets for their tasks.


As for companion animals, how about dogs. They might not have low light vision, but they see just fine and as sharp as any other marine. And for that they use dogs.

and we can paint them Red and give them canadian mountie hats.

>>22282701

Because one good shot and you're blinded again!

Plus, the chapter supposedly has some sort of religious aversion to eyes.

Did we not roll for our Solo Mode ability?

I say we go straight for having Psyniscience.

>>22282701
video feed fed directly to the brain could be kinda useful. plus the ecolocation and what not

>>22282724
Same. Forgot to roll with them, because fluffing it out now would be better.

Honestly, this would be a pretty fun chapter to play a librarian from in Deathwatch.

for the companion beast, what about a gelatinous mass covered in eyes, it lives underground and is luminescent. the catch is it's totally blind, uses echolocation and is ever so slightly psycic and lets the marine know whats going on

Rolled 26

>>22282723
>Because one good shot and you're blinded again!

well, one good shot and you are dead. So there.

And I thought its an aversion against eyes, not eyesight

>>22282740
I vote canids with some sort of echolocation - Essentially huge bats that can't fly.

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>>22282740
>gelatinous mass covered in eyes

>>22282762
yea, that sounds cool.
completly unrelated but the idea of some sort of bat/platypus hybrid makes me smile

>>22282766
why does she have no kind of chest protection?
what does she think she's doing!

>>22282762
Well, half of me would still prefer some form of giant bird or something. But otherwise it's pretty neat.

>>22282689

Hmm our eyes suck, and the eyes are one of the weakest points on the head.

Take out the eye and put armour over the sockets.

I guess it would be possible to grow pieces of bone that would create a patch and mesh with the rest of the orbital bone.

... the faceless helmets might be creepy but these fuckers will be terrifying to a normal human without their helmets.

>>22282790
no, make them grounddwelling beasts

>>22282814
How about something like fantasy's demigryphs?

>>22282790
gentlemen, may I present the birbadog
a roughly dog sized animal covered in feathers, atrophied wings and uncanny echolocation

>>22282790
Flight doesn't really make sense in a narrow system of tunnels. Excellent climbing does, however.

>>22282799
yeah, thats optional, the most devoted battle brothers are getting metal plates implanted over their eyes and skin is getting implanted over them

>>22282785
>Questioning the Commissar armoring herself with faith.
Choose what you say with care, for your words are starting to sound alarmingly impure.

>>22282762
That's what I said at the beginning. Dogbats.

>>22282785
>being able to see her bare chest to begin with
We have a traitor in our midst. Now if only I could figure out who...

>>22282840
>call myself a puritan
>question a comisar
>i might as well kill myself

>>22282832
Maybe some gliding too? Y'know, for shits and giggles.

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Kinda like giant badger type things? Murellow from GW2 live in caves and are predators.

>>22282893
Cave owlbears.

>>22282893
take away the eyes, put boneplates there instead and also on the back and you got it

>>22282924
Also give it pointed ears, a squat nose, some tufts of fur, and generally more batlike features.

>>22282921
...YES.

>>22282940
ears yes, nose no, tufts/fur meh

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>>22282954
Hey man, bat faces are fucking scary. Especially on a dog-sized monstrosity.

>>22282940
>>22282924
>>22282893

You guys are basically describing giant naked mole rats.

I like it.

We still need a name, what are we gonna call them?

>>22282980
but i wanna have boooooneplates over the eyes, and to look good it should go over the nose tooo.

>>22282998
the extremelymarines

>>22283002
It could always curve up with the nose and develop into tusks as well so they can be extra metal.

...to thesaurus website...

Alternatives for "Watcher".

Beholder, Sentinel, Sentry, Observer, Witness.

Witness seems like a kinda interesting one I've not heard of being used but dunno if I can make a good "adjective + noun" pairing out of it.

Could go with Witness(es?) of the "something" ... the fall, the scouring (of the planet)...Blinding? (of the ancestor) ... no idea just throwing random shite out.

If we go back to that cosmic flare wrecking the planet and blinding/damaging eyes of the survivors something like Witnesses of the Light would work, and be a nice juxtaposition with all the darkness in their theme and charcter.

>>22283025
okay, Im cool with that

>>22283164
Blind Sentinels
Screaming Beholders
Ultraobservers.

>>22283164
the eyeless beholders? the seeing blind? the blind observers? The Witnesses of damnation/salvation? The eyeless Watchers? The Sentinels of the Unseen?

>>22283187
Blind Sentinals sounds badass.

>>22283227

It always has to end up being adjective noun doesnt it.

I do agree though it's pretty cool.

>>22283164
The Dark Observers
The Blind Sentinels

>>22283187
>>22283227
>>22283247
The Blind Sentinels is cool if not slightly cliché, that sad what isn't cliché these days

>>22282998
Common trends in Ultamarines successors include names being [Colour] [Noun], a common animal mentioned is the Eagle.

>>22283280
SCREAMIN EAGLES

Rolled 31

>>22282998
Let's see what 4chan comes up with.
Table 1.

Rolled 47

>>22283314
The Fiery...

>>22283303
Mandatory rule: Sabaton should play during their deployment and movement phase

Hmm, could look at the blindness from a less literal direction too.

Cloak(ed), veil(ed), shield(ed) and the like being in reference to the blindness as a protection?

>>22283322
Knights.

Fiery Knights, I'm not sure that works. Screw you dice.

So gents, here's what we have:

Reason for Founding: Counter (Chaos)
Founding Millennium: M35
Progenitor: Ultramarines
Geneseed Purity: Altered Stock
Codex Demeanor: ?
Geneseed Deficiencies: Missing/Malfunctioning Occulobe, leading to partial/total blindness.
Chapter Flaw: N/A
Characterstic Modifiers: +5 Per & Int
Figure of Legend: Blind Chief Librarian
Deed of Legend: Something about Orks.
Home World: Dead & Uninhabited, subterranean ecosystem all that remains after some major cataclysm.
Method of Rule (For the surrounding system that they recruit from): Distant
Chapter Organization: Divergent
Combat Doctrine: Shock & Awe
Solo Mode Ability: Psyniscience or something.
Squad Mode Stuff: ?
Specialty Restriction: N/A
Special Equipment: Batdogs, devastator jump packs, lateral jump packs, throatier roar on all jump packs, faceless helms, echolocation-based armor systems, metal/bone implants over empty eye sockets
Beliefs: Honor the Ancestors
Status: Nominal Strength
Allies: Astra Telepathica
Enemies: Noise Marine/Traitor Guard warband
Name: ??

I miss anything?

>>22283327
Veiled Watchers mite b cool.

>>22283341
Codex Demenor doesn't apply. It's the same as the Ultras.

for a name how about Brotherhood of the Obscured?

The Blind Witnesses?

The Veiled Witnesses

Sightless Martyrs?

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>>22282762
Dogbats?

>>22283390
Ooo. I like this one.

Okay, how's about this, "Scions of Ulixes"
As in one of the latin names for Odysseus. Homeworld of Polyphemus (as in the Cyclops).

Their enemy chaos foe could be the thousand sons.

>>22283390

Got my vote.

>>22283341
What's our advance table?

>>22283428

How about you don't try and just change everything that dozens of other people have already agreed upon and like?

>>22283454
I'd go with Knowledge is Power. This is a chapter of scholars after all.

>>22283457
Hey I was just throwing it out there. If it's not wanted, oh no, It's no big deal.
I just figured, with the whole blinding aspect, coming from a founding chapter big on the letter U, it might be interesting. Sorry it pissed you off.

>>22283390

I was just about to suggest that then I got distracted.

Certainly it is one which jumped out to me after looking up the thesaurus stuff.

Could go with The Veiled Witness, as the chapter itself is a singular entity.

>>22283428

I do like the name Polyphemos for the chapter homeworld. Or home system. Or battlebarge.

>>22283457
Guy was just doing his research and wanted to try something, no need to shut out creativity.
>>22283390
Question is, what did they witness? Maybe some of their chapter fell to Chaos during their founding and became the noise marines they now fight, lost in the ecstasy of hearing that the loss of their eyes has brought them?

>>22283516

Or the hunting beasts?

>>22283525
The end of their world?

Possibly the chapter was founded by the remnants of those who watched the star destroying the world by the machinations of chaos, and were blinded by it, although their third eye was opened.

What should their colors and heraldry be? I figure that since they can't see conventionally, colors wouldn't matter much, so they might just go with gray, but their heraldry deserves more thought.

>>22283525
maybe they witnessed the scouring of their homeworld?

>>22283531
The tusked dogbat things could be Ullaxes. That sounds significantly sci-fi beasty and even has a bit of "ululate" in there to hint at their echolocating nature.

>>22283525
Could have been their Chief Librarian was captured by a Noise Marine band, and after some time, they hung his brutalized corpse on a banner or something.

>>22283525

Well two possiblities we already have are the blinding of the ancient librarian and the scouring of their homeworld.

Or just a general "they can be trusted to watch over people because they don't have the "weakness" of eyesight".

>>22283553
>>22283560
Sounds good to me. I do still like the eyedea of the warband they face being their fallen brothers, though.

>>22283525

Nah, the librarian hero witnessed something that burned his eyes off. Maybe the chapter founders were stuck on a ship with a failing gellar field and suffered an Event Horizon scenario, but the librarian snapped out of the "we don't need eyes to see where we're going" stage when he "saw" (with psychic sight) the light of the Emperor in the Warp that saved the ship from the warp monsters that were about to consume it?

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Just threw this together. Not a bad first project with the new tablet.

>>22283595
>spiny turkey tail thing
I...think I like it.

>>22283595
good job looks good.

Possibly prone to horrific visual images?

There's an idea, they put out their eyes because their modified occulobe fucks with what they see, resulting in both seeing things that aren't there (Unreliability for combat), and Cthulu-esque "Dear lord, a squid is crawling out of that man's skull! OH DEAR GOD THATS NOT A SQUID WHAT IS THAT"

>>22283595
it looks happy

>>22283624

>>22283624

That's pretty cool. Tie that in with the stuff in >>22283583 about the founders being stranded in the warp, and their degraded oculobes started going haywire in the Warp, rendering them combat ineffective, until the librarian put out his eyes to get rid of the hallucinations and relied only on psychic powers and augumetic sensors to find and smite the heretics.

>>22283684
I like this.

Quite possibly their blindness makes them favoured people for handling heretical materials. After all, they can't read the damned tomes if they have no eyes.

>>22283583
It would fit with their bromance with the astropaths at least.

Someone make an article on 1d4chan already.

>>22283709
I say get some fluff written out first and come to a consensus about what the name is.

From the days before the Age of Apostasy, the [REDACTED] was taken from Holy Terra and hidden on a faraway world. This ancient relic was rumored to have great power.

In some ancient half-garbled data records, the artifact had the power to see into the future... Imagine what Vandire could have done - to see what key events shaped the rest of Mankind!

Nay, in other fragments of records found in the destroyed Vault of Knowledge on [REDACTED], a solitary data-crystal tablet, badly burnt from an unknown acid, described the "opening of the universe" and the "revelation of the true universe". The purpose and meaning of the term "true universe" remains a mystery.

Until being sealed beneath the Asian Crypts on Terra, every scholar that tried to study the data-crystal in more detail was said to have lost their sanity in the same way - First by blinding their eyes violently, and then screaming until their lungs turned inside out. Autopsies of these unfortunate individuals indicated that their skulls were hollow and contained no grey matter whatsoever.

All scholars but one suffered this fate .

The excepting individual - the most lucid and worthy scholar of note, [REDACTED] of [REDACTED] - spent the rest of his days cackling madly and rolling dice; Many die of many sides. Where these die came, from noone could ascertain. They disappeared whenever placed out of sight.

The only words that escaped his lips from then on until his death of old age being "Your turn". An post-mortem examination revealed that his skull was bereft of a brain, just like the others.

>Edited cos I didn't like 1st version. First time writefagging.

since pretty much everyone is blind do they even know what their chapter symbol is and their colours?

for the chapter symbol maybe a face with hands over the eyes, or a book. Maybe some combination of the two?

>>22283849
Hmm, think that got weaker towards the end, sorry /tg/.
As I said, first time writefagging.

>>22283868

Maybe an eye without a pupil?

>>22283868

What about something simple - A human skull without eye sockets?

The walls screamed at him and he screamed back. Brother Sargent Kathios felt the corruption burn around him as his jump pack carried him to the top floor of the palace. This place spelled madness for anyone without his chapters gifts, and certainly the Slaaneshi cultists and the thrice damned noise marines had not expected them to be here.

Landing on what he assumed to be a mutant Kathios let fly with a burst from his heavy bolter, the crack of armor buckling and the laughter/scream the followed told him that he had found another of Fulgrims sons.

I vote Veiled Witnesses for the name.

>>22283914
skull without eyes

>>22283660
It's happy because its tummy is full of heretic.

Gathered most of the name ideas listed.
Unseen Vigil
Hooded Eagles
Blind Watchers
Blind Sentinels
Screaming Beholders
Ultraobservers.
eyeless beholders
the seeing blind
the blind observers
The Witnesses of damnation/salvation
The eyeless Watchers
The Sentinels of the Unseen
The Dark Observers
The Blind Sentinels
Veiled Watchers
Brotherhood of the Obscured
The Veiled Witnesses
The Blind Witnesses
Sightless Martyrs
Scions of Ulixes

>>22283925
a beast skull without eye sockets?

>>22283989
Why a beast skull? A human skull makes more sense.

>>22284010
They love their animal familiars

>>22283868

The symbol should be a relief with a very distinct shape that you could feel.

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drive-by drawfagin'

zero details on the armor. i think the featureless helmet should be the focus point.

>>22284010
because of their animal-themedness

>>22284096
Nice!

>>22284096
this is amazing times 10 oh my god.

now thats out of the way, I would thinkt the helmet should be less round and smooth and more like Mark 3 armor helmets with the mouth plate up over the eyes

>>22283624
So they have Ice King style wizard eyes?

For the seeing beasts there are a type of eyeless xeno beast that hunts by smell, ecolocation and such, it's in the RT Beastiary. The Ur-ghul. Only problem is I think they are used by Dark Eldar.

>>22284096

Awesome. The marine looks kinda Chaos with the Raptor-style jetpack and the blank helmet, but I think it's a good thing, really.

>>22284096

Oh dear god that's badass.

>>22284173
i think the jet pack should be like a seeing beast mouth

>>22284166

We named ours Ullaxes. Interesting that the RT beast also starts with a U. Could fluff it as a DE beast gone feral, or the Ur-ghul could be a DE-engineered variant of ullax.

It's things like this that really make me love you, /tg/.

++++++++++BEGIN TRANSMISSION++++++++++
++++++++++++++BEGIN META++++++++++++++
+ DATE: M39.99.263.74.F
+ AUTHOR: OBSERVATION-SERVITOR AXMP-80027
+ SUBJECT: SECURITY BREACH
+ PRIORITY: A-1
+++++++++++++++END META+++++++++++++++
++++++++++++++BEGIN BODY++++++++++++++
+ REQUEST HELP FROM ASTARTES ULTRAMARINES
+ THE TRANSPARENCE IS UNDER ATTACK
+ ESTIMATED TIME TO BREACH: TWELVE (12) TERRAN DAYS FROM MESSAGE ORIGIN
+ SUSPECTED INCURSION BY UNKNOWN ASTARTES FORCE
+ SIGILS ENCOUNTERED: CH-TZ, CH-SL
+ BLIND AND A͎̣͔̙͘LL̥̻̗̳̻̳̳͢-SEEING, THE TRANSPAREN̟CE.̺̜͇͡ͅ ̴͓͖̭̩͎̗ ͓͖̼W͕̳͎͚̙̥Á̳̭̦̭̭̦̞I̠͍̮TS
+ THIS IS AN AUTOMATED TRANSMISSION
+++++++++++++++END BODY+++++++++++++++
++++++++++END TRANSMISSION++++++++++

>>22284096
Fuck yes! Maybe slap some bony plates over the dogbat's face but aside from that holy fuck is that nice. The symbol has a very nice batman thing going on aside from the other symbology, too.

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/tg/, you've outdone yourselves this time.

Anyone wanna roll up the arch-nemesis Noise Marine warband?

Wow, I wasn't expecting my whole 'horrible visions via corrupted occulobe' idea to take off.

Debating working on a 'counts' of army, and working on a converted helmet as we speak. Will post results.

Chapter colors? Or possibly all white/black, as color no longer really concerns them.

>>22284393
Counts-as either Grey Knights if everyone is a psyker, or Black Templars if not.