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- "They kneel before gilded idols, whispering prayers to a throne of silence. We do not pray. We do not kneel. We are the Emperor's wrath made manifest, and through fire and blood, we shall remind this galaxy of His true will."
- — High Marshal Sicarion, the Fireborn
The Angels Perdition, also known as "The Angels born from Hell," is a shrouded and clandestine Chapter. Their existence remains one of the many whispered secrets within the halls of the High Lords of Terra and the vaults of the Inquisition, yet they have long been forgotten by both entities. A genetic amalgamation born from the unholy crucible of desperation and warfare, their lineage is a perilous fusion of two of the Imperium's most revered yet volatile gene lines: the zealous fury of the Black Templars and the cursed, angelic might of the Blood Angels. The Angels Perdition are a Codex-Divergent Chapter, having rejected the teachings of the Codex long ago, and they operate as a Fleet-Based Chapter that is scorned by many and loved by few.
Chapter History
In the darkest days of the Age of Apostasy, the seeds of the Angels of Perdition were sown. High Marshal Sigismund’s Black Templar successors fought alongside Blood Angels against the tyrant Goge Vandire, their combined might a tide of divine retribution. In the aftermath of those cataclysmic battles, a secret conclave was formed—one that sought to create a warrior brotherhood embodying both the unbreakable conviction of the Templars and the transcendent fury of the Angels.
During the 21st Cursed Founding]], Adeptus Mechanicus Magos fused their gene-seeds in a forbidden experiment, crafting warriors burning with zeal yet soaring on wings of destruction. The cost was dire: the Pyric Blight, a meld of Red Thirst and Black Rage, cursed them beyond their progenitors.
Branded abominations by the Ordo Astartes, High Marshal Sicarion, the Fireborn led his warriors into the warp-rent Maelstrom, vanishing from Imperial records for centuries. They emerged as forgotten renegades, tempered in exile, reborn as the Emperor’s wrath. The Emberlit Revelation (M41, post-13th Black Crusade) marked their rebirth: uncovering the Emberlit Codex—a corrupted STC fragment in a ruined forge world—they mastered blood-forging rituals, transforming scavenged armor into unified seraphic warplate, proclaiming themselves judges of a failing Imperium.
Methods of War
With no Imperial tithes, the Angels of Perdition turned to raiding, a forbidden practice they deem justified by the Imperium’s betrayal. Their Shadow Crusades are lightning-fast campaigns targeting wayward worlds, rogue trader fleets, and fallen Space Marine Chapters deemed unworthy. These raids, cloaked in secrecy, are methodical, not random plunder.
- Angel’s Tithe: A heretical rite where they scavenge gene-seed, weapons, and relics from fallen Astartes, purifying them in fire to fuel their crusade. They strip Mechanicus depots, penal worlds, and even xenos ruins, ensuring nothing of value is wasted.
- Targets: Adeptus Mechanicus supply fleets, lost forge worlds, rogue traders, and corrupted Chapters. Penal and feudal worlds are plundered for recruits, their populations subjected to brutal trials.
- Oath of Blood & Ash: Each Marine swears never to rest until mankind’s enemies burn, echoing Black Templar crusades. Each fleet, led by a Castellan, pursues its own holy war under Sicarion’s vision of a Crusade Eternal to purge xenos, heretics, and Chaos.
Recruitment Process
The Angels abduct populations from penal worlds, rogue worlds, and feral/feudal planets, mirroring the Carcharodons’ Red Tithe. Criminals, heretics, and savages face brutal trials of faith to replenish the Chapter’s ranks. Only the strongest survive to undergo the Threefold Ascension.
Notable Lore
[1] The Threefold Rites of Damnation
The Angels of Perdition initiate recruits through a triple-layered forge—ritualistic, alchemical, and spiritual—designed solely for neophytes to cage their emerging Pyric Blight. These rites temper raw abductees into disciplined Astartes, awakening their curses under controlled agony. Failure is final: incineration for the unworthy. (Advanced manifestations like the Dying Choirs emerge later in a Marine's service; see The Dying Choirs.)
- Purging of Flesh (Trial of Chains):
- Ordeal: Neophytes, stripped bare, are bound in adamantium chains above a blood altar for seven nights.
- Test: Injected with purified Astartes blood, they face the Red Thirst’s burning hunger but are denied action.
- Guidance: Blood Keepers chant verses from the Red Testament (see The Red Testament), an apocryphal scripture of Sanguinius, teaching blood-hunger as sacred discipline, not flaw.
- Outcome: Those who thrash are incinerated; survivors emerge changed—their will unyielding, minds disciplined, hunger caged until battle calls. Few endure alive.
- Battle-Trance of the Faithborn (Rite of the Blood Chalice):
- Ritual: Neophytes drink from the Crimson Grail—a ritual vessel filled with sanctified blood, stimulants, and combat drugs, imbued with Chaplain chants and blessed in battle-fires (post-Emberlit, its seraphic frame glows with veiled veins).
- Effect: Awakens the Red Thirst, but recruits learn to guide it, entering a trance of absolute clarity and heightened perception—prescient combat flow, unerring strikes, inhuman speed.
- Purpose: They become warriors of zeal and massacre, balancing angelic discipline with berserker savagery, unpredictable in close combat. No hesitation, no falter—only precise instinct.
- Final Benediction: The Choir of the Dying (Embrace of the Black Rage):
- Preparation: As rites conclude, neophytes etch battle-liturgies (Sanguinius, Dorn, Sigismund) into their nascent armor, priming them for the Black Rage's eventual embrace—not as death, but ascension.
- Foreshadowing: This benediction plants the seed: the Rage is the Emperor’s wrath, to be wielded as holy champions in squads (detailed in The Dying Choirs). Recruits vow to sing, not roar, their final hymn a prophet's judgment.
This crucible seals recruits as Angels, their bodies forever marked by the Blight's fire, ready for the Seared's enhancements or the Choirs' dirge.
[2] Rise of the Seared (Primaris)
In the shattered aftermath of the 13th Black Crusade, the Imperium lay bleeding, its bureaucracy fractured, its vigilance dulled by the screams of a galaxy torn asunder. Where others saw chaos, the Angels of Perdition saw divine opportunity—a crucible to forge new blades for their eternal war. Deep within the ash-choked ruins of a Mechanicum fortress-monastery, forgotten by the Adeptus and forsaken by time, they unearthed a blasphemy: vats of writhing, half-formed Primaris experiments, abandoned as failures by a faltering Imperium. These were no noble sons of Guilliman, but wretched husks—marred by genetic instability, cursed with the Black Rage’s embered seed, or left incomplete, their flesh pulsing with unrealized power. To the Angels, they were not refuse. They were salvation.
The fortress’s vaults, cracked and leaking warp-fume, held secrets of a heretical project—a rogue Mechanicus attempt to transcend the Primaris template, weaving forbidden enhancements into their gene-code. The project had collapsed under its own hubris, branded heretical, its creators long dead or fled. Yet the Angels, forged in the fires of exile and tempered by the Pyric Blight, saw not failure but potential. These broken warriors, discarded like slag from a forge, bore the raw essence of strength the Chapter craved—violence unbound, a mirror to their own cursed zeal. They would not be cast aside. They would be reborn.
The reclamation was no gentle rite. In the flickering glow of blood-forges aboard Anathema Perditionis, the Angels subjected these half-Primaris to their own brutal alchemy. Ember-Smiths, chanting verses from the Red Testament, infused the husks with the Chapter’s chimeric gene-seed—a molten fusion of Sanguinius’ fury and Dorn’s resolve. The process was torment incarnate: flesh-vats bubbled with molten vitae, bones cracked under alchemical strain, and screams echoed as the Pyric Blight took root, searing their veins with liquid fire. Those who survived emerged as the Seared, towering giants of unnatural might, their bodies a furnace of Primaris strength and angelic curse.
The Seared were no mere echoes of Guilliman’s vision. Their armor, forged via the Emberlit Codex, pulsed with seraphic veins, glowing crimson as the Blight surged within (see Chapter Appearance (Post-Emberlit Revelation)). Their strength was godlike—capable of rending adamantium with bare hands—yet unstable, their bodies wracked by spasms or blood-ignition, veins erupting in gouts of flame that could consume friend and foe alike. To temper this volatility, they underwent constant bloodletting rites, their gauntlets lancets for draining molten vitae, guided by Red Testament chants to anchor their sanity. On the battlefield, they were heralds of apocalyptic wrath, leading assaults with reckless savagery, their blind helms venting flame-steam like draconic maws.
Yet the Seared paid a price for their ascension. The Pyric Blight, amplified by their Primaris frame, burned hotter, cracking bones under molten pressure, boiling blood in the heat of combat. Some erupted mid-battle, their bodies pyres that lit the night, a grim testament to their cursed lineage. Revered as divine yet feared as unstable, the Seared embodied the Angels’ creed: strength through suffering, divinity through ruin. Their existence was proof that even the Imperium’s failures could be forged anew in the Emperor’s fire.
[3] The Dying Choirs
To witness the Dying Choirs is to hear the Emperor’s wrath given voice—a sound that drowns the stars, a hymn that carves the soul. Where other Chapters cage their Black Rage-afflicted in Death Companies, mourning their fall, the Angels of Perdition elevate them. To succumb is not to fail; it is to ascend, to wield the curse as a divine weapon, to become a living judgment upon the galaxy’s sins. Clad in flame-blackened armor etched with scorched litanies of Sanguinius, Dorn, and Sigismund, the Choirs march as one, their blind helms venting ash, their cracked halos glowing with the Pyric Blight’s crimson fire (see Chapter Appearance (Post-Emberlit Revelation)).
Their song is no mortal cry. It is a chorus of unearthly unity, a vengeful psalm woven from Sanguinius’ laments, Dorn’s war-prayers, and Sigismund’s unbreakable oaths, twisted by the Blight into a dirge of untranslatable hatred. It resonates like the crackle of a dying star, each note an aural wound that seeps into the materium, splintering minds and warping reality. Enemies hear it first as a distant hum, a tremor in the bones, before it swells into a tide of dread—inhuman, relentless, inevitable. Ammunition ignites in belts, daemons falter as their warp-flesh frays, and mortal soldiers claw their ears, weeping blood as the hymn drowns their sanity. Even allied Astartes, hardened by centuries of war, describe it as a “funeral dirge for the living,” a sound that drags the listener toward the abyss.
The Choirs fight as if guided by a force beyond mortality. In formation, their relic blades and flamers strike with chilling precision, carving through ranks with the grace of seraphim. Yet when they close, the illusion of control shatters. The Red Thirst surges, and their savagery becomes nightmarish: chainswords shred armor like parchment, combat knives plunge into throats long after life has fled, fists pulverize bone into dust. Wounds that would fell a Dreadnought are ignored, their bodies enduring through sheer divine wrath. When one falls, the others sing louder, their hymn unbroken, dragging foes into death’s embrace. Entire battlefields have fallen silent at the first echo of their lament—traitors casting down weapons, daemons recoiling from a terror greater than the warp’s own.
This is the Choirs’ fate: no redemption, no return. Their armor, inscribed with Red Testament verses, flares with each note, a visual echo of their curse. Their song, suspected to draw from forbidden warp-tainted lore, is a weapon as much as their blades, a final hymn of vengeance that does not falter until their hearts cease. To the Angels, they are saints of fire, prophets of the Emperor’s judgment. To their enemies, they are death incarnate, their voices the last sound the damned will ever hear.
Notable Campaigns
- The Scourge of Calathax (M41): The Angels purged the renegade Forge World Calathax, seizing its vaults and uncovering the Emberlit Codex. Their flamer-heavy assault reduced the planet to ash, the Dying Choirs’ hymns echoing through molten ruins.
- The Red Veil Crusade (M41): Targeting a fallen Blood Angels successor, they performed the Angel’s Tithe, claiming gene-seed. The Dying Choirs’ song shattered enemy morale, leaving survivors gibbering in terror.
Notable Characters
- High Marshal Sicarion, the Fireborn: Founder, led the Chapter into exile. Wields the Pyre of Judgment, a flamer-sword weeping molten slag.
- High Chaplain Malachar, Keeper of the Tithe: Oversees the Angel’s Tithe, branding warriors with searing oaths. His crozius billows ash, etched with Red Testament verses.
- The Scorch-Twins (Dreadnoughts):
- Names: Brother Seraphael the Hollow Flame; Brother Kaeladorn the Iron Pyre.
- History: Blood-born brothers from a hive world cleansed by the Angels. After falling together, Chaplains interred them in twin sarcophagi, bound by fraternal loyalty.
- Design: Non-standard sarcophagi with seraphic ribcage plating, cracked halos, and faceless helms venting flame-wings. Engraved with scorched verses and curses, their armor glows post-Emberlit.
- Weapons: Seraphael wields The Blade of Unwept Flame (thermal sword, slag-weeping) and Psalm-Flamer (scripture-shaped fire). Kaeladorn wields The Hammer of the Hollow Choir (flame-wreathed thunder hammer) and Vow’s End (melta-rack).
- Psychological Profile: Refusing stasis, they endure the Pyric Blight’s torment, their dual litanies crackling like flames, finishing each other’s sentences. Revered as saints of pain by the Seared, their sarcophagi are pilgrimage sites.
Chapter Homeworld
The Angels are fleet-based, with no fixed homeworld. Their fortress-monastery, Anathema Perditionis, is a mobile battle barge housing blood-altars and fire-forges for the Threefold Damnation and Red Testament rituals.
Chapter Organization
Rejecting the Codex Astartes, the Angels mirror Black Templar crusade fleets. Each fleet, led by a Castellan, operates independently under High Marshal Sicarion.
| Rank Type | Examples |
|---|---|
| Officer Ranks | High Marshal, Castellan, Flame-Captain |
| Specialist Ranks | Blood Keeper (Chaplain), Ember-Smith (Techmarine), Pyre-Warden (Apothecary) |
| Line Ranks | Zealot-Brother, Ash-Sergeant, Seared Vanguard |
| Specialist Units | Dying Choirs (Black Rage champions), Pyre-Kin (veterans), Ember Eyes (Seared visionaries) |
| Order of Battle | 10 fleets (~100 Marines each), no fixed headquarters; Anathema Perditionis as monastery |
Chapter Culture
Forged in exile, the Angels’ culture is a crucible of fire and pain:
- Warriors carve Red Testament litanies into armor, branding oaths into flesh.
- The Scorch-Twins are revered as icons of brotherhood; the Seared kneel before them in blood-rites.
- Communal bloodletting, guided by the Red Testament, tempers the Pyric Blight, binding brothers in shared torment.
Chapter Beliefs
The Angels see the Imperium as a rotting empire betraying the Emperor’s vision:
- Emperor’s Will, Not Bureaucracy: They defy the High Lords, fighting for the Great Crusade’s dream.
- Faith is Fire: Weakness is heresy; battle forges purity.
- Great Crusade Never Ended: The Imperium must be purged and reforged.
- Redemption in War: Each kill is a tithe; the Black Rage is divine wrath.
- No Mercy for the Unworthy: Bureaucrats, cowards, and xenos are heretics equal to Chaos.
The Red Testament
The Red Testament
The Red Testament is the Angels of Perdition’s forbidden bible—a chained, adamantium-bound tome of apocryphal scripture, whispered to be Sanguinius’ final words before Horus’ blade fell. Unlike the Imperium’s sanitized texts, it is a raw litany of blood, fury, and divine wrath, blending angelic martyrdom with Templar zeal. Each Chapter possesses a single original, guarded in the fortress-monastery’s blood-vaults, with copies forged for veterans via the Emberlit Codex’s rites.
- Blood-Lock Mechanism: The Testament opens only to those bearing the Pyric Blight. A neophyte’s molten-cursed blood—drawn from a gauntlet lancet—must be smeared across the cover’s obsidian seal. The Blight’s heat etches the lock, parting vellum pages like flesh under a blade. Unblessed blood evaporates harmlessly; xenos or uncursed Imperial attempts scar the cover with futile burns.
- The Staining Rite: Each opening leaves a permanent crimson stain, drawn from the reader’s veins into the pages’ alchemical weave (infused with sanctified Astartes vitae during forging). The text “blooms” redder—verses glowing like fresh wounds, verses deepening from pale vellum to blood-marble. Frequent readers bear Testaments flushed with arterial hue, a badge of devotion visible to brothers.
- Drainage of Devotion: Over campaigns, the pages slowly “drain”—the weave absorbs excess Blight-fire, causing unique illuminations (e.g., flame-etched halos) but fading neglected sections to ashen gray. A Marine’s Testament thus chronicles their zeal: vibrant crimson for the devout, scarred pallor for the lax, shaming them before the Chapter. In rites, brothers inspect each other’s tomes, the deepest stains earning pyre-honors.
- Contents and Use: Verses teach the Blight as Emperor’s forge—hunger as discipline, Rage as psalm. Recited in the Trial of Chains, it guides the Blood Chalice trance; its hymns arm the Dying Choirs. To outsiders, it reeks of heresy; to the Angels, it is the unfiltered gospel of their cursed saints.
This tome is no mere book—it's their gospel.
Gene-Seed
- "Tisef rekh neb em ef, rekhy seth neb em ef. Ni aneni mery, aneni nef mery. Ity en khesef, ity en ankh.
We burn in body, we burn in soul. We do not suffer death, for we carry death within us. Pain is a gift, and the gift is life."- — High Chaplain Malachar
The Angels’ gene-seed, a hybrid of Dorn and Sanguinius, lacks the Sus-an Membrane and Betcher’s Gland. The Pyric Blight fuses Red Thirst and Black Rage, their blood like molten iron, bones aching as if aflame. Some erupt in spasms or blood-ignition (veins burning as liquid fire), a horrific death turning battlefields into pyres.
- Rituals of Endurance:
- Blackened Oath: Neophytes are branded with searing irons; flinching means execution.
- Bloodletting Rites: Warriors drain veins pre-battle to temper the Blight.
- Choir of the Burning Saints: Near-collapse Marines join the Dying Choirs, their song a final weapon.
Combat Doctrine
War is a ritual of purification. Orbital barrages and drop pods shatter defenses, followed by flamers, volkite weapons, and incendiary rounds. Melee is brutal—relic blades and chainswords carve softened ranks. The Dying Choirs lead charges, their hymns sowing terror. There’s no retreat, no mercy—only ash and judgment. Entire worlds burn if deemed necessary.
Deathwatch Service
The Angels avoid Deathwatch, their heretical Angel’s Tithe and xenos tech drawing suspicion. Rare volunteers are sent to deflect Inquisitorial scrutiny, their zeal unmatched but their Blight a liability.
Notable Space Marines
- Brother Azrael the Ashen: Pyre-Kin veteran, wields a flamberge power sword etched with forbidden hymns.
- Seared Vanguard Therion: First Seared, his armor glows with unstable blight-veins, leading Ember Eyes squads.
Warfleet of the Forsaken
Built from stolen vessels, purified in fire, the fleet blends Imperial, xenos, and Dark Age tech.
| Ship Type | Name | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battle Barge | Penitent Blade | Active | Sicarion’s flagship, stolen Abyss-class |
| Battle Barge | Exsanguinator | Active | Ex-Death Guard, purged of taint |
| Battle Barge | Crucible of Faith | Active | Ex-Inquisition Black Ship, now monastery |
| Battle Barge | Anathema Perditionis | Active | Fortress-Monastery |
| Battle Barge | Ex Sanguine Ignis | Active | Blood and fire reborn |
| Battle Barge | Ferrum Divinus | Active | Divine Iron |
| Strike Cruiser | Vocem Damnatorum | Active | 1st Company flagship |
| Strike Cruiser | Fides Ardenti | Active | 2nd Company flagship |
| Strike Cruiser | Ferrata Gloria | Active | 3rd Company flagship |
| Strike Cruiser | Lamina Sanguinea | Active | 4th Company flagship |
| Strike Cruiser | Mortis Angelum | Active | 5th Company flagship |
| Escort | Tenebrae Cordis | Active | 6th Company flagship |
| Escort | Furor Pyrae | Active | 7th Company flagship |
| Escort | Velum Igneum | Active | 8th Company flagship |
| Escort | Ruina Caelorum | Active | 9th Company flagship |
| Escort | Mortis Infans | Active | 10th Company flagship |
| Escort | Iustitia Ardens | Active | Burning Justice |
| Escort | Maledictum Vox | Active | Cursed Voice |
| Escort | Sanguis Rubens | Active | Weeping Blood |
| Escort | Memoria Occidua | Active | Fading Memory |
| Escort | Victor Ultimus | Active | Final Victory |
| Escort | Ira Vigilantis | Active | Wrath of the Watcher |
| Destroyed | Cruciatus Aeternum | Lost | Eternal Torment, warp storm casualty |
| Destroyed | Irae Seraphica | Lost | Seraphic Wrath |
| Destroyed | Ignis Ultor | Lost | Fire of Vengeance |
| Destroyed | Umbra Caelestis | Lost | Heaven’s Shadow |
| Destroyed | Ignis Profundum | Lost | Fire from the Abyss |
| Destroyed | Admonitio Inferni | Lost | Hell’s Warning |
| Destroyed | Flamma Sacrosancta | Lost | Sacred Flame |
| Destroyed | Custos Inferni | Lost | Warden of the Abyss |
| Destroyed | Inviolatus Rex | Lost | Unbroken King |
| Destroyed | Draco Flagrans | Lost | Burning Dragon |
| Destroyed | Adflictus | Lost | Afflicted |
| Destroyed | Inexorabilis | Lost | Unyielding |
Chapter Relics
- Pyre of Judgment: Sicarion’s flamer-sword, weeping molten slag.
- Crimson Grail: Ritual vessel for the Blood Chalice, etched with forbidden litanies.
- Emberlit Codex: Corrupted STC guiding armor-forging, guarded by Ember-Smiths.
Chapter Appearance (Maelstrom Era)
During their exile in the Maelstrom, the Angels’ appearance reflected their renegade nature, scavenging from fallen foes to forge a patchwork of warplate, unified only by their cursed zeal (see Chapter Appearance (Post-Emberlit Revelation) for their later transformation).
| Aspect | Details |
|---|---|
| Colors | Primary: Midnight black, symbolizing exile and darkness.
Secondary: Molten crimson filigree, like bleeding fire, signifying the Pyric Blight. Tertiary: Burnished brass on trim, vambraces, and helms, embodying battle-worn faith. Accents: Scorched gold for relics, bone-white for veteran death masks, charred silver for chains. |
| Armor | Scavenged plates from fallen Chapters, patched with void-serpent scales and warp-tainted relics, blackened by flame. Pauldrons and greaves bear scorched metal feathers, echoing Sanguinius’ lost wings. |
| Helmets | Veterans wear bone-white death masks, etched with oaths. Chaplains and Rage-afflicted sport blackened, halo-crowned helms, venting ash. |
| Cloaks & Adornments | War-cloaks of flayed nightmare hides, pinned with sanctified silver chains. Relic shards from destroyed Templar and Blood Angel artifacts hang as trophies. |
| Insignia | Bloodied Templar cross impaled through a burning halo, carved or branded into armor and flesh, symbolizing their dual heritage. |
| Weapons | Power swords, relic blades, and chainswords inscribed with forbidden Red Testament hymns; flamberge blades shaped like tongues of fire. |
| Purity Seals | Flayed enemy skin, blood-inked with Red Testament vows, smoldering with Blight-fire. |
Chapter Appearance (Post-Emberlit Revelation)
- "They are not fallen. They are cast down by choice—into the fire, to judge the flames."
- — The Scorch-Twins
Post-Emberlit, the Angels forged unified armor via the Emberlit Codex, embodying blind seraphim of fire, their warplate a testament to their cursed divinity.
| Aspect | Details |
|---|---|
| Colors | Primary: Iridescent obsidian black, shifting with crimson undertones like volcanic glass.
Secondary: Molten silver-gold trim, quenched plasma, glowing in battle. Cloaks: Gradient black-to-crimson, stitched with burnt feather motifs. |
| Armor Texture | Polished lava-rock, etched with “blight-maps” (micro-cracks glowing orange with Pyric Blight surges). Veins pulse with internal fire, reacting to the wearer’s emotions or curse. |
| Helmets | Faceless, with curved obsidian “seraph-wings” veiling eye-slits, venting incense-ash. Seared veterans have jawline grille-vents, exhaling flame-steam like dragon maws. Warriors “see with the fire” via Blight-enhanced senses, not lenses; some add lava-glass eyelets for stylized perception. |
| Heraldry | Primary Emblem: Fractured seraphic halo of scorched wings and iron-flame shards around a blood drop weeping fire, inlaid with crimson filament.
Seared Variant: Red-gold flames, obsidian-black blood drop, wreathed in a seal of martyrdom, sometimes branded into armor. Squad Markings: Fire-glyphs burnt via plasma torch: Ashen Arch (siegebreakers), Cinder Crown (command), Pyre-Kin (veterans), Ember Eyes (Seared visionaries), each a tattoo-like sigil of ruin and zeal. |
| Wings in Silhouette | Symbolic angelic silhouette: backpack vents shaped like feathered wings, bursting fire in surges; cloaks stitched with black-feather silhouettes; shoulder plates sculpted with broken feather-lines or ash-crusted pinions. |
| Personalization | Living Oaths: Bronze filaments oxidize from gold to crimson, igniting if the bearer falls.
Ash Robes: Black with glowing red edges, like burnt feathers; Seared robes tattered, veterans’ crimson with ash-white trim. Purity Seals: Molten bronze rivets with blood-resin, charring armor; parchments smolder, self-immolating if the bearer dies. |
| Chaplains & Flame-Keepers | Wear fire-resistant feather mantles, blackened with Red Testament micro-liturgies. Croziuses billow ash, not incense. |
| Standard Bearers | Flame-reactive filament banners flicker with faux flames, singing Red Testament tones via vibrating circuitry. |
| Seared vs. Original Marines | Seared: Glowing joints, radiant heraldry, blindfold seals; weapons shimmer like magma.
Originals: Retain scavenged scars, rusted aquilas, fused helms; restrained angelic motifs. |
Relations
Allies
- Rogue Inquisition - Rogue Inquisitors trading anti-Chaos tech; rumored Eldar outcasts for fire-relics (unconfirmed).
Enemies
- High Lords of Terra
- Black Templars - Rumored crusade fleets hunting them), fallen Astartes Chapters.
- The Inquisition
Notable Quotes
By: Angels of Perdition
- "We burn in body, we burn in soul. Pain is a gift, and the gift is life."
- — High Chaplain Malachar
About: Angels of Perdition
- "Their song is death’s own voice, a hymn that drowns the stars."
- — Unknown Inquisitor
| Chimeric Space Marine Chapters | |
|---|---|
| A | |
| Aardwolves • Angels Palatine • Angels Perdition • Angels of Ruin • Angels of Slaughter • | |
| B | |
| Beast Hunters • Blades of the Eclipse • Blood of Vulkan • Brotherhood of the Midnight Sun • | |
| C | |
| Carrion Lords • Chancellors of Genesis • Chiroptera Legion • Crimson Bones • Crimson Shadows • | |
| D | |
| • | |
| E | |
| Eternal Sons • | |
| F | |
| Flame Liches • | |
| G | |
| Ghost Wolves • Golden Torches • Graven Skulls • | |
| H | |
| Hochmeister • Hounds of Kerberos • | |
| I | |
| Ifriet Host • Imperatoris Executoris • Imperial Brothers of the Sword • | |
| J | |
| Juggernauts • | |
| K | |
| • | |
| L | |
| Legion of Solus • | |
| M | |
| Makhai • | |
| N | |
| Nameless Stalkers • Night Guard • Noble Angels • Northern Lions • | |
| O | |
| • | |
| P | |
| Palatine Sons • | |
| Q | |
| • | |
| R | |
| Rust Hammers • | |
| S | |
| †Scions of the Konic • Silver Flames • Solar Avengers • Sons of the Wyvern • Spears of the Phoenix • Star Crusaders • Starblades • | |
| T | |
| • | |
| U | |
| Umbral Wraiths • | |
| V | |
| Void Angels • Void Rippers • | |
| W | |
| Winged Axes • | |
| X | |
| • | |
| Y | |
| • | |
| Z | |
| Zero Legion • |
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