Editing Age of Apostasy (section)

==The Reign of Blood==
The main event in the Age of Apostasy began around M36, when [[Goge Vandire]], [[High Lords of Terra|Master of the Administratum]], had the [[Ecclesiarchy|Ecclesiarch]] assassinated and took control of the church himself. 40K being 40K, power went to his head and he began the so-called '''Reign of Blood''' in which he purged the Imperium of any dissenters with the backing of armies of millions of frenzied Imperial Cultists and a personal army called the Frateris Templars.

Eventually, the people of the Imperium grew tired of Vandire's rule, and when a young man named [[Sebastian Thor]] started warring against the mad High Lord he was soon joined by a massive army known as the resurgent Confederation of Light (since the original followers had just gone into hiding). Vandire sent a fleet to deal with Thor's army, but when it was destroyed by a massive, localized [[Warp Storm]] that appeared out of nowhere (and is still there by M41, called the Storm of the Emperor's Wrath), people took that as a sign that the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]] favoured Thor and he became even more popular.

When Thor finally got to [[Terra]], he joined forces with the [[Space Marines]] and [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] (who had never been friendly with the [[Ecclesiarchy]] to begin with) and managed to dislodge Vandire, forcing him to retreat to the heavily-fortified Ecclesiarchical sanctum of the Imperial Palace. With a Space Marine force spearheaded by the [[Imperial Fists]] and their successors it was assumed that Vandire would be easily overwhelmed. You can imagine the Coalition's surprise when instead of zealous but ineffective Frateris Militia they unexpectedly were faced with a force of superbly trained and equipped warrior-women clad in [[Power armour]], wielding [[Bolters]], skilled enough in warfare to challenge even Space Marines and holding their ground to the last woman in their utter, complete and absolute conviction they were defending the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Big Guy]] himself.

They were [[Sisters of Battle|The Daughters of the Emperor]] (temporarily renamed "Brides of the Emperor" because Vandire was implied to be [[Slaanesh|maybe probably definitely absolutely using them as sex slaves]]), and they proved to be too well entrenched for the Astartes' premier fortification-breaking experts to overcome quickly; what should have been a beheading alpha strike bogged down to the point it looked like it would turn into a massive meat grinder. Luckily for everyone involved, Thor had a Plan B: the Captain-General of the [[Adeptus Custodes]] managed to infiltrate the compound (he and his warriors had remained at their post defending the Emperor at the centre of the Palace without intervention so far, or so Vandire thought) and brought Alicia Dominica, the leader of the Brides/Daughters of the Emperor, to a face-to-face meeting with Big E himself. What exactly was said between the Emperor and the woman who would become the first leader of the Adepta Sororitas is unknown, but it's really not hard to guess that the essence of the message was 'My Daughter, Vandire deceived you and serves only himself'. When Alicia Dominica came out of the throne room, she was filled with such [[Rage]] that she [[Awesome|ended up personally executing Vandire herself]]. His last words were [[lulz|"I don't have time to die; I'm too busy"]].