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Angels Penitent - Notable Angels Penitent: Chapter Magister Varzival Czervantes - Varzival Czervantes, known as the "Knight Resplendent" is the current Chapter Master of the Angels Resplendent. However he was away campaigning with the elite 1st Company when the Undying Martyr first made himself known to the Chapter and so was unable to prevent his Chapter from coming under the Martyr's sway. A solar decade after that event, Sergeant Montaig was the only Angel Penitent who secretly refused to embrace the Undying Martyr's teachings and held to the hope that the Chapter Master and his Veterans would eventually return. When he does, Montaig is convinced Varzival will be able to redeem the Chapter and restore them to the true light of the Emperor.Chief Librarian Athanazius - Athanazius was the chief librarian of the Angels Resplendent when the Undying Martyr first came upon the Chapter. He and his Librarians were the only ones to resist the Martyr's new teachings. This led them to be targeted in the Great Purge. The purge destroyed anything that linked the Chapter to its past and the Librarians' judgement came at the hands of a group of battle-brothers led by Chaplain Icharos Malvoisin. However even as the group came to kill them, Athanazius and the other Librarians did not seek to defend themselves from their fanatical brethren. Instead the chief librarian uttered the Angels Resplendent's traditional battle cry, "We will rise on burning wings!" This brought their attackers to a halt, especially Sergeant Montaig who felt his newfound self-loathing suddenly evaporate. However, Chaplain Malvoisin, who was the most fervent believer of the Undying Martyr's theology, responded with the Angels Pentinent's new battle cry, "The Emperor condemns!" This once more roused the fanatical hatred of the Astartes under his command and they fell upon Athanazius and the other Librarians. With the deaths of their Librarians, the reborn Angels Penitent felt they were no longer tied down by the sins of the Angels Resplendent's past.Architect Radiant Satori - A Librarian of the Angels Resplendent who died alongside Athanazius.Reclusiarch Relian - Relian was the reclusiarch who answered the call of Commander Dante to reinforce the Blood Angels in the face of Hive Fleet Leviathan's assault on Baal during the Devastation of Baal. While on Baal, the reclusiarch nearly struck Mephiston when he was unnaturally cured of the Black Rage, but relented and instead chose to wish that the Blood Angels' chief librarian be granted Sanguinius' mercy through an honourable death. Though the Leviathan was eventually defeated, it is not known if Relian survived the campaign on Baal.Chaplain Icharos Malvoisin - Icharos Malvoisin was the Chaplain who conversed with the stranger known as the "Undying Martyr" for nineteen solar days before proclaiming him a prophet of the God-Emperor. He also initiated the "Great Purge" of the Chapter.Sergeant Montaig - Montaig is a sergeant of the Angels Penitent. He secretly loathed his Chapter after it fell under the sway of the Undying Martyr, and hoped that their Chapter Master, the Knight Resplendent Varzival Czervantes, would return one day to restore the Angels Resplendent. Montaig found himself wishing for change, but always found an excuse to never take a stand against the new policies of the Council of Thorns himself. When the neophyte Phelion who Montaig had been mentoring was caught scrimshawing, now a crime since the creation of art was now deemed sinful by the Undying Martyr, Montaig offered to help his mentee escape into the wilds of their homeworld. But Phelion had become a fanatical believer in the teachings of the Angels Penitent and indicated that not only would he accept his punishment and likely execution, he also expected Montaig to confess his sin of knowing that his neophyte was creating art and yet doing nothing about it. Facing little choice, Montaig proceeded to kill Phelion and then lied about the crime to the Council of Thorns, claiming that he had prevented the neophyte from escaping. But Montaig promised himself that eventually, one day, he would take a stand against the Chapter's growing sickness. |
Angels Penitent - Non-Astartes Personnel: Undying Martyr - The Undying Martyr is an unknown mortal who came among the Angels Resplendent teaching a new and unforgiving interpretation of the Imperial Creed. The Martyr was massive in size for a normal Human, and had miraculously survived crossing the River Tristesse on their homeworld of Malpertuis where he had been discovered by the squad commanded by Sergeant Montaig. Despite his size, the Martyr was covered in scars and boils, and had suffered a severe and seemingly fatal chest wound, but wore an Aquila on a chain around his neck. When first discovered, the Martyr had asked, "Do I still dream?" Taken before Chaplain Icharos Malvoisin to decide his fate after Montaig decided to spare his life, the two talked for nineteen solar days during which time the Martyr declared that all hope of saving the Imperium had been lost and that Humanity's only option was to repent for its terrible sins and all its failures before the God-Emperor. He claimed that the Adeptus Astartes were among the worst of these sinners, for their failure during the Horus Heresy when so many turned to Chaos had been the event that started Humanity's cascade of sins for the next ten thousand years. Malvoisin was swayed by the Martyr's arguments and he declared the strange man to be a true prophet of the Emperor. This caused the Chapter to listen to his words and with their Chapter Master, Varzival Czervantes away on campaign with the Veterans of the 1st Company, there was no one present who could stop the Angels Resplendent from falling under the Undying Martyr's sway. He became their spiritual leader and declared the Chapter to be too prideful and vain, riddled with sin. The Martyr demanded they destroy everything that tied them to their sinful past and the so-called "Great Purge" began, which wiped away much of the Chapter's former culture and beliefs. Transformed into religious fanatics gripped by self-loathing by the Martyr's oddly persuasive teachings, most of the Angels Resplendent did as he commanded, with only the Librarians refusing to follow his orders and the Chapter's new direction. This led the Librarius to become targets for the wrath of the Chapter's fanatics and Malvoisin led the attack that killed Chief Librarian Athanazius and the other Librarians. |
Angels Penitent - Chapter Fleet: Severance of Glory (Strike Cruiser) - The Severance of Glory is a strike cruiser of the Angels Penitent. |
Angels Penitent - Chapter Colours: The Angels Penitent's power armour is black with streaks of umber which mirrors vines with thorns snaking across their armour. The Imperial Aquila or Imperialis on the chest is white.Prior to becoming the Angels Penitent, the Angels Resplendent wore red and gold armour with a black backpack, shoulder plates and Aquila or Imperialis on the chest.Like their genetic forbears, the Angels Penitent's company markings differ from those outlined by the Codex Astartes in utilising blood drop symbols on the right shoulder plate instead of different coloured trim and numbers.The right knee plate displays the colour and unique iconography of the squad to which an Astartes of the Chapter belongs. |
Angels Penitent - Chapter Badge: The Angels Penitent's Chapter badge is a large white skull with a grey crown of thorns upon its brow. This is centred on a field of black with umber streaks. |
Angels Penitent - Canon Conflict: In the limited release Adeptus Astartes: Successor Chapters the Angels Penitent were indicated to be an entirely separate Chapter from the Angels Resplendent, with their own Chapter badge and colour scheme.Whether the Chapters were one and the same or this image represented an entirely different Chapter with the name Angels Penitent, is unknown. |
Angels Porphyr - Angels Porphyr: The Angels Porphyr is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter that was founded in the 31st Millennium, though their specific Founding and genetic origin remain unknown. |
Angels Porphyr - Notable Campaigns: Death of the Witching Moon (013.M41) - The Forge Moon of Keziah, in the strategically vital Agathon System, fell into an unnatural eclipse during which its population was driven to murder and madness in an endless night of horror. The dread forces of the Tenebrae and the Company of Misery reigned as dark kings amid the nightmare, and the baleful light of the "Witching Moon" that Keziah had become spread calamity and warp-tainted phenomena wherever it now fell, threatening the entire star system. The first Imperial attacks by the Astra Militarum, squadrons from Battlefleet Ultima and the Inquisition were hurled back in tatters by the madness of the black light and the warp-fuelled savagery of the defenders. It was only by the unexpected arrival of the Charnel Guard Chapter, accompanied by a sacred band of the Adepta Sororitas' Order of the Black Sepulchre bearing the holy relic known as the Book of Tears before them, that the imminent loss of tens of billions of lives on Agathon Prime was prevented, and the insanity-inducing radiance of the Witching Moon was held back. The Charnel Guard led a fresh assault as further Adeptus Astartes, including the Angels Porphyr, Storm Lords and Iron Hands as well as Adeptus Mechanicus reinforcements arrive, fighting a brutal battle of tank and gunship clashes across the soaring metal canyons which razed the moon's surface and chamber-by-chamber Zone Mortalis actions were purging Keziah of the shadow that had befallen it. The Heretic Astartes inflicted fearful losses on their besiegers before they were driven into the deeper darkness of the Warp. In the wake of their retreat, all life was purged from Keziah before it was given back to the hands of the Machine Cult for tech-exorcism and eventual reclamation.Third War for Armageddon (998.M41) - In 998.M41 the Angels Porphyr Chapter deployed 8 companies in the Third War for Armageddon. When the Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka led a second unsuccessful WAAAGH! against that strategic hive world, Dreadnought Brother Damos led the defence of Ghattana, Armageddon's main water processing plant. He and seven other Dreadnoughts of the Angels Porphyr stood their ground against over one hundred Ork war machines. They prevailed with the help of nine other Dreadnoughts from other Space Marine Chapters and successfully defended the plant from Ork attacks. Of the seventeen Dreadnoughts, nine were destroyed and along with them over 9,000 cumulative years of combat experience. |
Angels Porphyr - Notable Angels Porphyr: Damos (Dreadnought) - Brother Damos commanded the 9th Company of the Angels Porphyr, a stalwart Veteran of three standard centuries of battle. His Devastator Squads were the very model of efficient fire support. Wherever his men fought, the armoured might of the enemy would be wary. It was during the Scouring of Hume as he led his men in the defence of Hill 236 that a surprise attack on the Space Marines' position by rebel Marauder bombers caught him in the open as he moved between his linked bunkers. By all rights the bombardment should have killed Damos, but when the attack was over, his brother Space Marines found that the bloody shreds of his body still drew breath. He demanded the chance to fight on, and thus his remains were placed in stasis and transported back to the Chapter's fortress-monastery where he was implanted within the armoured sarcophagus of a Dreadnought. For 3,000 Terran years he has remained entombed within his armoured body and, as he did in life, Damos provides a solid anchor of fire support for his battle-brothers, guiding the deployment and firing of the Chapter's Devastators. During the Third War for Armageddon, Damos led the valiant defence of the Ghattana Bay Water Processing Plant during the Battle of Gate IX. Leading eight other Chapter Dreadnoughts in support, they faced over 100 Ork Dreadnoughts and Killa Kans. Despite the dire circumstances, Damos had faced a hundred such situations before and prevailed. Fitted with far superior long-range weaponry, the Imperial Dreadnoughts held their ground. The Orks' initial advance cost them 17 Dreadnoughts. Pulling back, the Imperial Dreadnoughts goaded the Orks into attacking Gate IX. Behind the gate, led by Brother Weylands of the Omega Marines, were nine more Dreadnoughts armed with Power Claws and a mixture of shorter-ranged Assault Cannons, Multi-Meltas and Heavy Bolters. Behind them, Brother Damos and his Dreadnoughts stood on ramparts of earth and sundered rockcrete. Both ranks opened fire simultaneously into the tightly packed mass of Ork war machines. Then the front ranks ceased fire and thundered into close combat. The Ork force was entangled, caught in a bottleneck, and the Space Marine Dreadnoughts cut into them. Unsupported and caught at a complete disadvantage, the Ork war machines were utterly devastated and the Imperium provided victorious in the battle for the water processing plant and Gate IX. |
Angels Porphyr - Chapter Appearance: The Angels Porphyr are known to often incorporate Skull icons into their armour. |
Angels Porphyr - Chapter Colours: The Angels Porphyr wear power armour that has halved blue and white heraldry, with a yellow Imperialis or Aquila symbol on the chest.The white squad specialty symbol -- battleline, close support, fire support, Veteran or command -- is indicated on the right shoulder pauldron.A black Low Gothic numeral is centred in the middle of the squad specialty symbol, which indicates squad number.The right knee plate indicates company number in accordance with the Codex Astartes -- i.e., white (1st Company), yellow (2nd Company), red (3rd Company), etc. |
Angels Porphyr - Chapter Badge: The Angels Porphyr's Chapter badge is the profile of a blue winged skull displayed with a side profile (rather than the Imperialis, where the skull is face-forwards) on a field of white. |
Angels Porphyr - Controversy: The Angels Porphyr Chapter appears almost identical to the Eagle Warriors Chapter, the only differences being the Chapter badge (the Eagle Warriors have only a blue wing).This leads many Warhammer 40,000 fans to believe that the Angels Porphyr and Eagle Warriors are the same Chapter. However, both Chapters appear separately in How to Paint Space Marines, which should probably settle the matter as to whether the two are actually separate Chapters. |
Angels Puissant - Angels Puissant: The Angels Puissant is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding and origin. |
Angels Puissant - Chapter Colours: The Angels Puissants' Chapter colours are not listed in current Imperial records. |
Angels Puissant - Chapter Badge: The Angels Puissants' Chapter badge is not listed in current Imperial records. |
Angels Redeemed - Angels Redeemed: The Angels Redeemed is a Codex Astartes-compliant Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding and origin. |
Angels Redeemed - Chapter Colours: The Angels Redeemed primarily wear dark orange-red power armour. The power pack and arms are black. The Aquila or Imperialis on the chest is silver.The black squad specialty symbol -- battleline, close support, fire support, Veteran or command -- is indicated on the right shoulder plate.A white High Gothic numeral centred in the middle of the squad specialty symbol indicates squad number. The white High Gothic numeral on the left knee plate designates company number. |
Angels Redeemed - Chapter Badge: The Angels Redeemed's Chapter badge is a white winged sword centred on a field of dark orange-red, reminiscent of the Dark Angels' Chapter icon. |
Angels Repentant - Angels Repentant: The Angels Repentant is a Codex Astartes-compliant Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown Founding and origin. Almost nothing is known about this Chapter in the Imperial records. |
Angels Repentant - Chapter Colours: The Angels Repentant's Chapter colours are not listed in current Imperial records. |
Angels Repentant - Chapter Badge: The Angels Repentant's Chapter badge is not listed in current Imperial records. |
Angels Resplendent - Angels Resplendent: The Angels Resplendent was a little known Codex Astartes-compliant Loyalist Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels, created during the 9th Founding. Many amongst this Chapter were once fine artisans, echoing their genetic forebears. While other Chapters fought for glory, faith or the sheer joy of slaughter, the Angels Resplendent had made nobility its creed.Alone amongst the scions of Sanguinius, this Chapter had been entirely free of the madness that haunted the Angel's bloodline. No Space Marine in the red and gold had ever succumbed to the Black Rage. Recently, the arrival of a strange mortal known as the "Undying Martyr" led to the Chapter's conversion to a puritanical variant of the Imperial Creed.The Angels Resplendent renamed themselves the Angels Penitent, banned the production of all forms of art, and have dedicated themselves to the elimination of all sin and the castigation of all sinners, whether they be mortal or Astartes. |
Angels Resplendent - Chapter History: At some point in the Chapter's history, a strange individual, known only as the "Undying Martyr," came unexpectedly into the custody of the Angels Resplendent. The Undying Martyr was a mortal who had miraculously survived crossing the River Tristesse that served as the moat of the Angel Resplendent's fortress-monastery, Kanvolis.Few Space Marines could have mastered the crossing of the Tristesse, and so it was a mystery how a mortal had achieved the feat. Instead of ending the strange Human's life, the Undying Martyr was brought before Chaplain Icharos Malvoisin for interrogation.The Chaplain conversed with the stranger for nineteen solar days before proclaiming him a prophet of the God-Emperor who bore terrible new insights into the Imperial Creed. These truths were dark indeed, for he revealed that Mankind was corrupt beyond redemption and that its greatest guardians, the Adeptus Astartes, were the basest of all sinners, for they had faltered and fragmented in the war against the arch-betrayer Horus.There could be no hope of ascension into the Emperor's light, only penitence and pain for Humanity's collective sins past and future. The war was already lost and the only course was to fight on in the knowledge of certain defeat.Thus began the "Great Purge" of the Chapter of all activities and items considered blasphemy, including many objects once crafted by the warrior-artisans of the Chapter themselves. The Great Purge swept Kanvolis clean of beauty, yet it had left the fortress filthy, just as the Martyr's words had befouled the Chapter itself.When traversing the corridors, one would trample through a mulch of rotting tapestries and pulverised statuary. The Undying Martyr had pronounced this effluvium of desecrated glories sacrosanct -- a mockery of treacherous pride.Things might have been different if the Angels Respendent's Chapter Master Varziva Czervantes had been with his Chapter during this harrowing time, but the Knight Resplendent had been absent for many standard years, campaigning with the Chapter's elite 1st Company. There had been no word of them since the Great Purge and Chaplain Malvoisin had declared them lost, though many within the Chapter refused to believe it.The Knight Resplendent would return some day to reclaim and redeem his Chapter. In the absence of the Chapter Master, only Chief Librarian Athanazius and his Librarian brethren had spurned the Martyr's testament. Inevitably they were denounced as Heretics and soon those loyal battle-brothers who followed the will of the Chaplains obediently stormed the Librarium, driven by a hatred for their fellows that had been unmatched even in battle with xenos.Athanazius and his followers had awaited their brothers' assault, absent arms or armour, yet shielded by a contempt that brought the zealots' charge to a standstill. The attackers waited for the frigid electric tang that presaged a psychic assault, but when Athanazius spoke only a single sentence: "We will rise on burning wings." This assault was comprised of only words, but they were the Chapter's credo, delivered with a conviction that drained the poison from many of the attacking battle-brothers.It might have been enough to stop the madness, but then Chaplain Icharos Malvoisin bellowed the new credo, the one revealed by the Undying Martyr: "The Emperor condemns!" The Angels Resplendent died that day and the Angels Penitent rose from their grave, shadow-bound and bitter.The Chapter is now ruled by a council of zealous Chaplains called the "Crown of Thorns." They judge those amongst their brethren who they consider to have sinned against the Emperor, which includes such minor offences as creating scrimshaws honouring the Primarch Sanguinius -- for they believed that art exalted the tyranny of the sin of vanity.Some within the Chapter still secretly harbour their distrust of the new order, clinging to the Chapter's old identity, believing they were once warrior artisans before the outsider enslaved them. They know in their hearts that their true skills lie in arms and art in harmony, the true path of the Resplendent. But to voice such unpopular opinions is considered a sin in the eyes of the Crown of Thorns.Another worrying symptom of the new order is that the battle-brothers of the Chapter are now prone to falling victim to the Blood Angels' genetic curse known as the Black Rage. Prior to the arrival of the Undying Martyr, the Chapter had never had a single Astartes fall victim to the dreaded flaw of the sons of Sanguinius. It now appears that this curse flourishes freely enough to warrant the Chapter raising a Death Company of its own. |
Angels Resplendent - Chapter Beliefs: Formerly, the Angels Resplendent believed that they were a Chapter of warrior-artisans, a band of dedicated servants of the Emperor of Mankind who understood that war was an art form in itself. In the pursuit of art, the Angels Resplendent believed that they developed a discipline and an understanding of the broader needs of Mankind that reinforced their commitment to the defence of Humanity.Following the arrival of the Undying Martyr on the steps of their fortress-monastery, the Angels Resplendent have been seized by a new devotion to a fanatical, puritanical variant of the Imperial Creed that holds that Mankind and the Adeptus Astartes have become so corrupt that they are no longer redeemable in the eyes of the God-Emperor. As such, the only choice for mortals and Astartes alike is to receive unending punishment for their failure in the Emperor's eyes.All sins must be severely punished, in particular the sin of vanity, of which art is but one expression. As such, since the Great Purge, the Angels Resplendent have changed their name to the Angels Penitent and no longer suffer their warrior-artisans to create the glorious works which once decorated the fortress-monastery and expressed the Chapter's inherent appreciation for aspects of Human life beyond war. They have become a bitter, humourless band of zealots, fired only by hatred for sin and the desire to castigate the sinner. |
Angels Resplendent - Notable Angels Resplendent: Chapter Magister Varzival Czervantes - Varzival Czervantes, known as the "Knight Resplendent" is the current Chapter Master of the Angels Resplendent. However he was away campaigning with the elite 1st Company when the Undying Martyr first made himself known to the Chapter and so was unable to prevent his Chapter from coming under the Martyr's sway. A solar decade after that event, Sergeant Montaig was the only Angel Penitent who secretly refused to embrace the Undying Martyr's teachings and held to the hope that the Chapter Master and his Veterans would eventually return. When he does, Montaig is convinced Varzival will be able to redeem the Chapter and restore them to the true light of the Emperor.Chief Librarian Athanazius - Athanazius was the Chief Librarian of the Angels Resplendent when the Undying Martyr first came upon the Chapter. He and his Librarians were the only ones to resist the Martyr's new teachings. This led them to be targeted in the Great Purge. The purge destroyed anything that linked the Chapter to its past and the Librarians' judgement came at the hands of a group of battle-brothers led by Chaplain Icharos Malvoisin. However even as the group came to kill them, Athanazius and the other Librarians did not seek to defend themselves from their fanatical brethren. Instead the chief librarian uttered the Angels Resplendent's traditional battle cry, "We will rise on burning wings!" This brought their attackers to a halt, especially Sergeant Montaig who felt his newfound self-loathing suddenly evaporate. However, Chaplain Malvoisin, who was the most fervent believer of the Undying Martyr's theology, responded with the Angels Pentinent's new battle cry, "The Emperor condemns!" This once more roused the fanatical hatred of the Astartes under his command and they fell upon Athanazius and the other Librarians. With the deaths of their Librarians, the reborn Angels Penitent felt they were no longer tied down by the sins of the Angels Resplendent's past.Architect Radiant Satori - A Librarian of the Angels Resplendent who died alongside Athanazius.Reclusiarch Relian - Relian was the reclusiarch who answered the call of Commander Dante to reinforce the Blood Angels in the face of Hive Fleet Leviathan's assault on Baal during the Devastation of Baal. While on Baal, the reclusiarch nearly struck Mephiston when he was unnaturally cured of the Black Rage, but relented and instead chose to wish that the Blood Angels' chief librarian be granted Sanguinius' mercy through an honourable death. Though the Leviathan was eventually defeated, it is not known if Relian survived the campaign on Baal.Chaplain Icharos Malvoisin - Icharos Malvoisin was the Chaplain who conversed with the stranger known as the "Undying Martyr" for nineteen solar days before proclaiming him a prophet of the God-Emperor. He also initiated the "Great Purge" of the Chapter.Sergeant Montaig - Montaig was a sergeant of the Angels Resplendent. He secretly loathed his Chapter after it fell under the sway of the Undying Martyr and became the Angels Penitent, and hoped that their Chapter Master, the Knight Resplendent Varzival Czervantes, would return one day to restore the Angels Resplendent. Montaig found himself wishing for change, but always found an excuse to never take a stand against the new policies of the Council of Thorns himself. When the neophyte Phelion who Montaig had been mentoring was caught scrimshawing, now a crime since the creation of art was deemed sinful by the Undying Martyr, Montaig offered to help his mentee escape into the wilds of their homeworld. But Phelion had become a fanatical believer in the teachings of the Angels Penitent and indicated that not only would he accept his punishment and likely execution, he also expected Montaig to confess his sin of knowing that his neophyte was creating art and yet doing nothing about it. Facing little choice, Montaig proceeded to kill Phelion and then lied about the crime to the Council of Thorns which now governed the Chapter, claiming that he had prevented the neophyte from escaping. But Montaig promised himself that eventually, one day, he would take a stand against the Chapter's growing sickness. |
Angels Resplendent - Non-Astartes Personnel: Undying Martyr - The Undying Martyr is an unknown mortal who came among the Angels Resplendent teaching a new and unforgiving interpretation of the Imperial Creed. The Martyr was massive in size for a normal Human, and had miraculously survived crossing the River Tristesse on their homeworld of Malpertuis where he had been discovered by the squad commanded by Sergeant Montaig. Despite his size, the Martyr was covered in scars and boils, and had suffered a severe and seemingly fatal chest wound, but wore an Aquila on a chain around his neck. When first discovered, the Martyr had asked, "Do I still dream?" Taken before Chaplain Icharos Malvoisin to decide his fate after Montaig decided to spare his life, the two talked for nineteen solar days during which time the Martyr declared that all hope of saving the Imperium had been lost and that Humanity's only option was to repent for its terrible sins and all its failures before the God-Emperor. He claimed that the Adeptus Astartes were among the worst of these sinners, for their failure during the Horus Heresy when so many turned to Chaos had been the event that started Humanity's cascade of sins for the next ten thousand years. Malvoisin was swayed by the Martyr's arguments and he declared the strange man to be a true prophet of the Emperor. This caused the Chapter to listen to his words and with their Chapter Master, Varzival Czervantes away on campaign with the Veterans of the 1st Company, there was no one present who could stop the Angels Resplendent from falling under the Undying Martyr's sway. He became their spiritual leader and declared the Chapter to be too prideful and vain, riddled with sin. The Martyr demanded they destroy everything that tied them to their sinful past and the so-called "Great Purge" began, which wiped away much of the Chapter's former culture and beliefs. Transformed into religious fanatics gripped by self-loathing by the Martyr's oddly persuasive teachings, most of the Angels Resplendent did as he commanded, with only the Librarians refusing to follow his orders and the Chapter's new direction. This led the Librarius to become targets for the wrath of the Chapter's fanatics and Malvoisin led the attack that killed Chief Librarian Athanazius and the other Librarians. |
Angels Resplendent - Chapter Colours: As the Angels Resplendent, the Chapter wore golden power armour trimmed in silver and red. The Chapter badge was said to be similar to that of the Blood Angels themselves.The squad specialty symbol was on the right shoulder plate, with a Low Gothic numeral centred within it to indicate squad number.The company number was determined by a Low Gothic numeral inscribed on the right knee plate. |
Angels Resplendent - Chapter Badge: The Angels Resplendent's Chapter badge is a hooded, angelic figure with its arms raised. |
Angels Revenant - Angels Revenant: The Angels Revenant is a Codex Astartes-compliant Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and a Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines.This Chapter's origins can be traced to the 8th Founding which occurred in 598.M35, undertaken amid the dark times of the Nova Terra Interregnum, when the Imperium of Man had been split into twin interstellar empires.Ultimately, the Firstborn incarnation of the Angels Revenant met their fate with the rise of the Necron Maynarkh Dynasty within the Orpheus Sector of the Segmentum Tempestus in 991.M41.It is believed that no more than a few hundred Angels Revenant survived the Necron assault upon their Chapter homeworld.The only survivors were originally believed to be those members of the Chapter who were far from the Orpheus Sector on crusade.However, the Angels Revenant were saved during the Indomitus Crusade by a Torchbearer task force which also introduced the first Primaris Space Marines to the Chapter.The Torchbearers discovered that remnants of the Angels Revenant's Space Marines still fought a terrible battle against the Necrons deep beneath the surface of their ravaged homeworld.With the aid of the Indomitus Crusade task force, the Angels Revenant defeated their terrible foes and reestablished the Chapter. |
Angels Revenant - Early Years: Noble if aloof by reputation even for the warriors of the Adeptus Astartes, this Chapter of the 8th Founding, and of the proud lineage of the Ultramarines, spent much of its long history on Imperial Crusade throughout the western Imperium, in the Segmentum Tempestus.After the successful prosecution of the Orphean War of Faith in 903-922.M39, the Orpheus Sector rebuilt under its surviving Imperial Commanders and, by special dispensation, many regiments of the Astra Militarum and the survivors of Saint Marduk's pilgrimage to the sector were allowed to settle its worlds, either laying down their arms or integrating fully into the local Planetary Defence Forces, greatly strengthening them.The minor colony world of Libethra, upon which Saint Marduk had shown his favour, was converted to a Shrine World of the Ecclesiarchy in honour of Marduk and became a cemetery for the war's millions of glorious and blessed dead.Overlordship of the Shrine World was given over to the Angels Revenant as their domain, which until that time had been a fleet-based Chapter. The Angels Revenant also accepted the sacred charge of protecting Libethra's reliquaries and cerements, while the Space Marines' permanent residence on the world further strengthened the defences of the surrounding Orpheus Sector.As stern supporters of the Ecclesiarchy and the Imperial Creed, the bounty of the Orphean branch of the Adeptus Ministorum was given freely to the construction of the Chapter's fortress-monastery, while the hardy inhabitants of the Feral World of Patara formed the basis of new generations of Neophytes for the Chapter.While completely autonomous of the Orpheus Sector's Imperial authority, the Angels Revenant served as its protectors, guarding the pilgrimage routes of the Cold Veil, while their Chapter starships plied tirelessly the borders of the Hesod Nebula and the Barren Stars, hunting down and slaughtering xenos corsairs and marauders that had long made these trackless regions their lair. |
Angels Revenant - Orphean War: In 990.M41, the violent Warp turbulence that had held sway across the western division of the Orpheus Sector for more than three standard centuries was rapidly and suddenly extinguished by a shockwave in the Immaterium, leaving only the Howling Vortex Warp rift remaining.All across the sector, astropaths, psykers and witches were subjected to sudden and inexplicable deaths or were hopelessly mind-burned. Reports of mass-hysteria, unexplained murders, disappearances and mania increased exponentially across the worlds of the Cold Veil and the Drucillan Sub-sector.The Ordo Malleus of the Inquisition's Conclave Orpheus, based on the world of Apollyon, issued an order for maximum vigilance to all Imperial authorities, believing the Warp disturbance and its attendant phenomena were but a precursor to a major incursion into the sector.Within a standard year, Astropaths reeled against a tangled, overlapping cacophony of telepathic distress calls and the echoing of psychic screams of the dying, distorted to near incomprehensibility and folded in overlapping time. Riding on this tide were other, far stranger, calls; blazing pillars of energy spiking into the Aether on the edge of the Veiled Region.Pulsing like beacons these fountainheads of power spilled off howling gales of radiation and charged particle storms that seemed free to transcend the gulfs of distance between stars in mere moments. These flaring storms of energy danced like static discharge along Warp routes and clung in ghostly cold fire to the hulls of starships.The seething electromagnetic contagion they brought with them whispered in unknown tongues that invaded vox channels and supposedly sealed and secure communications webs, the fading echoes of agonised screams following in their wake.With it one phrase in Imperial Low Gothic repeated again and again: "Maynarkh comes." Havoc followed wherever the malign signal went, as machinery was plagued with sudden failure and malfunction, servitors were driven mad and cogitators were locked in terminal loops, their Machine Spirits shocked into stuttering apoplexy.Yet at this time the true nature of the threat remained unknown. Imperial authorities had no definite evidence as to the face of the enemy, which remained hidden. Astropathic messages sent towards the edgeward worlds were swallowed up unanswered, while any vessel that attempted to pass a line of darkness that stretched across the sector in a curving scimitar-like arc from Tlaloc to Epirus simply did not return.Perhaps most disquieting of all was the silence of Libethra, the Chapter homeworld of the Angels Revenant Chapter, who had long served as the sector's stalwart defenders and most powerful of warriors. For Libethra also to be struck silent by this mysterious doom sent a splinter of cold panic into the hearts of the Orphean Imperial Commanders that they dared not acknowledge.But it was this factor more than any other that threw them into a policy of panicked preparatory defence rather than responding with blind counter-aggression as they might have.Of the final fate of the Angels Revenant Space Marine Chapter, little can be said for sure. Libethra, where a hundred basilicas had been raised to honour the blessed dead and where the Angels Revenant Chapter had served as sentinels for the entire sector, was now a black sea of shifting ash, riven by lurid red lava -- all traces of the Imperium's hand obliterated.Such scattered and fragmentary evidence that has been uncovered about their final hour suggest unsurprisingly that they fought to the last against the overwhelming forces unleashed against them, as the Libethra System was found littered with the radiation-ghosts of deadly void combat and spreading clouds of micro-wreckage.Furthermore, the ancient hull of at least one of the vast Necron Tomb Ships that were later sighted above the world of Amarah during the Orphean War against the Necrons of the Maynarkh Dynasty held fresh scars consistent with the unique signature of Space Marine bombardment cannon strikes at extreme close range.Indeed it may be the case that such was the resistance the Angels Revenant put up that the Necron invaders resorted to breaking through Libethra's crust and unleashing the planet's molten core to seal their fate conclusively. When news of the Chapter's martyrdom reached the Ecclesiarchy's Synod Tempestus, a Segmentum-wide day of requiem was decreed, the bells of a thousand worlds across the Segmentum Tempestus tolling to mark the passing of the Angels Revenant.It was thought that no more than a few hundred Angels Revenant survived, and only those who were away from their Chapter homeworld on crusade when the Necron assault came upon Libethra. |
Angels Revenant - Era Indomitus: During the Era Indomitus after the birth of the Great Rift, the Indomitus Crusade deployed a task force of Torchbearers that was sent to locate the Angels Revenant.After the Torchbearers arrived at the Chapter homeworld of Libethra it appeared at first as though the Chapter was extinct and their duty was to reestablish it in whole.Libethra had been cracked open by the Necrons of the Maynarkh Dynasty in order to engulf the original Angels Revenant in lava.No trace could be found of those scattered battle-brothers who had avoided the tragedy while away from their homeworld on crusade.Yet even as Torchbearer forces set down upon the riven, airless carcass of Libethra and prepared to declare the waning Chapter extinct, their auspex and vox networks picked up faint signs of ferocious battle taking place deep beneath the planet's surface.Tales are told elsewhere of the subsequent battle for dead Libethra against the Necron menace, of the alliance between the Torchbearers and the last vengeful remnants of the Angels Revenant, and of that Chapter's rebirth amidst the furnace of war -- suffice to say that the Primarch's Gift of the genetic technologies and Adeptus Mechanicus Genetors needed to create Primaris Space Marines ushered in a new era for the Angels of Libethra. |
Angels Revenant - Notable Campaigns: Dark Marches Crusade (610-759.M36) - In the wake of the Age of Apostasy, the Segmentum Tempestus saw a resurgence in power and renaissance of expansion, known to Imperial historians as the "Rising Storm". With the blessing of Terra, the Segmentum authorities launched a number of Crusades and campaigns to destroy lingering threats within their domain, and pushed back and fortified the borders of the Imperium itself. The most successful of these was the Dark Marches Crusade, commanded by Lord Tempestus Hal Orpheus, a lineal descendant of the Rogue Trader house that had first explored the region's sinister reaches millennia previously. The Angels Revenant provided four companies of Astartes to take part in the massive Imperial Crusade.Orphean War of Faith (903-922.M39) - With the military and ruling classes set against each other in bloody internecine conflict, and the Orpheus Sector itself balanced on the edge of the abyss, a ramshackle fleet arrived at the sector capital world of Amarah bringing with it unexpected aid -- a crusade force of Imperial zealots, militia, Imperial Guardsmen and pilgrims driven into martial fervour by the preaching of the ecstatic visions of the Arch-Confessor Marduk of Helvamon. Marduk declared a War of Faith for the souls of the Orpheus Sector, claiming the God-Emperor Himself had warned him of a great and terrible threat to all Mankind. Further reinforcements in the form of the Angels Revenant Space Marine Chapter in its entirety, as well as the Adeptus Sororitas Order of the Valorous Heart and the Order of the Black Sepulchre, and a taskforce from the Ordo Malleus of the Inquisition strengthened the Imperial cause. The Imperial forces were also able to count upon countless volunteers from the citizenry of those worlds as yet untrammelled by war, who had been stirred up by Marduk's religious oratory. Thus began the Orphean War of Faith, a bitter conflict that would last for nearly twenty standard years and saw a full fifth of the Orpheus Sector's population slain by its end, and countless more ruined, maimed and displaced.The Bane of Saint Marduk (921.M39) - Despite a successful Imperial victory of the Orphean War of Faith with nearly all the major Traitor-held worlds either reconquered or laid to waste, one world withstood: the Chaos stronghold of Colkasth. This Hive World had been fortified and corrupted into a living hell, its population used as raw materials by the Warpsmiths of the Death Mongers to fashion flesh-weapons and mutilated and insane cannon-fodder to defend their prize. Despite continuous pressure by the forces of the Arch-Confessor Marduk, the Imperials were unable to reconquer the recalcitrant world. It is known from the last signals received from the warzone that Marduk's forces had been making headway, matching the fury of the Warp-tainted defenders of Colkasth with faith and fire, and had succeeded in forcing multiple landing zones on the planet's surface, when Astropathic communications with the besieging Imperial fleet abruptly ceased and the alarm was raised. The Angels Revenant Strike Cruiser Intercessor was the first to respond to the raised alarm. It was attacked and severely damaged on its arrival at the system's edge by two small but extremely powerful voidcraft of unknown (presumed xenos) origin, now recognised as of Necron manufacture. The Space Marine vessel was damaged before destroying one attacker and driving the other off. Those on the near crippled Intercessor witnessed a great star battle erupting across the inner system on their long range Auguries, but were themselves unable to intervene. By the time they limped to Colkasth, the unknown xenos attacking force had departed, leaving a twisted field of burning hulks drifting in orbit around the world, its fortresses and cities shattered and seething with unearthly radioactive fire below. There were, however, scattered knots of survivors amid the wreckage and fallout. Those that bore the stigmata of Chaos and treachery the Angels Revenant put to the sword, while those few survivors who had fought for the Emperor, wounded and often catatonic with shock, were carried away to salvation before a final ash-black winter claimed the world. Colksath was forever afterwards to be named Saint Markduk's Bane, as the martyred Arch-Confessor himself was soon afterwards beatified as an Imperial Saint by the Holy Synod of the Ecclesiarchy. |
Angels Revenant - Chapter Organisation: The Angels Revenant Chapter conformed closely to the tenants of the Codex Astartes in organisation and wargear like its parent Chapter, the Ultramarines. Due to its long history of independent crusade operations, where resupply was uncertain, the Chapter preferred to rely on the more common patterns of Adeptus Astartes wargear, and placed as high a value on restoring and repairing the wargear of its fallen as it did in venerating its dead.This served to provide a close spiritual link between successive generations of the Chapter's warriors. The Chapter was known to maintain a venerated core of Mark IV Maximus Pattern relic Power Armour dating back to the days of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy throughout its long history. |
Angels Revenant - Chapter Fleet: The following represents the only known warship of the Angels Revenant Chapter fleet. As a former fleet-based Chapter, the Angels Revenant would have possessed many more vessels of various classes and types.Intercessor (Strike Cruiser) - The Intercessor was the Angels Revenant voidship that witnessed the destruction of the Imperial fleet assaulting the Chaos-held world of Colkasth, now known as Saint Marduk's Bane. The Intercessor was damaged in void combat with what are now recognised as Necron vessels. |
Angels Revenant - Chapter Colours: The Angels Revenant Chapter colours are dark cobalt blue with gold-trimmed shoulder plates coloured a pale white. There is also some white on the power pack and silver on the soles of their boots.The black squad specialty symbol -- battleline, close support, fire support, Veteran or command -- is indicated on the right shoulder guard.A High Gothic numeral stenciled in white is centred on it, designating the Astartes' squad number. |
Angels Revenant - Chapter Badge: The Angels Revenant's Chapter badge is the face of a white skull, missing its lower jaw, wreathed in a burning black flame, centred on a field of pale white. |
Angels Sanguine - Angels Sanguine: The Angels Sanguine is a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines and a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels. Theirs is a long and glorious history, having been pivotal in many victories against the Chaotic horrors that have emerged from the Eye of Terror.Yet the shadow of the Blood Angels' genetic flaw lingers ever about the Angels Sanguine. With a history of heroism and valour as laudable as the Angels Sanguine, it is easy to see why they are heralded far and wide across the Imperium as exemplars of the Blood Angels genetic stock and the Sanguinary Brotherhood.They have vanquished foes far and wide from Orks to Chaos Space Marines, and always upheld the honour of their Chapter, and founding Legion.Yet, in spite of these deeds, rumours and unease surround them. The Angels Sanguine possess several strange habits and traditions that unsettle those around them, foremost among which is the fact that they shield their faces from those they fight alongside.It is a strange thing that hiding one's face garners more attention than thwarting a Traitor army led by Typhus of the Death Guard, but such is their lot. Speculation also continues about why they have so many Librarians within their ranks, a Librarius that has grown to almost twice the size of that fielded by any other Blood Angels Successor.And many in the Imperium also have concerns about what exactly goes on in the mysterious catacombs beneath the Angels Sanguine's fortress-monastery on their homeworld of Baalus Trine. |
Angels Sanguine - Chapter History: The Angels Sanguine are another Chapter formed when the Blood Angels Legion was divided during the Second Founding, and like many of their peers, the Chapter's battle-brothers have served with honour and courage throughout the ten thousand years of the Age of the Imperium.The Chapter is especially honoured for its heroic actions defending the regions surrounding the Eye of Terror against the Black Crusades of the servants of Chaos, and held in high esteem by most other Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. Despite this proud heritage, there lingers an air of mystery about the Angels Sanguine that can only be a result of the tragic flaw of the Blood Angels.The most outwardly distinctive feature of the Angels Sanguine is that none of the Chapter's battle-brothers ever remove their helmets, nor reveal their faces in the presence of one not of their own Chapter. Even amongst their own kin, whether of their own Chapter or others of the line of Sanguinius, they obscure their features beneath monkish hoods.Exactly why this should be the case has never been determined by any outsiders, and as a result, the Chapter's battle-brothers are regarded with a measure of dread by most they encounter. What might lie beneath the helmets and hoods none can say.Perhaps they are afflicted by some physical mutation linked to the flaw, or maybe they simply choose to obscure their faces as some form of penance. Furthermore, a number of dark tales have emerged regarding the Chapter's fortress-monastery, most of which concern the dark catacombs said to lie far beneath it.Their terrible secret, called the Red Thirst, is that Angels Sanguine Marines develop an overpowering physiological need to drink blood because of the mutation of their gene-seed, a not uncommon problem for the heirs of Sanguinius.This shameful truth is known only to a few souls outside of the Chapter. Despite this flaw, they have a long and glorious history of service to the Imperium of Man. |
Angels Sanguine - In the Jericho Reach: The Angels Sanguine have been active in the Jericho Reach since at least 791.M41, when a detachment from the Chapter's 1st Company arrived unannounced through the Jericho-Maw Warp Gate and attached itself to a larger force of the Angels Vermillion, a fellow Blood Angels Successor Chapter.The Angels Vermillion were engaged upon a mission deep into the Chaos-held systems surrounding the Hadex Anomaly, a mission launched at the behest the Master of the Vigil, Watch Commander Mordigael of the Blood Angels.It appears that this combined force had as its target an individual Chaos warlord, and that the mission was a matter of Chapter business and had nothing to do with the Deathwatch's mission in the Jericho Reach. The mission was not debated in the Chamber of Vigilance of Watch Fortress Erioch, nor were any accounts of it shared with the Ordos of the Inquisition or with the high command of the Achilus Crusade.Concerned by this turn of events, an ad hoc conclave of Inquisitors based in the Tower of Brass on Watch Fortress Erioch determined to discover something of what had occurred, and in so doing setting themselves against the Master of the Vigil, one of the most powerful individuals in the entire Jericho Reach war zone.Though it cost them the lives of several of their most valued followers, the Inquisitors discovered one single, key piece of information regarding the mission. Its target was a warlord last seen three Terran centuries before in the vicinity of the Screaming Vortex Warp Storm that lies between the Calixis Sector and the Koronus Expanse.The Renegade had not been seen since then, but his sudden reappearance in the Jericho Reach had clearly been of great import to the Watch Commander. The reason for this, and the involvement of the Angels Sanguine, was hinted at when the Inquisitors discovered the title the warlord was now operating under -- Lazoreth the Faceless.The prying Inquisitors would never have the opportunity to disseminate their discovery, for over the course of the solar days and weeks following the Watch Commander's return to Watch Station Erioch, each one seems to have disappeared or met with some unfortunate end.Of those Inquisitors whose bodies were found, one was discovered frozen solid in the airless ice-chambers of the Hunting Grounds, a section of the Watch Station given over to training in arduous environments. Another was discovered floating in the void, a chilling expression of stark terror etched onto his face.The body of a third was found, exsanguinated, at the base of the Tower of Brass, sprawled in plain view as if in dire warning. Several of the Angels Sanguine then took the Apocryphon Oath, and stand the Long Watch of the Deathwatch to this day. |
Angels Sanguine - Notable Campaigns: War of Broken Wings (261.M33) - A unified armada of vessels drawn from the Night Lords Traitor Legion and its myriad allies assaulted the Angels Sanguine's battlefleet in high orbit above the world of Anzyra. The Angels Sanguine, fighting for their homeworld and the very survival of their Chapter, were pressed into a defensive battle to prevent mass bombardment of their fortress-monastery. To end the engagement, which records list as several days of protracted void war and boarding actions, the Angels Sanguine forced a final resolution by offering the perfect bait: they allowed their flagship, the Cruor Domina, to be crippled and boarded by hundreds of enemy Traitor Marines. While the Space Marines defended the battle barge to keep it from being taken as a prize by the raiding Night Lords, a full three hundred Death Company warriors were sent by Boarding Torpedoes to slaughter their way through the vulnerable crews of eight enemy capital ships, including the renowned Lies of Dawn and the Brotherhood of Darkness warship Sightless Godling. The Angels Sanguine have always suffered fiercely from the flaw, and such an assault represented a century's worth of prisoners within their monastery's Tower of the Lost being unleashed into battle one last time. Without Chaplains to lead them, the Death Companies were sacrificed in desperation, with no hope of recovery. It turned the tide. Suddenly, at risk of losing many of their own flagships, the Traitor warbands fought their way back to their own vessels, only to be cut down by the enraged defenders as they turned their backs and fled. Those Traitors that managed to return to their own ships were met with entire decks left as abattoirs by the rampaging Death Companies, and were forced to contend with the blood-maddened boarding parties even as they ordered their ships back from the primary assault.Task Force Iscon (721.M41) - Captain Iscon of the Angels Sanguine Chapter led a mixed strike force drawn from his own and several other Chapters against Aeldari Corsairs plaguing the Mining World of Volyn. At the height of the campaign, Iscon cornered and slew the Corsair Prince Nhilus the Ardent in an epic duel that has since become a legend of the Chapter.Vandred Atrocity (864.M41) - Drukhari Archon Thysk led his Kabal of the Bloody Storm against Vandred, a Feudal World from which the Angels Sanguine Space Marine Chapter recruits new Aspirants. Sure enough, a strikeforce of Angels Sanguine made planetfall within days, yet they were playing into the Archon's hands. Thysk released a blood-plague acquired at great cost from the Haemonculi Coven of the Altered, a virus that taps directly into the tragic gene-curse of Sanguinius' sons. Aware of their madness but unable to stop, the Angels Sanguine butchered and devoured those they came to save before falling upon each other, while the Drukhari drank in the agony, terror and despair.Sanguinary Brotherhood Conclave (ca. 999.M41) - Teetering on the brink of oblivion following the events on the Shrine World of Sabien, the fate of the Blood Angels Chapter now required the magnanimity of their Successor Chapters. Lord Commander Luis Dante summoned all of the Blood Angels' Successor Chapters of the Sanguinary Brotherhood for a conclave on Baal following the near-disastrous Chapter civil war that nearly tore the Blood Angels apart. Dante called for the support of the Blood Angels Successors to help aid the Chapter in the protection of their common primarch's homeworld and his remains from the attack of both the Tyranids and the Forces of Chaos. While Dante led the discussion at the conclave, the Apothecaria was working on a radical new procedure to replenish the ranks of the Blood Angels in one swift stroke: the lost art of replicae. Caecus was the Chief Apothecary or Apothecae Majoris of the Blood Angels. Disturbed by the dwindling numbers of his Chapter, and dreading its extinction, he was involved in fruitless experiments, which Lord Commander Dante ordered stopped, to clone Space Marines, thus eliminating the need to go through the arduous process of the maturation and implantation of the gene-seed in an Aspirant. However, Caecus disobeyed the order and secretly continued the experiments, prodded by an agent of the vile Chaos Space Marine Apothecary Fabius Bile. He was tricked into bringing Bile, who was disguised as a well-known Adeptus Mechanicus Magos Biologis, to Baal, mistakenly thinking the false "Magos" would help in cloning Space Marines to increase the Blood Angels' numbers. Through Bile's manipulations, Caecus was duped, and only managed to create monstrous, mutant clone-Astartes known as "Bloodfiends" who were consumed by the Red Thirst. These creatures were a shattered mirror reformed in the image of a Blood Angel, but lacked any of the qualities that could be thought of as human. The mutations that cursed the gene-seed of the Blood Angels had been enhanced by the machinations and Chaotic tech-heresy of Fabius Bile, and with each drop of blood they consumed, the thirst that dominated the Bloodfiends grew stronger. The mutants broke free from the confines of Caecus' laboratorium and began to run rampant through the sacred halls of the fortress-monastery of the Blood Angels. The Angels Sanguine, along with the Blood Angels and their fellow Successors successfully defended their most sacred of sites on Baal -- the Golden Sarcophagus of Primarch Sanguinius within the sacred sepulchre where the Great Angel lay for all time, sleeping in light, forever preserved. The Sons of Sanguinius destroyed the horde of mutants and erased the stain of Chaos from their midst. They had paid for the continued sanctity of the Great Angel with their blood, and in the aftermath of this misery, Lord Commander Dante took responsibility for what had happened and he accepted it without complaint. Dante believed that it was his hubris that had brought the Chapter to this dark place. The Successor Chapters took this into consideration as well as Lord Commander Dante's original request for the Successors to grant the Blood Angels a small tithe of their Chapter's Initiates in order to replenish the ranks of the Chapter. The Successor Chapters unanimously agreed to hand over to the Blood Angels some of their own neophytes to help their ancestral Chapter rebuild its strength in the wake of the Chaos assault -- and in preparation for the oncoming assault by the Tyranids and the forces of Chaos.13th Black Crusade (ca. 999.M41) - The Angels Sanguine fielded 7 companies in support of the defence of the Cadian Gate from Abaddon the Despoiler and his Forces of Chaos during the 13th Black Crusade.Devastation of Baal (ca. 999.M41) - The Angels Sanguine were among the Blood Angels Successor Chapters who participated in the defence of the Blood Angels' homeworld of Baal from the assault by Hive Fleet Leviathan.Red Scar Campaign (Unknown Date.M42) - Hurled across the void by an empyric convulsion, a T'au colonisation fleet began claiming worlds within the Red Scar region of the Imperium Nihilus. Their efforts were brought to a sudden, violent halt by strike forces of Blood Angels, Flesh Tearers and the Angels Sanguine. The planets of D'sandri and Gendal's Reach were swiftly reclaimed for the Imperium, and the war spilled into the Sevensuns System. |
Angels Sanguine - Chapter Organisation: The Angels Sanguine use the same organisation scheme as their parent Chapter, the Blood Angels, like most of the other member Chapters of the Sanguinary Brotherhood. As such, they are considered a partially Codex Astartes-compliant Chapter. |
Angels Sanguine - Notable Angels Sanguine: Lord Sentikan - Lord Sentikan is the current Chapter Master of the Angels Sanguine.Captain Bolthus - Bolthus was a Captain of the Angels Sanguine who accompanied the forces sent by the Chapter to aid the Blood Angels during the Devastation of Baal.High Chaplain Servius - Servius was the first High Chaplain of the Angels Sanguine.Chaplain Nolasco - Chaplain Nolasco was known in his time for the fiery zeal of his sermons, many of which he committed to parchment so that even millennia later they are still to be heard from the pulpits of Watch Fortress Erioch. The bulk of Nolasco's sermons call upon the battle-brothers of the Deathwatch, and indeed the Adeptus Astartes at large, to draw strength from the example of the Primarch Sanguinius, who fell defending the greater cause embodied by the Emperor Himself. Thus, Chaplain Nolasco held that a noble death in battle was both inevitable for a Space Marine, and preferable, the final moments of a battle-brother's service exemplifying and summarising all he stood for in life.Librarian Ashok - Librarian Ashok is a member of the Angels Sanguine Chapter and is currently seconded to the Deathwatch. Before his Secondment, Ashok served in a campaign against the Tyranids on the planet of Hegelian IX. Deployed with his Chapter's Death Company into the subterranean catacombs in pursuit of the fleeing xenos, he and his fellow comrades succumbed to the terrible effects of the Black Rage. This resulted in the company taking out their savagery against one another -- Ashok's hand being forced to kill three of his own battle-brothers before he finally managed to control the effects of his gene-seed's flaw. For the next three years, Ashok was strapped to the Tablet of Lestralio, a device designed to restrain those afflicted by the effects of the Black Rage, deep within the bowels of his Chapter's fortress-monastery. After finally emerging from this nightmarish event, Ashok was presented with the Shroud of Lemartes, a symbolic cloak given to those Angels Sanguine as a symbol of their mastery over the Black Rage. Though Ashok had successfully managed to deal with the flaw's affects, he would have to remain eternally vigilant in combating the signs. Shortly after, he was seconded to the illustrious Deathwatch, the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's Ordo Xenos. Ashok later deployed with a Deathwatch Kill-team under the command of Inquisitor Kalpysia in order to deal with a splinter Tyranid Hive Fleet on the world of Herodian IV. During this campaign, Ashok became the first recorded Librarian to have ever taken on three Tyranid Zoanthropes and live. It is said that Ashok is also unique in that he is one of the few Space Marines to dislike wearing his Power Armour, and senses that its Machine Spirit is not fond of him either. |
Angels Sanguine - Chapter Relics: Grail of Angels - The Grail of Angels is a holy relic of the Angels Sanguine Chapter, a Blood Chalice that is possessed by its Sanguinary High Priest. When the High Priest initiates Neophytes into the Chapter, they must drink his blood from the Grail of Angels and in doing so they partake in the essence of the Primarch Sanguinius himself.Mask of the Watcher - The Mask of the Watcher is an Artificer Helmet forged in the shape of the golden death mask of the Angels Sanguine's beloved Primarch Sanguinius. Legends of their Primarch sometimes tell of his powers of prophecy and divination. This power is latent in all Blood Angels by virtue of the psychic imprint he left upon their gene-seed, usually manifesting as the visions that lead to the Black Rage. It can sometimes be harnessed for better ends, and the advanced psy-active circuitry embedded in the impassive golden face of the Watcher's Mask allows the Sons of Sanguinius to draw on extraordinary insight.Shroud of Servius - The Shroud of Servius is a relic that is named in honour of Servius, the Chapter's first Sanguinary High Priest, and remains in the possession of each Astartes in turn to hold that rank. The Shroud holds such power that when it is worn by a Sanguinary High Priest, it grants him the psychological authority to stop even the rampages of the Chapter's Death Company.Shroud of Lemartes - The Shroud of Lemartes is presented to members of the Angels Sanguine who have been afflicted with the Black Rage who somehow manage to regain mastery of their minds while strapped to the Tablet of Lestrallio. The shroud is a symbol of their newfound mastery of themselves.Tablet of Lestrallio - The Tablet of Lestrallio is used to restrain Angels Sanguine who have entered the Black Rage. It is named after Chaplain Lestrallio of the Blood Angels, who designed and later died on the Tablet. Members who emerge from their time on the Tablet and have regained mastery of their psyches are presented with the Shroud of Lemartes as a symbol of their newfound inner strength. |
Angels Sanguine - Chapter Colours: The Angels Sanguine's power armour is halved red and black with a yellow Imperialis symbol on the chest plate.The white squad specialty symbol -- battleline, fire support, close support or Veteran -- is indicated on the right shoulder guard.A black Low Gothic numeral centred in the middle of the squad specialty symbol indicates squad number. The company number is indicated on the right knee guard in accordance with the heraldry used by the Blood Angels. |
Angels Sanguine - Chapter Badge: The Angels Sanguine's Chapter badge is a large white skull centred on a pair of red wings on a field of black. |
Angels Vermillion - Angels Vermillion: Angels VermillionSecond FoundingSpace Marinesgene-seedBlood AngelsChapter homeworldCorinalEastern FringesAlone of the Blood Angels' successors, the Angels Vermillion shun all contact with their brother Chapters, choosing to bear their lingering curse in solitude and isolation. Little is recorded of the Angels Vermillions' actions in the days since the Second Founding, but whenever the Chapter is mentioned, its battle record is nothing short of exemplary.Indeed, there are many among the Blood Angels Chapter Council who advocate efforts to establish closer ties to this elusive Successor Chapter, yet for reasons known only to himself, Commander Dante has always refused.The Angels Vermillion care little for their relationship with the Blood Angels. They do not wish to be a part of the Blood Angels' wider brotherhood, as they wish to handle the Chapter's Flaw in their own way, without the interference from the Blood Angels and their other brother Chapters.The Angels Vermillion are willing to reveal their curse to the wider Imperium if the Blood Angels and their brother Chapters choose to move against them and prevent them from dealing with the curse in their chosen manner, even if this means they will pay in blood and divert their combined efforts away from the foes of Humanity into pointless internecine strife. |
Angels Vermillion - Chapter History: The Angels Vermillion is a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels Legion, created during the massive reorganisation of the Imperial military set in motion by Roboute Guilliman in the aftermath of the Horus Heresy.These Scions of Sanguinius can trace their origins to the Blood Angels Legion's 9th Company, the "Angels Vermillion," who were chosen to become a Successor "Chapter" when the Blood Angels Legion was sundered into those smaller formations. Stripped of heraldry, history and honour, the Angels Vermillion would forge their own destiny and write their own tallies of victory within their Chapter's annals.While most Blood Angels successors maintain close ties with one another and with their sire Chapter, the Angels Vermillion appear to be an exception. An aloof Astartes Chapter, they shun all contact with their brothers who are also descended from the Primarch Sanguinius, choosing to bear their lingering curse in solitude and isolation.Ironically, little is recorded in Imperial records of the Chapter's exploits since the Second Founding, but whenever they are mentioned, their battle record is nothing short of exemplary. The relief of the Quatandril Templesiege, the banishment of the Daemon Ag'thax'rae'phael on Parnassium, even the desperate campaign known as the Thousand Days of Pain, all of these are shining moments in an otherwise shrouded history.While the Chapter has earned numerous battle honours prosecuting the Imperium's wars, they have very rarely been observed fighting in the same war zone as the Blood Angels or another of their successors.In addition to its apparent isolationist nature, the Angels Vermillion is a notoriously secretive Chapter, though it is hardly unusual for the Adeptus Astartes to shun the attentions of non-Space Marine institutions of the Imperium. |
Angels Vermillion - Notable Campaigns: Persecution by the Order of the Argent Shroud (Date Unknown.M41) - Sometime prior to the Third War for Armageddon (in which the Chapter did not participate) the Angels Vermillion were subjected to attacks by the Adepta Sororitas' Order of the Argent Shroud for perceived heresy on their part under the leadership of Canoness Dissenta.The Hives of Hollonan (992.M41) - In 992.M41, the Angels Vermillion aided the Blood Angels during the battle for the Hives of Hollonan. The Chapter sent a strike force to that world in answer of the astropathic call for assistance that was made to their Chapter homeworld of Corinal by the Blood Angels' Chief Librarian Mephiston when a splinter fleet of Hive Fleet Kraken descended upon that Hive World. The Angels Vermillion fought alongside the Blood Angels and the Aeldari of Craftworld Ulthwe under the command of the venerable Farseer Eldrad Ulthran, who had brought his people into the fight for enigmatic reasons of his own. The Tyranids were crushed between the attacks of the three descending armies and this splinter of the coming Hive Fleet Kraken was removed from existence before its parent Hive Fleet arrived in full force. Eldrad Ulthran and his forces remained just long enough to see Mephiston recovered from the rubble, terribly wounded but miraculously still clinging to life. This second resurrection only served to increase Mephiston's legend within his Chapter -- and beyond.Scions of Sanguinius Conclave (999.M41) - Teetering on the brink of oblivion following the events on the Shrine World of Sabien, the fate of the Blood Angels Chapter now required the magnanimity of their Successor Chapters. Lord Commander Dante summoned all of the Blood Angels' Successor Chapters for a conclave on Baal following the near-disastrous Chapter civil war that nearly tore the Blood Angels apart. Dante called for the support of the Blood Angels successors to help aid the Chapter in the protection of their common Primarch's homeworld and his remains from the attack of both the Tyranids and the forces of Chaos. While Dante led the discussion at the conclave, the Apothecaria was working on a radical new procedure to replenish the ranks of the Blood Angels in one swift stroke: the lost art of replicae. Caecus was the Chief Apothecary or Apothecae Majoris of the Blood Angels. Disturbed by the dwindling numbers of his Chapter, and dreading its extinction, he was involved in fruitless experiments, which Lord Commander Dante ordered stopped, to clone Space Marines, thus eliminating the need to go through the arduous process of the maturation and implantation of the gene-seed in an Aspirant. However, Caecus disobeyed the order and secretly continued the experiments, prodded by an agent of the vile Chaos Space Marine Apothecary Fabius Bile. He was tricked into bringing Bile, who was disguised as a well-known Adeptus Mechanicus Magos Biologis, to Baal, mistakenly thinking the false "Magos" would help in cloning Space Marines to increase the Blood Angels' numbers. Through Bile's manipulations, Caecus was duped, and only managed to create monstrous, mutant clone-Astartes known as "Bloodfiends" who were consumed by the Red Thirst. These creatures were a shattered mirror reformed in the image of a Blood Angel, but lacked any of the qualities that could be thought of as Human. The mutations that cursed the gene-seed of the Blood Angels had been enhanced by the machinations and Chaotic tech-heresy of Fabius Bile, and with each drop of blood they consumed, the thirst that dominated the Bloodfiends grew ever stronger. The mutants broke free from the confines of Caecus' laboratorium and began to run rampant through the sacred halls of the fortress-monastery of the Blood Angels. The Angels Vermillion, along with the Blood Angels and their fellow successors successfully defended their most sacred of sites on Baal -- the Golden Sarcophagus of Primarch Sanguinius within the sacred sepulchre where the Great Angel lay for all time, sleeping in light, forever preserved. The Sons of Sanguinius destroyed the horde of mutants and erased the stain of Chaos from their midst. They had paid for the continued sanctity of the Great Angel with their blood, and in the aftermath of this misery, Lord Commander Dante took responsibility for what had happened and he accepted it without complaint. Dante believed that it was his hubris that had brought the Chapter to this dark place. The Successor Chapters took this into consideration as well as Lord Commander Dante's original request for the successors to grant the Blood Angels a small tithe of their Chapter's Initiates in order to replenish the ranks of the Chapter. The Successor Chapters unanimously agreed to hand over to the Blood Angels some of their own Neophytes to help their ancestral Chapter rebuild its strength in the wake of the Chaos assault -- and in preparation for the oncoming assault by the Tyranids and the forces of Chaos.Devastation of Baal (ca. 999.M41) - The Angels Vermillion were among the forces deployed by the Blood Angels Successor Chapters to defend their parent Chapter's homeworld of Baal from an assault by the Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan. |
Angels Vermillion - Chapter Organisation: The Angels Vermillion use the same organisation scheme as the Blood Angels. As such, they are considered partially Codex Astartes-compliant, like their ancestral Chapter. |
Angels Vermillion - Chapter Homeworld: The Angels Vermillion hail from the Chapter homeworld of Corinal -- a planet dominated by bright deserts and a boundless cobalt ocean. Green fringes the edges of the single, massive continent. Five long rivers dig worming emerald valleys across the land.A huge alpine mass at the centre is a striking collection of brown jungle canyons filigreed with white snowy ridges. The poles wear icy caps, bordered by grey tundra that gives way to yellow grassland. But these varied colours of terrestrial life are smudges against the dazzling white sands of the continental interior. |
Angels Vermillion - Fortress-Monastery: The Bloodspike, the fortress-monastery of the Angels Vermillion, is a fifteen-hundred-foot-tall spire that is topped with a monumental golden angel whose haloed face bows and is hidden within a deep hood.The fortress-monastery stands in the path of the monstrous waves that blow daily across the deep oceans by unopposed winds. The Bloodspike's bay atmospheric energy shield also contributes to the defence of the fortress-monastery against the great waves of the shallow sea. |
Angels Vermillion - Chapter Beliefs: The Angels Vermillion discovered early that by feeding the Red Thirst they can control it. The Chapter kept itself apart for shame, thinking themselves alone afflicted amongst the scions of Sanguinius. Ironically, it seems.For only a handful of Angels Vermillion fall to its ravages each standard year, and it forestalls the onset of the Black Rage for solar decades. All of the Angels Vermillion fall in the end, but in not so great numbers as the rest of the Sanguinary Brotherhood.Ever since the Second Founding, the Angels Vermillion have been ashamed of the Flaw, and the Red Thirst and Black Rage that it brings. In atonement, the Chapter has dedicated itself to wars of penitence, fighting battles that are never even noticed long enough to be forgotten, yet every engagement keeps the light of Mankind burning a little longer.The Chapter believes that the Blood Angels are blind, dazzled by the glory of ancient days that can never return. The Angels Vermillion see Sanguinus as a cursed Primarch, whose death has doomed all of the Blood Angels and their Successor Chapters.The Astartes of this Chapter fully accept the Flaw, seeing themselves as monsters when they should be angels. But they live in an era beset by worse monsters, and if embracing the darkness will keep the light shining for a little longer, then it must be so. |
Angels Vermillion - The Sorrowing: Every five solar decades, the Angels Vermillion conduct a ceremony called "the Sorrowing." The Chapter drains the blood from mortal-outsiders native to their homeworld and their Chapter serfs. The victims' bodies are flensed and their bones cleaned, and the corpses are then interred with all honour in the Chapel of the Isle of Martyrs.The Space Marines then bathe in the collected blood. Into it, the Angels Vermillion pour the essence of Sanguinius by opening the veins of one of the Sanguinary Priests and drain him unto death. Then the blood is treated again, and prepared into the liquid food of battle. Thereafter it is introduced into each Power Armour's dispensers to nourish the Angels Vermillion in war.The Angels Vermillion name this ceremony as they do for the burden that it places upon their own souls, knowing that so many innocents must be bled to hold their rage at bay.Nevertheless, the men and women who sacrifice themselves to the thirst of the Angels Vermillion are honoured. They feel no pain. The Angels Vermillion take no pleasure from the ceremony as they treat the dead mortals who give their lives up in sacrifice for the defence of Mankind with the greatest respect. |
Angels Vermillion - Deathwatch Service: The secretive nature of the Angels Vermillion can come to the fore when its battle-brothers are called to stand a vigil of the Long Watch, and others of the Blood Angels or their successors are present in the same Watch Fortress or Kill-team. Such brethren are well represented in the ranks of the Jericho Reach's Deathwatch contingent, with several senior members of Watch Fortress Erioch's command cadre being drawn from such parent Chapters.It is notable that very few battle-brothers of the Angels Vermillion have stood a vigil in the Jericho Reach, and when they have, they have taken every possible step to avoid contact with those of their brother Chapters. Whether or not such individuals serving on the same Kill-team would degrade combat effectiveness or cause internecine strife is unknown, as yet. |
Angels Vermillion - Notable Angels Vermillion: Chapter Master Sargan Varsaris - Sargan Varsaris was the first Chapter Master of the Angels Vermillion who was originally a Praetor of the Blood Angels Legion who served during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. Most notably, he took part in some of the first campaigns of the Great Scouring, the war of reciprocity conducted by the Loyalist forces of the Imperium against the hated Traitor Legions following the Siege of Terra. Elements of the Blood Angels' 9th Chapter, known as the "Angels Vermillion," participated in the Scouring of the Nostramo Sector, the home sector controlled by the murderous Night Lords Traitor Legion. Located in the northeastern fringes of the galaxy, this benighted region of space had long been a stronghold of Legions sworn to the cause of Horus. This retribution fleet was initially led by Praetor Kaelon until his death at Sothis in 017.M31, and thereafter by Consul-Vigilator Sargan Varsaris, who was raised up to the position of Praetor upon his predecessor's death. During their sojourn in the Nostramo Sector, the Angels Vermillion discovered the wreckage of the Night Lords' cruiser Shroud of Eventide which had crashed upon the surface of the planet Kalleth several Terran years earlier. Marked for salvage, Praetor Varsair ordered the vessel to be raised in 020.M31 in preparation for the coming edict of the Second Founding, renaming it the Crimson Intent. The vessel would go on to serve the newly formed Angels Vermillion Chapter as their new flagship.Chapter Master Kuldoth Moar - Kuldoth Moar was the successor of Chapter Master Chauld and is the current Chapter Master of the Angels Vermillion. He sought to prevent his battle-brothers from going to the aid of their parent Chapter, the Blood Angels, during the events of the Devastation of Baal. He did not succeed, and three companies of the Chapter under the command of Captain Fen defied his orders and made their way to Baal to aid in its defence from Hive Fleet Leviathan.Chapter Master Chauld - Chauld was the Chapter Master of the Angels Vermillion in 428.M41. He was the one responsible for revealing their secret treatment of the Flaw to High Chaplain Hereon of the Blood Angels. Hereon did not accept the way the Angels Vermillion were treating their curse, yet Chauld was able to convince the High Chaplain to accept what he saw and leave his homeworld with a shocking message for Lord Commander Dante. It is because Dante knows the Angels Vermillion's secret that he has not pushed for closer connection between his Chapter and the Astartes of Corinal. Chapter Master Chauld was killed 40 standard years before the Devastation of Baal in battle with the Necrons and was succeeded by then-Captain Kuldoth Moar.Captain Fen - Fen is a captain of the Angels Vermillion. In defiance of his Chapter Master Kuldoth Moar, he tried to lead three companies to the aid of the Blood Angels before the Devastation of Baal. In the end, only Fen and a bare handful of his battle-brothers made it to Baal. It is unknown whether he survived the siege of Baal by Hive Fleet Leviathan. |
Angels Vermillion - Chapter Fleet: Crimson Intent (Capital Ship, Unknown Class) - Few would guess that the noble Crimson Intent has a far darker origin than the remainder of the Angels Vermillion's fleet. In the dark days of the Horus Heresy the Crimson Intent carried not the noble livery of the Blood Angels, but the midnight blue of the traitorous Night Lords for the mighty vessel's baptismal name used to be Shroud of Eventide. Where others of its kind fled, the Shroud of Eventide valiantly held the line in the closing days of the Thramas Crusade, allowing the Night Lords' flagship, the Gloriana-class Battleship Nightfall, to escape the vengeful ire of the Dark Angels Legion. Commanded by Praetor Ophius of the Kryoptera -- the Night Lords' command cadre -- the Shroud of Eventide mysteriously vanished as it tried to bring seditious elements of the VIII Legion back into line to reinforce the Traitors' forces conducting the Siege of Terra. Its remains would only be uncovered during the Great Scouring in 017.M31 when the Blood Angels Legion ventured into the Nostramo Sector and later claimed it as salvage in preparation for the Second Founding which would see the Blood Angels' 9th Chapter reconstituted as the Angels Vermillion Chapter. |
Angels Vermillion - Chapter Relics: Scipio's Regret - As with many other Blood Angels Successor Chapters, it is the practice of the Angels Vermillion to master many crafts and trades over the course of a battle-brother's long life. The ornate and intricate ornamentation worked into the chainsword now called Scipio's Regret could not have been achieved without such a life span to perfect the craft. It might have been better for its wielder had he not made his work so well, for Scipio was mobbed by desperate underhivers after defeating the beasts that plagued them, with the ungrateful wretches seeking to steal his marvellous blade. A Deathwatch Kill-team on the world was diverted to avenge the noble warrior and recover his weapon. |
Angels Vermillion - Chapter Colours: The Chapter wears dark red power armour with a yellow Aquila or Imperialis emblem upon the chest plate.The Angels Vermillion were originally depicted as wearing carmine armour with a yellow chest Aquila.In the book How to Paint Space Marines, however, the Chapter is depicted in the scheme used by the Angels Encarmine: vermillion armour with a yellow chest eagle, black shoulder plate trim and backpack.The Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition) restored their original armour colour scheme. |
Angels Vermillion - Chapter Badge: The Angels Vermillion's Chapter badge is a winged blood drop, with a small skull at the base of the drop, which is very similar to the badge of the Blood Angels. |
Angels Vermillion - Sources: Codex Adeptus Astartes - Blood Angels (8th Edition), pg. 14, 19Codex Adeptus Astartes - Blood Angels (7th Edition), pp. 50-52Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition), pp. 8, 17, 54, 80Codex: Blood Angels (3rd Edition)Codex: Angels of Death (2nd Edition), pg. 34Deathwatch: Core Rulebook (RPG), pg. 339Deathwatch: Honour the Chapter (RPG), pp. 104-105, 132How to Paint Space Marines, pg. 82The Horus Heresy - Book Six: Retribution by Alan Bligh, pp. 136-137Red Fury (Novel) by James SwallowThe Devastation of Baal (Novel) by Guy Haley, pp. 211-216, 223Eminence Sanguis (Short Story) by Guy Haley |
Angels Vindicant - Angels Vindicant: The Angels Vindicant is a Loyalist Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding. Virtually nothing is known about this obscure Chapter within the official Imperial archives. |
Angels Vindicant - Notable Campaigns: Honour's End (837.M41) - During the Eclipse Wars, the Angels Vindicant Chapter fought alongside the Space Wolves and the Flesh Tearers Chapters upon the Shrine World of Lucid Prime. Largely due to a ferocious Flesh Tearers counter-attack, Imperial forces were able to drive off the Chaos Space Marine forces terrorising Hive Ratspire. However, the Flesh Tearers continued their indiscriminate slaughter of civilians even after the Chaos Renegades had been driven away. Despite Chapter Master Gabriel Seth's insistence that his men were purging those that had been tainted by the presence of Chaos, the Space Wolves were outraged and attacked the Flesh Tearers at once. The resultant battle saw brother fighting brother, with the death of many hundreds on either side. This terrible event was known forever after as Honour's End, and has led to a simmering blood feud between the Space Wolves and the Flesh Tearers. |
Angels Vindicant - Chapter Colours: The Angels Vindicant's Chapter colours are not listed in the current Imperial records. |
Angels Vindicant - Chapter Badge: The Angels Vindicant's Chapter badge is not listed in current Imperial records. |
Angelus Sub-sector - Angelus Sub-sector: The Angelus Sub-sector is a sub-sector of the Scarus Sector, which is in its turn part of the Segmentum Obscurus. The sub-sector's capital is the Imperial world of Eustis Majoris, and it governs the planets Lenk, Encage, Rigyion, Quenthus XIII, Fedru, Malinter, Ledspar, Flint, Bostol, Gaxton, Tancred, Sancour, Mirepoix, Heveron, Hasarna, Lamsarotte and Ingeran. |
Angevin Crusade - Angevin Crusade: Angevin CrusadeImperial CrusadeSegmentum ObscurusCalyx ExpanseCalixis SectorImperium of Man |
Angevin Crusade - Angevin Crusade Begins: In 322.M39 Praetor Golgenna Angevin, a powerful noble from the Terran Court, was raised to the rank of Lord Militant in the Astra Militarum and granted a writ from the High Lords of Terra to persecute an Imperial Crusade to liberate and dominate the area of space designated as the Calyx Expanse.His Crusade's forces were drawn principally from the Segmentum Solar and numbered over 17 million levied troops who were divided into 4 battle groups and a strategic reserve, re-enforced by elements of the Titan Legios Venator and Magna, as well as the Black Templars, Tigers Argent, Sons of Medusa and Charnel Guard Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes and a significant naval deployment drawn from the Battlefleets Solar and Obscurus. A score of Rogue Trader and Explorator fleets ranged ahead of the main Imperial forces, identifying targets and providing active reconnaissance in this dangerous region of space.Swelling the force's already vast ranks were tens of thousands of “pauper warriors” of the Frateris Militia whipped up into a frenzy of holy zeal by the Ecclesiarchy and innumerable petty hangers-on, opportunists and logistical transports, with supplied trains leading back whole sectors away from the front. Using the well-established Frontier World of Sinophia as its forward staging post and marker, the Crusade’s main thrust was launched like an armoured fist into the heart of the Calyx Expanse across the Periphery in a two-pronged assault directed towards two prominent star systems where Rogue Traders had long-established pro-Imperial human contact: Malfi and Solomon. |
Angevin Crusade - Reaping of the Emperor's Wrath: Between 341 and 345.M39, having strongly established and fortified two salients of conquered Imperial territory into the Calyx Expanse, with their domains now anchored on the worlds of Solomon and Malfi, as well as defeated three minor xenos empires and innumerable other non-Compliant forces in the prior twenty standard years of fighting, the Angevin Crusade paused for fortification and entrenchment of its gains before the next stage of conquests began.The Crusade was then granted a fresh influx of troops by the High Lords of Terra in recognition of its success (and the wealth already pouring into Imperial coffers from their conquests), in order to press on. Seizing the moment, the Crusade forces carried out the greatest single sweep of conquests in the conflict as the two-pronged assault from the salient's arms swept together conquering as many worlds in the pace of four standard years as had been taken in the proceeding two solar decades. These conquests formed the territory later known as the Golgenna Reach Sub-sector in a campaign that is called by Imperial chroniclers the “Reaping of the Emperor's Wrath.”Of the many famous victories of this campaign, one of the most lauded belonged to the young General Drusus, who took the War World of Iocanthos in a single week, overthrowing a great and baleful tyranny there, while perhaps the most infamous was the Exterminatus of the world of Amun'an Morrus, whose once-human population of intelligent machines was judged too tainted by tech-heresy to continue to exist. Such horrors were attested to on this world that after its destruction its former location was stricken from all Imperial records, only to live on as a dark Calixian legend. |
Angevin Crusade - Golgenna Consolidation: Between 353 and 358.M39, with the first and second great phases of its vast operation complete, (and partly owing to battle fatigue after 30 standard years of Crusade), Lord Militant Angevin's forces consolidated their hold of what was more than 200 captured worlds, and shepherded the arrival of the first wave of Imperial colonisation to the areas they controlled. During this period of relative peace, several notable regiments of the Imperial Guard who had earned great glory in the campaign (such as the Brontine Centurions) were given rights of settlement to their own worlds, while several attached forces (like the elements provided by the various Astartes Chapters) rotated out of the Crusade's service. |
Angevin Crusade - A Second Front Is Opened: In 359.M39 the Angevin Crusade's third great push began with a freshly-raised army group gathered from the core worlds of the Segmentum Obscurus, under the command of the Imperial Navy's High Admiral Vaakkon who opened a second front. The new army group to enter the Crusade assaulted the Calyx Expanse from the Segmentum's coreward regions, with the goal of linking up with Angevin's own forces who advanced from Golgenna to meet them.This phase of the campaign proved disastrous, as worsening conditions in the Warp and a series of calamities and reversals beset the Imperial forces, and when the fleets finally met in 363.M39 at the world of Orendal the Imperial losses of the last four Terran years nearly equalled that of the first two solar decades of the Crusade. Angevin commanded the world of Orendal be transformed into a shrine to honour the fallen dead and then he ordered a retreat. Some say that after this time Angevin was a man broken in will and purpose. The Crusade's forces withdrew to the interior of the Golgenna Reach, and Angevin devolved command of his armies to his senior generals and admirals with mixed success, as with no clear line of authority factionalism and bitter rivalries started to appear in the ranks of the Crusade. |
Angevin Crusade - Bleak Years: With the Angevin Crusade’s forward impetus stalled, its domains begin to come under repeated and sustained attack from without in the years 363-369.M39, weathering the storms of an Ork WAAAGH!, and the privations of xenos corsairs and raiders whose assaults claimed the lives of millions. Signs and omens were everywhere; a burning black fire was seen in the skies of the world of Lossal Prime solar days before all contact with the thriving Imperial colony world was lost, the wreckage of an entire overdue reinforcement battle group out of Akurion was discovered by picket ships operating on the fringes of the Ha'az'Roth region and plagues decimatednthe worlds of the Malfian Holdfast.Rebellions and cult activity rose to threaten what were thought to be stable worlds and assassins claimed the life of Arch-Confessor Melcher El, the Crusade'd spiritual leader and Ecclesiarchy adviser. Worsening political rivalries between the Crusade's generals and Imperial Commanders broke out into petty conflicts. Betrayals and a wave of outright distrust between the Crusade's leaders allowed matters to deteriorate further. For the first time the Crusade's gains began to be lost, and the Imperial forces were stretched increasingly thin in their defence of the new realm. Morale problems and discord grew in the ranks.Only the fleets of the Rogue Traders Sibylline Haarlock and Ludd Sabrehagen provided the rapid transport and redeployment needed to support the brilliant and daring counterattacks of General Drusus' army group against the Warp-worshiping xenos race known as the Yu'vath and their debased human allies which prevented the entire Malfian region from collapsing and leaving the Crusade's conquests wide open for assault. Drusus was widely acclaimed as a saviour but many powerful figures in the Crusade viewed him as a dangerous warmonger, rival and would-be usurper. |
Angevin Crusade - Transfiguration of Drusus: According to some sources, betrayed by agents of his rivals among Lord Militant Angevin's generals, Drusus was attacked in 367.M39 by a deadly assassin whilst rallying his depleted forces on the world of Maccabeus Quintus and was seemingly slain, before rising again -- an event many saw as a true miracle and a clear mark of the Emperor's favour. The Drusine sect of the Imperial Cult began to flourish in his shadow, already revering him as a living Saint, while shadowy agencies, some say belonging to the Ordo Malleus of the Inquisition, also brought new aid to his forces in the persecution of the Yu'vath and their human allies (which included Traitors within the Imperials' own ranks).Almost by sheer force of personality and by independently rallying much of the Crusade's forces to his own banner with tacit backing from the wider Imperial powers (including the involvement of a sizable force from the Iron Hands Astartes Chapter), Drusus ordered the launch of the Angevin Crusade's third and final phase of conquests. This campaign succeeded in destroying the powers that controlled much of what would later be known as the Drusus Marches Sub-sector in General Drusus' honour, laying waste to as many worlds as he dominated. |
Angevin Crusade - Great Founding: Between the years 370 and 610.M39, mass colonial expeditions from the overpopulated worlds of the distant Segmentum Solar, and from nearer afield in the troubled Mandragora and Gehenna Sectors arrived within the fledgling Calixis Sector, creating a great influx of human population to the region. |
Angevin Crusade - Death of Angevin: Lord Militant Golgenna Angevin died at his palace on the world of Quaddis in 372.M39. Though the official cause of death was listed as natural causes, rumours lay his decline in health on advanced old age and a surfeit of fine living. Darker stories persisted of the Officio Assassinorum's hand in matters as punishment for his later failings in the prosecution of the Angevin Crusade.Drusus was named Lord Militant by wide acclaim in Angevin's stead (with the political support of both the Departmento Munitorum and the Inquisition) and as soon as a state period of mourning for the late Angevin was over, Drusus immediately set to re-forging the region's military forces for a final counterattack into the regions of the Adrantis Nebula and the remaining strongholds of the Yu'vath Hell Worlds. |
Angevin Crusade - Grant of The Lathes: In recognition of their invaluable assistance and heavy losses in the purging of the taint of the Adrantians, as well as their service to the Angevin Crusade in solar decades past, Drusus granted the Lathe System to be the sole domain of the Adeptus Mechanicus in perpetuity, and ratified their claims to several other worlds and rights of free and unchecked passage through the stars the Crusade had conquered. By this act, the Lords of Mars were bound in strength both to the fledgling sector and to Drusus' own banner. |
Angevin Crusade - End of the Crusade and Birth of the Calixis Sector: With the final defeat of the xenos known as the Yu'vath and the Bale Childer and the Exterminatus of their homeworlds, the final serious organised resistance to Imperial rule in the Calyx Expanse ended and Drusus declared the Angevin Crusade to be complete in 384.M39. Drusus was installed with full rights and title by the Equerry Primaris of the High Lords of Terra as the first Lord Sector Calixis to much acclaim.Amongst his first acts were the confirming of the world of Scintilla as his sector capital, the ratification of the great trade charters for the new sector's mercantile shipmasters and rising commercial powers that had maintained the Crusade. This bound the sector's life blood of trade and created what would become the great Chartist families and first great Calixian noble houses. His other achievements included the creation of the sector's great legal code, the Corpus Presidium Calixis and the installation of a Calixian Holy Synod of the Adeptus Ministorum at Hive Tarsus on Scintilla. The full effective pacification of the sector continued to consume much blood and treasure of the Imperial war machine for a further three Terran centuries to come.The first and greatest Lord Sector, Drusus, died in 417.M39 and was succeeded by Marshal Corin Shultus, his former aide de camp and distant kinsmen to the late Angevin. The final resting place of Drusus' mortal remains is kept a secret, although rumours circulated that he was taken back to Maccabeus Quintus to be interred at the site of his "first death." Mass lamentation and unrest accompany the news of his passing and the entire sector undergoes a seven-standard-year cycle of mourning. |
Angron's Chosen - Angron's Chosen: Angron's Chosen are a warband of Khornate Berserkers and Chaos Space Marines drawn from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. |
Angron's Chosen - Notable Campaigns: First War for Armageddon (444.M41) - The Daemon Primarch Angron, the most favoured Champion of Khorne, reunified his World Eaters after the Battle of Skalathrax, and led the XII Legion once again deep into the heart of the Imperium. They invaded the Hive World of Armageddon in 444.M41, in a lesser known conflict that would come to be known as the First War for Armageddon. The Khornate warband called Angron's Chosen sent an entire company of Khornate Berserkers in support, who carved a bloody trail of slaughter across the doomed planet. But in the end, victory was denied to the Forces of Chaos due to Angron's own foolish belief in his victory before completing a total conquest of the world and the successful intervention of the secretive Grey Knights Chapter of Space Marines. The Grey Knights assault banished Angron back to the Warp for a thousand standard years and led to the failure of the overall campaign. During the World Eaters' withdrawal a portion of the Foresworn warband was left behind on Armageddon. |
Angron's Chosen - Warband Colours: Angron's Chosen wear the colours of the devotees of the Blood God; blood-red power armour with brass trim and black. |
Angron's Chosen - Warband Badge: Angron's Chosen's badge is the same as that of their parent Traitor Legion, the World Eaters, which is a fanged maw engulfing a world. Some warriors wear a modified version of this symbol which omits the world, using only an open, large, fanged maw. |
Angron's Fury - Angron's Fury: Angron's Fury is a warband of Chaos Space Marines that splintered from the World Eaters Traitor Legion. Little is known about this Khornate warband other than that they have many Possessed amongst their ranks, whose spines and claws often manifest as living steel. Most recently, during the 13th Black Crusade, this warband fought alongside the monstrous Butcherhorde, a conglomeration of multiple World Eaters warbands led by the infamous Khârn the Betrayer, who brought them to the slaughter of the Imperial world of Amethal in the Diamor System against the valiant defence of the Blood Angels Space Marine Chapter. |
Angron's Fury - Notable Campaigns: Diamor Campaign (999.M41) - The Diamor Campaign took place during Abaddon the Despoiler's 13th Black Crusade within the Diamor System. Initially led by the Chaos Lord Kranon the Relentless, his Renegade Chapter, known as the Crimson Slaughter, spearheaded the assault on the Imperial world of Amethal on behalf of Abaddon in order to obtain something the Despoiler desired. Due to the madness and unpredictability of Kranon, the execution of the invasion instead fell upon the Black Legion's Chaos Lord Xorphas. Angron's Fury would later join the monstrous Butcherhorde, comprised of a coalition of multiple World Eaters warbands and led by the infamous Khârn the Betrayer. The Khornate host descended upon Amethal with but a single goal -- to take the heads of the most worthy and mightiest of the heroes of the defending Blood Angels. The resultant slaughter weakened the barrier between the Immaterium and the material realm to such an extent that the Blood Angels were forced to call for aid from the daemon-hunting Grey Knights Chapter. |
Angron's Fury - Warband Colours: The Angron's Fury warband wears the usual blood-red colour on their battle-plate, typical of most Khorne Berzerkers, which denotes their allegiance to the Blood God Khorne, and edge their armour with gun metal trim. Their icons, gauntlets and weapon casings are black. |
Angron's Fury - Warband Badge: Angron's Fury warband's icon is reminiscent of their original Legion icon - a world being devoured by a monstrous black-coloured maw, centred on a field of blood red. |
Angron's Fury - Sources: Black Crusade: Traitor's Hate (7th Edition), pg. 62 |
Angron - Angron: Angron, sometimes called the "Red Angel," and originally named Angronius of Nuceria, the "Lord of the Red Sands," is the primarch of the World Eaters Traitor Legion.He was the most bloody-handed and savage of the primarchs. When Horus began his rebellion against the Emperor, Angron was quick to join in his treachery because of his long-lasting grudge against the Master of Mankind for the Emperor's failure to rescue his beloved fellow gladiators from death on Nuceria, but his only true master was the rage and bloodlust within him.He fell to Chaos during the Horus Heresy and was transformed into a Daemon Prince of the Blood God Khorne in the campaign known as the Shadow Crusade before that conflict had ended.He was most recently banished to the Warp after he unleashed the First War of Armageddon upon the Imperium of Man in 474.M41, though since the opening of the Great Rift in the Era Indomitus, rumours have swirled that he is active once more in realspace.Quick Answers What led to Angron becoming a Daemon Prince? Angron's ascension to a Daemon Prince was facilitated by rituals executed by Traitors on Terra, weakening the Emperor's psychic barrier and enabling the deployment of daemonic allies. Post metamorphosis, Angron, now a Daemon Primarch, targeted the Librarians, his long-time tormentors. His combat abilities were amplified with a black runesword, the Black Blade. Provided by: Fandom What role did Angron play in the Horus Heresy? Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters, was a key figure in the Horus Heresy. Corrupted by Horus, who was under the influence of Chaos, Angron was led to rebel against the Emperor. Horus exploited Angron's bitterness and resentment, highlighting the Emperor's betrayal at Nuceria, which led to Angron and his World Eaters joining the rebellion. Provided by: Fandom What is the significance of Angron in the lore of the World Eaters? Angron, the primarch of the World Eaters, is a crucial character in their lore. He was unwillingly put in charge of a legion, serving a father he resented. This resulted in him setting the World Eaters on an irreversible path. Angron spearheaded the World Eaters' purge of Nuceria, embodying the Blood God's Eight-Fold Path. He also led the World Eaters in the assault on the Eternity Wall, defeating the Loyalist defenders. Provided by: Fandom How does Angron's art reflect his character and story? Artistic depictions of Angron, the Daemon Primarch, encapsulate his gladiatorial past, showcasing his formidable warrior skills and his deep-seated honor. His art also subtly conveys his internal struggle, reflecting his enjoyment of crowd adulation juxtaposed with his resentment towards his enslavement. His repeated attempts to escape, though unsuccessful, underscore his rebellious spirit. Provided by: Fandom What is the story behind Angron's transformation into a Daemon Primarch of Khorne? Angron, once the Primarch of the World Eaters, transformed into a Daemon Primarch of Khorne following his allegiance to the Ruinous Powers post the Horus Heresy. 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Angron - Descent of the Red Angel: Kept within the deepest dungeon of the Library Sanctus on Terra is a tome known as the Liber Malum, whose bloodstained pages record the fate of those who have trod the path to damnation. To even mention its name is to risk madness.Many are the blasphemous Heretics and tyrants whose names sully the pages with their treacheries, but foremost amongst these damned souls is Angron, the primarch of the traitorous World Eaters Space Marine Legion. Much of the legend of Angron is incomplete, and there is much that is not known or remains so shrouded in dark legend that the true facts are impossible to discern.A very great deal about the life story of the Daemon Primarch Angron remains unknown to the wider Imperial record. During the scattering of the primarchs' gestation capsules from the Emperor of Mankind's gene-laboratories deep beneath the Himalazian (Himalayan) Mountains, Angron was cast through the Warp to a "civilised" human world far from Terra.How Angron came to be separated from the Emperor so soon after his creation and the name of the planet he eventually came to call home was removed from the Imperial record. Indeed where this planet was or even if it still exists is often uncertain to the Imperial savants of the present time.There is in fact evidence that this information, including the true name of the world he was found upon was known but was kept deliberately secret by command of the Emperor and those close to Him.The truth is a dark tale of the primarch's brutal upbringing, murderous violence, and Angron's revolt against his cruel masters.After Angron came to be separated from the Emperor and Terra by the mysterious machinations of the Ruinous Powers he was deposited through the Warp on the world of Nuceria. Where this planet is located in the galaxy or if it even still exists is uncertain, though most signs seem to point to somewhere in the Ultima Segmentum.Carpinus' Speculum Historiale speaks of Angron's world as technologically advanced and ruled over by a wealthy elite who lived in decadent opulence while the populace of their cities lived in abject poverty in the slums that surrounded their walled palaces and villas.To distract the populace from their poverty, the oligarchic rulers of Nuceria held regular gladiatorial deathmatches in massive arenas, using cybernetically-enhanced gladiators who battled to satisfy the endless bloodlust of the oppressed people. It was on this world that Primarch Angron was eventually discovered, though little else about the circumstances of how he came to be there remains known.After his arrival, Angron was discovered by a slaver who chanced upon the battered and bleeding figure of the young primarch surrounded by scores of alien corpses, high in the northern Desh'elika Mountains. History does not record what species these aliens belonged to, but many Imperial scholars believe them to have been Aeldari who attempted to kill the primarch, due to some psychic foreknowledge of the plague upon the galaxy he would one day become.The young Angron had been badly wounded in the combat, but remained alive.Taken as a slave by the planet's ruling masters, known as the "High-Riders," the young boy was brought to the Palace Praxica, the seat of the Reksium Throne of the powerful Nucerian city-state of Desh'ea, where he was sold to the ruling clan, House Thal'kr.Still a frightened young child, he was subsequently dumped into a pit consisting of a single ziggurat with hundreds of other slaves. Acid filled the pit, and to the cheers of the spectators Angron was eventually forced to kill all around him to remain standing upon the ziggurat's uppermost platform and survive. Shedding a tear for the last time, Angron was proclaimed a promising newcomer to Desh'ea's arena combat.With the youth's obvious potential as a gladiator apparent, he was bought by the largest and most popular arena in the capital. The primarch was given a name, Angron Thal'kyr, which meant "Child of the Mountain," and was nursed back to health.The young primarch quickly grew to a formidable size, and was forced to take part in the gladiatorial games of Nuceria. After only a few solar months, Angron Thal'kyr had become a proud warrior of fearsome skill and an even stronger sense of honour, known to the crowds as "the Lord of the Red Sands." He killed hundreds of other gladiators, but those who fought well he always spared.Reaping many victories, Angron soon became a fan-favorite of Desh'ea and came to be known as "The Unbeaten." Although he seemed to enjoy the life of a gladiator and the adulation of the Desh'ean crowds, Angron secretly resented his slavery, and was always plotting to escape. He proved to be a troublesome champion, prone to escape attempts whenever he saw an occasion, but such efforts always failed.During this time, Angron was mentored by an older gladiator named Oenomaus, who formed a deep bond with the younger gladiator and became somewhat of a father-figure to the impressionable warrior. Together, the two formidable warriors slew a deadly tally in the gladiatorial arenas of Nuceria, which culminated in an astounding victory against a pair of berserk Ogryn that were surgically equipped with the deadly cybernetic implants known as the Butcher's Nails.Their momentous victory, however, proved short-lived as the High-Riders demanded that the two gladiators fight one another in a duel to the death. The fiery Angron refused and openly insulted his Nucerian masters. This resulted in Angron having the Butcher's Nails implanted as a form of punishment. These crude neural implants were hammered into the primarch's skull and surgically grafted to his cerebral cortex.Relic devices from the Dark Age of Technology, these cortical implants artificially boosted a warrior's adrenaline, resulting in greater strength and aggression in battle. However, they bleached a warrior's mind of all reason, all caution, all the instincts of mortality. The Nails rewarded rage with spurts of electrochemical pleasure, tingling synapses and deadening enjoyment of everything else. No better machine for slaughter had ever been contrived by the minds of men.The cells below the massive arena were home to several thousand gladiators, all implanted with the Butcher's Nails, and Angron would soon take his place amongst them. Following the successful surgery, Angron was loosed upon Oenomaus and tore apart his friend in a blind, berserk frenzy.Upon regaining his senses, Angron realised the horrible transgression he had committed against his mentor, and was driven to such depths of despair that it was said that he unleashed a bestial howl that lasted for several solar days.The death of Oenomaus proved to be too much for Angron to bear, and he swore that one day, he would make good his escape and make all the High-Riders pay dearly. |
Angron - Rebellion: Within a few standard years Angron's fame had spread to every corner of his homeworld. Under his training, the gladiators of his arena soon became the greatest their world had ever seen and none could stand against them.Yet Angron also learned, following a final failed escape attempt, that he would never succeed alone. His unbending warrior's code and sheer combat skill had made him a well-respected leader amongst the other Desh'ean gladiators and when the largest death games ever held on Nuceria were announced, Angron planned his most daring escape attempt.For these new games, Angron was allowed to stage a vast combat that would involve every gladiator of his arena. As the Desh'ean crowd drowned out the sounds of battle, Angron's gladiators turned on their armed guards, butchering them and fighting their way to freedom. Against the guards armed with firearms, the gladiators' casualties were grievous, but nearly 2,000 survived to escape into the streets of Desh'ea, stealing what weapons and supplies they could before fleeing into the northern mountains where Angron had first been discovered.Over the next few years, the rulers of the world dispatched many armed forces to kill or recapture the rebel slaves, who soon named themselves the "Eaters of Cities," but all were destroyed in turn by Angron's leadership, martial skill and the cybernetically-enhanced fury of the gladiators. But attrition and hunger slowly took their toll on the slaves and eventually only 1,000 men and women remained, half the size of the original force of escapees.On a mountain named Fedan Mhor, on a bleak spit of land known as Desh'elika Ridge, Angron and his forces were finally surrounded by no less than seven large Nucerian armies. Not even a primarch could stand against such sheer numbers, yet it was at this time that the Emperor of Mankind came to Nuceria, drawn by the psychic emanations of his gene-son the primarch.The Emperor had observed Angron secretly from orbit for many solar months and had watched with pride as he had led his freed slaves in battle against the forces of tyranny. The Emperor and a small cadre of Legio Custodes descended to the world's surface, and after the shock of the august meeting had worn off on the primarch, the Emperor offered Angron the leadership of the XIIth Space Marine Legion, the War Hounds, which had been created from Angron's own genetic material, and a place at his side in the Great Crusade.To the Emperor's disbelief, Angron refused, claiming that his place remained with his fellow slaves amongst the Eaters of Cities and he would die before deserting them. Reluctantly, the Emperor teleported back to His flagship, shocked at His son's refusal.Appraising the situation, the Emperor saw that for all of Angron's might as a primarch and a leader, he would die in the coming battle. Losing one of His irreplaceable sons to the assault of rabble on a backwater planet soon to be brought into Imperial Compliance was simply unacceptable.Bringing His flagship into low orbit over the world, the Emperor teleported Angron from the surface against his will, away from the mountain of Fedan Mhor and the Battle of Desh'elika Ridge. Without their leader, the morale of the gladiators was destroyed and the next day they were slaughtered to the last warrior by the armies of Nuceria's rulers.Angron watched helplessly from orbit as his brothers and sisters were quickly annihilated. Sensing his uncontrolled rage, the Custodians surrounded Angron, their Guardian Spears pointed menacingly at the smoldering primarch. In a fit of sudden violence, Angron killed one of the Custodians, but the Emperor intervened and the primarch was forced into a state of submission by the Emperor's potent psychic abilities.Angron angrily asked his father why He had not intervened to save the lives of his comrades on the planet below, but the Emperor dismissed the question as lacking vision. He was the Emperor of Mankind, and He possessed a much grandeur vision for Human life such as reuniting the galaxy on behalf of all Humanity. He had little concern for a small group of former slaves battling a group of petty tyrants on a backwater world.The Emperor expressed His hope that in time, Angron would come to understand His actions and why He had done what He did. Angron replied that he had been meant to die alongside his comrades on Nuceria, and now only a ghost remained. The Emperor replied that a ghost would suffice for what he had planned for his son.Allowing his fellow gladiators to die was a deed Angron would never forgive the Emperor for, and a stain upon the primarch's honour that would never fade but fester into a soul-deep wound.The exact records of the Emperor's intervention and Angron's acceptance of his new circumstances is a matter of shadowed rumour and conjecture, but what can be said with certainty is that Angron's first reaction to his new life was simple rage. For some time any War Hound of his Legion who came before their primarch was met with a grisly death for their efforts.At this time the Legion Master of the War Hounds, Ibram Ghreer, a respected leader who had commanded the XIIth Legion for nearly three solar decades, disappeared without explanation from any records of the period and no explanation was given by his taciturn Legion for his absence. Only after murdering at least seven high-ranking officers within the Legion, including Ghreer, Captain Khârn of the 8th Assault Company voluntarily went forth to Angron's private quarters to confront the always enraged primarch.Nearly beaten to death for his efforts, Khârn's unwillingness to accept defeat even at the hands of a much superior foe finally convinced Angron of his Legion's worthiness and honour as fellow warriors, and he assumed his place as the rightful general and commander of the XIIth Legion.Khârn manged to form a rapport with Angron, talking about the rituals of Angron's gladiators and the traditions of the War Hounds, and showing how similar they were to each other.With Khârn's actions convincing him of the worthiness of his Astartes to become his new band of warriors, Angron finally and swiftly took charge of the XIIth Legion. The primarch renamed the War Hounds the "World Eaters" after he assumed command.Angron did this in part to honour the gladiator force he had led in rebellion on his homeworld whose warriors had been known as the "Eaters of Cities" for their wrath and violence. He chose the new name for his Legion when Dreagher, a Terran-born War Hounds Legionary who served as Captain of the Legion's 9th Company, promised Angron after meeting his primarch for the first time that under his leadership the War Hounds would become, "...the eaters of worlds."Soon after, the newly renamed World Eaters were influenced by Angron's own thirst for battle. During the course of the Great Crusade, Angron and the World Eaters reaped many victories, although some criticised the extreme and bloodthirsty tactics the Red Angel used to ensure the destruction of his opponents. |
Angron - Angron's Secret: After Angron was teleported away by the Emperor from Nuceria he was later examined aboard the War Hounds' flagship Adamant Resolve's Apothecarion by Vel-Kheredar, the archmagos veneratus of the XIIth Legion and a representative of Kelbor-Hal, the Fabricator-General of the Mechanicum of Mars.After ordering the XIIth Legion's Techmarines and Apothecaries away, the primarch was rendered somnolent by the psychic touch of Malcador the Sigillite.Vel-Kheredar examined the Nucerian archeotech neural implants hammered into the primarch's skull over the course of seven solar hours, all under the Sigillite's watchful eyes. The archmagos discovered that the Butcher's Nails had remapped Angron's brain after the device's implantation.When the Nails activated, they reduced the production of the neurotransmitter known as serotonin in the subject's brain to encourage instinctive aggression, just as they deadened emotional responses and electrical activity to any other portion of the brain save for that which regulated the flow of adrenaline.Unfortunately, the malignant archeotech device had not been designed for the biological complexity of a primarch's brain, as it eroded mental stability and slowly damaged the subject's capacity to reason.The implants also impinged on higher brain function by rewriting emotional responses. To make matters worse, removing the Butcher's Nails would only result in the death of the primarch by destroying his central nervous system.Over time, the Butcher's Nails would cause rapid cortical degeneration and eventually kill the primarch. This was a certainty, though Angron's transhuman physiology would continue to try to heal the damage as the Nails bit deeper.Vel-Kheredar did not know how long it would take the Nails to kill the primarch based on the little data available but he made an educated estimate.The archmagos reported these findings to the Emperor, and soon received a marked and sealed scroll with the Palatine Aquila upon it, handed to him by the Sigillite himself.It was a message from the Emperor's own hand. He ordered the archmagos to sequester his findings and to remain silent about what he had discovered.At this time, the XIIth Legion was in terrible shape, as they had been one of the last of the Legiones Astartes to find their gene-sire. The Legion's morale was low.It was bad enough that they were burdened with the only primarch to fail in conquering his homeworld. If they discovered he was doomed to die before the Great Crusade's end, it would annihilate what little morale remained amongst the Space Marine Legion then still called the War Hounds.At a later point following the rediscovery of Angron, the famous Mechanicum technoarchaeologist, Arkhan Land, was brought to Terra and sequestered in one of the Emperor's secret, sacred laboratories at the heart of an inactive volcano in a region of extensive tundra.The Master of Mankind required Land's expertise in aiding His continued investigation of Angron's cortical implants while the primarch lay in an induced unconscious state. Land had gained previous experience with this archeotech device, known as a Cruciamen, during his expedition into the Hexarchion Vaults on Mars.The lore that had been contained within had represented a moral threat to Mankind, including knowledge that would allow a potential perversion of Human cognition. The Hexarchion Vaults had been resealed by the Emperor's own decree, ratified by Fabricator-General Kelbor-Hal and all Land's findings within had gone unrecorded.Land had seen the name of this ancient device within the profane texts in the Hexarchion Vaults, but had never actually seen one implanted and made operational, and never one of the specific pattern and intensity implanted in the primarch's brain in either stasis or storage.The devices similar to the Butcher's Nails in the sealed vault on Mars were more crude than the Nucerian construct.With the alterations made by the Nucerian device to Angron's limbic lobe and insular cortex, the Nucerian psychic-surgeons had impaired the primarch's ability to regulate any emotion at all. Furthermore, the Butcher's Nails had rewired Angron's brain so that he no longer had capacity to take pleasure in anything but the sensation of anger.Only neurochemicals and electrical signals related to rage and anger flowed freely through, and from, Angron's brain. All else was either dulled to nothingness or rewired to inspire a supreme degree of agony.It was a testament to the durability imparted to the creations of the Emperor's Primarch Project that Angron had managed to survive as long as he had.Because of these neurological changes, everything caused the primarch pain. Thinking. Feeling. Even breathing. The only respite Angron had was in the pleasure he now received from the neurotransmitters which carried anger and aggression.This rewriting of his neurophysiology certainly hindered Angron's higher brain functions, for the device had been cunningly wrought for a technology so crude.Land inquired of the Emperor whether He could remove the device from Angron, and the Master of Mankind replied that it was possible. However, the tendrils of the Nails bit deep, and had taken root in the meat of the primarch's brain, threaded through the central nervous system, and now passed in roughly serpentine coils down around the spinal column.Even worse, Angron's limbic lobe and insular cortex had been more than just savaged by the device's insertion; they had been surgically removed even before the technology's implantation.The device hammered into Angron's skull hadn't ruined those sections of his brain -- it had replaced them outright. In truth, those sections of the implant had effectively replaced those essential portions of the primarch's brain and were now the only things keeping Angron alive.Though the primarch's lifespan and tactical acuity had been reduced by the implant, the Butcher's Nails amplified his combat effectiveness in other ways to compensate.Since the primarch was thus still able to lead warriors in combat, the Emperor decided that He would return Angron to his Legion. Despite what had been done to him, a compromised primarch was still a primarch, and the Master of Mankind believed that Angron would still be able to fulfill his purpose as one of the Emperor's generals. |
Angron - Transformation: Angron returned to the Great Crusade and took charge of his Legion at the mustering grounds on the War Hounds' garrison world of Bodt. After his return from Terra he swiftly worked many changes on his forces. He was given a surprisingly free hand for a newly invested primarch, for he was not required to undergo a period in which he shadowed one of his primarch brothers while he grew into command, or even spend time in his new-found gene-father's company.Instead he was given license to simply take charge of his host. With his usual bellicose energy, Angron prepared it for war. The regime of discipline and training the XIIth Legion had abided by in the past would prove to be but a shadow of what came to pass under Angron's direction and reform.Conflict became the only measure and the only judge, and training beyond its most basic elements was as real as any war or battle a World Eaters Astartes would find themselves in. Blood, live rounds and bared blades, fighting pits and gladiatorial combat; these were the methods now used to test the mettle of the primarch's gene-sons, to make them more brutal and efficient killers, in the image of their genetic father. Each warrior soon bore scars by which to count the lessons learned amid heat and the bitter volcanic sands, and those that failed did not live long enough to try again.Knowing how successful his own cortical implants could be at boosting a warrior's prowess in battle, Angron ordered his Apothecarion to insert the Butcher's Nails implants within every Astartes of the World Eaters Legion to enhance aggression and pain tolerance far beyond that which even the gene-engineered flesh of a Space Marine was capable.But the drawbacks were that the implants and the such surgical procedures required to place them in the brain left the individual devoid of joy or peace save for that found in battle, just like their primarch.In this dark endeavour, Angron ordered the study of his Butcher's Nails implant by the XIIth Legion's Techmarines to serve as a template for the manufacture of new versions of the devices. However, this proved a difficult task, for Angron's implants were a relic of a long-lost Human technology, little understood by its makers, while removing them from Angron for closer study would have proved fatal to the primarch.Early attempts to duplicate these implants by the combined efforts of the Legion's Techmarines and Apothecaries were far from successful. Under the supervision of Apothecary Gahlan Surlak, the implantation of new copies of the Butcher's Nails resulted in a 100% mortality rate among the Astartes volunteers, but Angron persisted in his demands that all his warriors ultimately be implanted with the same crude device. |
Angron - Great Crusade: In the early days of Angron's leadership of the XIIth Legion, the primarch still refused to acknowledge most of his sons, since none were strong enough to survive the implantation of the Butcher's Nails. At one point, Angron simply abandoned his Legion after hijacking a frigate, and disappeared without a trace.It took two Terran years of searching, but eventually, the World Eaters' missing primarch was tracked down by Centurion Khârn, the primarch's Equerry, who discovered him upon a backwater Feral World. Here, Angron lived like a savage, seeking a foe that would put him out of his misery.Shocked by this revelation, Khârn chastised Angron and reminded him of his Nucerian comrades, and how they would have loathed to see him in such a pitiful state. This argument finally convinced Angron to re-join his Legion with the promise that he would try to lead the World Eaters in such a way that they would shed their weakness.In the years that followed, the Liber Malus speaks of whole star systems surrendering wholesale when the World Eaters' fleet was detected entering the system rather than face the wrath of Angron's Space Marines, so potent had their bloody legend grown. With this legend came dark tales of atrocity and wanton destruction that froze the blood of even hardened Imperial Commanders and caused concern even at the level of the Imperial War Council and the other primarchs.Not least of the XIIth Legion's detractors was Roboute Guilliman, the primarch of the Ultramarines, who fought beside Angron and his Legion during the Cleansing of Arigatta and saw at first hand the bloodbath they left in the wake of their attack on the Basalt Citadel, where the last defenders of this non-Compliant Human world had made their stand.Guilliman had seen the ramp of World Eaters corpses that had been used to finally mount a breach in the mighty fortress and the vengeful horror the Space Marines had wrought within and been sickened. Angron soon earned the nickname the "Red Angel" for the bloody atrocities committed across the width and breadth of the galaxy.Of all his titles, given in glory or earned in infamy, Angron most despised being named the "Red Angel." The Imperium already had an Angel in Sanguinius, and Angron had no desire to ape the fey mutant that commanded the IXth Legion. For all his flaws, he was his own man, and took pride in that above all else. Though Angron loathed this particular epithet, it later proved among his most fitting titles. |
Angron - Decimation: Despite the tally of victories garnered by this brutal Space Marine Legion, it came at a dire cost. Most infamously, Angron ordered his warriors to conquer a targeted world within 31 solar hours -- the length of a single Nucerian local day -- and the time in which it took Angron to score his greatest victory upon his former homeworld.Despite their best efforts, the World Eaters consistently failed to subjugate worlds within this set time limit. Each time they failed, they were ordered by their gene-sire to undergo the barbaric punishment known as decimation, forcing 1 out of every 10 World Eaters to be killed by 9 other Battle-Brothers in his unit.This brutal punishment proved to be too much to bear for one Veteran World Eaters officer, and matters quickly came to a head during the campaign known as the Second Compliance of Ghenna. |
Angron - Ghenna Massacre: Ghenna was an isolated Human world that had endured many of the horrors of Old Night. Its society was fairly technically advanced, but unfortunately, its population was overcome with genetic diseases. By the time of the Great Crusade, there were less than a thousand Gehennans that remained, kept alive in life-pods.When this world classified as "Ninety-Three Fifteen" by the expeditionary fleets of the crusade, was re-discovered by the Imperium, they initially accepted Imperial rule peacefully. But after several Terran years of Imperial occupation, all contact with the world was lost.The World Eaters under Angron were despatched to investigate, and negotiations quickly broke down with the Ghennans when it was discovered that they had modified their own forms and were using an apparent form of Abominable Intelligence. Angron ordered a hasty invasion of the planet, and per the primarch's tradition, the World Eaters demanded that the world be subjugated within 31 solar hours.Failure to do so, the primarch declared, would result in the draconian punishment known as decimation, in which 1 of every 10 World Eaters was executed.The prospect of 1 of every 10 World Eaters being executed for their failure as well as inadequate orbital, armour and artillery support led to a hasty and poorly executed landing on the planet under the command of the veteran, Terran-born Centurion Mago of the 18th Company, who was desperate to avoid yet another series of deaths among his own Legion brothers.Yet when the World Eaters forces reached Ghenna's surface they faced no resistance, for the entire planetary population actually consisted of billions of artificially intelligent "simulacrums" designed to appear Human. These simple, unarmed constructs used their sheer numbers to swarm the Astartes, killing Space Marine after Space Marine no matter how many simulacrums were destroyed. Despite Mago's best efforts, for a time it seemed the World Eaters would be overrun.Though the World Eaters finally received adequate heavy armour and artillery support just as they forced a breach and broke their way inside the confines of the main Ghennan city, the World Eaters once again failed to meet their primarch's allotted time-frame of 31 solar hours to subjugate the planet and were forced to withdraw to the flagship, the Conqueror.But aboard the Conqueror, Angron ordered the next round of decimation for his Legion. Mago refused, which amused his primarch, who instead ordered Mago to personally execute the first World Eater who would die. When Mago again refused, Angron fell into a burning rage that saw him begin to murder dozens of his own gene-sons.Only the Librarians of the XII Legion, under the command of Lectio Primus Vorias were able to finally subdue Angron by psychically forcing him into unconsciousness, though it cost the lives of several. However, Angron would not wake from his slumber, and soon, a crisis erupted within the World Eaters over what actions should be taken.During this time of instability, Apothecary Gahlan Surlak announced that he had created a stable method of implanting the Butcher's Nails within Astartes by reverse-engineering Ghennan technology. The World Eaters could now implant these archeotech devices into warriors throughout the Legion as Angron had demanded since assuming control of the XII Legion. Mago found himself absolutely horrified at the prospect of his Legion being overwhelmed by the uncontrollable rage produced by the Butcher's Nails, and began to plot with his fellow Terran veterans of the War Hounds to prevent such an outcome and halt Surlak's plans.Mago subsequently made an appeal to Centurion Kharn, and pleaded with him to reverse the dark direction their Legion was taking. However, his call for change fell on deaf ears. This forced Mago to take more drastic measures, and he gathered other disenchanted World Eaters that were loyal to him aboard the frigate Hound's Tooth.They plotted to destroy Apothecary Surlak's equipment before he could fully perfect the Butcher's Nails implants for mass production and implantation. However, this attempt failed, and shortly thereafter, Kharn became the first World Eaters Legionary to be successfully imbued with the Butcher's Nails. With this initial success, Surlak proceeded to quickly implant a further 1,000 World Eaters with the cortical implants.At this time, Angron awoke from his slumber, and with the primarch leading these newly enhanced Legionaries, the World Eaters immediately launched a counterattack against the upstart Ghennans. The World Eaters, enhanced by the rage brought by the Butcher's Nails, slaughtered all those they came across, despite the massive numbers of simulacrums arrayed against them.Thanks to Surlak's efforts, through his reverse-engineering of Ghennan technology, he was able to localise and pinpoint the location of the command signal that was controlling the actions of the simulacrums. By tracing the signals, the World Eaters discovered the shrivelled remains of the last true living Ghennans where they lay in their life-pods. There were only a little over a thousand true Ghennans, with each mentally controlling thousands of simulacrums.The Ghennans pleaded with the blood-maddened World Eaters to be spared, but Kharn replied disdainfully that the galaxy belonged to the Imperium and proceeded to massacre them all.Meanwhile, Mago and his conspirators felt they had no options left to save their Legion. They plotted to subdue Angron, Kharn and the other World Eaters who had been imbued with the Butcher's Nails. They intended to bring them before the Emperor Himself for judgement.After the massacre of the Ghennans was carried out, the World Eaters on the surface were confronted by Mago and his supporters. They pleaded with their primarch and Kharn to halt the madness, but once again, their pleas were ignored, and soon, a battle broke out between both factions.During the subsequent fighting Mago was confronted by, and bested, his former friend Kharn, and before he was beheaded, made a final declaration. The XIIth Legion would be damned by their actions and the dark path Angron was forcing them to walkThe Centurion's final words would later prove to be prophetic. With the death of their commander, the remaining rebels halted in mid-battle and submitted themselves for Angron's judgement.With the XIIth Legion once again unified, the World Eaters proceeded to scour the surface of Ghenna clean of life, leaving no structure intact and no Ghennan left alive in a single night of monumental bloodshed. It was said that the psychic death screams of the dying were audible to Imperial astropaths across half the sector.In the aftermath of this massacre, calls for censure against the World Eaters resounded within the Terran Council. Soon after, Primarch Leman Russ and his Space Wolves Legion were dispatched to Ghenna to confront Angron and his World Eaters and to halt the implantation of the deadly cortical implants. |
Angron - The Night of the Wolf: Following the infamous events of the Ghenna Massacre, the World Eaters were publicly censured by the Emperor and commanded to stop using the cortical implants. Imperial records state that two primarchs came to Angron, both claiming to have been sent by the Emperor, intending to convince him to stop the dangerous practice.The first arrived soon after Angron joined his Legion following his unwilling rescue from Nuceria. The second would not come until almost a Terran century later. But by then, it would be too late to stop the tragedy that had already begun to unfold for the XIIth Legion.The "Night of the Wolf" is a little known incident that occurred shortly after the massacre of the entire planetary population of Ghenna. Leman Russ had been charged by the Emperor to take his Space Wolves Legion to Ghenna to bring the World Eaters to heel.The two Legions met at Malkoya, on the fields beyond the dead Ghennan city of that same name. The World Eaters, battered and bleeding from Ghenna's Imperial Compliance campaign, formed ragged lines before the assembled Space Wolves Legion.The primarchs stood before their hosts, armed and armoured -- Angron awash with blood and carved up by fresh wounds; Leman Russ in resplendent battle-plate the colour of the storms on his tempestuous homeworld of Fenris.In these early years of the Great Crusade, Angron still carried his first axe, the precursor to all others. He called it Widowmaker. It would break this very day, never to be used again.Russ carried Krakenmaw, his immense Chainsword, toothed by some Fenrisian sea-devil from that blighted world's many myths.Angron refused to recognise his brother's authority, and warned the Wolf King to depart before the situation became something that he would regret. But Russ refused to be cowed by the warlike primarch. He informed Angron that the implantation surgeries must end, for the Emperor Himself had deemed it necessary.The massacres of newly discovered Human worlds were also to end with the fall of Ghenna. The World Eaters were to submit to the Space Wolves as their escorts for their Legion's return to Terra.Once they reached the Imperial Palace, everything would be done to remove the parasitic Butcher's Nails implants from the World Eaters' minds.Angron was not amused by Russ' implied threats.No one ever saw who fired the first shot. In the decades after, the World Eaters claimed it came from the Space Wolves' lines, and the Space Wolves claimed the same of the XII Legion. Without either primarch giving an order, the two Space Marine Legions fought."The Night of the Wolf," it was later called. Imperial archives later referred to it as the "Ghenna Scouring," omitting the moment the World Eaters and Space Wolves drew blood.The conflict would prove to be a source of pride for both Legions, and a source of secret shame. Both claimed victory. But both feared they had actually lost, and in truth, the battle proved bloody but inconclusive.Yet, at its end, the World Eaters did not return to Terra, and Angron refused to stop the implantation of his Astartes with the Butcher's Nails.Paying no heed to the Emperor's command, Angron ordered his Techmarines to continue to use the Butcher's Nails cortical implant technology until nearly every World Eater Space Marine had undergone the surgery.Blood rites like blood-drinking and vicious gladiatorial combats became an increasingly important part of the World Eaters' Legionary rituals and customs as they continued to slaughter their way across a broad swathe of the galaxy.It soon became common practice for World Eaters to compete in the number of skulls that they could take in battle. For some World Eaters Space Marines, the result was an uncontrollable thirst for slaughter even away from the battlefield.However, the results produced by the World Eaters on the frontlines were so effective that the Imperium -- and its Emperor -- proved willing to turn a blind eye to the World Eaters' savage practices for quite some time during the rest of the Great Crusade.This would prove to be a terrible miscalculation, as the World Eaters were already falling under the sway of the Blood God Khorne and would prove a ready ally of the Warmaster Horus once he began his great betrayal of the Imperium. |
Angron - Istvaan III Atrocity: By the dawn of the 31st Millennium, as the World Eaters' vicious savagery only worsened, many of Angron's brother primarchs voiced their concerns to the Emperor, yet the Master of Mankind, having left the Great Crusade to return to Terra, proceeded to seek help from an unfortunate source. He dispatched Horus, the primarch He trusted over all others, to confront Angron and bring him back into the Imperial fold.Yet Horus was a master manipulator, and unknown to the Emperor, had already himself been corrupted by the Ruinous Powers of Chaos following his campaign to reconquer the Plague Moon of Davin. In Angron, Horus saw a warrior consumed by bitterness and resentment towards the Emperor and it was simple for the Warmaster to feed that bitterness and emphasise the Emperor's betrayal of the World Eater primarch at Nuceria. This fed Angron's perception that the Emperor was a weakling in need of replacement by a stronger ruler -- a ruler like Horus.Horus had told Angron exactly what he wanted to hear. When the Horus Heresy began, plunging the galaxy into civil war, Angron's World Eaters joyfully marched beside the Warmaster into treachery. Thus, the World Eaters became one of Horus' original four Traitor Legions, along with the Death Guard, the Word Bearers and Horus' own Sons of Horus.During the first battle of the Horus Heresy, the Isstvan III Atrocity, Horus at last declared his traitorous hand and openly defied the Emperor. Angron led the World Eaters personally in the first surface assault on Isstvan III to destroy the remaining Loyalist Astartes of the four original Traitor Legions, including his own Loyalist World Eaters, who had survived the traitorous virus-bombing of Istvaan III's planetary capital of the Choral City by Horus' orbiting fleet.Horus had deceitfully launched this treacherous saturation bombardment of the planet after the four Traitor Legions' known Loyalists were already engaged against the Slaaneshi rebels who held the world. The deadly cargo which contained the ferocious, flesh-eating life-eater virus held within the virus bombs killed billions of innocents, whose psychic death scream was said to be louder than the holy beacon of the Astronomican.But much to the Traitors' surprise, nearly two-thirds of the Loyalists from the first wave survived the orbital bombardment, thanks in no small part to the timely warning of the Loyalist Emperor's Children Captain Saul Tarvitz.Taking matters into his own hands, Angron defied Horus' plans and spearheaded a second Drop Pod wave after the bombardment failed to eliminate all of the Loyalists. The Warmaster and his allies could only look on in outrage as the Red Angel made planetfall at the head of a full 50 companies of his bloodthirsty Astartes, landing in the plaza areas to the west of the Precentor's Palace, hunting for their own kin with fratricide in their hearts.The World Eaters bloodily massacred most of their Loyalist Battle-Brothers, plunging into their former comrades' ranks like a white hot dagger. Incensed at his brother's disobedience, the Warmaster saw no choice but to support his ill-tempered and impulsive ally since the atmospheric after effects of the global firestorm unleashed by the virus bombs made it impossible to carry out an immediate, accurate orbital bombardment.Horus ordered all of the Traitor forces to commence a ground attack to salvage victory from disorder. Nearly two full solar months passed on the Dead World of Istvaan III as the Loyalist survivors stalled the Warmaster's plans by tenaciously holding out against the Traitor forces. But their numbers quickly waned against the Traitors reinforcements and steady supply of munitions.Eventually, once the world's atmosphere had cleared enough to make accurate orbital fire once again possible, the Traitors leveraged their superiority of arms, and soon the slaughter swung decisively in the Warmaster's favour following another orbital bombardment of the Loyalist positions. The gauntlet had been thrown down and the Horus Heresy had truly begun. |
Angron - Shadow Crusade and the Return to Nuceria: During the opening days of the Horus Heresy, Lorgar, primarch of the Word Bearers Legion, had ordered his two most trusted advisors, First Chaplain Erebus and the Dark Apostle Kor Phaeron, to unleash their wrath against the Realm of Ultramar. This was done in retaliation for the humiliation the XVIIth Legion had been forced to endure by being forced to kneel in disgrace before the Emperor and Roboute Guilliman and his Ultramarines on the world of Khur by the XIIIth Legion at the Emperor's orders during the Great Crusade for their failure to enforce the Imperial Truth.The Word Bearers proceeded to achieve a monumental victory at the Battle of Calth which ensued. The Ultramarines Legion was badly crippled and no longer presented a viable threat to Horus' plan to drive on Terra. Erebus had managed to complete his blasphemous ritual on Calth's surface, which summoned the beginnings of the sorcerous Ruinstorm to the galaxy's Eastern Fringe -- a monstrous Warp Storm larger and more destructive than anything space-faring Humanity had witnessed since the days of the Age of Strife.Simultaneous with the Word Bearers' assault on Calth, Lorgar and the more reliable Word Bearers under his command launched a second offensive, a joint Shadow Crusade with Angron's World Eaters Legion into the rest of the Realm of Ultramar, laying waste to the Five Hundred Worlds with reckless abandon, slaughtering twenty-six worlds in rapid succession.This campaign was intended to ensure the success of the sorcerous Ruinstorm, which would ultimately split the void asunder, dividing the galaxy in two and rendering vast tracts of the Imperium impassable for as long as it lasted, effectively cutting Ultramar off from the rest of the Imperium.This prodigious Warp Storm would deny needed reinforcements to the Loyalists as Horus drove on Terra in an attempt to overthrow the Emperor of Mankind. Nothing from Terra would get in and nothing would get out. Not even an astropathic whisper would be able to pierce this storm of Warp energy bleeding into realspace.At some point during the Shadow Crusade, while fighting alongside the Word Bearers, the World Eaters fought in a direct confrontation against the Ultramarines Legion upon the War World of Armatura. During the brutal assault, the Ultramarines managed to lure the enraged World Eaters into a trap as they assaulted the main quarter of the ruined capital city, collapsing buildings and burying many of the World Eaters and Angron under tons of rubble.The Red Angel's twin Chainaxes were ruined, as they had lost their teeth during the brutal fighting. After Angron managed to crawl from the strewn rubble, he threw his axe Gorechild away, for it would never function again.In the aftermath of the battle, Angron's Equerry Khârn found the discarded weapon and picked it up. He knew he risked his primarch's wrath by violating Angron's superstition that inherited weapons brought ill luck, a gladiatorial conceit taken from Nuceria, but still had Gorechild repaired, and has used the mighty weapon ever since that day.During this campaign of destruction, Lorgar came to realise that over the course of their Shadow Crusade, Angron's temperament and mental stability had steadily grown worse. The Butcher's Nails were killing him faster than the Emperor's experts or Lorgar had originally imagined, faster than anyone realised. The rate of neural degeneration had accelerated very quickly in the months after the Battle of Calth.The implants had never been designed for the peculiar genetics of a primarch's brain. Angron's physiology was constantly trying to heal the damage produced by the implants as the Nails bit deeper. To save his life, Lorgar convinced the lord of the World Eaters to go back to his homeworld of Nuceria. The overlords of the gladiatorial games on that world who had first inserted the foul device into Angron's skull would know more of the implant's function than the Traitor Legion's savants and the Dark Mechanicum.Lorgar promised that the two primarchs would learn all that was known about the Nucerians' insidious cortical implant technology, and then they would burn that loathsome world until its surface was nothing but glass. Angron would at last take the vengeance he pretended to no longer desire. Whether Angron fought him, hated him or trusted him mattered little to Lorgar, who intended to drag Angron into the immortality that he deserved from the Dark Gods whether he wanted it or not.Once on Nuceria, Angron paid his respects to his fallen brothers and sisters amongst the Nucerian gladiators he had once fought beside, whose bones now lay exposed to the elements on the Desh'elika Ridge where they had died. The painful memories of that day, long ago, were too much for the primarch to bear.After paying a visit to the city-state of Desh'ea to see who ruled the Nucerian city-state that had once claimed to own him, he became enraged when he was told the version of his disappearance told by the Nucerian slavemasters. It was explained that he had fled in fear from the Battle of Desh'elika Ridge and the subsequent massacre of the rebel army in the mountains. The rebels had died to a man in his absence.Enraged by the lies that had been told about him over the last century, Angron ordered his Legion to kill everyone in the city. Then they were to kill everyone on the planet.Roboute Guilliman's Ultramarine retribution fleet, which had been tracking the rest of the Word Bearers Legion in the wake of the Battle of Calth, finally caught up to the Traitors while they carried out their massacre on Nuceria. The XIIIth Legion's warship Courage Above All, Guilliman's temporary flagship, broke Warp at the system's edge, at the head of a large void armada consisting of 41 vessels.The Ultramarines armada looked wounded, cobbled together from separate fleets. It was not a dedicated interdiction war-fleet, but clearly a ragtag strike force, a lance thrust intended to strike at the enemy's heart. Guilliman himself had done the best he could with limited resources.The XIIIth Legion's cruisers and battleships ran abeam of the enemy fleet for repeated exchange of broadsides, offering targets too big and powerful to ignore, while the rest of the Ultramarines fleet used calculated Lance strikes from safer range. The armada then divided its assault potential, doing its utmost to destroy Lorgar's flagship Fidelitas Lex, and attempted to capture the World Eaters' flagship Conqueror in a boarding action.But the Ultramarines' warships not only fought a void war, they also took the fight to the surface of Nuceria, for this conflict was personal. The Ultramarines had come for revenge against Lorgar and the Word Bearers, just as they had pursued Kor Phaeron all the way to the Maelstrom on the other side of Ultramar.Several Ultramarines warships attempted to make a run on Nuceria, hemorrhaging Drop Pods, landers and gunships, forcing planetfall by any means necessary. The Ultramarine fleet swept over and against the Traitors like an insect horde. But the tenacious commander of the Conqueror, Lotara Sarrin, put up a difficult fight and destroyed a number of Ultramarines vessels that attempted to make a run for the surface.Though the World Eaters' flagship transformed a number of the smaller vessels into flaming wreckage, the Ultramarines eventually punched through her tenacious defence and managed to land troops on the surface of Nuceria.As was their way, the Ultramarines established footholds at defensible positions, clearing room for their reinforcements to land. For every position they held, another was overrun by the World Eaters in a storm of roaring axes, or lost to the Word Bearers' chanting, implacable advance. The XIIth Legion crashed against the XIIIth in rabid packs, showing why Imperial forces had feared to fight alongside them for decades.Uncontrolled, unbound, unrestrained, they butchered their way through Ultramarines strong points, enslaved to the joy of battle because of the Butcher's Nails implants sandwiched within the meat of their minds. The Ultramarines returned the World Eaters' ferocity in kind, hungry for vengeance against the vile Traitors who had defiled Calth and damaged its star. Word Bearers units also marched into the fray against the Loyalists, droning black hymns and chanting sermons from the Book of Lorgar, bearing corpse-strewn icons of befouled metal and bleached bones above their regiments.Meanwhile, far above Nuceria, the Fidelitas Lex was already a ruin, its armour pitted and cracked, its shields a memory. The cathedrals and spinal fortresses barnacling along its back were gone, laid waste by the Ultramarines' incendiary rage. The XIIIth Legion's armada attacked in strafing runs and protracted exchanges of broadsides, trading fire with the superior warship and accepting their own casualties as the cost of bleeding the bigger vessel dry.Each assault left the Lex weaker, firing fewer turrets and cannons, taking punishment on its increasingly fragile armour. But she fought on. Crawling with smaller ships, the Lex lashed back with its remaining Macrocannons, rolling in the light of its own burning hull. Guilliman guided the battle from the command deck of Courage Above All, and had decided that the Fidelitas Lex would die first, killed in the death of a thousand cuts and swept from the game board, while the Conqueror would be boarded and killed from within.In the course of the battle in Nucerian orbit, the Conqueror could not rise to its sister-ship's defence. Both Traitor Legion flagships fought alone, starved of support and suffering the endless attacks of the XIIIth Legion's ragged armada. Salvation Pods streamed from the Lex's sides and underbelly, along with heavier Mechanicum craft and bulk landers.With the Legionaries of the Word Bearers already on the surface, the ship's Human population fled in the vessel's final minutes. And still the great vessel fought -- rolling, turning, raging. The Ultramarines cruisers that drifted past burned as badly as the warship they were killing. This void battle was a form of dirty fighting between warships, too close for the neat calculations of ranged battery fire. Instead, it was an up-close and personal slugfest.The Ultramarines battle barge Armsman intercepted the Conqueror and came abeam, launching Assault Carriers and Boarding Torpedoes. While the World Eaters flagship was busy repelling boarders, a number of smaller XIIIth Legion vessels slipped past her defences and launched Drop Pods, gunships and troop carriers.The first Drop Pods hammered home on the planet's surface. Sealed doors unlocked and the Ultramarines poured forth, Bolters raised, moving in perfect and well-trained unity. But the World Eaters were waiting for them. Those not lost to the rage of the Butcher's Nails at once had the presence of mind to note that these Ultramarines were not the pristine cobalt-blue warriors they had previously faced on Armatura.These Legionaries of the XIIIth wore cracked Power Armour, still scarred and burnwashed from some horrendous battle solar weeks or months before. These were hardened veterans of the Battle of Calth. They burned with a cold intensity to carry out the vengeance in their hearts, and were intent on getting to grips with the Word Bearers and their Traitor allies.As the fighting raged, the burning shell of the Fidelitas Lex cut through the clouds into the planet's atmosphere, shuddering on its way east, rolling ever downwards, achingly slow for something of such scale. The weight of the Lex's massive plasma engines dragged the stern down first, colliding with the Nucerian ocean's surface far from shore.In the meantime, the demigod in gold and blue had finally found the object of his obsession amidst the clamour of war. Guilliman confronted Lorgar, possessing the advantage of two weapons, but Lorgar's Crozius gave him a reach his brother lacked. When they first met, there was no furious trading of frantic blows, nor were there any melodramatic speeches of vengeance avowed.The two primarchs came together once, Power Fists against War Maul, and backed away from the resulting flare of repelling energy fields. Their warriors killed each other around them, and neither primarch spared their gene-sons a glance. Lorgar flicked the clinging lightning from the head of his Crozius, shaking his head in slow denial.Both primarchs fought without heed, their godlike movements an inconceivable blur to the Space Marines fighting around them. None had ever imagined the heroes of this new age would take the field against each other, nor could they have predicted the wellsprings of spite between them. Guilliman confronted Lorgar for what his Legion had done across the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar.In his righteous anger the Ultramarines primarch struck Lorgar with one of his fists, battering the Word Bearers primarch's sternum. Lorgar repulsed him with a projected burst of telekinesis, weak and wavering, but enough to send his brother staggering. The Crozius followed, its power field trailing lightning as Lorgar hammered it into the side of Guilliman's head with the force of a cannonball.Both primarchs faced each other beneath the grey sky, one bleeding internally, the other with half of his face lost to blood sheeting from a fractured skull. As the two primarchs were locked in their furious life-and-death struggle, they were oblivious to the destruction being wrought around them.Suddenly, Angron burst forth from the Ultramarines' ranks, his armour a shattered wreck, and both of his chainswords spat gobbets of ceramite armour plating and scarlet gore. Angron was plastered with the blood of the slain after hours in the crush of the front lines of intense combat. On his chest hung a bandolier of skulls taken from the mass grave at Desh'elika Ridge. Blood painted them as surely as it marked Angron.Even through the constant pain generated by the Butcher's Nails, that pleased him. He wanted his deceased brothers and sisters to taste blood once more. He had carried them with him across Nuceria, letting their empty eyes witness the razing of his former, hated homeworld.The World Eater launched himself at Guilliman with murderous hatred. The two primarchs fell into a seamless, roaring duel where Lorgar and Guilliman had abandoned theirs. Guilliman found himself forced back by the storm of Angron's blows.As the two primarchs fought, Guilliman landed a glancing blow, his fist pounding across Angron's breastplate. One of the skulls of Angron's fallen fellow gladiators that hung from the chain worn across his breastplate was partially shattered and scattered across the ground.Guilliman stepped back, his boot crushing the skull's remnants to powder. Angron saw the desecration, and threw himself at his brother, his howl of wrath defying mortal origins, impossibly ripe in its anguish.Lorgar saw it, too. The moment Guilliman's boot broke the skull, he felt the Warp boil behind the veil. The Bearer of the Word started chanting in a language never before spoken by any living being, his words in faultless harmony with Angron's cry of torment. Lorgar enacted his dark plan to save his brother's life, summoning the Ruinstorm to the world of Nuceria, tearing the sky open and unleashing a crimson torrent, formed from the ghosts of a hundred murdered worlds, raining blood down upon the battlefield.Lorgar focused his concentration on the triumphant form of his mutilated brother, calling for the Neverborn, the entities Humanity called Daemons, to answer in kind. He locked Angron's muscles, setting fire to the synapses in his brain. The first spasms wracked their way through Angron's sinews, turning his blood to quicksilver, then to lava and at last to unholy fire.His cries of thwarted rage were tainted by an agony beyond comprehension. His body started tearing itself apart, growing, rising. Perfecting, after a lifetime of broken torture. This was the moment of Angron's apotheosis into daemonhood.The World Eaters Librarians, those few who had never received the deadly Butcher's Nails implants which were inimicable to psykers, sensed the fey powers summoned by Lorgar from the Warp. In an attempt to halt the Urizen's dark plans, the 19 remaining Librarians harnessed their collective psychic powers to manifest a psychic entity known as the "Communion," the gestalt consciousness of 19 psychic minds. In the midst of Lorgar's incantations, the Communion pulled the soul of the primarch from his body.The two psychic entities confronted one another within the Warp, locked in a deadly contest of wills, each convinced that they were the one responsible for saving Angron. But ultimately, the Communion failed, for Lorgar was just as powerful in the Warp as he was in the material universe.After Angron's completed metamorphosis into a new Daemon Prince, the Daemon Primarch turned his attention to the Librarians. The creatures that had pained him for solar decades. The warriors that had made the Butcher's Nails sing and his brain bleed just for the sin of standing near them. Now they moved against his brother, hurling their foulness at Lorgar, who crouched one-handed and wounded, down on his knees.The newly ascended Daemon Primarch's rage killed the remaining Librarians, each of them tasting a different doom. Angron finally expunged from his Legion the weakness that had plagued his gene-sons since his reunification with them a century earlier. The Librarius of the World Eaters, the last fragment of the original War Hounds within the XII Legion, was no more, a fact which greatly pleased the Blood God Khorne, who would not brook the existence of any psykers amongst his chosen servants.Lorgar had offered up the XIIth Legion to the whims of the Blood God as his loyal servants. Now there would only be blood, an ocean of blood carried on a tide of eternal slaughter.In the wake of Angron's transformation, a gravely wounded Roboute Guilliman escaped from Nuceria, unable to face or even fully comprehend what both of his brothers had become through their corruption by the Ruinous Powers. The World Eaters completed their purge of Nuceria until not one Human life remained on the benighted world. Angron, now the very embodiment of the Blood God's Eight-Fold Path, shook the dust of the world from his feet and did not think of it again.Lorgar believed that he had "saved" his brother. In his mind it was the only way, for he alone had sought to save Angron from the implants that were killing him by degrees. Only Lorgar had found a way to free Angron from an existence of unrivalled agony, and he alone had acted to save his tormented brother. Now the Shadow Crusade could move on from Ultramar and rejoin Horus. The next target for the Traitors would be Terra itself.Once back aboard his flagship Conqueror, the newly ascendant Daemon Primarch spoke his first words in his new form. He ordered Khârn to massacre the slaves in the lower holds and build him a massive skull throne.To enhance the combat prowess of his new form, Angron was given a massive black runesword called the Black Blade that had been forged for him by the Dark Mechanicum. |
Angron - Mindless Slaughter: After the Shadow Crusade, the Daemon Primarch Angron and his Worlds Eaters proceeded to go on a bloody rampage throughout the width and breadth of the galaxy, ignoring the Warmaster Horus' calls to muster at Ullanor in preparation for the final drive on the Throneworld. Perturabo, the Lord of Iron, primarch of the Iron Warriors Legion, was ordered by Horus to bring Angron at all costs to Ullanor.The Iron Warriors tracked the World Eaters to the world of Deluge, where they discovered the planet's entire population had been butchered and stacked into mountains of corpses. Shortly thereafter, they were set upon by berserker-crazed World Eaters and Khornate Daemons. After withstanding this initial onslaught, the sky opened up and the Daemon Primarch Angron entered the carnage.Perturabo and Angron engaged in a brutal battle, with the Daemon Primarch having the upper hand in both power and speed. However, despite sustaining several wounds, the Lord of Iron endured, and goaded Angron. He declared that Angron had been born a slave and would now remain one, enslaved to darkness for all eternity.Utilising his superior tactical acumen and with the aid of the Iron Warriors and his Iron Circle of robotic honour guards, Perturabo was able to outmanoeuvre and bombard the World Eaters, pounding them into submission and besting Angron in the process.However, at that moment, an Ultramarine fleet appeared in orbit above the planet. Angron merely laughed, declaring that they were now all going to die. Perturabo retorted by reminding Angron that he had once seen his own warriors butchered by the slavemasters on Nuceria and had done nothing to stop it.This moved the Daemon Primarch to act, and after conjuring a Warp Storm, both the Iron Warriors and World Eaters fleets managed to evade the Ultramarines and make their way towards Ullanor.Angron would subsequently appear during the climax of the Solar War, when a massive Warp Rift opened up over Luna. This allowed the primary Traitor strike force to assail the Throneworld itself. The Daemon Primarch was seen perched during the battle over Luna aboard one of the battlements of his flagship Conqueror. |
Angron - Siege of Terra: By the time the Siege of Terra commenced, Angron had become fully enslaved to the will of the Blood God Khorne and his own unquenchable blood lust. He demanded that Horus allow him to directly assault the Imperial Palace, regardless of the fact that the Emperor's powerful psychic barrier around the Throneworld would more than likely kill the Daemon Prince until the Traitors had found a way to weaken it.When word reached Angron that the Death Guard would instead be the ones to spearhead the Traitor assault on Terra, Angron fell into an incandescent rage and massacred all those within the bowels of the Conqueror who had the misfortune to cross the Daemon Primarch's path.Lotara Sarrin, the mortal Human captain of the Conqueror, feared that if Angron wasn't stopped, he would inadvertently murder the Tech-priests responsible for attending to the vessel's Plasma Reactor, putting the Conqueror at risk of a catastrophic explosion.To prevent this, Sarrin conspired with the Night Lords Captain Gendor Skraivok, the "Painted Count," as well as Khârn, to have Angron teleported to the shifting maze aboard the Night Lords' flagship Nightfall that had long been used by Konrad Curze to torture and kill captives. Forcing Khârn's hand, the Eighth Captain confronted the enraged Daemon Primarch himself.Angron informed his Equerry that the Dark Gods had whispered to him of Khârn's ultimate fate and pre-ordained destiny as the Chosen of Khorne. The Daemon Primarch wished to supplant Khârn as the Blood God's chosen, and so, the two battled one another.However, Khârn proved unable to match his gene-sire's prowess. Before Angron could slay him, Khârn placed a Teleport Homer on the Daemon Primarch and had him teleported off the Conqueror and into the bowels of the Nightfall.In the bowels of the Night Lords' flagship, Angron found himself trapped within a labyrinth of singular purpose. At the request of the Night Haunter, the Iron Warriors' Primarch Perturabo had crafted his grim brother a singular prison, unlike any other, in imitation of Perturabo's own private sanctorum known as the Cavea Ferrum.This special prison was an elaborate labyrinth, whose featureless walls and strange geometric design made it all but impossible to map and therefore escape. Anyone who attempted to mentally map the labyrinth would be hopelessly knotted in turns that should have been physically impossible.Even after trying scores of times to map the labyrinth, an individual would only manage more than a handful of turns within its twisting corridors before it all stopped making sense. Following the Drop Site Massacre of Istvaan V, the Night Haunter had captured his brother Vulkan, the primarch of the Salamanders, and utilised the labyrinth as a means to torture and psychologically break him over a period of several solar months.Angron quickly became trapped within the maze, forever trying to find his way out of its twists and turns, and battling assaults by the multitude of traps hidden within the labyrinth.Meanwhile, the Traitors on Terra's surface had used a series of rituals to finally weaken the Emperor's psychic barrier around the Throneworld so that they could deploy their Daemonic allies on its surface. The Daemon Primarch was shot from the hold of the Nightfall and into the void of space. Angron soon hurtled towards the Throneworld's surface.When the Daemon Primarch entered Terra's atmosphere, he appeared as a massive, flaming meteor. As his body slammed into the surface of Terra, the shockwave of the Daemon Primarch's impact slew friend and foe alike.Wielding the Black Blade, Angron proceeded to rampage through the Loyalist forces, fighting his way to the walls of the Imperial Palace itself. Here, he saw his brother Sanguinius, the angelic primarch of the Blood Angels, and bellowed a challenge. In response, Sanguinius merely saluted his brother and refused. Before withdrawing back into the confines of the Imperial Palace, Sanguinius claimed that while they would one day battle, it was not that day.The Daemon Primarch roared in frustration, unable to circumvent the lingering effects of the Emperor's psychic barrier to pursue what he perceived as his cowardly brother into the palace.As the Siege of Terra raged on, during the battle for the Lion's Gate Spaceport, Angron destroyed both a Capitol Imperialis super-heavy Imperial tank and then a Leviathan transport, but was still unable to advance past the Imperial Palace's walls.But eventually, the Lion's Gate Spaceport fell to the Traitors when they launched a massive assault. As the Emperor's psychic barrier shrank to encompass the Sanctum Imperialis, Angron led a horde of blood-maddened Worlds Eaters onto the Eternity Wall and began slaughtering the Loyalist defenders.Newly blessed with Daemonic gifts, Angron and his World Eaters overtook the Loyalist defenders of the Eternity Wall. Later, the World Eaters had the duty and privilege of leading the frontal assault on the palace. The surviving video logs from the siege show the World Eaters breaching the walls of the palace, the twisted, red form of Angron wielding his glowing runesword at their head.Among those first into the breach was Khârn. Despite contrary claims by the Sons of Horus, World Eater records indicate that it was Angron's Daemonic Black Blade that was responsible for the downfall of the great gate of the Imperial Palace.The World Eaters reaped a true harvest of blood on Terra, but they were denied ultimate victory. With both the Dark Angels and Space Wolves Legions on their way to Terra to reinforce the Loyalist defenders, Horus gambled everything in order to win the siege, lowering the Void Shields on his flagship, the Vengeful Spirit, and daring the Emperor to come aboard and face him.The Master of Mankind rose to the challenge and faced his betrayer in the combat that decided the fate of the galaxy. The two fought a titanic combat that was both physical and psychic, until at last the Emperor had slain Horus and utterly obliterated even his soul from existence, but only at the cost of His own humanity and eternal internment in the Golden Throne.The mighty Chaos army disintegrated with the loss of its greatest champion and fled Terra. Angron was the last to leave, looking back from his drop ship longingly at the Imperial Palace, which had stood against even his fury.He led his surviving World Eaters deep into the refuge of the great Warp rift that was the Eye of Terror in the northwestern reaches of the galaxy. He and his Heretic Astartes would now have all of eternity to seek revenge as part of the Long War against the Corpse Emperor's forces to come.With the Horus Heresy ended, the World Eaters fled into the Eye of Terror to a Daemon World specially prepared for Angron by Khorne, though the Legion swiftly degenerated into roving warbands of Chaos Space Marines as the incessant and bloodthirsty demands of Khorne drove the World Eaters to turn in upon themselves.As such, even to the present time they have no particular home base, with each band generally operating from whatever starship they can lay their bloodstained hands upon. |
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