You are gathered among fellow Whitescars, however it is not a typical gathering. There is a large fire and a makeshift podium with several trophies of recent hunts displayed. Around the fire there are representatives from various Brotherhoods, hordes and new recruits from Terra are present and not in equal number. Members of the Karaoghlanlar, Burgediin Sarhvu, Akoghlanlar,Kharash and even a member of the rarely seen Uhann Solban are present. It was an honor to just be among such warriors at a gathering, and you feel a little out of place.
You are about to ask one of your brothers if they know what this is about when an Astartes jumps up on the podium and begins to speak.
"As you know we have been called to the Chondax system by the Warmaster. However, we will not be going with our brethren." The man speaking you recognize. Jubal Khan, Lord of the Brotherhood of the Summer Lightning and the Death That Comes With Laughter he was called.
There are some murmurs in the crowd but are silenced as Jubal continues to speak. "You have all been chosen to represent your brothers in a matter of honor. As you know the Mjordhainn beasts have been raiding us. Chogorian natives and battle brothers alike. The Khagan can not let this go unanswered, he has called upon me to lead an Ikhan. A great hunt. You all shall accompany me on the Lance of Heaven and venture out into the cosmos to bring down our prey. Our mission is simple. Bring the head of the Mjordhainn patriarch to our Khagan. We will not fail. Though you may be from different brotherhoods, hordes, and even planets often trained in competition to one another. Today you are Hunt-Brothers and represent the entire Vth Legion." Jubal pauses and looks over the crowd. "Tonight we feast and honor our ancestors. Tomorrow we ride!" The roar around the camp fire was thunderous. A Stormseer throws a powder into the fire. It ignites briefly and his eyes go white as he whispers a prayer. A shamanistic blessing of the hunt.
Welcome to my interest check/recruitment for a game of Deathwatch that is a bit different than normal. It is set during the Horus Heresy and what is the first Great Hunt of the White Scars. There is no Ordo Xenos in this time. The Emperor is alive and is not considered a god as he is in the time of M41. This is M31. I am planning on running this for some friends of mine IRL and figured I would try to iron it out a bit online. I am not sure of the interest of 40k RPG on this forum so we might not get enough, but as long as we get a few I think it could work. I will post some changes I have to the current Deathwatch rules to match this setting soon. The most obvious is that you are all White Scars. There is no Deathwatch. Things like archeotech will be ignored as archeotech is present tech. The White Scars portion of the First Founding supplement will be used. Other than that we will stick to the Core book to start until I can go over some of the other supplements for what's appropriate.