The Scorched where once a team of fearless elite honorguards stationed aboard the Fleet of Retribution during the First Battle of Arcadia. During the conflict the Supreme Shipmaster was assassinated and the new Shipmaster revoked the whole current honorguards marking them with the mark of shame and then set them on fire as an ultimate punishment. Their armour was burned into their bodies forcing them to forever live in their armour. They where abandoned on a wasteland of a planet far from covenant space dreaming of Sanghelious. Soon the survivors found their way into space and became heartless mercenaries with loyalty to whomever paid the most. Eventually word spread through the covenant of these elites and their names forever cursed, soon becoming a legend and a bogeyman of sorts of the covenant. Eventually they became so rage filled they forgot their previous lives and names and all sense of emotion disappeared in their hatred of the Shipmaster who took everything from them.