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Sang Priest & Chaplain


Sparika

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I was just thinking that there are two types of priests in a BA successor chapter. One group being sanguinary priests and the other being chaplains. But since sanguinary priests rule indoctrination, cult of sacrifice and of Sanguinius (and of Blood :D). What is the purpose of chaplains for the Blood Angels?

 

Could you see only one group of priests? Something like a chaplain painted in red or white, wearing a reductor and a crozius-grail. :)

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Sanguinary priests are basically doctors who "believe" or "preach" their medicine.  Like spirit healers on TV, except Sanguinary Priests actually do real things (in the make-believe background of 40K).

 

Chaplains are preachers.  Like your local pastor, they don't claim to do any more for you physically than smite the enemies of the God-Emperor.  Well, I assume your pastor doesn't smite xenos scum, but you never know.

 

So they are both "priests" in that they follow a religion, and act as its champions in the real world, but only the Chaplain is what we would relate to as a pastor, rabbi, abbot, etc.

 

--Also, Sanguinary Priests are specific to the cults of the Blood Angels.  Chaplains are Imperium-wide, with some tolerances for the chapters they are raised from and attached to.

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