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The Heralds of Chaos is a mighty Chaos Undivided Battlefleet originating from the Maelstorm sectors. Though its origins are vague, and doubious, following the principle of the Red Corsairs scattered renegade chapters composition, the Heralds do share their origins in the Second Badab War. However, the first Heralds renegades trace their roots with the Black Templars Chapter. Eosbrenn Hildra, once a Reclusiarch of the Black Templars, and sworn enemy of the Word Bearers, had led a large Black Templars detachment into the Maelstorm, in league with the Astreal Claws and Mantis Warriors chapters, against chaos forces in the Pale Stars subsectors.
After the Black Templars withdrew from the region, Eosbrenn and his Templars embarked in a campaign to combat a Dark Apostle of the Word Bearers Chaos Space Marines, eventually being led back to the Maelstorm, during the Tyrant's War against Carthago and the Cancaladons. It was fated, it seemed, the Templars that followed the Reclusiarch, to befall into a Warp Storm, during which they inexplicably fell to Chaos, after 600 years of zealous war against the Word Bearers and their renegade minions.
After emerging from the Maelstorm, the now rebranded Heralds of Chaos, became a marauding renegade Chaos fleet that scattered around the nearby Imperial trade routes. On many occasions, Herald warships and Renegade detachments were reportedly in league with the Red Corsairs, during raids against Loyalist Systems, while the Heralds themselves have been rumoured to summon Chaos contingents and loose allied forces prior to launching their own assaults against the Imperium.