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The '''Blood Angels''' were the '''IX Legion''' of the original [[Space Marine Legion]]s under their [[Primarch]] [[Sanguinius]]. They are particularly well known for their bloodthirsty nature in battle. They are also one of the most long-lived Chapters, and have a refined aesthetic sense.
 
 
 
 
{{Loyal Founding Chapters
 
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|Name=Blood Angels
 
|Name=Blood Angels
|Legion Number='''IX'''
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|Symbol=Bloodangelsymbol.png
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|Primarch=[[Sanguinius]]
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|Legion Number='''IX'''{{Fn|1a}}
|Chapter Master=[[Dante]]
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|Primarch=[[Sanguinius]]{{Fn|1a}}
|Homeworld=[[Baal]]
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|Chapter Master=[[Dante]]{{Fn|1a}}
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|Homeworld=[[Baal]]{{Fn|1a}}
 
|Fortress-Monastery=[[Arx Angelicum]]{{Fn|36a}}
 
|Fortress-Monastery=[[Arx Angelicum]]{{Fn|36a}}
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|Specialty='''Assault, Deep Striking'''{{Fn|1a}}
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|Battle Cry='''''"By the Blood of Sanguinius!"'''''{{Fn|1a}} or '''''"For The Emperor and Sanguinius!'''''" {{Fn|1a}}
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|Chapter Strength=[[Codex Astartes|Codex-Compliant]]{{Fn|1a}}
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|Colours='''Blood Red Armour with Black Aquila'''{{Fn|1}}<br>[[Blood Angels#Company Disposition|Helmet colour denotes squad type]]
 
|Descendants=
 
|Descendants=
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*[[Angels Encarmine]],{{Fn|41}} [[Angels Erythrean]],{{Fn|58}} [[Angels Excelsis]], [[Angels Glorious]], [[Angels of the Grail]],{{Fn|106}} [[Angels Numinous]],{{Fn|22a}} [[Angels of Light]], [[Angels Penitent]],{{Fn|23}} [[Angels Sanguine]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Angels Vermillion]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Atlantian Spears]]{{Fn|57a}}
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*[[Blood Dragons]],{{Fn|57a}} [[Blood Drinkers]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Blood Eagles]],{{Fn|61}} [[Blood Legion]],{{Fn|7}} [[Blood Scythes]],{{Fn|57a}} [[Blood Swords]]{{Fn|5}}{{Fn|7}}{{Fn|8}}{{Fn|4l}}{{Fn|Conflicting sources}}, [[Blood Templars]],{{Fn|36c}} [[Blood Wings]], [[Brothers of Jarad]], [[Brothers of the Red]],{{Fn|21}} [[Burning Blood]]
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*[[Carmine Blades]],{{Fn|25}} [[Charnel Guard]],{{Fn|24c}} [[Cruor Blades]],{{Fn|57a}} [[Crimson Knights]], [[Crimson Blades]], [[Crimson Legion]],{{Fn|22a}} [[Crimson Swords]]
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*[[Death Wardens]],{{Fn|77}} [[Disciples of Blood]],{{Fn|27}} [[Dragons Ardent]]{{Fn|103}}
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*[[Exsanguinators]]{{Fn|4l}}
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*[[Flesh Eaters]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Flesh Tearers]]{{Fn|4l}}
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*[[Golden Sons]],{{Fn|22a}} [[Grail Guard]]{{Fn|64}}
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*[[Knights of Blood (Chapter)|Knights of Blood]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Knights of the Chalice]], [[Knights Sanguine]],{{Fn|4l}}
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*[[Lamenters]]{{Fn|4l}}
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*[[Red Seraphs]],{{Fn|61}} [[Red Knights]], [[Red Wings]],{{Fn|7}} [[The Remnants]],{{Fn|101}} [[Ruby Crescents]],{{Fn|107}}
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*[[Sable Brotherhood]], [[Sable Knights]],{{Fn|57a}} [[Sanguine Host]], [[Scions of Sanguinius]], [[Sons of Sanguinius]],
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*[[Templars of Blood]]{{Fn|18}}
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[[Angels of Light]], [[Angels Excelsis]], [[Angels Encarmine]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Angels Glorious]], [[Angels Numinous]],{{Fn|22}} [[Angels Penitent]] (formerly the [[Angels Resplendent]]){{Fn|23}},[[Angels Sanguine]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Angels Vermillion]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Blood Drinkers]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Blood Legion]],{{Fn|7}}<br>[[Blood Swords]],{{Fn|5}}{{Fn|7}}{{Fn|8}} (Canon conflict){{Fn|4l}} [[Blood Wings]], [[Brothers of the Red]],{{Fn|21}} [[Burning Blood]], [[Brothers of Jarad]], [[Carmine Blades]],{{Fn|25}} [[Charnel Guard]],{{Fn|24c}} [[Crimson Legion]]{{Fn|22}}, [[Crimson Swords]], [[Disciples of Blood]]{{Fn|27}},[[Exsanguinators]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Flesh Eaters]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Flesh Tearers]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Golden Sons]],{{Fn|22}} [[Knights of Blood (Chapter)|Knights of Blood]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Knights of the Chalice]],
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The '''Blood Angels''', originally known as the '''Revenant Legion'''{{Fn|44c}} were the '''IX Legion''' of the original [[Space Marine Legion]]s under their [[Primarch]] [[Sanguinius]]. They are particularly well known for their bloodthirsty nature in battle. They are also one of the most long-lived Chapters, and have a refined aesthetic sense.{{Fn|1a}}
[[Knights Sanguine]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Lamenters]],{{Fn|4l}} [[Red Knights]], [[Red Wings]],{{Fn|7}} [[Sable Brotherhood]], [[Sanguine Host]], [[Scions of Sanguinius]], [[Templars of Blood]]{{Fn|18}}
 
|Colours='''Blood Red Armour with Black Aquila'''{{Fn|1}}<br>. [[Blood Angels#Company Disposition|Helmet colour denotes squad type]]
 
|Specialty='''Assault, Deep Striking'''
 
|Miniature=bloodangelsmini.jpg
 
|Miniature Px=125
 
|Battle Cry='''''"By the Blood of Sanguinius!"'''''{{Fn|1a}} or '''''"For The Emperor and Sanguinius!'''''" {{Cite This}}
 
|Chapter Strength=~1000 marines
 
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==Homeworld==
 
==Homeworld==
The Homeworld of the '''Blood Angels''' is the planet [[Baal]] and its two moons are, '''Baal Primus''' and '''Baal Secundus''' - from which the Blood Angels take their new recruits. The Blood Angels' [[Primarch]] [[Sanguinius]] fell upon Baal Secundus after he and his brother Primarchs were scattered across the galaxy. In ancient days Baal and its moons had Terra-like atmospheres. Baal itself was always a world of red rust deserts, but its moons were close to paradises. As the [[Dark Age of Technology]] ended in the [[Age of Strife]], civil war erupted between the world and its colonised moons, leading to the nuclear devastation of the planets. Baal Secundus has since been a nuclear-blasted desert world with deadly levels of radiation. This forced the world's human tribes to build cumbersome radiation suits in order to survive. Mutants were once rife upon the world, frequently at war with the remaining pure humans for dominance of the planet.{{Cite This}}
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The [[Adeptus Astartes Homeworld|homeworld]] of the Blood Angels is the planet [[Baal]] and its two moons, [[Baal Primus]] and [[Baal Secundus]], from which the Blood Angels take their new recruits. The Blood Angels' [[Primarch]], [[Sanguinius]], fell upon Baal Secundus after he and his brother Primarchs were scattered across the galaxy.{{Fn|4c}}
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In ancient days Baal and its moons had Terra-like atmospheres. Baal itself was always a world of red rust deserts, but its moons were close to paradises. As the [[Dark Age of Technology]] ended in the [[Age of Strife]], civil war erupted between the world and its colonised moons, leading to the nuclear devastation of the planetary system. Baal Secundus has since been a nuclear-blasted desert world with deadly levels of radiation. This forced the world's human tribes to build cumbersome radiation suits in order to survive. Mutants were once rife upon the world, frequently at war with the remaining pure humans for dominance of the planet.{{Fn|4c}}
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
[[Image:BAHeresy.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Pre-Heresy Blood Angels Marine]]
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[[Image:EarlyBA.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Unification-era IXth Legionary{{Fn|44c}}]]  
===Great Crusade===  
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===Unification Wars & Great Crusade===
 
====Formation====
 
====Formation====
The Blood Angels were created from the genetic material of their Primarch Sanguinius. As with all of the Primarchs, Sanguinius was genetically engineered to be a supreme super-soldier but was cast into the [[warp]] during his infancy along with his brothers, and found on the nuclear-blasted moon of [[Baal|Baal Secundus]]. Sanguinius was affected by the warp, and when he was found by one of the few unmutated human tribes on Baal, he had a pair of angelic wings growing from his back. As he matured quickly, he was able to use his superhuman powers and abilities to unite the humans of Baal against the mutants and become their leader.{{Cite This}}
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The Blood Angels were created from the genetic material of their Primarch, [[Sanguinius]]. As with all of the Primarchs, Sanguinius was genetically engineered to be a supreme super-soldier but was cast into the [[warp]] during his infancy along with his brothers, and found on the nuclear-blasted moon of [[Baal|Baal Secundus]].{{Fn|4c}}
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Originally known as the '''IXth Legion''', the early records of the Legion show a noted absence in many of the key conquests of the [[Unification Wars]]. Instead, the Legion acted as the [[Emperor of Mankind|Emperor's]] inferno, ravaging and annihilating any foe they were unleashed upon. Few in number, they often served as vanguards and waging battles in small and audacious raids focusing on murderous close-combat. They were often deployed to the most dangerous warzones against the most twisted of foes, holding the line alone and out of the spotlight. This was a role fitting for them, as the early IXth Legion recruited from the lost and dispossessed of [[Terra]]. Despite often bearing the marks of mutation they were genetically sculpted into tall and fair elegant specimens. However other dark rumors followed the Legion, which soon earned the title of the '''"Eaters of the Dead"''' due to their habit of consuming enemy corpses after a battle. As the Unification Wars transitioned into the [[Great Crusade]], the IXth Legion was deployed to hellish backwater warzones such as [[Neptune]]. On the moons of Neptune, 12,000 warriors of the IXth disappeared but nonetheless managed to endure and complete their mission. They had largely replenished their numbers taken from the barely human dregs of Neptune's tunnels. Where others may have floundered and fallen, the IXth had risen from the ashes of defeat. This process soon repeated itself again and again, with the IXth being cast into a hellish warzone only to emerge as they had before. This led to [[Malcador the Sigillite]] dubbing them the '''"Revenant Legion"'''. They often found themselves in the company of those Legion's less-favored by the lords of the Imperium, such as the [[World Eaters|War Hounds]] and [[Iron Warriors|IVth]].{{Fn|44c}}
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With each new bloody victory, the dire legends that surrounded the IXth grew and spread. They became spectres that haunted the wild places of the Great Crusade, the terrors loosed by the Emperor to clear his path across the stars. The IXth accepted this duty with a grim pride, never shirking in the mantle that they wore. Each campaign was undertaken with a quiet, brooding hunger for blood and death that was as terrifying as it was effective. They fought without mercy and paid no heed to anything other than the destruction of the enemy. Shunned and isolated from the wider Imperium, they began to descend into charnel cults and bloody rituals. Various Red Cults formed as the Legion was broken apart by the widening Crusade, and their brutality attracted censure at places such as [[Yarant]]. They began to only maintain line infantry and jump troops, in part due to the reluctance of the Imperium to supply them with more advanced weapons.{{Fn|44c}}
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Meanwhile on Baal, Sanguinius was affected by the warp, and when he was found by one of the few unmutated human tribes on Baal, he had a pair of angelic wings growing from his back. As he matured quickly, he was able to use his superhuman powers and abilities to unite the humans of Baal against the mutants and become their leader.{{Cite This}} When the [[Emperor]] found Baal in his search for the twenty Primarchs, Sanguinius immediately recognized him for who he was and knelt before him, pledging his service in 843.[[M30]]. In this, Sanguinius was one of the few Primarchs who did not challenge the Emperor upon their reunion. The Emperor then took Sanguinius and a number of his best warriors and placed him in command of the dark and brutal IXth Legion, which he would come to name the Blood Angels.{{Fn|44c}}
  
When the [[Emperor]] found Baal in his search for the twenty Primarchs, Sanguinius immediately recognized him for who he was and bent down on his knee, pledging his service. In this, Sanguinius was one of the few Primarchs who did not challenge the Emperor upon their reunion. The Emperor then took Sanguinius and a number of his best warriors and placed him in command of the Blood Angels Space Marine Legion.{{Fn|1}}
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====The Coming of Sanguinius====
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Sanguinius spent the first 3 years after his rediscovery with the [[Luna Wolves]], learning the ways of the Imperium from his brother [[Horus]]. He first met his then-savage Revenant Legion during the [[Pacification of Teghar Pentarus]], but shocked all assembled by first learning the name of each and every one of his warriors. Giving a speech before his assembled sons, Sanguinius stated that he would swear an oath to his Legion instead of the vice-versa. Sanguinius stated he hoped he could live up to leading his sons, and that he would stand with them whatever may come be it glory or damnation. He declared the IXth Legion to be scattered and broken no longer, and that they alone would conduct the coming campaign without the aid of the Luna Wolves. Sanguinius' humility roused the assembled warriors, who immediately pledged themselves to their Primarch.{{Fn|105a}}
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At Teghar Pentarus, Sanguinius gave his blood in the maelstrom of combat and came to understand the true nature of his sons after witnessing their bloodlust and hunger. Sanguinius knew that if this path would continue, one day his Legion would become monsters. Yet, he did not despair. He sought to remake the Blood Angels into a force for nobility by having each company fight alongside a [[Luna Wolves]] contingent for the next decade. Besides gaining stature in the eyes of their peers, the nobility and honor displayed by the Luna Wolves began to influence the sons of Sanguinius. Their Primarch was able to instil a sense of pride in them to replace their desire for carnage and bloodshed. At [[Anaxis XII]], the Blood Angels, Luna Wolves, and [[Imperial Fists]] under their respective Primarch's fought against a massive [[Hrud]] migration that solidified their new status and bonds with the other top Legion's of the Great Crusade. At [[Kentaurus Beta]], they learned from Sanguinius the art of bloodlessly pacifying a planet. Soon enough fury became tempered by wisdom, and Sanguinius succeeded in his quest to reforge the Blood Angels. They soon not only became noble warriors of their own rights, but also icons across the entire Imperium.{{Fn|44c}}
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[[Image:BAHeresy.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Great Crusade-era Blood Angels Marine]]
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During the later part of the [[Great Crusade]], the Blood Angels became known as being excellent shock assault troops, and formed a rivalry with the similarly assault-oriented [[World Eaters]] Legion.{{Fn|4a}} Throughout the Great Crusade, the Blood Angels became renowned for its 'wars of ultimatum'. These campaigns of open domination against non-Compliant worlds began with Sanguinius or one of his praetors affording a world one opportunity to embrace Unification or face a 'Day of Revelation', in which they would suffer the fury of the Blood Angels unleashed. Many foes confronted by the gathered Blood Angels Legion hosts were overcome with dread and awe, and capitulated without hesitation. Those who did not would see the shining countenance of the Angel Sanguinius transformed into savage fury as blinding destruction was delivered from on high.{{Fn|33}}
  
===Doctrine and Record===
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However, despite their newfound fame and nobility, the Legion continued to battle with its own demons. The bloodlust that defined the early Legion remained, and Sanguinius desperately sought to both keep it a secret and find any solution he could to elevate it.{{Fn|44c}}
During the [[Great Crusade]], the Blood Angels became known as being excellent shock assault troops, and formed a rivalry with the similarly assault-oriented [[World Eaters]] Legion.{{Fn|4a}} Throughout the Great Crusade, the Blood Angels became renowned for its 'wars of ultimatum'. These campaigns of open domination against non-Compliant worlds began with Sanguinius or one of his praetors affording a world one opportunity to embrace Unification or face a 'Day of Revelation', in which they would suffer the fury of the Blood Angels unleashed. Many foes confronted by the gathered Blood Angels Legion hosts were overcome with dread and awe, and capitulated without hesitation. Those who did not would see the shining countenance of the Angel Sanguinius transformed into savage fury as blinding destruction was delivered from on high.{{Fn|33}}
 
  
 
====Notable Battles during the Great Crusade====
 
====Notable Battles during the Great Crusade====
*[[Melchior]] Compliance
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*Conquest of [[Neptune]]{{Fn|44c}}
*[[Extermination of the Adryantis Cluster]]
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*The 2nd Siege of [[Yarant]]{{Fn|44c}}
*[[Kayvas Initiative]]
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*[[Melchior]] Compliance{{Fn|20a}}
*The destruction of [[Magc'Sithraal]] - Aided by the [[Ordo Sinister]]
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*[[Extermination of the Adryantis Cluster]]{{Fn|36}}
*'''[[War on Murder]]''' - Blood angels Marines fought on the planet named '''One-Forty-Twenty''', aka '''"Murder"''' against the arachnoid race dubbed "[[Megarachnids]]".
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*Conquest of [[Teghar Pentaurus]]{{Fn|44c}}
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*The [[Banquet of Kiy-Buran]]{{Fn|44a}}
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*The [[Burning of Anahktor]]{{Fn|44a}}
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*The [[Praxil Compliance]]
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*[[Kayvas Initiative]]{{Fn|20b}}
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*Compliance of [[Muspel]]{{Fn|66}}
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*[[Anaxis XII]] against a [[Hrud]] migration{{Fn|44c}}
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*The [[Defense of Helioret]] and destruction of the [[Craftworld]] [[Magc'Sithraal]] Aided by the [[Ordo Sinister]]{{Fn|44b}}
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*The [[Ullanor Crusade]] alongside several other Legions under [[Horus]]{{Fn|44a}}
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*'''[[War on Murder]]''' Blood angels Marines fought on the planet named '''One-Forty-Twenty''', aka '''"Murder"''' against the arachnoid race dubbed "[[Megarachnids]]"{{Fn|67}}
  
 
===The Horus Heresy===
 
===The Horus Heresy===
 
====Signus Prime====
 
====Signus Prime====
[[File:Ka'Bandha2.jpg|thumb|300px|right|'''Ka'Bandha''' Greater Daemon of Khorne{{Cite This}}]]  
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[[File:Ka'Bandha2.jpg|thumb|300px|right|'''Ka'Bandha''' Greater Daemon of Khorne{{Fn|68}}]]
 
In an attempt to divide those loyalist legions he could not sway to [[Chaos]], [[Horus]] dispatched the Blood Angels to the farthest reaches of space, where they unwittingly walked in traps of his and his masters devising. The Blood Angels mission to the [[Signus Prime|Signus Cluster]], near to the galactic core in the [[Ultima Segmentum]], was one such venture, where the system of 7 planets and 15 moons had been taken over in bloody slaughter by the [[daemon]]ic hordes of a [[Greater Daemon]] of [[Slaanesh]], [[Kyriss the Perverse]]. Thinking that they were arriving to liberate humans from their xeno-overlords, [[Sanguinius]] had no reason to suspect that his best friend, the [[Warmaster]] Horus, would betray him.{{Fn|14a}}
 
In an attempt to divide those loyalist legions he could not sway to [[Chaos]], [[Horus]] dispatched the Blood Angels to the farthest reaches of space, where they unwittingly walked in traps of his and his masters devising. The Blood Angels mission to the [[Signus Prime|Signus Cluster]], near to the galactic core in the [[Ultima Segmentum]], was one such venture, where the system of 7 planets and 15 moons had been taken over in bloody slaughter by the [[daemon]]ic hordes of a [[Greater Daemon]] of [[Slaanesh]], [[Kyriss the Perverse]]. Thinking that they were arriving to liberate humans from their xeno-overlords, [[Sanguinius]] had no reason to suspect that his best friend, the [[Warmaster]] Horus, would betray him.{{Fn|14a}}
  
 
When the Blood Angels fleet arrived in system, they were assaulted by Chaos energies, ravaging their [[Navigators]] and [[Astropaths]], killing many outright, as well sending mad panic through the Legion's ship serfs and auxiliaries; who until then had never felt the effects of Chaos. Most [[Space Marines]] were immune to its effects due to their training and iron-will, leaving those few not driven mad to restrain the crazed crew members and erect psychic baffles. The daemon conqueror of Signus, Kyriss, had time however to beam an image of itself to the Legion's [[Primarch]], challenging him to take back Slaanesh's newest conquest. At this Sanguinius gathered his senior officers and organised a counterattack against a foe they had no experience fighting, however, sure of their victory, Sanguinius declared ''This foul creature will know what it is to face my wrath. I shall strike him down, I shall be an Angel of Vengeance!''{{Fn|14b}}
 
When the Blood Angels fleet arrived in system, they were assaulted by Chaos energies, ravaging their [[Navigators]] and [[Astropaths]], killing many outright, as well sending mad panic through the Legion's ship serfs and auxiliaries; who until then had never felt the effects of Chaos. Most [[Space Marines]] were immune to its effects due to their training and iron-will, leaving those few not driven mad to restrain the crazed crew members and erect psychic baffles. The daemon conqueror of Signus, Kyriss, had time however to beam an image of itself to the Legion's [[Primarch]], challenging him to take back Slaanesh's newest conquest. At this Sanguinius gathered his senior officers and organised a counterattack against a foe they had no experience fighting, however, sure of their victory, Sanguinius declared ''This foul creature will know what it is to face my wrath. I shall strike him down, I shall be an Angel of Vengeance!''{{Fn|14b}}
  
With [[Signus Prime]] covered from pole to pole with the result of daemonic invasion, with millions lying dead in the streets or held in prison camps to await daemonic whims, with cities razed, oceans boiled away and plains burned to cinders, the Blood Angels Legion struck in a furious assault; falling from the skies to engage crazed cultists and packs of hideous daemons upon the Plains of the Damned. Sanguinius swore to personally cast Kyriss down and vanquish him, so hence made for the Cathedral of the Mark, the daemon's lair. However, outside its entrance, Sanguinius was faced with the single greatest foe who would have the greatest effect on his Legion and its descendants down the millenia; [[Ka'Bandha]], Greater Daemon and [[Bloodthirster]] of [[Khorne]].{{Fn|14b}}
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With [[Signus Prime]] covered from pole to pole with the result of daemonic invasion, with millions lying dead in the streets or held in prison camps to await daemonic whims, with cities razed, oceans boiled away and plains burned to cinders, the Blood Angels Legion struck in a furious assault; falling from the skies to engage crazed cultists and packs of hideous daemons upon the Plains of the Damned. Sanguinius swore to personally cast Kyriss down and vanquish him, so hence made for the Cathedral of the Mark, the daemon's lair. However, outside its entrance, Sanguinius was faced with the single greatest foe who would have the greatest effect on his Legion and its descendants down the millennia; [[Ka'Bandha]], Greater Daemon and [[Bloodthirster]] of [[Khorne]].{{Fn|14b}}
  
 
Confronting the Angel, the Bloodthirster spoke, attempting to sway him to Chaos, '''''Why do you fight us, so called Angel? You may be able to best me, but you cannot hope to defeat Chaos. My Lord Khorne is powerful beyond means you can measure. Your Emperor is weak and foolish, even now he hides from us. Is he afraid to fight?''''' To this Sanguinius rebuked, commanding the daemon to get out of his way, to allow him to cast down his master or be destroyed, to which Ka'Bhanda scoffed that his only master is Khorne, that he does not realise the threat which the daemons and Chaos hold for humanity and that their ally Horus has led Sanguinius here, into a trap whilst moving to lay siege against [[Terra]]. Ka'Bhanda further tempts Sanguinius once more, to join the forces of Khorne and destroy Kyriss and rule the Signus Cluster.{{Fn|14b}}
 
Confronting the Angel, the Bloodthirster spoke, attempting to sway him to Chaos, '''''Why do you fight us, so called Angel? You may be able to best me, but you cannot hope to defeat Chaos. My Lord Khorne is powerful beyond means you can measure. Your Emperor is weak and foolish, even now he hides from us. Is he afraid to fight?''''' To this Sanguinius rebuked, commanding the daemon to get out of his way, to allow him to cast down his master or be destroyed, to which Ka'Bhanda scoffed that his only master is Khorne, that he does not realise the threat which the daemons and Chaos hold for humanity and that their ally Horus has led Sanguinius here, into a trap whilst moving to lay siege against [[Terra]]. Ka'Bhanda further tempts Sanguinius once more, to join the forces of Khorne and destroy Kyriss and rule the Signus Cluster.{{Fn|14b}}
  
[[File:Fear to Tread clean.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Sanguinius and Ka'Bandha duelling in midair.]]  
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[[File:Fear to Tread clean.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Sanguinius and Ka'Bandha duelling in midair.]]
Sanguinius rejected the news that Horus is lying in bed with daemons, claiming it as lies and proclaiming that nothing could entice him to spit on his oath of loyalty to the Emperor, from which he launched himself at the daemon, whilst his finest ten companies of veterans, [[Dreadnoughts]] and [[Terminators]] charged into the horde of bloodletters, hounds and furies swarming around the Bloodthirster. Plasma fire boiled daemon blood and talons cleaved [[power armour]] and gene-enhanced bone whilst the Angel pushed against the Bloodthirster, a flurry of blows from his great sword meeting the daemons axe time and time again, yet still succeeding in driving him back. Seizing the initiative, Sanguinius stabbed Ka'Bhanda through the chest, casting a terrible wound. The daemon replied in pain and anger with a lash of his great whip which caught the Angel's legs and crushed them within its coils before being knocked to the ground be the flat of his foes axe. With the beast towering over him he taunted at it, '''''Come at me again, daemon! Feel the lick of my sword a second time if you dare!''''' to which Ka'Bhanda replied '''''I let you live this time, manling. Your legs will heal but this wound will always fester.''''' It was at this moment that the beast let loose a mighty howl and darted across the battlefield, cutting down no less that five-hundred sons of Sanguinius . The psychic backlash caused by the loss of so many of his sons cast Sanguinius into unconsciousness.{{Fn|14b}}
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Sanguinius rejected the news that Horus was lying in bed with daemons, claiming it as lies and proclaiming that nothing could entice him to spit on his oath of loyalty to the Emperor, from which he launched himself at the daemon, whilst his finest ten companies of veterans, [[Dreadnoughts]] and [[Terminators]] charged into the horde of bloodletters, hounds and furies swarming around the Bloodthirster. Plasma fire boiled daemon blood and talons cleaved [[power armour]] and gene-enhanced bone whilst the Angel pushed against the Bloodthirster, a flurry of blows from his great sword meeting the daemons axe time and time again, yet still succeeding in driving him back. Seizing the initiative, Sanguinius stabbed Ka'Bhanda through the chest, casting a terrible wound. The daemon replied in pain and anger with a lash of his great whip which caught the Angel's legs and crushed them within its coils before being knocked to the ground be the flat of his foes axe. With the beast towering over him he taunted at it, '''''Come at me again, daemon! Feel the lick of my sword a second time if you dare!''''' to which Ka'Bhanda replied '''''I let you live this time, manling. Your legs will heal but this wound will always fester.''''' It was at this moment that the beast let loose a mighty howl and darted across the battlefield, cutting down no less that five-hundred sons of Sanguinius . The psychic backlash caused by the loss of so many of his sons cast Sanguinius into unconsciousness.{{Fn|14b}}
  
 
With their progenitor cast down the Blood Angels redoubled their efforts, becoming filled with a dark berserker fury which drove them to destroy the daemon horde and cleanse all of Signus Prime. Those daemons who did not fall by their blades fled back into the [[Immaterium]] along with their overlord Kyriss. As they came to victory, their rage and fury subsided, whereupon they became aware of their victory, however they had no reason to celebrate with thousands of their brothers lying amongst the daemon dead, their Primarch cast down and the dark shadow of the rage and fury they had so recently possessed looming upon their souls. When their father awoke, his legs were already healing due to his genetic abilities as a Primarch, however nothing could be done for searing anguish he felt for the loss of his sons at the hands of Ka'Bhanda. Within a few days he could manage to walk, but the agony upon his soul would not abate and with this heavy weight, he vowed that whatever the future, whatever the cost, he would rain vengeance down upon the daemon Ka'Bhanda.{{Fn|14c}}
 
With their progenitor cast down the Blood Angels redoubled their efforts, becoming filled with a dark berserker fury which drove them to destroy the daemon horde and cleanse all of Signus Prime. Those daemons who did not fall by their blades fled back into the [[Immaterium]] along with their overlord Kyriss. As they came to victory, their rage and fury subsided, whereupon they became aware of their victory, however they had no reason to celebrate with thousands of their brothers lying amongst the daemon dead, their Primarch cast down and the dark shadow of the rage and fury they had so recently possessed looming upon their souls. When their father awoke, his legs were already healing due to his genetic abilities as a Primarch, however nothing could be done for searing anguish he felt for the loss of his sons at the hands of Ka'Bhanda. Within a few days he could manage to walk, but the agony upon his soul would not abate and with this heavy weight, he vowed that whatever the future, whatever the cost, he would rain vengeance down upon the daemon Ka'Bhanda.{{Fn|14c}}
  
It was then that the message from [[Rogal Dorn]] of the [[Imperial Fists]] was received, calling them back to Terra. The Blood Angels did not need to be informed of the severity of the situation facing them and thus they set about evacuating all personnel from Signus back to the fleet. stowing the corpses of the fallen to be buried later on the slopes of [[Mount Seraph]]. Sanguinius ordered that no trace of the Legion remain in the Signus system and that the few surviving inhabitants be transported to nearby systems. Lastly warning beacons were stationed at the warp-jump points to ward off the unwary from visiting any of the planets or moons. Signus was to be left lifeless and rotting.{{cite this}}
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It was then that the message from [[Rogal Dorn]] of the [[Imperial Fists]] was received, calling them back to Terra. The Blood Angels did not need to be informed of the severity of the situation facing them and thus they set about evacuating all personnel from Signus back to the fleet. stowing the corpses of the fallen to be buried later on the slopes of [[Mount Seraph]]. Sanguinius ordered that no trace of the Legion remain in the Signus system and that the few surviving inhabitants be transported to nearby systems. Lastly warning beacons were stationed at the warp-jump points to ward off the unwary from visiting any of the planets or moons. Signus was to be left lifeless and rotting.{{cite this}} Meanwhile, the Blood Angels' homeworld of Baal endured an extended [[Siege of Baal|Siege]] by traitor forces.{{Fn|65}}
  
 
====Imperium Secundus====
 
====Imperium Secundus====
After the battle in the Signus Cluster, the Blood Angels were able to link up with [[Ultramar]] and under the watchful eyes of [[Roboute Guilliman]] Sanguinius was eventually crowned Emperor of [[Imperium Secundus]].{{Fn|31}}  
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After the battle in the Signus Cluster, the Blood Angels were able to link up with [[Ultramar]] and under the watchful eyes of [[Roboute Guilliman]] Sanguinius was eventually crowned Emperor of [[Imperium Secundus]].{{Fn|31}}
  
 
Ultimately after a number of disasters, clashes between Guilliman, Sanguinius, and [[Lion El'Jonson]], and a vision by Sanguinius that the Emperor was alive, Imperium Secundus was abolished. The three Primarch's led their Legions in an attempt to breach the [[Ruinstorm]] and reach Terra. Through an arduous journey, they eventually reached [[Davin]], the nexus of the Ruinstorm, and [[Second Battle of Davin|engaged a vast Daemonic host]]. After the battle and the destruction of Davin, a way to Terra through the Ruinstorm was clear. However in their way stood many enemy blockades as Horus had foreseen this route. Sanguinius and the Blood Angels raced directly for Terra, as was their destiny, while Guilliman and Lion El'Jonson led the [[Ultramarines]] and [[Dark Angels]] in diversionary attacks against Horus' blockade.{{Fn|39}}
 
Ultimately after a number of disasters, clashes between Guilliman, Sanguinius, and [[Lion El'Jonson]], and a vision by Sanguinius that the Emperor was alive, Imperium Secundus was abolished. The three Primarch's led their Legions in an attempt to breach the [[Ruinstorm]] and reach Terra. Through an arduous journey, they eventually reached [[Davin]], the nexus of the Ruinstorm, and [[Second Battle of Davin|engaged a vast Daemonic host]]. After the battle and the destruction of Davin, a way to Terra through the Ruinstorm was clear. However in their way stood many enemy blockades as Horus had foreseen this route. Sanguinius and the Blood Angels raced directly for Terra, as was their destiny, while Guilliman and Lion El'Jonson led the [[Ultramarines]] and [[Dark Angels]] in diversionary attacks against Horus' blockade.{{Fn|39}}
  
====Battle of Terra====
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====Siege of Terra====
During the [[Horus Heresy]], the Blood Angels were one of the few Legions who fought alongside the Emperor during the [[Battle of Terra]]. When Horus lowered the shields of his battlebarge and the Emperor teleported aboard the ship, Sanguinius was with him.{{Cite This}}  
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During the [[Horus Heresy]], the Blood Angels were one of the few Legions who fought alongside the Emperor during the [[Battle of Terra]]. Led by Sanguinius, the Blood Angels fought with particular renown at the [[Eternity Gate]]. During the clash, Sanguinius banished first [[Ka'Bandha]] and then [[Angron]] back to the [[Warp]].{{Fn|105b}} Later, both Sanguinius and [[Raldoron]] led a Blood Angels contingent as the Emperor launched a boarding action of Horus' flagship ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]''. Separated from his sons, it was here that Sanguinius finally faced his destiny battling the traitorous Warmaster, dying in the process.{{Fn|111}}
  
The noble Primarch became separated from the Emperor and came across Horus alone. The Warmaster tried to sway Sanguinius and turn him to Chaos, but the Angel-winged warrior refused, and attacked Horus. The Daemonically strengthened Horus slew Sanguinius, as the Primarch knew he would. He had foreseen his death, and yet still engaged the Arch-Heretic, knowing he would die. This has endowed many of the Blood Angel's beliefs with a deeply mystical streak. Sanguinius' violent death left a strong psychic imprint on his Legion, since they partially share his DNA. However, this was a willing sacrifice that was made in order to buy the Emperor time and to give Him a weakness in Horus's armour, which was key in bringing about [[Horus|the traitor's defeat.]]{{Cite This}}
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The death of Sanguinius caused the [[Black Rage]] to suddenly fall upon the Blood Angels, both on the ''Vengeful Spirit'' and Terra. Bombarded by horrific visions of their fathers murder, the Blood Angels rampaged across the battlefield and butchered both loyalist and traitor alike.{{Fn|112a}} The madness eventually passed and the Emperor victorious in striking down Horus, and in the aftermath of the siege Raldoron, [[Azkaellon]], [[Nassir Amit]], and 500 other surviving Blood Angels held a funeral service for Sanguinius.{{Fn|112b}}
  
===Horus Heresy Aftermath===
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===Post-Heresy===
Towards the very end of the Heresy the Blood Angels began to suffer from the [[Black Rage]] to an extent unseen previously. The dying memories of their Primarch bombarded the psyche of Blood Angels, driving them into fits of violent rage. It fell to the [[Sanguinary Priest]]s of the Chapter to try and control those suffering from the Black Rage. Yet in the countless generations since the Heresy, genetic deterioration in the Blood Angels gene-seed have seen an increase in this flaw.{{Fn|4c}}
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After the Heresy, [[Raldoron]] became the new master of the Blood Angels as the Black Rage began to manifest regularly.{{Fn|7a}} It fell to the [[Sanguinary Priest]]s of the Chapter to try and control those suffering from the Black Rage. Yet in the countless generations since the Heresy, genetic deterioration in the Blood Angels gene-seed have seen an increase in this flaw.{{Fn|4c}}
  
 
Later, as with all other loyal Legions, the Blood Angels were forced to split into many smaller [[Chapter]]s.{{Fn|1}}
 
Later, as with all other loyal Legions, the Blood Angels were forced to split into many smaller [[Chapter]]s.{{Fn|1}}
  
===Recent History===
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===Hive Fleet Leviathan & Dark Imperium===
[[Image:BATyranids.png|thumb|right|350px|Blood Angels battle the [[Tyranids]] ]]
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*{{Main|Devastation of Baal}}
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Towards the end of the [[41st Millennium]] a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan went on a direct course for the Blood Angels homeworld, [[Baal]]. Exacerbating this already terrible threat is a massive daemon army led by the dread [[bloodthirster]] [[Ka'Bandha]], which has already struck at Ammonai, the outermost planet of the Baal system. Facing a possible war on two fronts, Commander Dante sends out a call for all Chapters descended from the Blood Angels to send forces to aid their ancestor Legion; the [[Flesh Tearers]] are the first to do so, deploying the entire Chapter for war. Ultimately all but the [[Lamenters]] do so, even the renegade [[Knights of Blood (Chapter)|Knights of Blood]].{{Fn|4g}} The Blood Angels attempted to slow the Tyranid advance during the [[Cryptus Campaign]].{{Fn|40c}}
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Following the [[Thirteenth Black Crusade]] and the resurrection of [[Roboute Guilliman]], the [[Great Rift]] divides the Imperium in two. Baal and the bulk of the Blood Angels are left stranded in the [[Dark Imperium]] and must face the Tyranids alone.{{Fn|35}} In the subsequent [[Devastation of Baal]] [[Dante]] leads a desperate defense alongside several [[Successor Chapter]]s but all seems lost until the arrival of Guilliman's [[Indomitus Crusade]]. Hive Fleet Leviathan is largely destroyed, ironically thanks to [[Daemon]]ic hordes that formed as a result of the [[Great Rift]].{{Fn|38}} In the aftermath of the battle [[Belisarius Cawl]] and the ''[[Zar-Quaesitor]]'' arrives along with thousands of new [[Primaris Space Marine]] recruits to rebuild the shattered chapter. Brother [[Corbulo]] becomes fascinated with the Primaris Marines as a potential source for a cure to the Blood Angels flaw, and follows them into battle whenever he can. Meanwhile Dante is made Regent of [[Imperium Nihilus]] by Guilliman.{{Fn|40c}} However it has since become apparent that Primaris Marines are still vulnerable to the [[Black Rage]] and Primaris too have since been placed into the [[Death Company]].{{Fn|49}}
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Baal has become a nexus within the Dark Imperium for the war effort to reclaim the region. At Baal's Skyfall Orbital Dock, Dante is gathering the [[Fleet Nihilus]].{{Fn|57b}}
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===Other Battles===
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[[Image:BATyranids.png|thumb|right|350px|Blood Angels battle the [[Tyranids]]{{Fn|69}}]]
 
'''Timeline'''
 
'''Timeline'''
*'''544.[[M32]]''' - The [[War of the Beast]]. The Blood Angels and [[Novamarines]] manage to destroy an [[Ork]] [[Attack Moon]]. Later a force under [[Captain]] [[Valefor]] arrives at [[Terra]] to aid the throneworld on the push to [[Ullanor]].{{Fn|34}}
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*'''544.[[M32]]:''' The [[War of the Beast]] The Blood Angels and [[Novamarines]] manage to destroy an [[Ork]] [[Attack Moon]]. Later a force under [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Valefor]] arrived at [[Terra]] to aid the throneworld on the push to [[Ullanor]].{{Fn|34}}
*'''344.[[M33]]''' - [[Blackstar Liberation]]
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*'''344.[[M33]]:''' [[Blackstar Liberation]]{{Fn|69a}}
*'''173.[[M35]]''' - [[Achernar Invasion]]. Blood Angels wipe out the Ork's horde that preying upon for several months on Imperial shipping. [[Achernar system]] was cleansed of Orks so thoroughly that no more greenskins were seen in this Sector for millenia after that.{{Fn|24a}}
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*'''173.[[M35]]:''' [[Achernar Invasion]] — The Blood Angels wiped out the Ork horde that had preying upon Imperial shipping for several months. The [[Achernar system]] was cleansed of Orks so thoroughly that no more greenskins were seen in this [[Sector]] for millennia afterwards.{{Fn|24a}}
*'''400.[[M35]]''' - [[Waaagh! Starsmasha]]
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*'''400.[[M35]]:''' [[Waaagh! Starsmasha]]{{Fn|69a}}
*'''237.[[M37]]''' - [[Battle of Hell's Hollow]]
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*'''732.[[M36]]:''' The [[5th Black Crusade]] — The Blood Angels mobilised to fight [[Doombreed]] in the ''[[Eclipse of Hope]]'' alongside the [[Warhawks]] and [[Venerators]]. Both of the other chapters are driven to complete extinction, while the Blood Angels lose the [[Battle Barge]], not to be seen again for 5,000 years.{{Fn|70}}
*'''811.[[M37]]''' - The [[7th Black Crusade]]. The Blood Angels chapter is nearly wiped out on [[Mackan]].
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*'''237.[[M37]]:''' [[Battle of Hell's Hollow]]{{Fn|69a}}
*'''755.[[M38]]''' '''The Siege of [[Balle Alpha]]''' - The Blood Angels arrive to save the beleaguered world from an [[Ork]] [[Waaagh!]]
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*'''811.[[M37]]:''' The [[7th Black Crusade]] — The Chapter is nearly wiped out on [[Mackan]].{{Fn|71}}
*'''???.[[M40]]''' - The [[Kallius Insurrection]]
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*'''755.[[M38]]:''' '''The Siege of [[Balle Alpha]]''' — The Blood Angels arrived to save the beleaguered world from an [[Ork]] [[Waaagh!]].{{Fn|71}}
*'''676.[[M40]]''' - [[Battle of Tytus]]
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*'''676.[[M40]]:''' [[Battle of Tytus]]{{Fn|71}}
*'''996.[[M40]]''' - Boarding of unknown [[Space Hulk]] with [[Genestealers]] - of all Chapter only 50 Blood Angels survived{{Fn|32}}
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*'''996.[[M40]]:''' [[Secoris Tragedy]] — A boarding of an unknown [[Space Hulk]] infested with [[Genestealers]] met with disaster. The entire Chapter was nearly wiped out; only 50 Blood Angels survived.{{Fn|32}}
*'''187.[[M41]]''' - [[Shadowblight Campaign]]
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*'''???.[[M40]]:''' The [[Kallius Insurrection]]{{Fn|60a}}
*'''589.[[M41]]''' - Revenging for brothers who died in 996.[[M40]] during the battle with Genestealers, over eighty members of the Blood Angel first company under the command of [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Michaelus Raphael]] boarded the [[Sin of Damnation]] space hulk and utterly destroy the aliens.
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*'''187.[[M41]]:''' [[Shadowblight Campaign]]{{Fn|69a}}
*'''742'''.[[M41]] '''First Tyrannic War''' - Dante sends 3 companies of Blood Angels to aid the [[Ultramarines]] against [[Hive Fleet]] [[Behemoth]].{{Fn|4d}}
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*'''589.[[M41]]:''' Seeking revenge for the Brothers who died in the [[Secoris Tragedy]] in 996.[[M40]] during a battle with Genestealers, over eighty members of the Blood Angels [[1st Company (Blood Angels)|First Company]] under the command of [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Michaelus Raphael]] boarded the [[Space Hulk]] ''[[Sin of Damnation]]'' and utterly destroyed the aliens.{{Fn|69a}}
*'''798'''.[[M41]] '''The Assault on Baal''' -  the Blood Angels homeworld of [[Baal]] came under attack from an [[Ork]] [[Waaagh!]] under [[Warboss]] [[Big Skorcha]]. Though two of the three invading Ork [[Space Hulk|space hulks]] are destroyed in orbit by the Blood Angels fleet and boarding parties, a third would land on the surface and disgorge thousands of Orks. The defense of the Blood Angels fortress-monastery would have fallen if not for forty-one dreadnoughts led by [[Furioso Dreadnought|Furioso]] [[Astramael]], who managed to hold off the Orks long enough for reinforcements to arrive from orbit and mop up the remaining Ork forces.{{Fn|4d}}
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*'''700s.M41:''' First Captain [[Ubaldo]] leads a force from the 1st Company to [[Gorgonum]], aiding this Forge World against the ''[[Forsaken Doom]]'', a [[Genestealer]]-infested space hulk.{{Fn|42}}{{Fn|Note 1}}
*'''823.[[M41]]''' - The [[Battle of Khartas]]
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*'''742.[[M41]]:''' [[First Tyrannic War]] — Dante sends 3 companies of Blood Angels to aid the [[Ultramarines]] against [[Hive Fleet]] [[Behemoth]].{{Fn|4d}}
*'''841.[[M41]]''' [[Battle of Omnissiah's Eye]]
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*'''798.[[M41]]:''' [[Assault on Baal]] — The Blood Angels' homeworld of [[Baal]] came under attack from the [[Ork]]s of [[Waaagh! Big Skorcha]]. Though two of the three invading Ork [[Space Hulk|space hulks]] were destroyed in orbit by the Blood Angels fleet and boarding parties, a third landed on the surface and disgorged thousands of Orks. The defences of the Blood Angels' fortress-monastery would have fallen if not for forty-one Dreadnoughts led by [[Furioso Dreadnought|Furioso]] [[Astramael]], who managed to hold off the Orks long enough for reinforcements to arrive from orbit and mop up the remaining Ork forces.{{Fn|4d}}
*'''865.[[M41]] - [[Verdeworlds Campaign]]
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*'''823.[[M41]]:''' The [[Battle of Khartas]]{{Fn|69a}}
*'''872.M41''' - [[Kasablan Campaign]]
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*'''841.[[M41]]:''' [[Battle of Omnissiah's Eye]]{{Fn|69a}}
*'''877.M41''' - [[Mel'yanneth Skywar]]
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*'''859.[[M41]]:''' [[Assault on Zoran|Assault on Ice Planet Zoran]] — The [[Alpha Legion]] incites an uprising on the frozen planet of [[Zoran]]. Captain [[Metraen]] leads elements of the 3rd and 8th Companies to crush the insurrection.{{Fn|4e}}
*'''927.M41''' - The [[Battle for Antax]]
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*'''865.[[M41]]:''' [[Verdeworlds Campaign]]{{Fn|72}}
*'''941.M41''' '''The Second Battle of Armageddon''' - As Waaagh! Ghazghkull [[Second War for Armageddon|ravages]] the hive world of [[Armageddon]], the Blood Angels, as well as their brothers from the [[Ultramarines]] and the [[Salamanders]] arrive to lend the beleaguered planet aid.  Such is Commander Dante's reputation that Tu'shan and Calgar cede overall command of the Space Marine strike force to him. The Blood Angels bear the brunt of the close-quarter fighting, eventually culminating in a massed drop-pod assault into the heart of Ghazghkull's forces that finally broke the back of the Ork army.{{Fn|4f}}
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*'''872.M41:''' [[Kasablan Campaign]]{{Fn|69a}}
*'''969.M41''' - The [[Invasion of Taladorn]]
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*'''877.M41:''' [[Mel'yanneth Skywar]]{{Fn|69a}}
*'''992.M41''' - The [[Battle of Hollonan]]
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*'''927.M41:''' The [[Battle for Antax]]{{Fn|4g}}
*'''994.[[M41]] - The [[Blackfang Crusade]]
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*'''941.M41:''' The [[Second War for Armageddon]] — As Waaagh! Ghazghkull ravages the hive world of [[Armageddon]], the Blood Angels, as well as their brothers from the [[Ultramarines]] and the [[Salamanders]] arrive to lend the beleaguered planet aid. Such was Commander Dante's reputation that Tu'shan and Calgar ceded overall command of the Space Marine strike force to him. The Blood Angels bore the brunt of the close-quarter fighting, eventually culminating in a massed drop-pod assault into the heart of Ghazghkull's forces that finally broke the back of the Ork army.{{Fn|4f}}
*'''995.[[M41]] - [[Hive Fleet Jormungandr]]
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*'''969.M41:''' The [[Invasion of Taladorn]]{{Fn|73}}
*'''998.M41''' - The [[Cryptus Campaign]] against [[Hive Fleet Leviathan]]. Commander Dante leads much of the Blood Angels and their successors against a [[Tyranid]] force that threatens [[Baal]] itself.
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*'''~900s.[[M41]]:''' The [[Arkio Insurrection]] — A civil war erputs among the Blood Angels. Eventually, [[Arkio]] is exposed as being part of a plan to tempt the chapter to [[Chaos]] and his insurrection is defeated.{{Fn|5}}
*'''999.M41''' '''The Third Battle of Armageddon''' - Despite the bulk of the Chapter being deployed against the threat of [[Hive Fleet]] [[Leviathan]], Commander Dante still deploys the 3rd Company led by Captain [[Tycho]] to Armageddon when the hive world falls under Warboss Ghazghkull's baleful attention once more.  During the [[Third War for Armageddon|ensuing conflict]], Captain Tycho succumbs to the Black Rage, finally meeting a valiant end as part of the Death Company upon the walls of Hive Tempestora.  Brother-Captain Machiavi succeeds him in command of the Company.{{Fn|4l}}{{Fn|9}}
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*'''992.[[M41]]:''' The [[Battle of Hollonan]]{{Fn|4g}}
*'''999.M41''' '''Thirteenth Black Crusade''' - The Blood Angels contribute four companies to battle against [[Abaddon the Despoiler]]'s [[13th Black Crusade]]. They are deployed to push back [[Chaos]] forces advancing on [[Agripinaa]] and seek out their leader. Discovering it to be the notorious [[World Eater]] [[Champion of Chaos|Champion]] [[Kossolax]], the Blood Angels the Champion of [[Khorne]] and his bodyguards in combat. Kossolax eventually summons [[Daemon]]s for aid, including a [[Bloodthirster]], after sacrificing thousands of Agripinaa's citizens. However thanks to the [[Sanguinary Priest]] [[Numitor]] and the [[Black Rage]]-berserk [[Death Company]], the Bloodthirster and Kossolax were both defeated at great cost to the Blood Angels involved.{{Fn|19}} In addition, [[Astorath]] and other Captains commanded the defense of the [[Diamor System]] in the [[Diamor Campaign]].
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*'''994.[[M41]]:''' The [[Blackfang Crusade]]{{Fn|69a}}
*'''999.M41''' '''The Darkest Hour''' - a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan is on a direct course for the Blood Angels homeworld, [[Baal]].  Exacerbating this already terrible threat is a massive daemon army led by the dread [[bloodthirster]] [[Ka'Bandha]], which has already struck at Ammonai, the outermost planet of the Baal system. Facing a possible war on two fronts, Commander Dante sends out a call for all Chapters descended from the Blood Angels to send forces to aid their ancestor Legion; the [[Flesh Tearers]] are the first to do so, deploying the entire Chapter for war. Ultimately all but the [[Lamenters]] do so, even the renegade [[Knights of Blood (Chapter)|Knights of Blood]].{{Fn|4g}}
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*'''995.[[M41]]:''' [[Hive Fleet Jormungandr]]{{Fn|69a}}
*'''~999.M41''' - Following the [[Thirteenth Black Crusade]] and the resurrection of [[Roboute Guilliman]], the [[Great Rift]] divides the Imperium in two. Baal and the bulk of the Blood Angels are left stranded in the [[Dark Imperium]] and must face the Tyranids alone.{{Fn|35}} In the subsequent [[Devastation of Baal]] [[Dante]] leads a desperate defense alongside several [[Successor Chapter]]s but all seems lost until the arrival of Guilliman's [[Indomitus Crusade]]. Hive Fleet Leviathan is largely destroyed, ironically thanks to [[Daemon]]ic hordes that formed as a result of the [[Great Rift]].{{Fn|38}}
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*'''998.M41:''' The [[Cryptus Campaign]] — Commander Dante leads much of the Blood Angels and their successors against the [[Tyranid]]s of [[Hive Fleet Leviathan]], which have massed in such force that [[Baal]] itself is threatened.{{Fn|36b}}
*'''???.[[M42]]''' - The [[Relief of Lastransa]]
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*'''999.M41:''' The [[Third War for Armageddon]] — Despite the bulk of the Chapter being deployed against the threat of [[Hive Fleet Leviathan]], Commander Dante still deploys the 3rd Company led by Captain [[Tycho]] to Armageddon when the hive world falls under Warboss Ghazghkull's baleful attention once more. During the [[Third War for Armageddon|ensuing conflict]], Captain Tycho succumbs to the Black Rage, finally meeting a valiant end as part of the Death Company upon the walls of [[Hive Tempestora]]. Brother-Captain [[Machiavi]] succeeds him in command of the Company.{{Fn|4l}}{{Fn|9}}
*'''???.[[M42]]''' - The [[Battle of Dhormet]]
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*'''999.M41:''' [[Thirteenth Black Crusade]] — The Blood Angels contribute four companies to battle against [[Abaddon the Despoiler]]'s 13th Black Crusade. They are deployed to push back [[Chaos]] forces advancing on [[Agripinaa]] and seek out their leader. Discovering it to be the notorious [[World Eater]] [[Champion of Chaos|Champion]] [[Kossolax]], the Blood Angels engage the Champion of [[Khorne]] and his bodyguards in combat. Kossolax eventually summons [[Daemon]]s for aid, including a [[Bloodthirster]], after sacrificing thousands of Agripinaa's citizens. However thanks to the [[Sanguinary Priest]] [[Numitor (Blood Angels)|Numitor]] and the [[Black Rage]]-berserk [[Death Company]], the Bloodthirster and Kossolax were both defeated at great cost to the Blood Angels involved.{{Fn|19}} In addition, [[Astorath]] and other Captains commanded the defence of the [[Diamor System]] in the [[Diamor Campaign]].{{Fn|36b}}
*'''???.[[M42]]''' - The [[Red Scar Campaign]]
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' The [[Relief of Lastransa]]{{Fn|40c}}
*'''???.[[M42]]''' - The [[Khovan Incident]]
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' The [[Battle of Dhormet]]{{Fn|40c}}
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' The [[Red Scar Campaign]]{{Fn|40c}}
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' The [[Angel's Halo]] campaign against the remnants of [[Hive Fleet Leviathan]]{{Fn|50}}
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' The [[Khovan Incident]]{{Fn|40c}}
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' Battle on [[Vonnegatu]] against [[Dark Eldar]]{{Fn|57}}
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' Battle on [[Dekidua]] against [[Necrons]] alongside the [[Dark Angels]]{{Fn|56b}}
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' Battle of [[Ankerin]] against the [[Word Bearers]]{{Fn|56a}}
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' Battle on [[Varaktus]] against [[Eldar]]{{Fn|57}}
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' Battle on [[Krestis]] against [[Harlequins]]{{Fn|57}}
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' Battle on [[Kelestia XIX]] against [[Daemons]]{{Fn|57d}}
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' The [[Battle of Idolatros]] during the [[Arks of Omen Campaign]]. [[Dante]] leads a massive Blood Angels force alongside the [[Imperial Navy]] to relieve the [[Unforgiven]] under [[Azrael]] from the forces of [[Chaos]]. During the battle, Dante is badly wounded by [[Angron]].{{Fn|108}}
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*'''???.[[M42]]:''' The [[Fourth Tyrannic War]] including the [[Battle of Bastior]]{{Fn|110}}
  
 
'''Undated'''
 
'''Undated'''
*[[Phaedra Campaign]]
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*[[Phaedra Campaign]]{{Fn|5}}
* '''Assault on Ice Planet [[Zoran]]''' - The [[Alpha Legion]] [[Assault on Zoran|incites an uprising]] on the frozen planet of [[Zoran]]. Blood Angels Captain [[Metraen]] leads elements of the 3rd and 8th Companies to crush the insurrection.{{Fn|4e}}
 
 
*[[Alchonis Campaign]]{{Fn|28}}
 
*[[Alchonis Campaign]]{{Fn|28}}
*Battle for [[Volchis IV]]
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*Battle for [[Volchis IV]]{{Fn|74}}
 
*Battles in [[Arnax Cluster]]{{Fn|37a}}
 
*Battles in [[Arnax Cluster]]{{Fn|37a}}
 
*Battle for shrine-spires of [[Glorium]]{{Fn|37a}}
 
*Battle for shrine-spires of [[Glorium]]{{Fn|37a}}
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*Battle of [[Forlorn Falls]] against the [[Iron Warriors]]{{Fn|37e}}
 
*Battle of [[Forlorn Falls]] against the [[Iron Warriors]]{{Fn|37e}}
 
*Cleansing of the Space Hulk ''[[Solace in Sorrow]]''{{Fn|37e}}
 
*Cleansing of the Space Hulk ''[[Solace in Sorrow]]''{{Fn|37e}}
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*Battle of [[Theska II]]{{citethis}}
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*[[Siege of Pactolus]] — along with the [[Sons of Helios]] Chapter{{Fn|41}}
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*[[Assault on Bantax]]{{Fn|45b}}
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*[[Siege of Crowe's Town]] on [[Crowe's World]]{{Fn|82}}
  
[[Image:BAMarine7th.jpg|thumb|right|205px|A Blood Angel]]
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[[Image:BAMarine7th.jpg|thumb|right|205px|A Blood Angel{{Fn|69b}}]]
  
 
==Gene-seed==
 
==Gene-seed==
The gene-seed of the Blood Angels (and its successors) is still capable of producing all nineteen organ implants that facilitate the transformation of a normal man into a Space Marine.  It also has the unique quirk of vastly extending the lifespan of the Space Marines of the gene-line, and it is not unknown for a Blood Angel to live more than a millennium.  The gene-line, however, is also affected by a dreadful flaw, which makes its brethren susceptible to the '''Black Rage''' and the '''Red Thirst'''.{{Fn|4o}}
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*{{Main|Red Thirst}}
 
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*{{Main|Black Rage}}
Fortunately for the Blood Angels, the new wave of [[Primaris Space Marines]] seem able to more easily resist the Red Thirst, while showing no signs of the Black Rage at all. However the Primaris Marines may not be as resistant to The Flaw as once thought, as evidenced by the [[Khovan Incident]].{{Fn|40a}}
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The sons of Sanguinius are known to have handsome and noble features, mimicking that of their Primarch.{{Fn|55b}} They also have retractable fangs that are dubbed the '''Angel's Teeth'''.{{Fn|55e}}
 
 
===Black Rage===
 
All of the Chapters derived from the Blood Angels still suffer from the psychic imprint left by Sanguinius's death.  This can cause them to go insane prior to or during a battle, and they believe that they are Sanguinius himself during the Battle of Terra.  The condition is irrevocable (except for one case, [[Chaplain]] [[Lemartes]], who is largely able to control it), and victims are locked away in the "[[Tower of the Lost]]" on the Blood Angels' homeworld until they finally die.  This insanity is known as the '''Black Rage'''.{{Fn|1}}
 
  
When a Space Marine is overcome by the Black Rage he is reborn in a world of anger, hatred, fury and nothing else. As well as Sanguinius’s memories, the Blood Angel is touched with a small portion of his unearthly power, boosting his strength and vitality to superhuman levels.{{Fn|1}}
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===The Flaw===
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The Blood Angels and all their successors suffer from a psychological need to drink human blood. They call this "the [[Red Thirst]]". They have no real nutritional need for blood, but when they abstain from drinking it for a long time, they grow weaker and even age. Chapter Master [[Dante]] abstained from drinking blood for centuries, and he eventually developed wrinkled skin and white hair like on old man and likewise felt psychologically worn out. When Baal was attacked by Tyranids in 999.M41, Dante was too emotionally and physically exhausted to lead the defence, but then he drank the blood of one of his servants, killing the servant in the process, and he was rejuvenated both physically and mentally. On the other hand, if a Blood Angel does not resist the Red Thirst at all, he will eventually mutate into a monstrous form with fangs and a bat-like face, and walk on all fours like a gorilla.{{Fn|55}}
  
Rather than face a slow, insane death, Blood Angels will form those who have newly succumbed to the Black Rage into a special unit known as the ''[[Death Company]]''. They paint their armour black, daubed with red crosses, signifying the wounds of Sanguinius, and are usually led by the few Chapter officers, notably [[Death Company Chaplains]], who are able to communicate orders to these lost warriors.  They are then sent out to perform the most dangerous assaults, hoping for a quick and honourable death in combat.{{Fn|1}}
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The Blood Angels regularly drink bottled blood which is usually donated willingly by their serfs. They often mix this blood with wine, which they call "karash". However, blood is much more satisfying when taken directly from the body of a living person. It's even better if the victim dies in the process. The [[Blood Drinkers]], a successor chapter of the Blood Angels, have a rite called the Rite of Holos wherein they start by drinking blood donated by their serfs but end with eating a prisoner alive. The death of that one prisoner is more satisfying than blood from a hundred serfs. The Blood Angels themselves have occasionally lost control and attacked and killed their own allies to have their blood even when they had plenty of bottled blood on hand.{{citethis}}
  
The other name of Black Rage - the '''Flaw of Sanguinius'''.{{Fn|24d}}
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All Blood Angels and their successors may one day suffer the [[Black Rage]]. When they succumb to this, typically in the heat of battle, they think they are their Primarch Sanguinius in battle with Horus. In the Black Rage, the sufferer struggles to distinguish friend from foe. He might even attack his own brothers, something with usually doesn't happen with the Red Thirst. The Black Rage is incurable, and so difficult to manage that those who succumb are relegated to either the Tower of the Lost on Baal or transferred to the Death Company.  In the Death Company, they seek to find a quick honourable death on the field of battle.{{citethis}}
  
===Red Thirst===
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The origins of the Red Thirst and Black Rage is hotly debated by the Blood Angels and their successors. Some blame the process of [[Insanguination]], others in deep rooted Chaos corruption in Sanguinius as he was transported to Baal. The [[Mechanicum]] has observed that Blood Angels have an overactive [[Omophagea]], and this combined with their blood rituals may have caused them to become more strongly effected by past memories than others. Others discuss the impact of [[Baal Secundus]]'s strange cocktail of chemical toxins and radiation, as well as past evidence of mutation among the populace.{{Fn|57e}}
The Red Thirst is one of the two genetic flaws in the [[gene-seed]] of the Blood Angels and their successor Chapters. This causes warriors to suffer an unusual bloodlust, instilling them with a thirst for the blood of their enemies. Those who succumb to the Red Thirst or '''Black Rage''' are either formed into the Death Company or locked away in the Tower of the Lost on Baal, until they change completely, going insane. These traits have also been passed on to their successor chapters, such as the [[Flesh Tearers]], [[Blood Drinkers]], and [[Angels Sanguine]]. One successor chapter, the [[Lamenters]], was until recently thought to have managed by unknown means to eliminate the flaws from Sanguinius' gene-seed, but has been stricken by extraordinary bad luck in battle and as such has been nearly annihilated.{{Fn|4p}} The Red Thirst is so overwhelming that the Blood Angels forget their noble heritage and completely lose control over themselves. It is not unheard of that Blood Angels squads abandon advantageous positions to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. More often than not, these assaults turn out to be so devastating that unprepared enemy forces are simply swept away.{{cite this}}
 
  
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The Blood Angels consider the Red Thirst to be shameful and keep it a secret from the rest of the Imperium, although by the end of the 41st millennium it has become an open secret, with many Imperials including [[Roboute Guilliman]] being aware of it.{{Fn|54}} The Black Rage is also something of an open secret, though outsiders cannot distinguish it from the Red Thirst. The Blood Angels stave off the Red Thirst and Black Rage in part by practicing fine art as a hobby, such as painting or sculpting. Somehow this has a soothing effect on the inhuman beast inside all of them. The successor chapter [[Angels Penitent]] used to do the same but gave it up, and since then they suffer the Red Thirst and Black Rage at a much increased rate.{{citethis}}
  
The Red Thirst was a genetic flaw deeply embedded into the Blood Angels [[Gene-Seed]]. When [[Sanguinius]] became aware of it, he felt responsible for the suffering of his sons and desperately sought out a cure while keeping it secret from the rest of the Imperium, including the Emperor himself. While isolated instances of Battle-Brothers succumbing to the Red Thirst occurred throughout the [[Great Crusade]], it was not until the [[Battle of Signus Prime]] that the entire Legion suffered from it.{{Fn|20}}
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The Red Thirst has been with the Blood Angels since before the Horus Heresy and even Sanguinius suffered from it, albeit in a mild form.{{Fn|20}} The Black Rage has been with the Blood Angels since the death of Sanguinius. The Primaris line of Blood Angels are more resistant to both the Red Thirst and the Black Rage, though not immune, so the Blood Angels must still have a Death Company.{{Fn|49}} When he created the Primaris Blood Angels, [[Belisarius Cawl]] decided that the Emperor deliberately gave the Blood Angels the Red Thirst for whatever reason, and so did not try to remove it completely.{{Fn|54}}
  
 
===Exsanguinator===
 
===Exsanguinator===
 
The [[Sanguinary Priest]] can use the Exsanguinator for medical treatment of wounded Space Marines. But more important the Exsanguinator is a tool for retrieving the gene-seed from the body of a fallen Marine and is vital for the survival of the Chapter. In the veins of every Sanguinary Priest flow a portion of Sanguinius's own blood. That adds to the spiritual significance of the Exsanguinator for the Blood Angels. Usually a Sanguinary Priest uses his influence to calm the Red Thirst of his battle brothers. These priests are the epitome of the noble character of Sanguinius's heirs. But there are some priests that aspire to use the gift of their Primarch.{{cite this}}
 
The [[Sanguinary Priest]] can use the Exsanguinator for medical treatment of wounded Space Marines. But more important the Exsanguinator is a tool for retrieving the gene-seed from the body of a fallen Marine and is vital for the survival of the Chapter. In the veins of every Sanguinary Priest flow a portion of Sanguinius's own blood. That adds to the spiritual significance of the Exsanguinator for the Blood Angels. Usually a Sanguinary Priest uses his influence to calm the Red Thirst of his battle brothers. These priests are the epitome of the noble character of Sanguinius's heirs. But there are some priests that aspire to use the gift of their Primarch.{{cite this}}
  
=== Successors ===
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===Successors===
 
The Blood Angels Legion is known to have sired at least five Second Founding Chapters, but as a Chapter they sired two more; many have come and gone in the millennia. Their successors, like them, are afflicted with the Black Rage and Red Thirst, and a sense of loss and grief for their fallen primarch and have visions of his death. Although some chapters suffer from it more than others, the Successors that were founded in later centuries are more harshly affected by the flaw. Some founding’s teeter on the border of full-blown insanity, causing them to be on the verge of destruction, even though the Chapter council thought the flaw was eradicated from the gene-stocks for a while. Due to this the Space Marines of the most recent foundings can lapse into psychosis with the slightest provocation. The Blood Angels and their successors share a special bond due to the death of their Primarch being a very real memory that threatens them when in great stress or danger, rather than being a myth of legend unlike other chapters, due to this bond an attack on a chapter is considered an attack on all Sons of Sanguinus.{{Fn|4l}}{{Fn|16}}
 
The Blood Angels Legion is known to have sired at least five Second Founding Chapters, but as a Chapter they sired two more; many have come and gone in the millennia. Their successors, like them, are afflicted with the Black Rage and Red Thirst, and a sense of loss and grief for their fallen primarch and have visions of his death. Although some chapters suffer from it more than others, the Successors that were founded in later centuries are more harshly affected by the flaw. Some founding’s teeter on the border of full-blown insanity, causing them to be on the verge of destruction, even though the Chapter council thought the flaw was eradicated from the gene-stocks for a while. Due to this the Space Marines of the most recent foundings can lapse into psychosis with the slightest provocation. The Blood Angels and their successors share a special bond due to the death of their Primarch being a very real memory that threatens them when in great stress or danger, rather than being a myth of legend unlike other chapters, due to this bond an attack on a chapter is considered an attack on all Sons of Sanguinus.{{Fn|4l}}{{Fn|16}}
[[ImagE:BAArt8th.jpg|thumb|right|The Blood Angels battle [[Chaos]] ]]
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[[ImagE:BAArt8th.jpg|thumb|right|The Blood Angels battle [[Chaos]]{{Fn|40f}}]]
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The Blood Angels maintain close ties with their Successor Chapters, particularly after the [[Devastation of Baal]]. Great Conclaves of the [[Sanguinary Brotherhood]] are held to decide certain actions of Successor Chapters.{{Fn|57a}}
  
 
==Culture==
 
==Culture==
Sanguinius did much to establish the culture and beliefs of the Chapter. There is a mystical streak in many of the Blood Angels and a strong belief that things can be changed for the better. This belief can be seen in everything they do: they strive for perfection be it in their works or art, martial discipline, or military doctrine. Due to their extended lifespans, Blood Angels have time to perfect their techniques in art as well as war.{{Fn|1a}}
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Sanguinius did much to establish the culture and beliefs of the Chapter. He transformed the Blood Angels from an army of killers into a Legion of noble warriors that were also well-versed in art and poetry.{{Fn|44c}} There is a mystical streak in many of the Blood Angels and a strong belief that things can be changed for the better. This belief can be seen in everything they do: they strive for perfection be it in their works or art, martial discipline, or military doctrine. Due to their extended lifespans, Blood Angels have time to perfect their techniques in art as well as war.{{Fn|1a}} Today the Blood Angels are known for both their savage and grace. They seek to maintain ten defining commandments that they feel best exemplifies their Chapters soul. Through meditation, they maintain the Five Angelic Graces of Honour, Humility, Mercy, Restraint, and Forgiveness. In opposition to these are the five Warrior Virtues of Strength, Savagery, Abandon, Rage, and Detachment. Thus are the Blood Angels frenzied killers one moment while becoming stoic monks who appreciate arts and music the next.{{Fn|109}}
  
 
Blood Angels also have a habit of sleeping whenever possible in the sarcophagi used to create them. They apparently believe that it is in this slumber that they are one step closer to Sanguinius and seek to gain insight into the psyche of their forefather.{{Fn|1a}}
 
Blood Angels also have a habit of sleeping whenever possible in the sarcophagi used to create them. They apparently believe that it is in this slumber that they are one step closer to Sanguinius and seek to gain insight into the psyche of their forefather.{{Fn|1a}}
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The Blood Angels will spare no effort to attain the material needed to create the [[Chapter]]'s art and have even fought wars to obtain them. This includes [[Bloodstone (Material)|Bloodstone]] gems, from the deep caves of the '''Cruor Mountain''' on [[Baal]] and the larvae of the [[Spinewyrm]] fauna. Bloodthirsty sand clams are also needed, as the white pigment used to paint the Chapter's angel wings, can only be obtained by crushing clams' shells.{{Fn|57c}}
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==Tactics==
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The Blood Angels are for the most part a [[Codex Chapter]], though formations such as the [[Death Company]] defy the edicts of [[Roboute Guilliman]]. In battle, they are known to favour [[Jumpack]]-equipped Infantry, close combat, and direct assault. The infamous Gunship and [[Drop Pod]]-borne planetary assaults of the Blood Angels are both beautiful and savage to behold. They depart as quickly as they strike, rarely staying behind to oversee a worlds reconstruction and administration unlike the likes of the [[Imperial Fists]].{{Fn|109}}
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Despite their melee-emphasized method of war, the Blood Angels maintain a larger then average pool of armored vehicles, including some of unique Design. Most notable of these is the [[Baal Predator]].{{Fn|109}}
  
 
==Organisation==
 
==Organisation==
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===Legion Organization===
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During the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, the Blood Angels were a [[Space Marine Legion]] numbering roughly 120,000 warriors. Sanguinius created three Spheres to encompass his hosts, each with its own chamber that would give order and purpose to the Legion. Three hundred standard combat [[Space Marine Company|Companies]] formed the outermost sphere, known as the '''Malak''', which followed the strict guidelines of the [[Principia Belicosa]]. The Second "middle" Sphere was composed of the officers of the Legion who served as strategic advisers to the Primarch as well as the principle planners of any Legion operation. The innermost or First Sphere were known as the '''Immortals'''. These warriors stood within the inner circle of Sanguinius as well as specialist warrior chambers. Warriors of the First Sphere were the most accomplished of the Legion and were assigned the most difficult and dangerous missions. Formations of the First Sphere [[Sanguinary Guard]], [[Crimson Paladin]]s, [[Burning Eyes]], and [[Angel's Tears]].{{Fn|44c}}
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===Chapter Organization===
 
===Chapter Organization===
As adheraents of the [[Codex Astartes]], the Blood Angels divide their battle brothers among the chapter into [[company|Companies]]. There are 10 companies in the Blood Angels and each one is led by a [[Space Marine Captain|captain]] who is guarded by elite veterans known as the [[Space Marine Honour Guard Squad|Honour Guard]].{{Fn|3}} The only exceptions to the Codex structure allowed by the Blood Angels and its Succesors are the [[Sanguinary Guard]]{{Fn|4j}} and the [[Death Company]].{{cite this}}
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Today, as adherents of the [[Codex Astartes]], the Blood Angels divide their battle brothers among the chapter into [[Space Marine Company|companies]]. There are 10 companies in the Blood Angels and each one is led by a [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] who is guarded by elite veterans known as the [[Space Marine Honour Guard Squad|Honour Guard]].{{Fn|3}} The only exceptions to the Codex structure allowed by the Blood Angels and its Successors are the [[Sanguinary Guard]]{{Fn|4j}} and the [[Death Company]].{{cite this}}
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The First Company is composed of the Chapter's [[Space Marine Veterans|Veterans]], warriors with experience forged in countless battles throughout the Imperium and trained in the use of sacred suits of [[Tactical Dreadnought Armour|Terminator Armour]], while the second to fifth are the Battle Companies who carry the weight of the Chapter's combat duties.{{Fn|4b}}
  
The First Company is composed of the Chapter's [[Veterans|Space Marine Veterans]], warriors with experience forged in countless battles throughout the Imperium and trained in the use of sacred suits of [[Tactical Dreadnought Armour|Terminator Armour]], while the second to fifth are the Battle Companies who carry the weight of the Chapter's combat duties.{{Fn|4b}}
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The subsequent companies are 'Companies of Reserve', composed of squads with the same designation who often act as support for the Battle Companies, as well as provide replacements for casualties by the line formations: the Sixth Company is made up of [[Battleline Squad]]s, while the Seventh and Eighth Companies are a made up of [[Close Support Squad]]s, and the Ninth Company has a full compliment of [[Fire Support Squad]]s.{{Fn|40b}} Finally, the Tenth Company is composed of the Chapter's [[Space Marine Scout|scouts]], aspirants who have not yet earned their place as full-fledged Marines of the Chapter.{{cite this}} They also have recently come to include [[Vanguard Space Marine]] troops.{{Fn|40b}}
  
The subsequent companies are 'Companies of Reserve', composed of squads with the same designation who often act as support for the Battle Companies, as well as provide replacements for casualties by the line formations: the Sixth and Seventh Companies are composed entirely of Tactical Marines, while the Eight Company is a made up of [[Assault Squad|Assault]], [[Reiver]], or [[Inceptor]]s, and the Ninth Company has a full complement of [[Devastators]], [[Hellblaster]]s, or [[Aggressor]]s. Finally, the Tenth Company is composed of the Chapter's [[Space Marine Scout|scouts]], aspirants who have not yet earned their place as full-fledged Marines of the Chapter.{{cite this}}
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The Blood Angels Chapter has two ruling bodies, the '''Red Council''' and the '''Council of Blood'''. The latter is made up of senior [[Chaplain]]s and [[Sanguinary Priest]]s and is responsible for spiritual and physical work to constrain the [[Red Thirst]] and the [[Black Rage]]. The Red Council meanwhile consists of the chapter's most senior officers oversees all aspects of waging war and nominates a new [[Chapter Master]] when the previous one inevitably dies. As such, the Red Council is the more senior of the two bodies.{{Fn|55d}}
  
 
====Headquarters====
 
====Headquarters====
The current headquarters staff following the [[Devastation of Baal]] is as follows:{{Fn|40}}
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The current headquarters staff following the [[Devastation of Baal]] is as follows:{{Fn|40b}}
  
{|align=center border="1" cellpadding="12" cellspacing="0"
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{|align=center style="border-radius:5px" border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"
|-
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|style="background:#711; color: white" colspan=4 align=center|'''Chapter Command'''
|style="background:#711; color: white" colspan=4 align=center|'''Headquarters'''
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|-style="vertical-align:top;text-align:center;"
|-
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|rowspan=4 border="1px solid black"|[[Image:BA Chapter Banner.jpg|center|120px]]<br>Blood Angels' <br>Chapter Banner
|style="background:#565656; color: black" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[Chapter Master]]'''
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|style="background:#fff; color: black" colspan=1 valign="top"|'''[[Chapter Master]]'''
|style="background:#565656; color: black" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[Sanguinary Guard]]'''
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|style="background:#fff; color: black" colspan=1 valign="top"|'''[[Reclusiam]]'''
|style="background:#565656; color: black" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[Reclusiam]]'''
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|style="background:#fff; color: black" colspan=1 valign="top"|'''[[Sanguinary Priest|Sanguinary Priesthood]]'''
|style="background:#565656; color: black" colspan=1 align=center|'''Logisticiam'''  
 
 
|-
 
|-
|align=center|
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|[[Image:Bloodangelslogo.png|center|50px]]
*[[Dante|Commander Dante]],
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|[[Image:ReclusiamSymbol.jpg|center|50px]]
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|[[Image:ApothecarionSymbol.jpg|center|50px]]
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|-style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left"
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|
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[[Dante|Commander Dante]],<br>
 
Master of the Blood Angels
 
Master of the Blood Angels
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*[[Chapter Ancient]]
*Brother [[Daeanatos]],
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*[[Chapter Champion]]
'''[[Exalted Herald of Sanguinius]]'''
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|
*25 [[Sanguinary Guard]]s
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[[Astorath the Grim]],<br>
|align=center|
 
*[[Astorath the Grim]],
 
 
[[High Chaplain]]
 
[[High Chaplain]]
 
*15 [[Chaplains]]
 
*15 [[Chaplains]]
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*Brother [[Gallimatus]],  
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[[Corbulo]],<br>
'''Warden of the Gates'''
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[[Sanguinary High Priest]]
*489 Chapter Equirries and [[servitor]]s
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*[[Sanguinary Priests]]
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|-
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|}
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{|align=center style="border-radius:5px" border="2" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"
 
|-
 
|-
|style="background:#565656; color: black" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[Armoury]]'''
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|style="background:#fff; color:#565656" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[Librarius]] '''
|style="background:#565656; color: black" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[Apothecarion|Sanguinary Priesthood]]'''  
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|style="background:#fff; color:#565656" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[Sanguinary Guard]]'''
|style="background:#565656; color: black" colspan=1 align=center|'''Fleet Command'''  
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|style="background:#fff; color:#565656" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[Armoury]]'''
|style="background:#565656; color: black" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[Librarius]] '''
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|style="background:#fff; color:#565656" colspan=1 align=center|'''Fleet Command'''
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|style="background:#fff; color:#565656" colspan=1 align=center|'''Logisticiam'''
 
|-
 
|-
|align=center|
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|[[Image:LibrariusSymbol.jpg|center|50px]]
*Brother [[Incarael]],
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|[[Image:SangGuardSymbol.jpg|center|50px]]
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|[[Image:ArmourySymbol.jpg|center|50px]]
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|-style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;font-size:85%"
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[[Mephiston]],<br>
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[[Chief Librarian]]
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*8 [[Epistolary|Epistolaries]]
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*13 [[Codicier]]s
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*12 [[Lexicanium]]s
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*14 Acolytum
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*9 Furioso [[Librarian Dreadnought]]s
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|
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Brother [[Daeanatos]],<br>
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'''[[Exalted Herald of Sanguinius]]'''
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*25 [[Sanguinary Guard]]s
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Brother [[Incarael]],<br>
 
[[Master of the Blade]]
 
[[Master of the Blade]]
 
*39 [[Techmarine]]s
 
*39 [[Techmarine]]s
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*26 [[Predator]]s
 
*26 [[Predator]]s
 
*21 [[Baal Predator]]s
 
*21 [[Baal Predator]]s
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*39 [[Land Raider]]s
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*25 [[Repulsor]]s
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*[[Gladiator]]s
 
*10 [[Vindicator]]s
 
*10 [[Vindicator]]s
 
*10 [[Whirlwind]]s
 
*10 [[Whirlwind]]s
*39 [[Land Raider]]s
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*[[Invictor Warsuit]]s
*25 [[Repulsor]]s
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*[[Storm Speeder]]s
 
*12 [[Hunter]]s
 
*12 [[Hunter]]s
 
*9 [[Stalker]]s
 
*9 [[Stalker]]s
*51 [[Stormraven Gunship]]s
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*47 [[Stormraven Gunship]]s
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*[[Corbulo]],
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Brother [[Amadeno]],<br>
[[Sanguinary High Priest]]
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[[Keeper of the Heavengate]]<br>
*26 [[Sanguinary Priests]]
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*2 [[Battle Barge]]s (''[[Blade of Vengeance]]''
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: and ''[[Baal's Fury]]'')
*Brother [[Amadeno]],
 
[[Keeper of the Heavengate]]
 
*2 [[Battle Barge]]s (''[[Blade of Vengeance]]'' and ''[[Baal's Fury]]'')
 
 
*5 [[Strike Cruiser]]s
 
*5 [[Strike Cruiser]]s
 
*13 [[Rapid Strike vessel]]s
 
*13 [[Rapid Strike vessel]]s
 
*28 [[Thunderhawk Gunship]]s
 
*28 [[Thunderhawk Gunship]]s
 
*6 Thunderhawk Transporters
 
*6 Thunderhawk Transporters
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*[[Mephiston]],  
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*Brother [[Gallimatus]],<br>
[[Chief Librarian]].
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'''Warden of the Gates'''
*8 [[Epistolary|Epistolaries]]
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*489 Chapter Equirries and [[servitor]]s
*13 [[Codicier]]s
 
*12 [[Lexicanium]]s
 
*14 Acolytum
 
*9 Furioso Librarian Dreadnoughts
 
 
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|-
 
|}
 
|}
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====Companies====
 
====Companies====
 
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The current Companies and their Captains post-[[Devastation of Baal]] is as follows.{{Fn|40b}}
The current Companies and their Captains post-[[Devastation of Baal]] is as follows.{{Fn|40}}
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{|align=center border="1" cellpadding="12" cellspacing="0"
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
|style="background:#511; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''Veteran Company'''
 
|style="background:#511; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''Veteran Company'''
 
|style="background:#511; color: white" colspan=4 align=center|'''Battle Companies'''
 
|style="background:#511; color: white" colspan=4 align=center|'''Battle Companies'''
 
|-
 
|-
|style="background:#811; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''1st Company'''
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|style="background:#fff;" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[1st Company (Blood Angels)|1st Company]]'''
|style="background:#811; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''2nd Company'''
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|style="background:#fff;" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[2nd Company (Blood Angels)|2nd Company]]'''
|style="background:#811; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''3rd Company'''
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|style="background:#fff;" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[3rd Company (Blood Angels)|3rd Company]]'''
|style="background:#811; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''4th Company'''
+
|style="background:#fff;" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[4th Company (Blood Angels)|4th Company]]'''
|style="background:#811; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''5th Company'''
+
|style="background:#fff;" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[5th Company (Blood Angels)|5th Company]]'''
 
|-
 
|-
|align=center|
+
|[[Image:BA1.jpg|center|70px]]<br>'''''"Archangels"'''''
'''''"Archangels"'''''
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|[[Image:BA2.jpg|center|70px]]<br>'''''"The Blooded"'''''
[[Image:BA1.jpg|center|70px]]
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|[[Image:BA3.jpg|center|70px]]<br>'''''"Ironhelms"'''''
<br clear=all>
+
|[[Image:BA4.jpg|center|70px]]<br>'''''"Knights of Baal"'''''
*Captain [[Karlaen]],  
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|[[Image:BA5.jpg|center|70px]]<br>'''''"Daemonbanes"'''''
 +
|-style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;font-size:85%"
 +
|
 +
Captain [[Karlaen]],<br>
 
'''''Shield of Baal'''''
 
'''''Shield of Baal'''''
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]] (including [[Athenos]])
+
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]] (including [[Athenos]]{{Fn|40e}})
*100 [[Space Marine Veteran]]s
+
*[[Company Ancient]] [[Varseus]]{{Fn|40e}}
 +
*[[Company Champion]]
 +
*[[Company Veteran]]s
 +
*100 [[Space Marine Veteran|Veteran]]s/[[Death Company]]
 
*10 [[Furioso Dreadnought]]s
 
*10 [[Furioso Dreadnought]]s
 
+
|
 
+
Captain [[Aphael]],<br>
|align=center|
 
'''''"The Blooded"'''''
 
[[Image:BA2.jpg|center|70px]]
 
<br clear=all>
 
*Captain [[Aphael]],
 
 
''[[Master of the Watch]]''
 
''[[Master of the Watch]]''
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
*[[Chapter Ancient]] [[Varseus]]
+
*[[Company Ancient]]  
*6 [[Tactical Squad]]/[[Intercessor Squad]]s
+
*[[Company Champion]]
*2 [[Assault Squad]]/[[Inceptor Squad]]s/[[Reiver Squad]]s
+
*[[Company Veteran]]s
*2 [[Devastator Squad]]/[[Hellblaster Squad]]/[[Aggressor Squad]]s
+
*6 [[Battleline Squad]]s
 +
*2 [[Close Support Squad]]s
 +
*2 [[Fire Support Squad]]s
 
*5 Dreadnoughts
 
*5 Dreadnoughts
|align=center|
+
|
'''''"Ironhelms"'''''
+
Captain [[Antargo]],<br>
[[Image:BA3.jpg|center|70px]]
 
<br clear=all>
 
*Captain [[Antargo]],
 
 
'''''Master of Sacrifice'''''
 
'''''Master of Sacrifice'''''
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
*6 Tactical/Intercessor Squads
+
*[[Company Ancient]]
*2 Assault/Inceptor/Reiver Squads
+
*[[Company Champion]]
*2 Devastator/Hellblaster/Aggressor Squads
+
*[[Company Veterans]]
 +
*6 Battleline Squads
 +
*2 Close Support Squads
 +
*2 Fire Support Squads
 
*5 Dreadnoughts
 
*5 Dreadnoughts
|align=center|
+
|
'''''"Knights of Baal"'''''
+
Captain [[Raphaen]],<br>
[[Image:BA4.jpg|center|70px]]
 
<br clear=all>
 
*Captain [[Raphaen]],
 
 
'''''Lord Adjudicator'''''
 
'''''Lord Adjudicator'''''
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
*6 Tactical/Intercessor Squads
+
*[[Company Ancient]]
*2 Assault/Inceptor/Reiver Squads
+
*[[Company Champion]]
*2 Devastator/Hellblaster/Aggressor Squads
+
*[[Company Veterans]]
 +
*6 Battleline Squads
 +
*2 Close Support Squads
 +
*2 Fire Support Squads
 
*3 Dreadnoughts
 
*3 Dreadnoughts
|align=center|
+
|
'''''"Daemonbanes"'''''
+
Captain [[Sendini]],<br>
[[Image:BA5.jpg|center|70px]]
 
<br clear=all>
 
*Captain [[Sendini]],
 
 
'''''Keeper of the Arsenal'''''
 
'''''Keeper of the Arsenal'''''
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
*6 Tactical/Intercessor Squads
+
*[[Company Ancient]]
*2 Assault/Inceptor/Reiver Squads
+
*[[Company Champion]]
*2 Devastator/Hellblaster/Aggressor Squads
+
*[[Company Veterans]]
 +
*6 Battleline Squads
 +
*2 Close Support Squads
 +
*2 Fire Support Squads
 
*5 Dreadnoughts
 
*5 Dreadnoughts
 
|-
 
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|style="background:#511; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''Scout Company'''
 
|style="background:#511; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''Scout Company'''
 
|-
 
|-
|style="background:#811; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''6th Company'''
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|style="background:#fff;" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[6th Company (Blood Angels)|6th Company]]'''
|style="background:#811; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''7th Company'''
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|style="background:#fff;" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[7th Company (Blood Angels)|7th Company]]'''
|style="background:#811; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''8th Company'''
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|style="background:#fff;" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[8th Company (Blood Angels)|8th Company]]'''
|style="background:#811; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''9th Company'''
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|style="background:#fff;" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[9th Company (Blood Angels)|9th Company]]'''
|style="background:#811; color: white" colspan=1 align=center|'''10th Company'''
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|style="background:#fff;" colspan=1 align=center|'''[[10th Company (Blood Angels)|10th Company]]'''
 
|-
 
|-
|align=center|
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|[[Image:BA6.jpg|center|70px]]<br>'''''"Eternals"'''''
'''''"Eternals"'''''
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|[[Image:BA7.jpg|center|70px]]<br>'''''"Unconquerables"'''''
[[Image:BA6.jpg|center|70px]]
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|[[Image:BA8.jpg|center|70px]]<br>'''''"Bloodblades"'''''
<br clear=all>
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|[[Image:BA9.jpg|center|70px]]<br>'''''"Sunderers"'''''
*Captain [[Tybahlt]],  
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|[[Image:BA10th.jpg|center|70px]]<br>'''''"Redeemers"'''''
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|-style="vertical-align:top;text-align:left;font-size:85%"
 +
|
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Captain [[Tybahlt]],<br>
 
'''''Caller of the Fires'''''
 
'''''Caller of the Fires'''''
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
*10 Tactical/Intercessor Squads
+
*[[Company Ancient]]
 +
*[[Company Champion]]
 +
*[[Company Veterans]]
 +
*10 Battleline Squads
 
*6 Dreadnoughts
 
*6 Dreadnoughts
|align=center|
+
|
'''''"Unconquerables"'''''
+
Captain [[Phaeton (Blood Angels)|Phaeton]],<br>
[[Image:BA7.jpg|center|70px]]
 
<br clear=all>
 
*Captain [[Phaeton (Blood Angels)|Phaeton]],  
 
 
''[[Master of the Marches]]''
 
''[[Master of the Marches]]''
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
*10 Tactical/Intercessor Squads
+
*[[Company Ancient]]
 +
*[[Company Champion]]
 +
*[[Company Veterans]]
 +
*10 Close Support Squads
 
*4 Dreadnoughts
 
*4 Dreadnoughts
|align=center|
+
|
'''''"Bloodblades"'''''
+
Captain [[Matarno]],<br>
[[Image:BA8.jpg|center|70px]]
 
<br clear=all>
 
*Captain [[Matarno]], 
 
 
'''''Lord of Skyfall'''''
 
'''''Lord of Skyfall'''''
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
*10 Assault/Inceptor/Reiver Squads
+
*[[Company Ancient]]
 +
*[[Company Champion]]
 +
*[[Company Veterans]]
 +
*10 Close Support Squads
 
*2 Dreadnoughts
 
*2 Dreadnoughts
|align=center|
+
|
'''''"Sunderers"'''''
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Captain [[Latarnes]],<br>
[[Image:BA9.jpg|center|70px]]
 
<br clear=all>
 
*Captain [[Latarnes]],
 
 
'''''Master of Sieges'''''
 
'''''Master of Sieges'''''
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
*10 Devastator/Hellblaster/Aggressor Squads
+
*[[Company Ancient]]
 +
*[[Company Champion]]
 +
*[[Company Veterans]]
 +
*10 Fire Support Squads
 
*5 Dreadnoughts
 
*5 Dreadnoughts
|align=center|
+
|
[[Image:BA10th.jpg|center|70px]]
+
Captain [[Borgio]],<br>
'''''"Redeemers"'''''
 
*Captain [[Borgio]],  
 
 
''[[Master of the Recruits]]''
 
''[[Master of the Recruits]]''
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
 
*2 [[Space Marine Lieutenant|Lieutenants]]
 +
*[[Company Ancient]]
 +
*[[Company Champion]]
 +
*[[Company Veterans]]
 
*10 [[Scout Squad]]s
 
*10 [[Scout Squad]]s
 +
*100 [[Vanguard Space Marine]]s
 
*457 unassigned Neophytes
 
*457 unassigned Neophytes
 
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=====Company Disposition=====
 
=====Company Disposition=====
[[Image:Blood Angels helmets.jpg|thumb|350px|Markings denoting Tactical Sergeant, Assault, Devastator, and Veteran marines.]]
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[[Image:Blood Angels helmets.jpg|thumb|350px|Markings denoting Tactical Sergeant, Assault, Devastator, and Veteran marines{{Fn|4m}}]]
[[Image:Blood Angels squad.jpg|thumb|350px|Squad markings, typically displayed on the right kneepad.]]
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[[Image:Blood Angels squad.jpg|thumb|350px|Squad markings, typically displayed on the right kneepad{{Fn|3a}}]]
 
Each company is divided into 10 squads. Squads are led into battle by a [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] or a [[Space Marine Veteran Sergeant|Veteran Sergeant]] and consist of four to nine Battle Brothers. Each squad can be broken down into two 5 man squads called [[Combat_squad|combat squads]].{{Fn|1}}
 
Each company is divided into 10 squads. Squads are led into battle by a [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] or a [[Space Marine Veteran Sergeant|Veteran Sergeant]] and consist of four to nine Battle Brothers. Each squad can be broken down into two 5 man squads called [[Combat_squad|combat squads]].{{Fn|1}}
  
*[[Tactical Squad]]s and recently [[Intercessor Squad]]s make up the bulk of a Blood Angels army. The first six squads of the Battle Companies and the Sixth and Seventh Companies are deployed as Tactical Squads.{{Fn|1}} Tactical Squads have red helmets.{{cite this}}
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*[[Veteran Squad]]s consist of [[Sanguinary Guard]], The [[Death Company]], [[Sternguard Veteran]]s, [[Vanguard Veteran]]s, [[Veteran Intercessors]], [[Company Veterans]], and [[Terminator Squad]]s.{{Fn|40b}}
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*[[Battleline Squad]]s consist of [[Tactical Squad]]s, [[Intercessor Squad]]s, [[Heavy Intercessor]] Squads, [[Death Company]] Squads, and [[Infiltrator Squad]]s.{{Fn|40b}}
  
*[[Assault Squad]]s and recently [[Reiver Squad]]s and [[Inceptor Squad]]s. The whole First Company, if not deployed in Terminator Armour, will be used as Assault squads as well as the Seventh and Eighth squad of the Battle Companies, also the Eighth Company squads are deployed as Assault squads.{{Fn|1}} Assault Squad helmets are yellow in color.{{Fn|4m}}
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*[[Close Support Squad]]s consist of [[Assault Squad]]s, [[Assault Intercessor]] Squads, [[Inceptor Squad]]s, [[Reiver Squad]]s, and [[Incursor Squad]]s.{{Fn|40b}}
  
*[[Devastator Squad]]s and recently [[Hellblaster]] and [[Aggressor]] Squads are deployed in each Battle Company as the Ninth and Tenth squad and the Ninth Reserve Company is dedicated to Devastator squads.{{Fn|1}} Devastator Squad helmets are blue in color.{{Fn|4m}}
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*[[Fire Support Squad]]s consist of [[Devastator Squad]]s, [[Aggressor Squad]]s, [[Hellblaster Squad]]s, [[Eliminator Squad]]s, [[Suppressor Squad]]s, [[Eradicator Squad]]s, and [[Centurion]] Warsuits.{{Fn|40b}}
  
 
*[[Space Marine Scout|Scout Squads]] are the newly recruited [[neophyte|neophytes]] who are under the ever watchful eye of the Scout Sergeant who is one of the most experienced Space Marines in the chapter.{{Fn|1}}
 
*[[Space Marine Scout|Scout Squads]] are the newly recruited [[neophyte|neophytes]] who are under the ever watchful eye of the Scout Sergeant who is one of the most experienced Space Marines in the chapter.{{Fn|1}}
  
Unlike the other chapters of the Astartes, Blood Angels squad markings are not numerals on the shoulder pads but rather symbols worn on the right knee pad of the [[power armour]],{{Fn|1}}
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The Blood Angels show squad belonging with symbols worn on the right knee pad of the [[power armour]],{{Fn|1}}
  
 
====The Death Company====
 
====The Death Company====
[[Image:DeathCompany.jpg|thumb|350px|A Chaplain directing his Death Company.]]
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[[Image:DeathCompany.jpg|thumb|350px|A Chaplain directing his Death Company{{Fn|75}}]]
Blood Angels are unique in that deeply engrained in their gene-seed is the encoded experience of Sanguinius, and most deeply imprinted of all is the memory of his final battle with Horus. Sometimes an event or circumstance will trigger this 'race memory'. This happens only rarely, often on the eve of battle, but it is likely to be a fatal experience for the warrior whose mind is suddenly wrenched into the distant past. What has become known as the Black Rage overcomes him, the memories and consciousness of Sanguinius intrudes upon his mind, and dire events ten thousand years old flood into the present.{{cite this}}
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Blood Angels are unique in that deeply engrained in their gene-seed is the encoded experience of Sanguinius, and most deeply imprinted of all is the memory of his final battle with Horus. Sometimes an event or circumstance will trigger this 'race memory'. This happens only rarely, often on the eve of battle, but it is likely to be a fatal experience for the warrior whose mind is suddenly wrenched into the distant past. What has become known as the Black Rage overcomes him, the memories and consciousness of Sanguinius intrudes upon his mind, and dire events ten thousand years old flood into the present.{{cite this}}
  
To others a Marine overcome with the Black Rage appears half mad with fury: he is unable to distinguish past from present and does not recognise his comrades. He may believe he is Sanguinius upon the eve of his destruction, and the bloody battles of the Horus Heresy are raging all around him. As well as the memories of the Primarch, the Marine is also imbued with a small portion of Sanguinius' unearthly power, boosting the warrior's already prodigious strength and vitality to superhuman levels.{{cite this}}
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To others a Marine overcome with the Black Rage appears half mad with fury: he is unable to distinguish past from present and does not recognise his comrades. He may believe he is Sanguinius upon the eve of his destruction, and the bloody battles of the Horus Heresy are raging all around him. As well as the memories of the Primarch, the Marine is also imbued with a small portion of Sanguinius' unearthly power, boosting the warrior's already prodigious strength and vitality to superhuman levels.{{cite this}}
  
In order to keep the Black Rage in check, on the eve of battle the Blood Angels bend their thoughts to prayer and to the sacrifice of their Primarch so many centuries ago. Chaplains move from man to man, blessing each in turn and noting those amongst the brotherhood whose eyes may appear a little glazed, or whose speech is slurred or over excited. Some, almost all, overcome this ancient intrusion into their minds. All of a warrior's training is directed at controlling it, beating it down into the depths of their being. But for some the imprint of Sanguinius is too strong, the memories too loud and demanding. As the Chaplains chant the [[moripatris]], the mass of doom, the chosen ones fall into the arms of their priests, and are taken away. The afflicted are formed into a special unit called the Death Company.{{cite this}}
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In order to keep the Black Rage in check, on the eve of battle the Blood Angels bend their thoughts to prayer and to the sacrifice of their Primarch so many centuries ago. Chaplains move from man to man, blessing each in turn and noting those amongst the brotherhood whose eyes may appear a little glazed, or whose speech is slurred or over excited. Some, almost all, overcome this ancient intrusion into their minds. All of a warrior's training is directed at controlling it, beating it down into the depths of their being. But for some the imprint of Sanguinius is too strong, the memories too loud and demanding. As the Chaplains chant the [[moripatris]], the mass of doom, the chosen ones fall into the arms of their priests, and are taken away. The afflicted are formed into a special unit called the Death Company.{{cite this}}
  
Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor. The Death Company is arrayed in black armour upon which are painted red saltires, crosses of blood red which symbolise the sacrifice of Sanguinius. The company is led into battle and directed towards the foe by the Chapters Chaplains. The warriors fight with the certainty of death and are completely fearless, ignoring wounds that would fell a normal man. Should they survive the battle they will probably die of their wounds afterwards, once the frenzied slaughter is past. It is better this way, for those who do survive almost always fall victim to the Red Thirst, turning into creatures no better than wild beasts craving flesh and blood. Better by far to die cleanly and quickly in battle than to suffer such a fate.{{Fn|1}}
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Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor. The Death Company is arrayed in black armour upon which are painted red saltires, crosses of blood red which symbolise the sacrifice of Sanguinius. The company is led into battle and directed towards the foe by the Chapters Chaplains. The warriors fight with the certainty of death and are completely fearless, ignoring wounds that would fell a normal man. Should they survive the battle they will probably die of their wounds afterwards, once the frenzied slaughter is past. It is better this way, for those who do survive almost always fall victim to the Red Thirst, turning into creatures no better than wild beasts craving flesh and blood. Better by far to die cleanly and quickly in battle than to suffer such a fate.{{Fn|1}}
  
 
Even those in a [[Space Marine Dreadnought|Dreadnought]] cannot escape the grasp of the Black Rage when it strikes, turning the machine into a raging [[Death Company Dreadnought]]{{Fn|4h}}
 
Even those in a [[Space Marine Dreadnought|Dreadnought]] cannot escape the grasp of the Black Rage when it strikes, turning the machine into a raging [[Death Company Dreadnought]]{{Fn|4h}}
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====Honour Guard====
 
====Honour Guard====
 
[[Image:BLHonorGuard.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Blood Angels Honour Guard{{Fn|17}}]]
 
[[Image:BLHonorGuard.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Blood Angels Honour Guard{{Fn|17}}]]
Among the Chapter, it is customary of the mighty Blood Angels leaders to be accompanied by an Honour Guard of dedicated warriors. Its members are often distinguished individuals or the most accomplished Veteran Marines of the Chapter; warriors with full access to the armoury of the Blood Angels. As a result, the Honour Guard are normally well equipped and ably transported. Sanguinary Priests and Techmarines may be found within an Honour Guard, as can [[Standard-Bearer]]s. When operating as Honour Guard for a Company Commander, one member of the Guard may be nominated as Blood Champion.{{Fn|3}} Honour Guard wear gold helmets.{{cite this}}
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Among the Chapter, it is customary of the mighty Blood Angels leaders to be accompanied by an Honour Guard of dedicated warriors. Its members are often distinguished individuals or the most accomplished Veteran Marines of the Chapter; warriors with full access to the armoury of the Blood Angels. As a result, the Honour Guard are normally well equipped and ably transported. Sanguinary Priests and Techmarines may be found within an Honour Guard, as can [[Standard-Bearer]]s. When operating as Honour Guard for a Company Commander, one member of the Guard may be nominated as Blood Champion.{{Fn|3}} Honour Guard wear gold helmets.{{cite this}}
  
 
====The Sanguinary Guard====
 
====The Sanguinary Guard====
Even among the vaunted Veterans of the Chapter, there are warriors that stand above their brothers in might of arms and sheer skill. These are the [[Sanguinary Guard]], an order that traces its origins to the days of the [[Great Crusade]], where they served as their Primarch's personal bodyguard, and even accompanied [[Sanguinius]] when he, the [[Emperor]], and [[Rogal Dorn]] confronted [[Horus]] in the arch-traitor's battle barge. Clad in golden [[Artificer Armour]] and armed with wrist-mounted [[Angelus Bolters]], they wade into battle wielding [[Glaive Encarmine|Glaives Encarmine]], ancient power weapons of terrible power.{{Fn|4j}}
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Even among the vaunted Veterans of the Chapter, there are warriors that stand above their brothers in might of arms and sheer skill. These are the [[Sanguinary Guard]], an order that traces its origins to the days of the [[Great Crusade]], where they served as their Primarch's personal bodyguard, and even accompanied [[Sanguinius]] when he, the [[Emperor]], and [[Rogal Dorn]] confronted [[Horus]] in the arch-traitor's battle barge. Clad in golden [[Artificer Armour]] and armed with wrist-mounted [[Angelus Bolters]], they wade into battle wielding [[Glaive Encarmine|Glaives Encarmine]], ancient power weapons of terrible power.{{Fn|4j}}
  
 
All Chapters descended from the Blood Angels maintain units of Sanguinary Guard as a legacy of their parent Legion, and all follow the same color scheme except for the Angels Encarmine, whose Sanguinary Guard wear alabaster-white colored armour instead.{{Fn|4n}}
 
All Chapters descended from the Blood Angels maintain units of Sanguinary Guard as a legacy of their parent Legion, and all follow the same color scheme except for the Angels Encarmine, whose Sanguinary Guard wear alabaster-white colored armour instead.{{Fn|4n}}
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==Recruitment==
 
==Recruitment==
The Blood Angels recruit their [[Aspirant]]s from the chapter's home planet of [[Baal]] and its moons.{{Fn|1}}
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The Blood Angels recruit their [[Aspirant]]s from the chapter's home planet of [[Baal]] and its two moons.{{Fn|1}} The time of choosing is known as the ''Duplus Lunaris'', a centennial alignment of Baal and its moons. During this time, members of the Chapter visit each tribe of the Baal System to encourage participation in the selection process. The subsequent trials differ, with ritual combat being typical on [[Baal Primus]]. On [[Baal Secundus]] meanwhile they travel to  Angel's Fall (the place where Sangunius was found as an infant) must reach the Place of Challenge by journeying through a vast, hostile desert, and a series of canyons, infested with Fire Scorpions and Thirstwater. While the trial claims many, those that succeed come before the Blood Angels, who winnow out those that are genetically incompatible with their [[Gene-Seed]]. All are permitted to return home, though the most promising rejects are elevated to the status of [[Chapter Serf]]. After nine days of games at the Place of Challenge, their numbers are reduced even further. Those that remain are elevated to [[Aspirant]]. These Aspirants are then force-marched to the next Place of Challenge, where they are split into smaller units. Any aspirant who fails at this point is doomed to never leave the facility, and will either die in the trials or remain there as guards.{{Fn|109}}
The contests are held every generation at Angel's Fall (the place where Sangunius was found as an infant) Aspirants (all from the pureblood tribes) must reach the Place of Challenge by journeying through a vast, hostile desert, and a series of canyons, infested with Fire Scorpions and Thirstwater. These perils claim many youths; however, enough reach the place of Challenge to hold gladiatorial contests, which rival in scale the [[Ultramar]]'s. Once the fifty victors are chosen, they are taken in the [[Thunderhawk| Thunderhawks]] to the stronghold of the Blood Angels on the [[Baal]] itself. However, they haven't completed their trials yet, as they must observe a vigil for 72 hours <!-- the original text says 3 days & 3 nights. Given that the Baal's day doesn't have to be a 24-hour one, this date might be incorrect. The only reason I put it in is to write in my own words. --> without rest. Those that fail and fall asleep are taken away by the Blood-Servitors; no-one knows what happens to them. At the end of the vigil, the remaining aspirants are offered a chalice (rumoured to contain a small portion of Sangunius's own blood) by the Sanguinary Priests. After partaking it, they fall into a coma and are entombed by the Blood-Servitors inside the caskets of the Hall of the Sacrophagi. They remain there for a full year, in full care of the casket's life-support systems, while they are injected with blood of the Sanguinius. Many die, incapable of bearing the vast changes wrought upon them by the gene-seed; others wake up too early and grow insane from their dark and claustrophobic existence. The ones who completely adapt, however, become the newest additions to the chapter.{{Fn|11}}
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After all these trials, victors (often numbering less than a few score{{Fn|109}}) are finally chosen. They are taken in the [[Thunderhawk| Thunderhawks]] to the stronghold of the Blood Angels on the [[Baal]] itself, the [[Arx Angelicum]]. However, they haven't completed their trials yet, as they must observe a vigil for 72 hours <!-- the original text says 3 days & 3 nights. Given that the Baal's day doesn't have to be a 24-hour one, this date might be incorrect. The only reason I put it in is to write in my own words. --> without rest. Those that fail and fall asleep are taken away by the Blood-Servitors; no-one knows what happens to them.{{Fn|1}}
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At the end of the vigil, the remaining aspirants are offered a chalice (rumoured to contain a small portion of Sangunius's own blood) by the Sanguinary Priests. [[Insanguination|After partaking it]], they fall into a coma and are entombed by the Blood-Servitors inside the caskets of the Hall of the Sacrophagi. They remain there for a full year, in full care of the casket's life-support systems, while they are injected with blood of the Sanguinius. Many die, incapable of bearing the vast changes wrought upon them by the gene-seed; others wake up too early and grow insane from their dark and claustrophobic existence. The ones who completely adapt, however, become the newest additions to the chapter.{{Fn|11}}
  
 
==Equipment==
 
==Equipment==
*See - ''[[Space Marine Armoury]]'' for generic Space Marine weapons, vehicles and equipment
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*See ''[[Space Marine Armoury]]'' for generic Space Marine weapons, vehicles and equipment
*See - ''[[Blood Angels Armoury]]'' for Blood Angels-specific items
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*See ''[[Blood Angels Armoury]]'' for Blood Angels-specific items
  
As travel to [[Mars]] has become quite perilous since the formation of the [[Great Rift]], most new Blood Angels [[Techmarines]] are trained on the [[Forge World]] of [[Unverrdt IX]].{{Fn|40}}
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As travel to [[Mars]] has become quite perilous since the formation of the [[Great Rift]], most new Blood Angels [[Techmarines]] are trained on the [[Forge World]] of [[Unverrdt IX]].{{Fn|40b}}
  
 
==Noted Elements of the Blood Angels==
 
==Noted Elements of the Blood Angels==
 
===Relics and Artifacts===
 
===Relics and Artifacts===
 
{{main|Blood Angels Armoury}}
 
{{main|Blood Angels Armoury}}
*[[Axe Mortalis ]]
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*[[Axe Mortalis]]{{Fn|4k}}
*[[Death Mask of Sanguinius]]
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*[[Death Mask of Sanguinius]]{{Fn|76a}}
*[[Perdition Pistol]]
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*[[Perdition Pistol]]{{Fn|3b}}
*[[Red Grail]]
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*[[Red Grail]]{{Fn|4k}}
*[[Shroud of Sanguinius]]
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*[[Shroud of Sanguinius]]{{Fn|76b}}
 
*[[Spear of Telesto]]{{Fn|5}}
 
*[[Spear of Telesto]]{{Fn|5}}
  
 
===Chapter Fleet===
 
===Chapter Fleet===
The Blood Angels currently maintain a fleet composed of two [[Battle Barge|Battle Barges]], seven [[Strike Cruisers]], and sixteen Rapid Strike Vessels.{{Fn|4c}} Among its ranks are [[Azkaellon Class Frigate]]s.
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Prior to the [[Devastation of Baal]], the Blood Angels maintained a fleet composed of two [[Battle Barge|Battle Barges]], seven [[Strike Cruisers]], and sixteen Rapid Strike Vessels.{{Fn|4c}} Among its ranks are [[Azkaellon Class Frigate]]s. The Blood Angels fleet is said to be exceptionally powerful and is commanded almost entirely by members of the Chapter itself as opposed to [[Chapter Serf|Thralls]].{{Fn|109}}
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[[Image:BAPrimarisArt.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Blood Angels [[Primaris Space Marine]]{{Fn|40d}}]]
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====Known Vessels====
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{{main|Known Vessels of the Blood Angels}}
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*''[[Absolution's Ire]]'' — [[Battle Barge]] and present flagship{{Fn|108}}
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*''[[Amareo]]'' — [[Rapid Strike vessel]].{{Fn|28}}
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*''[[Angelic Blade]]'' — [[Strike Cruiser]].{{Fn|78}}
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*''[[Angelus Redemptor]]'' — [[Frigate]].{{Fn|78}}
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*''[[Baal's Fury]]'' — [[Battle Barge]].{{Fn|40b}}
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*''[[Blade of Vengeance]]'' — [[Battle Barge]].{{Fn|4c}}
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*''[[Blood of Vengeance]]'' — [[Strike Cruiser]].{{Fn|6d}}
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*''[[Bloodcaller]]'' — [[Battle Barge]].{{Fn|4c}}
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*''[[Chalice]]'' — Heavy Cruiser (Heresy-era).{{Fn|20f}}
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*''[[Covenant of Baal]]'' — Battleship (Heresy-era).{{Fn|20f}}
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*''[[The Crimson Spectre]]'' — Battle Barge (Heresy-era).
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*''[[Eclipse of Hope]]'' — [[Battle Barge]].  Lost in the [[5th Black Crusade]].{{Fn|52}}
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*''[[Eminence Sanguis]]''{{Fn|43}}
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*''[[Flame of Baal]]'' — [[Strike Cruiser]].{{Fn|78}}
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*''[[Harrowing of Faith]]'' — [[Frigate]]. Lost in the Second War for Armageddon.{{Fn|70b}}
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*''[[Halo of Blood]]'' — [[Strike Cruiser]].{{Fn|78}}
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*''[[Helios (Cruiser)|Helios]]'' — Cruiser (Heresy-era), destroyed in the [[Signus Cluster]].{{Fn|20g}}{{Fn|20h}}
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*''[[Hermia]]'' — Cruiser (Heresy-era).{{Fn|20d}}
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*''[[Ignis (Ship)|Ignis]]'' — Battleship (Heresy-era).{{Fn|20d}}{{Fn|20f}}
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*''[[Inculcator]]'' — Cruiser (Great Crusade-era), abandoned in the [[Burning of Anahktor]].{{Fn|44a}}
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*''[[Numitor (Frigate)|Numitor]]'' — [[Frigate]] (Heresy-era).{{Fn|20e}}
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*''[[Paleknight]]'' — Cruiser (Heresy-era), destroyed in the Signus Cluster.{{Fn|20h}}
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*''[[Red Tear]]'' — [[Gloriana Class Battleship]], the flagship of Sanguinius during the [[Great Crusade]] until it crashed on [[Signus Prime]].  Later recovered and repaired.{{Fn|20b}}{{Fn|20i}}
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*''[[Sanguine Tear]]'' — [[Strike Cruiser]].{{Fn|78}}
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*''[[Sanguinem Ignis]]'' — [[Strike Cruiser]].{{Fn|34}}
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*''[[Sword of Baal]]'' — [[Strike Cruiser]], assigned to the [[Indomitus Crusade]].{{Fn|47}}
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*''[[Victus]]'' — [[Battle Barge]], assigned to the 5th company under Captain Amit during the Great Crusade.{{citethis}}{{Fn|20g}}  Became the flagship of the [[Flesh Tearers]] [[Chapter]] following the [[Second Founding]].
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*''[[Wings of Baal]]'' — [[Strike Cruiser]].{{Fn|79}}
  
====Known Vessels====
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===Named Aircraft===
*''[[Amareo]]'' - [[Rapid Strike vessel]]{{Fn|28}}
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*''[[Angelsword]]'' — [[Death Company]] [[Stormraven Gunship]], took part in the [[Diamor Campaign]] on the planet [[Amethal]].{{Fn|37b}}
*''[[Angelic Blade]]'' - [[Strike Cruiser]]
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*''[[Aristarchiel]]'' - a [[Thunderhawk Gunship]]{{Fn|98}}
*''[[Angelus Redemptor]]'' - [[Frigate]]
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*''[[Blood's Eagle]]'' [[Stormbird]], destroyed in the Signus Cluster (Heresy-era).{{Fn|20g}}
*''[[Baal's Fury]]'' - [[Battle Barge]]
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*''[[Bloodthorn]]'' [[Stormraven Gunship]], in service with the 4th Company.{{Fn|52}}
*''[[Blade of Vengeance]]'' - [[Battle Barge]]{{Fn|4c}}
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*''[[Carnelian Glory]]'' — [[Thunderhawk Gunship]], took part in the [[Cryptus Campaign]].{{Fn|36b}}
*''[[Blood of Vengeance]]'' - [[Strike Cruiser]]{{Fn|6b}}
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*''[[Clarion Dawn]]'' — [[Death Company]] [[Stormraven Gunship]], took part in the [[Diamor Campaign]] on the planet [[Amethal]].{{Fn|37b}}
*''[[Bloodcaller]]'' - [[Battle Barge]]{{Fn|4c}}
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*''[[Red Doom]]'' — [[Thunderhawk Gunship]], took part in the [[Cryptus Campaign]].{{Fn|36b}}
*''[[Flame of Baal]]'' - [[Strike Cruiser]]
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*''[[Red Glory]]'' [[Death Company]] [[Stormraven]].{{Fn|4g}}
*''[[Halo of Blood]]'' - [[Strike Cruiser]]
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*''[[Reign of Vengeance]]'' — [[Thunderhawk]].{{citethis}}
*''[[Red Tear]]'' - [[Gloriana Class Battleship]]. The flagship of Sanguinius during the [[Great Crusade]] until it crashed on [[Signus Prime]]. {{Fn|20}}
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*''[[Sanguine Shadow]]'' — Gunship, took part in the [[Cryptus Campaign]].{{Fn|36b}}
*''[[Sanguine Tear]]'' - [[Strike Cruiser]]
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*''[[Sublimity of War]]'' [[Stormtalon]], took part in the invasion of Vekaira.{{Fn|70c}}
*''[[Sanguinem Ignis]]'' - [[Strike Cruiser]]{{Fn|34}}
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*''[[Wings of Deliverance]]'' — [[Thunderhawk Transporter]], took part in the [[Cryptus Campaign]].{{Fn|36b}}
*''[[Wings of Baal]]'' - [[Strike Cruiser]]
 
  
 
===Named Vehicles===
 
===Named Vehicles===
*''[[Angelsword]]'' - [[Death Company]] [[Stormraven Gunship]], took part in the [[Diamor Campaign]] on the planet [[Amethal]]{{Fn|37b}}
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*''[[Anvil of Baal]]'' [[Land Raider]], took part in the [[Cryptus Campaign]].{{Fn|36b}}
*''[[Anvil of Baal]]'' - [[Land Raider]], took part in the [[Cryptus Campaign]]{{Fn|36b}}
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*''[[Belsarius Fury]]'' [[Predator Destructor]] that took part in the [[Third War of Armageddon]]. Destroyed during the defence of Hades Five.{{Fn|6a}}
*''[[Belsarius Fury]]'' - [[Predator Destructor]] that took part in the [[Third War of Armageddon]]. Was destroyed during the defence of Hades Five.{{Fn|6a}}
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*''[[Desert Fury]]'' [[Predator]], took part in the [[Cryptus Campaign]].{{Fn|36b}}
*''[[Clarion Dawn]]'' - [[Death Company]] [[Stormraven Gunship]], took part in the [[Diamor Campaign]] on the planet [[Amethal]]{{Fn|37b}}
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*''[[Hammer of Angels]]'' [[Land Raider]], took part in the [[Cryptus Campaign]].{{Fn|36b}}
*''[[Hammer of Angels]]'' - [[Land Raider]], took part in the [[Cryptus Campaign]]{{Fn|36b}}
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*''[[Sanguine Storm]]'' [[Baal Predator]], took part in the [[Cryptus Campaign]].{{Fn|36b}}
*''[[Red Glory]]'' - [[Death Company]] [[Stormraven]]{{Fn|4g}}
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*''[[Phlegethon]]'' - [[Baal Predator]], took part in the invasion of Vekaira.{{Fn|70c}}
*''[[Reign of Vengeance]]'' - [[Thunderhawk]]
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*''[[Intemperate]]'' - [[Baal Predator]], took part in the invasion of Vekaira.{{Fn|70c}}
*''[[Sanguine Storm]]'' - [[Baal Predator]], took part in the [[Cryptus Campaign]]{{Fn|36b}}
 
  
 
===Notable Members===
 
===Notable Members===
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====Heresy Era====
 
====Heresy Era====
* [[Sanguinius]] - [[Primarch]] of the Blood Angels
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*[[Sanguinius]] [[Primarch]] of the Blood Angels{{Fn|1a}}
* [[Raldoron]] - [[First Captain]] {{Fn|20}} and Chapter Master of the Protectors,{{Fn|15}} later Chapter Master of the Blood Angels
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*[[Raldoron]] [[First Captain]] and Chapter Master of the Protectors,{{Fn|15}} later Chapter Master of the Blood Angels{{Fn|20a}}
* [[Azkaellon]] - Herald of the [[Sanguinary Guard]] during the Horus Heresy, who eventually supervised the division of the Blood Angels Legion into Chapters{{Fn|4j}}
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*[[Azkaellon]] Herald of the [[Sanguinary Guard]] during the Horus Heresy, who eventually supervised the division of the Blood Angels Legion into Chapters{{Fn|4j}}{{Fn|20a}}
* [[Dahka Berus]] - [[Warden|High Warden]] of the Blood Angels{{Fn|20}}
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*[[Dahka Berus]] [[Warden|High Warden]] of the Blood Angels{{Fn|20g}}
* [[Mkani Kano]] - Assistant [[Chapter Master]] and former [[Librarian]]
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*[[Mkani Kano]] Assistant [[Chapter Master]] and former [[Librarian]]{{Fn|20b}}
* [[Vitus Salicar]] - Captain of the 16th Company
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*[[Vitus Salicar]] Captain of the 16th Company{{Fn|80}}
* [[Thoros]] - Battle Captain {{Fn|15}}
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*[[Thoros]] Battle Captain {{Fn|15}}
* [[Nassir Amit]] - Captain of the Fifth Company, later founder and first Chapter Master of the [[Flesh Tearers]]{{Fn|20}}
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*[[Nassir Amit]] Captain of the Fifth Company, later founder and first Chapter Master of the [[Flesh Tearers]]{{Fn|20c}}
* [[Vallerus]] - [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] [[Tactical Squad]]{{cite this}}
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*[[Vallerus]] [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] [[Tactical Squad]]{{cite this}}
* [[Meros]] - [[Apothecary]] of the 9th Company under Brother Captain [[Furio]].{{Fn|20}}
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*[[Meros]] [[Apothecary]] of the 9th Company under Brother Captain [[Furio]].{{Fn|20d}}
* [[Servius]] - was later chosen to become the first [[Sanguinary Priest|Sanguinary High Priest]] of the [[Angels Sanguine]] [[Chapter]] during the [[Second Founding]].{{Fn|30}}
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*[[Servius]] was later chosen to become the first [[Sanguinary Priest|Sanguinary High Priest]] of the [[Angels Sanguine]] [[Chapter]] during the [[Second Founding]].{{Fn|30}}
* [[Yason Annellus]] - [[Warden]]
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*[[Aster Crohne]] — [[Centurion (Rank)|Centurion]]{{Fn|45c}}
* [[Arkhad]] - [[Warden]] and regent of [[Baal]]
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*[[Yason Annellus]] [[Warden]]{{Fn|20b}}
*[[Nemedeus]] - Hero of the [[Great Crusade]]
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*[[Arkhad]] [[Warden]] and regent of [[Baal]]{{Fn|44a}}
*[[Dominion Zephon]] - Member of the [[Crusader Host]]
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*[[Alcetas Castael]] —  [[Praetor (Rank)|Archein]]{{Fn|102}}
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*[[Nemedeus]] Hero of the [[Great Crusade]]{{Fn|44a}}
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*[[Barbiel]] — [[Crimson Paladin]]s commander{{Fn|45d}}
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*[[Elai Jannus]] — [[Archein]]
 +
*[[Jerick Halbeth]] — Captain{{Fn|45d}}
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*[[Khoradal Furio]] — Captain{{Fn|53b}}
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*[[Satel Aimery]]
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*[[Maulgrehn]] — Captain{{Fn|45e}}
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*[[Hanziel]] — [[Angel's Tears]] commander{{Fn|45f}}
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*[[Baeron]] — [[Battle-Brother]]{{Fn|62}}
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*[[Dominion Zephon]] Member of the [[Crusader Host]]{{Fn|81}}
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*[[Bel Sepatus]] — [[Crimson Paladin]]{{Fn|53a}}
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*[[Jophial]] — [[Leviathan Dreadnought]]{{Fn|45g}}
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*[[Hamonah]] — [[Contemptor Dreadnought]]{{Fn|45f}}
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*[[Orion (Dreadnought)|Orion]] — [[Contemptor Dreadnought]]{{Fn|105}}
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*[[Oceano]] — Dreadnought{{Fn|62}}
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*[[Ghallen Ul'zaen]] — [[Master of Signals]]{{Fn|105}}
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*[[Anzarael]] — Exarch of the [[High Host]]{{Fn|105}}
 +
*[[Galenius]] - Veteran Sergeant
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*[[Rinas Dol]]
 +
*[[Kystos Gaellon]]
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*[[Leonis Harum]]
  
 
====Post-Heresy====
 
====Post-Heresy====
* [[Dante]] - Current [[Chapter Master]] of the Blood Angels
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*[[Dante]] Current [[Chapter Master]] of the Blood Angels{{Fn|1a}}
* [[Belarius]] - First [[Chapter Master]]
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*[[Belarius]] First [[Chapter Master]]{{citethis}}
* [[Mephiston]] - Current [[Chief Librarian]] of the Blood Angels
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*[[Mephiston]] Current [[Chief Librarian]] of the Blood Angels{{Fn|51}}
* [[Corbulo]] - [[Sanguinary Priest|Sanguinary High Priest]] and [[Bearer of the Red Grail]]
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*[[Corbulo]] [[Sanguinary Priest|Sanguinary High Priest]] and [[Bearer of the Red Grail]]{{Fn|40b}}
* [[Astorath the Grim]] - High Chaplain and Redeemer of the Lost{{Fn|4i}}
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*[[Astorath the Grim]] High Chaplain and Redeemer of the Lost{{Fn|4i}}
* [[Lemartes]] - [[Chaplain]] and [[Guardian of The Lost]]
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*[[Lemartes]] [[Chaplain]] and [[Guardian of The Lost]]{{Fn|40b}}
* [[Karlaen]] - First Captain
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*[[Ubaldo]] First Captain, sometime before Karlaen.{{Fn|42}}
* [[Aphael]] - Captain, 2nd Company{{Fn|4g}}
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*[[Karlaen]] — First Captain{{Fn|40b}}
* [[Erasmus Tycho]] - Captain, 3rd Company (dec.)
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*[[Aphael]] — Captain, 2nd Company{{Fn|4g}}
* [[Thalastian Jorus]] - [[Reclusiarch]] of the [[Death Company]]
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*[[Erasmus Tycho]] Captain, 3rd Company (dec.){{Fn|4p}}
* [[Sepharam]] - ''Exalted Brother of Sanguinius'' and current leader of the [[Sanguinary Guard]]{{Fn|4c}}
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*[[Thalastian Jorus]] [[Reclusiarch]] of the [[Death Company]]{{Fn|22b}}
* [[Bellerophon]] - ''Keeper of the Heavengate'' and commander of the Blood Angels fleet{{Fn|4c}}
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*[[Sepharam]] ''Exalted Brother of Sanguinius'' and current leader of the [[Sanguinary Guard]]{{Fn|4c}}
* [[Incarael]] - ''Master of the Blade'' and senior [[Techmarine]] of the Chapter{{Fn|4c}}
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*[[Bellerophon]] ''Keeper of the Heavengate'' and commander of the Blood Angels fleet{{Fn|4c}}
* [[The Sanguinor]] - A mysterious and myth-enshrouded figure that appears to aid the Blood Angels during times of need{{Fn|4k}}
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*[[Incarael]] ''Master of the Blade'' and senior [[Techmarine]] of the Chapter{{Fn|4c}}
* [[Morleo Moriar]] - [[Death Company]] [[Furioso Dreadnought]]. Formerly a captain, fell at the Battle of [[Clamorga]]{{Fn|2}}
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*[[The Sanguinor]] A mysterious and myth-enshrouded figure that appears to aid the Blood Angels during times of need{{Fn|4k}}
* [[Rafen]] - Decorated Brother Sergeant held in high esteem by [[Mephiston]]
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*[[Morleo Moriar]] [[Death Company]] [[Furioso Dreadnought]]. Formerly a captain, fell at the Battle of [[Clamorga]]{{Fn|2}}
* [[Leonatos]] - exiled Captain and hero of the [[Bloodquest]] series
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*[[Rafen]] Decorated Brother Sergeant held in high esteem by [[Mephiston]]{{Fn|5}}
* [[Gaius (Blood Angels)|Gaius]] - Captain
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*[[Leonatos]] exiled Captain and hero of the [[Bloodquest]] series{{Fn|83}}
* [[Raneil]] - [[Reclusiarch]]
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*[[Gaius (Blood Angels)|Gaius]] Captain{{Fn|84}}
*[[Araclaes]] - Mad [[Chapter Master]]
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*[[Raneil]] [[Reclusiarch]]{{Fn|84}}
*[[Galano]] - [[Chapter Master]]
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*[[Remael]] [[Chapter Master]] circa [[M40]]{{Fn|60a}}
*[[Gaius Rhacelus]] - [[Epistolary]]
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*[[Araclaes]] — Mad [[Chapter Master]]{{Fn|55c}}
*[[Hereon]] - High Chaplain
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*[[Galano]] [[Chapter Master]]{{Fn|84}}
*[[Albinus]] - [[Sanguinary Priest]]
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*[[Gaius Rhacelus]] — [[Epistolary]]{{Fn|55a}}
* [[Valefor]] - Captain during the [[War of the Beast]]
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*[[Bephael]] [[High Chaplain]] circa [[M40]]{{Fn|60a}}
* [[Cleutin]] - [[Veteran Sergeant]] and guardian of the [[Shroud of Sanguinius]]{{Fn|10}}
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*[[Hereon]] — High Chaplain{{Fn|43}}
* [[Mordigael]] - [[Watch Commander]] and Master of Vigil of [[Watch Fortress Erioch]] in the [[Jericho Reach]] {{Fn|12}}
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*[[Albinus]] [[Sanguinary Priest]]
* [[Metraen]] - [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] who led the Blood Angels in the Assault on [[Zoran]].{{Fn|4e}}
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*[[Cafael]] - [[Master of Artistry]]
*[[Leonid Castivarus]] - [[Chapter Master]] in mid-[[M35]]
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*[[Valefor]] — Captain during the [[War of the Beast]]{{Fn|85}}
* [[Baelon]] - [[Death Company]] [[Dreadnought]]. He now serves in the strike force '''The Mourned''' which are currently fighting the [[Tau]] of the [[N'dras]] [[Tau Sept|Sept]], on the borders of the [[Damocles Gulf]]. {{Fn|26}}
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*[[Cleutin]] [[Veteran Sergeant]] and guardian of the [[Shroud of Sanguinius]]{{Fn|10}}
* '''[[Raelyn]] the Unbowed''' - Dreadnought
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*[[Mordigael]] [[Watch Commander]] and Master of Vigil of [[Watch Fortress Erioch]] in the [[Jericho Reach]] {{Fn|12}}
* [[Argastes]] - [[Chaplain]] known for his great oratory skill{{Fn|29}}
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*[[Metraen]] [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] who led the Blood Angels in the Assault on [[Zoran]].{{Fn|4e}}
* [[Daenor]] - [[Death Company]] [[Chaplain]]
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*[[Leonid Castivarus]] [[Chapter Master]] in mid-[[M35]]{{Fn|69a}}
* [[Naiulus]] - [[Death Company]] [[Chaplain]]
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*[[Baelon]] — [[Death Company]] [[Dreadnought]]. He now serves in the strike force '''The Mourned''' which are currently fighting the [[Tau]] of the [[N'dras]] [[Tau Sept|Sept]], on the borders of the [[Damocles Gulf]]. {{Fn|26}}
* [[Baphomel Khaemulabro]] - [[Codicier]] who has the ability of precognition
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*'''[[Raelyn]] the Unbowed''' Dreadnought{{Fn|78}}
* [[Simeon]] - served as the second-in-command of Captain Tycho's Company, when they were tasked with quarantining the Hive World [[Orilan]]
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*[[Argastes]] [[Chaplain]] known for his great oratory skill{{Fn|29}}
* [[Varon]] - Codicier, who was attached to the Company of Captain Tycho, when they were tasked with quarantining the Hive World '''Orilan'''
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*[[Daenor]] [[Death Company]] [[Chaplain]]{{Fn|78}}
*[[Mordran]] - [[Chaplain]] and member of the [[Deathwatch]]
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*[[Naiulus]] [[Death Company]] [[Chaplain]]{{Fn|78}}
*[[Ordamael]] - Chaplain
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*[[Baphomel Khaemulabro]] [[Codicier]] who has the ability of precognition{{Fn|86}}
*[[Daecus]] - Chaplain
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*[[Simeon]] served as the second-in-command of Captain Tycho's Company, when they were tasked with quarantining the Hive World [[Orilan]]{{Fn|87}}
*[[Spiccare]] - Sergeant of 1st Company (see also his [[Quotes Space Marines#S|quote]]){{Fn|24b}}
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*[[Varon]] Codicier, who was attached to the Company of Captain Tycho, when they were tasked with quarantining the Hive World '''Orilan'''{{Fn|87}}
*[[Gideon (Blood Angels)|Gideon]] - Veteran Sergeant
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*[[Malafael]] - Mentor of [[Dante]]{{Fn|60b}}
*[[Haevron (Blood Angels)|Haevron]] - Sergeant
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*[[Mordran]] [[Chaplain]] and member of the [[Deathwatch]]{{Fn|88}}
*[[Galatael]] - Sergeant and member of the [[Deathwatch]]
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*[[Ordamael]] — Chaplain{{Fn|55b}}
*[[Lucius Antros]] - [[Lexicanum]]
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*[[Daecus]] — Chaplain{{Fn|89}}
*[[Arteros]] - Sergeant and member of the [[Deathwatch]]
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*[[Acrion]] — Captain{{Fn|90}}
*[[Redolphio]] - [[Librarian]] during the [[War of the Beast]]
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*[[Tahariel]] Sergeant of 1st Company{{Fn|42}}
*[[Nihilus (Dreadnought)|Nihilus]] - Dreadnought and member of the [[Deathwatch]]
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*[[Spiccare]] — Sergeant of 1st Company (see also his [[Quotes Space Marines#S|quote]]){{Fn|24b}}
*[[Marest]] - [[Chief Librarian]]
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*[[Gideon (Blood Angels)|Gideon]] — Veteran Sergeant{{Fn|91}}
*[[Symio]] - Dreadnought and member of the [[Deathwatch]]
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*[[Haevron (Blood Angels)|Haevron]] — Sergeant{{Fn|92}}
*[[Varrian]] - [[Sanguinary Guard]]
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*[[Galatael]] — Sergeant and member of the [[Deathwatch]]{{Fn|93||
*[[Asmasael]] - [[Librarian]]
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*[[Lucius Antros]] [[Lexicanum]]{{Fn|55f}}
*[[Gareon]] - First Captain
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*[[Hagios]] [[Lexicanum]]{{Fn|42}}
*[[Lorenzo]] - Sergeant
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*[[Arteros]] — Sergeant and member of the [[Deathwatch]]{{Fn|94||
*[[Marcello]] - [[Epistolary]]
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*[[Redolphio]] [[Librarian]] during the [[War of the Beast]]{{Fn|85}}
*[[Lucius Antros]] - Librarian
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*[[Nihilus (Dreadnought)|Nihilus]] — Dreadnought and member of the [[Deathwatch]]{{Fn|93}}
*[[Faustus]] - [[Furioso Dreadnought]]
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*[[Marest]] [[Chief Librarian]]{{Fn|%5a}}
*[[Iscon (Dreadnought)|Iscon]] - [[Space Marine Dreadnought|Dreadnought]]
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*[[Sardanus Forell]] - Former [[Master of Sanctity|High Chaplain]]{{Fn|95}}
*[[Lucien]] - [[Death Company Dreadnought]]
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*[[Symio]] — Dreadnought and member of the [[Deathwatch]]{{Fn|8}}
*[[Amutio]] - [[Death Company Dreadnought]]
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*[[Varrian]] [[Sanguinary Guard]]{{Fn|78}}
*[[Faustis]] - [[Death Company Dreadnought]]
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*[[Asmasael]] [[Librarian]]{{Fn|78}}
*[[Rephas]] - [[Death Company Dreadnought]]
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*[[Martellos]] [[Epistolary]]{{Fn|48}}
*[[Zorael]] - [[Furioso Dreadnought]]
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*[[Gareon]] — First Captain{{Fn|96}}
*[[Zariah]] - [[Furioso Dreadnought]]
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*[[Lorenzo]] — Sergeant{{Fn|97}}
*[[Tolmeron]] - [[Primaris]] [[Lieutenant]]
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*[[Marcello]] [[Epistolary]]{{Fn|55a}}
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*[[Faustus]] [[Furioso Dreadnought]]{{Fn|6b}}
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*[[Iscon (Dreadnought)|Iscon]] [[Space Marine Dreadnought|Dreadnought]]{{Fn|6c}}
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*[[Lucien]] — [[Death Company Dreadnought]]{{Fn|78}}
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*[[Amutio]] — [[Death Company Dreadnought]]{{Fn|78}}
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*[[Faustis]] — [[Death Company Dreadnought]]{{Fn|78}}
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*[[Rephas]] — [[Death Company Dreadnought]]{{Fn|78}}
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*[[Zorael]] — [[Furioso Dreadnought]]{{Fn|78}}
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*[[Zariah]] — [[Furioso Dreadnought]]{{Fn|78}}
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*[[Tolmeron]] — [[Primaris Lieutenant]]{{Fn|9}}
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*[[ Orpheo]] — Captain{{Fn|63}}
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*[[Ancaeus]] — Sergeant{{Fn|63}}
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*[[Kazarion]] — Sergeant{{Fn|63}}
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*[[Hadrael]] — [[Techmarine]]{{Fn|63}}
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*[[Rafael]] — Chaplain{{Fn|63}}
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*[[Comus]] — Mysterious figure with angelic wings similar to Sanguinius{{Fn|59}}
  
 
====Unique Troops & Vehicles (Also used by Successor Chapters)====
 
====Unique Troops & Vehicles (Also used by Successor Chapters)====
*[[Sanguinary Priest]]
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*[[Sanguinary Priest]]{{Fn|40b}}
*[[Sanguinary Guard]]
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*[[Sanguinary Guard]]{{Fn|40b}}
*[[Death Company]] Marine
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*[[Death Company]] Marine{{Fn|40b}}
*[[Death Company Chaplain]]
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*[[Death Company Chaplain]]{{Fn|40b}}
*[[Death Company Dreadnought]]
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*[[Death Company Dreadnought]]{{Fn|40b}}
*[[Furioso Dreadnought]]
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*[[Furioso Dreadnought]]{{Fn|40b}}
*[[Librarian Dreadnought]]
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*[[Librarian Dreadnought]]{{Fn|40b}}
*[[Baal Predator]]
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*[[Baal Predator]]{{Fn|4q}}
*[[Land Raider Angel Infernus]]
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*[[Quorum Empyrric]]{{Fn|51}}
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*[[Crimson Paladin]]s (Heresy-era){{Fn|45h}}
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*[[Burning Eyes]] (Heresy-era){{Fn|45h}}
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*[[Angel's Tears]] (Heresy-era){{Fn|45h}}
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*[[High Host]] (Heresy-era){{Fn|104}}
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*[[Dawnbreaker]]s (Heresy-era){{Fn|45h}}
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*[[Contemptor-Incaendius Class Dreadnought]] (Heresy-era){{Fn|45h}}
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==Additional Resources==
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===Images===
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===Alternative colour schemes===
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==See Also==
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==Trivia==
*[[Sin of Damnation (Novella)]] by Gav Thorpe
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{{Trivia}}
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===Notes===
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*{{Endn|Note 1}}: Space Hulk: Tactics doesn't specify when the story exactly happens, it just says "closing years of the M41". Other sources can give us more information: Karlaen had been First Captain for two centuries in 999.M41, this means Ubaldo could have been First Captain until 799.M41. The main characters in the campaign already know of the [[Tyranids]]. This means the [[First Tyrannic War]] has already happened and the story is set between 742.M41 and 799.M41.
  
==Related Articles==
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==See also==
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===Related articles===
 
*[[Loyal Space Marine Chapters (List)]]
 
*[[Loyal Space Marine Chapters (List)]]
 
*[[Space Marine Forces (List)]]
 
*[[Space Marine Forces (List)]]
  
==See Also==
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===Related products===
*[[The Fury (Short Story)]], by [[James Swallow]]
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*[[Sin of Damnation (Novella)]]
 
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*[[The Fury (Short Story)]]
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==External links==
 
*[http://uk.games-workshop.com/spacemarines/blood-angels-gallery/2/ Blood Angels Gallery GW Website]
 
  
 
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*{{Endn|1}}: [[Index Astartes I]] & [[Index Astartes II]]{{cite this}}
 
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Index Astartes I]] & [[Index Astartes II]]{{cite this}}
**{{Endn|1a}}: Index Astartes II - Angels of Death, pp. 34-37
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**{{Endn|1a}}: Index Astartes II - Angels of Death, pgs. 34–37
 
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels (3rd Edition)]]{{cite this}}
 
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels (3rd Edition)]]{{cite this}}
 
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels (4th Edition)]]{{cite this}}
 
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels (4th Edition)]]{{cite this}}
*4: [[Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition)]]
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**{{Endn|3a}}: pg. 26
**{{Endn|4a}}: p. 6
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**{{Endn|3b}}: pg. 6
**{{Endn|4b}}: p. 8
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*4: [[Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition)]]:
**{{Endn|4c}}: p. 9-12
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**{{Endn|4a}}: pg. 6
**{{Endn|4d}}: p. 14
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**{{Endn|4b}}: pg. 8
**{{Endn|4e}}: p. 15
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**{{Endn|4c}}: pgs. 9–12
**{{Endn|4f}}: p. 16
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**{{Endn|4d}}: pg. 14
**{{Endn|4g}}: pp. 17-21
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**{{Endn|4e}}: pg. 15
**{{Endn|4h}}: p. 29
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**{{Endn|4f}}: pg. 16
**{{Endn|4i}}: p. 45
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**{{Endn|4g}}: pgs. 17–21
**{{Endn|4j}}: p. 50
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**{{Endn|4h}}: pg. 29
**{{Endn|4k}}: p. 51
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**{{Endn|4i}}: pg. 45
**{{Endn|4l}}: p. 54
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**{{Endn|4j}}: pg. 50
**{{Endn|4m}}: p. 71
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**{{Endn|4k}}: pg. 51-53
**{{Endn|4n}}: p. 80
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**{{Endn|4l}}: pg. 54
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**{{Endn|4m}}: pg. 71
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**{{Endn|4n}}: pg. 80
 
**{{Endn|4o}}: {{Cite This}}
 
**{{Endn|4o}}: {{Cite This}}
**{{Endn|4p}}: {{Cite This}}
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**{{Endn|4p}}: pg. 41
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**{{Endn|4q}}: pg. 36
 
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Deus Encarmine (Novel)|Deus Encarmine]], [[Deus Sanguinius (Novel)|Deus Sanguinius]] by [[James Swallow]]{{cite this}}
 
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Deus Encarmine (Novel)|Deus Encarmine]], [[Deus Sanguinius (Novel)|Deus Sanguinius]] by [[James Swallow]]{{cite this}}
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition]], pp. 109, 177
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*6: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition]]:
**{{Endn|6a}}: pg. 29
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**{{Endn|6a}}: pg. 30
**{{Endn|6b}}: pg. 187
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**{{Endn|6b}}: pg. 138
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Red Fury (Novel)]] by '''James Swallow'''{{cite this}}
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**{{Endn|6c}}: pg. 139
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Black Tide (Novel)]] by '''James Swallow'''{{cite this}}
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**{{Endn|6d}}: pg. 187
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition)]], p. 32
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*{{Endn|7}}: [[Red Fury (Novel)]] {{cite this}}
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**{{Endn|7a}}: Chapter 13
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*{{Endn|8}}: [[Black Tide (Novel)]] {{cite this}}
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*{{Endn|9}}: [[Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition)]], pg. 32
 
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Codex: Angels of Death (2nd Edition)]]{{cite this}}
 
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Codex: Angels of Death (2nd Edition)]]{{cite this}}
*{{Endn|11}}: [[White Dwarf 262 (AUS)]], pp. 104-105
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*{{Endn|11}}: [[White Dwarf 262 (AUS)]], pgs. 104–105
*{{Endn|12}}: [[Deathwatch Core Rulebook]], pp. 335-336
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*{{Endn|12}}: [[Deathwatch Core Rulebook]], pgs. 335–336
 
*{{Endn|13}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1700034a_NEW_Blood_Angels_-_Deathstorm_Strike_Force.pdf Apocalypse Datasheet] - Blood Angels Deathstorm Strike Force.pdf
 
*{{Endn|13}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1700034a_NEW_Blood_Angels_-_Deathstorm_Strike_Force.pdf Apocalypse Datasheet] - Blood Angels Deathstorm Strike Force.pdf
*14: [[Horus Heresy (Artbook Series)|Horus Heresy: Collected Visions:]]  
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*14: [[Horus Heresy (Artbook Series)|Horus Heresy: Collected Visions]]:
**{{Endn|14a}}: Volume II: Visions of Darkness, pp. 171-172
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**{{Endn|14a}}: Volume II: Visions of Darkness, pgs. 171–172
**{{Endn|14b}}: Volume II: Visions of Darkness, pp. 176-177
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**{{Endn|14b}}: Volume II: Visions of Darkness, pgs. 176–177
**{{Endn|14c}}: Volume IV: Visions of Death, pp. 340-341
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**{{Endn|14c}}: Volume IV: Visions of Death, pgs. 340–341
*{{Endn|15}}: [[A Thousand Sons]] by [[Graham McNeill]], Chapter 18
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*{{Endn|15}}: [[A Thousand Sons (Novel)]], Chapter 18
*{{Endn|16}}: [[Deathwatch: Rites of Battle]], p. 62
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*{{Endn|16}}: [[Deathwatch: Rites of Battle]], pg. 62
*{{Endn|17}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1100022 Games Workshop]
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*{{Endn|17}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1100022 Games Workshop] ''(link no longer functional)''
*{{Endn|18}}: [[Deathwatch: The Achilus Assault]], p. 54
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*{{Endn|18}}: [[Deathwatch: The Achilus Assault]], pg. 54
*{{Endn|19}}: [[White Dwarf 286 (UK)]], p. 66
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*{{Endn|19}}: [[White Dwarf 286 (UK)]], pg. 66
*{{Endn|20}}: [[Fear to Tread]] by [[James Swallow]]{{cite this}}
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*{{Endn|20}}: [[Fear to Tread (Novel)]] {{cite this}}
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**{{Endn|20a}}: ''Melchior''
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**{{Endn|20b}}: Chapter One
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**{{Endn|20c}}: Chapter Two
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**{{Endn|20d}}: Chapter Three
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**{{Endn|20e}}: Chapter Five
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**{{Endn|20f}}: Chapter Six
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**{{Endn|20g}}: Chapter Seven
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**{{Endn|20h}}: Chapter Eight
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**{{Endn|20i}}: Chapter Twenty
 
*{{Endn|21}}: [[Death of Integrity (Novel)]], Chapter 11, pg. 109
 
*{{Endn|21}}: [[Death of Integrity (Novel)]], Chapter 11, pg. 109
*{{Endn|22}}: [[Index Astartes: Death Company]], pg. 7
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*22: [[Index Astartes: Death Company]]:
*{{Endn|23}}: ''[[The Crown of Thorns (Short Story)]]'' by [[Peter Fehervari]]
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**{{Endn|22a}}: pg. 7
*24: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition]]
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**{{Endn|22b}}: pg. 10
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*{{Endn|23}}: [[The Crown of Thorns (Short Story)]]
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*24: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition]]:
 
**{{Endn|24a}}: pg. 17
 
**{{Endn|24a}}: pg. 17
 
**{{Endn|24b}}: pg. 26
 
**{{Endn|24b}}: pg. 26
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*{{Endn|25}}: [[White Dwarf 45 (2014)]], pg. 28
 
*{{Endn|25}}: [[White Dwarf 45 (2014)]], pg. 28
 
*{{Endn|26}}: [[White Dwarf 56 (2014)]], pg. 47
 
*{{Endn|26}}: [[White Dwarf 56 (2014)]], pg. 47
*{{Endn|27}}: [[Trial by Blood (Novel)]], '''The Trial of Gabriel Seth, Act I'''
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*{{Endn|27}}: [[Trial by Blood (Anthology)]], '''The Trial of Gabriel Seth, Act I'''
*{{Endn|28}}: [[The Blood Angels Omnibus]] by [[James Swallow]], Appendix Angelus, pg. 602
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*{{Endn|28}}: [[The Blood Angels Omnibus]], ''Appendix Angelus'', pg. 602
*{{Endn|29}}: [[Deus Encarmine (Novel)]] - [[The Blood Angels Omnibus]] by [[James Swallow]], Chapter Four, pg. 75
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*{{Endn|29}}: [[Deus Encarmine (Novel)]] [[The Blood Angels Omnibus]], Chapter Four, pg. 75
 
*{{Endn|30}}: [[The Blood of Angels (Short Story)]]
 
*{{Endn|30}}: [[The Blood of Angels (Short Story)]]
 
*{{Endn|31}}: [[The Unremembered Empire (Novel)]]{{cite this}}
 
*{{Endn|31}}: [[The Unremembered Empire (Novel)]]{{cite this}}
*{{Endn|32}}: [[Space Hulk Mission Book (3rd Edition)]], pgs. 3-33
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*{{Endn|32}}: [[Space Hulk Mission Book (3rd Edition)]], pgs. 3–33
*{{Endn|33}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Six]], pg. 260
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*{{Endn|33}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Six - Retribution]], pg. 258-260
*{{Endn|34}}: [[The Hunt for Vulkan (Novel)]] Chapter 4
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*{{Endn|34}}: [[The Hunt for Vulkan (Novel)]], Chapter 4
*{{Endn|35}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/16/new-warhammer-40000-the-dark-imperium-may16gw-homepage-post-4/ Warhammer Community]
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*{{Endn|35}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/16/new-warhammer-40000-the-dark-imperium-may16gw-homepage-post-4/ Warhammer Community: New Warhammer 40,000: The Indomitus Crusade & the Dark Imperium (originally posted 16/05/2017)] ''(last accessed 30th September 2023)''
*{{Endn|36}}: [[Dante (Novel)]] by [[Guy Haley]]
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*36: [[Dante (Novel)]]:
 
**{{Endn|36a}}: Chapter One
 
**{{Endn|36a}}: Chapter One
 
**{{Endn|36b}}: Chapter Two
 
**{{Endn|36b}}: Chapter Two
*37: [[Black Crusade: Angel's Blade]]
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**{{Endn|36c}}: Chapter Eleven
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*37: [[Black Crusade: Angel's Blade]]:
 
**{{Endn|37a}}: pg. 5
 
**{{Endn|37a}}: pg. 5
 
**{{Endn|37b}}: pg. 24
 
**{{Endn|37b}}: pg. 24
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**{{Endn|37d}}: pg. 25
 
**{{Endn|37d}}: pg. 25
 
**{{Endn|37e}}: pg. 55
 
**{{Endn|37e}}: pg. 55
*{{Endn|38}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Rulebook]], pgs. 52-53
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*{{Endn|38}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Rulebook]], pgs. 52–53
*{{Endn|39}}: [[Ruinstorm (Novel)]]
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*{{Endn|39}}: [[Ruinstorm (Novel)]],{{Cite this}}
*{{Endn|40}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition)]] pg.15
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*40: [[Codex: Blood Angels (8th Edition)]]:
**{{Endn|40a}}: pg.12-13
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**{{Endn|40a}}: pgs. 12–13
 
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**{{Endn|40b}}: pg. 15
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**{{Endn|40c}}: ''A Chronicle of Heroes''
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**{{Endn|40d}}: pg. 42
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**{{Endn|40e}}: pg. 73 — ''The Angelic Host Assembles''
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**{{Endn|40f}}: Introduction
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*{{Endn|41}}: [[Mephiston: Revenant Crusade (Novel)]], Chapter 7
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*{{Endn|42}}: [[Space Hulk: Tactics]]
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*{{Endn|43}}: [[Eminence Sanguis (Short Story)]]
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*44: [[The Horus Heresy Book Eight - Malevolence]]:
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**{{Endn|44a}}: pg. 132-135
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**{{Endn|44b}}: pg. 16
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**{{Endn|44c}}: pgs. 114-129
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*45: [[Warhammer 40,000 Compendium]]:
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**{{Endn|45a}}: pg. 115
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**{{Endn|45b}}: pg. 117
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**{{Endn|45c}}: pg. 210
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**{{Endn|45d}}: pg. 64
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**{{Endn|45e}}: pg. 45
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**{{Endn|45f}}: pg. 70
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**{{Endn|45g}}: pg. 128
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**{{Endn|45h}}: pgs. 206-209
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*{{Endn|46}}: [[White Dwarf 110 (UK)]], pg. 6
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*{{Endn|47}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/08/29/breaking-news-sisters-psykers-and-skeletonsgw-homepage-post-4/ Warhammer Community: Breaking News: Sisters, Psykers and Skeletons (Posted on 29/08/2019)] (Last accessed on 28 August 2019)
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*{{Endn|48}}: [[White Dwarf 44 (2014)]] — ''The Phodian Mind War''
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*{{Endn|49}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/11/25/blood-of-baal-chapter-focus-the-blood-angelsgw-homepage-post-2/ Warhammer Community: Blood of Baal Chapter Focus: The Blood Angels  (Posted November 25 2019)] (Last accessed 11/25/2019)
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*{{Endn|50}}: [[Psychic Awakening: Blood of Baal]], pg. 9
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*{{Endn|51}}: [[Mephiston: City of Light (Novel)]], Chapter 1
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*{{Endn|52}}: [[Eclipse of Hope (Short Story)]]
 +
*53: [[Saturnine (Novel)]]:
 +
**{{Endn|53a}}: ''Dramatis Personae''
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**{{Endn|53b}}: Part 2 Chapter 6
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*{{Endn|54}}: [[Dark Imperium (Novel)]], Chapter 12
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*{{Endn|55}}: [[The Devastation of Baal (Novel)]]
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**{{Endn|55a}}: Chapter Four
 +
**{{Endn|55b}}: Chapter Six
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**{{Endn|55c}}: Chapter Eight
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**{{Endn|55d}}: Chapter Nine
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**{{Endn|55e}}: Chapter Fourteen
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**{{Endn|55f}}: Chapter Eighteen
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*56: [[Codex: Space Marines (9th Edition)]]:
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**{{Endn|56a}}: pg. 50
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**{{Endn|56b}}: pg. 85
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*{{Endn|57}}: [[Codex Supplement: Blood Angels (9th Edition)]] pg. 33-37
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**{{Endn|57a}}: pg. 31
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**{{Endn|57b}}: pg. 22
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**{{Endn|57c}}: pg. 7 - Heritage of Sanguinius
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**{{Endn|57d}}: pg.60
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**{{Endn|57e}}: pg.10-11
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*{{Endn|58}}: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKTVlb13rDg Warhammer Youtube page: The Warhammer Community Podcast: Episode 28 – Sons of Sanguinius 37:38 (Posted on 13/01/2021)] (Last accessed on 2 February 2021)
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*{{Endn|59}}: [[Penitent (Novel)]] Chapter 11
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*60: [[Dante: Darkness of the Blood (Novel)]]:
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**{{Endn|60a}}: Chapter 10
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**{{Endn|60b}}: Chapter 29
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*{{Endn|61}}: [[White Dwarf 454]], pgs. 42-43
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*{{Endn|62}}: [[Mortis (Novel)]] - Dramatis Personae
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*{{Endn|63}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/06/03/meet-the-space-marines-who-will-be-crushing-genestealer-cultists-in-angels-of-death/ Warhammer Community: Meet the Space Marines Who Will Be Crushing Genestealer Cultists in Angels of Death (Posted on 03/06/2021)] (Last accessed on 3 June 2021)
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*{{Endn|64}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/10/18/thunderhawks-from-12-chapters-rule-the-skies-in-this-epic-aeronautica-imperialis-showcase/ Warhammer Community: Thunderhawks From 12 Chapters Rule The Skies in This Epic Aeronautica Imperialis Showcase (Posted on 18/10/2021)] (Last accessed on 18 October 2021)
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*{{Endn|65}}: [[White Dwarf 470]], pg. 103
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*{{Endn|66}}: [[Lion El'Jonson: Lord of the First (Novel)]], Part 11
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*{{Endn|67}}: [[Horus Rising (Novel)]], Part Two, Chapter Seven
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*{{Endn|68}}: Horus Heresy (Artbook Series) Collected Visions Page 179
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*{{Endn|69}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels (7th Edition)]] Introduction
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**{{Endn|69a}}: ''A Chronicle of Heroes''
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**{{Endn|69b}}: ''Heraldry of the Host''
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*{{Endn|70}}: [[Mephiston: Lord of Death (Novella)]] {{Cite this}}
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**{{Endn|70a}}: Chapter 9
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**{{Endn|70b}}: Chapter 1
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**{{Endn|70c}}: Chapter 3
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*{{Endn|71}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes]], pg. 16-18
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*{{Endn|72}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition)]], pg. 53
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*{{Endn|73}}: [[Sentinels of Terra - A Codex: Space Marines Supplement (6th Edition)]] — The Invasion of Taladorn
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*{{Endn|74}}: [[White Dwarf 388 (UK)]], pg. 121
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*{{Endn|75}}: [[Chapter Approved 2001]] – ''Death Company''
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*76: [[Warhammer 40,000: Wargear (2nd Edition)]]:
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**{{Endn|76a}}: ''Death Mask of Sanguinius''
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**{{Endn|76b}}: ''Shroud of Sanguinius''
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*{{Endn|77}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-community-podcast/ The Warhammer Community Podcast: Episode 12 – Space Marine Successor Chapters] (Last accessed on 27 August 2020)
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*{{Endn|78}}: [[Black Crusade: Angel's Blade]], Chapters 1-3
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*{{Endn|79}}: [[Shield of Baal: Exterminatus]] – Xenostorm
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*{{Endn|80}}: [[Vengeful Spirit (Novel)]] – Dramatis Personae
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*{{Endn|81}}: [[Saturnine (Novel)]] – Dramatis Personae
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*{{Endn|82}}: [[Farseer (Novel)]], Chapter Four
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*{{Endn|83}}: [[Bloodquest]] – Book 1
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*{{Endn|84}}: [[Codex: Blood Angels – Red Thirst Edition]]: Sons of Sanguinius
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*{{Endn|85}}: [[The Beast Must Die (Novel)]], Chapter 21
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*{{Endn|86}}: [[White Dwarf 72 (2015)]] — ''Parade Ground''
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*{{Endn|87}}: [[Blood Debt (Short Story)]]
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*{{Endn|88}}: [[Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition)]], pg. 15
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*{{Endn|89}}: [[Warhammer: Visions 23]], pg. 28
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*{{Endn|90}}: [[Black Legion - A Codex: Chaos Space Marines Supplement]] (E-Book), "The Ghost War"
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*{{Endn|91}}: [[Space Hulk (3rd Edition)]] Rulebook, pg. 44
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*{{Endn|92}}: [[White Dwarf 78 (2015)]] — ''Regiments of Renown''
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*{{Endn|93}}: [https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/Warhammer-40000-Death-Masque-ENG Warhammer 40,000: Death Masque]
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*{{Endn|94}}: [[Codex: Deathwatch (7th Edition)]] — ''Watch Fortress Talasa Prime''
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*{{Endn|95}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/11/24/the-blood-angels-on-crusade-will-you-fight-the-black-rage-or-embrace-it/ Warhammer Community: The Blood Angels on Crusade – Will you Fight the Black Rage or Embrace It? (Posted on 24/11/2020)] (Last accessed on 24 November 2020)
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*{{Endn|96}}: [[White Dwarf December 2017]] — ''Space Hulk: Corruption's Heart''
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*{{Endn|97}}: [[Codex: Genestealer Cults (7th Edition)]] — ''The Hidden Dynasties''
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*{{Endn|98}}: [[White Dwarf 110 (2016)]], pg. 26 — ''White Dwarf's Regiments of Renown''
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*{{Endn|99}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/11/25/all-the-latest-from-the-warhammer-40000-open-day-nov-25gw-homepage-post-1/ All the Latest from the Warhammer 40,000 Open Day (posted 25/11/2017] (last accessed 26/4/2022)
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*{{Endn|100}}: [[Chapter Approved 2017]], pg. 27 — ''Land Raiders''
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*{{Endn|101}}: [[White Dwarf 395 (UK)]], pg. 86 — ''Kit Bash''
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*{{Endn|102}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/06/27/this-free-horus-heresy-mission-sees-ghastly-word-bearers-procurators-descend-on-the-blood-angels/ Warhammer Community: This Free Horus Heresy Mission Sees Ghastly Word Bearers Procurators Descend on the Blood Angels] - [https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/TLbrp4me5GEfL37Q.pdf The Scouring of Gilden's Star PDF, pgs. 2-7 (Posted on 27/06/2022)] (Last accessed on 27 June 2022)
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*{{Endn|103}}: [[It Bleeds (Short Story)]]
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*{{Endn|104}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/02/16/black-library-celebration-2022-meet-dominion-zephon-the-bringer-of-sorrow/ Warhammer Community: Black Library Celebration 2022 – Meet Dominion Zephon, the Bringer of Sorrow (Posted on 16/02/2022)] - [https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/VJ6hrF8oMbRdH90I.pdf Dominion Zephon PDF], pgs. 1-2 ''(Last accessed on 16 February 2022)''
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*{{Endn|105}}: [[Echoes of Eternity (Novel)]] - Dramatis Personae
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**{{Endn|105a}}: Chapters 17-18
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**{{Endn|105b}}: Chapters 33-35
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Blood Angels
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Legion Number IX[1a]
Primarch Sanguinius[1a]
Homeworld Baal[1a]
Fortress-Monastery Arx Angelicum[36a]
Chapter Master Dante[1a]
Colours Blood Red Armour with Black Aquila[1]
Helmet colour denotes squad type
Specialty Assault, Deep Striking[1a]
Strength Codex-Compliant[1a]
Battle Cry "By the Blood of Sanguinius!"[1a] or "For The Emperor and Sanguinius!" [1a]

The Blood Angels, originally known as the Revenant Legion[44c] were the IX Legion of the original Space Marine Legions under their Primarch Sanguinius. They are particularly well known for their bloodthirsty nature in battle. They are also one of the most long-lived Chapters, and have a refined aesthetic sense.[1a]

Homeworld

The homeworld of the Blood Angels is the planet Baal and its two moons, Baal Primus and Baal Secundus, from which the Blood Angels take their new recruits. The Blood Angels' Primarch, Sanguinius, fell upon Baal Secundus after he and his brother Primarchs were scattered across the galaxy.[4c]

In ancient days Baal and its moons had Terra-like atmospheres. Baal itself was always a world of red rust deserts, but its moons were close to paradises. As the Dark Age of Technology ended in the Age of Strife, civil war erupted between the world and its colonised moons, leading to the nuclear devastation of the planetary system. Baal Secundus has since been a nuclear-blasted desert world with deadly levels of radiation. This forced the world's human tribes to build cumbersome radiation suits in order to survive. Mutants were once rife upon the world, frequently at war with the remaining pure humans for dominance of the planet.[4c]

History

Unification-era IXth Legionary[44c]

Unification Wars & Great Crusade

Formation

The Blood Angels were created from the genetic material of their Primarch, Sanguinius. As with all of the Primarchs, Sanguinius was genetically engineered to be a supreme super-soldier but was cast into the warp during his infancy along with his brothers, and found on the nuclear-blasted moon of Baal Secundus.[4c]

Originally known as the IXth Legion, the early records of the Legion show a noted absence in many of the key conquests of the Unification Wars. Instead, the Legion acted as the Emperor's inferno, ravaging and annihilating any foe they were unleashed upon. Few in number, they often served as vanguards and waging battles in small and audacious raids focusing on murderous close-combat. They were often deployed to the most dangerous warzones against the most twisted of foes, holding the line alone and out of the spotlight. This was a role fitting for them, as the early IXth Legion recruited from the lost and dispossessed of Terra. Despite often bearing the marks of mutation they were genetically sculpted into tall and fair elegant specimens. However other dark rumors followed the Legion, which soon earned the title of the "Eaters of the Dead" due to their habit of consuming enemy corpses after a battle. As the Unification Wars transitioned into the Great Crusade, the IXth Legion was deployed to hellish backwater warzones such as Neptune. On the moons of Neptune, 12,000 warriors of the IXth disappeared but nonetheless managed to endure and complete their mission. They had largely replenished their numbers taken from the barely human dregs of Neptune's tunnels. Where others may have floundered and fallen, the IXth had risen from the ashes of defeat. This process soon repeated itself again and again, with the IXth being cast into a hellish warzone only to emerge as they had before. This led to Malcador the Sigillite dubbing them the "Revenant Legion". They often found themselves in the company of those Legion's less-favored by the lords of the Imperium, such as the War Hounds and IVth.[44c]

With each new bloody victory, the dire legends that surrounded the IXth grew and spread. They became spectres that haunted the wild places of the Great Crusade, the terrors loosed by the Emperor to clear his path across the stars. The IXth accepted this duty with a grim pride, never shirking in the mantle that they wore. Each campaign was undertaken with a quiet, brooding hunger for blood and death that was as terrifying as it was effective. They fought without mercy and paid no heed to anything other than the destruction of the enemy. Shunned and isolated from the wider Imperium, they began to descend into charnel cults and bloody rituals. Various Red Cults formed as the Legion was broken apart by the widening Crusade, and their brutality attracted censure at places such as Yarant. They began to only maintain line infantry and jump troops, in part due to the reluctance of the Imperium to supply them with more advanced weapons.[44c]

Meanwhile on Baal, Sanguinius was affected by the warp, and when he was found by one of the few unmutated human tribes on Baal, he had a pair of angelic wings growing from his back. As he matured quickly, he was able to use his superhuman powers and abilities to unite the humans of Baal against the mutants and become their leader.[Needs Citation] When the Emperor found Baal in his search for the twenty Primarchs, Sanguinius immediately recognized him for who he was and knelt before him, pledging his service in 843.M30. In this, Sanguinius was one of the few Primarchs who did not challenge the Emperor upon their reunion. The Emperor then took Sanguinius and a number of his best warriors and placed him in command of the dark and brutal IXth Legion, which he would come to name the Blood Angels.[44c]

The Coming of Sanguinius

Sanguinius spent the first 3 years after his rediscovery with the Luna Wolves, learning the ways of the Imperium from his brother Horus. He first met his then-savage Revenant Legion during the Pacification of Teghar Pentarus, but shocked all assembled by first learning the name of each and every one of his warriors. Giving a speech before his assembled sons, Sanguinius stated that he would swear an oath to his Legion instead of the vice-versa. Sanguinius stated he hoped he could live up to leading his sons, and that he would stand with them whatever may come be it glory or damnation. He declared the IXth Legion to be scattered and broken no longer, and that they alone would conduct the coming campaign without the aid of the Luna Wolves. Sanguinius' humility roused the assembled warriors, who immediately pledged themselves to their Primarch.[105a]

At Teghar Pentarus, Sanguinius gave his blood in the maelstrom of combat and came to understand the true nature of his sons after witnessing their bloodlust and hunger. Sanguinius knew that if this path would continue, one day his Legion would become monsters. Yet, he did not despair. He sought to remake the Blood Angels into a force for nobility by having each company fight alongside a Luna Wolves contingent for the next decade. Besides gaining stature in the eyes of their peers, the nobility and honor displayed by the Luna Wolves began to influence the sons of Sanguinius. Their Primarch was able to instil a sense of pride in them to replace their desire for carnage and bloodshed. At Anaxis XII, the Blood Angels, Luna Wolves, and Imperial Fists under their respective Primarch's fought against a massive Hrud migration that solidified their new status and bonds with the other top Legion's of the Great Crusade. At Kentaurus Beta, they learned from Sanguinius the art of bloodlessly pacifying a planet. Soon enough fury became tempered by wisdom, and Sanguinius succeeded in his quest to reforge the Blood Angels. They soon not only became noble warriors of their own rights, but also icons across the entire Imperium.[44c]

Great Crusade-era Blood Angels Marine

During the later part of the Great Crusade, the Blood Angels became known as being excellent shock assault troops, and formed a rivalry with the similarly assault-oriented World Eaters Legion.[4a] Throughout the Great Crusade, the Blood Angels became renowned for its 'wars of ultimatum'. These campaigns of open domination against non-Compliant worlds began with Sanguinius or one of his praetors affording a world one opportunity to embrace Unification or face a 'Day of Revelation', in which they would suffer the fury of the Blood Angels unleashed. Many foes confronted by the gathered Blood Angels Legion hosts were overcome with dread and awe, and capitulated without hesitation. Those who did not would see the shining countenance of the Angel Sanguinius transformed into savage fury as blinding destruction was delivered from on high.[33]

However, despite their newfound fame and nobility, the Legion continued to battle with its own demons. The bloodlust that defined the early Legion remained, and Sanguinius desperately sought to both keep it a secret and find any solution he could to elevate it.[44c]

Notable Battles during the Great Crusade

The Horus Heresy

Signus Prime

Ka'Bandha Greater Daemon of Khorne[68]

In an attempt to divide those loyalist legions he could not sway to Chaos, Horus dispatched the Blood Angels to the farthest reaches of space, where they unwittingly walked in traps of his and his masters devising. The Blood Angels mission to the Signus Cluster, near to the galactic core in the Ultima Segmentum, was one such venture, where the system of 7 planets and 15 moons had been taken over in bloody slaughter by the daemonic hordes of a Greater Daemon of Slaanesh, Kyriss the Perverse. Thinking that they were arriving to liberate humans from their xeno-overlords, Sanguinius had no reason to suspect that his best friend, the Warmaster Horus, would betray him.[14a]

When the Blood Angels fleet arrived in system, they were assaulted by Chaos energies, ravaging their Navigators and Astropaths, killing many outright, as well sending mad panic through the Legion's ship serfs and auxiliaries; who until then had never felt the effects of Chaos. Most Space Marines were immune to its effects due to their training and iron-will, leaving those few not driven mad to restrain the crazed crew members and erect psychic baffles. The daemon conqueror of Signus, Kyriss, had time however to beam an image of itself to the Legion's Primarch, challenging him to take back Slaanesh's newest conquest. At this Sanguinius gathered his senior officers and organised a counterattack against a foe they had no experience fighting, however, sure of their victory, Sanguinius declared This foul creature will know what it is to face my wrath. I shall strike him down, I shall be an Angel of Vengeance![14b]

With Signus Prime covered from pole to pole with the result of daemonic invasion, with millions lying dead in the streets or held in prison camps to await daemonic whims, with cities razed, oceans boiled away and plains burned to cinders, the Blood Angels Legion struck in a furious assault; falling from the skies to engage crazed cultists and packs of hideous daemons upon the Plains of the Damned. Sanguinius swore to personally cast Kyriss down and vanquish him, so hence made for the Cathedral of the Mark, the daemon's lair. However, outside its entrance, Sanguinius was faced with the single greatest foe who would have the greatest effect on his Legion and its descendants down the millennia; Ka'Bandha, Greater Daemon and Bloodthirster of Khorne.[14b]

Confronting the Angel, the Bloodthirster spoke, attempting to sway him to Chaos, Why do you fight us, so called Angel? You may be able to best me, but you cannot hope to defeat Chaos. My Lord Khorne is powerful beyond means you can measure. Your Emperor is weak and foolish, even now he hides from us. Is he afraid to fight? To this Sanguinius rebuked, commanding the daemon to get out of his way, to allow him to cast down his master or be destroyed, to which Ka'Bhanda scoffed that his only master is Khorne, that he does not realise the threat which the daemons and Chaos hold for humanity and that their ally Horus has led Sanguinius here, into a trap whilst moving to lay siege against Terra. Ka'Bhanda further tempts Sanguinius once more, to join the forces of Khorne and destroy Kyriss and rule the Signus Cluster.[14b]

Sanguinius and Ka'Bandha duelling in midair.

Sanguinius rejected the news that Horus was lying in bed with daemons, claiming it as lies and proclaiming that nothing could entice him to spit on his oath of loyalty to the Emperor, from which he launched himself at the daemon, whilst his finest ten companies of veterans, Dreadnoughts and Terminators charged into the horde of bloodletters, hounds and furies swarming around the Bloodthirster. Plasma fire boiled daemon blood and talons cleaved power armour and gene-enhanced bone whilst the Angel pushed against the Bloodthirster, a flurry of blows from his great sword meeting the daemons axe time and time again, yet still succeeding in driving him back. Seizing the initiative, Sanguinius stabbed Ka'Bhanda through the chest, casting a terrible wound. The daemon replied in pain and anger with a lash of his great whip which caught the Angel's legs and crushed them within its coils before being knocked to the ground be the flat of his foes axe. With the beast towering over him he taunted at it, Come at me again, daemon! Feel the lick of my sword a second time if you dare! to which Ka'Bhanda replied I let you live this time, manling. Your legs will heal but this wound will always fester. It was at this moment that the beast let loose a mighty howl and darted across the battlefield, cutting down no less that five-hundred sons of Sanguinius . The psychic backlash caused by the loss of so many of his sons cast Sanguinius into unconsciousness.[14b]

With their progenitor cast down the Blood Angels redoubled their efforts, becoming filled with a dark berserker fury which drove them to destroy the daemon horde and cleanse all of Signus Prime. Those daemons who did not fall by their blades fled back into the Immaterium along with their overlord Kyriss. As they came to victory, their rage and fury subsided, whereupon they became aware of their victory, however they had no reason to celebrate with thousands of their brothers lying amongst the daemon dead, their Primarch cast down and the dark shadow of the rage and fury they had so recently possessed looming upon their souls. When their father awoke, his legs were already healing due to his genetic abilities as a Primarch, however nothing could be done for searing anguish he felt for the loss of his sons at the hands of Ka'Bhanda. Within a few days he could manage to walk, but the agony upon his soul would not abate and with this heavy weight, he vowed that whatever the future, whatever the cost, he would rain vengeance down upon the daemon Ka'Bhanda.[14c]

It was then that the message from Rogal Dorn of the Imperial Fists was received, calling them back to Terra. The Blood Angels did not need to be informed of the severity of the situation facing them and thus they set about evacuating all personnel from Signus back to the fleet. stowing the corpses of the fallen to be buried later on the slopes of Mount Seraph. Sanguinius ordered that no trace of the Legion remain in the Signus system and that the few surviving inhabitants be transported to nearby systems. Lastly warning beacons were stationed at the warp-jump points to ward off the unwary from visiting any of the planets or moons. Signus was to be left lifeless and rotting.[Needs Citation] Meanwhile, the Blood Angels' homeworld of Baal endured an extended Siege by traitor forces.[65]

Imperium Secundus

After the battle in the Signus Cluster, the Blood Angels were able to link up with Ultramar and under the watchful eyes of Roboute Guilliman Sanguinius was eventually crowned Emperor of Imperium Secundus.[31]

Ultimately after a number of disasters, clashes between Guilliman, Sanguinius, and Lion El'Jonson, and a vision by Sanguinius that the Emperor was alive, Imperium Secundus was abolished. The three Primarch's led their Legions in an attempt to breach the Ruinstorm and reach Terra. Through an arduous journey, they eventually reached Davin, the nexus of the Ruinstorm, and engaged a vast Daemonic host. After the battle and the destruction of Davin, a way to Terra through the Ruinstorm was clear. However in their way stood many enemy blockades as Horus had foreseen this route. Sanguinius and the Blood Angels raced directly for Terra, as was their destiny, while Guilliman and Lion El'Jonson led the Ultramarines and Dark Angels in diversionary attacks against Horus' blockade.[39]

Siege of Terra

During the Horus Heresy, the Blood Angels were one of the few Legions who fought alongside the Emperor during the Battle of Terra. Led by Sanguinius, the Blood Angels fought with particular renown at the Eternity Gate. During the clash, Sanguinius banished first Ka'Bandha and then Angron back to the Warp.[105b] Later, both Sanguinius and Raldoron led a Blood Angels contingent as the Emperor launched a boarding action of Horus' flagship Vengeful Spirit. Separated from his sons, it was here that Sanguinius finally faced his destiny battling the traitorous Warmaster, dying in the process.[111]

The death of Sanguinius caused the Black Rage to suddenly fall upon the Blood Angels, both on the Vengeful Spirit and Terra. Bombarded by horrific visions of their fathers murder, the Blood Angels rampaged across the battlefield and butchered both loyalist and traitor alike.[112a] The madness eventually passed and the Emperor victorious in striking down Horus, and in the aftermath of the siege Raldoron, Azkaellon, Nassir Amit, and 500 other surviving Blood Angels held a funeral service for Sanguinius.[112b]

Post-Heresy

After the Heresy, Raldoron became the new master of the Blood Angels as the Black Rage began to manifest regularly.[7a] It fell to the Sanguinary Priests of the Chapter to try and control those suffering from the Black Rage. Yet in the countless generations since the Heresy, genetic deterioration in the Blood Angels gene-seed have seen an increase in this flaw.[4c]

Later, as with all other loyal Legions, the Blood Angels were forced to split into many smaller Chapters.[1]

Hive Fleet Leviathan & Dark Imperium

Towards the end of the 41st Millennium a tendril of Hive Fleet Leviathan went on a direct course for the Blood Angels homeworld, Baal. Exacerbating this already terrible threat is a massive daemon army led by the dread bloodthirster Ka'Bandha, which has already struck at Ammonai, the outermost planet of the Baal system. Facing a possible war on two fronts, Commander Dante sends out a call for all Chapters descended from the Blood Angels to send forces to aid their ancestor Legion; the Flesh Tearers are the first to do so, deploying the entire Chapter for war. Ultimately all but the Lamenters do so, even the renegade Knights of Blood.[4g] The Blood Angels attempted to slow the Tyranid advance during the Cryptus Campaign.[40c]

Following the Thirteenth Black Crusade and the resurrection of Roboute Guilliman, the Great Rift divides the Imperium in two. Baal and the bulk of the Blood Angels are left stranded in the Dark Imperium and must face the Tyranids alone.[35] In the subsequent Devastation of Baal Dante leads a desperate defense alongside several Successor Chapters but all seems lost until the arrival of Guilliman's Indomitus Crusade. Hive Fleet Leviathan is largely destroyed, ironically thanks to Daemonic hordes that formed as a result of the Great Rift.[38] In the aftermath of the battle Belisarius Cawl and the Zar-Quaesitor arrives along with thousands of new Primaris Space Marine recruits to rebuild the shattered chapter. Brother Corbulo becomes fascinated with the Primaris Marines as a potential source for a cure to the Blood Angels flaw, and follows them into battle whenever he can. Meanwhile Dante is made Regent of Imperium Nihilus by Guilliman.[40c] However it has since become apparent that Primaris Marines are still vulnerable to the Black Rage and Primaris too have since been placed into the Death Company.[49]

Baal has become a nexus within the Dark Imperium for the war effort to reclaim the region. At Baal's Skyfall Orbital Dock, Dante is gathering the Fleet Nihilus.[57b]

Other Battles

Blood Angels battle the Tyranids[69]

Timeline

Undated

A Blood Angel[69b]

Gene-seed

The sons of Sanguinius are known to have handsome and noble features, mimicking that of their Primarch.[55b] They also have retractable fangs that are dubbed the Angel's Teeth.[55e]

The Flaw

The Blood Angels and all their successors suffer from a psychological need to drink human blood. They call this "the Red Thirst". They have no real nutritional need for blood, but when they abstain from drinking it for a long time, they grow weaker and even age. Chapter Master Dante abstained from drinking blood for centuries, and he eventually developed wrinkled skin and white hair like on old man and likewise felt psychologically worn out. When Baal was attacked by Tyranids in 999.M41, Dante was too emotionally and physically exhausted to lead the defence, but then he drank the blood of one of his servants, killing the servant in the process, and he was rejuvenated both physically and mentally. On the other hand, if a Blood Angel does not resist the Red Thirst at all, he will eventually mutate into a monstrous form with fangs and a bat-like face, and walk on all fours like a gorilla.[55]

The Blood Angels regularly drink bottled blood which is usually donated willingly by their serfs. They often mix this blood with wine, which they call "karash". However, blood is much more satisfying when taken directly from the body of a living person. It's even better if the victim dies in the process. The Blood Drinkers, a successor chapter of the Blood Angels, have a rite called the Rite of Holos wherein they start by drinking blood donated by their serfs but end with eating a prisoner alive. The death of that one prisoner is more satisfying than blood from a hundred serfs. The Blood Angels themselves have occasionally lost control and attacked and killed their own allies to have their blood even when they had plenty of bottled blood on hand.[Needs Citation]

All Blood Angels and their successors may one day suffer the Black Rage. When they succumb to this, typically in the heat of battle, they think they are their Primarch Sanguinius in battle with Horus. In the Black Rage, the sufferer struggles to distinguish friend from foe. He might even attack his own brothers, something with usually doesn't happen with the Red Thirst. The Black Rage is incurable, and so difficult to manage that those who succumb are relegated to either the Tower of the Lost on Baal or transferred to the Death Company. In the Death Company, they seek to find a quick honourable death on the field of battle.[Needs Citation]

The origins of the Red Thirst and Black Rage is hotly debated by the Blood Angels and their successors. Some blame the process of Insanguination, others in deep rooted Chaos corruption in Sanguinius as he was transported to Baal. The Mechanicum has observed that Blood Angels have an overactive Omophagea, and this combined with their blood rituals may have caused them to become more strongly effected by past memories than others. Others discuss the impact of Baal Secundus's strange cocktail of chemical toxins and radiation, as well as past evidence of mutation among the populace.[57e]

The Blood Angels consider the Red Thirst to be shameful and keep it a secret from the rest of the Imperium, although by the end of the 41st millennium it has become an open secret, with many Imperials including Roboute Guilliman being aware of it.[54] The Black Rage is also something of an open secret, though outsiders cannot distinguish it from the Red Thirst. The Blood Angels stave off the Red Thirst and Black Rage in part by practicing fine art as a hobby, such as painting or sculpting. Somehow this has a soothing effect on the inhuman beast inside all of them. The successor chapter Angels Penitent used to do the same but gave it up, and since then they suffer the Red Thirst and Black Rage at a much increased rate.[Needs Citation]

The Red Thirst has been with the Blood Angels since before the Horus Heresy and even Sanguinius suffered from it, albeit in a mild form.[20] The Black Rage has been with the Blood Angels since the death of Sanguinius. The Primaris line of Blood Angels are more resistant to both the Red Thirst and the Black Rage, though not immune, so the Blood Angels must still have a Death Company.[49] When he created the Primaris Blood Angels, Belisarius Cawl decided that the Emperor deliberately gave the Blood Angels the Red Thirst for whatever reason, and so did not try to remove it completely.[54]

Exsanguinator

The Sanguinary Priest can use the Exsanguinator for medical treatment of wounded Space Marines. But more important the Exsanguinator is a tool for retrieving the gene-seed from the body of a fallen Marine and is vital for the survival of the Chapter. In the veins of every Sanguinary Priest flow a portion of Sanguinius's own blood. That adds to the spiritual significance of the Exsanguinator for the Blood Angels. Usually a Sanguinary Priest uses his influence to calm the Red Thirst of his battle brothers. These priests are the epitome of the noble character of Sanguinius's heirs. But there are some priests that aspire to use the gift of their Primarch.[Needs Citation]

Successors

The Blood Angels Legion is known to have sired at least five Second Founding Chapters, but as a Chapter they sired two more; many have come and gone in the millennia. Their successors, like them, are afflicted with the Black Rage and Red Thirst, and a sense of loss and grief for their fallen primarch and have visions of his death. Although some chapters suffer from it more than others, the Successors that were founded in later centuries are more harshly affected by the flaw. Some founding’s teeter on the border of full-blown insanity, causing them to be on the verge of destruction, even though the Chapter council thought the flaw was eradicated from the gene-stocks for a while. Due to this the Space Marines of the most recent foundings can lapse into psychosis with the slightest provocation. The Blood Angels and their successors share a special bond due to the death of their Primarch being a very real memory that threatens them when in great stress or danger, rather than being a myth of legend unlike other chapters, due to this bond an attack on a chapter is considered an attack on all Sons of Sanguinus.[4l][16]

The Blood Angels battle Chaos[40f]

The Blood Angels maintain close ties with their Successor Chapters, particularly after the Devastation of Baal. Great Conclaves of the Sanguinary Brotherhood are held to decide certain actions of Successor Chapters.[57a]

Culture

Sanguinius did much to establish the culture and beliefs of the Chapter. He transformed the Blood Angels from an army of killers into a Legion of noble warriors that were also well-versed in art and poetry.[44c] There is a mystical streak in many of the Blood Angels and a strong belief that things can be changed for the better. This belief can be seen in everything they do: they strive for perfection be it in their works or art, martial discipline, or military doctrine. Due to their extended lifespans, Blood Angels have time to perfect their techniques in art as well as war.[1a] Today the Blood Angels are known for both their savage and grace. They seek to maintain ten defining commandments that they feel best exemplifies their Chapters soul. Through meditation, they maintain the Five Angelic Graces of Honour, Humility, Mercy, Restraint, and Forgiveness. In opposition to these are the five Warrior Virtues of Strength, Savagery, Abandon, Rage, and Detachment. Thus are the Blood Angels frenzied killers one moment while becoming stoic monks who appreciate arts and music the next.[109]

Blood Angels also have a habit of sleeping whenever possible in the sarcophagi used to create them. They apparently believe that it is in this slumber that they are one step closer to Sanguinius and seek to gain insight into the psyche of their forefather.[1a]

The Blood Angels will spare no effort to attain the material needed to create the Chapter's art and have even fought wars to obtain them. This includes Bloodstone gems, from the deep caves of the Cruor Mountain on Baal and the larvae of the Spinewyrm fauna. Bloodthirsty sand clams are also needed, as the white pigment used to paint the Chapter's angel wings, can only be obtained by crushing clams' shells.[57c]

Tactics

The Blood Angels are for the most part a Codex Chapter, though formations such as the Death Company defy the edicts of Roboute Guilliman. In battle, they are known to favour Jumpack-equipped Infantry, close combat, and direct assault. The infamous Gunship and Drop Pod-borne planetary assaults of the Blood Angels are both beautiful and savage to behold. They depart as quickly as they strike, rarely staying behind to oversee a worlds reconstruction and administration unlike the likes of the Imperial Fists.[109]

Despite their melee-emphasized method of war, the Blood Angels maintain a larger then average pool of armored vehicles, including some of unique Design. Most notable of these is the Baal Predator.[109]

Organisation

Legion Organization

During the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, the Blood Angels were a Space Marine Legion numbering roughly 120,000 warriors. Sanguinius created three Spheres to encompass his hosts, each with its own chamber that would give order and purpose to the Legion. Three hundred standard combat Companies formed the outermost sphere, known as the Malak, which followed the strict guidelines of the Principia Belicosa. The Second "middle" Sphere was composed of the officers of the Legion who served as strategic advisers to the Primarch as well as the principle planners of any Legion operation. The innermost or First Sphere were known as the Immortals. These warriors stood within the inner circle of Sanguinius as well as specialist warrior chambers. Warriors of the First Sphere were the most accomplished of the Legion and were assigned the most difficult and dangerous missions. Formations of the First Sphere Sanguinary Guard, Crimson Paladins, Burning Eyes, and Angel's Tears.[44c]

Chapter Organization

Today, as adherents of the Codex Astartes, the Blood Angels divide their battle brothers among the chapter into companies. There are 10 companies in the Blood Angels and each one is led by a Captain who is guarded by elite veterans known as the Honour Guard.[3] The only exceptions to the Codex structure allowed by the Blood Angels and its Successors are the Sanguinary Guard[4j] and the Death Company.[Needs Citation]

The First Company is composed of the Chapter's Veterans, warriors with experience forged in countless battles throughout the Imperium and trained in the use of sacred suits of Terminator Armour, while the second to fifth are the Battle Companies who carry the weight of the Chapter's combat duties.[4b]

The subsequent companies are 'Companies of Reserve', composed of squads with the same designation who often act as support for the Battle Companies, as well as provide replacements for casualties by the line formations: the Sixth Company is made up of Battleline Squads, while the Seventh and Eighth Companies are a made up of Close Support Squads, and the Ninth Company has a full compliment of Fire Support Squads.[40b] Finally, the Tenth Company is composed of the Chapter's scouts, aspirants who have not yet earned their place as full-fledged Marines of the Chapter.[Needs Citation] They also have recently come to include Vanguard Space Marine troops.[40b]

The Blood Angels Chapter has two ruling bodies, the Red Council and the Council of Blood. The latter is made up of senior Chaplains and Sanguinary Priests and is responsible for spiritual and physical work to constrain the Red Thirst and the Black Rage. The Red Council meanwhile consists of the chapter's most senior officers oversees all aspects of waging war and nominates a new Chapter Master when the previous one inevitably dies. As such, the Red Council is the more senior of the two bodies.[55d]

Headquarters

The current headquarters staff following the Devastation of Baal is as follows:[40b]

Chapter Command
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Chapter Master Reclusiam Sanguinary Priesthood
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Commander Dante,
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Astorath the Grim,
High Chaplain

Corbulo,
Sanguinary High Priest

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Mephiston,
Chief Librarian

Brother Daeanatos,
Exalted Herald of Sanguinius

Brother Incarael,
Master of the Blade

Brother Amadeno,
Keeper of the Heavengate

and Baal's Fury)

Warden of the Gates

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Companies

The current Companies and their Captains post-Devastation of Baal is as follows.[40b]

Veteran Company Battle Companies
1st Company 2nd Company 3rd Company 4th Company 5th Company
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"Archangels"
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"The Blooded"
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"Ironhelms"
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"Knights of Baal"
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"Daemonbanes"

Captain Karlaen,
Shield of Baal

Captain Aphael,
Master of the Watch

Captain Antargo,
Master of Sacrifice

Captain Raphaen,
Lord Adjudicator

Captain Sendini,
Keeper of the Arsenal

Reserve Companies Scout Company
6th Company 7th Company 8th Company 9th Company 10th Company
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"Eternals"
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"Unconquerables"
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"Bloodblades"
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"Sunderers"
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"Redeemers"

Captain Tybahlt,
Caller of the Fires

Captain Phaeton,
Master of the Marches

Captain Matarno,
Lord of Skyfall

Captain Latarnes,
Master of Sieges

Captain Borgio,
Master of the Recruits

Company Disposition
Markings denoting Tactical Sergeant, Assault, Devastator, and Veteran marines[4m]
Squad markings, typically displayed on the right kneepad[3a]

Each company is divided into 10 squads. Squads are led into battle by a Sergeant or a Veteran Sergeant and consist of four to nine Battle Brothers. Each squad can be broken down into two 5 man squads called combat squads.[1]

  • Scout Squads are the newly recruited neophytes who are under the ever watchful eye of the Scout Sergeant who is one of the most experienced Space Marines in the chapter.[1]

The Blood Angels show squad belonging with symbols worn on the right knee pad of the power armour,[1]

The Death Company

A Chaplain directing his Death Company[75]

Blood Angels are unique in that deeply engrained in their gene-seed is the encoded experience of Sanguinius, and most deeply imprinted of all is the memory of his final battle with Horus. Sometimes an event or circumstance will trigger this 'race memory'. This happens only rarely, often on the eve of battle, but it is likely to be a fatal experience for the warrior whose mind is suddenly wrenched into the distant past. What has become known as the Black Rage overcomes him, the memories and consciousness of Sanguinius intrudes upon his mind, and dire events ten thousand years old flood into the present.[Needs Citation]

To others a Marine overcome with the Black Rage appears half mad with fury: he is unable to distinguish past from present and does not recognise his comrades. He may believe he is Sanguinius upon the eve of his destruction, and the bloody battles of the Horus Heresy are raging all around him. As well as the memories of the Primarch, the Marine is also imbued with a small portion of Sanguinius' unearthly power, boosting the warrior's already prodigious strength and vitality to superhuman levels.[Needs Citation]

In order to keep the Black Rage in check, on the eve of battle the Blood Angels bend their thoughts to prayer and to the sacrifice of their Primarch so many centuries ago. Chaplains move from man to man, blessing each in turn and noting those amongst the brotherhood whose eyes may appear a little glazed, or whose speech is slurred or over excited. Some, almost all, overcome this ancient intrusion into their minds. All of a warrior's training is directed at controlling it, beating it down into the depths of their being. But for some the imprint of Sanguinius is too strong, the memories too loud and demanding. As the Chaplains chant the moripatris, the mass of doom, the chosen ones fall into the arms of their priests, and are taken away. The afflicted are formed into a special unit called the Death Company.[Needs Citation]

Suffused with the dying memories of Sanguinus, the warriors of the Death Company seek only one thing: death in battle fighting against the enemies of the Emperor. The Death Company is arrayed in black armour upon which are painted red saltires, crosses of blood red which symbolise the sacrifice of Sanguinius. The company is led into battle and directed towards the foe by the Chapters Chaplains. The warriors fight with the certainty of death and are completely fearless, ignoring wounds that would fell a normal man. Should they survive the battle they will probably die of their wounds afterwards, once the frenzied slaughter is past. It is better this way, for those who do survive almost always fall victim to the Red Thirst, turning into creatures no better than wild beasts craving flesh and blood. Better by far to die cleanly and quickly in battle than to suffer such a fate.[1]

Even those in a Dreadnought cannot escape the grasp of the Black Rage when it strikes, turning the machine into a raging Death Company Dreadnought[4h]

Honour Guard

Blood Angels Honour Guard[17]

Among the Chapter, it is customary of the mighty Blood Angels leaders to be accompanied by an Honour Guard of dedicated warriors. Its members are often distinguished individuals or the most accomplished Veteran Marines of the Chapter; warriors with full access to the armoury of the Blood Angels. As a result, the Honour Guard are normally well equipped and ably transported. Sanguinary Priests and Techmarines may be found within an Honour Guard, as can Standard-Bearers. When operating as Honour Guard for a Company Commander, one member of the Guard may be nominated as Blood Champion.[3] Honour Guard wear gold helmets.[Needs Citation]

The Sanguinary Guard

Even among the vaunted Veterans of the Chapter, there are warriors that stand above their brothers in might of arms and sheer skill. These are the Sanguinary Guard, an order that traces its origins to the days of the Great Crusade, where they served as their Primarch's personal bodyguard, and even accompanied Sanguinius when he, the Emperor, and Rogal Dorn confronted Horus in the arch-traitor's battle barge. Clad in golden Artificer Armour and armed with wrist-mounted Angelus Bolters, they wade into battle wielding Glaives Encarmine, ancient power weapons of terrible power.[4j]

All Chapters descended from the Blood Angels maintain units of Sanguinary Guard as a legacy of their parent Legion, and all follow the same color scheme except for the Angels Encarmine, whose Sanguinary Guard wear alabaster-white colored armour instead.[4n]

Deathstorm Strike Force

The Blood Angels are also able to field a highly specialized force against overwhelming infantry known as a Deathstorm Strike Force and it is only deployed in the most dire of situations.[13]

Recruitment

The Blood Angels recruit their Aspirants from the chapter's home planet of Baal and its two moons.[1] The time of choosing is known as the Duplus Lunaris, a centennial alignment of Baal and its moons. During this time, members of the Chapter visit each tribe of the Baal System to encourage participation in the selection process. The subsequent trials differ, with ritual combat being typical on Baal Primus. On Baal Secundus meanwhile they travel to Angel's Fall (the place where Sangunius was found as an infant) must reach the Place of Challenge by journeying through a vast, hostile desert, and a series of canyons, infested with Fire Scorpions and Thirstwater. While the trial claims many, those that succeed come before the Blood Angels, who winnow out those that are genetically incompatible with their Gene-Seed. All are permitted to return home, though the most promising rejects are elevated to the status of Chapter Serf. After nine days of games at the Place of Challenge, their numbers are reduced even further. Those that remain are elevated to Aspirant. These Aspirants are then force-marched to the next Place of Challenge, where they are split into smaller units. Any aspirant who fails at this point is doomed to never leave the facility, and will either die in the trials or remain there as guards.[109]

After all these trials, victors (often numbering less than a few score[109]) are finally chosen. They are taken in the Thunderhawks to the stronghold of the Blood Angels on the Baal itself, the Arx Angelicum. However, they haven't completed their trials yet, as they must observe a vigil for 72 hours without rest. Those that fail and fall asleep are taken away by the Blood-Servitors; no-one knows what happens to them.[1]

At the end of the vigil, the remaining aspirants are offered a chalice (rumoured to contain a small portion of Sangunius's own blood) by the Sanguinary Priests. After partaking it, they fall into a coma and are entombed by the Blood-Servitors inside the caskets of the Hall of the Sacrophagi. They remain there for a full year, in full care of the casket's life-support systems, while they are injected with blood of the Sanguinius. Many die, incapable of bearing the vast changes wrought upon them by the gene-seed; others wake up too early and grow insane from their dark and claustrophobic existence. The ones who completely adapt, however, become the newest additions to the chapter.[11]

Equipment

As travel to Mars has become quite perilous since the formation of the Great Rift, most new Blood Angels Techmarines are trained on the Forge World of Unverrdt IX.[40b]

Noted Elements of the Blood Angels

Relics and Artifacts

Main article: Blood Angels Armoury

Chapter Fleet

Prior to the Devastation of Baal, the Blood Angels maintained a fleet composed of two Battle Barges, seven Strike Cruisers, and sixteen Rapid Strike Vessels.[4c] Among its ranks are Azkaellon Class Frigates. The Blood Angels fleet is said to be exceptionally powerful and is commanded almost entirely by members of the Chapter itself as opposed to Thralls.[109]

Known Vessels

Named Aircraft

Named Vehicles

Notable Members

Heresy Era

Post-Heresy

Unique Troops & Vehicles (Also used by Successor Chapters)

Additional Resources

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Trivia

Notes

  • Note 1: Space Hulk: Tactics doesn't specify when the story exactly happens, it just says "closing years of the M41". Other sources can give us more information: Karlaen had been First Captain for two centuries in 999.M41, this means Ubaldo could have been First Captain until 799.M41. The main characters in the campaign already know of the Tyranids. This means the First Tyrannic War has already happened and the story is set between 742.M41 and 799.M41.

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