Sanctified

The Sanctified are a warband of Chaos Space Marines and a splinter faction of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion that broke away from their parent Legion at the end of the Horus Heresy. They are followers of the Blood God Khorne, which precipitated their split from the Word Bearers, who preferred to worship the Chaos Gods as a whole. It has been observed that The Sanctified have the innate ability to locate newly founded Imperial colonies and Explorator fleets in the vast tracts of unknown Wilderness Space, preying upon these targets for the last ten standard millennia.