Consecrators
| Consecrators | ||
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| Battle Cry | Unknown | |
| Founding | Unknown, although the relic-wargear might imply Second Founding | |
| Successors of | Dark Angels | |
| Chapter Master | Unknown | |
| Primarch | Lion El'Jonson | |
| Strength | Largely the same as the Dark Angels, but boosted by ancient relics, archaeotech, and other superior wargear | |
| Specialty | Relics & Archaeotech | |
| Allegiance | Imperium of Man | |
| Colours | Black with Red Stripes | |
The Consecrators are a Chapter of Space Marines descended from the Dark Angels. As with many Chapters nowadays, their Founding is unrecorded and their early history totally unknown. Indeed, prior to the third century of the 40th millenium, there was absolutely no record of their existence. They just sorta appeared during the Second Kuppukin Schism, in which they annihilated the entire rebel force in only six hours before vanishing again. They were once again absent from recorded history until three decades later, when the Chapter's 4th company was seen fighting alongside the Dark Angels at the Arrulas Intervention.
Being one of the Unforgiven, the Consecrators share the Inner Circle, knowledge of the Fallen Angels, the Deathwing, the Ravenwing, etc. However, they appear to have inherited the most revered arms of the Dark Angels Legion, preserving them carefully through the ages. They bear a close resemblance to the Dark Angels before the Horus Heresy, maintaining the Legion's original black colour and exclusively wearing older patterns of power armour. This implies that the Chapter is either very old (read: Second Founding), or that the Dark Angels Legion had them created specifically to retain the relics of the Legion... or the Dark Angels have so many relics and pieces of archeotech that they hand them out like candy to their Successors (Seeing how the Rock is full of archeotech factories (lucky bastards)).
An alternative explanation of the Consecrators origin is that they are actually a small group of Heresy Era Dark Angels who were flung forward in time due to warp shenanigans. This would explain why they have access to so much old equipment, as well as their mysterious lack of history and their retention of the original Dark Angel colours. Of course, because this would require Games Workshop to give a minor faction an interesting backstory, this is probably false.
Deathwatch includes Consecrators as playable characters. To reflect the fact that they are equipped with such ancient and revered equipment, every character carries at least one master-crafted item as standard issue, though they don't have access to power armour newer than Mk.6 Corvus (although this is fine, as earlier marks of armour tend to have the best machine-spirits and traits).
If the Dark Angels ever get a Supplement, it should focus on these guys. They're different enough from the other Unforgiven to actually be distinct, and (perhaps more importantly) they would give players an excuse to field Horus Heresy-era weapons like Volkite ray-guns, rad-weapons, and Cataphractii-pattern Terminator armour from Forge World.