Absolvers

The Absolvers are a formerly Loyalist First Founding Space Marine Legion of Heretic Astartes who are wholly dedicated to the service of Chaos Undivided. Once a Legion dedicated to enlightening Humanity, and making them shed the false idols and superstitions of the ignorant and barbaric past of the species, they now are the architects of the doom and darkness the threaten Humanity and the God-Emperor's Imperium. They now fight with a zeal nearly unmatched in the galaxy, save perhaps the Eclesiarchy and their hordes of puritans and flagellants.

When the XIX Legion was first raised on Terra; they had no official cognomen due to the fact that they were unconcerned about glory and vanity, thus remaining as the Nineteenth Legion until their Primarchs Discovery. Recruitment for the Nineteenth mainly came from the Achaemenid Empire, the first polity on Terra to join in the Emperor's Dream of Unification, and many were conscripted into that Legion, providing it with wise men and many enlightened scholars though they also recruited from the various places that had been scarred by religious warfare and techno-barbarian feuds giving them an uncouth edge that would rear its head shortly before their Primarch was found.

Their Primarch was Faramarz Darvishi Zareii and he like his Legion, burned with a hatred for all things that could be deemed "superstitious" or "religious". His drive to enlighten Humanity would damn him in the end, as when the God-Emperor ascended and revealed the Imperial Truth, Faramarz role. He became despondent at realizing he had been forwarding a lie, but did not find solace in the Emperor's Sanction. Instead the whispers of the Dark Gods were poured into his ear and he damned the entire galaxy in search of the Truth.