The XIXth Legion was raised from the gene-seed of Corvus Corax, a primarch who rose from the prison-moon of Deliverance to overthrow the tyrants of Kiavahr. From that war of liberation the Raven Guard inherited their creed: strike from concealment, cripple the foe with precise and merciless blows, and never meet a stronger enemy head-on when guile will serve. They rank among the finest practitioners of guerrilla warfare in all the Adeptus Astartes.
At the Dropsite Massacre the Legion was all but annihilated, and Corax spent his final years labouring to rebuild his shattered sons before walking alone into the Eye of Terror, never to return. The wound dealt to their gene-seed lingers still, for their flesh does not always take the pallid hue of their forebears, and their numbers have long been fragile.
Clad in black to melt into darkness, the Raven Guard favour jump troops, infiltrators and lightning raids over lines of battle. Their commanders, the Shadow Captains, embody the Trifold Path taught by their primarch, the balance of shadow, speed and precision. Warriors such as Kayvaan Shrike carry that doctrine into the modern age, descending without warning upon the enemies of the Imperium and gone again before the alarm can sound.
Order of battle
The Raven Guard 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.
Crimson FistsBattered but unbroken, the Crimson Fists rose from the ashes of near-extinction to become a byword for defiance. Sons of Dorn, they fight on when all hope is spent.
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.
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