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The Angels Excelsis are an extinct Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels Chapter.[1]

Chapter Summary

Angels Excelsis
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Founding Chapter: Blood Angels
Founding: Unknown
Chapter Master: Follordark
Homeworld: Fleet Based
Fortress-Monastery: Unknown
Colours: White legs, arms and backpack,
deep crimson torso[1a]
Specialty: Unknown
Strength: Destroyed
Battle Cry 'Slay! By the Blood! By the Great Angel!'[1c]

History

The Angels Excelsis were a Fleet Based Chapter, founded by three hundred Space Marines in M36. Most of these founding members, were killed within a year of the Chapter's birth though, as the Angels Excelsis's first mission had been a difficult one and filled with hardships. Despite their deaths however, the names and the history of the founding members were well recorded by the Chapter and they were still remembered millenia later.[1a]

While the Chapter held their role as the Imperium's protectors as a sacred duty, they looked down upon Mankind as being frail and weak. This reflected in how the Chapter treated their Serviles, as each bore slave tattoos across their faces and knew not to look upon the Angels Excelsis, when they were talked to. What position these Serviles served in was chosen by the Master of the Household, which was an office given to a Angels Excelsis Captain who was no longer capable of fighting. Serviles in high positions were not referred to by name, but instead given titles such as Servile of the Watch, Servile Locum and Servile of the Helm. Many of the Serviles who served on the command bridges of the Chapter's ships were deliberately mutilated by the Chapter, so that they could plug directly into cogitators and other machines.[1a]

Chapter Symbol of the Angels Excelsis - is a winged axe.[1c]

Known Battles

  • Devastation of Baal - The entire Chapter came to Baal's defense, when it was threatened by Hive Fleet Leviathan and fought in the void battle against the Hive Fleet's Bio-ships. They acted like a dagger and drove deep within the attacking Hive Fleet, destroying many Bio-ships, before withdrawing to strike again. Eventually though, the sheer number of Leviathan's Bio-ships overwhelmed them and the Chapter was destroyed.[1b]

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