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Marine	Basic Data	Chapter Symbol Miniature
	Name: Blood Drinkers Founding chapter: Blood Angels Founding: Second Founding Chapter Master: Orloc Homeworld: San Guisaga4 Fortress-Monastery: Unknown Main colours: Red, color of shoulder armour trim indicates company Specialty: Unknown Battle Cry: Unknown Estimated strength: Unknown

The Blood Drinkers are a successor chapter of the Blood Angels Legion.

Contents 1 Background 2 Notable engagements 3 Trivia 4 See also 5 Sources

Background

Strict followers of the Codex Astartes, the Blood Drinkers have blood-drinking rituals and suffer a literal blood-lust, due to a mutation of the chapter's Omophagea gene seed². Members of the Chapter are described as having a perpetual air of aridity, likely due to the above mutation⁵.

Notable engagements

• The cleansing of the Genestealer-infested Space Hulk codenamed Death of Integrity, along with the Novamarines chapter. Terminators of the First Company of both chapters led the assault. A 53:1 kill ratio was achieved. Total annihilation of the infestation was confirmed, and the Hulk was later examined for STC materials.¹

• Deployed companies to street fighting on the Vaust Hive World.³

• Took part in Blood Angels Successor Chapter Summit and agreed to donate a portion of its Initiates to help rebuild the depleted Blood Angels Chapter⁶.

Trivia

The Blood Drinker chapter master Orloc is named for the first fictional Vampire to appear in film, Count Orloc, portrayed by Max Schrek in Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens.

See also

• List of Space Marine Chapters

Sources

• ¹Warhammer 40,000: Compilation, Genestealers
• ²White Dwarf 98 (1988), Chapter Approved: The Origin of the Legiones Astartes by Rick Priestley, reprinted in uk.games-workshop.com: The Creation of a Space Marine
• ³Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition, p. 52
• ⁴:Red Fury- James Swallow, p. 120
• ⁵:Red Fury - James Swallow, p. 121
• ⁶:Red Fury - James Swallow
• Index Astartes, Angels of Death
• How to Paint Space Marines
• Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader