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They are outright stated to be destroyed as a Chapter in the Tyranid and Chaos endings of Retribution (Due to Omnomnomage and Daemon Prince related issues) and they probably also die as a chapter in the Ork Campaign after Bluddflagg loots the entire Subsector and jacks a MOTHER FUCKING SPACE HULK.  They are probably crippled beyond all recovery in the Eldar and Imperial Guard endings too, so the only ending where they survive is the Space Marine one. And they did survive, since Blood Ravens appearing in the [[Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine|Space Marine]] game mention the <s>Aurelian Crusade</s> We just checked; Aurelian Crusade just means the first game and we don't know when Space Marine happened. And White Dwarf 305 (UK) mentions Gabe as their Chapter Master, further confirming SM ending, though WD has been shit wrong many times. Knowing Games Workshop, though, Eliphas is probably still alive. Probably a daemon prince, too. Because <s>screw coherency</s>! he can solo fucking Land-Raiders (something a goddamn BANEBLADE can't do reliably even on easy) and rape Assault Terminators. Also, because him winning Retribution is canon in Abaddon Quest. ALL HAIL LORD ELIPHAS THE INHERITOR. Oh Empy... we cant stop this heresy. FALL BACK  FAAAAL BAAACK
They are outright stated to be destroyed as a Chapter in the Tyranid and Chaos endings of Retribution (Due to Omnomnomage and Daemon Prince related issues) and they probably also die as a chapter in the Ork Campaign after Bluddflagg loots the entire Subsector and jacks a MOTHER FUCKING SPACE HULK.  They are probably crippled beyond all recovery in the Eldar and Imperial Guard endings too, so the only ending where they survive is the Space Marine one. And they did survive, since Blood Ravens appearing in the [[Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine|Space Marine]] game mention the <s>Aurelian Crusade</s> We just checked; Aurelian Crusade just means the first game and we don't know when Space Marine happened. And White Dwarf 305 (UK) mentions Gabe as their Chapter Master, further confirming SM ending, though WD has been shit wrong many times. Knowing Games Workshop, though, Eliphas is probably still alive. Probably a daemon prince, too. Because <s>screw coherency</s>! he can solo fucking Land-Raiders (something a goddamn BANEBLADE can't do reliably even on easy) and rape Assault Terminators. Also, because him winning Retribution is canon in Abaddon Quest. ALL HAIL LORD ELIPHAS THE INHERITOR. Oh Empy... we cant stop this heresy. FALL BACK  FAAAAL BAAACK
==Famous Blod Rehvens==
*<strike>Captain</strike> Chapter Master [[Gabriel Angelos]] - Original Badass and current Chapter Master of the Blod Rehvens, well only in the SM ending any way, he dies in every other ending. He is the first Blood Ravens Chapter Master in recorded history to not also be the Chief Librarian, probably because they finally realized that having a Chief Librarian/Chapter Master is a bad idea. (That idea stems from Chief Librarian Azariah Vidya (get it? cuz they are in a vidya gaem?), who led the chapter soon after their founding in a campaign against Alpha Legion, who have slain their Chapter Master, most of the 1st Company and most of their command structure beforehand. Vidya used some kind of [[Creed|Tactical Genius]], plus his already large experience battling Chaos forces, to "understand" his enemy and perfectly guess where his Rehvens need to strike, essentially finding the "I WIN" button for that campaign). (Vidya was actually 'Arvida' a Corvidae, or seer, in the Thousand Sons Legion)
*Captain [[Davian Thule|Davian Thule]] - The only force commander to get 2 sexy voices in both games he appears in.....well that was until he got ripped by a [[Tyranid]] Warrior and interred into a Dreadnought, where he sounds just as scary as the next Dread. Gets buttfucked by Eliphas in the first Chaos mission in Retribution. Way to punch the players Relic....We like to pretend that the Venerable Dreadnought honor guard in Retribution is Davian Thule to soothe the deep emotional trauma caused by killing him. <s>Also, the Sphess Mehreens campaign is canon now, so he's got to be alive and kicking atm.</s> WD has been incorrect many times and Aurelian Crusade refers specifically to the events of vDoW II.
*Captain [[Indrick Boreale|Indrick Baldeale]] - A master of STEEL REHN.  He is quite dead at the moment. Unlike Davian, though, nobody is in the least broken up about him. He has a [[Rebecca Black|daughter]].
*Force Commander Hair Gel. Though he is given the name Aramus in the [[C.S.Goto|novel]], the game and the novels contradict each other so we'll never know what is what. Usually called Force Commander Vanilla Ice for his hair-esy, he's also the youngest Blood Raven Force Commander evar. In Retribution, he's mentioned in the "Hammer of the Nameless" wargear, and noted that he went balls-to-the-wall insane and disappeared after being declared a renegade by Kyras. So it is slightly possible that Vanilla Ice might return in the series one day since it's never implied that he was executed by Gabe or defected to the Black Legion.
*Captain Apollo Diomedes - Captain of the veteran First Company. He used to be a helmet-wearing jerkass of awesomeness until Retribution, where he is revealed to be bald. As such, this fa/tg/uy dubs him Abaldo Diomedes. Looks suspiciously like Indrick Boreale... "BRRUUUVAA I AM HITTT!" "IT IS DE BEEEIHNNNNBLEEEEHD!"
*[[Azariah Kyras]] - A [[C.S.Goto|Space Marine Librarian who falls to Chaos and dedicates himself to Khorne]]. Was also Chapter Master of the Blood Ravens up until Retribution. Has a kickass VA. He looks like he hasn't slept since the time of the Ancient Sumerians, Jesus look at those eye rings, someone give this man a tempur pedic and some clonodine. 
*Avitus - A Devastator Sergeant, who's so angry that he hates everything. Was actually the heretic in the player's squad during Chaos Rising, as if him being fucking angry all the time wasn't enough of a dead-giveaway, and was killed by Tarkus later on.
*Cyrus/Spike Spiegel - A Scout Sergeant, who's so grimdark that he hates everything. He's also voiced by [[Steve Blum]], which makes him awesome. Cyrus literally hates everything, short of the [[Emprah]], and he constantly bitches how fucked up everything is during every briefing. The whole "Spike Speigel" name comes from one of his VA's famous characters from the animu: Cowboy Bebop.
*Isador Akios - Gabe's Librarian buddy. Was successfully tempted by [[Sindri Myr]] into betraying the Blood Ravens, and was eventually killed by Gabe himself for heresy.
*Jonah Orion - Gabe's new Librarian buddy after Isador got executed on Tartarus. He played a rousing game of mindfuck with the Tyranid Hivemind to allow Angelos' fleet to enter the system during the first DoWII, he won in the end, the only remaining sane & alive Librarian on Gabe's ship. And he becomes playable in Chaos Rising. Died in all endings of Retribution at the hands of DOM-Kyras as Relic likes to keep up with the tradition that the black guy has a 99% chance of being killed in the end in vidya gaems. He's also the first confirmed negro Space Marine who isn't from the [[Salamanders]], which is kind of [[Awesome|unique]]. Well, there was also that one [[Black Templars]] guy in [[Damnation Crusade]]. Hmm, a black Black Templar... does that make him a Double Nigger?
*Martellus - A techmarine voiced by [[Steve Blum]]. His job is to inform you of bad news all the time while chilling on the strike cruiser. Survived getting his Thunderhawk shot down and stranded on Typhon for months, canonically wasn't the traitor in the chapter, and became a playable character in DoWII Retribution. If he becomes a traitor due to the player's use of artifacts, he will attack you in a Chaos Predator, fucking your shit up.
*[[Tarkus]] - A Tactical squad Sergeant, who is bald and also the Ancient in Retribution. Noted for being surprisingly kind-hearted and dutiful for a Marine, Tarkus ever takes the role of a mentor and is a strict adherent to the Codex Astartes. Unusual in that if he falls to Chaos through artifacts, he does so with the express intention of using the daemonic weaponry to butt-fuck the Black Legion and Eliphas and bring Kyras to justice by his own hands. If turned to Chaos, he attacks with a Kai Gun, an ancient magic bolter that fucks things up with bolts of warpfire.
*Thaddeus - An Assault Marine Sergeant, the youngest and least grimdark of the gang. Is also a hair-etic and unsurprisingly joined Force Commander Hair Gel on his heresy during Chaos Rising.
*Squad Corvus Marines - Shows up in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine during the Chaos Invasion. Noticing a group of Black Templars traveling to join the Liberation Fleet heading for Forge World Graia, Squad Corvus attached themselves to the strike force in order to "acquire" more gifts for the chapter (Specifically, more Titans.). They show up during the Chaos invasion and kick major ass, despite there being only like four of them. Just goes to show how fucking strong Blood Raven plot armor is.......or how strong their dedication to "acquire" relics for their chapter is.


==Fanboy Ravens==
==Fanboy Ravens==

Revision as of 16:52, 18 November 2012

Blood Ravens
Battle Cry "Knowledge is power. Guard it well."
Founding Unknown
Successors of Thousand Sons Unknown
Successor Chapters N/A
Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos
Primarch Unknown
Homeworld Fleet-based
Strength Not that many after Cyrene, Kaurava, and Kyras; less than 600
Specialty Psykers, collecting "lost" relics
Allegiance Imperium of Man
Colours Red, bone white pauldrons

The Blud Rehvens are one of the most mysterious chapters of the spess mahrens, they don't know their original primarch nor their pre-heresy origins (heck none of their archives have any info dating before the Age of Apostasy).

History

Indrick Baldeale, a Blud Rehvens Captain: Teh greahtehst hero of teh chaphter and master of STEEL REHN.

The Blood Ravens chapter is predominantly used in the Dawn of War video game series. Some speculate that the Blod Rehvens were descendants of a Thousand Sons schism cult who broke away from them during the Horus Heresy, as hinted in the "A Thousand Sons" novel (--EDIT-- The short story Rebirth in the Horus Heresy Novel Age of Darkness Shows the foundation of the Blood Ravens. One of the Fellowships of the Thousand Sons was sent away prior to the destruction of Prospero, when they returned, one of their number, whose name sounds a LOT like 'Vidya', their founder, says the Blood Ravens motto, PLUS the emblem of his Fellowship was a black raven...) As well as that, they have an unusually high number of unusually powerful psykers, to the point that two squads in their first company are composed completely out of librarians and to the point that their Chief Librarian is also their Chapter Master. Since GW is ultimately reluctant to expand their never progressing storyline, we may never know if this is true. Alternate theories include being loyalist Luna Wolves and the missing 2nd or 18th Legion. It has been rumored by a few GW office workers from the Fluff Department that the Blood Ravens will be getting much more focus outside of Dawn of War in the near future as a token of thanks to Dawn of War's part in bringing new fans to Warhammer 40k, perhaps going so far as getting their own codex.

Just what we need, another Spehss mahreen codex to hog all the attention from GW, might as well start giving each Tyranid Hive Fleet, Ork Klan, Eldar Craftworld, Dark Eldar Kabal, Imperial Guard Regiment, Necron Tombworld/Tombship, Tau Sept, Inquisitorial faction, Traitor Legion, Renegade Chapter, and Chaos God their own separate codex while they're at it.

Given the Blood Ravens kleptomaniac-esque drive to acquire relics for their chapter, their Codex will probably be centered around allowing them to induct troops, wargear, and vehicles from different Imperial Factions and stating that they were simply "gifted" to them by the Imperium. You see that Dreadknight, Leman Russ Battle Tank squadron, Vindicare assassin, and that Immolator tank on the table? Those were all "gifted" to the Blood Ravens. The Gauntlets of Ultramar and the Deathmask on Gabriel Angelos? Gifted to the chapter.

Due to good Captain Indrick Boreale's voice acting, the Blod Rehvens were the origins of the terms: Empra and Spehss mahreens. They were also famous for losing half their chapter in a single campaign - also because of Brother-Captain Boreale, who refused to fuck off when Vance Motherfucking Stubbs arrived, much as was the case for Davian Thule when he refused orders to fuck off from Governer-Militant Lukas Alexander. Unlike the case for Thule, however, Boreale never stood a fucking chance.

The Blood Ravens also have 2 known mutations in their geneseed. The first one is with their Catalepsean Node, which grants them perfect memory but they can't R.E.M sleep, or sleeping while being awake. The second one is with their Betcher's Gland, which changes their voice tone every few years. Such an example is Gabriel Angelos whose voice changes between DoW II and its expansion Chaos Rising.

They are also notable for having a Librarian Chapter Master who dedicates himself to Khorne. LOLWUT?

They are outright stated to be destroyed as a Chapter in the Tyranid and Chaos endings of Retribution (Due to Omnomnomage and Daemon Prince related issues) and they probably also die as a chapter in the Ork Campaign after Bluddflagg loots the entire Subsector and jacks a MOTHER FUCKING SPACE HULK. They are probably crippled beyond all recovery in the Eldar and Imperial Guard endings too, so the only ending where they survive is the Space Marine one. And they did survive, since Blood Ravens appearing in the Space Marine game mention the Aurelian Crusade We just checked; Aurelian Crusade just means the first game and we don't know when Space Marine happened. And White Dwarf 305 (UK) mentions Gabe as their Chapter Master, further confirming SM ending, though WD has been shit wrong many times. Knowing Games Workshop, though, Eliphas is probably still alive. Probably a daemon prince, too. Because screw coherency! he can solo fucking Land-Raiders (something a goddamn BANEBLADE can't do reliably even on easy) and rape Assault Terminators. Also, because him winning Retribution is canon in Abaddon Quest. ALL HAIL LORD ELIPHAS THE INHERITOR. Oh Empy... we cant stop this heresy. FALL BACK FAAAAL BAAACK

Fanboy Ravens

The Blod Rehvens have also been known for their excessively fangirl-esque behavior, including forging weapons for other chapters and declaring them relics after the receiving chapter rejected them, and naming wargear after off-hand comments by famous chapters, though by now they themselves are a very famous chapter.

Alternatively, they may just enjoy trolling the hell out of other chapters. For a chapter that gives all of zero fucks about slaughtering the Sisters of Battle and Imperial Guard, it could really go either way. Either this, or Relic are massive trolls themselves and all of the Space Gypsy stuff is just as planned.

An alternative alternative is that Tzeentch is actually seeing how much he has to piss off other chapters in the Blood Ravens name in order to get them to turn completely traitor. He may even be pretending to be Khorne, since that's the only god anyone is apparently willing to worship anymore. Hey, its better than being completely forgotten like a certain Slaanesh...

  • Ragnar Blackmane was suppose to be given a Power Axe by the Blood Raven artifices. He told them to screw off.
    Ragnar Blackmane was suppose to be given a Power Axe by the Blood Raven artifices. He told them to screw off.
  • Said Power Axe.
    Said Power Axe.
  • Captain Lyssander is not amused.
    Captain Lyssander is not amused.
  • The Space Wolves can't resist trolling the Blood Ravens.
    The Space Wolves can't resist trolling the Blood Ravens.
  • Problem, Dark Angels?
    Problem, Dark Angels?

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Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes
First Founding
(M29) 		Blood Angels • Dark Angels • Imperial Fists • Iron Hands • Raven Guard • Salamanders • Space Wolves • Ultramarines • White Scars
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Third to
Twelfth Founding
(M32-M35) 		Astral Claws • Angels Penitent • Angels Revenant • Charnel Guard • Dark Paladins • Executioners • Flesh Eaters • Halo Brethren • Howling Griffons • Iron Knights • Mantis Warriors • Marines Malevolent • Night Swords • Sable Swords (initial) - Scythes of the Emperor • Space Sharks • Sons of Guilliman
Thirteenth Founding
(M35) 		Death Spectres • Exorcists
Fourteenth to
Twentieth Founding 		Angels of Fire • Avenging Sons • Celebrants
Twenty-First Founding
(991.M35) 		Black Dragons • Blood Gorgons • Fire Hawks • Flame Falcons • Lamenters • Minotaurs • Sons of Antaeus • Tiger Claws
Twenty-Second to
Twenty-Sixth Founding
(M35-M41) 		Angels of Vigilance • Angels Excelsis • Celestial Lions • Dark Hunters • Disciples of Caliban • Emperor's Spears • Fire Angels • Golden Sons • Hospitallers • Imperial Harbingers • Iron Lords • Knights of the Raven • Marines Errant • Mentors • Fire Claws/Relictors • Star Phantoms • Subjugators
Ultima Founding
(999.M41/000.M42 to 012.M42) 		Angels of Defiance • Black Vipers • Blades of Vengeance • Castellans of the Rift • Covenant of Fire • Dark Krakens • Fulminators • Knights Cerulean • Knights of the Chalice • Knights of Thunder • Necropolis Hawks • Nemesors • Praetors of Ultramar • Prime Absolvers • Rift Stalkers • Silver Drakes • Silver Templars • Sons of the Phoenix • Storm Reapers • Umbral Knights • Unnumbered Sons • Valiant Blades • Void Tridents • Wolfspear
Unknown Founding Absolvers • Accipiters • Adulators • Angel Guard • Angels Eradicant • Angels of Retribution • Astral Knights • Blood Ravens • Blood Swords • Brazen Drakes • Bringers of Judgement • Brothers Penitent • Carmine Blades • Cowled Wardens • Crimson Castellans • Crimson Consuls • Crimson Scythes • Dark Hands • Dark Sons • Death Eagles • Doom Warriors • Emperor's Shadows • Fire Lords • Guardians of the Covenant • Graven Spectres • Hammers of Dorn • Harbingers • Hawk Lords • Invaders • Iron Crusaders • Iron Talons • Jade Dragons • Knights of Blood • Knights Unyielding • Marines Exemplar • The Nameless • Night Watch • Rainbow Warriors • Reclaimers • Red Hunters • Red Scorpions • Red Seraphs • Red Templars • Retributors • Sable Swords (refounded) • Shadow Wolves • Solar Hawks • Sons of Orar • Star Dragons • Stormwatchers • Storm Giants • Storm Wardens • Valedictors • Viper Legion • Vorpal Swords • White Templars • Storm Wings
Unsanctioned Founding Consecrators (founding unknown, but likely after 2nd Founding) • Sons of Medusa (separated from parent Chapters, ratified by edict) • Steel Confessors (de facto 22nd Founding, de jure ratified by edict) • Ashen Claws (separatist Raven Guard Legion exiles, nominal loyalists)
Others Astartes Praeses • Deathwatch • Grey Knights • Judged • Legion of the Damned
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