Chalice Heralds

The Chalice Heralds
"To honor the Angle! First to the chalice!" - Chalice Herald battle cry The Chalice Heralds are a loyal successor chapter of the Blood angles and are of an unknown founding. Most of their history has been lost and their own records are either incomplete or destroyed. Because of this they guard their history and only tell those they trust their history.
 * History

For most of the Heralds' history they were at full strength but at the start of the 39th millennia they began to take extreme amounts of casualties. Whole companies were being whipped out one after another. The reason for this was because the current chapter master, Amadeus the Leviathan, was becoming more and more aggressive and reckless. He would send his companies into the most ferocious battles he could find, and when asked why he simply said; "The emperor wills it." Soon the chapter was on the brink of extenuation and Amadeus showed signs of The Red Thrust. When the head apothecary and Reclusiarch tried to confront him he killed them and began to drink their still warm blood. He than began to kill his way through the fortress monastery before Uther the Dragon, the first captain, killed him, but before Amadeus died he destroyed the chapter's archives and with it the chapter's history. As hid did so and before Uther plunged his chain fist into his chest he screamed; "If I fall so shall the Angel's Heralds!"

After the death of Amadeus, Uther the Dragon took his place as chapter master and had to pick up the pieces of the chapter. But a light of hope appeared in the form of a vision Chief Librarian Merlios had. He saw a Astartie in the heraldry of the Chalice Heralds reaching for a golden chalice while standing on a pile of red and black corpses. After this vision Merlios had to be intumbed in a dreadnought, but before he lost consciousness he told Uther that the chalice was a gift from the Great Angle and that if they found it all of his sons would be cured. At this Uther dedicated his chapter to finding this Chalice, any means necessary. He began to change how the chapter operated. First, he made all companies battle companies and had each company responsible for its own recruiting. Second, companies will no longer be numbered and instead have their own title and heraldry showing their company upon their right shoulder pad. Third, the chapter will look for anything that will lead them closer to the Chalice and, because of their diminished state, they will scavenge for equipment and keep this fact hidden from all. And finally fourth, all Chaplins will make sure the newly made Questing Companies will uphold The Great Quest For the Chalice.