Editing Order of the Argent Shroud (section)

==About the Order of the Argent Shroud==
The Order came to be through the work of '''Saint Silvana''', one of Alicia Dominica's sisterhood in the Brides of the Emperor, and had a part in ending the [[Goge Vandire|Reign of Blood]]. She was the nice, quiet one of the sisterhood of the travelling pants; being super giving and self-sacrificing to pretty much everybody, but also not apparently saying much of anything during her lifetime since no quotes of hers apparently survive the [[Age of Apostasy]]. And that kindness, so hard to find in a galaxy that sucks shit, made a massive impression on her fellow battle-sisters; She was one of the only battle sisters of Alicia Dominica to actively found an Order within her lifetime, and was declared a Living Saint while she was still alive. Like all of Alicia's buddies however, she was martyred; she met her end at the hand of a Death Cult Assassin who was either butthurt that Goge Vandire got taken out, or by the Alpha Legion. And as if that wasn't enough, her remains mysteriously vanished while she was lying in state, proving that not being a raging douchebag in the Imperium of Man has it's consequences among the Ecclesiarchy. The name of the order comes from Silvana's death shroud having the slight imprint of her bones on it, and it became one of the chapter's most holy and revered relics, as it was the last thing left behind by the Saint before her disappearance.
[[File:Cannonness.png|300px|thumb|left|A Canoness of the order, note the lack of screaming about the Emperor. That would distract from the light reading and also the shooting.]]
The Order believes in emulating the life of Silvana however they can, and it starts with them speaking, or rather the fact that they don't do much of it at all. This silence follows their burial beliefs, as unlike their fellow Orders that do the whole song and dance about sending their fallen to the emperor and guiding their souls and all that, they just quietly drag the bodies off the battlefield in stone silence, fix up their wounds and armor, then leave them out in the convents from which they came from. They also take Silvana's altruism and faithfulness to new, crazy extremes in that they actually don't coordinate or even listen all that carefully to other Imperial forces during missions at all, preferring to dive-bomb straight down the throat of the enemy to go smash up fortifications, artillery and enemy commanders, then come back and do it all over again. These things are almost always useful on any battlefield, though. Which is probably the point. Their plans are almost always being improvised on the fly, and they tend to have to cut their way out of the enemy through sheer willpower and faith.

This naturally drives other imperial forces nuts as it means there's tons of ecclesiarchal relics and weapons in the midst of a bunch of [[Chaos]] or [[Xenos]] that is not concerning itself with what the actual objective of the battlefield is nor what the other battle groups are doing, but their near-supernatural talent of escaping certain doom and the fact that they surgically strike the most valuable targets on the battlefield with shocking precision means usually it turns out alright, or at least ignorable in the short term. To the Argent Shroud, they believe that their steadfast trust in the Emperor makes more sense than the words of his more fallible subjects. Which does kind of make sense, as the order was founded just after the Reign of Blood and [[Goge Vandire]]'s nonsense happened, and the number of Sororitas lost thanks to the fallible minds of ecclesiarchal bullshit is probably in the high-trillions, so they figure they'd just go cause some trouble for the biggest, scariest targets on the table then go fuck off and pray on their own. After all, Actions speak louder than words is sort of their thing. As a result, they're some of the most effective and dangerous shock troops the [[Imperium]] has on-hand, and they usually use them to great effect.

While they ''definitely'' aren't safe from GeeDubs' personal bolter bitch snuff fetish, they have also been handed some major wins after getting it as badly as you possibly can without the order being wiped out completely. After the [[Great Rift]] opened up in the 42nd Millenium, the Argent Shroud found that a vast number of their sub-convents and Shrine Worlds just so happened to be either right up against the rift, or got ate completely. When the damage finally got calculated, it's estimated that 80% of the entire order's might got a one-way ticket into the warp (or rather, is fighting within a pseudo Eye of Terror that hopefully isn't quite as potent). Further, a member of their own became Abbess Sanctorum (not that they or Morvenn gave that much of a shit about the promotion). And to this day they press on, spurred by the loss of their sisters, and fighting just as valiantly and as quietly as they did at full strength. And every so often, in battlefields on Worlds within spitting distance of the Rift where the fighting's thickest, [[Seraphim Squad|Seraphim]] or [[Dominion Squads]] suddenly appear from long thought swallowed worlds to throw an unexpected kidney shot at the Emprah's enemies. Ironically, considering the [[Warp]], their blind faith probably works just as good as an [[Astronomicon]] in the Rift.

So yeah, We [[Legion of the Damned|Orders Militant of the Damned]] now.