Penitent Crusade
Penitent Crusades[1] (also known as Penitence Patrols[17]) are Crusades that Space Marine Chapters either voluntarily[2][3] or forcibly undergo[1][4], in order to earn redemption for any wrongdoing they have committed.[1][2]
Description
If voluntary undertaken, the Crusade will last until the Chapter feels they have been redeemed[2][3]. They may also give these Penitent Crusades to their Companies[5][6], squadrons[7][8] and even individuals[9]. Chapters can also be forcibly made to under take these Crusades by high ranking Imperials, if they have been found guilty of any wrongdoing[1][4]. These types of Penitent Crusades must last for a certain amount of years[1][10][11] and the Chapters undergoing them, may have other Imperial forces assigned to watch over them during that time[12]. The Chapters will also lose control of their Homeworlds, until their Penitent Crusade is over.[13][14]
Chapters known to have undergone Penitent Crusades
- Abyssal Crusade - Sentenced[4]
- Altar Brethren
- Argent Hammers
- Blades Eternal
- Bronze Gorgons
- Brothers of the Anvil
- Chorus of Eltain
- Clerics of Steel
- Crusaders of Dorn
- Doom Legion
- Fists of Olchis
- Graven Fists
- Illustrians
- Invictors
- Iron Drakes
- Justicars
- Knights Excelsior
- Lances of Pteros
- Lectors of Ixis
- Lionguard
- Prophets of Mercury
- Sanctors of Terra
- Sentinels
- Serpents of Light
- Sigilites
- Spears of Olympus
- Star Gryphons
- Tempest Legion
- Vengeance Chapter
- Viridian Consuls
- Vorpal Swords
- Aftermath of the Badab War - Sentenced to a 100 years[1]
- Brazen Claws - Voluntarily[15]
- Iron Knights - Voluntarily[2]
- Sons of Pertinax - Voluntarily[3]
- Blood Swords - Sentenced[16]
- Ebon Sentinels - Sentenced to a 101 years[10]
- Marines Mordant - Sentenced to 100 years[11]
- Avenging Sons' Third Company[17]
- Imperial Fists' Third Company - Penitent Crusade of Thunder[6]
- Lamenters Captain Cappozius, after being stripped of his rank[9]
Sources
- 1: Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War - Part One, pgs. 48–53
- 2: White Dwarf 286 (UK), pg. 67
- 3: White Dwarf 297 (UK), pg. 96 - Chapter Master
- 4: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (6th Edition), pgs. 17-19
- 5: Imperial Armour Volume Thirteen - War Machines of the Lost and the Damned, pg. 23
- 6: Codex Supplement: Imperial Fists (8th Edition), pg. 23 - Armoury: Glorious Redemption
- 7: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising - Possible Ending
- 8: Wrath & Glory: Redacted Records, pg. 49 - Chapter Frameworks
- 9: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Invincible Crown of Victory, wargear selection screen
- 10: Codex: Grey Knights (9th Edition), pg. 26-27
- 11: Legion of the Damned (Novel), Chapter Two
- 12: Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition, pg. 23
- 13: Imperial Armour Volume Ten - The Badab War - Part Two, pg. 54
- 14: The Trial of the Mantis Warriors (Short Story)
- 15: Cold Roads (Short Story)
- 16: Accursed Eternity (Novella) - Architect of Fate (Anthology), Chapter One
- 17: Renegades (Short Story)
