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Icharos Malvoisin is the Master Chaplain of the Angels Penitent and a key figure that saw the Chapter rise from its past as the Angels Resplendent.[1]

History

This occurred when he was a Resplendent Chaplain and Sergeant Montaig brought the Undying Martyr to Malvoisin, after discovering the Martyr near their Fortress Monastery[2] on Malpertuis[1]. Malvoisin would then interrogate the Martyr, to determine his fate and this proved to be a fateful decision for the Angels Resplendent. Despite bearing a fatal looking chest wound, the Martyr talked to the Chaplain for days and it was during that time, that he convinced Malvoisin that Mankind was corrupt and the war to save the Imperium was lost. The Martyr declared that the Space Marines were the greatest sinners of all, which was made obvious by their failures during the Horus Heresy. There was now no hope left in the Galaxy - only penitence and pain for sins committed in the past and future. After the 19th day of their discussions, Malvoisin emerged and declared to the Angels Resplendent that the Martyr was a prophet of the Emperor. This caused the Resplendent to listen to the new arrival's words and with their Chapter Magister, Varzival, away campaigning, no one could stop the Chapter from falling under the Martyr's sway.[2]

He quickly became their spiritual leader and declared the Resplendent to be too prideful and vain. To rectify this, the Martyr demanded the Chapter destroy everything that tied them to their sinful past and the Resplendent's Great Purge began. Gripped in self-hatred by the Martyr's revelations about their Chapter, most of the Resplendent became the Penitent and did as he asked, with only the Architects refusing to follow his orders. This led them to become targets for the Penitent's wrath and Chaplain Malvoisin led a group of Battle Brothers against the Architect. When Malvoisin's group went to attack, however, Chief Architect Athanazius and the other Architects, did nothing to defend themselves. Instead Athanazius uttered the Resplendent's battle cry, "We will rise on burning wings". This brought the attacking Battle Brothers to a stand still, until Chaplain Malvoisin, yelled out the Penitent's new battle cry, "The Emperor Condemns". This roused the hatred of the attacking Battle Brothers once more and the Angels Penitent were born with the Architects' deaths[2]. In the aftermath of the Purge, Malvoisin would become the Chapter's Master Chaplain.[1]

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