The Angels Vermillion were raised in the Second Founding, the great division that shattered the old Space Marine Legions into smaller Chapters, and they trace their gene-seed directly to the Blood Angels and the angelic primarch Sanguinius. Their fortress-world of Corinal lies far out along the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy, a distant and lonely holding that mirrors the Chapter's own temperament, for the Angels Vermillion have made isolation into an article of faith.
Where nearly every other scion of Sanguinius clings to the fellowship of its kindred Chapters, gathering when able to share counsel and mourn their common affliction, the Angels Vermillion have chosen to endure alone. They wear deep, blood-dark red edged with pale gold, and they suffer the twin curses of their lineage, the maddening Red Thirst and the doom-laden Black Rage, without the comfort or oversight of their brothers. Such wilful separation breeds suspicion, and the Chapter is regarded warily even by those who share its blood.
Little is set down in Imperial records of their campaigns, for the Angels Vermillion volunteer nothing and answer to no one they can avoid, yet what fragments survive speak of a battle record that is nothing short of exemplary. Whispers persist that the Chapter's silence is a weapon in itself, and that its masters hold the knowledge of their shared curse as grim leverage against any who might move to condemn them, a threat left unspoken but keenly understood.
Order of battle
The Angels Vermillion field the units of the Space Marines, a detachment from the roster:
Other Space Marines formations
Angels of AbsolutionThe Angels of Absolution are a Second Founding successor of the Dark Angels who wear their gene-sire's shame more lightly than any of their kin. Armoured in stark bone-white, they hold the singular conviction that their sins were washed clean in the fires of Caliban's fall, and so they have set aside the very name of the Unforgiven. Serene where other successors are haunted, they nonetheless ride to the secret war with undimmed resolve, hunting the Fallen not to purchase their own salvation but because justice demands the guilty answer for their crimes.
Angels of VengeanceThe Angels of Vengeance are among the grimmest of the Unforgiven, a Second Founding successor of the Dark Angels who wage the secret hunt for the Fallen with a cold, unrelenting fury. Clad in armour of funereal black, they are austere even by the standards of their tormented lineage, speaking little and forgiving nothing. Where their parent Chapter cloaks its shame in ritual, the Angels of Vengeance carry theirs like a drawn blade, and they will cross any gulf and shatter any oath of secrecy to see a single Fallen dragged before the Inner Circle.
Black TemplarsZealous crusaders without a true homeworld, the Black Templars roam the stars in vast fleets, purging heresy and xenos wherever they are found. Sworn to unending crusade in the name of the Emperor, they answer doubt with faith and the sword, the most relentless holy warriors of the Adeptus Astartes.
Blood AngelsNoble and haunted, the Blood Angels wage constant war against the twin genetic curses of thirst and rage inherited from their martyred primarch Sanguinius. From the blasted world of Baal they answer the Imperium's darkest calls, warriors of aching beauty forever poised on the edge of the abyss within.
Carcharodons AstraGrey ghosts of the void, the Carcharodons emerge from the darkness between the stars to slaughter the enemies of Mankind, then vanish once more. Few know their origins, and fewer still survive their coming.
Crimson FistsBattered but unbroken, the Crimson Fists rose from the ashes of near-extinction to become a byword for defiance. Sons of Dorn, they fight on when all hope is spent.
Dark AngelsThe secretive First Legion, the Dark Angels wage two wars at once: one for the Imperium, and a hidden one to hunt down the traitors of their own broken past. Knightly, disciplined, and consumed by ancient guilt, they pursue the Fallen across ten thousand years, guarding a shame no outsider must ever learn.
Flesh TearersCursed with the worst of Sanguinius's flaws, the Flesh Tearers wage war on the knife's edge of madness. They are the most savage of the Blood Angels' sons, forever fighting their own extinction.
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