Silver Templars
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The Silver Templars, known also as the Swords of Novaris[4d] are an Ultramarines Successor Chapter.[1]
Overview
They are noted as being amongst the first Primaris Chapters created during the Ultima Founding[3a]. While most Successor Chapters of the Ultramarines are well-disciplined tacticians, the Silver Templars are famed for their audacity, daring and being incredibly skilled duelists.[1]
The Silver Templars have gained a reputation as cold and utterly focused warriors who display little emotion. They are expert duelists, preferring to select a single target and focus their attention on eliminating chosen opponents before selecting a fresh target. Silver Templars strategy often revolves around carving a path to enemy leaders, so that their most powerful warriors can engage the foe in a duel of death. They are also accomplished weaponsmiths, often crafting their own weapons and establishing a link with its Machine Spirit known as the Bond Martial. Once this bond is established, a Silver Templar will devote himself to mastering the weapon's use. Losing a bonded weapon is a mark of shame in the Chapter and they will go to great lengths to reclaim any lost item.[4d]
Notable Battles
- The Liberation of Novaris. The newly created Silver Templars under Akilios Zanaris leads the Chapter to Novaris, finding it has been enslaved by the Flawless Host. Captain Ducas of the 1st Company defeats the Flawless Host leader Lyrius Soulslaver in a duel that lasted more than a day. With Soulslaver dead the war is soon won, but a quarter of Novaris' population lay dead.[4d]
- Battling Vormir the Ascendant's heretic forces on the Ecclesiarchy world of Umbris alongside the Order of Our Martyred Lady.[4d]
- Sometime after the formation of the Great Rift, the Ork Painboy Grotsnik led a warband of Painboyz, Cyborks, and modified Killa Kans upon a Silver Templars Chapter Strike Cruiser. He seized a number of Primaris Space Marines alive, though what he intends to do with them is best not imagined.[2]
- The Battle of Brassicus
- The Plague Wars - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Companies dispatched to Ultramar under Chapter Master Zanaris.[4d]
- Battle of Orman's Hearth - The Silver Templars battle Orks[6a]
- Battle of Umbris - The Silver Templars fight alongside the Sisters of Battle against Mutants[6a]
- The Siege of Talasa Secundus - The 3rd Company under Captain Petricias disobeys direct orders from the Novamarines, killing a Death Guard Lord of Contagion but seeing many of their unsupported allies die. The incident creates tensions between the Templars and Novamarines.[1d]
- Assault on Necthis - The 2nd and 3rd Companies under Chief Librarian Ionnas are deployed to battle Orks.[4f]
- At some point after the Plague Wars, Forces under Lieutenant Retsos are ambushed by the Dark Eldar and the Silver Templars officer loses his weapon. Retsos obsessively hunts the Xenos to reclaim his honor for months. He eventually catches up with the raiders, slays scores of the aliens, and reclaims from their dead Archin.[4d]
- Battling the Speedwaagh! of Rargukk on the Agri-World of Orman's Hearth.[4d]
- The Octarius War[7]
- The Nachmund Rift War[8]
Chapter Elements
Vessels
Relics
- Banner of Echoes - Banner[6a]
- Armour of Zanaris - Gravis Armour worn by Chapter Master Akilios Zanaris[6a]
Notable Members
- Akilios Zanaris - Chapter Master[4a]
- Ares Ionnas - Chief Librarian[4a]
- Lampros Hekaton - Grand Oathkeeper[4a]
- Armand Laskari - Chief Apothecary[4a]
- Prician Stilico - Master Weaponsmith[4a]
- Vitalias Ducas - First Captain[4a]
- Vetranis Leontias - Second Captain[4a]
- Zeno Petricias - Third Captain[4a]
- Markos Lukion - Fourth Captain[4a]
- Eros Palamas - Fifth Captain[4a]
- Donis Maniakis - Sixth Captain[4a]
- Theus Giannos - Seventh Captain[4a]
- Tribunas Viator - Eighth Captain[4a]
- Alexys Nazares - Ninth Captain[4a]
- Symeon Nicetas - Tenth Captain[4a]
- Arranious Menas - Primaris Lieutenant of 7th Company[3a]
- Retsos - Lieutenant[6a]
- Adonys Eskadon - Lieutenant[6c]
- Mykonis - Primaris Lieutenant[3b]
- Maniakes - Lieutenant, slain during the Assault on Necthis[4f]
- Korelon - Ancient, 3rd Company[4c]
- Valens - Redemptor Dreadnought, 3rd Company[6b]
- Anicius - Sergeant, 3rd Company[4c]
- Mionas - Apothecary[6c]
Images
See Also
Related Publications
Sources
- 1: Conquest 07 - Ultramarines: Successor Chapters
- 2: Codex: Orks (8th Edition), pg. 30
- 3: Conquest 18
- 4: Silver Templars (Sourcebook)
- 5: Codex: Space Marines (8th Edition, 2nd Codex), pg. 176
- 6: White Dwarf 456 pgs. xx - Index Astartes: Silver Templars
- 6a: pgs. 79-80
- 6b: pg. 85 - The Bond Martial
- 6c: pg. 88
- 7: War Zone Octarius - Book 1: Rising Tide, pgs. 30-31
- 8: War Zone Nachmund: Rift War, pg. 30
