I have a bare-bones lore idea for a warband. They started out as a loyalist chapter, who were sent to reclaim a former human world, colonised before old night, now infested with xenos. Unfortunately the fight proved harder than expected and the chapter suffered heavy casualties. Eventually they were forced to take refuge in the ruins of a long dead human city.

While exploring the ruins and under seige from the xenos, they discovered what they believed to be an ancient weapon from the dark age of technology. They were able to activate it and use its awesome firepower to turn the tide of the fighting and eradicate many of the xenos scum.

Delighted with their find they decided to keep the weapon, making it a chapter relic (I'm imagining them as a young chapter, eager to gain acclaim and relics of their own).

Unfortunately it was in fact a daemon engine, and the deamon living inside began to corrupt them. Gradually they become increasingly dependent on the daemon engine for the desperate and hard fighting they face, and eventually they start accepting its offers of greater power of they accept chaotic mutations and daemonic possession.

That's as far as I've got so far with their lore and wanted some advice.

First off, I'm bad at naming things and was wondering if there were suggestions for the name of the chapter, as well as some of the important characters such as the chapter master, the daemon engine itself and any other suggestions.

Second if anyone has suggestions for alignment to a specific god or if undivided works well.

Finally I'm not sure about colour schemes, and model suggestions. I'm not into the classic all-black look. In my head the chapter originally had a yellow and red scheme but maybe they've modified it as a result of their fall.

All comments appreciated

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