"For the ghosts of Sotha!"

The Scythes of the Emperor is a Codex Astartes-compliant, Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines. It is a 3rd Founding Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines.

Its history can be traced back to the early Horus Heresy era, when the Ultramarines 199th "Aegida" Company was assigned as permanent protection over the restricted world of Sotha, the site of the mysterious Mt. Pharos and the strange xenos artefact known as the Pharos device within.

Following the Second Founding and the subsequent sundering of the original Space Marine Legions, a phantom 11th Company was assigned to secretly continue the defence of the Agri-world, in direct contravention of the dictates of the Codex Astartes.

The last surviving member of "Aegida" Company, Captain Oberdeii would later become the first Chapter Master of the newly formed Scythes of the Emperor Chapter, which would be a part of the 3rd Founding in 001.M32.

By the latter years of the 41st Millennium, the Scythes of the Emperor stood on the brink of extinction in battle with the extragalactic xenos known as the Tyranids, having lost their Chapter homeworld to Hive Fleet Kraken, and the sorely depleted Chapter was prepared to go out fighting in a final blaze of glory against the Great Devourer.

However, Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl and the Ultima Founding gave the Chapter an unlooked-for chance to return to full strength. With their ranks bolstered by the genetically superior transhuman warriors of the Primaris Space Marines, the Scythes of the Emperor have been fully restored, and now take the fight to the various enemies that assail the Imperium on all sides.

"The Aegida was the shield, but no more. Sotha shall not be defended, but shall strike at the darkness before it can grow, and reap a bitter harvest. Put out the call to the proud men and women of this world -- they have earned the right to fight and bleed and die alongside any warrior of this Chapter, and their sons shall be our brethren. Let them turn their ploughshares into swords, and stand with us as equals. If I am to be damned then it shall be on my own terms, and red with the blood of my foes. We stand no longer as the Emperor's shield, brothers, but as his noble Scythes."

—Proclamation made by Oberdeii, Warden of the Pharos and first Chapter Master of the Scythes of the Emperor, ca. 001.M32

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