Howling Griffons
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The Howling Griffons are a Space Marine chapter with a long and glorious history.
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Chapter Summary
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Chapter Aspects
The Howling Griffons take special pride in their oaths, seeing each as an eternal conflict until the deed is finished. Before battle, additional oaths are added to their already exceedingly long lists, some for the chapter and others more personal. Once an oath is taken, a battle brother goes to extreme lengths to complete it and it is never forgotten, even after decades. Completed or satisfied oaths are a badge of honour, often inscribed on parchments or directly in the armor of the Howling Griffon Space Marines. 3
Notable Battles
Arios System
220.M38. (see Orlando Furioso, below)
Valerian Purges
The Howling Griffons, with the Cadian 108th "Wyverns", also saw action in the Valerian Purges.6
Badab War
901-912.M41. The Howling Griffons were assigned to convoy duties during the Badab War, allowing the Red Scorpions and Fire Hawks to return to their normal duties.
The Eye of Terror Campaign
998.M41. During the 13th Black Crusade the Howling Griffons sent 8 companies.2 The 1st Company of the Howling Griffons including Chapter Master Alvaro,where based on the battle barge Force of Destiny and engaged upon a mission to track down and persecute a company of Night Lords under the command of the infamous Daemon Prince Periclitor.4
Liberation of Vanqualis
Vanqualis was under attack by Orks. The Howling Griffons along with the 901st Penal Legion fought against the Orks.3 Shortly after landing they turned on the Soul Drinkers chapter, believing them to be the bearers of a Chaos artifact, the Black Chalice.
Dennar IV Rebellion
The 3rd Company took part in this campaign.7
Notable Characters
Orlando Furioso
Late in the year 220.M38 the Howling Griffons Chapter were preparing to celebrate their 5000th anniversary of their Founding. As Furioso and the First Company made their way to the Chapter's home world, Lord Periclitor of the Night Lords and a substantial force of his Chosen fell upon the Howling Griffons' ship as it traversed the Arios beacon. The battle was a furious one, culminating with Periclitor and his elite boarding Furioso's battle barge aboard their Dreadclaws. The attack crippled the ship, and the defenders were forced to evacuate aboard their Thunderhawks and escape pods. The battle was continued upon the surface of Arios Quintus, where the survivors were surrounded and eventually cut down. The body of Furioso was mounted upon the fore of his Thunderhawk, this permitted that the body and geneseed to be successfully recovered. And now the chapter has another date to mark in their calendar each year. 3a
Mercaeno
Chief Librarian of the Howling Griffons. He fulfilled the oath of avenging Chapter Master Orlando's death by vanquishing the daemon prince Periclitor during the 13th Black Crusade. He then led the strike cruiser Cerulean Claw to Vanqualis in the Obsidian System to fulfill an oath to the ruling Falken family to defeat the Soul Drinkers who were mistakenly identified as the bearers of the Chaos artifact Black Chalice. He had a titanic physical and psychic duel with Sarpedon in the Soul Drinkers space hulk Brokenback. He broke Sarpendon's force staff and defeated him. Before he dealt the death blow to Sarpedon with his force axe, he met his demise in Eumenes's hand, the renegade leader of the Soul Drinkers. Sarpedon defeated Eumenes and won the leadership of the Chapter back. Chapter Master Sarpedon of the Soul Drinkers now wields Lord Mercaeno's force axe.
Sources
- 1 GW Campaign Weekends Site. GW UK's Campaign Weekends Badab War Rules (.pdf) http://uk.games-workshop.com/campaignweekends/assets/badab-war-rules.pdf (link removed, accessed 2006.12.11)
- 2 Codex: Eye of Terror
- 3 Chapter War (Novel) by Ben Counter
- 3a p.112-113
- 4 White Dwarf 284(uk)
- 5 Codex: Chaos Space Marines (3rd Edition, 2nd Codex)
- 6 Iron Hands (Novel) by Jonathan Green.
- 7 Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition - Pg. 53,81,114,182.
- 8:Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), p.30
