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The

Knights ErrantThe Angels of Malediction

Space Marine Chapter

Since the founding of their Chapter in the early days of the

Imperium, the Space Marines of the Angels of Malediction

have been feared by their foes and praised by those they

save. Tenacious and unforgiving in battle, the Angels of

Malediction are among mankinds most zealous

protectors. Yet it is more than simple duty that drives

them to war and rumours persist that they are on a quest

of some sort that may yet prove to be their undoing.

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The Angels of Malediction can trace their origins into a time before the

Horus Heresy and the subsequent event known as the Second Founding

when the old Space Marine Legions were broken into smaller formations

called Chapters. As with so much of the most ancient history of the

Imperium these events have been lost to legend. All that is known for sure

is that the Angels of Malediction were once part of the Dark Angels Legion

of Primarch Lion ElJonson and even that is known only to a few of themost high ranking officers of their closest kin.

The current Chapter owes much to their first Grand Master, a Terran

Veteran of the Great Crusade by the name of Godemyr. When the

Emperors Legions were launched to reclaim the galaxy for humanity he

was appointed Master of the first vanguard Chapter of the First Legion. Asthe conquest radiated from the cradle of mankind it was always Godemyr

and his men that first lunged into the void, ever ready to break the

darkness and bring the light of the Emperor to the lost strands of

humanity. It wasnt long before others referred to them as the lightbearers.

Fighting at the end of the supply line forced Godemyr to explore less direct

approaches to battle and relay on far more precise reconnaissance, than

the main combat Chapters of the Legions. Being a reasonable man many of

his acquisitions for the Imperium were achieved without unleashing his

Marines so as the Great Crusade progressed he penned down his

experiences and doctrines to aid his peers. His works were widely

acknowledged and used until they were later improved upon by various

other commanders, including Primarchs.

When the First Legion finally found their primogenitor, Lion ElJonson, onthe death world of Caliban, they were renamed from the First into the Dark

Angels Legion. This name did not sit well among the Terran veterans of

Godemyrs Chapter. Though the name invoked images of heroic individualsfrom Calibanite legends Godemyr and his men preferred to be called the

First. They believed that such a sinister name would clash with the idea of

the Great Crusade, but for all their unease with the name they accepted

new Calibanite brothers with open arms. The knightly culture from which

most of the new recruits hailed reminded Godemyr greatly of his own

people in the mountainous hinterlands of Spalatum on distant Terra.

Now lead by their Primarch the Dark Angels rose to become one of the

greatest, overshadowed only by the Luna Wolves Legion, of Primarch

Horus, first among the Primarch brotherhood. As he was always in the

forefront of his Legions advance Godemyr played a significant partin

obtaining that hallowed position. For his dedication and valorous deeds the

ruler of Mankind himself honoured him with the title of EmperorsMyrmidon, his most lethal and loyal warrior, just one of the few dozen

Marines to bear that prestigious title. Only months later that would be put

to a test unlike any he ever expected.

In the 7th

year of the 31st

millennium Primarch Horus raised the banner of

rebellion and half of the Space Marine Legions joined his side, abandoning

the Emperor for the dark gods of Chaos. The news reached Godemyr at the

very edge of human colonisation among the Shield Worlds, fighting

alongside the rest of the Dark Angels Legion. Seeing the dream he fought

for over two centuries, a dream he bled for and saw his friends and kin give

their lives for, now brought to ruin changed him. Previously taciturn and

calculating commander famed for his careful approach and laser like

precision gave in to a terrible anger like those written in the ancient myths

of his home world. Thought his warriors tried to calm his spirit none could

understand the depths of his anguish, none save the Lion and maybe a few

other veterans that remembered the Great Boarding so long ago.

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Ever a master of war Jonson unleashed Godemyr upon the traitors, even

going as far as granting him the request of donning the crimson gauntlet,

the ancient war symbol of his people, and his chapter out of love and

respect followed suit. As the Imperium tore itself apart in a civil war the

light bearers once more lit the galaxy, but this time with fires of retribution

that consumed the worlds which sided with Horus. With the codes of

conduct broken and honour cast into mud Godemyr finally became what

he knew was always at the core of his being. Gone was the chivalrous

knight of yesteryears, in his place a slayer stalked the stars akin to an

ancient god of death risen from the underworld to pass judgement on

mankind.

For all their greatness the Dark Angels failed to arrive in time for the final

battle upon Terra, so when their ships broke from the warp Horus was

already dead, his minions in retreat and the Emperor mortally wounded.

The Lion and his angels executed an immediate combat drop alongside

Russs wolves and from that distant age to the very present one imagehaunts the sagas of the Space Wolves, histories of the Imperial Fists and

battle songs of the White Scars, an image of red handed murderer roaring

in atavistic rage as he vented his fury slaughtering the traitors. His men

found him weeks later among the ruins of his old home as silent as the

defiled statues of his ancestors. His people were no more, reduced to

simple playthings of the Emperors Children traitor Legion and sacrificedfor their pleasure. In his eyes he was a failure, unable to protect his

Emperor and his people he had become worthless. In such a catatonic

state he was taken aboard as the Dark Angels prepared to depart forCaliban to rearm before setting upon rebuilding what was sundered.

Godemyr was absent from the events that came to pass on the Dark Angels

return to Caliban and the horrible apocalyptic war they fought against their

fallen kin. Only now they fully understood him, and blinded by their fury

they destroyed their own world. It is said Godemyr regained his senses in

the very moment when Jonson was struck down by the traitor, Luther,

made instantly aware by some otherworldly sense of the tragedy that has

transpired. In the conclave that followed the senior members of the Legion

agreed never to reveal their shame and to forever strive to erase the stain

on their honour.

Not long after, Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines completed

his Codex Astartes and old Space Marine Legions were divided into smaller

Chapters of roughly a 1000 battle brothers in an event named the Second

Founding. The Dark Angel Legion split into several new Chapters yet of

these only four are widely known in the 41st

millennium. One of those

lesser known are the Angels of Malediction, the former first vanguard

Chapter known as the light bearers. Godemyr named his new army after

the very beginning of the old Legion, taking the name of the feast upon

which the First Legion was founded by none other than the Emperor

himself. Restored to his old demeanour Godemyr led the Chapter into the

darkness of the void for there was much to be done.

For another forty years Godemyr led the Angles of Malediction,

reconquering worlds lost during the Horus Heresy. On the very edge of the

Eye of Terror on a world whose name is lost to memory the Chapter

countered an offensive of the World Eaters Traitor Legion. From the

beginning the campaign went ill as they faced none other than Angron, the

fallen Primarch. Days of brutal fighting accounted for more than a third of

the Chapters warriors and their landing zone was in danger of beingoverrun. Gathering the few remaining Terran veterans Godemyr led a

counterattack to cover the retreat of the rest of the force. The EmperorsMyrmidon was last seen carving his way through the Berzerkers of Khorne

on a direct path towards Angron himself, his honour and pride demanding

nothing less.

The Angels of Malediction then virtually disappeared from the records of

the Adepts of Terra. Persecuting foes beyond the borders of the Imperium

the Chapter strove to emulate the deeds of their founder in the Great

Crusade. Unexpectedly they do return from the wilderness space into the

Imperial held subsectors to aid other armies of the Imperium. Emerging

from the darkness of the void like death itself none knows their agenda;

often those that receive assistance are not even aware of their presence

until they descend upon the enemy. On the completion of their mission

they depart as suddenly as they have arrived, leaving no one wiser, butdeeply thankful of their intervention.

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As befits their crusading endeavour Angels of Malediction have no home

world to call their own. Instead the facilities needed for the proper

functioning of a Space Marine force are dispersed upon the Battle Barges,

Strike Cruisers and Forge Ships of the Chapter. At the heart of their Fleet is

the Battle Barge Krakus, a potent vessel constructed at the Jovian

shipyards before the Great Crusade. The interior of the ship has few if any

counterparts among the Battle Barges of the Adeptus Astartes. Most of the

carrying capacity is sacrificed to provide more space for the main

Apothecarion, the central Librarius and the breathtaking Cathedral of the

Godemyrs wrath.

Due to the nature of their existence the Angels of Malediction recruit

wherever and whenever opportunity presents itself. On worlds visited all

the boys of suitable age will be gathered from the vicinity of the landing.

To become an aspirant of the Chapter they will be subjected to ancient

ritual trials of the Unforgiven. While their flesh will be sampled for genetic

deviancies and mutations, they will be tested to show their mental and

spiritual strength as much as their physical capabilities. Those selected will

receive the blessed organs that separate Marines from mortal men. The

aspirant will then join the 10th Company, where under the stern gaze of

tutor sergeants they and their peers will be transformed into full Space

Marines. Though the sergeant to whom he will be assigned determines

when he is ready for the final test, the battle brothers along which he will

be sent to fight will judge if he is worthy or not of the right to bear the

sacred power armour of the Adeptus Astartes.

Resources are hard to come by for the Angels of Malediction so far from

regular lines of supply provided by the Forge Worlds of the Adeptus

Mechanicus. The lack of a home world further hampers this as the Forge

Ships available to the Chapter can barely produce all that is needed to

sustain a constant war effort. To partially counter these shortages the

Chapter is wont to harvest resources of the worlds they battle for. Once

the fighting has ended the ships of the Angels of Malediction will hang

above the planet like some ancient leviathans, while conveyor vessels load

men and materials needed to continue their endless task. Sometimes when

pressed by need the Chapter will descend upon uninhabited worlds,

asteroids or comets to replenish their depleted storage decks.

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As it is with their kin, the Dark Angels, the Angels of Malediction fightaccording to the doctrines laid out in the Codex Astartes. Often heavily

outnumbered and operating far from supply lines the Chapter relays

heavily on it scouts to provide accurate reconnaissance and preliminary hit

and run attacks. The Angels show remarkable patience in dismantling

enemy forces sometimes applying as many as two dozen lesser assaults,

rather than a few powerful ones to ensure victory. Though when the time

comes or the need dictates the Angels of Malediction do not shy away

from direct frontal assaults.

Engagements observed by others have been reported as highly effective

and seamed well planed based on the execution. Drop Pod assault is a

tactic favoured by the Company Masters. Supported by ample amounts of

Land Speeders and Thunderhawk Gunships needed for extraction and

redeployment once the objective is met, Space Marines of the Chapter

have encountered few foes that can match them. In recent years assaultslaunched via Lightninghawk gunships, smaller cousins of the

Thunderhawks, have been noticed to gain in popularity.

A practice frowned upon by many other Space Marines has rooted itself

within the Chapter. The Angels of Malediction sometimes use stim-packs,

more commonly known as combat drugs, to boost their abilities. It is a

dangerous practice developed during the dark days of the Age of

Redemption when the Chapter was reduced to barely two hundred battle

brothers following a disastrous war against the Beil-Tan Craftworld.

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The Angles of Malediction follow the dictates of Codex Astartes as much as

their needs and divergent beliefs allow them. Their organisation mostly

matches that of Codex adherent Chapters such as the Aurora or Genesis

Chapter. Having a veteran, four battle, four reserve and a scout companythey even differ from the other Unforgiven. The 1

stCompany is known as

the First and is made out of the veteran members of the Chapter. Their

purpose roughly combines the tasks performed by the Deathwing and the

Ravenwing of the Dark Angels, locating and capturing the Fallen. The First

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does not take to battle exclusively in terminator armour as their more

famous counterparts but rather follows a more flexible Codex approach.

The other Companies also only superficially follow the Codex. Each is made

out of 100 battle brothers divided into 10 Crusader squads. The division

between Tactical, Assault and Devastator squads has over time been

eroded as individual Companies had learned to expect the unexpected in

the vast expanses of the wilderness space. Each Marine in the Company is

expected to be proficient in all three duties as well as being able to operate

any of the vehicles attached to the Company. Though different squads no

longer exists on paper, in reality Marines converge to the modes ofoperation they are most proficient with. On rare occasions battle brothers

will deploy in scout armour when the situation at hand requires more

experienced warriors than those provided by the 10th

Company.

The higher echelons of the Angels of Malediction match those of the other

Unforgiven apart from a small variation. The First are not considered part

of the Chapters headquarters and a separate group of warriors known asthe Paladins takes the place of Honour Guards employed by strictly Codex

adherent Chapters. These elite Marines form retinues of the members of

the Inner Circle, who are not Company Masters, when they take to the

field of battle. On rare occasions these embodiments of virtues all Angels

of Malediction aspire to may be attached to a Company if the Grand

Master deems their presence will be needed in the conflict at hand. From

the members of the Paladins a warrior is selected through ritual combat.

The winner serves the Chapter as the Emperors Myrmidon of the Angels ofMalediction, honoured to be the living personification of the Godemyr thelight bringer.

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To the Angels of Malediction, the Emperor and the Lion are distant figures,

mythological forefathers of their brotherhood. Both are revered as the

greatest men of their age but it is the persona of Godemyr that is in the

centre of their veneration. They themselves maintain they are custodians

of his oath, sworn to protect mankind and scour the starts of any trace of

the heretic, the mutant and the xeno, carrying on the ideals of the Great

Crusade. Nothing shall stay their hand until the day all of humanity is

united under the benevolent gaze of the Emperor.

The legendary intolerance for non-humans among the descendants of the

Dark Angels has taken an even darker path in the Angels of Malediction. Astheir oaths bind them they will not only refuse to fight alongside any alien

races but actively pursue any information on their locations in order to

purge them from the galaxy. Who knows how many alien species have

been exterminated for the security of mankinds future? This sense of adivine mandate to cleanse the stars spreads even to humanity. Various

strains of abhumans are treated no different than the xeno by the Angels

of Malediction. Some in the Ordo Hereticus have linked reports of

destroyed fringe abhuman settlements with rumours of the Chapter

operating in the vicinity, but to this date no full blown inquiry has been

launched.

The persecution of the Godemyrs oath drives the Angels of Maledictionever onwards into the darkness between the stars, but there is another

motive why the sons of the Lion scour the remote places of the galaxy. Like

all of the Unforgiven they bear the burden of the terrible truth that mars

the honour of the scions of the First Legion, the existence of the Fallen. The

zeal and tenacity with which they pursue the fallen is matched by few if

any other Unforgiven. When it is believed that a Fallen is located the

Chapters Chaplains will whip the brethren selected for the mission into ahate filled, vengeful frenzy, with their fiery oratory. Nothing is allowed to

stand in their way and should a Fallen be captured a fast ship will depart

the fleet on its way to the Tower of Angels.

Following the events of the Horus Heresy and those that transpired on

Caliban Marines that followed Godemyr to found the Angels of Malediction

grew increasingly mistrustful of anyone outside a small circle of Chapters

with whom they shared either a blood or an honour bond. The betrayal of

the Tech Adepts of Mars was never forgotten and Godemyr vowed his

warriors would never depend on the treacherous progeny of the Machine

God, no matter how dire the circumstances. They would stand on their

own and if the Emperor wills it they will fall on their own. Not a single

Techmarine has ever been sent to Mars to be trained, the Angels of

Malediction preferring to pass down their own teachings and traditions

from one generation of Techmarines to another. Many of the Forge Worlds

that turned from the Emperor in the past ten thousand years have felt the

Chapters wrath.

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Belonging to the illustrious bloodline of Lion ElJonson the Angels ofMalediction can call upon one of the finest pedigrees in the Imperium.

Their geneseed is pure and untarnished but nothing is left to chance. The

Chapter maintains a disproportionally large number of Apothecaries in

order to insure no mutation occurs in their organs and all of them function

without any deviations. The need to maintain their genetic purity is one of

the Chapters fundamental drives and living link to the time when theEmperor and the Lion walked among them. Without a reserve position to

retreat to it is paramount all, if possible, gene-seed gets harvested from

the slain battle brothers. The need to maintain a stable number of gene-

seeds had birthed a tradition that each individual progenoid gets extracted

as soon as it matures, circumstances allowing. It is also a rare occurrence

for less than half a dozen Apothecaries to be dispatched with a strike force.

Though contact with the Adeptus Mechanicus is virtually nonexistent the

Chapters gene-seed tithe is regularly delivered through one of the otherUnforgiven Chapters acting as intermediaries.

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For the Emperor!, For the Lion!and Remember the Myrmidon! areall equally used with the later being preferred when facing traitor Space

Marines.

Mordekai Moriarty Third Company Master

The Master of the Third Company of the Angels of Malediction is the most

wildly known warrior of the Chapter outside the ranks of the Unforgiven.

Sent by the Grand Master on an errand within the borders of the Imperium

he and his warriors had won much renown as well as grudging respect of

other Chapters they fought alongside on their mission. Taciturn and

sombre he is completely devoted to the task given to him and will brook no

interference in achieving his goal. Preferring to direct his troops from a

distance he is no stranger to personal combat as attested by several

captains of other Chapters acknowledging his superior swordsmanship

during their training duels.

The Kothar Directive

Mostly isolated from the rest of the Imperium the Angels of Malediction

were forced to improvise and adapt. The process of retrofitting tanksbased on the Rhino chassis from one into another has been known for

millennia, but the transformation is not taken lightly by the Adeptus

Mechanicus or the Techmarines of the Adeptus Astartes. Pressed by the

lack of fighting vehicles, during the subjugation of Elish, a previously lost

human world with a fairly developed understanding of technology, Grand

Master Kothar ordered the Chapters Techmarines to provide him with thetanks he needed to break the opposition. At first reluctant to obey the

order to debase the sacred machines the Techmarines delved deep into

the secrets of the Rhinos design. After days of research, fasting, prayerand consulting the Emperors Tarot they came to the conclusion that theability to fit and retrofit the Rhino into any form needed was inbuilt into its

design and therefore planed. Further research showed similar finds in

other STC templates at their disposal and the inquisitive minds of the

Techmarines were ensnared upon a path of discovery. Soon the Angels of

Malediction had at their disposal a variety of fighting vehicles far more

diverse than what their limited production capabilities would suggest.

Instruments of War

Fighting wars on worlds long separated from the rest of humanity

inevitably led to the discovery of equipment long thought lost or even

completely unknown to the Imperial military machine. These among others

include the versatile Lightninghawk gunship, Goliath battle harness and the

Maglev pattern multi-purpose plasma cannon. In addition the Chapter

included into their armoury some vehicles not usually used by the Adeptus

Astartes such as the ambiguous Leman Russ Battle Tank, especially the

Punisher variant. The galaxy is a big place and the actions of the Angels of

Malediction have gone unrecorded for now.

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14 Years of Service