White Scars successor based on Dracula

[Gamiel]

 

+ An lesser Order of the Sisters of Battle that is divided into the Bones (Sisters Militant) and the Blood (Sisters Hospitaller)

Interesting idea. Do the Sisters Hospitaller frequently use leeches?

Possibly. After all they are used in modern medicine: Hirudo medicinalis - Wikipedia

 

 

- lots of blood rituals (using both their own, their enemies and their fallen’s blood), would likely be considered a Sanguinary Cult (the bloodletting one) if they were not a SoB ordo

In the movie Dracula 2000, Abraham Van Helsing used leeches to drain Dracula's blood, which he then injected into himself to extend his life, the leeches filtering elements that would've transformed Van Helsing into an undead. I wonder if a similar process may be used to protect the Sisters from potential Chaos-taint in enemies they drain? Or will the leeches themselves be a means with which Nurgle may corrupt the Order? 

Not likley, they deal in Blood Angels (with successors) style bloodletting, exept for when they do some Elizabeth Báthory style one. Also, that would be a Dracula-movie reference and I would try to keep the pop-cultural vampire references to only Elizabeth Báthory.

 

But it's an interesting idea. I'm putting it away for later.

 

 

 

 

- while a majority of the sisters fight with the holy trinity of bolt, flamer, and melta do some of them specialise in bloodletting and only use edge weapons (if I ever played so would they be represented by Deathcult Assassins)

Maybe replace the Sisters Repentia with "count as" death cult assassins, ordered to redeem themselves of the sin of pride, by performing acts for which they will not receive glory or acknowledgement (or blame, i.e., the Order won't be held responsible for the assassins' actions)?

No, the bloodletting is an holy act not a punishment... but I could see the the  bloodletting sisters on the table being "count as  Sisters Repentia" 

Edited December 25, 2020 by Gamiel

[Gamiel]

Have decided that the Chapter based on the House of Shishman should be named Lions Sable, and I ad to what I have alread established: 

 

[Need-a-name] Chapter

 

House of Shishman

+ A Space Marine Chapter, Dark Angel’s successors

+ Colours are split with the right side yellow, left side black – based on that Fruzhin (who was the Shishman member of the Order of the Dragon) belonged to the Sratsimir branch of the family, whose coat-of-arm was a colour swap of the main branch colour and the first picture I saw illustrating this was this one:

 

+ Codex Chapter (-ish?); don’t have a Deathwing or Ravenwing company, or anything similar. Instead they have “knights-errant” (alternative name suggestions are welcome*), who go out in squads or group of squads to hunt the Fallen, or notable threats to the Imperium. They are marked by that they have a colour swapped version of their Chapter symbol on their left pauldron

* Preferably something that is in Bulgarian or Hungarian or refer to those cultures.

+ Their chapter-master is known as “despot” – referring to Shishman of Vidin’s title

+ Homeplanet is the Imperial World Nodnol, rich in animal produce and mineral wealth

- has an overall 20th-centery level of tech.

+ Should have some Bulgarian and Hungarian elements since Fruzhin was prince of Bulgaria, but was mainly based in the Kingdom of Hungary

+ Likes falconry and uses many psyber-falcons – mostly because Shishman of Vidin is depicted with a falcon on his hand.

+ Don’t know what to call them, based on the symbol do Three Lions and Black Lions (or some variant like: Lions Sable, or Dark Lions) seem fitting but I’m not certain about any of them. Any suggestions?

 

With:

+ Their pauldron are in the reverse colour of that side's main colour

+ The Lions Sable’s Inner Circle know that they are not the first Chapter to bear the name, and also know what happened with the first Lions Sable Chapter.

+ many of the Marines keep shoulder length hair with the hair small braids hanging before the hair. Once again based on Shishman of Vidin’s depiction.

+ lots of internal “brotherhoods” [name pending] that are made up by Marines with a certain focus, usually the focus is a one type of weapon or warfare (ex. Brotherhood of the Sword, Brotherhood of the Bolter, Brotherhood of the Rhino), where they train and discuss the different and best uses of their focus. The brotherhood branch over companies and time of service, all are welcome to enter or stay; rank within the brotherhood is only decided upon your skill and understanding of the focus, not your outside rank or senority. Not all brotherhoods are combat focused, there are ones for handcraft, artistry and similar.

+ Lots of internal symbols:

- Keys = knowledge of Chapter secrets, possibly do different kinds of keys, and/or how they keys are coloured and/or arranged mean

- The DA symbol = have fought beside the DA

- Feather tokens = know about the Fallen,

- Wolves head = have duelled a Space Wolf

- Wolves head with a dagger behind it = have duelled a Space Wolf and won

+ Lack (mostly?) the monk-ish trappings of the DA.

+ Sometime have pelts and/or fur tokens hanging from their armour [use Space Wolves parts here] – because Shishman of Vidin is depicted with a pelt over his shoulders.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

The recreated Lion's Sable are an interesting idea.

 

I like your choice of internal symbols. Where on the Marine's armor will they be used? Painted on the right pauldron?

[Gamiel]

I like your choice of internal symbols. Where on the Marine's armor will they be used? Painted on the right pauldron?

Was thinking that they were spread out over the armour, either painted on or as medalions/similar hanging from their belt/neck/armour/other

 

 

Also have slightly changed their colours:

+ Colours are split with the right side yellow, left side black, with their pauldron being the reverse colour of that side 

Edited February 2, 2021 by Gamiel