The Word Bearers are one of the nine First Founding Space Marine Legions that betrayed the

Emperor of
Mankind during the Horus Heresy. They became Chaos Space Marines, their allegiance pledged to their
Daemon Primarch Lorgar and to Chaos Undivided. The Word Bearers were also the first Space Marine
Legion to be corrupted by the Ruinous Powers of Chaos many Terran decades before their counterparts
turned to the Dark Gods.

Through their actions they corrupted the Warmaster Horus and brought on the terrible galactic civil war
of the Horus Heresy in all its savagery. Today they bend all their considerable efforts towards the
overthrow of the "Corpse Emperor" in the Long War and spreading the "truth" of Chaos to all Mankind.