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[[File:souldrinkeromni_5436.jpg|frame|''Purity through hate. Dignity through rage. Let the fire within light the fires without.'']]

 

 

They are the subject of a series by [[Ben Counter]]: ''Soul Drinker'', ''The Bleeding Chalice'', ''Crimson Tears'' (collected in a omnibus), ''Chapter War'', and ''Hellforged'' and the serialized-but-later-compiled-into-a-book ''Phalanx'', . In the first, they are nearly seduced into the service of Chaos, but reject it. Nevertheless, afterwards, they do not return to the service of the Imperium but forge their own path.

 

 

Check out the [[Soul Drinkers/Characters|character sheet]].

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Phalanx. {{spoiler|The Soul Drinkers are killed to the last man by fighting off a daemonic army summoned onto the Phalanx but but prove beyond a doubt their loyalty to the Emperor. Sarpedon, mortally wounded, dies dragging the architect of the chapter's downfall, Daenyathos, into the warp.}}

* [[Blue Blood]]: ''Chapter War'', Lord Sovelin Falken. At one point, he throws his weight around, pointing out that the governor is his great-aunt -- but that's because he has vital information, and he has to use anything he can to get it through.

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Of course, it's still very violent and angry. {{spoiler|Averted with Iktinos and Tellos, who are both very dark and very, very evil.}}

* [[Defector From Decadence]]: Pretty much their original motivation.

** {{spoiler|That nice Chaplain Iktinos? Why does he have a psyker perpetually locked in a box at the bottom of a pool, in a giant spacehulk for months on end? To carry out a complex millenia long scheme to cripple the Imperium.}}

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: ''Crimson Tears''. A Kabal of Dark Eldar that had given up and sworn to Slaanesh? ''Just'' possible, the little bastards enjoy changing allegiances almost as much as other people's pain, but one must remember that if Dark Eldar go anywhere near Slaanesh their soul are [[Mind Rape]] - d for eternity. Calling Grotesques "Haemonculi"? Mistake, pure and simple.

* [[Due to the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Having been convinced that the Soul Drinkers were indeed loyal Astartes, the Imperial Fists inscribe the names of the Soul Drinkers who died fighting off Abraxes's army onto a memorial in the Apothecarion.}}

* [[Duel to the Death]]: More like "duel to the spontaneous spiderleg mutation impalement".

* [[They Call Me Mister Tibbs]]

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Archmagos Khobtov, the Inquisitor and Interrogator from Soul Drinker. Pretty much any Imperial character that is going after them without any assistance from the Astartes.

* [[We Have Reserves]]: Chaos loves this as much as the Imperial Guard, though in the first three novels the Guard never actually try this.

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: About 75% of ''Bleeding Chalice'', including ships redesigned as zombie-plague hypodermic needles and another set up to provide a zombie apocalypse ''orbit drop''.

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