Editing Angels Penitent (section)

=="The Emperor Condemns!"==
[[Image:Angels Penitent.jpg‎|200px|thumb|right|Doomer mode activated.]] Some time after the Last Candle incident, Czervantes was promoted to [[Chapter Master]] and set out on campaign with the entire 1st Company. While they were gone, a mysterious man with a huge scar across his stomach and glowing eyes showed up at the Angels' fortress-monastery, somehow crossing the impassable river that surrounded it, and sat down for a friendly chat with one of their [[Chaplain|Chaplains]]. For ''nineteen days''. At the end of this marathon discussion, the Chaplain in question, one '''Icharos Malvoisin''' (which translates to "evil neighbor" in French in case you couldn't see where this was going), emerged and proclaimed the stranger to be the '''Undying Martyr''', a prophet of the God-Emperor, who bore terrible new insights into the [[Imperial Creed]]. These truths were dark indeed, for the Martyr had revealed that humanity was corrupt beyond any hope of redemption and that its greatest guardians, the Adeptus Astartes, were the basest of all sinners, for they had faltered and fragmented in the war against the arch-betrayer [[Horus]]. There could be no hope of ascension into the Emperor's light, only penitence and pain for humanity's collective sins past and future. [[Grimdark|The war was already lost and the only course was to fight on in the knowledge of certain defeat.]]

With that, Malvoisin and the Undying Martyr instigated a purge of the chapter. They tore down and destroyed all the art the chapter had ever made, and left the wreckage to rot in the corridors as a monument to treacherous pride. Then they confronted Athanazius and the rest of the chapter's Librarius, who were the only Angels Resplendent to reject the Martyr's bitter, nihilistic creed. The Librarians greeted their overzealous brothers unarmed and unarmoured, and Athanazius nearly managed to defuse the whole thing by standing forth and speaking the chapter's battle cry --''"We rise on burning wings"''-- only for Malvoisin to shout '''"The Emperor Condemns!"''', at which point the chapter descended upon the Librarians and murdered them.

In the aftermath, the chapter renamed itself to the Angels Penitent and changed their colour scheme and heraldry ''again'', this time from the blue of the Librarians to the black of the [[Chaplain]]s. Malvoisin declared Czervantes and the 1st Company to be either lost or heretics, as nothing had been heard from them since the Great Purge, and he and the other Chaplains took control of the chapter, forming the '''Council of Thorns''' to enforce their new decrees. Creating any kind of art was banned under pain of death, and the Chaplains encouraged their brothers to snitch on each other for any violation of the new rules. Many of the chapter's Astartes took to committing acts of self-mutilation and extreme denial as penance for their "sins". Sadly, this caused the [[Black Rage]] to once again manifest in their ranks with a vengeance, and within a short time over half the chapter had been inducted into the [[Death Company]]. Even the Scouts were beginning to fall to the Rage, meaning that the chapter was now threatened with extinction.

As a result of all this, a few holdouts became convinced that the Martyr was an agent of [[Chaos]] who had bewitched the Chaplains, and hoped that Czervantes would one day come to reclaim the chapter and drive out Malvoisin and those who adhered to his new dictates. As of now, this has yet to happen, and the Angels Penitent have continued on their merry way as a band of bitter, overzealous assholes who live only to punish everyone in the galaxy for being filthy sinners. At least in theory; most of their activities early on were concerned with wiping out all traces of their past, even to the extent of allowing planets to fall to both Tau and Chaos.

Despite the chapter's newfound devotion to hating themselves and everyone else, they answered the call when [[Dante]] sent word to the IX Legion's successors that [[Devastation of Baal|there was going to be a rumble with Hive Fleet Leviathan at Baal]] and everyone was invited. It is currently unknown whether they were completely wiped out or just sustained massive losses, or if they were rebuilt with [[Primaris Marines]] (although some official artwork shows a Primaris Marine wearing their heraldry).