Editing Saint Sabbat (section)

==Connection to the Sisters of Battle==
Saint Sabbat, had a slightly confused relationship to the [[Sisters of Battle]] as in the books she was said to be the founder of The Order of our Martyred Lady. Ibram Gaunt also meets a Sister of Battle that crusaded with Sabbat (she was a ghost). Except this can't have been the case as Sabbat was born, crusaded, and died all within M.35, 1000 years before the [[Age of Apostasy]], and the actual founder of The Order of our Martyred Lady was [[Saint Katherine]], for whom the order was renamed upon her death.

In the Sabbat Worlds Crusade book this has been retconned (it could barely be considered canon in the first place) to an unknown connection to the Daughters of the Emperor, and it was also noted that a small group of "Sister Militants" fought alongside Sabbat as her entourage, with the "Sister of Battle" Gaunt met being one of these Sister Militants and he just didn't spot the difference. Since the new connection is largely unknown this new fluff gives us two possibilities of the relationship between Sabbat and the Sisters:

1) The Daughters of the Emperor where more proactive than originally thought, and would leave San Leor to take active roles in crusades and other Imperial conflicts, and they joined up with Sabbat and became her Honour Guard during the crusade. This is plausible but has it's problems, mostly that the Daughters were never recorded in Imperial records before the crusade or afterwards until the Age of Apostasy. This can be explained with the fact that they where were a very small force and there are entire [[Space Marine]] chapters who's origins are completely unknown, so a small force of all female warriors not showing up in Imperial records is understandable.

2) Sabbat formed the "Sisters Militant" that crusaded with her, and after her death the Sisters left the Sabbat Worlds, either to spread out across the Imperium or as voluntary exiles, and formed the Daughters of the Emperor eventually settling on San Leor. This seems like the more plausible as being formed by an Imperial saint and acting as her bodyguard would help explain the Zealous nature that the Sisters displayed even before they where found by [[Goge Vandire]], and would also explain why the Daughters only show up twice in Imperial records. In addition Sabbat is associated with the Fleur-de-lis as it is shown to be her chosen symbol, which would explain why it became the symbol of the Sisters of Battle. If this theory was true it would mean that the Sisters could trace their origins back to Saint Sabbat. Especially if you consider Sabbat essentially being [[Repanse de Lyonesse|Joan of Arc]] in SPESS, and her successors being sorta-kinda French with the whole Fleur-de-lis thing. Not bad for a wee farm girl born in no where space.