There are rumours that psychological screening was used in order to single out the most inherently aggressive and obsessively competitive recruits in an experimental pre-selection program that might have informed the intake of a handful of other Legions as well. Extant records indicate that there was no particular bias as to the tribes or city states from which the initial influx of recruits was taken as there was in the case of several of their fellow Legions. The Terran origins of the XII th began on Old Earth, during the Emperor's Wars of Unification. We are only meant to burn this one down." - Attributed to Ibram Ghreer, Master of the XII th 'War Hounds' Legion We aren't meant for the world that is coming, the new world that will rise from the ashes.
Of all the Legions, we are the only ones who are exactly what the Emperor wanted, all that the Legiones Astartes were ever meant to be. Guilliman raised bureaucrats, while Lorgar made priests and the Khan vagrants. Legion History " Dorn made builders, and Magnus thinkers. Just as Angron transcended his violent youth, he ensured that his legion would shrug off every setback and betrayal to become paragons of the warrior creed, and ardent supporters of the Emperor's intention to unify the galaxy. Of all the Space Marine legions, none exemplifies the virtues of martial honour and strict self-control more than the World Eaters. The World Eaters are a Loyalist First Founding Space Marine Legion known for their savage tactics and brutal efficiency which is counteracted by their restraint and iron-bound discipline. When a dog becomes rabid, it is inevitable that it must be put down." - Captain Khârn 'The Deathless', Legiones Astartes 8 th Assault Company, from his unpublished treatise ' The Eighteen Legions'
We have a discipline they lack, because their feral nature and bestial urges are aflame with the monster that lies within their black souls. We could be trusted, when Russ' get never could. They were not the tame, reliable pets that the Emperor wanted. 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. " Because we were one of the few Legions who could be trusted.
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