r/40kObscurechapters

I guess this is the closest thing to an alternative color pattern for the Dark Angels

These guys don’t have an official parent chapter, but the connection with the DA is pretty on the nose here, the biggest question that remains here is if these guys are red or dark orange.

I prefer dark orange frankly, we need more orange chapter that aren’t an alternative to the Covenant of Fire look

How would you embellish the Angels Redeemed

So I believe this chapter has been brought up again between 8th and 10th edition? Their lore is still very minor, pretty much about them having identity crisis and launching a crusade to figure out who their real daddy is. Surprisingly they’re also lucky enough to get an official animation appearance (Tithes, eps 2), even though once again, their role is pretty sad and tragic.

Honestly this is one of the chapters that got me into Primaris design, the White Templars in the animation just looked freaking awesome. They also got their own subreddit and a small popularity growth after SM2 released their chapter badge.

The only successor of the Black Templars couldn’t be more different from it’s parent chapter

Created during the second founding, possibly to limit the growth of their parent chapter or to assist them in mobile operation during the scouring, these guys firmly believe in the Codex Astartes

Once a battle brother becomes a Veteran they shed their purple color and become a “Vengeancer”

Since their founding they fought in some of the most intense conflicts, but saw the most glory in the Sabbat Worlds Crusades under chapter master Veegum.

They are have long been separated from their alleged parent now, yet still they’re reputation as a second founding chapter still preceeds them.

What do you think of the Silver Guard? Could they really be the first and last successors of the Black Templars? Why are the veterans of the chapter called Vengeancers?

Probably the less noticeable members of Operation Imperator, even now they received no lore whatsoever despite taking part in a major conflicts, we still have this sick as fuck art piece by Diego Gisber Llorens though which is pretty sick

All we know is that Yellow denotes the second company of the chapter, which seems to be the main protagonist of the chapter’s endeavor since it’s the one depicted most often and that they could have been formed during the 23rd Sentinel founding.

How would you embellish the Imperial Harbingers now that they’re on Armageddon? Would you have replaced them with another chapter?

The Marines Exemplar are one of the 20 chapters of the Astartes Praesis and their more recent history has had some, complicated development.

Originally the chapter followed the orders of Logan Grimnar of the Space Wolves, with their chapter master Maxim Absolon being proudly loyal to the ancient marine, however during the 13th Black Crusade, Absolon’s Thunderhawk was shot down and to this day he remains missing.

In the meantime the role of chapter master is relegated to a council of sort, with Captain Raoul as it’s leader.

All the members of this council have a very different opinion of the Space Wolves and refused to follow Grimnar’s battle plans and instead focusing on creating one of their own.

I speculated that this new council has plotted against Absolon from the start, tired of having their chapter reduced to the Space Wolves lackies and planned to eliminate him.

What do you think of the Marines Exemplars? Are you fascinated by the potential intrigues of this chapter? Do you think Raoul and the council are responsible for Absolon’s fate? Do you think he’s still alive?

These guys have the potential to be super cool.

They’re whole thing could be astronomy, wearing capes and garments depicting beautiful night skies filled with constellations, maybe using some of the gadgets the Imperial Fists pack has to show them charting maps.

Perhaps their purpose is to chart safe routes for Imperial ships to follow to avoid dangerous territory or in the catastrophic case the Astronomicon goes dark

How would you embellish the Imperial Stars?

The Celebrants are unique in that they are the only Space Marine Chapter with a gradient colour scheme for their power armour. Other than that, their only known lore from their Chapter is that they were founded during M36.

Their only major mention in Imperial records is that they were ordered to withdraw from the world Phaethon IV and instead take up garrison duty on the Ecclesiarchy's Cardinal World of Nedicta Secundus, where they would protect the Adeptus Ministorum's holy relics from the Tyranid Hive Fleet Kraken. However, this was a plan carefully planned by the Alpha Legion, supposedly under the orders of Alpharius (or was it Omegon?) himself, to get another Chapter isolated, the Crimson Consuls, so that they could destroy them by initiating an Ork WAAAGH!

The plan ended up working as intended and the Crimson Consuls perished, but the Celebrants survived. The Celebrants would go on to then participate with full Chapter strength on the Third War for Armaggedon.

What do you think about the Celebrants? Their colour scheme is obviously what stands out from them, but it's probably a pain to paint.

The hospitallers are an Imperial fists succesor chapters formed during the 24th founding. Much like the black templars they are far from codex compliant and instead have only three companies that focus on defending the emperor people,to fight his foe and to stand vigilant against those who wish to disrupt the emperor peace while they also have Terminator elite outside of the three companies known as "the vigil", within the chapter they also have the position of senechal which serves to advise their chapter master.

Much like their name would suggest they are inspired by the knights hospitaller (despite wearing the Heraldry and colors of the knights templar) and like them they care a whole lot about safeguarding citizen and wounded soldiers, going as far as mercifully killing them to avoid them diying by traitors hand (as detailed in the short story "final duty").

They developed a feud with the iron hands after the defense of Fabris Callivant where the iron hands stole one of their dreadnought to save an astartes (in the end they didnt even use that dreadnought chasis by the way) leading to a confrontation between the two chapters. In this battle the flagship of the hospitallers "shield of the god emperor" would also be lost through unknown reason.

We also have few named characters

Mirkal Alfaran: their chapter master who commanded their forces during the defense of Fabris Callivant who is also fast enough to dodge bolter fire and can see the fate of a person by touching them (idk if its psychic ability or something else), also he wears a lot of purity seals

Augustine Alvaro: the chapter senechal whos sarcophagus was covered in drawing of his own deeds, sadly his chasis would be stolen by the iron hands and hes more than likely to be dead, this is the reason they have a particular feud with the sons of ferrus manus

If you wish to read about them they appear in the short story "final duty" and also in the book "voice of Mars"

Edit: I am stupid and illetterate because I keep reading these guy as Dark or Blood Wings while in reality they are the BLACK WINGS

Space Marines are known to hold grudges, but none are define by them like the Black Wings

During an event they refer to as “The Hour of Shadow” a renegade faction of 5 companies the Black Wings calling themselves “The Tenebrae” manages to assassinate chapter master Khardin Gol.

The survivors chases after them, but disappear for 3 centuries.

When the loyalist re-emerge the Black Wings are reduced to a Shadow of their former glory.

Only the Ordo Malleus knows what became of the lost loyalist, but the Dark Wings have vowed to take revenge on the Tenebrae, halving their pattern to all red to half black until their renegade brothers are all dead.

Their battle cry to this day is: “Divided we Endure”

What do you think of the Black Wings? Do you like their feud with their renegade brothers?

I fuck with these guys schemes, I even painted and kitbashed one, but there’s not really much to go off apart from them having a cool scheme

How would you embellish the Astral Hawks?

The Death Spectres are believed to have been founded during the 13th Cursed Founding, using Raven Guard geneseed. Their founder and first Chapter Master, Corcaedus, brought the Death Spectres to Occuldus, a region in the Ultima Segmentum. This was after he received a vision from the Emperor Himself instructing him to recover a xenos artefact of immense power, the Shariax, which was under the control of the Death Guard Blackshield Crysos Mortug.

Having been founded during the 13th Cursed Founding, they possess the geneseed defect of lacking functioning Mucranoid and Betcher's glands. During ascension, they completely lose their hair and their skin turns white and their eyes turn red.

The Shariax is a strange, throne-like artefact that is closely monitored by the Death Spectres. Each Chapter Master, known as the First Spectre or Megir, must sit on the Shariax and never leave until they die. The throne gives the Death Spectres a strange power that allows them to maintain their service in the Ghoul Stars. Only the Chief Librarian and First Captain may interact with the Chapter Master. Because of the odd nature of the throne, there's a worry about what the Inquisition might to do the Chapter if they discovered it, that's why they keep it as something extremely secretive.

As their Chapter name suggests, the culture of the Death Spectres revolves entirely around death. They believe that those who die in battle will be reborn to fight for the Emperor once again. Members of the Chapter use a special gesture known as the Masrahim, or the salute of skull and throne, where they make a hand gesture that forms the shape of a skull. They make extensive use of power scythes in battle as well.

The Death Spectres also have a strong belief in the Resurrection, a prophecy made by Corcaedus that is somehow connected to the Shariax and which requires a 'Living Chalice'. The meaning of this is unclear. They are also not very fond of mortals; the only ones they respect are those they take in as aspirants. They believe that ordinary people have no right to live unless they serve the Imperium as they do. Because of this, they have multiple designated Breeding Worlds.

What do you think of the Death Spectres? They definitely have something strange going on!

The Desert Lions are by far the most significant colorless chapters in 40k, because they were one of the firsts to not receive a colorscheme.

Yet their feats are nothing to scoff at, they took part in the reclaiming on Istvaan V, yes the one from the drop site massacre.

During this fight, a techmarine had an idea: what if we used the Legio cybernetica to aid us in the frontlines?

And it worked, the machines aid them in mapping out the enemies weak spots by essentially performing suicide operations.

Still, after their victory the chapter gained immense respect for thei robotic comrades and those who survived became honorary members of the chapter, while the fallen were treated with the same honor as a battle brother.

I like to think that the Desert Lions still deploy the Legio cybernetica, adding new robots to their ranks, making them one of the most unique armies in the settings.

Probably not tournament valid, but wholesome as fuck

How would you color the Desert Lions? And what do you think of them?

Every legion has that ONE successor, the one that gets all the best toys, the biggest honors and the largest fame. For the Imperial Fists it’s the Black Templars, for the Ultramarines it’s the Nova Marines and for the Dark Angels it’s the Consacrators.

These guys are the Dark Angels right hand men.

Quiet, efficient and descreet, these guys spearhead the logistic side of the hunt for the fallen, keeping tracks of all Dark Angels successor and their movements.

Their colors are inspired by the pre-heresy dark Angels and often integrates Great crusade era technology and corvus armor parts.

There’s also no official founding for them, they just showed up one day and given full trust from their parent chapter, who even allowed them to scower the ruins of Caliban for artifacts.

Speaking of Artifacts, these guys have a shot ton of them.

Their fortress monastery of Reliquaria would make Trazyn blush, but they don’t always use these relics as trophies.

They have a special tactic to Hunt the fallen: they’ll place a relic in a location of their chosing, set traps, spread the word that there’s a relic there, and kill the Fallen that try to reach it

As of now, this tactic has worked wonders.

I previousely mentioned their efficiency, but to give you an idea of how fast these guys work, just look at Second Kappukin Schism, a planet wide rebellion that the Consacrators ended in 6 hours

They also tend to disappear from Imperial records numerous Times throughout history, possibly doing their parent chapter’s dirty work unnoticed.

What do you think of the Consacrators? Do you like their secretive nature? Or would you prefer to know more about them?

These guys are fairly straight forward on first glance, they protect the planet of Celeres, but how is Celeres? Why does it need to be defended by an entire chapter?

Their symbol is rather interesting, a Black Skull framed between Two “Sygmas”

How would you embellish the Guardians of Celeres?

I feel like everyone who got the Armageddon box started with these guys.. love the lore of the Steel Confessors, got the inspiration from the colour scheme of my Mechanicum army for HH and went down the rabbit hole.