Remember Ymgarl: 2016

Sonntag, 4. Dezember 2016

Deathwatch Veteran (Raptors chapter)

Veteran equipped with Stalker pattern boltgun.

The Raptors are a Successor Chapter of the Raven Guard, created in the Second Founding.

The Chapter as a whole expresses a great skill at marksmanship, even by Astartes standards. It is uncertain if this is innate in the gene-seed or a result of superb training.

The Raptors are quite deliberately vague in any discussions of their homeworld, a world named Numina, Ra or Badwater somewhere in the Sutter Spiral Nebula of the Segmentum Solar.

Raptors chapter symbol.

Freitag, 2. Dezember 2016

Deathwatch Watch Sergeant (Ultramarines chapter)

Watch Sergeant with Inferno pistol and power sword.

"Courage and Honour!"

The Ultramarines were originally the XIIIth Space Marine Legion before the reforms that initiated the Second Founding and reshape the Imperium after the Horus Heresy on the orders of their Primarch, Roboute Guilliman himself.

Macragge is the homeworld of the Ultramarines Chapter of the Space Marines, and the capital world of the stellar realm of Ultramar. In this, it is unique among all the worlds of the Imperium, in that, apart from Terra and Mars themselves, it is the only planet allowed dominion over other planets - in its case, the eight other worlds of Ultramar.

At the time of the Great Crusade, it was customary for Ultramarines marked out for censure to bear red markings on their helmets. During the Battle of Calth, Guilliman ordered that red markings would be badges of honour, instead of censure.

Immediately after the Battle of Calth, it became customary for Sergeants of the Ultramarines, to paint their helmets red to signify their rank.

Ultramarines chapter symbol.

Dienstag, 29. November 2016

Deathwatch Veteran (Space Wolves chapter)

Veteran with Deathwatch frag cannon.

"For Russ and the Allfather!"

The Space Wolves, known in their own dialect as the Vlka Fenryka or "Wolves of Fenris", are one of the original 20 First Founding Space Marine Legions, and were once led by their famed Primarch, Leman Russ.

The Space Wolves are notorious throughout the Imperium for their ferocity in battle and they are generally considered the greatest warriors of the loyalist Astartes Chapters.

The Space Wolves homeworld is Fenris, a death world that lies in the galactic north of Segmentum Solar. It is a relentless world of fire and ice, ravaged by the extremes of climate all year round. For the majority of its year the planet is blanketed by an extreme winter.

Space Wolves chapter symbol.

Deathwatch Veteran (Raven Guard chapter)

Veteran with Deathwatch shotgun.

"Victorus aut Mortis"

The Raven Guard is one of the original First Founding Chapters of the Space Marines and was originally the XIXth Space Marine Legion before the Second Founding. Their Primarch is Corvus Corax.

The Raven Guard homeworld is Deliverance, once known as Lycaeus, a moon which their Fortress Monastery "Raven Spire" is built on.

The Raven Guard specialise in guerrilla warfare, moving behind enemy lines with unrivalled stealth, and striking with precise application of force.

Raven Guard chapter symbol.

Deathwatch Black Shield

Black Shield equipped with dual power swords.

A Deathwatch Black Shield or simply, a Black Shield, is a rare Astartes who has severed all bonds with his former Chapter and has purposely obscured his Chapter's heraldry. In effect, the Battle-Brother is abandoning his Chapter through self-imposed exile. He then presents himself before a Watch Commander in order to petition for admittance to the Deathwatch.

The motivations for petitioning to join the ranks of the elite Deathwatch are many and varied, for no two supplicants share the same reasons for taking up the Black Shield. One universal trait is clear amongst Black Shields: a fierce determination to expunge the sins of their past through service in the Deathwatch.

Black Shields are a rarity, for a Watch Commander will seldom see more than a handful in his lifetime. No two share the same motivation for taking up the Black Shield, and speculation as to their motives follows them wherever they go.

The origin of a Black Shield can vary greatly. Some may be the sole survivors of their Chapters with all of their Battle-Brothers lost to war, disaster or the irreversible deterioration of their gene-stock.

A darker origin for a Black Shield is that of one whose Battle-Brothers have turned away from their duty and the Emperor’s Grace. Alone amongst his fellows the Black Shield did not fall into corruption or the subtle traps of the Archenemy, keeping his faith when all about him lost theirs.

Sonntag, 27. November 2016

Deathwatch Veteran (Novamarines chapter)

Veteran with Stalker pattern boltgun.

The Novamarines are one of the proud Primogenitor Chapters, the first Successor Chapters sired by the Ultramarines during the Second Founding.

The Chapter’s homeworld of Honourum is to be found in the galactic north of the Ultima Segmentum.

Because of their intolerance of xenos, the Novamarines enthusiastically second some of their most experienced and capable members for service in the Deathwatch.