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The Daughters of the Emperor are an excuse of myself to make a good looking Female Marines Army (if I even find the right models). Ahead, you can see some of my proposed fluff about it. I hope it is not a bad reading, and that not everything is confusing. I the future, I plan to post something more about the “not history” fluff, like practices, special weapons and beliefs of the chapter.
This was intended to be a chapter with a “living primarch”, a primarch who encompass the classic qualities of female into the mythology: she have wisdom, planning capabilities, great eyes for details and feral rage that only womans have. She is the Norse valikirie, meeting Athena, meeting Vishnu, meeting Saint Mary. Her chapter was built around the amazons of old Greece, with some elements of a priesthood, and female-rights movements.
I hope you guys enjoy it. And sorry about the spelling errors (please point them in a polite way) English is not my mother language, but I am trying to improve it…
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May the Emperor Bless us All
My Lord;
The great Emperor of mankind created 20 Primarchs in his youth, each of one give origin to a full Legion of great warriors: the Space Marines. But not all primarch histories are knew or registered into the libraries of Terra. Two primarchs, and their legions, have not even a line of reference anywhere, and so, they are called the “lost legions”. I believe this is the History of one of them, I gathered this information’s all around the empire, and even beyond it. Some of this where told by aliens who saw it, other where registered in old alien databanks, some was even obtained from daemons of the warp, properly bonded with the old ways. I hope you, as my lord, will know what to do with this. When I send this, my own copies of them are all being destroyed. This information’s hold true power to destroy the empire, but also, hold power to save it, without any doubt I know you will know what to do.
Raise of Valkiria
Valkiria was one of the Emperor Primarchs, a woman. We don’t know why the emperor created a female Primarch, but she was created by him, and in this we can thrust. As the other Primarchs, Valkiria was separated from the Emperor while a newborn, and with her brothers, was throw by chaos machinations, alone into the deeps of the galaxy. The planet where the daughter of the emperor ended was Mystreia, a hot, dry planet where the humanity lived in a feral and primitive way. There, she was rised by the tribe of Amazonia wich was different from the “typical” human society: the ones who competed for mates were the females, in such a way that the males had changed to “docile” behaviors, while the women were fierce warriors and great hunters, making the society matriarchal, where the mans cared for the young.
When the daughter completed 13 years her primarch nature started to show itself, and she soon started to rule the Amazons society, being prized as a god-child (not untruthful) she guided the Amazons tribe into a growth of greatness and enlightenment. She was not only a great warrior, but was too gifted with true wisdom, patience and analytic sense. That was so true, that under her gaze, amazons experimented fast expanse of their territory and raising to a true civilization trough few years. But Them, chaos machinations started to work out, and neighbor tribes started to look with envy to Amazonia. Mystreia was a small planet, but filled with tribes and more tribes of chaos worshiping tribemans. Dozzens of warlords tried to seize the first city on the planet, lured by the dark powers who wished the death of the primarch, but one after the other, they failed. Not only the city was protected by a daughter of the god-emperor, but the amazon woman’s where proud fighters, and the army of the city, almost unbeatable by any of their foes.
Rise of Amazonia
The Daughter completed 123 years without ever knowing the emperor. That was a life longer than any life lived in Mystreia, and as such, she saw more than 5 generations of amazon citizens. During this time, filled with her legendary wisdom she never wanted to rule the city, but always helped her people, specially advising the rulers. But even that legendary patience had their limits, so one day she grow tired of only defend itself, and decided it was time for Amazonia to become greater. Unhappy with the constant attacks from chaos worshipers, she decided to march over them, turning the city in an empire. It got some years to prepare everything, Valkiria planned every move and strike, and at the end she got a full army, ready to conquer the evil tribes around. That was for sure the greatest military organization that planet had ever seem.
So, the amazons marched over Mystreia, and waged war.
War against the Chaos
Its commons among Primarch histories to tell about great personal deeds: great fights against legendary monsters, great victories in great battles and great wars waged to the win. Valkiria is not different in this point. At the youth she defended her people with strength and steel, against great creatures from Chaos. When mature, she erected a complete and complex society from a bunch of tribeswoman, in the middle of the Chaos.
But the greatest skill of the Daughter was her wisdom, a strategist like no other, she was capable of doing to much, with to few, and soon the chaos tainted lords of Mystreia discovered it. Before Valkiria, Mystreia was a chaos planet, with tribes that long served and praised the chaos Gods, including the amazons. The daughter started the end of it, giving fight to the unholy, and teaching the right ways to the deservers. Her last war over Mystreia was against chaos itself.
When the campaign of Amazonia started to affect old power bases into chaos tainted lineages among the tribes, the governors of the dark side grouped together to kill the Daughter. Using their dark influence, those chaos lords united their forces against the amazon forces, unleashing old sorcery and powers never used before, and death rained over the land. The one who told me this history, told me about millions of minions fighting the Valkiria’s army, and her genius for strategy who put daemons and barbarians in check over a long time. But even for her, the enemies where to strong and at the end She had to accept her first defeat, returning with a fraction of her army to the walls of her city.
A Test of Faith
During another hundred years, Amazonia defended itself against waves and waves of chaos, each one worse than the other. Even surrounded by chaos forces, the city hold his ground for generations, a fruit of the skill, strength and purity of their people. But them, every shield have his limit, and every rock give up against endless waves. After so much time, the amazon started to show signs that they where about to fall. I would never believe this words, specially due to their origins, but the deamon who told me this was tied by the old ways, told to us by the emperor. It was during the last siege, when Valkiria and her loyal army was fighting the chaos to the death, that the Emperor finally found his lost daughter. In the words of my font:
“They fought for so long, that don’t even fell themselves anymore, they where in the middle of a sea of monsters and daemons, seeing long time friends being destroyed in their faces, knowing they are the next. Even She, the god-daughter, was tired, fighting with fists after her weapons had broken. But none of those women’s showed fear, they knew what waited them after death and it was not pain. There was a handful of them still alive, maybe a hundred, separating the monstrous horde from the final gates, those golden gates of that shinning city, every woman in fighting age, except for those fighting there, where dead. Inside the city walls, were the citizens: kids, olds and mans, waiting for the death, in the same fearless way. We felt their innocent and pure souls, and we where all hungry for it… But them, they disappeared in a flash of light, every one of them, from the sky come a rain of fire, and we felt our skins burn.”
The Light of the Emperor
The emperor found Valkiria at the last time, and it was a complete accident. If you read about other Primarchs, you will discover that the emperor found almost all of them after some investigation, seeking rumors and divining magic. That was different with Valkiria. I could say it was eldar witchcraft who made that, I am almost certain of it, and it shiver me to just think why those aliens would help some of us. The Emperor was curious about a specific place in a particular planet, not a planet he was looking for, but a planet that was near his route for another destination. He demanded to stop near the planet, and scanned the surface in a specific place, the planet was Mystreia, the place was the gates of Amazonia, and the moment was the last minutes of the Daughter war. Just after teleporting the amazons to the ship, our great emperor declared an expurgatos under the planet, and continued his travel to the previous destination. In the meantime he meet Valkiria, and as always, recognized in her a primarch, one of his lost sons, his only daughter.
The birth of Legion “Daughter of Emperor”
The emperor never used the geneseed from Valkiria. It was overcomplicated to apply the processes on female bodies and the results where not always so good. After some missed tries, he decided to not try it again. But them he found Valkiria, who proudly offered that honor to the amazons, giving Valkiria her own legion. We don’t know much about the process that He created, it was similar to the “regular” process the Astartes still use, but at the same time, it was very different from it. The same organs are changed, fallowed by the same metamorphosis, muscular growth and gain is height. But here the process work better when used on 18-24 years old girls (not younglings entenring the 15-16 years), but more impressively could be used, a great degree of success, in more mature women. At least one 40 years old woman had survived the process. Valkiria choose to honor all the surviving warriors with the change, something around 90 of them, almost everyone beyond the 30 years old. Half of them died, but enough survived and the Daughters of the Emperor Chapter was founded. About the rest of the survivors, they where placed in a small planet called San Leor, and started to grow a new Amazonia there.
Rise of the Chapter and San Leor
The daughter never reached more tham 3000 warriors, Valkyria was very preservationist, and allowed only a bunch of non-amazons descendant to become part of her chapter. Because of that, she dedicated the hundred first years of the chapter only seeding different colonies around the galaxy, the greater of them located in San Leor. You, as my Lord, will probably recognize that name, it is the planet where the eclesiarchy found the female warriors of the “daughters of the emperor”, who would turn into the Adeptus Sororitas later. Before that, I believe it was the center of Daughters of Emperor chapter, their fortress planet. My investigations show how She planned the regrowth of her people, and became very adept of stealth tactics, in part because of their low numbered ranks. And how that planning worked so well, that after a century, there was at least 50 planets being colonized by the strong descendants of Amazonia.
The Horus Heresy
The daughters defended holy Terra, She and her best veterans accompanied the Emperor into the attack to the traitor ship. Like the others primarchs in that fight, she was separated from her father by the forces of chaos, and could not help him into the fight against Horus. We all know how the heresy sadly ended, and She agreed with the propose of Gulliman, breaking her legion into only 3 chapters: the Daughters of the Emperor, the Emperor Angels and the Sisterhood of Valkiria. The Daughters and their successors accepted the codex astartes with small deviations, the majority derived from the old amazon culture.
The Age of Apostasy
Its probably in this dark moment of the Empire that all remaining registers about the Daughters have been lost, the reasons are unknown, but my own guess is the corrupted hecclesiarchy obscure interests. Maybe Vandire don’t wanted the existence of some female primarch, or don’t accepted the whole ideia of Female Space Marines, but stroke very well, raising the Sisters of Battle from San Leor, and obscuring the existence of the daughters with the Ordo Militant of Adeptas Sororitas. Perhaps there is one of my sources, a very reliable member of the chapter itself, who suggested the creation of Adeptas Sororitas as one of the many schemes of Valkiria. The primarch seemed to act booth into the stage and behind the curtains, and always believed in the power of politics. The Sisters of Battle not only provided the daughters with a veil who protected them from their enemies, but scattered the genetics and beliefs of the amazons all around the galaxy, giving the daughters a very reliable stock of “recruits”. It is indeed part of the chapter practices to recruit from the Adeptas Sororitas.
The Post Apostasy
The daughters still exist, and had even founded new chapters. It is even suggested that Valkiria still accompanies them, normally into her preferred role of advisor. Appearances of the Daughters could be found all around the registers of the empire, specially since the Age of Apostasy, but will normally be described as fiercely strikes from the Sisters of Battle, or miraculous interceptions. Due to the different nature of the geneseed implantation process in womans, the chapter normally recruits full formed woman-warriors, normally mature ones, even from remanescent societies of the amazons (scattered around the empire), or from Adeptas Sororitas Veterans and Superiors. In the end, the emperor seems to provide us with one more shield against the evils that lurk mankind, and even the possibility of a full conscious primarch, owner of a strategic and stealth mind, standing for us. I must admit that when I first started these investigations, this seamed like heretic plans against the order of the empire, but that when I got more deep into it, my heart was slowly filled with hope, faith and joy. I hope you understand it as me, and that the my work could help to build a greater empire.
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