Gabriel Angelos

(Gabriel Angelos is one of the few non-Sphess Wolf space marines that actually has some hair.).

Gabriel Angelos is the Captain of the Blood Ravens 3rd Company. The company first appears in the Dawn of War game. A captain of the Blood Raven third company, and therefore not chapter master, and anyone who does not believe this is so and mistook him for Chapter Master is clearly a frothing juvenile with the attention span of an ignominious son of a rodent, Gabrial Angelos was thought long to be Chaper Master of the Blood Ravens, this had been thus disproved by the long awaited reveal of the Chapter Master, who is a scheming Jew and Heretic called Azariah Kyras. In the many battles that transpired during the Campaign of Chaos Rising, Gabrial Angelos stayed on the Litany of Fury and did very little apart from kill stealing in the final battle. His phoning it in this time made even more egregious since he wasn't stuck in the warp, lazy old codger that he is. This may be a clever ploy however to 'dispose' of a certain HAIRITIC, by sending him on suicide missions while he watches Eldar porn *BLAM!* HERESY!. He was also branded a traitorous heretic by Kyras the Jew through the Elite Guard leader Diomedes. However, depending on the Force Commander's actions, Diomedes can be persuaded to see that Kyras is a heretic or can simply be slain.

At the end of the game, Angelos made this speech;

"Brothers, we are victorious! You have driven the Black Legion from the sector, and defeated the vile daemon who sought to consume us. But a more terrible battle yet remains, our chapter is in the hands of a madmen and a heretic, Kyras (The Jew), he who should be the greatest of us, has bargained away his soul to the Powers of Chaos! While we, are branded as renegades and traitors, my brothers, this CANNOT, THIS -WILL NOT- STAND. (Insert Force Commander's fate here) LET NONE FIND US WANTING, BY CHAPTER AND EMPEROR."

The rest of the speech regarding the Force Commander and his men depends on how well you take care or nor going to Chaos. Maintaining a high purity level leads you to becoming the Force of Retribution within the Chapter. Maintaining a neutral purity level means you are exiled to the Eye of Terror for at least a 100 years until you die or kill everyone, or finally, at full corruption, Angelos swears to kill you for becoming a Chaos Lord.

Contrary to other stubborn, hot-headed captains of other Spess Mehreen chapters, Gabe is cool and calm in most situations - like Vance Motherfucking Stubbs. Instead of first killing the enemies and then helping the population, Gabriel manages just as planned tactics that let him do both things at the same time.

Apparently Gabriel had to call the Inquisition after a recruiting excursion to his home planet, Cyrene, when he discovered some heretical(no one really knows) shit going on. The Inquisition launched an Exterminatus to fix it, which resulted in Gabe turning into a mournful bastard and also the only mournful bastard left alive from Cyrene.

Gabriel's friend and one of the only other survivors from Cyrene was Isador Akios, a Librarian that served in Gabriel's company. Isador got lured to Chaos by SIINDRIIII and his Chaos Bongo, however, which obviously led the man to treachery and betrayal. Later on Gabe fought one on one against Isador. Isador blamed Gabe for the Exterminatus of Cyrene, but Gabe claimed that he did it for the good of humanity. Isador may have further argued the point, but Gabriel instead decided to cut the bullshit and to perform a time-honored Space Marine cleansing ritual to free Isador from the dark gods; the ritual itself closely resembled emptying a bolter round into Isador's head.

The Midget Goto wrote a series of DOW books (this pleased him) which were about Gabriel's adventures, but since this only provoked Nerd Rage from both fans and Redshirts alike his stuff is not CANON.

After losing his pal Isador, Gabriel got very lonely, but luckily Farseer Macha became kind of intrigued with him and his Spess Mehreen badassery, and it is believed that Gabriel and Macha dated. In fact some claim that Gabe Angelos claimed Macha's virginity - this, of course, for great justice - in an effort to create a super Spess Mehreen Psyker that someday may become the first Blood Raven metal figure.

Gabe has the ability to call devastating and imbalanced Orbital Bombardments on enemy HQs and he has an inquisitorial, demon ass-kicking and/or killing hammer named Godsplitter, given to him by his new Inquisitor friend Mordecai Toth.

In Dawn of War II Gabe is back and now has 1. a bitchin' cape 2. like invincibility or some shit.

He also has a sexy old man voice and several of the most broken (and awesome) abilities in the game.

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