Raised during the ill-omened Twenty-First Founding, an event so blighted that later ages named it the Cursed Founding, the Lamenters carry the gene-legacy of the Blood Angels and, through them, of the murdered angel Sanguinius. Alone among many of their cursed-born peers, by some means unknown even to their own apothecaries, they seemed largely spared the Black Rage and the Red Thirst that torment their forebears. Yet what they were denied in madness they paid for in misfortune, for a shadow of tragedy has clung to them since their earliest days.
A fleet-based Chapter without a settled homeworld, the Lamenters clad themselves in mourning-black and deep golden yellow and took as their creed a doctrine of noble self-sacrifice, placing the lives of ordinary citizens above their own. That very idealism proved their undoing in the Badab War, when misplaced loyalty led them to stand with the secessionist rebels against the Imperium. Defeated, they were spared annihilation only on condition that they undertake a penitent crusade lasting more than a century.
That crusade delivered them into catastrophe. Steering into the path of the Tyranid Hive Fleet Kraken, the Chapter was ground down to a scattered handful of survivors, one of several occasions on which the Lamenters were dragged to the very brink of extinction. Under masters such as the grim and enduring Malakim Phoros they fight on regardless, bearing their grief with a quiet dignity that has made them beloved of the common soldiery even as fate conspires, again and again, to break them.
Order of battle
The Lamenters field the units of the Space Marines, a detachment from the roster:
Other Space Marines formations
Angels VermillionSecretive to the edge of paranoia, the Angels Vermillion are a Blood Angels successor who bear their bloodline's curse in bleak isolation, shunning their brother Chapters and guarding their darkest secrets with quiet menace.
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.
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