The Ashen Claws were the 18th Chapter of the Raven Guard Legion during the Unification Wars, Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras during the 30th and 31st Millennia. Comprised of several thousand legionaries, near every one was a Terran-born veteran of the old XIXth Legion, before their reunification with their lost Primarch Corvus Corax, upon the world of Deliverance during the Great Crusade. Following the Battle of Gate Forty-Two during the campaign in the Akum-sothos Cluster, those that survived the crucible of the deadly near-suicidal assault were gathered together and despatched by Corax into the north-eastern reaches of the Ghoul Stars to bring the light of the Emperor to the outer darkness. Considered a Blackshield force, the Ashen Claws believed themselves to be continuing the work