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Sons Of Hellas - ΣΟΝΣ ΟΦ ΗΕΛΛΑΣ (lots of text)
This is something I've been working for some time now (I got lazy again...), and I still have a few notable places, characters and battles to finish. But, since I'm kinda bored (the thing known as "real life" has kept me busy, and I haven't painted much anything in ages), I decided to drop this here. I aim to finish it as soon as I get the time and inspiration going again, and maybe even get you sample mini. Who knows. Any way, here's the fluff:
SONS OF HELLAS - ΣΟΝΣ ΟΦ ΗΕΛΛΑΣ
Basic Data
Name: Sons of Hellas
Founding chapter: Imperial Fists Legion
Founding: 2nd Founding
Chapter Master: Xythus Christopoulos - ΞΥΘΥΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΠΟΥΟΛΟΣ
Homeworld: Helot
Fortress-Monastery: Spear of Ares
Main colours: Dark yellow, white shoulder pads with black trim, white knee pads and elbow pads.
Specialty: Unique formation
Battle Cry: For the Glory of Hellas! For the Honour of the Legion! For the Emperor!
Estimated strength: ~1700
History:
Sons of Hellas are an ancient and proud Chapter. They are a successors of one of the original Legiones Astartes; the Imperial Fists. They’re history goes as far back as the Second Founding, during wich the Space Marine Legions were first divided into Chapters. Deep in the vaults of the Librarium lie many a heavy tome detailing their history, but the oldest and most revered of them all is an ancient book named “Hellas of Lakonia”. Within it are contained the tale of their origins that lie even deeper in history then the 2nd Founding.
In the aftermath of the Horus Heresy, a detachment of the Imperial Fists Legion Space Marines were sent to hunt down a warband of the Iron Warriors traitor Legion. While in their pursue, the detachment, led by Captain Alexandrius, was ambushed by a much larger Iron Warriors force then they had anticipated in an uncharted system in the “northern” part of Segmentum Obscurus. Barely surviving the encounter, Alexandrius and some 100 survivors of the Imperial Fists managed to make planet fall on the systems second planet, preparing to die fighting. But before the Iron Warriors were able to locate the survivors, they met a group of local human soldiers led by a young man named Hellas. He led the Imperial Fists into an ancient fortress in one of the large valleys the mountains in this part of the planet formed. This fortress was named Spear of Ares, and for five years it was the base of operations for Hellas and Alexandrius who struggled hard to unite the city states of Helot, as the locals called the planet. In the end they were close to success, as their armies were laying siege to the last city still in Iron Warriors hands, when they were informed that spear of Ares itself had come under siege. Leaving their own siege in to the hands of their lieutenants, they took 5000 Helot warriors, and through force march they were able to arrive to the fortress quickly. But it was a trap; the fortress was undisturbed. As the reinforcements tried to understand the situation, the main force of Iron Warriors led by the Warsmith Tyressius, fell on the valiant loyalist. With traitorous Hoplites coming to aid their dark masters, the result was a massacre. Only 200 loyal Hoplites and Imperial Fists, Hellas and Alexandrius among them, made to the safety of the Spear.
For a full month they kept the traitors at bay, largely thanks to the narrow passage that was the only entry to the fortress, as well as the defences that the Imperial Fists had been able to repair. On the 32nd day of the siege the traitors were finally able to break through the defenders now thin line. Alexandrius and Hellas fought side by side, holding the main gate. It was here that they came face to face against Tyressius. In the ensuing battle, Alexandrius and Hellas very barely able to defeat the Wasrsmith, but at the cost of Hellas’s life. Their leader dead, the traitors hesitated for a moment, and a moment later the skies were filled with a roar not heard since the day the imperial Fists had descended on Helot. One of the original detachments ships had been able to survive and now led new Imperial Fist forces on the planet, led by their Primarch Rogal Dorn. The Fists used drop pods to land right on top of the battlefield and in hours the last of the traitors were dead, and the Imperial Fists moved to secure the traitors stronghold.
After Helot was cleansed of the traitors, Alexandrius was told that the Primarch of Ultramarines, Roboute Guilliman, had finished his Codex Astartes, and the Legions would be broken into “Chapters”. Alexandrius was made a Chapter Master, and Helot was to be the Chapters homeworld. The new Chapter was named Sons of Hellas in honour of the late hero and saviour of his home planet, also receiving the symbol Sigma, wich also means 200, in honour of the month long stand of the loyalists.
The Chapter has since served through out the Imperium, in conflicts such as the 1st Black Crusade, the Obscuran Uprising, the Conflict of Helica, the Macharian Heresy, the Sabbat World Crusades, the 13th Black Crusade and many more notable campaigns and crusades.
This is something I've been working for some time now (I got lazy again...), and I still have a few notable places, characters and battles to finish. But, since I'm kinda bored (the thing known as "real life" has kept me busy, and I haven't painted much anything in ages), I decided to drop this here. I aim to finish it as soon as I get the time and inspiration going again, and maybe even get you sample mini. Who knows. Any way, here's the fluff:
SONS OF HELLAS - ΣΟΝΣ ΟΦ ΗΕΛΛΑΣ
Basic Data
Name: Sons of Hellas
Founding chapter: Imperial Fists Legion
Founding: 2nd Founding
Chapter Master: Xythus Christopoulos - ΞΥΘΥΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΠΟΥΟΛΟΣ
Homeworld: Helot
Fortress-Monastery: Spear of Ares
Main colours: Dark yellow, white shoulder pads with black trim, white knee pads and elbow pads.
Specialty: Unique formation
Battle Cry: For the Glory of Hellas! For the Honour of the Legion! For the Emperor!
Estimated strength: ~1700
History:
Sons of Hellas are an ancient and proud Chapter. They are a successors of one of the original Legiones Astartes; the Imperial Fists. They’re history goes as far back as the Second Founding, during wich the Space Marine Legions were first divided into Chapters. Deep in the vaults of the Librarium lie many a heavy tome detailing their history, but the oldest and most revered of them all is an ancient book named “Hellas of Lakonia”. Within it are contained the tale of their origins that lie even deeper in history then the 2nd Founding.
In the aftermath of the Horus Heresy, a detachment of the Imperial Fists Legion Space Marines were sent to hunt down a warband of the Iron Warriors traitor Legion. While in their pursue, the detachment, led by Captain Alexandrius, was ambushed by a much larger Iron Warriors force then they had anticipated in an uncharted system in the “northern” part of Segmentum Obscurus. Barely surviving the encounter, Alexandrius and some 100 survivors of the Imperial Fists managed to make planet fall on the systems second planet, preparing to die fighting. But before the Iron Warriors were able to locate the survivors, they met a group of local human soldiers led by a young man named Hellas. He led the Imperial Fists into an ancient fortress in one of the large valleys the mountains in this part of the planet formed. This fortress was named Spear of Ares, and for five years it was the base of operations for Hellas and Alexandrius who struggled hard to unite the city states of Helot, as the locals called the planet. In the end they were close to success, as their armies were laying siege to the last city still in Iron Warriors hands, when they were informed that spear of Ares itself had come under siege. Leaving their own siege in to the hands of their lieutenants, they took 5000 Helot warriors, and through force march they were able to arrive to the fortress quickly. But it was a trap; the fortress was undisturbed. As the reinforcements tried to understand the situation, the main force of Iron Warriors led by the Warsmith Tyressius, fell on the valiant loyalist. With traitorous Hoplites coming to aid their dark masters, the result was a massacre. Only 200 loyal Hoplites and Imperial Fists, Hellas and Alexandrius among them, made to the safety of the Spear.
For a full month they kept the traitors at bay, largely thanks to the narrow passage that was the only entry to the fortress, as well as the defences that the Imperial Fists had been able to repair. On the 32nd day of the siege the traitors were finally able to break through the defenders now thin line. Alexandrius and Hellas fought side by side, holding the main gate. It was here that they came face to face against Tyressius. In the ensuing battle, Alexandrius and Hellas very barely able to defeat the Wasrsmith, but at the cost of Hellas’s life. Their leader dead, the traitors hesitated for a moment, and a moment later the skies were filled with a roar not heard since the day the imperial Fists had descended on Helot. One of the original detachments ships had been able to survive and now led new Imperial Fist forces on the planet, led by their Primarch Rogal Dorn. The Fists used drop pods to land right on top of the battlefield and in hours the last of the traitors were dead, and the Imperial Fists moved to secure the traitors stronghold.
After Helot was cleansed of the traitors, Alexandrius was told that the Primarch of Ultramarines, Roboute Guilliman, had finished his Codex Astartes, and the Legions would be broken into “Chapters”. Alexandrius was made a Chapter Master, and Helot was to be the Chapters homeworld. The new Chapter was named Sons of Hellas in honour of the late hero and saviour of his home planet, also receiving the symbol Sigma, wich also means 200, in honour of the month long stand of the loyalists.
The Chapter has since served through out the Imperium, in conflicts such as the 1st Black Crusade, the Obscuran Uprising, the Conflict of Helica, the Macharian Heresy, the Sabbat World Crusades, the 13th Black Crusade and many more notable campaigns and crusades.