Sanggraal

The monastery-world of Sanggraal is a feudal planet of the Aliris Sector, located in the Hadronia Wall sub-sector - a multi-system line of defences strung along the rimward front - along the border of the Cadian Sector and is heavily militarized as a second line defence against the Forces of Chaos from the Eye of Terror. Sanggraal serves as an Adeptus Astartes Homeworld for hte Sons Sanguine Space Marine Chapter. This planet is dominated by Ecclesiarchy and the Cult of St. Sanguinius. The Battle-Brothers of the Sons Sanguine are therefore, objects of veneration when they appear amongst the mortal inhabitants to test the latest batch of potential recruits.

Background
Sanggraal is the Chapter homeworld of the Sons Sanguine. The northern continent consists of arid plains ringed by mountains that catch most of the moisture coming inland creating a fringe of relatively paradisiacal coastal lands. The larger southern continent goes from desert to steaming jungle as you travel southward. Sanggraal is a feudal world for the most part with feral tribes wandering the depths of the southern jungles. The Imperial Creed is the dominant religion of the numerous, quarreling kingdoms and principalities and the cultus of St. Sanguinius. The warrior nobility who govern the planet are proud to give their sons to the Chapter.

Fortress-Monastery
The ' Filius Angelum ' is built on and into a spire of rock rising high above the city of Sanguinore, capital of Astrius, the largest of the Feudal Kingdoms. The Fortress is dominated by the Angel's Spire, a multi-leveled spiral tower containing the Brother's quarters and tipped by the Shrine of the Grail. Armouries and training halls are hollowed out the living rock. Farther down you find the dark Dungeon of the Cursed, where the members of the Death Company are restrained. Here too is a blood stained stone table to which victims of the Dark Rage are bound after their Fall in the hope they will regain control. A surprising number do.

The Reclusium of the Chapter is housed in a many spired and golden domed building separate from the main tower. Here is the Hall of Transforming, the chapels of the Chapter relics, and the Memoriam to Fallen Brothers. Adjoining it are the barracks of the aspirants and the Mechanicus laboratories where the gene-seed is nurtured.

Chapter Serfs and their families occupy a fairly large town outside the walls of the Fortress proper but above and entirely separate from the city below.