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The Impalers Chapter
Chapter Number 794

Successors of the Blood Angels



'''The Impalers are a successor of the Blood Angels who have unconventional tactics and as such were given an ultimatum, lose contact with the Founding Legion or change their ways. The Impalers chose to lose the support of Baal.'''

'''The Impalers were founded in the Second Founding, by Vlad Rhapthorne a Blood Angel who was not born of Baal. Rhapthorne was born on a feudal planet known as Wallchilla, which the Blood Angels brought into complacency. In return for solidifying his rule, the planet’s lord, a king who’s name is forgotten, gave his only son to the Blood Angels for ascension. Rhapthorne was that son, and in his service he found more and more ways to distinguish himself to his superiors, especially the Primarch, for he felt inferior to his Baalite brothers. Rhapthorne was an extremely competitive warrior and strove to master the blade in all its forms. During the great crusade, the vicious Blood Angel was seconded to the Night Lords during a joint mission as an inter legion emissary. Disgusted by what he saw, Vlad swore that he would curb the worst of these crimes as long as he could. This event led to The Impalers to having a dangerous vendetta against the Night Lord Traitors in particular. On the Siege of Terra, Vlad Rhapthorne fought hard as any of the enemy and as hard as any of the oldest heroes of the Imperium. At the moment of Sanguinius’s death, the first vestiges of the Black Rage rent through Vlad, and The Night Lords on Terra would feel his wrath. In the aftermath of the siege, Blood Angel remnants found a forest of Night Lord corpses impaled on twisted ceramite spikes, and at the center, Rhapthorne sat upon a throne of the dead. Rhapthorne suffered exile along with a number of his supporters.'''

'''Soon after, Gulliman created the codex Astartes and the formation of the first chapters was initiated. Vlad Rhapthorne asked and was authorized to create his own chapter, on his home planet, and his chapter would combat the Night Lords in their own arena. Terror became their allies, with Night Lord champions being captured and returned to Wallchilla to be impaled on great spikes in public rituals.'''

'''The Impalers are very open with their Red Thirst curse, and over the last 10,000 years, the population of the feudal world have both accepted and deified the chapter. Every full moon, the people offer their oldest members, those who can serve no purpose and now await death, to the chapter fortress monastery and have a communal mourning and celebration for the blood offerings. The two curses have another name to the Impalers, The Red Thirst is called the Dragul’s Hunger and the Black Rage is known as the Rage of the Justerian. Every Impaler carries a power sword in the form of the Kiliaj, the traditional blade of Willchilla.'''