Sisters Recruitment

[Servant of Dante]

Not sure if there's too much more to discuss here, but just to keep the 8E thread on topic:

Quote

Recruitment
"It is not enough to serve the Emperor, or even to love Him. You must give to Him all that you had, all you have, and all you shall ever have. You must give yourself over utterly and entirely to His divine will and become a vessel of that will. Only then is your sacrifice fitting."
— From the Rule of the Sororitas
The majority of recruits into the Adepta Sororitas are drawn from the Schola Progenium, having been identified by the Drill Abbesses as suitable candidates from an early age. A few may be transferred from outside organisations, in particular the ranks of the servants of the Inquisition, although this is relatively unusual and only undertaken following lengthy consideration. Having been identified as a candidate for membership, the individual is shipped to one of the two convents, where she will be subjected to a lengthy and arduous regime of testing intended to gauge her suitability to join the sisterhood and to identify which of the orders she would be most suited to. Regardless of which order she will eventually join, all candidates undergo extensive instruction in the traditions of the Adepta Sororitas, and most receive at least a modicum of military instruction.

Once a sister is judged worthy to join the sisterhood and has received her basic training, the candidates are gathered in the great hall of the convent before the Canonesses and Palatines of the orders to which they will be assigned. Such gatherings range from grand ceremonies involving several thousand new sisters and taking several days and nights to conclude, to smaller events where only a handful of candidates gather in the great hall. One by one, the name of each candidate and the order she will join is announced, and the newly elevated sister will be led off to begin her vocation. Once she is assigned to her order, the sister will begin a period of even more rigorous training and indoctrination, which, it is said, will never end until she sits in death at the right hand of the Emperor.

http://warhammer40k....depta_Sororitas

Thanks to Drider for finding this

Brightstar, on 20 May 2017 - 11:28 AM, said:

Servant of Dante, on 20 May 2017 - 11:18 AM, said:

Edit: Ninjaed! I'd like to have the actual source for that quote provided by Drider. It looks like it's saying that Sisters are in fact trained on Ophelia VII and Terra.

I can't say if it's the original source, but that text (sans quotation) is present in the Blood of Martyrs sourcebook for Dark Heresy.

Ahhhh, thanks! The FFG RPG books aren;t something I automatically include in my headcanon, but if I like bits of fluff from them, I include those bits and exclude the parts I don't like (the only sources that are wholly part of my headcanon are the 2E codex, Codex: Witch Hunters, and the WD Liber Sororitas). I have a pdf of BoM (shhhhh) I'll go try and pull up the relevant portion of the text.

Knight of the Raven, on 20 May 2017 - 11:32 AM, said:

This quote is conspicuously absent from the more reliable Lexicanum, so I'm taking it with a shaker's worth of salt.

If I recall correctly, the female progena who're sent to the Adepta Sororitas are so because their faith eclipses that of other graduates, and their male peers go on to become commissars. If the Sisters of Battle are only drawn from the Schola Progenia of Terra and Ophelia VII, their equals from the rest of the Imperium terrorize lead imperial guardsmen along with the men. If the Adepta Sororitas takes in everyone from every corner of the Imperium, this gives us a lore reason for the lack of female commissar model.

edit: ah, Brightstar gave a source.

No, Ssiters are drawn from Scholas all over the galaxy. It's just that they get sent to either Terra or Ophelia VII to do their actual Novice training

Edit: there we go. I'm still curious if this fluff it taken from an actual GW source, or if it's just FFG.