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Name: The Lost Angels
Founding chapter: Blood Angels
Founding: ?
Chapter Master: Lachlan Finwe ( named by the soldiers )
Homeworld: none
Fortress-Monastery: Unknown
Main colours: Red & vomit brown
Specialty: Unknown
Battle Cry: AAAHHHRRGGG (just kidding)
Estimated strength: Unknown

Background Story

The Betrayal
the origins of the Lost Angels lies in the Blood Angels chapter they where the battle-force who's existence is denied by the current Blood Angels, they believe the lost angels have betrayed Sanguinius and the emperor.
When the the Lost Angels where commanded to back up Sanguinius, but they betrayed the Emperor
and disappeared.
Numerous rumors about the reappearance of the renegade squad outlawed by the Emperor.
And robbed of a home.

The Truth
this is the tale of Lachlan Finwe commander of the blood angels secret company unknown to everyone except the Emperor and Sanguinius.
Ordered to protect Sanguinius at all cost.
During the last battle's our men got pinned down by the chaos forces and got slaughtered.
Not able to retreat due to specific orders we pushed forward towards the enemy,
The moment it seemed like we could get the upper-hand the sky went black and it seemed like the gravity suddenly decreased.
I still don't know exactly what happened but the next second we where suddenly surrounded by ruins and nothing else unable to locate where we where.

Survival
I cannot remember how long we have been in that place under constant attack from demons,
and our own men who where influenced by the chaos gods.
After a long time of fighting the librarian finally managed to develop prayer patterns to help the men resist the chaos gods.

A way back
after months of fighting, despair and death I gave the librarian the assingment to find
a way home to Baal.
The time seems to crawl by in this place the nights are endlessly long filled with the schreams of dying men tormented until their last breath.
The demon hordes seem endless,
we have fortified ourselves in the ruins we should be able to hold out here....

Last Lines
Our ammo is running low we have started fighting the demons in hand to hand combat but they are overwhelmingly strong.
No progresss on leaving this place.

They have broken through the barricades...

we cant hold them...

a bright light...

Life
Berien apparently that's the name of this planet, it is a dead planet but you´d be surprised at how much usable materials there are.
I have no conformation of how much time has passed since we disappeared of the battlefield
but we have to return as soon as possible to protect Sanguinius.

Travel
after a lot of work under instructions by our tech marines,
we build a space ship to get back.
Its not much but it will get us there.

Traitors
Corinte that is the planet where we stopped next and where our doom was sealed,
somehow I felt animosity when we landed when I heard we where banished by the emperor himself,
if we would ever return, we where wanted for heresy.
The Emperor believed we joined the Chaos forces and led Horus to Sanguinius, we are Responsible for the death Sanguinius.

Redemption
We will find out what happened that day...
we will redeem ourself´s ….
we will take revenge for the death of Sanguinius....
WE WILL DESTROY CHAOS.....
REVENGE IS ALL WE HAVE LEFT.....
DEATH...
THEY WILL KNOW FEAR....

*note i dont know mutch 40k event detailes so if i wrote something witch is impossible please tell me an maybe how to fixx it

more coming

next time ill set up the photo place and take better pictures

Nicely painted.

Why do they need another name than Blood Angels when they look like BA? And why a "wood" name?

my bad ment good name

because i want to be able to paint the way i want them
different symbols ect
and originally this chapter was a part of the blood angels but they got lost in the heresy and have almost never been spotted the salvage what they can (vehicles ect)
and their goal is the extermenation of chaos (because horus killled sanguinius)

Are they a sort of Blood angels version of LotD? only appear occasionally.
And i think you might need a bit more of a plot mechanic than "they got lost" No offence. Maybe like a freak warp storm caused them to get sent forward in time or the other side of the galaxy or somethin,
Just my $0.2 feel free to ignore me

General somethingorother wrote:Are they a sort of Blood angels version of LotD? only appear occasionally.
And i think you might need a bit more of a plot mechanic than "they got lost" No offence. Maybe like a freak warp storm caused them to get sent forward in time or the other side of the galaxy or somethin,
Just my $0.2 feel free to ignore me

yea im still working on the details of the back story but i first have to read more details about the horus heresy before i get everything wrong

I know how you feel though, i'm in the middle of reating an SM arm aswell, seems like you have a pretty solid base though.
Good luck with the rest!

Have you got any ideas for iconography and symbol.

Once you know that you can use that to discern a name.

When im thinking of a new chapter, imperial or otherwise, I try to think where in the galaxy they are, so who they would fight. And how that would effect the units choices and any dogma that may have arisen within the chapter.

For example, In the eastern Fringe, Tyranids and Tau are gonna be the main foes, so close combat is gonna be important, as Tyranids are to numer our to take out from range, need to get close to the Hive beasts, and Tau are all shotting, so you'd need to tie them in close combat.

However if you say they are near the eye of terror, chaos are gonna be key, so they will have a lot of religous iconagraphy, and probably be adept at seige and guerilla warfare, so scouts and tanks will be used.

Hope this gets the ideas flowing for you.

I have to disagree with CrazyMez. The part of the galaxy you are from would not determine what equipment your chapter had. There is no fluff reason to believe this is true. Tanks are just as good against tyranids and tau as they are against chaos.

I do agree that you should probably flesh out your background and come up with a symbol for your chapter. Once this is done it will be much easier for you to come up with a name or get help coming up with one.

Do you want the word "Blood" or "Angels" in the name? If so you could go with a name like Angels of Vengeance or something like that. Ties them in with the Blood Angels and pretty much lets you know what they are all about.

Angels of Retribution
Angels of Retaliation
The Blood Debt (sounds more like a chaos warband)
The Blood Host (again more chaotic sounding)
Angels of the Fallen
Angels of Punishment

Brettz123 fair point I was being a little general there, but the point was more important than the example. My thinking was based on game play, where it is best to close tau and tie them in combat, and havning not played a proper game against tyranids that was theoretical.

Liek the Lost angels as a name though :-) What about a set of wings on a black circle for a logo, easy to adapt from BA parts and signifies the whole lost endeavour.

Have you got any ideas for iconography and symbol.

Once you know that you can use that to discern a name.

Since they are BA keep the blood drop, but paint it black (Possibly to show mourning or regret)
And maybe call them the "Angels of Regret" or something like that to show their remorse that they failed to protect Sanguinus?

I'm confus as to why you didn't make them Fallen Dark Angels, because that would be believeable fluffwise...Maybe they were there on Caliban when the Fallen attacked Johnson's fleet but were a group that didn't accept Luther's crap. So despite being branded Fallen they remained loyal to the Primarch but hidden. It would make a lot more sense.

i finished the first draft of the background story tell me what you think

Sounds great, just some gramatical stuff, erm one thing i would say is that if your going to have it from your commander's point of view you may want to say something like "Excerpt from the journal of Lachlan Finwe" or have it as something from an inquisitorial communique like at the start of the first Eisenhorn book

I like the back ground stuff. Only slight problem is that Sanguinary guard kinda fill that niche, or sanguinus protector types. But dont see why they would have originally had a secret company and replaced them with the guard after the above events.

Nice ideas, like it.

DODcrazy wrote:I'm confus as to why you didn't make them Fallen Dark Angels, because that would be believeable fluffwise...Maybe they were there on Caliban when the Fallen attacked Johnson's fleet but were a group that didn't accept Luther's crap. So despite being branded Fallen they remained loyal to the Primarch but hidden. It would make a lot more sense.

....Because then they wouldn't be anything to do with blood angels :?

I gathered, the entire point that he made this army was so he could do blood angels, but have some creativity at the same time, and the the fluff was just to explain things. Don't see why he should of done a totally different army just to settle things 'fluffwise'

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