A Second Founding Chapter descended from Rogal Dorn's Imperial Fists, the Crimson Fists inherited their progenitor's genius for siege warfare and his unyielding stubbornness. They took as their home Rynn's World, a settled world on the Imperium's eastern reaches, and served with quiet distinction for many centuries.
Then came catastrophe. In 989.M41 the Ork warlord Snagrod, the Arch-Arsonist of Charadon, launched a vast WAAAGH! against Rynn's World. In the disaster that followed, a defence missile malfunctioned and detonated within the Chapter's own fortress-monastery, obliterating the bulk of the Crimson Fists in a single, terrible instant. Barely a company survived.
What followed became legend. Chapter Master Pedro Kantor gathered the shattered remnants and waged a desperate war of survival, holding the ruined capital of New Rynn City through an eighteen-month siege until Imperial relief finally arrived. Rather than break the Chapter, the ordeal tempered it. To this day the Crimson Fists rebuild slowly and fight with the grim conviction of those who have already stared into oblivion, their blue plate and blood-red gauntlets a promise that they will not fall while a single brother yet draws breath.
Order of battle
The Crimson Fists field the units of the Space Marines, a detachment from the roster:
Other Space Marines formations
Angels VermillionSecretive to the edge of paranoia, the Angels Vermillion are a Blood Angels successor who bear their bloodline's curse in bleak isolation, shunning their brother Chapters and guarding their darkest secrets with quiet menace.
Angels of AbsolutionThe Angels of Absolution are a Second Founding successor of the Dark Angels who wear their gene-sire's shame more lightly than any of their kin. Armoured in stark bone-white, they hold the singular conviction that their sins were washed clean in the fires of Caliban's fall, and so they have set aside the very name of the Unforgiven. Serene where other successors are haunted, they nonetheless ride to the secret war with undimmed resolve, hunting the Fallen not to purchase their own salvation but because justice demands the guilty answer for their crimes.
Angels of VengeanceThe Angels of Vengeance are among the grimmest of the Unforgiven, a Second Founding successor of the Dark Angels who wage the secret hunt for the Fallen with a cold, unrelenting fury. Clad in armour of funereal black, they are austere even by the standards of their tormented lineage, speaking little and forgiving nothing. Where their parent Chapter cloaks its shame in ritual, the Angels of Vengeance carry theirs like a drawn blade, and they will cross any gulf and shatter any oath of secrecy to see a single Fallen dragged before the Inner Circle.
Black TemplarsZealous crusaders without a true homeworld, the Black Templars roam the stars in vast fleets, purging heresy and xenos wherever they are found. Sworn to unending crusade in the name of the Emperor, they answer doubt with faith and the sword, the most relentless holy warriors of the Adeptus Astartes.
Blood AngelsNoble and haunted, the Blood Angels wage constant war against the twin genetic curses of thirst and rage inherited from their martyred primarch Sanguinius. From the blasted world of Baal they answer the Imperium's darkest calls, warriors of aching beauty forever poised on the edge of the abyss within.
Carcharodons AstraGrey ghosts of the void, the Carcharodons emerge from the darkness between the stars to slaughter the enemies of Mankind, then vanish once more. Few know their origins, and fewer still survive their coming.
Dark AngelsThe secretive First Legion, the Dark Angels wage two wars at once: one for the Imperium, and a hidden one to hunt down the traitors of their own broken past. Knightly, disciplined, and consumed by ancient guilt, they pursue the Fallen across ten thousand years, guarding a shame no outsider must ever learn.
Flesh TearersCursed with the worst of Sanguinius's flaws, the Flesh Tearers wage war on the knife's edge of madness. They are the most savage of the Blood Angels' sons, forever fighting their own extinction.
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