lamenter

Cursed 21st Founding (36th Millennium) Successors of Blood Angels Number Less than 400 Astartes currently Primarch Sanguinius Chapter Master Malakim Phoros Homeworld Fortress-Monastery Allegiance Imperium of Man Colours Mustard yellow with black and white checks on right shoulder plate Others Like You Also Viewed Blood Angels Blood Angels Astral Claws Astral Claws Malakim Phoros Malakim Phoros 21st Founding 21st Founding Minotaurs Minotaurs Badab War Badab War Mortifactors Mortifactors Carcharodons Carcharodons Mantis Warriors Mantis Warriors

From Blood Born; to Blood Evermore Consigned. Excerpt from the Libris Malefica

The Lamenters are an unfortunate Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines which, perhaps more than any other Chapter of the present era, seems to have been cursed by a dark shadow that has long determined its fate.

The Lamenters' accursed and haunted legacy seems to have tainted much of what they have achieved and their victories often become bitter ashes in their hands.

The Lamenters are a Successor Chapter of the Blood Angels created during the 21st "Cursed" Founding, and seem to have eliminated the gene-seed flaws known as the Black Rage and the Red Thirst through unknown means, but this secret cure may have been lostThe Lamenters have had a tumultuous -- often fraught -- history. They have twice been brought to the very brink of destruction, first during the Badab War and later in battle with the overwhelming horror of the Tyranids.

Each time they have endured, despite inherent instabilities in their Chapter gene-seed, and their Chapter Master claims that with every travail they have overcome, the Lamenters have only grown stronger The Lamenters are believed to have been created from the Blood Angels' gene-seed, genetically modified by the Adeptus Mechanicus' Tech-priests on Mars to remove effects of the Blood Angels genetic flaws known as the Black Rage and the Red thirst

Although the Chapter numbered among its brethren those few Astartes descended from Sanguinius to be spared an ultimate devolution into something no longer human or sane, the mark of the Flaw was still upon the Lamenters in the eyes of their fellow Space Marines, many of whom chose to shun the Chapter, regardless of its undoubted loyalty to the Emperor of Mankind and His Imperium and its noble efforts in the defence of its people.During the early 37th Millennium, matters worsened for the Imperium as corrupted Astartes of the 21st Founding and other dissident forces rose up against the rule of the Emperor in a series of bloody wars and purges.

The Lamenters chose to depart to the Imperium's fringes rather than risk internecine conflict with their fellow Astartes of the 21st Founding. They used their mobility as a fleet-based Chapter to crusade against the enemy without, rather than become ensnared in the quagmire of civil conflicts within the Imperium.For the next millennium and a half, the Lamenters would remain on a continuous Imperial Crusade, conducting many campaigns against the various xenos species that plagued Mankind across the western reaches of the galaxy. Often the Chapter was recorded as intervening to aid isolated Imperial worlds under threat. Despite their enviable record of honourable victories and valiant defence of the Imperium's far-flung domains, the spectre of misfortune seemed to dog them at every turn.

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