Editing Miriael Sabathiel (section)

==Overview==
No one really knows why she turned to Slaanesh, probably Catholic school-girl syndrome. But what is known is that she's a stain on the honor of the Sororitas and a complete pain in the ass for anyone in her way. She announced her presence to the Imperium by committing several mass killings in such a way to make it obvious a Sister of Battle had done them. The planetary governor, convinced he was dealing with a Chaos cultist trying to stain the Sororitas' honor (something he wasn't entirely wrong about) sent word to the Order of Our Martyred Lady about the incidents and quietly sent a bounty hunter after Miriael. Soon, Canoness Olga Karamanz arrived along with two veteran Battle Sisters to hunt the fallen sister down. They used a tracker to locate the governor's bounty hunter, only to discover that he had already been corrupted and had led them into a trap. After Miriael killed the two veteran sisters, Canoness Olga desperately tried to redeem Miriael before being killed herself.

Interestingly, the book she appears in, The Invitation, repeatedly states that she's the only Sister of Battle ever to fall to Chaos, despite Chaos Sisters also appearing in both [[Ephrael Stern|Daemonifuge]] and one of the [[Ciaphas Cain]] books. While you could just go with the standard "everything is canon, nothing is canon" answer that [[Black Library]] has for all of their canon conflicts, there are a few possible explanations for this.
*The Invitation might take place before the events of Daemonifuge and Ciaphas Cain, meaning that Miriael isn't the only Chaos Sister of Battle to ever exist, but she was the first.
*Chaos Sisters of Battle could be so incredibly rare that whenever one appears, everyone assumes it's the only one to ever exist. Remember that Imperial records are incredibly unreliable even under the best circumstances, and what little reliability they have takes a nosedive wherever Chaos is concerned.
*Other Chaos Sisters of Battle might exist in the setting, but the information on their existence is so tightly controlled by the Sororitas that no one outside of the highest-ranking Canonesses are aware of their existence. (This is confirmed to be true in James Swallow's Sisters of Battle Omnibus in the short story at the end.)
*Sisters of Battle fall to Chaos, just at a slower rate than Space Marines. However, thanks to the over-zealous nature of the Adepta Sororitas, they rarely survive long enough for anyone to hear about them. In this case, what would make Miriael exceptional isn't that she fell to Chaos, but that she survived long enough for non-Sororitas to learn of her existence.
*Miriael is the only one to actively ''embrace'' the corruption and willingly fall, as opposed to being corrupted by outward influence. In Daemonifuge, the sisters are still found to oppose the Keeper of Secrets by what little they could, and in Cain's story the sisters commit suicide the moment they're freed from Varan's mind control; indicating they were in both cases still trying to resist the corruption. Miriael became a full-fledged champion of Slaanesh and revels in it.

Despite being such a unique character with a badass aesthetic and awesome potential, she's not that prominent in the fluff, similar to [[Ephrael Stern]] before Psychic Awakening. She's also probably the single most misrepresented character in the 40k community, with a mind-boggling amount of misinformation and rumors being posted in any thread she's mentioned in. This is mostly due to irresponsible editing on both the Warhammer 40k Wiki and [[1d4chan|this site]]. There's also a shocking absence of [[Rule 34]] of her, though that's probably because she's a relatively unknown and minor character.