History Characters / Warhammer40000AstartesChapters

* BilingualBonus: The Blood Drinkers, a Blood Angles successor chapter that practices secret blood-drinking rituals to control the Red Thirst, are based on the planet of San Guisaga. ''Sanguisuga'' is the Latin and Italian word for "leech", and literally means "blood sucker".

* GenuineHumanHide: The Iron Talons are a Whit Scars successor chapter infamous for their habit of draping their power armor in the skins of their enemies.

* AscendedFanfic: The Retributor chapter first appeared in the fan-made ''WebAnimation/{{Astartes}}'' animation, which would be later made into [[https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/03/10/introducing-the-next-wave-of-warhammer-animations/ an official content]] and as such, the Retributors are now canon.

->''"Be they indefatigable siege-masters of the Imperial Fists, the shadow-wreathed operatives of the Raven Guard, the swift-riding hunters of the White Scars or the merciless tank-commanders of the Iron Hands, all of the Primarchs' sons have one thing in common. We are Space Marines, Adeptus Astartes, the Emperor's own angels of death, and we will not lay down our weapons until every last enemy of the Imperium is slain"''

* SuperPrototype: The [[NamedWeapon Destroyer of Crys'yllix]] was the first [[DropTheHammer Nemesis Daemon hammer]] forged and is still the most powerful of its kind. The 8th Edition rules represent this by giving the hammer a higher Damage characteristic than other Nemesis Daemon hammers.

* DropTheHammer: In addition to normal Thunder Hammers, the Deathwatch uses a specialized variant that is even more powerful but is too heavy to wield one-handed. In-game, the Heavy Thunder Hammer has a rule that gives To Wound rolls of 6 the Instant Death rule.

* OneSteveLimit: While attempts are made to ensure that no two active Chapters share the same name this isn't always successful. In the case of the Celestial Blades, a bureaucratic error saw two chapters founded under that name, an oversight only noticed when both were wiped out during the 9th Black Crusade.

* OneSteveLimit: While attempts are made to ensure that no two active Chapters share the same name this isn't always successful. In the case of the Astral Blades, a bureaucratic error saw two chapters founded under that name, an oversight only noticed when both were wiped out during the 9th Black Crusade.

'''[[Characters/Warhammer40000ForcesOfChaos Forces of Chaos]]:''' [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosGods Chaos Gods]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosPrimarchs Chaos Primarchs]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000ChaosMarines Heretic Astartes]]\\

** Their history can be pieced together from different parts of their fluff. A Carcharadon's corpse was genescanned, shown to be Raven Guard, and in the novels it is shown they suffer Ash Blindness (a Raven Guard geneflaw); their leader is known as Shade Lord, the rank used by the XIXth/Raven Guard legion's top commander before Corax took command, with the last to bear that title, Arkhas Fal, being exiled along with most of the terran born members of the legion; The title of the chief librarian "Pale Nomad" is the title Horus gave the XIXth legion before Corax took command, and the Raven Guard supplement mentions a XIXth legion fleet that sided with Horus, but fled to the edge of the galaxy when the traitors lost.

'''[[Characters/Warhammer40000Imperium Imperium of Man]]:''' [[Characters/Warhammer40000ImperialFounders Founders]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000Astartes Adeptus Astartes]] ([[Characters/Warhammer40000AstartesChaptersFirstFounding First Founding Chapters]], '''Other Chapters''', [[Characters/Warhammer40000AstartesCharacters Characters]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000PrimarisSpaceMarines Primaris Marines]]), [[Characters/Warhammer40000ImperialGuard Astra Militarum]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000Sororitas Adepta Sororitas]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000Inquisition Inquisition]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000Mechanicus Mechanicus]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000CurrentImperialFactions Other factions]]\\

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* BenevolentAI: After it's entire crew was killed, the Machine Spirit of the Land Raider named "Rynn's Might" went fully autonomous and sought to avenge its fallen crew, going on a one-tank guerilla war.

'''[[Characters/Warhammer40000XenoRaces Xeno Races]]:''' [[Characters/Warhammer40000Eldar Aeldari]] ([[Characters/Warhammer40000CraftworldEldar Asuryani]], [[Characters/Warhammer40000DarkEldar Drukhari]]) | [[Characters/Warhammer40000LeaguesOfVotann Leagues of Votann]] | [[Characters/Warhammer40000Necrons Necrons]] | [[Characters/Warhammer40000Orks Orks]] ([[Characters/Warhammer40000OrksCharacters Characters]]) | [[Characters/Warhammer40000TauEmpire T'au Empire]] | [[Characters/Warhammer40000Tyranids Tyranids]] ([[Characters/Warhammer40000GenestealerCults Genestealer Cults]])]]-]]]

* DealWithTheDevil: The Blood Drinkers, a Successor chapter of the Blood Angels, were shown by a winged individual a ritual to help hold back the Red Thirst and Black Rage which were crippling them. Alongside nonlethally drinking the blood of their servants, this ritual involves the sacrifice of a regular human. [[spoiler:Unbknowst to most of them, it's actually a ritual devised by a demon of Tzeentch to give it the opportunity to corrupt any member of the chapter who receive visions revealing this, and all it needs is to convince one of them to win the entire chapter]].

The Crimson Fists is a successor chapter of the Imperial Fists. The Chapter was named after Alexis Polux, their first Chapter Master, who was known as the Crimson Fist and their current Chapter Master is Pedro Kantor. The Chapter's homeworld is the former agriworld of Rynn's World and they recruit their initiates from the feral worlds of Blackwater, Trachan and Fordari II.

The Crimson Fists are a successor chapter of the Imperial Fists. The Chapter were named after Alexis Polux, their first Chapter Master, who was known as the Crimson Fist and their currant Chapter Master is Pedro Kantor. The Chapter's home world is the former agri world of Rynn's World and they recruit their initiates from the feral worlds of Blackwater, Trachan and Fordari II.

Originally founded from the youngest and most level-headed brothers of the old Imperial Fists Legion and inherited their Primarch's determination, selflessness and pragmatism. The Crimson Fists have served the Imperium valiantly for millennia and despite having been on the brink of annihilation a number of times they remain steadfast defenders of Humanity. One of the most famous and influential of the Chapter's engagements was the Rynn's World Incident where, while defending their home world from the invasion of Waaagh! Snagrod, a freak missile malfunction obliterated their fortress monastery nearly wiped out the Chapter itself. After many tough years of rebuilding the Chapter was almost back to full strength when the Great Rift opened and Rynn's World was once again invaded, this time by the daemonic forces of the Daemon Prince Rhaxor. On the brink of destruction once again, the Chapter was saved by the arrival of Roboute Guilliman and the Indomitus Crusade. Saved from extinction by an influx of Primaris Marines, Guilliman charged the Crimson Fists with the reconquest and defence of the Loki sector, a task the Chapter has perused with their typical efficiency and courage.

* {{Foil}}: Essentially loyalist-Word Bearers who ''can't'' be bothered by warp taint and know how to fight it effectively, unlike the Word Bearers who embrace it fully and try to spread Chaos' influence however they can.

* OminousLatinChanting: Their warcry.

* MadeASlave: Their preferred way of restocking their chapter serfs is a process known as a Red Tithe, where they descend upon an unsupecting planet and kidnap every man, woman and child they can get their hands on. The most fit male youths become aspirants; the rest are forced into lifelong service as menaials and personal servants. Smaller colonies can be completely depopulated in this manner.