Death Templars

[Stanfar]

Chapter name: Death Templars

Chapter creator and founder: Anton Dorn (Was killed during the assault on renegade world Invarok)

Chapter Leader: High marshal Faunrik

Chapter size: 1000 Death templars.

 

Origins:

The Death templar were founded after the Anton left the Death Legion when his purification had ended. He wanted to create a chapter which would match his own nature and the way to see things. He started to look after other chapters when he didn't know which typed the chapter should be. After years of studying ways of the other chapters performed and handled things, the chapter which ways were the closes to his own nature was the Black Templars. He started to studied the ways of the templars and fought battles with them across the known galaxy. At those times he met Faunrik, Thalion and Danto (nowadays attached inside of the Venerable Ironfist dreadnought) Years pasted by and he gained the respect within the Black templar chapter and among his company. He rose in ranks through his services and finally he became a commander. He had gain some marines under his command even with little bit higher rankings. After he had gotten some battle-brothers behind him to be his close followers and friends, he finally thought that the time was right to him to contact the High lords of Terra. After few years of gathering more battle-brothers to support him and gaining more battle experience through different campaings, the Black templars recognized him to be a rightful and honorable captain inside of their ranks.After being promote as a captain, he gathered the acceptions from other chapters as well and finally even from the Inquisition itself. He had about 500 marines behind him to support him (not all of them under his command of course) at the time and after the long wait and even longer negotiations, the High lords of Terra eventually accepted the Anton's chapter to be created accoarding to the Codex astartes. The chapter became to be known as the Death Templars. The chapter's homeworld was dedicated to be the Darthium which lies at the Segmentum Tempestus and not too far away from the Bakka.

 

Home world:

Darthium is a world full of hive cities and manufactorums which way the Death Templars eventually got their good relations with adeptus mechanicus. Even the Inquisition started to give respect to the Death templars when they organized laboratories and other facilities for the Inquisition to use upon the Darthium. The planetary governor and the Imperial guard regiment was later deployed on the Darthium to maintain it's security and they also have their facilities on the Darthium's surface. Lands outside of the hive cities are cruel wastelands and deserts. The Darthium's ground is full of valueble metals and minerals which have created mining facilities around the planet's surface.

 

Primarch: Rogal Dorn

 

Founding: 26 or is it 27? anyway either one.

 

Gene-seed: Gene-seed of the chapter comes from the Rogal Dorn's. The gene-seed was mutated and from that came the which marines call it: The crusader's curse. The curse effects marine in the way that they may temporarily lost their mindings or lost their sense for self-protecting and make them little bit crazed. This mutation haven't been cured or fixed ,because everytime it had been ''cured'' the mutation has chanced its form and the cure doesn't work anymore.

 

Battle Doctrines: The Death Templars are heavy close combat army. For the matter a fact they do not use almost any ranged weapons at all. They are usually armed with close combat weapon and shield which they use incredably effective ways. Death templars train themselves to fight against Chaos space marines and other heretics and for that fact they are usually founded as part of the reclaming forces when the renegade planets are stormed or conquered. They also help to reclaim relics and other important Imperial belongings. They are known to be fearless on the battlefields because they are useally the force which goes at the front or they storm heavily fortifaided bastions, bunkers, fortresses. They usually make an fast assaults upon their enemies, giving them no time to react to it. Their speciality lies at killing traitor marines of any type.

 

Death Templars are at service for all other Imperial forces unless if their home world is under attack of course. They have close partnerships with the Inquisition, Black templars, Imperial fists, Ultramarines and Adeptus mechanicus. Their reputation cames from their services upon the fields of battle and their reliability on that they never abandon their battle-brothers on the battlefields even if that may cost them their lives. 'Templar never retreats, Templar never surrenders, Templar is the terror incarnate' Chapter master Faunrik

 

Chapter organization: The High marshal Faunrik is in overall command for the chapter. The chapter is splitted in 10 companies or like they call them as crusader packs. Every pack includes 1 Champion (same as the captain) ,100 Death Templars, 2 chaplains, 2 apothecaries and 2 Ironfist dreadnoughts. They do not use Librarians at all. 'These psychic things are somehow wicked'. First pack includes the veterans and Venerable Ironfist dreadnoughts. Tenth pack is the scout pack, but they also are armed with close combat weapons. Tanks are very rarely used.

Crusader champions are Death templars out of the chapters organization. They are an elite champions which go around the known galaxy to their personal crusades and they are usually alone or in pairs. They behold their vows above all other duties. They battle across the galaxy against any of the Emperor's enemies by honouring their vows. Usually at the end of the battle they either die or they move onward at their crusades. They have battled at along side of all Imperium's forces, but nobody can say where they have been or how many battles they have fought or with who, because of their high secrecy and silence which they have about their crusades. They are utterly incorruptible, because they would rather die than break their vows. 'It is better to die than live for yourself because the failure is not an option.'

 

Battle cry: Fear the Emperor's wrath!

 

Death templars have one relic in their possess: The Sword of crusader. It is an Relic blade from the Dark ages of the technology. It is safeguarded inside the chapter's Fortress monastery and it is revealed only when a new Chapter master is selected to lead the chapter. The sword was recovered from the planet Tharn II during a battle against the Emperor's children renegade chapter.

 

Chapter colouring:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/smsbeta...amp;spr2=533B1C

 

Now if i missed something or you guys found somethings to ask please let me know. = ) And i hope you like this one little bit more than the first one.

Stanfar out.

Ps. i will keep adding things or taking them away if they don't fit to this when they appear throught your guys comments or i found something to re-write/add up. ^^ For the Emperor!

[ScottishSmurf96]

Im pretty sure marines don't just get up and leave their chapter?

[Conn Eremon]

My post somehow got destroyed in the other thread, so I'll just re-iterate the point here because I feel it'd be the most relevant.

 

First of all, don't take my advice if you don't like it. This is, after all, your creation.

 

My advice would be to stop building off of the Death Legion. I'm not saying scrap it, mind you, just don't connect everything to it. What I feel you need to do is step completely back from your project. Perhaps you'll see what I see, an idea you had once that became the center of every single idea that came after. Which is understandable. But at some point, long ago, this idea of yours became too full. You added too much. And that's the main thing that got people's jimmies rustled in the other thread, how bloated the idea had become. So my advice would be to stop adding ideas, and start taking ideas out. Step as far back as you can, and look at all of the ideas you put into it. If you see one as being major, important, then take it out. Completely separate it, and form something else around it. For instance, the Death Templar idea. It's a further cram into the Death Legion, having a Chapter break off completely from it. I believe it'd be best for the Death Templars to cut any and all connections with the Death Legion. To give an example of how you could, and feel free to use it if you like it, make Anton Dorn a captain of an unrelated Dornian Chapter. Maybe Imperial Fist, maybe an unnamed founding of the Imperial Fists, doesn't matter. But he's popular, and he's capable. Charismatic and efficient. Sometime after rising to Captaincy he fights a campaign alongside the Black Templars. Afterwards, he slowly implements changes on his company that are clearly influenced by this past interaction. This causes friction among the Chapter's upper echelon, having a deviant paragon. Maybe the Chapter is approaching the time when they'll need to choose a new Chapter Master, and having him as a likely candidate rubs the other possible candidates the wrong way. Before the friction comes to a head, however, a new Founding is declared, and this Chapter was one chosen to form the basis of a new one. Anton Dorn, and his closest followers, would be the logical choice to forward to a newly founded Chapter. Said newly founded Chapter becomes the Death Templars. And from there you'd be able to proceed much as you already have, though I have to admit calling Companies "packs" just sounds . . . weird to me. But hey, I'm the same guy who created the Emerald Tigers as a Missing Legion and called the companies "streaks." Thank god that phase passed. But back to my point, I believe that this way of thinking and handling of your ideas would better serve you in the long run. Especially considering the 16k points of Marines you already have. A little deviation can go a long way, and at some point you might be thankful that you 8 or so differently painted Chapters.

 

Long story short, this amorphous amalgamation of yours is in dire need of some asexual reproduction.

 

EDIT: Faunrik, Dorn, whatever.

[Stanfar]

Cormac airt.

Thanks for your comment. = ) i have to add up that the Dorn how founded/created this chapter was indeed originally Imperial fist and he had a rite to leave the Death Legion. This is the under/sapling chapter from the black templar. Ignore the Death Legion there, I just made a note that he left them. Faunrik was a close friend to Anton Dorn and i have to say, i couldn't put that any better way that you did. So thanks for that. I just told you founded/created the chapter of the Death Templars. Anton Dorn died about a year or two after the Chapter was created so thats his role in this nothing more. Faunrik is the High marshal or the Chapter master to the Death Templars anyway you see it. = ) I will not connect Death Templars to the Death Legion anyhow and i will take the Death templars off from the Death Legion's Sapling chapters just because they are not theirs. This is how can i say it, A whole new chapter? well anyhow thank you for your comment. I gave me somethings to thought about. And that ''pack'' thing is just what the marines call the companies althought they really are terminded as companies. Pack is just what they call it. = )

Ouh... And about my marine army, i have decided to split it into two separate armies. Death Legionnaires and Death Templars. I haven't yet decided what is going to be the Death Templars colours or colouring, but if you got some ideas about that i'm happy to listen. = )

[Conn Eremon]

Cormac airt.

Thanks for your comment. = ) i have to add up that the Dorn how founded/created this chapter was indeed originally Imperial fist and he had a rite to leave the Death Legion. This is the under/sapling chapter from the black templar. Ignore the Death Legion there, I just made a note that he left them. Faunrik was a close friend to Anton Dorn and i have to say, i couldn't put that any better way that you did. So thanks for that. I just told you founded/created the chapter of the Death Templars. Anton Dorn died about a year or two after the Chapter was created so thats his role in this nothing more. Faunrik is the High marshal or the Chapter master to the Death Templars anyway you see it. = ) I will not connect Death Templars to the Death Legion anyhow and i will take the Death templars off from the Death Legion's Sapling chapters just because they are not theirs. This is how can i say it, A whole new chapter? well anyhow thank you for your comment. I gave me somethings to thought about. = )

 

Whoops, got Faunrik and Anton Dorn mixed up. I edited my post accordingly. But yes, I'm all for the idea of separating the Death Templars idea from the Death Legion idea.

[Stanfar]

No matter. = D we all get confused at sometimes. I'm happy to separate them totally from Death Legion and it maybe totally best for this chapter as well. I hope this will become much greater chapter in its own way. ^^

[Stanfar]

There is the Death Templars chapter colouring. I think it looks good, but what do you guys think about it? Normal templars are not going to get the cloaks, but the colouring is going to be the same. Veterans are going to have possibly a stripe upon the helmet but not sure yet. Ouh... and imagine the bolt pistol as a black combat shield. ^^

[Conn Eremon]

As others put it, *snip*

 

There is the Death Templars chapter colouring. I think it looks good, but what do you guys think about it? Normal templars are not going to get the cloaks, but the colouring is going to be the same. Veterans are going to have possibly a stripe upon the helmet but not sure yet. Ouh... and imagine the bolt pistol as a black combat shield. ^^

 

The white/black primary looks pretty good, and I like the cyan eyes, but I can't say I'm fond of the cyan trim. Looking at it, I'd think it would look good with a bronze trim.

[Stanfar]

Not a bad idea. I will consider it. ^^