Cardinal Knights

Cardinal knights
A gauntleted fist grasping a bleeding heart
Battle Cry	"One Heart of the Pure! One Heart of the Taint! We Carry both in our Chests!"
Founding	39th Millenium
Successors of	Ultramarines
Successor Chapters	None
Chapter Master	Puro Corazon
Primarch	Roboute Guilliman
Homeworld	Ashardalon
Strength	Half strength(About 500 Marines)
Specialty	Close quarters Combat/Terror tactics
Allegiance	Imperium
Colours	Blue and Red

Possibly one of the most metal Chapters fa/tg/uys have made with the creation tables, being an Ultrasmurfs succesor chapter that basically says 'Fuck the Codex' and LITERALLY takes out the hearts of their enemies, augments them, and then shove them into their own chest cavities. Yea... they are kinda crazy.

The Cardinal Knights

Founded in early M39, as Ultramarine succesors the Cardinal Knights are largely unique in their organization as well as there... rituals. Upon their creation a unique flaw was found in their Gene seed, in spite of being founded from the stable gene seed of the Ultrasmurfs, and the Secondary heart was not usable... it was filled with benign tumours and essentially useless as an Organ. Upon discoverin this, the chapter began to evolve a rather interesting set of rituals, mainly revolving around replacing the second heart. Believing in the inherent weakness of their own heart the chapter sought out the hearts of worthy foes, heavily augmenting them with cybernetics, and using them to replace their own useless secondary hearts. In addition, a Neophyte must eat his own useless secondary heart before becoming a full scout, and it is not uncommon or a brother to have only one heart for long periods of time until he can find a suitable enemy. Largely using Ork hearts due to their relative strength, the chapter will sometimes use the hearts of renegades as well since they already fit rather nicely... after extensive augmentation and purification of course.

Currently the Chapter is lead by their Master of Sanctity and Chapter Master Puro Corazon, who has been encased within a drednought sarcophagus after slaying the last chapter master who was possesed and became a Daemon Prince of Khorne. He slew him by cutting open his chest, ripping out his heart and shoving it into his own chest cavity to make certain the Daemon could not return to the Warp. Suffice to say, they are pretty blood thirsty and big into the 'Rip and Tear' of other, similarly berserker loyalist chapter(see:Flesh Tearers), and are known for fielding every marine with a power fist and chainsword in addition to their Bolter and/or Bolt pistol. Their talent for CQB and their fearful rituals as well as the common tribal iconography of their armour they are quite talented with Terror tactics, using their screaming berserker nature to their advantage.

Also unlike their Progenitor, the Knights have a unique command structure. The Reclusiam, Librarium and Chapter command are all one, and every captain is both a Cpatain and a Chaplain or a Captain and Librarian. They also field no Devastators, believing their heavy ranged weapons to often destroy worthy hearts.

Specific Events/Campaigns

Traitors from within

The Siege of Tellarix

Scouring of Goulfbadd

Original threads

Link to first thread: [1]

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