Editing Cult of the Redemption (section)

==Founding==
Formed on [[Necromunda]] around the 39th Millennium; a man named '''Encordarius Brayne''' took a good look at the [[Hive]] and declared that both the noble houses and the workers who served them had lost their way, and began preaching this to anyone who would listen until he had an unfortunate ''accident'' by falling into the manufactory workings.

Under normal circumstances, that would probably be where the story ends, however, for some reason or another Brayne survived his ordeal, and overcame many others in a series of miracles that would help spread the new faith to all corners of the underhive and beyond to the underclasses of other worlds.

These followers, living in the lightless depths so far away from the extravagant wealth of the upper spires, came to a rational decision for perhaps the first time in millennia: they realized that this place was ''Hell''. They soon decided that humanity had fallen from the righteous path and could only find redemption in the eyes of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|God-Emperor]] by killing all his enemies: In other words, [[psyker]]s, [[mutant]]s, and [[heretic]]s (which is anyone who decides to work against the Cult or its members).

Unfortunately, the Redemption does not stop at mutants, witches, and heretics. Whenever Redemptionists manage to seize power, they immediately go on a psychotic killing spree, slaughtering the recognized mutant populations (which angers the [[Administratum]] because it means that factories lose cheap labor), the Ecclesiarch priests (for not being part of the Redemption), nearly all officials (including the planetary Governor) for "Allowing Mutants and Heretics to Flourish", and even go on to attack and slaughter the Astropath Choir of the planet. Any one of these things is absolute treason and heresy. Killing the Astropaths in particular is even directly defying the Emperor himself who personally sanctions and creates them. Killing the priests would get the Ecclesiarchy purging your ass and with how widespread this supposedly is, the entire faction would be ultimately erased. It is outright impossible for the Redemptionists to have not been declared excommunicate traitoris and exterminated. Another example of GW not paying attention.

Back on Necromunda, they ended up finding a home in [[House Cawdor]], where it became the official religion of the House.

===Diaspora===
Though originally confined to Necromunda, the cult was never a single unified set of doctrines. Because it originated in the poorly educated lower hives and is spread largely through word of mouth, each person could have his own interpretation of the Redemptionist Creed, or at the very least would follow the specific emphasis of their local leader of the faith, resulting in a large splintering into innumerable variants. These variants are just as likely to bicker with one another and declare each other to be heretics, but all are content to come together to obliterate a more obvious target, such as the alien, mutant or non-believer. The Redemption Cult soon spread across the [[Imperium of Man]] thanks to sympathetic members of the [[Ecclesiarchy]] and even returned to Necromunda in a different form: the '''Red Redemption''', which if anything is a louder, more violent interpretation of the Redemptionist ethos.

[[Commissar]] [[Ciaphas Cain]], '''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM''', noted in the novel ''The Traitor's Hand'' that there was a Redemptionist preacher on Adumbria, and believed his old [[Schola Progenium]] classmate Tomas Beije was either a member of the Cult, or at the very least a sympathizer.

The Ecclesiarchy has occasionally tried to use Redemptionist Zealots as a means to get around the [[Decree Passive]] preventing them from having "men under arms" and limiting their military forces to the [[Sisters of Battle]]. (<s>Emperor's balls, now even the Ecclesiarchy doesn't want the Nuns with Guns.</s> {{blam|FWOOSH! Silence, heretic! The Ecclesiarchy wants more warriors ''beside'' the noble women of the Adepta Sororitas to purge the unclean in holy flame!}}) In the novel ''Legion of the Damned'', a group of Ecclesiarchs end up getting into a pissing match with the [[Excoriators]] over authority long enough for the Marines to get bored and BLAM several Redemptionist militants.