Carmine Blades

Carmine Blades
A skull beneath three equidistant blood drops
Battle Cry	Unknown
Founding	Unknown
Original Name	Swords of Haldroth
Successor Chapters	None
Chapter Master	Hajjin
Primarch	Sanguinius
Homeworld	Haldroth
Strength	~1000 Marines
Specialty	Not knowing who their dad is
Allegiance	Imperium
Colours	Carnelian red and bone white

The Carmine Blades are a successor chapter of the Blood Angels, founded at an unknown point in Imperial history. They are interesting mainly for the fact that they believed themselves to be descended from the Ultramarines for quite some time. They were then known as the Swords of Haldroth, after their homeworld. They inherited a primitive but proud warrior culture from the feral tribespeople of Haldroth, and practiced such traditions as ritual scarification and the flaying of captured foes, which probably should have been a sign to someone that these guys weren't Ultramarine successors. However, all was not well with the chapter. They were afflicted with a strange and terrible sickness which they referred to as the "Blood-Curse" and sought to hide at all costs, fearing they'd be purged by the Inquisition if it came to light. They kept up this pretense until Astorath came rocking up near the end of the 41st Millennium, having sensed the presence of Black Raging Astartes in their ranks, and revealed the truth. This actually came as something of a relief to the Swords, since they now knew that they weren't the only Space Marines out there dealing with these issues. They were less happy about the fact that they were actually sons of Sanguinius and would now have to rename themselves and change their colors and generally relabel everything, and their new cadre of Sanguinary Priests had some trouble reining in their bloodthirsty tendencies. Despite this, they showed up for the grand smackdown at Baal with 800 Marines led by their chapter master, Firstblood Kaan. They were one of the chapters tasked with protecting the astropathic choir on Baal Secundus, and they sold their lives dearly; by the end of the siege and the arrival of the Indomitus fleets, only 157 of the original 800 were still standing. Kaan was not among them, and a sergeant from the 2nd Company was promoted to take his place. The Blades were rebuilt with Primaris Marines and went on campaign with the Blood Angels into the Imperium Nihilus.