Kirottu

Much to Aato’s great shame, the Sky Reavers inherited a little too much of Maaparatiisian culture. For some within the legion, the need to fly faster and more extremely exceeded even Astartes levels of endurance, but a practice from Maaparatiisi offered the solution. The Kirottu, named after the plant from which they created their concoctions, were those who used the plants native to Maaparatiisi to enhance their endurance to G Forces and reaction times, allowing them to pull off manoeuvres in the air that few could match. These benefits came with downsides though, as the drugs wore down the bodies of the Astartes, damning them to slow deaths as their bodies failed to keep pace with the demands of the pilots.

Aato was deeply ashamed of his sons for debasing themselves in his view by choosing to rely on performance enhancing substances rather than their own skill, and the Kirottu were treated on the level of Destroyer squads, forbidden to serve alongside Aato on the battlefield and sent on missions where high casualties were predicted. Despite this, the numbers of Kirottu remained low but constant, as there was always a steady flow of recruits who felt the allure.

The Kirottu would fail their father and legion a second time as the Third Ruin reached its zenith. The addiction of the Kirottu made them easy prey for the predations of Slaanesh, with emissaries from the Traitors finding the Kirottu willing to follow them in search of unnatural speed.

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